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BY USING OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING OUR WEBSITES AND
APPLICATIONS, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF
THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THIS
PRIVACY POLICY IN ITS ENTIRETY.
Advance Communications, Inc. has developed this Privacy Policy to outline how we collect, process and disclose information that we obtain when you access or use our services, including our websites and
applications, including information about you. You should use this Privacy Policy to assess how you use our Services, the information you provide to us, and the choices you have to manage the information we collect from you in connection with your use of our Services.
By using and accessing our Services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy
Policy. Accordingly, you should review this Privacy Policy frequently to remain
familiar with it and any changes we may make to it from time to time. You
should immediately cease using our Services if you do not agree to this
Privacy related to our Services, as applicable. Should you have any questions
regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us via our Contact page.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION SUMMARY
For your convenience, we have summarized the important aspects of our
Privacy Policy below, but you should read the entire Privacy Policy to fully
understand our privacy practices.
We collect both Personal Information and Non-Personal Information from you
in connection with your use of our Services. When you choose to share your
Personal Information with us, we only use such information, to communicate
our responses to any queries or requests made by you.
We may share your Personal Information with third parties in a number of
ways and for a number of reasons, including facilitating the provision of our
Services to you, for our own uses and for this use by third parties. You can
review our rights under this Privacy Policy to share your information in the
Section below titled "How We Share Your Information" below.
You may review, modify and update your Personal Information by contacting
us using our Contact page.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you access or use our Services, we may collect information regarding
your interactions with our Services. Such information may include Personal
and Non-Personal Information.
"Personal Information" means information, such as your first and last name,
email address, physical address, that is able to personally identify you.
"Non-Personal Information" means information that is not capable of
personally identifying you.
Service Use Based Information; means information that we collect about your
use of the Services, including: Device Informationt;: The type of device you are using to access our
Services, as well as information regarding that device’s unique identifiers
(whether computer or mobile), the device’s hardware model, operating
system, device type, IP address, and information about how any of our
Services were downloaded to your device. Geolocation Information: Your location when you use our Services, when such information is available. Additionally, we may be required to collect
information about your location to provide certain features offered by our
Services. We will collect such information only with your consent. Should you
choose not to provide the consent to collect such information, certain features
of our Services may not be available to you. Log Data;: Your device activity while using our Services, the times and duration of your use of our Services, the types of queries you submit through
our Services, the referring URL from which you accessed our Services, the
browser you used to access our Services, and the language used to access
our Services. Cookies, Web Beacons, & Other Tracking Technologies;: To enable our
collection of information, we often use web beacons, unique identifiers, Flash Cookies, web server log information, or other technologies. We may also collect information from and about you on behalf of third parties, who may use that information for targeting ads to you, optimizing their services and
products, and general reporting. For more information on cookies, web
beacons and other technologies, please read Section 6 of this Privacy Policy.
"Information Provided Directly By You": We may collect Personal Information
that you choose to share with us while communicating with us through the
feedback form or any other mode of communication. Such information may
include but is not limited to your name and email address. Please note that
this information is only used by us to respond to any queries and request
made by you.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
Your information held by us may be used for business and commercial
purposes. We may use your information to: (i) make the features on our
Services available to you; (ii) monitor the use of our Services and make
required modifications and/or enhancements; (iii) analyze the use of our
Services (including the total number or users using our Services and generate
related reports to support the research); (iv) ensure smooth and error-free
functioning of our Services; (v) respond to any inquiries or support requests
made by you; (vi) communicate with you about promotional offers through
push notifications; (vii) ensure compliance with our contractual, legal and
regulatory obligations; (viii) enforce our rights; and (ix) prevent fraud and
abuse against our Services (collectively, the "Legitimate Purpose(s).
3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We will not sell your infomration to anyone.
We may share your information, including your Personal Information, with our
commercial partners, who assist us in providing the features offered by our
Services, including our services, advertising, and content partners
(collectively, "Commercial Partners") or allow those Commercial Partners to
gather information directly from you.
Your Personal Information may also be shared with third parties in other
circumstances, including without limitation, as follows:
Commercial Partners: We may, with your consent, provide your Personal
Information to our Commercial Partners who work with us to provide any
portion of our Services, or to provide additional services unrelated to our
Services. Should you choose not to permit the sharing of your information with
our Commercial partners, some features of our Services may not be made
available to you.
For Legal Requirements: Where it is necessary for us to address suspected
fraud or illegal activities, to prevent or take action in connection with potential
threats to the physical safety of any person, or to comply with any applicable
law, we reserve the right to share your Personal Information, regardless of
whether there is a court order, warrant or subpoena.
Sharing with our Affiliates: We may share your Personal Information may with
our Affiliates. Our Affiliates may use and distribute your information in
accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. For purposes hereof,
"Affiliates" means any entity controlled by, controlling, or under common
control with Company.
