Privacy Policy — InfoDecon.Com

Privacy Policy for Infodecon.com

Introduction

This Privacy Policy was last updated on [May 21, 2024].

This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) explains how Infodecon.com (“Infodecon,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) collects, uses, processes, and shares information about you when you use our services or otherwise interact with us or receive a communication from us related to the services. For certain services, we may provide you with additional privacy policies and information that supplement this Privacy Policy.

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY TO UNDERSTAND HOW WE COLLECT AND HANDLE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU CONSENT TO THE PRACTICES AND POLICIES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND THIS PRIVACY POLICY. THIS PRIVACY POLICY IS ALSO GOVERNED BY OUR TERMS OF USE. BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SERVICES, YOU ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU CONSENT TO THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS SET FORTH IN OUR TERMS OF USE AND THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTAND OUR TERMS OF USE.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, do not access or use our services or interact with any other aspect of our business. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.

This Privacy Policy is intended to help you understand:

Overview: What This Privacy Policy Covers.
Overview: When This Privacy Policy Applies.
The Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It.
How Do We Use The Information We Collect About You?
With Whom Do We Share Your Information?
How Do We Use Online Analytics & Interest-Based Advertising?
How Do Third Parties Collect & Use Your Information Through Our Services?
What Are Your Rights & Choices?
Your California Privacy Rights.
Use of The Services By Users From Outside The United States.
How Can You Access, Correct, Or Update Your Personal Information?
What About Linked Third-Party Services, Sites, & Advertisements That I See Via The Services?
How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?
How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Information?
What Are The Requirements Or Guidelines For The Use of Our Services By Children?
Changes To This Privacy Policy.
No Rights of Third Parties.
Complaints.
How Can You Contact Us?

1. Overview: What This Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use, disclose, share, and protect your Personal Information when you use any of our services. Additionally, this Privacy Policy explains your legal rights and choices that you have with respect to our collection, use, processing, sharing, and protection of your Personal Information. Furthermore, this Privacy Policy explains how you may exercise those legal rights and choices regarding how we use your Personal Information in connection with your receipt of the services.

This Privacy Policy is a separate document from our Terms of Use, which are available here. This Privacy Policy modifies, and is supplementary to, our Terms of Use. Your use of the services is also governed by our Terms of Use. By using the services, you also expressly consent and agree to the terms and conditions of our Terms of Use.

Infodecon takes this Privacy Policy and the task of protecting and appropriately handling your information very seriously. We believe strongly in being open and transparent about our privacy-related policies and practices. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or about exercising privacy-related rights and choices that may apply to you about your use of the services, please let us know at info@infodecon.com.

1.1 What Does the Term “Personal Information” Mean in this Privacy Policy?

In this Privacy Policy, the term “Personal Information” means any information about you that can personally identify you, either on its own or when combined with other information.

1.2 What Does the Term “Services” Mean in This Privacy Policy?

In this Privacy Policy, the term “services” means any of our:

Websites;
Online products and services that link to this Policy;
The services that we offer you when you subscribe to receive our blog updates or newsletters;
All other services that we provide to you, together with all of the content, functionalities, and advertising services associated with these services.

2. Overview: When This Privacy Policy Applies

This Privacy Policy applies when you use or access any of our services. This Privacy Policy also applies regardless of how you use or access the services. For example, this Privacy Policy would apply when:

You use any of our Websites to view or receive content that we publish or otherwise make available via the services, regardless of whether or not you are a subscriber;
You subscribe to any of our services;
You subscribe to receive blog updates or newsletters;
You interact with us or receive a communication from us related to the services;
You contact us to receive customer support or other assistance in connection with the services we provide you.

This Privacy Policy may also apply in other circumstances when you use any of our services.

3. The Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

The information that we collect about you, and whether or not that information includes your Personal Information, depends on the services you use, context, and any preferences that you have communicated to us. In order to make your visits to our Websites and use of the services as worthwhile as possible, we may ask you to provide your Personal Information to us. Similarly, we may automatically collect your Personal Information when you use or access the services via the Websites.

We also may collect certain information – other than your Personal Information – from your web browser, computer, mobile device, or tablet each time you visit any of our Websites or receive services, such as non-user-specific, de-identified, or aggregated data about web traffic patterns on our Websites. For more information about non-user-specific, de-identified, or aggregated information that we may collect when you use the services, please see Section 4.1 of this Privacy Policy.

3.1. Information That You Provide to Us Voluntarily

We collect Personal Information about you when you provide it to us voluntarily, in order for you to use the services and during your use of the services. The types of Personal Information that you may provide to us voluntarily depend on context and how you use the services. However, examples of the types of Personal Information that you may provide to us voluntarily include, but are not necessarily limited to, your: name, mailing address, home phone number, mobile phone number, email address, username, password, payment information, and date of birth. In Sections 3.1.1 – 3.1.4 below, this Privacy Policy describes circumstances where we collect Personal Information about you, which you voluntarily provide to us.

3.1.1. For Subscription Registrations

When you register to receive blog updates or newsletters, you will voluntarily provide us with your Personal Information to enable us to set up your subscription. Once you are registered for a subscription, we will assign you an internal account ID number, which we will use in connection with the services that we provide to you.

For some services, you can sign in or sign up for your subscription by providing us with, and linking your subscription to, your Apple, Google, or Facebook account.

