Your privacy is important to DuckPond Technologies, Inc. so we have created this privacy policy to explain how we use information that you may provide while visiting this Site and to demonstrate our firm commitment to Internet privacy. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices with respect to information collected through our websites, email newsletters, social media pages, mobile and other applications owned and operated by us, our offline contacts, and any other services that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively referred to as the “Services”).
Please carefully review this Privacy Policy below before using our Services. By using our Services, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services. We reserve the right to modify or amend the terms of our Privacy Policy from time to time without notice. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you accept those changes.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
DuckPond Technologies, Inc.[i] (“DPT”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your concerns about privacy and values the relationship we have with you. When you use the Services by, for example, ordering materials, downloading information, providing registration details, subscribing to a newsletter, browsing our sites, completing a survey, entering a sweepstakes, requesting information from us or otherwise interacting with our Services, we gather personal information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. Several different types of Personal Information can be gathered when you interact with the Services. Collection of Personal Information is necessary to provide the Services to you or to enhance your consumer experience.
You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you are in contact with DPT or a DPT affiliate. DPT and its affiliates may share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. They may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising. You are not required to provide the personal information that we have requested, but, if you chose not to do so, in many cases we will not be able to provide you with our products or services or respond to any queries you may have.
If you disclose 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.
Additionally, when you register or sign up for information on our sites, we may share your contact information with (1) other organizations that share similar goals and objectives, and they may contact or solicit you, (2) companies that assist us in maintaining this Site or other associates Sites, (3) appropriate agencies to comply with applicable law or legal requirements (for example, a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or to protect our users from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records.
Submitting your personal information (including e-mail address) on this page will sign you up to receive e-mails from DPT. In addition, here are some examples of how we may utilize your personal information:
Affiliates: With our parent company, subsidiaries, and among our affiliates for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy
Third Parties: To our third party service providers, including providers of services such as website design and hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, ad serving, research survey/interview/focus group management and analysis, marketing, auditing, and other services.
Consultants: In some cases, we manage our consultants’ services on their behalf. In those cases, we may transfer Personal Information collected from those Services to the consultants if they take over management of the Services (in which case, such Services are no longer controlled by us). Under such circumstances we will use reasonable efforts to direct the consultant to use Personal Information you have previously provided to us in a manner that is consistent with our Privacy Policy. Nevertheless, we cannot ensure that the consultant will have the same privacy practices as described in this Privacy Policy and you should refer to the consultant’s Privacy Policy for more information regarding the consultant’s treatment of your Personal Information.
Marketing Partners: We may ask for your consent to provide your Personal Information to our joint marketing partners, for example, to provide you with special offers or promotions that may be of interest to you. Although our treatment of your Personal Information would be governed by this Privacy Policy in those cases, the third party’s treatment of your Personal Information would be governed by its privacy policy.
Partnership: If you apply for a partnership with DPT or we receive your information in connection with a potential role at DPT, we may use your information to evaluate your candidacy and to contact you. If you are a candidate, you will receive more information about how DPT handles candidate personal information at the time of application.
User content: On message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services to which you are able to post information and content. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
Eligibility: We may use your personal information, including date of birth, to verify identity, assist with identification of users, and to determine appropriate services. For example, we may use date of birth to determine whether a potential client is of requisite age to utilize our services.
Legal or Business Needs: We may also disclose your Personal Information for the other uses described above (e.g., to comply with applicable laws, cooperate with law enforcement, and in connection with a sale or business transaction).
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you use the Services by, for example, downloading information, providing registration details, subscribing to a newsletter, browsing our sites, completing a survey, entering a sweepstakes, requesting information from us or otherwise interacting with our Services, we gather personal information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual. Several different types of Personal Information can be gathered when you interact with the Services. Collection of Personal Information is necessary to provide the Services to you or to enhance your consumer experience.
If you disclose 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.
We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:
Identification: When you request information, apply for partnership, purchase a product, download information, reconnect to our services, contact us including by social media or participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, device identifiers, IP address, location information, credit card information and profile information where the contact is via social media.
