I. Introduction
SerialSync LLC ("we," "us," "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our application and services ("Services"). Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Services.
SerialSync LLC, incorporated in Nevada, is dedicated to ensuring your personal information is protected. By using the Services, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
II. Information We Collect
We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the Services depends on the content and materials you use, and includes:
A. Personal Data
- Personally identifiable information: such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Services or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Services, such as online chat and message boards.
- Payment information: such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our Services from the Site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, our payment processor stores all financial information.
- Other Information: In addition to personal data, we collect job-specific details, device information, and technical data such as your device type, browser settings, and network information to enhance service performance and user experience.
B. Derivative Data
- Automatically collected information: when you access the Services, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Services.
C. Mobile Device Data
- Device information: such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the Services from a mobile device.
D. Third-Party Data
- Information from third parties: such as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the third party and grant the Services permission to access this information.
E. Data from Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys
- Personal and other information: you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.
III. Use of Your Information
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Services to:
- Create and manage your account.
- Process your transactions and manage your orders.
- Send you updates, promotions, and marketing messages.
- Compile anonymous statistical data and analysis for use internally or with third parties.
- Deliver targeted advertising, coupons, newsletters, and other information regarding promotions and the Services to you.
- Email you regarding your account or order.
- Enable user-to-user communications.
- Fulfill and manage purchases, orders, payments, and other transactions related to the Services.
- Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits to the Services more personalized.
- Increase the efficiency and operation of the Services.
- Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Services.
- Notify you of updates to the Services.
- Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
- Perform other business activities as needed.
- Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
- Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Services.
- Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
- Respond to product and customer service requests.
- Send you a newsletter.
- Solicit support for the Services.
IV. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
A. By Law or to Protect Rights
- Legal Requirements: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
B. Third-Party Service Providers
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
C. Marketing Communications
- Third-Party Marketing: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
D. Interactions with Other Users
- User Interactions: If you interact with other users of the Services, those users may see your name, profile photo, and descriptions of your activity, including sending invitations to other users, chatting with other users, liking posts, and following blogs.
E. Online Postings
- Public Postings: When you post comments, contributions, or other content to the Services, your posts may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Services in perpetuity.
F. Third-Party Advertisers
- Advertising: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Services. These companies may use information about your visits to the Services and other websites that are contained in web cookies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
G. Affiliates
- Affiliate Sharing: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
H. Business Partners
- Business Partnerships: We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
I. Other Third Parties
- General Sharing: We may share your information with advertisers and investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. We may also share your information with such third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
J. Sale or Bankruptcy
- Business Transfers: If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger, or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline to honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy.
V. Tracking Technologies
A. Cookies and Web Beacons
- Cookies: We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Services to help customize the Services and improve your experience. When you access the Services, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can remove or reject cookies, but be aware that such action could affect the availability and functionality of the Services. You may not decline web beacons. However, they can be rendered ineffective by declining all cookies or by modifying your web browser’s settings to notify you each time a cookie is tendered, permitting you to accept or decline cookies on an individual basis.
B. Internet-Based Advertising
- Advertising Software: Additionally, we may use third-party software to serve ads on the Services, implement email marketing campaigns, and manage other interactive marketing initiatives. This third-party software may use cookies or similar tracking technology to help manage and optimize your online experience with us. For more information about opting out of interest-based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
C. Website Analytics
- Analytics: We may also partner with selected third-party vendors, such as Google Analytics, to allow tracking technologies and remarketing services on the Services through the use of first party cookies and third-party cookies, to, among other things, analyze and track users’ use of the Services, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. By accessing the Services, you consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party vendors. You are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, if you do not want any information to be collected and used by tracking technologies, you can visit the third-party vendor or the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool or Digital Advertising Alliance Opt-Out Tool.
VI. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
VII. Policy for Children
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at compliance@serialsync.com.
VIII. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
IX. Options Regarding Your Information
A. Account Information
- Review and Update: You may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your account.
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below.
- Termination: Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use and/or comply with legal requirements.
B. Emails and Communications
- Opt-Out: If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt-out by:
- Noting your preferences at the time you register your account with the Services.
- Logging into your account settings and updating your preferences.
- Contacting us using the contact information provided below.
- Third-Party Communications: If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from third parties, you are responsible for contacting the third party directly.
X. GDPR Privacy Policy
A. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
- Consent: You have given your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more specific purposes.
- Performance of a Contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
- Legal Obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
- Vital Interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
- Public Interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the Company.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
B. Your Rights under the GDPR
- Access: You have the right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your Personal Data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
- Correction: You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
- Objection: You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
- Erasure: You have the right to ask us to delete or remove Personal Data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
- Transfer: You have the right to request the transfer of your Personal Data. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
- Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your Personal Data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.
C. Exercising Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
- Contact: You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.