For Transactional Requirements: If the Company undergoes a change in
control, reorganization or liquidation, or a sale of all or substantially all of our
assets or a portion of our business or Services to which your information
relates, we may transfer such information to our successor or buyer, subject
to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We disclaim and shall have no liability or obligation in connection with any
third-party actions or omissions concerning your information, regardless of
whether or not such access is a result of our sharing and disclosure of your
information pursuant to this Privacy Policy. If you have any issues concerning
a third party’s use of your information, please contact such third party. Any
transfer of your information will comply with applicable law in all cases. For
more information on third-party use of your information, please see Third-
Party Practices herein. Any Non-Personal Information we collect may be
shared by us publicly and with others.
4. INFORMATION RETENTION
Unless otherwise required by law, we will retain your Personal Information
only for such period as may be necessary to fulfil the purposes for which such
information has been collected, enforce our agreements and resolve disputes,
if any.
5. SECURITY OF INFORMATION
We place appropriate restrictions on access to personal information stored by
us and employ reasonable technical, physical and operational security
measures intended to protect your personal information from alteration, loss,
unauthorized use or misuse, or destruction.
To safeguard any information in transit, we use the SSL (Secure Socket
Layer) technology to ensure encryption of all information transmissions from
and to our servers.
Please note that no transmission of information over the internet is 100%
secure. While we review our measures periodically and ensure that we
implement safeguards and controls to store and transfer your information
securely, we cannot warrant the security of any information transmitted from
or to our servers.
6. COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS
In connection with your use of our Services, we may send your computer or
mobile device a cookie that uniquely identifies your browser. A "cookie" is a
small file containing your preferences that is sent to your browser and sent
back by your browser each time your browser accesses our servers. Our use
of cookies is primarily focused on improving the quality of our Services and
your use of those Services.
We use session cookies (a type of cookie that is stored temporarily and gets
deleted when a browser is closed) and persistent cookies (a type of cookie
that is stored on the device till it expires or till the user deletes it) to deliver our
Services in your language of choice, to filter results and fulfil other
preferences you may have, and to analyze how our users interact with our
Services by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Many
browsers are set up to accept cookies unless the user changes the settings
for cookies, and you can control these settings within your browser
preferences or refuse cookies altogether.
7. DO NOT TRACK
Some browsers may allow you to enable a do-not-track feature that notifies
the websites you visit that you do not want your online activities to be tracked.
At present, our Services do not recognize or respond to ‘do-not-track’ signals
from browsers.
8. THIRD-PARTY PRACTICES
We are not responsible for the information collection and processing practices
of any search provider, including Yahoo and such practices are not governed
by this privacy policy.
Our Commercial Partners may request or require you to provide information,
including Personal Information, to them or to download certain software in
connection with the provision of our Services. We have no responsibility for
the privacy practices of our Commercial Partners or the contents of any
software downloaded from such Commercial Partners. To the extent any
portion of our Services may also link to third-party websites and offerings over
which we exercise no control, Company shall have no responsibility for the
privacy practices or the content of such third-party websites and offerings,
including their information collection, storage, usage and sharing practices.
Please contact such third parties in connection with any issues you may have
with respect to those third-party websites and offerings.
If you believe that any party who claims association with Company, including
our Commercial Partners, is improperly collecting or using information about
you, you should contact them directly. Applicable law obligates our
Commercial Partners to protect the privacy of certain types of data. We are
not responsible for their actions or omissions in any way, including with
respect to any information they receive directly or indirectly from us. While we
assume no responsibility with respect to a third party’s practices, you may
notify us using our Contact page if you believe a third party is collecting or
using information about you and such information was sourced from us. We
are under no obligation to respond to or pursue any action in connection with
such correspondence.
9. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code (the "CCPA") grants users that
reside in California certain additional rights. Those rights are described below
alongside instructions about how to assert them.
Opt-Out
You have the right to opt-out from the sale of your
Personal Information, though that may impact
your ability to use the Site and/or obtain products
or services from us.
Access
You have the right to request that we disclose to
you (1) the categories of Personal Information we
have collected about you; (2) the categories of
sources from which your Personal Information is
collected; (3) the Legitimate Purpose for
collecting or selling your Personal Information;
(4) the categories of third parties with whom we
share your Personal Information; and (5) the
specific pieces of Personal Information we have
collected about you. If we sell your Personal
Information, or disclose it for a Legitimate
Purpose, you also have the right to request that
we disclose to you (1) the categories of your
Personal Information that we sold; (2) the
categories of third parties to whom your Personal
Information was sold; and (3) the categories of
your Personal Information that we disclosed for a
Legitimate Purpose.
Deletion You have a limited right to request that we delete
your Personal Information. Once we receive and
confirm a verifiable request, we will delete (and
direct third parties to delete) your Personal
information, unless we need to maintain your
Personal Information in order to:
? Complete the transaction for which the Personal
Information was collected, provide a good or
service requested by you, or reasonably
anticipated within the context of our ongoing
business relationship with you, or otherwise
perform a contract between us and you
? Detect security incidents, protect against
malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity;
or prosecute those responsible for that activity
? Debug to identify and repair errors that impair
existing intended functionality
? Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another
consumer to exercise his or her right of free
speech, or exercise another right provided for by
law
? Comply with the California Electronic
Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter
3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of
Part 2 of the Penal Code
? 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 our deletion of the
Personal Information is likely to render impossible
or seriously impair the achievement of such
research, if you have provided informed consent
? Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably
aligned with your expectations based on your
relationship with our business
? Comply with a legal obligation
? Otherwise use your Personal Information,
internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible
with the context in which you provided the
Personal Information.
