Privacy
Notice
Effective
Date/Last Updated: March 6, 2023
Your
privacy is important to Squishable and its affiliates ("Squishable" "us,"
"we," "our"). This Privacy Notice describes the processing of Personal
Information (defined below) that is provided, collected, or shared on the
sites, applications, social media pages, or other platforms that link to this
Privacy Notice (collectively, the "Site"). It also describes your
choices about the collection, sharing, and use of your Personal Information.
By
accessing the Site, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree
to the practices as described in this Privacy Notice.
We
may modify this Privacy Notice at any time. All changes will be effective
immediately upon posting to the Site. Material changes will be conspicuously
posted on the Site or otherwise communicated to you.
- Personal
Information we Collect
We
may collect a range of Personal Information. "Personal Information" means
information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably
capable of being associated with or linked to you.
- Contact
Information - If you submit an inquiry to our website, sign up for our newsletters, we
may collect your contact information. This may include your name, email
address, company name, demographic information, mailing address, and phone
number.
- Payment
Information -
Credit and debit card number or other payment data for when you purchase a
product through the Site.
- Location Data - While navigating our Site your mobile device
or browser may share your location data. We may collect this information
based on the settings of your phone and browser.
- Usage Information - When you use our Site, our
servers may automatically record information, including your Internet
Protocol address (IP Address), browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the
site you visited before coming to our Site), domain names associated with
your internet service provider, information on your interaction with the
Site, and other such information.
- Communication Information - We may collect audio,
electronic, or visual information; any data in any files uploaded, emailed
or otherwise provided by you; the contents of your communications with us,
whether via e-mail, social media, telephone or otherwise, and inferences
we may make from other Personal Information we collect.
- How we Collect
your Personal Information
We
collect your Personal Information in a variety of ways:
- We May Collect Your Personal Information Directly
From You - For example, if you request information from us.
- We May Also Collect Personal Information From
Third Parties
- For example, we may work with business partners, consumer reporting
agencies, subcontractors, advertising networks, analytics providers, and
search information providers, who may provide us with Personal Information
about you.
- Through Online Tracking
Technologies - We and our service providers may use cookies, device
identifiers, and similar technologies such as pixels, web beacons, and
local storage to collect usage and browser information about how you use
the Site.For more information on these technologies, please see Section
3.
3.
Cookies
and Other Tracking Technologies
We
process the information collected through such technologies, which may include
or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of
the Site, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us
better understand the features of the Site that you and other users are most
interested in.
Most
browsers provide you with the ability to block, delete, or disable cookies, and
your mobile device may allow you to disable transmission of unique identifiers
and location data. If you choose to reject cookies or block device identifiers,
some features of the Site may not be available, or some functionality may be
limited or unavailable.Please review the help pages of your browser or mobile
device for assistance with changing your settings.
We
do not respond to Do Not Track ("DNT") signals sent to us by your browser at
this time. To learn more about how DNT works, please visit
http://allaboutdnt.com/.
Cookies. We collect certain data from
cookies, which are pieces of data stored directly on the computer or mobile
device that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect data such as browser
type, time spent on the Site, pages visited, referring URL, language preferences,
and other aggregated traffic data. We use the data for security purposes,
to facilitate navigation, to display data more effectively, to collect
statistical data, to personalize your experience while using the Site and to
recognize your computer to assist your use of the Site. We also gather
statistical data about use of the Site to continually improve design and
functionality, understand how it is used and assist us with resolving
questions.
Pixel
Tags and Other Similar Technologies. We collect data from pixel tags
(also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) including the Meta pixel, which are
used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Sites, measure
the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about usage of
the Site.
Analytics. We collect data through Google
Analytics and Adobe Analytics, which use cookies and technologies to collect
and analyze data about use of the Services. These services collect data
regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. You can learn
about Google's practices by going to https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and opt out by downloading
the Google Analytics opt out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.You can learn more about Adobe and
opt out by visiting http://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html.
