Privacy Policy:
The Service is operated by LocusView Solutions Inc. ("we", "our", or "us"). This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") applies to our Internet and mobile services (the “Service”). The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to disclose what information we may collect, how we may collect it, with whom we may share it, and certain other matters related to such information, including the choices you have regarding our collection of information and our use and disclosure to other parties of information we may have collected from you.
The information collected via the Service is used for our business purposes, including product improvement, development, and marketing. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected on this Service; it does not apply to any other information collected or obtained through other means or information collected by third-parties.
When this Privacy Policy uses the term "personally identifiable information" or "personal information," we mean information that identifies a particular individual, such as your full name, street address or email address. When other information is associated with Personal Information, it also becomes Personally Identifiable Information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
1. What Information Is Collected
The following are the types of information we may collect:
We may collect personal information like name, telephone number, email address, business mailing address, and details regarding your mode of payment and account information, when you access certain areas of the Service that require registration or payment for products and services, or if you require more information about those services.
Non-Personal Information
At other times, we may collect information that cannot be used to directly identify you, such as operating system type and version, browser type, Internet Protocol (IP) address, GPS location data, “click stream” data, and similar non-personally identifiable information. For example, we may aggregate non-personal information about you and other customers who use our Service. Aggregated information will be sanitized will not contain any information that can be linked directly back to you. Further, the aggregated and sanitized information will be used for our internal business purposes as discussed below.
Electronic Communications
When you open emails from us or engage in SMS or MMS communications, we may log and store such information. We may also keep records of various communications regarding the types of products and services that you indicate are of interest to you via your response to email and text messaging.
2. How Do We Collect Information
We may collect information from you in several different areas of the Service including, without limitation, those described below:
Registration
You may be asked to complete a registration form and provide personally identifiable information; you may also be asked to choose a user ID and password in order to take advantage of certain features the Service. Your decision to register is voluntary and you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose information to us and what communications you would like to receive; however, please be advised that many products and services available as a part of the Services require registration and if you elect not to provide such information, you will not be able to take advantage of those products and services.
Cookies and Tracking Technology
We may use any number of tools to collect information about you, your computer access points, and the web browser that you use to connect to our Service. For example, “cookies” are tiny text files that we place on your device when you use our Service. We may use cookies to personalize your Service experience. You do not have to accept our cookies and you may delete them after they have been placed on your device. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Site that you access may take more time to work, or may not function properly. For more information about cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our Internet Service Providers (defined below) may also use other standard collection technologies to analyse how you use our Service. The technologies include analytic solutions, web “beacons,” “pixel tags,” and “clear gifs.” These technologies help us ascertain the effectiveness of our product and service campaigns and marketing programs, allow us to customize the services offered on or through our Service, and help determine the best use for Service content, and product and service improvements. Some of this information, including the IP address, may be stored on our Internet service provider’s server logs, and may be available for extended periods of time.
3. How Is Your Information Used
We use the services of independent companies to provide certain services to you, including, without limitation, cloud hosting services, credit and debit card processing, and Internet connectivity services (“Internet Service Providers”).
We may use your personal information to contact you via mail, email, text message, or telephone in order to give you updates about new services. We also use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive from you. We may also use your IP address to help protect us and our Internet Service Providers from cyber threats.
Additional uses of your non-personal and personal information will allow us to tailor products and services specific to your needs, to help organize and manage your customer relationship and our business, to conduct business, to provide you with customer and member support, to perform functions that are described and to enforce our Service’s Terms and Conditions of Use.
4. Shared Information
We may share your personal information with the Internet Service Providers as appropriate. We may also share personally identifiable information with outside, non-affiliated third parties that offer products and services that are complementary to our product lines. We may also disclose your personal information as is necessary to: (a) comply with a subpoena or court order; (b) cooperate with law enforcement or other government agency; (c) establish or exercise our legal rights; (d) protect the property or safety of our company and employees, contractors, vendors, and suppliers; (e) defend against legal claims; (f) help with internal and external investigations; or (g) as otherwise required by law or permitted by law. We may disclose your information in connection with the sale or merger or any transaction that involves the sale or assignment of some or all of our assets.
5. Links To Third-party Websites
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. The privacy policies of these third-party services may differ from ours. These websites may ask you for Personal Information. Please review the privacy policy on third-party channels before submitting information, because we do not have control over the use of information collected on these websites. Please review the privacy policies and practices of these digital channels before providing any Personal Information.