3.1.2. For Billing & Payment Matters

When you register for a paid subscription to any of our services, we also will collect and use the payment information that you voluntarily provide to us. The payment information that you voluntarily provide to us is also your Personal Information. This payment information can include, but is not necessarily limited to, your: name, address, telephone number, date of birth, email address, credit card or debit card information, bank account information, and any other relevant Personal Information for billing and payment matters regarding your use of the services.

3.1.3. Registration for Newsletters, Contests, Sweepstakes, or Promotion Offers

When you register to receive any of our newsletters, we will also collect Personal Information about you that you voluntarily provide us. This Personal Information can include, but is not necessarily limited to, your name, email address, date of birth, and telephone number.

Additionally, we will collect your Personal Information if you enter a contest or sweepstakes that we offer as part of the services, or register for a promotional offer relating to our services.

3.1.4. For Participating in Voting, Polling, Surveys, or Similar Activities

We will also collect Personal Information that you voluntarily provided us, if you decide to participate in voting or polling, surveys, or similar activities relating to our services where users like you are asked to respond to a variety of questions.

3.1.5. For Customer Service Matters

We will request that you voluntarily provide us with your Personal Information when you contact us for customer service regarding the services.

3.2. Information That We Collect Automatically

We may automatically collect information about you, including your Personal Information, when you use the services. The Personal Information that we collect automatically when you use the services may include, but is not necessarily limited to:

Device identifiers (i.e., information about the mobile, tablet, or computer device you use to access the services);
Advertising identifiers;
Your IP address;
Your location;
The URLs of any pages you visit on our Website;
Your browser, browser profile, and web browsing history;
Your browser language;
Your browser’s Cookies;
Behavioral data about your interaction with the services on Websites;
The URLs of any pages you visit on our Websites; and
Other usage information.

In Sections 3.2.1 – 3.2.5 below, this Privacy Policy describes the circumstances where we may automatically collect Personal Information about you when you use the services.

3.2.1 Device/Usage Information

We may automatically collect certain Personal Information about the computer or devices (including mobile devices) you use to access the services. For example, we may collect automatically and analyze your Personal Information such as: (a) IP addresses, geolocation information (as described in Section 3.2.2 below), unique device identifiers including mobile advertising identifiers, and other information about your mobile phone or other mobile device(s), browser types, browser language, operating system, the state or country from which you accessed the services; and (b) information related to the ways in which you interact with the services, such as referring and exit pages and URLs, platform type, clicked items, interaction with advertisements, domain names, landing pages, pages and content viewed and the order of those pages, the amount of time spent on particular pages, mouse hover data, including location and time spent on each area of the page, the date and time you used the services, the frequency of your use of the services, error logs, and other similar information and Personal Information about you. As described further below, we may use third-party analytics providers and technologies, including cookies and similar tools and technologies, to assist in collecting and analyzing this information and Personal Information about you.

We may also capture other data, such as search criteria and results. In some cases, we will associate this information with a unique Infodecon identifier for our internal use, in which case your Infodecon identifier will be considered aggregated and de-identified information owned by Infodecon, our use of which is governed by this Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

3.2.2. Location Information

Some of our services may have the ability to provide content to you based on your GPS location, if you enable this feature. Your GPS location is your exact location. You choose whether to enable GPS features when you first access the services. You can edit that setting on your device at any time. If you enable these features, your GPS location will be found by satellite, cellphone tower, or Wi-Fi and used by the services. If you save a location-based search in your history, that data moves to our service provider’s servers.

If you do not enable GPS location-based services, or if a specific service does not have location-based features, we do not collect your precise GPS location. However, we do collect your IP address, which can establish your approximate location. Ads on our Websites may be targeted based on this approximate location, but are not targeted based on your GPS location.

We may collect different types of information about your location, including general information (e.g., IP address, ZIP code) and more specific information (e.g., GPS-based functionality on mobile devices used to access the services), and may use that information to customize the services with location-based information, advertising, and features. For example, if your IP address indicates an origin in a specific US state and city or region, the services may be customized with information and advertisements relevant to that specific US state, city, or region.

3.2.3. Cookies & Other Information Technologies

“Cookies” are small data files that are sent to, and stored by, your web browser software on your computer hard drive, tablet, mobile device, or other device. When you use or access the services via the Internet, we and our third-party partners may use cookies and similar internet tracking technologies to do things, such as: (a) store your username and password to your accounts for the services; (b) monitor and analyze the usage of our Websites by collecting the information discussed in Section 3.2 of this Privacy Policy; (c) customize the services to your explicit and inferred preferences; and (d) deliver interest-based advertising displayed by the services, as well as advertisements that may be displayed on other websites or mobile applications.

Please review our Cookie Policy to learn about our use – and our third-party service providers’ use – of cookies and similar Internet technologies on our Websites and services.

Additional Notes About Cookies & Your Rights & Choices:

Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, cookies may constitute your Personal Information under applicable laws.
For additional information about how we, and our third-party advertising partners, may use your cookies when you access the services via the Internet, please refer to the following sections of our Privacy Policy: Section 6 (How Do We Use Online Analytics & Interest-Based Advertising?) and Section 7 (How Do Third Parties Collect & Use Your Personal Information Via The Services?).
For additional information about your legal rights and choices regarding our and our third-party advertising partners’ collection and use of your cookies when you use the services – including how you can opt-out or block the collection and use of your cookies by us and third parties – please refer to Section 8 (What Are Your Rights & Choices?), Section 9 (Your California Rights), Section 10 (Use of The Services By Users From Outside The United States).
We may sometimes target ads to you through ‘onboarded’ audiences: to do this, we may share information you have provided to us with service providers, who will de-identify the information and associate it with cookies that enable us to reach you with display media. We may also help these service providers place their own cookies, by deploying a cookie that is associated with a ‘hashed’ value associated with interest-based or demographic data, to permit advertising to be directed to you on other websites, applications, or services.
We also may use cookies to collect information around and about abandoned shopping carts for purchases made by you on our services. A shopping cart is considered to be abandoned within one hour of inactivity/lack of purchase. For certain services and users, once a cart is considered abandoned, an SMS message will be sent as a reminder.