- How we Use
Personal Information
To
the extent permitted by applicable law, we may use Personal Information to:
- operate
the Site and provide support to our business functions;
- respond
to inquiries;
- protect
against criminal activity, claims and other liabilities;
- send
you information about our company, Services, and promotions;
- respond
to reviews, comments, or other feedback provided to us;
- support
and personalize the Site and our advertising efforts;
- protect
the security and integrity of the Site;
- provide
customer support;
- the
extent required for benchmarking, data analysis, audits, developing new
products, enhancing the Site, facilitating product, software and
applications development, improving the Site or our Services, conducting
research, analysis, studies or surveys, identifying usage trends, as well
as for other analytics purposes;
- meet
our contractual requirements;
- comply
with applicable legal or regulatory requirements and our policies;
- market,
advertise, and provide the Site and our Services;
- communicate
with you about goods and services according to your personal
preferences. We may use Personal Information to send you marketing
communications and promotional offers, as well as periodic customer
satisfaction, market research or quality assurance surveys; and
- the
extent necessary for any other lawful purpose for which the Personal
Information is collected.
Aggregated
Data. We may
aggregate data that we have collected, and this aggregated data will not
personally identify you or any other user. We may use aggregated data in any
way that is permitted by law.
- Sharing of
Personal Information
- For Legal or
Safety Reasons - When
we have a good faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of
Personal Information is reasonably necessary to (a) satisfy or comply with any
requirement of law, regulation, legal process, or enforceable governmental
request, (b) enforce or investigate a potential violation of the Terms of Use,
(c) detect, prevent, or otherwise respond to fraud, security or technical
concerns, (d) support auditing and compliance functions, or (e) protect the
rights, property, or safety of Squishable, its users, or the
public against harm.
- In the Case
of a Merger or Sale - If
and when we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or any form of transfer or
sale of some or all of its business, whether as a going concern or as part of
bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding. Personal Information may be
transferred along with the business. Where legally required we will give you prior
notice and if you have a legal right to do so, an opportunity to object to this
transfer.
- To Service
providers - When
we hire a service provider to help operate the Site or our business, we may
give access to Personal Information as necessary to perform services on our
behalf. This may include service providers that operate our Site, send our
communications, or run our promotions.
- To Business
Partners - We may
share Personal Information with our trusted business partners.For example, we
may share your Personal Information with a company for marketing purposes, such
as when we co-sponsor a product or service.These partners and affiliates may
use your Personal Information to, among other things, send you information or
contact you about their services and products. We use also Google Ads to serve ads
across various websites. Google uses Cookies to collect data about your visits
to the Site. Google uses the information collected from Cookies to generate
targeted advertisements to you on other websites that you visit. To opt-out of
this type of advertising by Google, to customize your ad preferences, or to
limit Google's collection or use of such data, visit Google's
Safety Center and Google's
Ad Settings and
follow Google's personalized ad opt-out
instructions.
Opting out will not affect your use of the Site.
- How
We Protect Your Personal Information
We use our commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and
security of Personal Information we process. However, despite these efforts to
store Personal Information in a secure operating environment, we cannot
guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its
storage on our systems. Further, while we attempt to ensure the integrity and
security of Personal Information, we cannot guarantee that our security measures
will prevent third parties such as hackers from illegally obtaining access to
Personal Information.
- How
Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information
We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill
the purposes for which it has been collected, as outlined in this Privacy
Notice, or any longer retention period required by law. If you are a
California resident, please see the section below titled Notice to California
Residents for additional information about how long we retain your Personal
Information.
- Your
Rights and Choices
Depending on where you live, you
may have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- Access
- Data
Portability
- Erasure
- Correction
- Opt
Out of Sales of personal data
For
a broader description of these rights, please see the applicable chart in
Section 12 of this Privacy Notice.In addition, you may have the right to opt
out of targeted advertising and profiling, to the extent that profiling makes
decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.
To exercise any of these rights available to you, see Section 12 below. If you
are not satisfied with the resolution of your request and you are afforded a
right to appeal such decision, you will be notified of our appeal process in
our response to your request.
To
opt out of marketing emails, you can use the unsubscribe link found in the
email communication you receive from us. You may also use the "Contact Us"
option within the relevant service to opt out and elect not to receive further
emails from us. Please note that, even if you unsubscribe from certain
correspondence, we may still need to contact you with important transactional
or administrative information, as permitted by law.Additionally, if you withdraw
your consent or object to processing, or if you choose not to provide certain
Personal Information, we may be unable to provide some or all of our services
to you.
