1. Introduction

Your privacy is crucial to us. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your information when you use our services, and details your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

Words with initial capital letters have specific meanings defined under the conditions listed below. These definitions apply regardless of whether they are used in singular or plural forms.

Definitions

• Account: A unique account created for you to access our service or parts of our service.
• Cookies: Small files placed on your device by a website, containing details of your browsing history among other uses.
• Device: Any device that can access the service such as a computer, mobile phone, or digital tablet.
• Personal Data: Any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
• Service: Refers to the website and the services provided by our company.
• Service Provider: Any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the company. This includes third-party companies or individuals employed by us to facilitate our service, provide the service on our behalf, or help us analyze how the service is used.
• Third-party Social Media Service: Any social network website through which a user can log in or create an account to use the service.
• Usage Data: Data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (e.g., the duration of a page visit).
• You: The individual accessing or using the service, or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the service, as applicable.

3. Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the service. This data may include information such as your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

When accessing the service through a mobile device, we may collect certain information automatically, including the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you use, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

If you choose to register through or otherwise grant us access to a third-party social media service such as Google or Facebook, we may collect personal data that is already associated with your third-party social media service’s account, such as your name, email address, activities, or contact list associated with that account.

4. Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and store certain information. Technologies used include beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and improve our service.

Cookies or Browser Cookies

A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service.

Types of Cookies We Use

• Necessary / Essential Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts.

5. Use of Your Personal Data

The company may use personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and maintain our service, including monitoring the usage of our service.
• To manage your account: To manage your registration as a user of the service.
• For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for services you have purchased or any other contract with us through the service.
• To contact you: To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication regarding updates or informative communications related to functionalities, products, or contracted services.
• To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer similar to those you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
• To manage your requests: To attend and manage your requests to us.
• For business transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets.
• For other purposes: We may use your information for data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.

6. Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal information in the following situations:

• With Service Providers: To monitor and analyze the use of our service, to contact you.
• For business transfers: In connection with or during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: With our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy.
• With business partners: To offer you certain products, services, or promotions.
• With other users: When you share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.

7. Retention of Your Personal Data

We will retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

8. Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means your information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction.

9. Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the company is involved in a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.

Law Enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the company may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The company may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service
• Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public
• Protect against legal liability

10. Security of Your Personal Data

The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

11. 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.

12. 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.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at support@pipsaddiction.com