3.2.4. Personal Information About You That We Collect From Other Sources

i. Social Media Networks & Other Third-Party Services

In this Privacy Policy, “Social Media” includes Facebook, and “Third-Party Services” include Google and Apple.

You can link your Social Media account or other Third-Party Services account to the services. By linking your Social Media account or other Third-Party Services account to the services, you authorize us to collect, store, and use any information (including Personal Information about you) that they may give us (e.g., your name and email address). You can disconnect your Social Media account or other Third-Party Services account from the services at any time.

We also collect information from you when you interact with our pages, groups, accounts, or posts on Social Media platforms. This information includes aggregate data on our follows (such as location, gender, and age), awareness data (such as number of impressions and reach), engagement data (such as likes, comments, reposts, and clicks), and individual users’ public profiles.

Please refer to our Cookie Policy for additional information about our use of Social Media Cookies and similar technologies on our Websites and services.

ii. Private Databases

Databases owned by private marketing, data analytics, and Social Media platforms also give us access to a range of information, such as public data, survey data, and other types of data. Sometimes the information that we receive from these sources may include your Personal Information, such as your mailing address, gender, age, household income, or other demographic data.

iii. Information From Other Third Parties

We may obtain additional Personal Information about you from other third parties, such as partners, researchers, data services companies (e.g., for data enhancement), and others. We may combine information that we collect from you with information about you that we obtain from such third parties and information derived from any other subscription, product, or services we provide.

3.2.5. Collection of Personal Information Across Devices & Applications

Sometimes, we (or our service providers) may use the Personal Information we collect about you – for instance, log-in credentials, IP addresses, hashed email addresses, and unique mobile device identifiers – to locate or try to locate the same unique users across multiple browsers or devices (such as smartphones, tablets, or computers), or work with providers that do this, in order to better tailor content, features, and advertising, and provide you with a seamless experience across the devices you use to access the services.

4. How Do We Use The Information We Collect About You?

We use the Personal Information and other information that we collect about you for the following purposes:

To provide you with the services;
For the purpose for which your Personal Information was provided to us;
To process payments that you make for the services;
To provide you with customer service regarding your use of the services;
To respond to your inquiries, requests, or complaints about the services;
To set up your account with us for the services and to allow you to access your account;
To advertise the services to you;
To send you messages, notices, emails, phone calls, or other communications about the services;
To send you alerts or other communications via SMS messages or other media or networks;
To send you information about your relationship or transactions with us;
To notify you about new features of the services, special events, or products, services, and special offers;
To administer sweepstakes and contests;
To contact you with information that we believe will be of interest to you;
To administer and troubleshoot the services;
To generate and review reports and data about our user base and usage patterns of the services;
To perform analytics and research aimed at improving the accuracy, effectiveness, usability, or popularity of the services;
To offer, manage, monitor, and improve the content and features of the services or develop new services;
To allow us to personalize or otherwise provide the content and advertising that you see on the services and on other websites and mobile applications and to understand how users interact with and use our Websites, advertisements, and services;
To associate your activities, customize content, or deliver interest-based advertising across different devices and browsers that you use to access the services (for instance, computers, tablets, mobile devices, applications, and websites);
To send you offers and advertisements through various channels (which may include, for instance, display, email, direct mail, and TV), whether on our behalf or on behalf of marketing partners with whom we may engage;
To enable you to link the services with your Social Media account or other Third-Party Services account, as described above in Section 3.2.4.i of this Privacy Policy;
To allow you to share User-Generated Content and to attribute the User Generated Content that you make available through the services to you;
To protect your Personal Information and comply with your legal privacy rights under applicable laws;
To enforce the legal terms that govern your use of the services; and/or
For any other lawful purposes that we deem necessary or appropriate.

4.1. Our Use of Aggregated & De-Identified Information Based On Your Personal Information

We also may aggregate and de-identify the Personal Information that we collect about you via the services or other sources, so that the aggregated and de-identified information derived from your Personal Information no longer constitutes Personal Information under applicable laws. To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, we may process, share, disclose, and otherwise use any aggregated and/or de-identified information based on your Personal Information in any manner that we see fit in our discretion.

5. With Whom Do We Share Your Information?

Infodecon may share your information, including your Personal Information, with non-affiliated third-party service providers in order to provide you with the services and for the other purposes described in Section 4 of this Privacy Policy.

We may share or otherwise disclose your Personal Information to our non-affiliated third-party service providers, (a) in order to provide you with the services or products that you have requested from us, (b) when we have your permission, or (c) as is otherwise described in this Privacy Policy. We work with non-affiliated third-party service providers to provide certain services and perform certain functions on our behalf, such as:

Delivering your content;
Shipping and fulfillment;
Fulfilling your orders and subscriptions;
Providing customer service to you;
Billing;
Sales;
Provision of content and features available via the services;
Processing your payments;
Sending emails to you;
Marketing research;
Data analytics;
Serving and targeting ads;
Measuring ad performance;
Maintaining our IT infrastructure;
Data storage, fraud prevention, and security;
Conducting and analyzing surveys;
Legal services;
For other lawful purposes relating to our business and the services.

