LAST
UPDATED: May 25,
2014
OOT
DIGITAL PRIVACY POLICY
OOT Digital, LLC wants you to be
familiar with how we
collect, use and disclose information.
This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection
with
information that we collect through
websites
operated by us from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy (the “Websites”), as well as
through
HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this
Privacy
Policy (collectively, the “Services”).
By providing Personal Information to us, you agree to the
terms and
conditions of this Privacy Policy.
Personal
Information
Personal
Information We May Collect
“Personal
Information” is information that identifies you as an
individual or relates
to an identifiable person,
including:
- Name
- Postal
address
- Telephone
number
- Email
address
If
you submit any
Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service
providers
in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the
authority to
do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this
Privacy
Policy.
How
We May Collect Personal
Information
We
and our service
providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways,
including:
- Through
the Services: We collect Personal
Information when you submit it, such as by signing up for a newsletter
or sweepstakes, or an offer.
- From
Other Sources: We may receive your
Personal Information from other sources, such as public databases;
joint marketing partners; as well as from other third parties.
How
We May Use Personal
Information
We
may use Personal Information:
- To
respond to your inquiries and fulfill
your requests, such as to
send you newsletters.
- To
send administrative information to you, for example, information
regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and
policies.
- To
send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to
you.
- To
personalize your experience by presenting products and offers tailored
to you.
- To
allow you to participate in sweepstakes, contests and similar
promotions and to administer these activities.
Some of these activities have additional rules, which
could contain additional information about how we use and disclose your
Personal Information, so we suggest that you read these rules carefully.
- For
our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring
and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or
modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the
effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding
our business activities.
- As
we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law,
including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with
legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government
authorities including public and government authorities outside your
country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions;
(e) to protect our operations or those of any of our
affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property,
and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to
pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
How
Personal Information May Be Disclosed
Your Personal Information may be
disclosed:
·
To
our third party service providers who provide services such as
website hosting, data analysis, information technology and related
infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing
and other
similar services.
·
To
third parties to permit them to send you marketing
communications, if you have opted in to such sharing.
·
To
third parties sponsors of sweepstakes, contests and similar
promotions.
·
By
you, on message boards, chat,
profile pages and blogs and other services to which you are able to
post
information and materials. Please note that any information you post or
disclose through these services will become public information, and may
be
available to users of the Services and to the general public. We urge you to be very
careful when deciding
to disclose your Personal Information, or any other information, on the
Services.
·
To
a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale,
joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any
portion
of our business, assets or stock (including in connection with any
bankruptcy
or similar proceedings).
·
As
we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable
law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply
with legal
process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government
authorities
including public and government authorities outside your country of
residence;
(d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our
operations or
those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy,
safety or
property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others; and (g) to
allow us to
pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
OTHER
Information
Other
Information We May Collect
“Other
Information”
is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does
not
directly relate to an individual, such as:
- Browser
and device information
- Information
collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
- Demographic
information and other information provided by you
- Aggregated
information
How
We May Collect Other
Information
We
and our third
party service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of
ways,
including:
·
Through
your browser
or device: Certain information is
collected by most
browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media
Access
Control (MAC) address or other device ID, computer type (Windows or
Macintosh),
screen resolution, operating system name and version, device
manufacturer and
model, language, Internet browser type and version, the site you came
from, the
search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, your
browser
add-ons, and your browser’s width and height.
We use this information to ensure that the Services
function properly.
·
Using
cookies: Cookies are pieces of
information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to
collect information such
as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language
preferences, and other anonymous traffic data.
We and our service providers use the information for
security purposes,
to facilitate navigation, display information more effectively, and to
store
your preferences personalize your experience while using the Services,
as well
as for online tracking purposes. We
can recognize
your computer to assist your use of the Services.
We also gather statistical information about
the usage of the Services in order to continually improve the design
and functionality,
understand how the Services are used and to assist us with resolving
questions
regarding the Services. Cookies
further
allow us to select which of our advertisements or offers are most
likely to
appeal to you and display them while you are on the Services. We may also use cookies in
online advertising
to track responses to our advertisements and we may use cookies or
other files
to track your use of other websites.
At
this time we do not honor browser do-not-track (“DNT”) signals.
If
you
do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is
a simple
procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline
cookies, or
be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your
computer of
a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You
may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. However, if you do not
accept these cookies,
you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. For example, we may not be
able to recognize
your computer and you may need to log in every time you visit the
applicable Services. You
also may not receive advertising or other
offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
·
Using
pixel tags and
other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as
web beacons and
clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among
other
things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email
recipients),
count users, deliver co-branded services, and measure the success of
our
marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Services
and
response rates.
·
Using
Adobe Flash technology (including Flash
Local Shared Objects (“Flash LSOs”)) and other similar technologies:
We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things,
collect
and store information about your use of the Services. If
you do not want
Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your
Flash
player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings
Panel. You can also control Flash LSOs by going
to the Global Storage Settings
Panel and following the instructions (which may
include instructions
that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred
to
"information" on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from
being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash
Player 8
and later) how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the
operator
of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting
the Flash
Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or
impede the
functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash
applications used in connection with the Services or our online content.
