Our Privacy Policy was last updated on 02.20.2023.
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use Our Websites, Products, or Services and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve Our Websites, Products, or Services. You agree to collect and use information under this Privacy Policy by using Our Websites, Products, or Services.
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Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear singular or plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- “Account” means a unique account created for You to access Our Websites, Products, or Services or parts of Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- “Business,” for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers’ personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers’ personal information or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers’ personal information, that does business in the State of California.
- “Company” (referred to as either “the Company,” “We,” “Us,” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Salient Process Inc.
For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company is the Data Controller.
- “Country” refers to the United States of America.
- “Consumer,” for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means a natural person who is a California resident. A resident, as defined in the law, includes (1) every individual who is in the USA for other than a temporary or transitory purpose and (2) every individual who is domiciled in the USA who is outside the USA for a temporary or transitory purpose.
- “Cookies” are small files placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- “Data Controller,” for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of processing Personal Data.
- “Device” means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cell phone, or a digital tablet.
- “Do Not Track” (DNT)” is a concept that has been promoted by US regulatory authorities, in particular the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), for the Internet industry to develop and implement a mechanism for allowing Internet users to control the tracking of their online activities across websites.
- “Personal Data” is any information related to an identified or identifiable individual.
For the purposes of GDPR, Personal Data means any information relating to You, such as a name, an identification number, location data, online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity.
For the purposes of the CCPA, Personal Data means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with You.
- “Product” refers to the Salient Process Inc Products offerings.
- “Sale,” for the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer’s personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.
- “Service” refers to the Website or Salient Process Inc Services offerings.
- “Service Provider” means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate Our Website, Products, or Services, to provide Our Website, Products, or Services on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to Our Website, Products, or Services, or to assist the Company in analyzing how Our Websites, Products or Services are used. For the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
- “Usage Data” refers to data collected automatically, either generated using Our Websites, Products, or Services or from the Website, Product, or Service infrastructure (for example, the duration of a page visit).
- “You” means the individual accessing or using Our Websites, Products, Services, the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using Our Websites, Products, or Services, as applicable.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as the Data Subject or as the User, as you are the individual using the Service.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Websites, Products, or Services, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Phone number
- Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
- Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is automatically collected when You are using Our Websites, Products, or Services.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of Our Websites, Products, or Services that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access Our Websites, Products, or Services by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address, the operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit Our Websites, Products, or Services or access Our Websites, Products, or Services by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Websites, Products, or Services and store certain information. Tracking technologies are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and improve and analyze Our Websites, Products, or Services. The technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may be unable to use some parts of Our Websites, Products, or Services. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so it will refuse Cookies, Our Websites, Products, or Services may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of Our Websites, Products, or Services and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a specific section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser.
We use both Sessions, and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
- Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us.
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through Our Websites, Products, or Services and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the requests you have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to give you answers to those requests.
- Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of the cookies on Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember the choices You make when You use Our Websites, Products, or Services, such as your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the data collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access Our Websites, Products, or Services. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features, or new functionality of Our Websites, Products, or Services to see how our users react to them.
For more information about the Cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Websites, Products, or Services, including monitoring the usage of Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- To Manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a Service user. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of Our Websites, Products, or Services that are available to You as a registered user.
- For the Performance of a Contract: the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services You have purchased or of any other agreement with Us through Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- To Contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
- To Provide You with News, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events we offer that are like those you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
- To Manage Your Requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For Business Transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about Our Websites, Products, or Services users is among the assets transferred.
- For Other Purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and evaluating and improving Our Websites, Products, or Services, marketing, and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Websites, Products, or Services for payment processing to contact You.
- For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, which will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or companies that We control or are under common control with Us.
- With Other Users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
We generally retain personal information to fulfill the purposes We collect, including to satisfy any legal, account, or reporting requirements, establish or defend legal claims, or fraud prevention purposes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, We may consider factors such as the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether We can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
When We no longer require the personal information We have collected about you, We may either delete it, anonymize it, or isolate it from further processing.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers outside your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from yours.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and by this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company.
- Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service.
- Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public.
- Protect against legal liability.
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data
The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service under their Privacy Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- “Amazon Web Services (AWS).”