When performing the functions above, these non-affiliated third-party service providers often have access to, and process, your Personal Information. We also may allow these non-affiliated third-party service providers to use aggregated or de-identified information derived from your Personal Information for other purposes pursuant to applicable laws.

We may access, disclose, transfer, and preserve your information when we have a good faith belief that doing so is necessary to:

Protect our users and our legal rights, privacy, or safety and that of our contractors, or other individuals, including by enforcing this Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy, or our Terms of Use;
Comply with the law, including with subpoenas, search warrants, court orders, and other legal processes; and respond to inquiries or requests from government, regulatory bodies, law enforcement, public authorities, or content protection organizations;
Permit us to pursue available remedies, commence, participate in, or defend litigation, or limit the damages that we may sustain; or
Enforce this Privacy Policy, our Cookie Policy, or our Terms of Use.

We may share your information in connection with any proposed or actual merger, reorganization, transfer of control, a sale of some or all of our assets, or a financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable laws, we may disclose any aggregated and/or de-identified information derived from the Personal Information that we collect about you to any third party for any purpose we deem necessary or appropriate.

6. How Do We Use Online Analytics & Interest-Based Advertising?

6.1. Our Use of Online Analytics

We may use third-party web analytics services on our services, such as those provided by Google Analytics, Adobe Omniture, The Trade Desk, and similar providers. These service providers use the sort of technology described in our Cookie Policy and Section 3.2.3 of this Privacy Policy to help us analyze how users use the services, including by noting the third-party website from which you arrive. The information (including your IP address) collected by these technologies will be disclosed to or collected directly by these service providers, who use the information to evaluate your use of the services. We also use Google Analytics for certain purposes related to advertising, as described in Section 6.2 and Section 8.1 of this Privacy Policy and in our Cookie Policy.

6.2. Our Use of Interest-Based Advertising

When you use the services, we may serve you with ads based on various factors such as the content of the page you are visiting, Personal Information, and other information that you provide, such as your age or gender, your searches, demographic and geographic data, User-Generated Content, and other information that you provide to us. These ads may be based on your current activity or your activity over time and may be based on your interests.

When you use the services, we may share information about you, such as a hashed version of your email address, your IP address, and information about your device settings with our third-party advertising technology providers. Those advertising technology providers may use that information to assign you a unique ID for the purpose of recognizing you on your devices. We may place this unique ID in our first-party cookie or use a partner that places a third-party cookie and allows it to be used for online and interest-based ad targeting. Your unique ID may be shared by us or on our behalf with third-party advertisers for interest-based ad targeting.

Also, third parties, including without limitation those whose products or services are accessible or advertised via the services, may place cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, or other similar tracking technologies (such as mobile ‘SDKs,’ which function like a mobile version of a browser cookie and are embedded in mobile applications) on your computer browser, mobile phone applications, or other device to collect information about your use of the services, including your Personal Information, in order to: (i) inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to our websites and other sites and mobile applications; and (ii) report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our Websites and the use of our services. We also allow other third parties to serve interest-based ads to you via the services, and to access their own cookies or other tracking technologies on your computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the services so that interest-based ads may be delivered to you when you are using other websites and mobile applications. We also may share with third-party advertisers a hashed version of your email address, your IP address, and/or information about your browser or operating system, which may be identified by a service provider for purposes of delivering interest-based advertising on the services, other websites, and/or mobile applications. We likewise may work with platform providers who serve advertising across devices. For instance, we may want to reach our web-based customers when they are on their mobile devices. This is done, generally, by correlating common attributes (such as IP addresses, other browser or device information, hashed email addresses, or unique ID) across devices, to infer a common identity across multiple channels.

The third parties that use these technologies may offer you a way to opt-out of interest-based ad targeting, as is described in our Cookie Policy and in Section 8 (What Are Your Rights & Choices?) of this Privacy Policy. We do not maintain or control these opt-out mechanisms, which are provided by non-affiliated third parties. Further, we do not control which third parties choose to participate in these opt-out mechanisms. Please note that opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean that you will no longer see advertising on the services, but these ads may be less relevant to your interests.

For additional information about your legal rights regarding our collection and sharing, selling, or other disclosure of your Personal Information to third parties, please refer to the following Sections of this Privacy Policy: Section 8 (What Are Your Rights & Choices?), Section 9 (Your California Rights), Section 10 (Use of The Services By Users From Outside The United States).

7. How Do Third Parties Collect & Use Your Information Through Our Services?

As is described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, for certain advertising, analytics, and other features that appear in the services or that we provide via the services, a third party, such as an advertiser, search engine, or other partner may collect your Personal Information, such as your name, mailing address, device information, IP address, etc., in accordance with applicable laws. Subject to applicable laws, these third-party entities may use your Personal Information in any way they choose, including to market to you or to share your Personal Information with others. Subject to applicable laws, in those instances, your Personal Information may be covered by those third-party entities’ privacy policies. In some cases, these third-party entities may not have any online presence. Therefore, you should only submit your Personal Information in these cases when you are comfortable doing so given the conditions. If you have questions about the privacy practices of these third-party entities, we encourage you to contact them and review their privacy policies.

