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PRIVACY CAREFULLY BEFORE USING OUR SERVICE.
This Privacy Policy covers how Blitz
Rocks, Inc. (“Company”) will use its users’ personally identifiable information
("Personal Data") as well as general demographic and behavioral
information (“Demographic Data”) that Company gathers when users access,
register for and use our Service. Capitalized terms contained herein shall have
the same meanings ascribed to them in our Terms of Use.
The Company knows that users
care about how their personal information is used and shared, and we take your
privacy seriously. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy
policy.
By voluntarily providing us
with Personal Data and/or using the Service, you are consenting to our use of
your Personal Data and Demographic Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When you register, you will
automatically be consenting to all of your Personal Data information being
shared according to this Privacy Policy unless you opt out of sharing some or
all of your Personal Data in certain circumstances when you register.
1.
Demographic
Data
Through the use of certain
technologies, we are able to track and store certain types of information
whenever you interact with our Service. The Company automatically receives and
records information on our server logs from your browser including IP
addresses, cookie information, browsing history and the website pages
requested. The Company only uses this data in aggregate form, for statistical purposes,
and not in a manner that would give the Company sufficient information to
identify you personally. This type of aggregate data enables us to figure out
how often users access parts of the Service, where they are generally located
and what are their general online behavior patterns. We utilize this
information so that we can improve the Service. This information may be shared
with third parties on an aggregated basis, but it does not include the Personal
Data of individual users. Our use of cookies and IP Addresses are set forth
accordingly:
(a)
Cookies
are small bits of information that that a website can
send to your browser and may then be stored on your computer's hard drive. It
acts as an anonymous tag that identifies your computer, but not you personally.
Cookies have the ability to store information about web pages viewed and the
advertisements viewed or clicked. For registered users, cookies can also save
user information and screen preferences. The Company uses cookies for improving
the Service usability and aggregating non-identifiable behavioral information
for both internal purposes and sharing with authorized third parties who will
facilitate transactions pertaining to the Service. Our cookies do not collect
or contain Personal Data, but may reflect de-identified demographic or other
data linked to the registration data you have submitted to us, e.g. your email
address, in hashed, non-human readable form. While you may also turn off your
computer’s acceptance of cookies through your browser, your full use of the
Service may be restricted.
(b)We collect your computer’s
IP
addresses
in order to conduct system administration, to conduct
analysis of the Service, block computers who have violated our Terms of Use,
and identify computers which may be engaged in illegal or illicit activity on
our Service. While we do not associate IP addresses with records containing
Personal Data, we will use IP addresses to identify any user who refuses to
comply with our Terms of Use or otherwise violates any applicable laws.
Additionally, we may be required to disclose IP addresses pursuant to a court
order or subpoena.
2.Personal Data
If you provide Personal Data
when using our Service, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may
be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of the
Company and the authorized third parties referred to herein located in the
United States. The Service is hosted by Amazon cloud services which may
transmit data from and to its servers throughout the United States.
(a) Information Collected: We collect Personal Data through the Service
when you voluntarily chose to provide us with such Personal Data, such as
through one or more of the following options:
(i) Registration. The registration system requires users to give the
Company your Personal Data, including contact information such as your name,
e-mail address, phone number, job title and company you work with.
(ii) Transaction and Commission Data.In addition to your information
above, the Company will be collect and keep track of your information
pertaining to sales commissions, transaction information and other related
information so that it can provide sales commission tracking and reporting as
part of its core service offering. Additionally, if your administrator requests
the use of the direct deposit feature, if and when available, your Personal
Data may also include bank account information for direct deposit.
(iii)
Method
of Contacting
Users. The Company
may use Personal Data collected from its users to contact them via email or
other means to provide them with relevant information pertaining to their
account, the Service, or other information for new products and services
offered by the Company which we believe may be of interest. Additionally, the
Company may share Personal Data with third parties so that the Company can
facilitate the Service.