6. Information Security
We make reasonable efforts to ensure that our Internet Service Providers have implemented physical, electronic, and procedural security measures to assist with safeguarding your personal information, and to help protect against unauthorized access and disclosure. Only our authorized personnel and our Internet Service Providers who perform legitimate business functions are authorized to access your personal information.
Notwithstanding our efforts, the Internet and online services have inherent security risks. We cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, personal searches, and other communications will always remain secure. You should take care with regard to how you handle and disclose your personal information or any username or password that you are required to use to access services on this Service or online service.
7. Data Retention Periods
We will retain information for at least one (1) year, including a one-year period following termination or expiration of any agreement that the information was collected under, or the expiration or termination of the license for the software. Upon notice from you, we will provide you or your designated agents or representatives with reasonable access to such data, records and information. We will ensure that our third-party data storage and service providers also retain your data for the same one (1) year period; and ensure reasonable access to such data, records, and information held by these third parties.
8. Consent to Privacy Policy
By using the Service, you signify your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a material change to the way in which we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will post a notice on the Service and/or send an email to users who have provided an email address. We will assume that you have given your permission for your information to be used under the terms of the Privacy Policy, as modified, if you do not respond to our email within thirty days or continue to use the Service thirty days after a notice is posted. Please note that you should always update your personal information to provide us with a current email address.
9. Access to Personal Information and Consent to Transfer
For those Service users located outside the United States, we advise you that your information may at times be accessible by individuals who are located worldwide including in countries that the European Commission or other geopolitical regions have not been determined to provide the same level of data protection as in your country, province, territory or geopolitical region. By providing us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with our privacy policy, including the transfer of your information across international boundaries to jurisdictions anywhere in the world as permitted by local law.
The United States may not have data privacy laws that are deemed to afford an equal level of protection for your Personal Information as those laws legislated at the direction of the European Union or similar geopolitical, national or regional legislative bodies. However, please be assured that we will continue to adhere to the principles stated in this Privacy Policy and will make reasonable efforts to comply with applicable international, national, regional, territorial, and provincial laws in connection with any information collected through the Service. We will endeavor to preserve the integrity, confidentiality, and security of personal information and afford such personal information reasonable level of protection.
10. Questions About This Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of this Service, please contact us by email at privacy@locusview.com.
The Service is operated by LocusView Solutions Inc. ("we", "our", or "us"). This privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy") applies to our Internet and mobile services (the “Service”). The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to disclose what information we may collect, how we may collect it, with whom we may share it, and certain other matters related to such information, including the choices you have regarding our collection of information and our use and disclosure to other parties of information we may have collected from you.
The information collected via the Service is used for our business purposes, including product improvement, development, and marketing. Please note that this Privacy Policy applies only to information collected on this Service; it does not apply to any other information collected or obtained through other means or information collected by third-parties.
When this Privacy Policy uses the term "personally identifiable information" or "personal information," we mean information that identifies a particular individual, such as your full name, street address or email address. When other information is associated with Personal Information, it also becomes Personally Identifiable Information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
1. What Information Is Collected
The following are the types of information we may collect:
We may collect personal information like name, telephone number, email address, business mailing address, and details regarding your mode of payment and account information, when you access certain areas of the Service that require registration or payment for products and services, or if you require more information about those services.
Non-Personal Information
At other times, we may collect information that cannot be used to directly identify you, such as operating system type and version, browser type, Internet Protocol (IP) address, GPS location data, “click stream” data, and similar non-personally identifiable information. For example, we may aggregate non-personal information about you and other customers who use our Service. Aggregated information will be sanitized will not contain any information that can be linked directly back to you. Further, the aggregated and sanitized information will be used for our internal business purposes as discussed below.
Electronic Communications
When you open emails from us or engage in SMS or MMS communications, we may log and store such information. We may also keep records of various communications regarding the types of products and services that you indicate are of interest to you via your response to email and text messaging.
2. How Do We Collect Information
We may collect information from you in several different areas of the Service including, without limitation, those described below:
Registration
You may be asked to complete a registration form and provide personally identifiable information; you may also be asked to choose a user ID and password in order to take advantage of certain features the Service. Your decision to register is voluntary and you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose information to us and what communications you would like to receive; however, please be advised that many products and services available as a part of the Services require registration and if you elect not to provide such information, you will not be able to take advantage of those products and services.