For additional information about third-party entities that may collect and use your Personal Information in connection with your use of the services, and the rights and choices you have to control or limit the collection and use of your Personal Information by these third-party entities, please refer to our Cookie Policy and the following Sections of this Privacy Policy: Section 8 (What Are Your Rights & Choices?), Section 9 (Your California Rights), Section 10 (Use of The Services By Users From Outside The United States).

8. What Are Your Rights & Choices?

This Section 8 of the Privacy Policy describes your legal rights and choices regarding how we use your Personal Information. This Section 8 of the Privacy Policy also describes how you exercise those rights and choices. We respect your privacy, and we will never discriminate against you for electing to exercise any privacy rights or choices that apply to you.

We provide a variety of ways for you to control the Personal Information we maintain about you, including choices about how we collect and use your Personal Information. In some jurisdictions, these controls and choices are enforceable as rights under applicable law. In addition to the privacy rights and choices detailed below in this Section 8 of this Privacy Policy, additional information about jurisdiction-specific privacy rights and choices that may apply to you can be found in the following Sections of this Privacy Policy:

If you are a California resident, please see additional detail below in Section 9 of this Privacy Policy (Your California Rights);
If you are a resident of the European Union, European Economic Area, the UK, or Switzerland, please see additional detail below in Section 10 of this Privacy Policy (Use of the Services By Uses From Outside of The United States);
If you are a resident of Nevada, please see additional detail below in Section 11 of this Privacy Policy (Your Nevada Rights & Choices);
If you are a resident of Virginia, please see additional detail below in Section 12 of this Privacy Policy (Your Virginia Rights & Choices);
If you are a resident of Colorado, please see additional detail below in Section 13 (Your Colorado Rights & Choices);
If you are a resident of Connecticut, please see additional detail below in Section 14 (Your Connecticut Rights & Choices);
If you are a resident of Utah, please see additional detail below in Section 15 (Your Utah Rights & Choices).

8.1. Managing Your Account, Privacy Rights, & Choices

i. Email

As part of the services, we may offer customers like you a variety of different email newsletters and other commercial emails. The services are supported by advertising revenue. We may send you commercial emails on behalf of ourselves and our third-party advertisers. You can unsubscribe to these emails by either following the instructions in the email for opting out of receiving future emails or by contacting our customer service team via the contact information provided in the emails or on our Website.

ii. Promotions Via Mail or Telephone

Sometimes, we may contact you via mail or telephone with promotions for our services. You can ask us to opt out of these mail or telephone solicitations. In certain jurisdictions, as is discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, you may also have the right to instruct us to not share your Personal Information with third parties for direct marketing purposes. To opt-out of future mail or telephone solicitations regarding the services, please contact our customer service team via the contact information provided on our Website and make a request to no longer receive them.

iii. SMS/Text Message Alerts

If you receive marketing-related SMS/text message alerts from us in connection with the services, you can opt-out of receiving them by replying “STOP” or any alternate keyword that we have shared with you. We will work to implement your opt-out request quickly and within the timeframes required by applicable laws. However, please note that your opt-out request will not prohibit us from sending you important non-marketing SMS/text message alerts about your account or use of the services.

iv. Push Notifications

You can opt out of receiving push notifications from us by changing your settings on the device that is sending you push notifications from us, or by uninstalling the Application that is sending you push notifications from us.

v. Platform & Web Browser Controls

Cookie Controls & Settings

As is discussed in Section 3.2.3 of this Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy, when you access the services via the Internet or an Internet-connected device, we may place or collect “cookies” from your web browser or device, and we may use these cookies for various purposes. Depending on the jurisdiction in which you reside, some of these cookies may constitute your Personal Information under applicable law.

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you can go to the settings menu of your web browser to learn how to delete or reject cookies. Additionally, the Websites on which we provide the services offer you the capability to choose certain cookie preferences about whether or not your web browser will accept – or instead will block/reject – certain cookies from our Website.

Please review, and be aware of, the following regarding your choice to delete, reject, or otherwise opt out of cookies in connection with your use of the services:

If you choose to delete or reject cookies on your web browser or device, this could affect certain features or services that we provide via our Websites;
These cookie blocking and opt-out mechanisms are unique to your computer, tablet, device, and web browser, which means that you will need to re-implement your cookie blocking our opt-out preferences on each such computer, tablet, device, and web browser that you use;
If you clear or delete your cookies on your device or web browser after opting out of cookies or configuring our cookie preferences menu to block or reject cookies, this will result in the deletion of the opt-out or blocking cookie on your web browser or device, meaning you will need to opt out or configure our cookie preferences menu again after clearing or deleting the cookies (this may also apply to “Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information” signals/preferences that you implement via our cookies preferences menu on our Websites); and
After you opt out of cookies or configure your personalized cookie preferences on our Websites to block/reject cookies, you may continue to receive advertising via our services, but those ads may be less relevant to you.

For additional information about cookies, implementing your personalized cookie preferences on our Websites, and how we collect and use cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy. Please also refer to Section 8.2 of this Privacy Policy (Your Additional Rights and Choices For Third Parties & Our Online Analytics & Interest-Based Advertising Practices) for additional information about how to opt out of cookies and similar technologies using third-party opt-out mechanisms.