(iv) Modifying Personal Data. Users may modify or update their Personal
Data after registration to ensure it is accurate by logging into their accounts
and editing their user profile. Users may also modify their Personal Data
sharing preferences under Section 5 below.
(v) Use of Personal Data. The
Company uses Personal Data that its users provide in a manner that is
consistent with this Privacy Policy. Specifically, the Company will use
Personal Data to the extent necessary to provide the features offered through
the Service, to register user profiles (including authentication), to maintain
user accounts, to administer the website, to facilitate user’s commission
tracking and reporting, to monitor violations of the Terms of Use (and take
appropriate actions as prescribed in the Terms of Use) and as may be otherwise
permissible under applicable law. The
Company may also use user Personal Data to offer them certain information or
other features, products, services or promotions users may find of interest and
share such information with third parties as prescribed in Section 5 below.
Users may, however, opt out of receiving future solicitations by following the
instructions in such email or by communicating the user’s opt out preferences
in its profile as explained in Section 5 below.
If the Company intends on
using any Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy
Policy, users will be informed of such anticipated use prior to or at the time
at which the Personal Data is collected and will be given an opportunity to opt
out of such use. In a case where such proposed usage is necessary to provide
enhanced services, a user’s opt out to such usage may restrict the user’s use
of all or a portion of the Service.
3.Storage and Data Retention
“Trial Data” means Personal
Data and Demographic Data associated with your use of the Service during the
thirty (30) day free trial period Your Trial data will be deleted form the
Company’s servers within thirty (30) days after the expiration of your trial
unless you subscribe to the Service. “Active Data” means Personal Data and
Demographic Data associated with your use of the Service during your subscription
period (inclusive of any Trial Data that preceded your subscription). Active
Data will be deleted from Company’s servers within 6 months following the
expiration or termination of your subscription to the Service.
4.Security
The Company employs reasonable security
measures in place to protect against the theft, misuse and alteration of the
Personal Data under its control. All Personal Data is housed in a secured
internal infrastructure. The Company utilizes the current standard industry
practices to maintain security of Personal Data.However, no Internet, mobile or e-mail
transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, e-mail sent or
uploaded files sent to or from the Company’s Service may not be secure.
Therefore, users should therefore take special care in deciding what
information they send to the Company through an Internet connection.
Personal Data contained in a user
profile may only be accessible through a valid username and password. Users are
responsible to maintain their user name and password and to not share these
with anyone else. The Company is not responsible for any breaches of a user’s
profile and access to their Personal Data which is attributed to lost or stolen
user names and passwords. In the event of an inadvertent disclosure of a user’s
user name and password, users are advised to change their password as soon as
they become aware of such disclosure.
5.Personal Data Sharing
The Company considers its
users’ Personal Data to be a vital part of their relationship. In most cases,
the Company will not share your Personal Data without your prior informed
consent, and you may opt out of the Company’s sharing of certain Personal Data
to certain third parties as described in this Section 5. There are however,
certain circumstances in which the Company may share a user’s Personal Data
with certain third parties without further notice or required consent of users.
(a) Personal Data Sharing That Does Not Require User Consent Or Notice.
(i) Business Transfers: As the Company develops its business, it might
sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger,
reorganization, dissolution or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the
transferred assets.
(ii) Agents, Consultants and Related Third Parties: The Company retains
the services of third party vendors to perform certain business-related
functions for the Company and to provide users access and use of certain
features of the Service. Examples include mailing information, maintaining
databases and software, customer support and processing commission payments
directly to user’s bank accounts. When the Company employs third parties to
perform such functions, it only provides them with the information that they
need to perform their specific function.
(iii) Legal Requirements: The Company may disclose user Personal Data if
required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is
necessary to (1) comply with a legal obligation, (2) protect and defend the
rights or property of the Company or to enforce its Terms of Use, (3) act in
urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Site or the
public, or (4) protect against legal liability.