- International
Use of the Site
This
Site is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting this Site from outside
of the United States, please note that by providing your Personal Information
it is being transferred to, stored, collected, or processed in the United
States, where our data center and servers are located and operated
- Children
We
do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children
under the age of 16.In the event that we learn that we have collected
Personal Information from a child, we will promptly take steps to delete that
information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has
given us their Personal Information, you can email us at or contact us using
the information listed in Section 14.
- Links to
Third-Party Websites
We
are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services
linked to or from the Site, including the information or content contained
within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before
disclosing Personal Information to third parties, since any Personal
Information disclosed will be subject to the applicable third party's privacy
notice.
- NOTICE FOR
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
This Section applies to our
collection and use of Personal Information if you are a resident of California,
as required by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing
regulations, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CCPA"), where
"Personal Information" has the definition set forth in the CCPA. This Section
describes (1) the categories of Personal Information collected and disclosed by
us, (2) your privacy rights under the CCPA, and (3) how to exercise your
rights.
Squishable
makes the following disclosures regarding the Personal Information Squishable
has collected within the 12-month period preceding the Effective Date of this
Privacy Policy:
Sources
of Personal Information
We
collect Personal Information from the categories of sources detailed in Section
2 above: (i) directly from you; (ii) data collected automatically through
tracking technologies; and (iii) third parties.
Use
of Personal Information
We
collect Personal Information for the business and commercial purposes detailed
in Section 4 above.
Disclosure
of Personal Information
The
categories of third parties to which we disclose personal information for a
business or commercial purpose or to whom we sell or share personal information
are summarized in the chart below.We do not knowingly sell or share the
personal information of minors under the age of 16.
Categories of Personal Information we Collect
|
Categories of Third Parties to which we Disclose Personal
Information for a Business or Commercial Purpose
|
Categories of Third Parties to Which we Sell or Share Personal
Information
|
Retention Period
|
Identifiers
Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address,
telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online
identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name
|
Advertising Networks; Social Networks; Third-Party Business
Partners.
|
We do not sell this category of personal information.We do share
this category of Personal Information with Advertising Networks, Social
Networks, and Third Party Business Partners.
|
7 years from your last interaction with us.
|
Personal information categories listed in the California
Customer Records statute
Name, contact information, education, employment, employment
history and financial information
|
Advertising Networks; Social Networks; Third-Party Business
Partners.
|
We do not sell this category of Personal Information. We do share
this category of Personal Information with Advertising Networks, Social
Networks, and Third Party Business Partners.
|
7 years from your last interaction with us.
|
Protected classification characteristics under California or
federal law
Gender and date of birth
|
Advertising Networks; Social Networks; Third-Party Business
Partners.
|
We do not sell or share this category of personal information
|
7 years from your last interaction with us.
|
Commercial information Transaction information, purchase
history, financial details and payment information
|
Advertising Networks; Social Networks; Third-Party Business
Partners.
|
We do not sell this category of personal information.We do share
this category of Personal Information with Advertising Networks, Social
Networks, and Third Party Business Partners.
|
7 years from your last interaction with us.
|
Internet or other similar network activity
Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest
data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems and
advertisements
|
Advertising Networks; Social Networks; Third-Party Business
Partners.
|
We do not sell this category of personal information.We do share
this category of Personal Information with Advertising Networks, Social
Networks, and Third Party Business Partners.
|
7 years from your last interaction with us.
|
Inferences drawn from other personal information
|
Advertising Networks; Social Networks; Third-Party Business
Partners.
|
We do not sell or share this category of personal information
|
7 years from your last interaction with us.
|
If you are a resident of California, you may have the following
rights:
Privacy Right
|
Description
|
Notice
|
You may have the
right have the right to be notified of what categories of Personal
Information will be collected at or before the point of collection and the
purposes for which they will be used and shared.
|
Access
|
You
may have the right to request the categories of Personal Information that we
collected in the previous twelve (12) months, the categories of sources from
which the Personal Information was collected, the specific pieces of Personal
Information we have collected about you, and the business purposes for which
such Personal Information is collected and shared. You may also have the
right to request the categories of Personal Information which were disclosed
for business purposes, and the categories of third parties in the twelve (12)
months preceding your request for your Personal Information.