- Complaint: You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA.
XI. CCPA Privacy Policy
A. Categories of Personal Information Collected
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular Consumer or Device. The following is a list of categories of personal information which we may collect or may have been collected from California residents within the last twelve (12) months.
B. Use of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose personal information we collect for "business purposes" or "commercial purposes" (as defined under the CCPA), which may include the following examples:
- Operating Our Service: To operate our Service and provide you with our Service.
- Support and Inquiries: To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our Service.
- Fulfilling Requests: To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your contact information to ask a question about our Service, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery.
- Law Enforcement: To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
- General Purposes: As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
- Internal Administrative Purposes: For internal administrative and auditing purposes.
- Security: To detect security incidents and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity, including, when necessary, to prosecute those responsible for such activities.
C. Disclosure of Personal Information for Business Purposes or Commercial Purposes
We may use or disclose and may have used or disclosed in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information for business or commercial purposes:
- Identifiers: Such as a real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, driver's license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.
- Personal Information Categories Listed in the California Customer Records Statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)): Such as a name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.
- Commercial Information: Such as records and history of products or services purchased or considered.
- Internet or Other Similar Network Activity: Such as interaction with our Service or advertisement.
D. Sale of Personal Information
As defined in the CCPA, "sell" and "sale" mean selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer's personal information by the business to a third party for valuable consideration. This means that we may have received some kind of benefit in return for sharing personal information, but not necessarily a monetary benefit.
We may sell and may have sold in the last twelve (12) months the following categories of personal information:
- Identifiers
- Personal Information Categories Listed in the California Customer Records Statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e))
- Commercial Information
- Internet or Other Similar Network Activity
E. Share of Personal Information
We may share your personal information identified in the above categories with the following categories of third parties:
- Service Providers
- Payment Processors
- Our Affiliates
- Our Business Partners
- Third-Party Vendors: To whom you or your agents authorize us to disclose your personal information in connection with products or services we provide to you.
F. Sale of Personal Information of Minors Under 16 Years of Age
We do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 16 through our Service, although certain third-party websites that we link to may do so. These third-party websites have their own terms of use and privacy policies and we encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children's Internet usage and instruct their children to never provide information on other websites without their permission.
We do not sell the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the "right to opt-in") from either the consumer who is between 13 and 16 years of age, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. Consumers who opt-in to the sale of personal information may opt-out of future sales at any time. To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by contacting us.
If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 (or 16) has provided us with personal information, please contact us with sufficient detail to enable us to delete that information.
G. Your Rights under the CCPA
The CCPA provides California residents with specific rights regarding their personal information. If you are a resident of California, you have the following rights:
- The Right to Notice: You have the right to be notified which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.
- The Right to Request: Under CCPA, you have the right to request that we disclose information to you about our collection, use, sale, disclosure for business purposes, and share of personal information. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information
- The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
- If we sold your personal information or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information categories sold
- The categories of personal information categories disclosed
- The Right to Say No to the Sale of Personal Data (Opt-Out): You have the right to direct us to not sell your personal information. To submit an opt-out request, please contact us.
- The Right to Delete Personal Data: You have the right to request the deletion of your Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your request, we will delete (and direct our Service Providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our Service Providers to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information's deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research's achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
- The Right Not to Be Discriminated Against: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of your consumer's rights, including by:
- Denying goods or services to you
- Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
- Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you
- Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services
H. Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights
In order to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us:
- By visiting this page on our website: https://serialsync.com/contact
- By sending us an email: compliance@serialsync.com
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable request related to your personal information.
Your request to us must:
- Verification: Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Description: Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with the required information if we cannot:
- Verification: Verify your identity or authority to make the request.
- Confirmation: Confirm that the personal information relates to you.
We will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request's receipt.
For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
I. Do Not Sell My Personal Information
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Once we receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from you, we will stop selling your personal information. To exercise your right to opt-out, please contact us.
The Service Providers we partner with (for example, our analytics or advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that sells personal information as defined by the CCPA law. If you wish to opt-out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.
Please note that any opt-out is specific to the browser you use. You may need to opt-out on every browser that you use.
- Website: You can opt out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:
- Mobile Devices: Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:
- "Opt out of Interest-Based Ads" or "Opt out of Ads Personalization" on Android devices
- "Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS devices
You can also stop the collection of location information from your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.
J. Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
If we need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your information and your country requires consent from a parent, we may require your parent's consent before we collect and use that information.
K. Your California Privacy Rights (California's Shine the Light Law)
Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California's Shine the Light Law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their personal data with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.
If you'd like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.
L. California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)
California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 allows California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services, or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.
To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, you can contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account.
Be aware that your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.
M. Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
N. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
O. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us:
- By visiting this page on our website: https://serialsync.com/contact
- By sending us an email: privacy@serialsync.com