(b) Data Sharing Requiring Consent and Notice.
Currently, the Company does
not share Personal Data other than as set forth above. Should Company desire to
modify the manner in which they collect, use or share Personal Data with third
parties in the future, it will notify its users of such change and any Personal
Data collected after the effective date of such change will be subject to the
new privacy terms. At the time of the change, Users will have an opportunity to
opt out of such sharing, if appropriate.
6.Choice/ Opt Out
The Service gives users the
opportunity to opt-out to receive communications from the Company which is not
related to the Service when the user registers his/her account.This Service also gives users the opportunity
to stop receiving some of these communications at any time by editing their
user’s account profile preferences. Additionally, users will find an opt-out
option at the bottom of all communications, or they may write or email to the
Company at the below address to opt out of future communications not directly
related to the user’s access to the Service and their account:
Blitz
Rocks, Inc.
750 B Street., Suite 3300
San
Diego CA 92101
Attn: Compliance
7.External Links
The Company may provide links
to various Company owned and third party web sites which are provided solely
for the user’s convenience. However, even if a third-party affiliation exists
between the Company’s website and that destination site, the Company does not
exercise authority over these linked sites unless it is one of the
Company-owned sites listed above. Each third
party website maintains independent privacy and data collection policies and
procedures. The Company does not assume responsibility or liability for these
independent methods or actions and are not responsible for the independent
policies or procedures of destination sites. Similarly, the Company cannot take
responsibility for the privacy initiatives or the content of such web sites.
These links to third party web sites are provided only for the user’s
convenience, and as such, the user accesses them at their own risk.
8.Exclusions
This Privacy Policy does not
apply to any Personal Data collected by the Company other than Personal Data
collected through the Service. This Privacy Policy shall not apply to any
Confidential Information defined in the Terns of Use.
9.
Changes
The Company may amend this
Privacy Policy from time to time and will provide notice to you. Use of
information the Company collects now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect
at the time such information is used/collected. Since the Company may make
changes in the way it uses Personal Data, you will be notified of such proposed
uses, and if appropriate, you will have an opportunity to opt out of such use.
10.Complaints
The Company considers the
privacy of its users of utmost importance, and welcomes any feedback from its
users regarding privacy concerns. In the event of any issues or complaints
regarding the Company’s alleged violation of this Privacy Policy, users may
contact the Company at [email protected].
The Company will use all
reasonable efforts to resolve user complaints in this regard. In the event that
the Company and user are unable to reach an amicable solution, any
disputes, claims or
controversies arising out of or relating to this Privacy Policy or the breach,
termination, enforcement, interpretation or validity thereof, including the
determination of the scope or applicability of this agreement to arbitrate,
shall be resolved individually, without resort to class action, through binding
arbitration in Los Angeles, California, USA (or the city of user’s permanent US
residence) before one arbitrator. The arbitration shall be administered by JAMS
pursuant to its Comprehensive Arbitration Rules and Procedures pursuant to
JAMS’ Streamlined Arbitration Rules and Procedures. Judgment on the Award may
be entered in any court having jurisdiction. Each of the parties will pay their
respective attorneys’ fees associated with the arbitration and in no event
shall the arbitrator be entitled to award attorneys’ fees. The arbitrator’s
award will be limited to the user’s actual and direct proven damages and in no
event shall the arbitrator be permitted to award punitive, indirect,
consequential, special, statutory damages.
11.Minors
The Service is designed by
the Company and intended to be considered for use of adults who are of the age
of majority in their state of jurisdiction and is not intended for use by
children. Company does not intend to collect Personal Data from individual
under the age of thirteen and does not authorize any minors to use this
Service. If you are the parent or guardian of any minor who has provided
Personal Data to us, please contact us by clicking here: Contact Us. You can
also contact us by e-mailing us at [email protected].
This Privacy
Policy Was Last Updated on November 29, 2016