Global Privacy Control (GPC)

Some web browsers and browser extensions support the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”), which can send a signal to the websites you visit that indicates your choice to opt-out of certain types of uses and disclosures of your Personal Information, including sales of your Personal Information. For users of the services in certain jurisdictions, when we detect a GPC signal, we will make reasonable efforts to respect your privacy-related choices that are identified by the GPC signal we detected and the GPC setting you implemented, as required by applicable laws.

Do Not Track (DNT)

Some web browsers offer a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) setting that can send a signal to the websites that you visit, which indicates that you do not wish to be tracked by the websites. However, unlike the GPC signals described above, there is no common understanding of how to interpret such DNT signals as of the “Last Updated Date” of this Privacy Policy. As such, our Websites do not respond to web browser DNT signals. However, as is discussed above in this Privacy Policy, you may change the privacy preferences in your web browser to prevent or limit the use of cookies or similar technologies. To learn more about managing, blocking, and deleting cookies, please refer to our Cookie Policy. As is discussed above, blocking or deleting cookies or similar technologies may affect your browsing experience on our Websites and may prevent you from accessing or using certain of our services, including some of the personalized features that we provide to users as part of the services.

Mobile Advertising ID Controls for iOS and Android Users

Mobile devices running on iOS and Android operating systems provide options about how to limit tracking and/or reset advertising IDs. You may be able to implement these options on your iOS or Android mobile device that you use to access the services. For more information about advertising IDs and how to implement advertising ID controls and choices on your iOS or Android mobile device in connection with your use of the services, please refer to the privacy settings for the applicable device or operating system or contact the applicable platform operator.

8.2. Your Additional Rights & Choices For Third Parties & Our Online Analytics & Interest-Based Advertising Practices

As is discussed above in Section 6 of this Privacy Policy, we use Google Analytics on our services for various purposes, including for online analytics and interest-based advertising purposes. To prevent Google Analytics from using your Personal Information for analytics purposes, you may install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on. For additional information about Google Analytics, you may refer to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

As is discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy and in our Cookie Policy, when you access or use our services on the Internet via any of our Websites, we use various third-party service providers and technologies to serve you tailored advertising for products, services, and content that we think you might be interested in. This interest-based advertising often uses your Personal Information (such as your cookies, browsing history, or IP address) to serve you relevant ads via our services. These third parties that provide the interest-based advertising services and technologies we use on our services may offer you a way to opt-out of interest-based ad targeting. We do not maintain or control these opt-out mechanisms, which are provided and controlled by non-affiliated third parties. Furthermore, we do not control which third parties participate in these opt-out mechanisms. Please note that opting out of interest-based advertising does not mean that you will no longer see advertising on the services, but these ads may be less relevant to your interests.

To maximize the effectiveness of your opt-out for interest-based advertising, you should register your choice through all of these mechanisms and on each web browser and/or mobile device that you use to access the services:

General Third-Party Opt-Out Mechanisms (Browser/Cookie-based)

For US-based opt-outs, you may visit and use the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) Consumer Opt-out link, the Digital Advertising Alliance’s (DAA) Consumer Opt-Out link, and TrustArc’s Advertising Choices Page.
For Canadian-based opt-outs, you may visit and use the opt-out mechanisms at Your Ad Choices.
For European-based opt-outs, you may visit and use the opt-out mechanisms at Your Online Choices.
To opt out of data collection, sharing, and use by our partner, LiveRamp, please click here.
To opt out of data collection, sharing, and use by our partner, Criteo, please click here.
For information about how to opt out of data collection, sharing, and use by our partner, Connatix, please visit Connatix’s Privacy Policy.
For information about how to opt out of data collection, sharing, and use by our partner, ID5, click here.
To opt out of data collection, sharing, and use by our partner, Taboola, please click here.
For information about how to manage interest-based advertising and data collection, sharing, and use by our partner, Facebook, please click here.
If you have a Google account, we may use Google Analytics to serve and display advertising to you. You can opt out of Google Analytics for display advertising or customize your Google display network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page.
For information about how to manage and control data collection, sharing, and use by Microsoft, please refer to the “How to access and control your personal data” section of Microsoft’s Privacy Policy. To opt-out of data collection, use, and sharing by Microsoft, please click here.
For any other devices and/or operating systems, please visit the privacy settings for the applicable device or operating system or contact the applicable platform operator.

Please refer to Section 2 of our Cookie Policy for important information that you should review before choosing to opt out, delete, or block cookies.

9. Your California Privacy Rights

Notice For California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) (the CPPA and CPRA, collectively the “California Privacy Laws”) gives California residents certain rights and choices about how we collect, use, and disclose their Personal Information. This Section 9 of this Privacy Policy (the “California Notice”) describes these additional rights and choices and provides disclosures required by the California Privacy Laws about how we collect, use, and disclose California residents’ Personal Information.

This California Notice applies to information of California residents that constitutes “Personal Information” under the California Privacy Laws to the extent that we handle such California Personal Information in our capacity as a business under the California Privacy Laws. For purposes of this California Notice Section of this Privacy Policy, the capitalized term “Personal Information” refers to information of California residents that constitutes “personal information” under the California Privacy Laws, as distinguished from the general definition of Personal Information set forth under Section 1.1 of this Privacy Policy. As a practical matter, if you are a California resident that uses the services, there is likely little or no difference between Personal Information as used in this California Notice Section of the Privacy Policy and the definition of Personal Information provided above in Section 1.1. This California Notice does not apply to information exempt from, or otherwise not subject to, the requirements of the California Privacy Laws.