Shared Content: When you share our/your content with family and friends using DPT products and/or services, send gift certificates and products, or invite others to participate in DPT services or forums, DPT may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number DPT will use such information to fulfill your requests, provide the relevant product or service, or for anti-fraud purposes.
Purchases: When you purchase a product through our Services, we collect Personal Information such as your name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, credit or debit card information and other billing information.
Subscriptions: We collect your email address when you subscribe to our electronic mailings. For certain mailings, we collect additional personal information that may be relevant including your name, job title, interests and similar information.
Market research: We collect personal information from you including your preferences you provide through the Services and any information you provide through voluntary surveys or feedback conducted through the Services, through our service providers’ platforms, by phone or during in-person interviews or focus groups. For research and development purposes, we may use datasets such as those that contain images, voices or other data that could be associated with an identifiable person. When acquiring such datasets, we do so in accordance with applicable law in the jurisdiction in which the dataset is hosted. When using such datasets for research and development, we do not attempt to re-identify individuals who may appear therein.
User-generated content: We collect personal information when you submit user-generated content through online communities and other publicly available sections of the Services, including comments, reviews, or any other material that you submit. Any personal information you submit through these public forums may be viewed by other users of these Services. We are not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit and we have no responsibility to publish, take down, remove or edit any of your submissions (except as required by applicable laws). For more information, please refer to the User Content section of our Terms and Conditions.
Contact with our Customer Service: We collect personal information for you in offline contexts, including, for example, when you place an order over the phone or contact customer service.
Other Sources: Publicly available databases, including marketing and data analytics resources. For example, we may receive email addresses, mailing addresses and demographic information (e.g., age, sex, household income) from these sources. Authors and joint marketing third parties, when they share the information with us. Social media platforms and other third-party service platforms. Third party business customers, clients and partners, when they share the information with us (e.g., sales data).
Additionally, we may share your information as follows, or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
Companies: to companies that assist us in maintaining this Site or with the DPT activities, but only for purposes of providing services to DPT and with the strict requirement that any such company will never itself have the right to contact you for any reason;
Legal Necessity: to comply with applicable law or legal requirements (for example, a lawful subpoena), to protect our rights or property, or to protect our supporters from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful conduct, or
Exigent Circumstances: if we reasonably believe that an emergency involving immediate danger of death or serious physical injury to any person requires disclosure of communications or justifies disclosure of records.
Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information
We also collect data in a form that does not, on its own, permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:
We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, referrer URL, location, and the time zone where a DPT product is used so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.
We may collect information regarding customer activities on our website, and from our other products and services. This information is aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website, products, and services are of most interest. Aggregated data is considered nonpersonal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.
We may collect and store details of how you use our services, including search que This information may be used to improve the relevancy of results provided by our services. Except in limited instances to ensure quality of our services over the Internet, such information will not be associated with your IP address.
With your implied consent, we may collect data about how you use your device and applications in order to help app developers improve their apps.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
When you purchase services through this Site, we collect credit card information from you. That information is used solely for processing the applicable for processing your applicable payment and is not maintained by DPT; and is never disclosed to anyone, for any other purpose other than for processing your applicable payment, under any circumstances.
DPT uses industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of all of the personally identifiable information that you provide to us. Our server is located in a locked, secure environment. All supplied credit card information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment processing provider’s database.
Permission to access your personally identifiable information is granted only to you and DPT employees or contractors who need to know that information to provide services to you and who are required to keep the information confidential. Although we make good faith efforts to store information collected by this Site in a secure operating environment, we cannot guarantee complete security.
CHILDREN
Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, DPT complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying FTC regulations established federal law that protects the privacy of children using the Internet. Accordingly, DPT does not solicit nor does it knowingly contact, collect, or accept personally identifying information from any person under 13 years of age.
We understand the importance of taking extra precautions to protect the privacy and safety of children using DPT products and services. Children under the age of 13, or equivalent minimum age in the relevant jurisdiction, are not permitted to utilize our services unless their parent provided verifiable consent. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 13, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, outside the above circumstances we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.