Cookies and Tracking Technology
We may use any number of tools to collect information about you, your computer access points, and the web browser that you use to connect to our Service. For example, “cookies” are tiny text files that we place on your device when you use our Service. We may use cookies to personalize your Service experience. You do not have to accept our cookies and you may delete them after they have been placed on your device. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Site that you access may take more time to work, or may not function properly. For more information about cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Our Internet Service Providers (defined below) may also use other standard collection technologies to analyse how you use our Service. The technologies include analytic solutions, web “beacons,” “pixel tags,” and “clear gifs.” These technologies help us ascertain the effectiveness of our product and service campaigns and marketing programs, allow us to customize the services offered on or through our Service, and help determine the best use for Service content, and product and service improvements. Some of this information, including the IP address, may be stored on our Internet service provider’s server logs, and may be available for extended periods of time.
3. How Is Your Information Used
We use the services of independent companies to provide certain services to you, including, without limitation, cloud hosting services, credit and debit card processing, and Internet connectivity services (“Internet Service Providers”).
We may use your personal information to contact you via mail, email, text message, or telephone in order to give you updates about new services. We also use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive from you. We may also use your IP address to help protect us and our Internet Service Providers from cyber threats.
Additional uses of your non-personal and personal information will allow us to tailor products and services specific to your needs, to help organize and manage your customer relationship and our business, to conduct business, to provide you with customer and member support, to perform functions that are described and to enforce our Service’s Terms and Conditions of Use.
4. Shared Information
We may share your personal information with the Internet Service Providers as appropriate. We may also share personally identifiable information with outside, non-affiliated third parties that offer products and services that are complementary to our product lines. We may also disclose your personal information as is necessary to: (a) comply with a subpoena or court order; (b) cooperate with law enforcement or other government agency; (c) establish or exercise our legal rights; (d) protect the property or safety of our company and employees, contractors, vendors, and suppliers; (e) defend against legal claims; (f) help with internal and external investigations; or (g) as otherwise required by law or permitted by law. We may disclose your information in connection with the sale or merger or any transaction that involves the sale or assignment of some or all of our assets.
5. Links To Third-party Websites
This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them. The privacy policies of these third-party services may differ from ours. These websites may ask you for Personal Information. Please review the privacy policy on third-party channels before submitting information, because we do not have control over the use of information collected on these websites. Please review the privacy policies and practices of these digital channels before providing any Personal Information.
6. Information Security
We make reasonable efforts to ensure that our Internet Service Providers have implemented physical, electronic, and procedural security measures to assist with safeguarding your personal information, and to help protect against unauthorized access and disclosure. Only our authorized personnel and our Internet Service Providers who perform legitimate business functions are authorized to access your personal information.
Notwithstanding our efforts, the Internet and online services have inherent security risks. We cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, personal searches, and other communications will always remain secure. You should take care with regard to how you handle and disclose your personal information or any username or password that you are required to use to access services on this Service or online service.
7. Data Retention Periods
We will retain information for at least one (1) year, including a one-year period following termination or expiration of any agreement that the information was collected under, or the expiration or termination of the license for the software. Upon notice from you, we will provide you or your designated agents or representatives with reasonable access to such data, records and information. We will ensure that our third-party data storage and service providers also retain your data for the same one (1) year period; and ensure reasonable access to such data, records, and information held by these third parties.
8. Consent to Privacy Policy
By using the Service, you signify your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a material change to the way in which we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will post a notice on the Service and/or send an email to users who have provided an email address. We will assume that you have given your permission for your information to be used under the terms of the Privacy Policy, as modified, if you do not respond to our email within thirty days or continue to use the Service thirty days after a notice is posted. Please note that you should always update your personal information to provide us with a current email address.
9. Access to Personal Information and Consent to Transfer
For those Service users located outside the United States, we advise you that your information may at times be accessible by individuals who are located worldwide including in countries that the European Commission or other geopolitical regions have not been determined to provide the same level of data protection as in your country, province, territory or geopolitical region. By providing us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with our privacy policy, including the transfer of your information across international boundaries to jurisdictions anywhere in the world as permitted by local law.
The United States may not have data privacy laws that are deemed to afford an equal level of protection for your Personal Information as those laws legislated at the direction of the European Union or similar geopolitical, national or regional legislative bodies. However, please be assured that we will continue to adhere to the principles stated in this Privacy Policy and will make reasonable efforts to comply with applicable international, national, regional, territorial, and provincial laws in connection with any information collected through the Service. We will endeavor to preserve the integrity, confidentiality, and security of personal information and afford such personal information reasonable level of protection.
10. Questions About This Privacy Policy
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the privacy practices of this Service, please contact us by email at privacy@locusview.com.