California Notice at Collection – The Personal Information That We Collect

We currently collect, and within the 12 months prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy have collected, the following categories of Personal Information:

Identifiers, such as a real name, alias, postal address, shipping address, email address, IP address, account name/number, online username, or telephone number.
Unique personal identifiers, such as a device identifier, cookies, beacons, mobile identifiers, or other similar technology.
Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, and information regarding consumers’ interactions with the services, Websites, and ads served via the services.
Geolocation data.
Physical characteristics or descriptions (i.e., photos of you that you provide to us).
Characteristics of protected classifications under California or Federal law, such as age or gender.
Commercial and financial information, such as credit and debit card numbers, bank account numbers, payment information, records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or other similar information.
Inferences drawn from Personal Information to create a profile about a consumer.
Sensitive Personal Information, such as social security number, driver’s license number, state identification card number, passport number, or a consumer’s precise geolocation.

We also collect public content that you may provide to us voluntarily, such as your comments, posts, reviews, survey responses, and User-Generated Content.

We collect Personal Information directly from California residents, Social Media or Third-Party Services platforms that customers use to log in to and access our services (i.e., Facebook, Google, and Apple), publicly available sources, public records databases, other users and subscribers of the services, from your browser of device, data analytics providers, consumer data resellers, government entities, and data brokers. We do not collect all categories of Personal Information from all users or from all sources.

We currently collect, and have collected within the last 12 months, the above-listed categories of Personal Information for the following business or commercial purposes:

Undertaking activities to improve, upgrade, or enhance our services.
Undertaking internal research for technological development and demonstration.
Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
Protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
Auditing related to a current interaction with the consumer and concurrent transactions, including, but not necessarily limited to, counting ad impressions to unique visitors on the Website, verifying positioning and quality of ad impressions, and auditing compliance with this specification and other standards.
Performing services on behalf of the business or service provider, including maintaining or servicing accounts, providing customer service, processing or fulfilling orders and transactions, verifying customer information, processing payments, providing advertising and marketing services, providing analytics services, or providing similar services on behalf of the business or service provider.
Short-term, transient use, including, but not limited to, non-personalized advertising shown as part of your current interaction with us.
Helping to ensure the security and integrity to the extent the use of your Personal Information is reasonably necessary and proportionate for these purposes.
Advancing our commercial or economic interests.

Sale, Sharing, & Disclosure of Personal Information

The table below identifies the categories of Personal Information that we sold or shared to third parties in the 12 months preceding the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy, and the categories of third parties to whom we sold or shared each identified category of Personal Information:

Categories of Personal Information

Categories of Third Parties

Unique personal identifiers (device identifiers, cookies, web beacons, pixel tags, mobile identifiers, or similar technology); Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, online identifiers; Geolocation data; Internet or other electronic network activity information (search history; browsing history; and information regarding a consumer’s interaction with any of our services, Websites, or advertisements served to you via the services, Websites); inferences drawn from Personal Information to create a profile about a consumer.

Advertising networks; advertising platforms; advertising technology providers; data analytics providers; Social Media platforms and Third-Party Services providers (e.g., Apple, Google, Facebook).

As is discussed further below, we do not “sell” your Personal Information in the traditional sense (i.e., for money). However, the California Privacy Laws define “sale” and “share” broadly, and our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties to show you advertisements and provide data analytics services for our Websites and services may constitute a “sale” or “share” under the California Privacy Laws.

The table below identifies the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed to other recipients for a business purpose within the 12 months prior to the “Last Updated” date of this Privacy Policy, and the categories of recipients to whom we disclosed the identified categories of Personal Information:

Categories of Personal Information

Categories of Other Recipients

Identifiers, such as a real name, alias, postal address, shipping address, email address, IP address, account name/number, online username, telephone number, an individual’s written or electronic signature.

Our third-party service providers, Social Media platforms and Third-Party Services providers (e.g., Apple, Google, Facebook); advertising networks; advertising platforms; advertising technology providers; data analytics providers; list brokering networks; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

Social Media platforms and Third-Party Services providers (e.g., Apple, Google, Facebook); advertising networks; advertising platforms; advertising technology providers; data analytics providers; list brokering networks; IT service providers; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

Characteristics of protected classifications under California or Federal law, such as, age or gender.

Payment processors; data analytics providers; list brokering networks; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

Commercial and financial information, such as, credit and debit card numbers, bank account numbers, payment information, records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Payment processors; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

Physical characteristics or descriptions (i.e., photos of you that you provide to us as User-Generated Content).

Our third-party content licensing partners; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or other similar information (such as that included in User-Generated Content that you submit to us via the services).

Our third-party content licensing partners; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

Sensitive Personal Information allowed for under California law, such as, social security number, driver’s license number, state identification card number, passport number, or a consumer’s racial origin, religious beliefs, or union membership; a consumer’s debit or credit card numbers.

Payment processors; our security, fraud, and legal compliance partners.

We do not knowingly collect, sell, share, or otherwise disclose Personal Information of consumers under 16 years of age. We currently do not use “Sensitive Personal Information” (as that term is defined by the California Privacy Laws) for purposes other than those the California Privacy Laws allow for.

Retention of Personal Information

We retain each of the above categories of Personal Information for as long as is necessary to: (1) fulfill the purposes for which we collect it (for example, for as long as is necessary to provide you with the services that you have requested); and (2) satisfy any legal, accounting, contractual, record keeping, or reporting requirements that apply to us.

Please refer to Section 14 (How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Information?) of this Privacy Policy for additional information about our Personal Information retention practices.