- “Microsoft Azure.”
- “IBM Cloud Services.”
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information that may interest you. You may opt out of receiving any or all these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions in any email We send or by contacting Us.
Payments
We may provide paid products and services on Our Websites, Products, or Services. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).
We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors, whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
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GDPR Privacy Policy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the following conditions:
- Consent: You have consented to process Your Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
- Performance of a Contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with You and any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
- Legal Obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
- Vital Interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary to protect Your vital interests or of another natural person.
- Public Interests: Processing Personal Data relates to a task carried out in the public interest or exercising official authority vested in the Company.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
In any case, the Company will gladly help clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, mainly whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual requirement or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee that You can exercise Your rights.
You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law, if You are within the EU, to:
- Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have on You. You can access, update, or request the deletion of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section whenever possible. If you cannot perform these actions yourself, don’t hesitate to contact Us to assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data We hold about You.
- Request Correction of the Personal Data that We hold about You. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information. We hold about You corrected.
- Object to processing of Your Personal Data. This right exists where We rely on legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing. Something about Your situation makes You want to object to Our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for direct marketing.
- Request to Erase Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
- Request the transfer of Your Personal Data. We will provide You or a third party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information You initially provided consent for Us to use or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
- Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent to use your Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.
Exercising Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access, rectification, cancellation, and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), don’t hesitate to contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.
CCPA Privacy Policy
This privacy notice section for California residents supplements the information in Our Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California.
Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information we may have collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
Please note that the categories and examples provided in the list below are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all samples of that category of personal information were collected by Us but reflects our good faith belief, to the best of our knowledge, that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been collected. For example, certain types of personal data would only be collected if You provided such personal information directly to Us.
Examples: A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
Collected: Yes.
- Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
Examples: A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with different categories.
Collected: Yes.
- Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Examples: Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).
Collected: No.
- Category D: Commercial information.
Examples: Records and history of products or services purchased or considered.
Collected: Yes.
- Category E: Biometric information.
Examples: Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as fingerprints, faceprints, voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or different physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.
Collected: No.
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Examples: Interaction with Our Websites, Products, Services, or advertisements.
Collected: Yes.
- Category G: Geolocation data.
Examples: Approximate physical location.
Collected: No.
- Category H: Sensory data.
Examples: Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
Collected: No.
- Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
Examples: Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
Collected: No.
- Category J: Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
Examples: Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
Collected: No.
- Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.
Examples: Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
Collected: No.
Under CCPA, personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
- Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, such as:
- Health or medical information covered by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) and the California Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) or clinical trial data.
- Personal Information covered by certain sector-specific privacy laws, including the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FRCA), the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) or California Financial Information Privacy Act (FIPA), and the Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of 1994
Sources of Personal Information
We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following types of sources:
- Directly from You. For example, from the forms, You complete on Our Websites, Products, or Services, preferences You express or provide through Our Websites, Products, or Services, or your purchases on Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- Indirectly from You. For example, observing Your activity on Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- Automatically from You. For example, through cookies, Our Websites, Products, Services, or We set on Your Device as You navigate Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- From Service Providers. For example, third-party vendors monitor and analyze the use of Our Websites, Products, or Services, third-party vendors for payment processing, or other third-party vendors that We use to provide Our Websites, Products, or Services to You.
Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose personal information We collect for “business purposes” or “commercial purposes” (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
- To operate Our Websites, Products, or Services and provide You with Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- To support You and to respond to Your inquiries, including investigating and addressing Your concerns and monitoring and improving Our Websites, Products, or Services.
- To fulfill or meet the reason You provided the information. For example, if You share Your contact information to ask a question about Our Websites, Products, or Services, We will use that personal information to respond to Your inquiry. If You provide Your personal information to purchase a product or service, We will use that information to process Your payment and facilitate delivery.
- To respond to law enforcement requests as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- As described to You when collecting Your personal information or as otherwise outlined in the CCPA.
- For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
- To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including, when necessary, prosecuting those responsible for such actions.
Please note that the examples provided above are illustrative and not intended to be exhaustive. Please refer to the “Use of Your Personal Data” section for more details on how we use this information.