How to exercise your rights under California Law
To exercise your rights under the CCPA, please submit a request by
contacting us using our Contact page. You must (1) describe your request in
sufficient detail, and (2) include information that allows us to confirm your
identity. You may only make one request per 12-month period. Only you or a
person registered with the California Secretary of State to act on your behalf
may make a request under this Supplemental Notice. We will use your
request only to verify your identify and respond to you (if possible). We cannot
respond to your request if we are not able to verify your identity. You will not
need to create an account in order to assert your rights. We endeavor to
answer all requests within 45 days. In some cases, a response may be
delayed by as much as 90 days, though in that case we will inform you of the
reason.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not (1) charge you a different price for
goods or services; (2) provide you a lower quality of good or services than are
generally available to our consumers; (3) refuse you discounts or benefits that
are generally available to our consumers; or (3) deny you goods or services.
10. MINORS
We at all times comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
(COPPA). Please click here for more information about COPPA and children’s
privacy. Children under the age of 18 are prohibited from accessing the
Services and may not give us any Personal Information or participate in any
aspect of our Services. Our Services are not directed to children under the
age of 18. Unless required by law, we will not knowingly collect, maintain, or
disclose any Personal Information from children under the age of 18. We do
not intentionally gather Personal Information about visitors or end-users who
are under the age of 18. Please contact us using our Contact page if you
believe that we have collected Personal Information about a visitor or end
user who is under the age of 18, and such account and/or Personal
Information will be deleted.
11. EU USER RIGHTS
All European Union Citizens have certain rights regarding their Personal
Information. If you are a citizen of the EU, you have the following rights to
control the processing of your information:
Right to Access: If we process your Personal Information, you have the right
to request us to provide you with access to the Personal Information we
process about you.
Right to Rectification: You have the right to request us to rectify any
inaccurate Personal Information concerning you, including completion of
Personal Information which you believe is incomplete.
Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive the Personal
Information about you in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable
format. You have the right to request us to transmit this Personal Information
to a third party, where such transmission is technically possible.
Right to be Forgotten: You have the right to request for erasure of your
Personal Information. We will ensure that we delete your information held by
us if: (a) your Personal Information is no longer required for the reasons for
which it was collected or otherwise processed; (b) we have unlawfully
processed your Personal Information; (c) we are required to erase your
Personal Information to comply with our legal obligations; or (d) we have no
legitimate grounds for processing your Personal Information when you object
to the processing of your Personal Information or withdraw your consent.
Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your
Personal Information if such objection is based on processing of your
information and profiling for (a) direct marketing purposes; (b) performing a
task executed in public interest or in exercising the official authority vested in
us; or (c) the purposes of the legitimate interests sought after by us or by a
third party, excepting cases where your interests or fundamental rights, which
require Personal Information protection, disregard such interests. We shall
immediately stop processing your information, unless we have legitimate
grounds to process your Personal Information or where such processing is
crucial to establish, exercise or defend legal claim(s).
Right to Restriction: You have the right to restrict us from processing your
Personal Information in the following circumstances: (a) for such period
pending verification of the accuracy of your Personal Information, where you
contest the accuracy of your Personal Information; (b) the processing of your
information is unlawful, and instead of erasure of the Personal Information,
you request us to restrict the processing of your information; (c) we are no
longer required to process your information; however, you require the
information to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) for such period
as is required to review the legitimacy of the grounds of your objection to our
processing of your information.
Right to Withdraw Consent: If processing of your Personal Information is
based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time. Please
note that this does not affect the processing of your Personal Information prior
to the withdrawal of your consent.
Should you like to exercise any of your rights as described above or have any
questions, please contact our Data Protection Officer by contacting us using
our Contact page.
12. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted here and, to the extent the
changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice. We reserve
the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. Your
continued use of our Services after such change has been made will be
considered your acceptance of such change.
13. COMPLYING WITH THE LAWS OF YOUR JURISDICTION.
Our Services may not be appropriate or available for use in certain
jurisdictions and we disclaim all representations and warranties to the
contrary. If you access the Services, you do so on your own initiative and at
your own risk, and you are solely responsible for complying with all local laws,
rules and regulations. We may limit access to our Services, in whole or in part,
to any person, geographic area or jurisdiction we choose, at any time and in
our sole discretion. By using our Services and submitting any Personal
Information, you consent to the transfer of Personal Information to other
countries, such as the United States, which may provide a level of data
security different from your country of residence. You are also consenting to
the application of United States law in all matters concerning the Services.