·
IP
Address: Your “IP
Address” is a number that is automatically
assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service
Provider
(ISP). An IP
Address may be identified
and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user
accesses the Services,
along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP Addresses is
standard practice
and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other
services. We use IP
Addresses for purposes such as
calculating usage levels of the Services, helping diagnose server
problems, and
administering the Services.
·
From
you: Information such as your
location, as well as
other information, such as your preferred means of communication or
your
wireless service provider, is collected when you voluntarily provide
this information.
Unless combined with Personal Information, this information does not
personally
identify you or any other user of the Services.
·
By
aggregating information: Aggregated
Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user
of the Services,
(for example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the
percentage
of our users who have a particular telephone area code).
How
We May Use and Disclose Other
Information
Please note that we may use and
disclose Other Information
for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under
applicable
law. If we are
required to treat Other
Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may
use it
for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.
In some instances, we may combine
Other Information with
Personal Information (such as combining your name with your
geographical
location). If we
combine any Other
Information with Personal Information, the combined information will be
treated
by us as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
THIRD
PARTY SERVICES
This Privacy Policy does not
address, and we are not
responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any
third
parties, including any third party operating any site or service to
which the
Services link. The
inclusion of a link
on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or
service by us
or by our affiliates.
We
may use third-party
advertising companies to serve advertisements regarding goods and
services that
may be of interest to you when you access and use the Services and
other
websites, based on information relating to your access to and use of
the Services
and other websites. To
do so, these
companies may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser
(including
through use of pixel tags). If
you would
like more information about this practice and to learn about your
choices in
connection with these practices, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp and http://www.aboutads.info/.
security
We seek to use reasonable
organizational, technical and
administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our
organization. Unfortunately,
no data transmission or
storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.
If you have reason to believe that your
interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that
the
security of any account you might have with us has been compromised),
please
immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance
with the “Contacting Us” section
below.
CHOICES
AND ACCESS
Your
choices
regarding our use and disclosure of your Personal Information
We give you many choices regarding
our use and disclosure
of your Personal Information for marketing purposes.
You may opt-out from:
- Receiving
electronic communications from us: If you no longer want to
receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you
may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by
using
the unsubscribe option available in e-mail communications, or by
writing to us at: Customer Service, OOT DIGITAL LLC , 450 State Hwy 35
Box 394 Shrewsbury, NJ 07702. You
may opt-out of receiving text messages at the time you register with us
and with each message you receive.
- Our
sharing of your Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties
for their direct marketing purposes: If you would prefer that
we do not share your Personal Information on a going-forward basis with
unaffiliated third parties for their direct marketing purposes, you may
opt-out of this sharing by writing
to us at Customer Service, OOT DIGITAL LLC, 450 State Hwy 35 Box 394
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702.
We will try to comply with your
request(s) as soon as
reasonably practicable. Please
also note
that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us,
we may
still send you important administrative messages, and you cannot
opt-out from
receiving administrative messages.
Your
California
Privacy Rights
Under California’s "Shine the
Light" law,
California residents who provide personal information are entitled to
request
and obtain from us information about certain personal information we
share with
third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. The
categories of
information we collect and share are as follows: We share the
personal
information collected from you on the services, including name, mailing
address, phone number and email address, with [AFFILIATE]
for its own direct marketing purposes. [AFFILIATE’S]
privacy policy can be found at: [link].
How
you can access, change or
suppress your Personal Information
If you would like to review,
correct, update, suppress, or
delete Personal Information that has been previously provided to us by
you, you
may contact us by emailing us at help@ootdigital.com
or by writing us at Customer Service, OOT DIGITAL LLC, 450
State
Hwy 35 Box 394 Shrewsbury, NJ 07702.
In
your request,
please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have
changed,
whether you would like to have your Personal Information that you have
provided
to us suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what
limitations
you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information that you
have
provided to us For
your protection, we
may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information
associated
with the particular email address that you use to send us your request,
and we
may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with
your request as
soon as reasonably practicable.
Please
note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping
purposes
and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting
such
change or deletion (e.g., when you enter a promotion, you may not be
able to
change or delete the Personal Information provided until after the
completion
of such promotion). There
may also be
residual information that will remain within our databases and other
records,
which will not be removed.
use
of Services
by MINORS
The Services are not directed to
individuals under the age
of thirteen (13), and we request that these individuals do not provide
Personal
Information through the Services.
CROSS-BORDER
TRANSFER
The
Services are controlled
and operated by us from the United States, and are not intended to
subject us
to the laws or jurisdiction of any state, country or territory other
than that
of the United States. Your
Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where
we have
facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the
Services
you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your
country
of residence, including the United States, which may have different
data
protection rules than those of your country.
SENSITIVE
INFORMATION
we ask that
you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal
Information (e.g., social security
numbers,
information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions,
religion or
other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics or
criminal
background) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.
UPDATES
TO
THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy. Please take a look at the “Last
Updated” legend at the top of this page to see
when this Privacy
Policy was last revised. Any
changes to
this Privacy Policy will become effective when we post the revised
Privacy Policy
on the Services. Your
use of the Services
following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy
Policy.
CONTACTING
US
If you have any questions about
this Privacy Policy,
please contact us by email at help@ootdigital.com,
or please write to the following address:
Customer
Service, OOT DIGITAL LLC , 450 State Hwy 35 Box 394
Shrewsbury, NJ 07702
Please note that email
communications are not always
secure; so please do not include credit card information or sensitive
information in your emails to us.