Introduction
Nextek, LLC (together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, “Company”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) respects User (“you”, “your”) privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit, access, or otherwise use our Services including but not limited to our web, mobile and desktop applications, and any software products and services, that you download from, or use on or through, the Adaptek portal) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information that we collect:
· On or through our Services;
· In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our website;
· Through web, mobile and desktop applications, and through our software products and services, some of which may provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and our Services; and
· When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
However, notwithstanding any of the foregoing, this policy does not apply to information collected by:
· Use by and through any third party (including: (i) any third-party providers of software, technology, documents, data, content, specifications, products, equipment, components, servers, computers, hardware, databases, electronic systems (including database management systems), networks, storage devices, or transmission software, equipment or technology (collectively, “ Third-Party Providers ”); and (ii) our subsidiaries and affiliates); or
· Any Third-Party Providers and our affiliates and subsidiaries, through any application, software, products, services, or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or in our Services.
PLEASE REFER TO THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS FOR INFORMATION REGARDING THEIR RESPECTIVE PRIVACY AND INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES AND POLICIES.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By visiting, accessing, or using our Services, you agree to this privacy policy. We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). By continuing to use our Services you acknowledge acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about “Users” of our Services, including information:
· by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, gender, birthdate, social security number (“personal information“);
· that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as location; and/or internet address;
· about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
· that assists Company in completing a financial plan, reports, transactions, account changes, or to maintain/service accounts or User experience throughout the provided software Services
We collect this information:
· Directly from you when you provide it to us through your utilization of our Services;
· Automatically as you navigate through our Services (information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies)
· From third parties, for example, our software integrations.
Information You Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Services may include:
· Information that you provide by filling in forms or questionnaires or entering data on our Services. This includes information provided at the time of registering to access, visit, use our Services, subscribing to our products and services, or requesting further products and services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Services;
· Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us;
· Records or copies of your documents, if you upload them into the Services;
· Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes;
· Details of transactions you carry out through our Services and of the fulfillment of your requests.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) throughout various components of our Services, or transmitted to other users of our Services who have permission to interact with your information or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages/you may set certain privacy settings for such information by logging into your account profile, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through, interact with, access, and use our Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
· Details of your visits to, access of, and use of our Services, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Services; and
· Information about your computer, mobile device, and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
· Behavioral tracking of your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. This information improves our Services enabling us to:
· Estimate our user size and usage patterns;
· Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Services according to your individual interests;
· Speed up the products and services that we may provide to you;
· Recognize you when you return to our Services;
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
· Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, refusal may limit access to certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will automatically refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Services.
· Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Services may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Services. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.(see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.)
· Web Beacons. Pages of our Services and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Services statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Services content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources, or you provide to us.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some software, technology, documents, data, content, specifications, products, equipment, components, servers, computers, hardware, databases, electronic systems (including database management systems), networks, storage devices, transmission software, equipment or technology, and applications on our Services are served by Third-Party Providers, which may include advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application, transmission software, servers, and storage providers. These Third-Party Providers may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these Third-Party Providers tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
· To present our Services and its contents to you;
· To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
· To provide you with notices about your account and subscription, including expiration and renewal notices;
· To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
· To notify you about changes to our Services or any products or services we offer or provide;
· To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Services;
· To analyze how our products and services are used by you;
· In any other way that we may describe when you provide the information; and
· For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about ours and Third-Party Providers goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. (see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
· To Third-Party Providers, contractors, service providers, and other third parties that we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
· To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Nextek, LLC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Nextek, LLC about our Services users is among the assets transferred;
· To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it—e.g., if you give us account information to use the report feature or demographic information to use the relationship management features of our Services;
· For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
· With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
· To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
· To enforce or apply our “Terms & Conditions” or the “Agreement” entered into by you and Nextek, LLC, and any other agreements between you and Nextek, LLC (including its affiliates and subsidiaries), including for billing and collection purposes; and
· If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Nextek, LLC, our customers, or others—this includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
· Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website . If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
· Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending a request to support@nextekdev.com . If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
· Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending a request to support@nextekdev.com .
· We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising (including Third-Party Providers). However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into our Services and visiting your account profile page or any page where information needs to be corrected.
If you delete your User Contributions from our Services, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Services users. Proper access and use of information provided on our Services, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms and Conditions.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and data pertaining to your use of our Services will be encrypted using SSL technology.
The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our Services like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by other users of our Services.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on our Services.
WE WILL EXERCISE COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS TO USE THIRD-PARTY PROVIDERS IN CONNECTION WITH PROVIDING OUR WEBSITE AND OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES WHICH PROVIDE AT LEAST A COMMERCIALLY REASONABLY LEVEL OF DATA SECURITY AND CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION; PROVIDED, NOTWITHSTANDING THE FOREGOING OR ANY OTHER SECTION, TERM OR PROVISION OF THIS POLICY OR OTHERWISE, NEXTEK LLC (AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES AND AFFILIATES): (a) IS IN NO WAY LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR SELECTING, MAINTAINING, OR OTHERWISE ENSURING THAT ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDER PROVIDES SUCH LEVEL OF DATA SECURITY OR CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION; (b) IS IN NO WAY LIABLE OR RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSSES OR BREACH OF DATA SECURITY OR CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION CAUSED BY ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDER; AND (c) DOES NOT IN ANY WAY REPRESENT, GUARANTEE OR WARRANT THAT ANY THIRD-PARTY PROVIDER PROVIDES SUCH LEVEL OF DATA SECURITY OR CONFIDENTIALITY PROTECTION.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on our Services home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Services and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To
ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices,
contact us at:
support@nextekdev.com