CCPA Rights

The California Privacy Laws (i.e., the CCPA as amended by the CPRA) grants California residents the rights described below. These rights are not absolute and are subject to certain exemptions. As such, in certain cases, we may deny your requests regarding these rights as permitted by law.

Right to Know: The right to know what Personal Information we have collected about you, including the categories of Personal Information, the categories of sources from which we collected Personal Information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling or sharing (if applicable), the categories of third parties to whom we sell or share Personal Information (if applicable), and the specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you;
Right to Delete: The right to delete Personal Information that we collected about you, subject to certain exceptions;
Right to Correct: The right to correct inaccurate Personal Information that we maintain about you;
Right to Opt-Out: If we sell or share your Personal Information, the right for you to opt-out of the sale or sharing;
Right to Limit: If we sell or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information for purposes other than those allowed by the CCPA and its regulations, the right to limit our use or disclosure of the Sensitive Personal Information; and
Right to Not Receive Discriminatory Treatment: The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of the privacy rights the CCPA confers.

You will not receive any discriminatory treatment from us for exercising any of the privacy rights granted to you by the CCPA.

Right to Opt-Out

You have a right to opt-out from the sale or sharing of your Personal Information. As stated above, we do not “sell” your Personal Information in the traditional sense (i.e., for money). However, we may disclose your Personal Information in the following ways that may constitute a “sale” and/or “share” of your Personal Information within the legal definitions of those terms under the California Privacy Laws:

Like many websites, we use services that help us deliver interest-based ads to you on our Websites, such as the services associated with cookies described in this Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy. Our use of these services may constitute a “sale” or “share” of your Personal Information for purposes of the California Privacy Laws because the advertising partners we use that provide these services collect information from our users, including Personal Information, when users visit our Websites (e.g., device data, cookies, online activity, IP address, as described above) to help serve ads to users that are more likely to be of interest to them.

For more information or to opt-out of any future selling or sharing of your Personal Information for the purposes above, please click here or the “Do Not Sell/Share My Personal Information” link on the bottom of the webpage where your Personal Information is being collected.

Additionally, if your browser supports it, you can turn on the Global Privacy Control (GPC) to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your Personal Information. Please refer to the “Global Privacy Control (GPC)” discussion above in Section 8.1 of this Privacy Policy for additional information.

Authorized Agent

If you are submitting a request on behalf of a California resident, please submit the request through one of the designated methods discussed in this Privacy Policy. After submitting the request, if the request is not subject to an exemption or exception, we will require additional information to verify that you have the authority to act on behalf of the California resident.

Methods for Submitting Requests Under the CCPA/CPRA

For additional information or to submit a CCPA/CPRA request, please fill out this form.

You may also submit a request by sending us an email to this address: privacy@infodecon.com.

Identity Verification

We will need to verify your identity to process your information, access, correction, and deletion requests and reserve the right to confirm your residency. Authentication into your online account with us (if applicable), government identification, declarations under penalty of perjury, or other information may be required. We cannot process your request if you do not provide us with sufficient detail to allow us to understand and respond to it. Please do not send us additional personal information for verification purposes unless we specifically request it.

Shine the Light

It is our policy not to disclose Personal Information (as defined in California’s Shine the Light Law, California Civil Code Section 1798.83) provided to us by our customers (as defined in the Shine the Light Law) to third parties for their direct marketing purposes if the customer has exercised an option that prevents that information from being disclosed to third parties for those purposes. Such customers may exercise this option by submitting a CCPA opt-out request here.

Accessibility

We are committed to ensuring this Privacy Policy is accessible to individuals with disabilities. If you wish to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, please contact us as described below.

California Residents Under Age 18

California residents who are under age 18 and registered users of the services can request removal of content that they have posted on the services (including User-Generated Content) by emailing us at privacy@infodecon.com with your name, email address, and the material that you want removed and information that will help us locate it, with the subject line “California Removal Request”. Your request does not ensure complete removal of the material. For example, materials may be republished or reposted by another user or a third party.

10. Use of The Services By Users From Outside The United States

Infodecon is based in the United States, and the services are intended for use by individuals in the United States. If you use the services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using the services, you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and the use and disclosure of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

11. How Can You Access, Correct, Or Update Your Personal Information?

You may access, correct, or update your Personal Information by contacting us at privacy@infodecon.com.

12. What About Linked Third-Party Services, Sites, & Advertisements That I See Via The Services?

The services may contain links to third-party websites, services, and advertisements that are not owned or controlled by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites, services, or advertisements, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites, services, or advertisements. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and terms of use of those third-party websites, services, and advertisements.

13. How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?

We take reasonable measures to protect your Personal Information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.

14. How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Information?

We retain your Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by applicable laws, regulations, or contractual obligations. When we no longer need your Personal Information, we will securely delete or anonymize it in accordance with our data retention policies and applicable laws.

15. What Are The Requirements Or Guidelines For The Use of Our Services By Children?

The services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at privacy@infodecon.com.

16. Changes To This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by posting the updated Privacy Policy on our Website and updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the services after the effective date of the updated Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy.

17. No Rights of Third Parties

This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by third parties.

18. Complaints

If you have any complaints about our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@infodecon.com. We will do our best to address your concerns.

19. How Can You Contact Us?

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:

Email: info@infodecon.com

Thank you for using Infodecon.com.

Effective Date: [May 21, 2024]

Last Updated: [May 21, 2024]

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