|
Erasure
|
You
may have the right to have your Personal Information deleted. However, please
be aware that we may not fulfill your request for deletion if we (or our
service provider(s)) are required or permitted to retain your Personal
Information for one or more of the following categories of purposes: (1) to
complete a transaction for which the Personal Information was collected,
provide a good or service requested by you, or complete a contract between us
and you; (2) to ensure our website integrity, security, and functionality;
(3) to comply with applicable law or a legal obligation, or exercise rights
under the law (including free speech rights); or (4) to otherwise use your
Personal Information internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with
the context in which you provided it.
|
Correction
|
You may have the
right to request that we correct any incorrect personal information that we
collect or retain about you, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive
and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see below), we will correct
(and direct any of our service providers that hold your data on our behalf to
correct) your personal information from our records, unless an exception
applies. We may deny your correction request if (a) we believe the personal
information we maintain about you is accurate; (b) correcting the information
would be impossible or involve disproportionate; or (c) if the request
conflicts with our legal obligations.
|
Automated Decision
Making
|
You may have the
right to request information about the logic involved in automated
decision-making and a description of the likely outcome of processes, and the
right to opt out. We do not currently engage in any automated decision making
practices.
|
To Opt Out of Sales
or Sharing of Personal Information
|
To the extent we sell or share personal information, you may
have the right to opt out of the selling or sharing of personal information; you can do so here.
|
Limit Use of
Sensitive Personal Information
|
We do not use or
disclose Sensitive Personal Information other than to provide our service. However, if we used or disclosed
Sensitive Personal Information for other purposes, you would have the right
to limit certain uses of Sensitive Personal Information.
|
Only you, or an authorized agent
(such as a person registered with the California Secretary of State), that you
authorize to act on your behalf, may make a request related to your Personal
Information. You may also make a request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a
request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The
request must:
- Provide
sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person
about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your
request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate,
and respond to it.
Exercising your
Privacy Rights
To exercise any of the
privacy rights afforded to you under applicable data protection law, please
submit a request to us by emailing us at hugme@squishable.com or submit a
request through our webform
here: https://www.squishable.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=CCPA
Verification
We must verify your
identity before fulfilling your requests.If we cannot initially verify your
identity, we may request additional information to complete the verification
process. We will only use Personal Information provided in a request to verify
the requestor's identity. If you are an authorized agent making a request on
behalf of a California consumer, we will also need to verify your identity,
which may require proof of your written authorization or evidence of a power of
attorney.
We endeavor to respond
to requests within the time period required by applicable law. If we require
more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
If you have an account
with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not
have an account with us, we will deliver our written response by mail or
electronically, at your option.
We do not charge a fee
to process or respond to your request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or
manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will
tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before
completing your request.
We cannot respond to
your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your
identity and confirm the Personal Information relates to you. Making a
verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with
us.
We may deny certain
requests, or only fulfill some in part, as permitted or required by law.For
example, if you request to delete Personal Information, we may retain Personal
Information that we need to retain for legal purposes
This
Privacy Notice is available to consumers with disabilities. To access this
Privacy Notice in an alternative downloadable format, please click here.
California Shine
the Light Law:
Under California Civil
Code Section 1798.83, individual customers who reside in California and who
have an existing business relationship with us may request information about
our disclosure of certain categories of personal information to third parties
for the third parties' direct marketing purposes, if any. To make such a
request, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section
below. Please be aware that not all information sharing is covered by these California
privacy rights requirements and only information on covered sharing will be
included in our response. This request may be made no more than once per
calendar year.
- Changes to
this Privacy Notice
Please note that we may modify or update this Privacy
Notice from time to time, so please review it periodically. We may provide you
with an updated Privacy Notice if material changes are made. Unless otherwise
indicated, any changes to this Privacy Notice will apply immediately upon
posting to the Site.
- Contact
Us
If you have questions or
comments about this notice, you may contact us by e-mail at
privacy@squishable.com, or by post to:
Squishable.com, Inc.
228 Park Ave S #56124
New York, NY 10003
United States