If We decide to collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information We collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes, We will update this Privacy Policy.
Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
- Category A: Identifiers
- Category B: Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
- Category D: Commercial information
- Category F: Internet or other similar network activity
Please note that the categories listed above are those defined in the CCPA. This does not mean that all examples of that category of personal information were disclosed. Still, it reflects our good faith belief that some of that information from the applicable category may be and may have been disclosed to the best of our knowledge.
When We disclose personal information for a business or a commercial purpose, We enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
Share of Personal Information
We may share Your personal information identified in the above categories with the following types of third parties:
- Service Providers
- Payment processors
- Our affiliates
- Third-party vendors to whom You or Your agents authorize Us to disclose Your personal information in connection with Websites, Products, or Services We provide to You.
Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under 16 through our Service, although certain third-party websites we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their terms of use and privacy policies. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and instruct their children never to provide information on other websites without their permission.
We do not sell the personal information of Consumers We know are less than 16 years of age unless We receive affirmative authorization (the “right to opt-in”) from either the Consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age or the parent or guardian of a Consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt into selling personal information may opt out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, You (or Your authorized representative) may submit a request to Us by contacting Us.
If You have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided Us with personal information, don’t hesitate to contact Us with sufficient detail to enable Us to delete that information.
Your Rights under the CCPA
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:
- The right to notice. You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
- The right to request. Under CCPA, You have the right to request that We disclose information to You about Our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes, and share of personal information. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will disclose to You the following:
- The categories of personal information We collected about You.
- The categories of sources for the personal information We collected about You.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom We share that personal information.
- The specific pieces of personal information We collected about You.
- If we sell Your personal information or disclose Your personal information for a business purpose, We will reveal to You the following:
- The categories of personal information categories sold.
- The categories of personal information categories disclosed.
- The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data (opt-out). You have the right to direct Us not to sell Your personal information. To submit an opt-out request, don’t hesitate to contact us.
- The right to delete Personal Data. You have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions. Once We receive and confirm Your request, We will delete (and direct Our Service Providers to delete) Your personal information from our records unless an exception applies. We may deny Your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for Us or Our Service Providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which We collected the personal information, provide a good or service that You requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with You, or otherwise perform our contract with You.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such actions.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement if You previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on Your relationship with Us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which You provided it.
- The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your consumer’s rights, including by:
- Denying goods or services to You
- Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
- Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You
- Suggesting that You receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality.
Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights
To exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us:
Only You or a person registered with the California Secretary of State You authorize to act on Your behalf may make a verifiable request related to Your personal information.
Your request to Us must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows Us to reasonably verify that You are the person We collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe Your request sufficiently, allowing Us to understand, evaluate, and respond appropriately.
We cannot respond to Your request or provide You with the required information if we cannot:
- Verify Your identity or authority to make the request.
- And confirm that the personal information relates to You.
- We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures We provide will only cover the 12 months preceding the verifiable request’s receipt.
For data portability requests, We will select a format to provide Your personal information that is readily usable and should allow You to transmit the information from one entity to another without hindrance.
Websites
You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:
The opt-out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, You will need to opt out again.
Mobile Devices
Your mobile device may give You the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps You use to serve You ads that are targeted to Your interests:
- “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” or “Opt out of Ads Personalization” on Android devices
- “Limit Ad Tracking” on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing your preferences.
“Do Not Track” Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
Our Websites, Products, or Services do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
However, some third-party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting your web browser’s preferences or settings page.
Children’s Privacy
Our Websites, Products, or Services only address people over the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 13. If You are a parent or guardian and know that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, don’t hesitate to contact Us. Suppose We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent. In that case, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires permission from a parent, We may require Your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Your California Privacy Rights (California’s Shine the Light law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.
If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.
California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services, or applications to request and obtain the removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request the removal of such data, and if You are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with Your account.
Be aware that Your request does not guarantee the complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
Links to Other Websites
Our Websites, Products, or Services may contain links to other websites not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third-party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for any third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies, or practices.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will inform you via email or a prominent notice on Our Service before the change becomes effective and update the “Last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. This Privacy Policy changes are effective when posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