COOKIES AND DATA TRACKING
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Some parts of this Site may be password-protected. We may use a cookie (cookies reside on your computer and are under the control of your browser) to help us remember and process items that you purchase through this Site; and/or to compile aggregate data about visitors to the Site and their interaction with the Site for the purposes of improving the operation of the Site and/or offering better Site experiences and tools in the future.
DPT also uses cookies and other technologies to remember personal information when you use our website, online services, and applications. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with DPT more convenient and personal. Knowing someone using your computer or device has shopped for a certain product or used a particular service helps us make our advertising and email communications more relevant to your interests. And knowing your contact information, hardware identifiers, and information about your computer or device helps us provide you with better customer service.
We may also use cookies to enable you to return to password-protected areas of the Site without having to re-enter your password. If you wish to disable these cookies, the help portion of the tool bar on most browsers can assist. If you set your browser to disable cookies, however, you may not be able to access certain parts of this Site. We may also use third-party services such as Google Analytics. This helps us understand traffic patterns and know if there are problems with our Site. We may also use embedded images in emails to track open rates for our mailings, so that we can tell which mailings appeal most to DPT users.
As is true of most internet services, we gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit websites and applications, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use this information to understand and analyze trends, to administer the site, to learn about user behavior on the site, to improve our product and services, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. DPT may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.
In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the DPT website. When customers click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our website. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our customer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages. Pixel tags enable us to send email messages in a format customers can read, and they tell us whether mail has been opened. We may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.
Please note that third party vendors, including Google, may show DPT sponsored ads on the Internet. Those third-party vendors (including Google) use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/
ADVERTISING
DPT’s websites, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our websites people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches.
Ads that are delivered by any DPT advertising platform may appear or our sites and/or on our affiliated applications. In third-party apps, you may see ads based on other information. In addition, we may place online advertising with third-party vendors, including Google, which will be shown on other Sites on the internet. In some cases, those third-party vendors may decide which ads to show you based on your prior visits to the Site. At no time will you be personally identified to those third-party vendors, nor will any of the information you share with us be shared with those third-party vendors. If you prefer to opt out of the use of these third-party cookies on the Site, you can do so by visiting (optout.networkadvertising.com/?c=1).
DPT does not use cookies to track what specific pages an individual site visitor views. Please note, however, that third party vendors, including Google, may show DPT-sponsored ads on the Internet. Those third-party vendors (including Google) use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting http://www.google.com/privacy/ads/.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
The privacy policies and practices contained in this Privacy Policy do not apply to ANY external links. This Privacy Policy only applies to our Site or any future Sites that we may develop. It does not cover Sites that are linked to by this Site or Sites for which we are not responsible (“linked-Sites”). These linked-Sites will have their own policies and practices that may be different from ours. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the policies and practices of the linked-Sites, especially if you provide personal information to them.
CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
DPT complies with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. As part of that Act, all registered users of our Site may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their Control Panel and going to the “Edit Profile” page. Changes to billing and/or credit card information must be made through DPT staff and may be initiated by contacting us@duckpond.tech.
AMENDMENTS AND CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We retain the right to amend or otherwise update this Privacy Policy at any time. By using our Site, you consent to the collection and use of the information as we have described. If we change our policies and practices, we will post the changes in our Privacy Policy so that you are always aware of them. With this knowledge, you can make an informed decision about whether you wish to provide personal information to us.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by sending an e-mail to: us@duckpond.tech
Duckpond Technologies, Inc. includes by reference CNPN Data Code Technology, ChekMate Digital Check Technology, Hip Hop Golf, VINdentify, Medica Systems, Trigger Happy Gun Technology, LokkChain Technology, DataCop Solutions, MyLifeGard, VINdentity, Kruz-N-Kontrol, ValuMiles, AIM: Avatar Intelligent MemBrain (Virtual Assistant, Processor, Operating System), Dartanyon A. Williams & Dartanyon A. Williams, LLC and their Affiliates; and The DAW Group, LLC and its Affiliates; and Entreprenetics and its Affiliates.
