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Last Revised on 03/01/23
This website is developed and maintained by Clerq Inc (hereinafter “Clerq,” “we,” or “us”). The data controller is Clerq and can be contacted as explained below in the “How to Contact Us” section.
When you visit our website, official social media sites, or other online properties, collectively “Sites” or “Services,” Clerq may collect and use certain information about you. Clerq recognizes that you care about how your information is used, and your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect and use your information, particularly your personal information, and the choices you can make about what information you share.
This Privacy Policy applies to all Sites and Services made available by Clerq to U.S. consumers, except where a product or service has a separate privacy notice that does not incorporate this Privacy Policy. Certain individuals also may be provided with additional privacy notices as described below.
We ask that you read this Privacy Policy from time to time. Clerq may modify this Privacy Policy at any time at its sole discretion. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy that increase our rights to use personal information we have previously collected about you, we will first obtain your consent where required by law. If Clerq intends to further process collected personal data for a purpose other than that for which the personal data was collected, prior to that further processing, we shall provide you with information on that other purpose with additional information necessary to ensure fair and transparent processing.
Clerq collects information about you when you interact with our Sites and Services. When you use our Sites and Services, we collect information about one or more devices associated with you that you use to access the Sites and Services, such as a computer, mobile phone, or tablet. We collect, store, and use information you provide to us from one or more devices associated with you when you use our Sites and Services, including when you log into the Sites or Services from one or more of your devices, interact with our services on third-party websites or mobile applications, complete a web form, apply for a job at Clerq, or otherwise correspond with us regarding the Sites and Services. Information that we collect may include:
- Valid government issued identification such as a passport or driver’s license;
- Other identification documents as deemed appropriate;
- Tax-related information such as a tax identification number (“TIN”) or social security number (“SSN”); and/or
- Any other information as may be required to verify your identity in accordance with applicable laws and regulations;
We automatically collect information about the devices you use to interact with our Sites. We automatically collect your device identifier, web browser type and version, IP address, precise geolocation, and browsing information collected through cookies and beacons. We also automatically collect information about how you use the Sites, such as what you have searched for and viewed on the Sites. The information automatically collected will be associated with any personal information you have provided.
We collect certain information by automated means when you visit our Sites, such as how many users visited our Sites and the pages accessed. By collecting this information, we learn how to best tailor our Sites to our visitors. We collect this information through various means such as “cookies” and “web beacons.”
Like many companies, we use “cookies” on some of our Sites. Cookies are pieces of code placed on your devices when you visit certain websites. We use cookies to tell us, for example, whether you have visited us before or if you are a new visitor, and to help us identify features of the Sites in which you may have the greatest interest. Cookies may enhance your online experience by saving your preferences while you are visiting a particular website.
Most web browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to be notified when you receive a new cookie, and how to disable existing cookies. Please note, however, that without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the features and functionality of our Sites.
Certain pages on our website contain “web beacons” (also known as Internet tags, pixel tags, and clear GIFs). These web beacons allow third parties to obtain information, such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears; the URL of the page on which the beacon appears; the time the page containing the beacon was viewed; the type of browser used to view the page; and the information in cookies set by the third party.
An IP address is a unique identifier that certain electronic devices use to identify and communicate with each other on the Internet. When you visit our website, we view the IP address of the device you use to connect to the Internet. We then use this information to determine the general physical location of the device and understand the general locations of our website visitors. We also use this information to enhance our Sites.
We may use third parties to serve ads on the Sites. In connection with the delivery of advertising, certain third parties may automatically collect information about your visits to this and other websites, your IP address, your ISP, and the browser you use to visit our Sites. They do this by using cookies, web beacons, or other technologies. Information collected may be used, among other things, to deliver advertising targeted to your interests and to better understand the usage and visitation of our Sites and the other sites tracked by these third parties. This policy does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, cookies or pixel tags in third party ads, and we encourage you to check the privacy policies of advertisers and/or ad services to learn about their use of cookies and other technologies.
We may also collect non-personal information from your mobile device if you are interacting with our platform on a mobile device. This information is generally used to help us deliver the most relevant information to you. Examples of information that maybe collected and used include how you interact with the Sites and Services, and information about the type of device you use.
If you have enabled location services on your phone, tablet, or other mobile device, we may collect your location information including for the purpose of verifying whether you are eligible to participate in a channel, service, or promotion.
We may also collect information about you from third parties, such as marketing partners, identity verification services, anti-fraud services, and other service providers. We may also supplement the information we have about you with information received from other sources such as commercially available sources (e.g., data brokers and public databases). The information we receive may include demographic data such as age, gender, and income level, your interests and purchase data and other information that is necessary or useful to assist our marketing efforts or for user verification, authentication, fraud detection or to comply with regulatory requirements.
We may use your information for the following purposes:
If you notify us that you do not wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, we will not send you marketing information.
We use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use our services. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information such as how often users visit our Sites, the pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to our Services. We use the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve our Sites, Application(s), and Services.
Our Sites do not collect personal information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. Therefore, “do not track” signals transmitted from web browsers do not apply to our Sites, and we do not alter any of our data collection and use practices upon receipt of such a signal.
We reserve the right to disclose and transfer all information related to our Sites, including personal data:
We share your information with third-party service providers who perform services and functions on our behalf to support our interactions with you including, for example, providing our products and services or communicating with you. These third parties are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information, except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. These third parties have no independent rights to the data.
In addition, we will disclose information about you:
In certain situations, Clerq may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
Our Sites may provide links to other websites for your convenience and information. These websites may operate independently from our Sites. Linked websites may have their own privacy notices or policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you visit any linked websites. To the extent any linked websites you visit are not part of this website, we are not responsible for their content, any use of the websites, or the privacy practices of any of those websites.
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information, and other data stored on our Sites. Sensitive and private data exchange between the Sites and its Users happens over a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.
We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of the information you provide when visiting or using our Sites.
Clerq retains all personal information for the duration of the relevant business relationship or, where required, in accordance with its information management policies and schedules, subject to applicable laws. When deleting personal information based on a request from the individual to whom the information relates, Clerq will make reasonable attempts to ensure that all instances of the information are deleted in their entirety, however, in some circumstances Clerq may be required to maintain this information to comply with regulatory requirements or applicable law.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact: privacy@clerq.io.
If you would like to update your contact information or preferences, have your information removed from our mailing lists, or no longer want to receive marketing e-mails that we may send based on information collected via product registration cards or other sources, you may do so by:
Last Revised on 11/07/22
This California Consumer Privacy Statement (“Statement”) supplements the Clerq Privacy Policy and applies solely to California consumers. This Statement does not apply to Clerq personnel or job applicants.
This Statement uses certain terms that have the meaning given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and its implementing regulations (the “CCPA”).
We may collect the following categories of personal information about you:
We may use your personal information for the purposes described in our Clerq Privacy Policy and for the following business purposes specified in the CCPA:
We do not sell personal information.
You have certain choices regarding your personal information, as described below.
Access: You have the right to request, twice in a 12-month period, that we disclose to you the personal information we have collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you during the past 12 months.
Deletion: You have the right to request that we delete certain personal information we have collected from you.
Shine the Light Request: You also may have the right to request that we provide you with (1) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and,(2) the identity of those third parties.
To submit an accessor deletion request, please email us at privacy@clerq.io or submit a request through our webform. To submit a Shine the Light request, email us at privacy@clerq.io.If you designate an authorized agent to make an access or deletion request on your behalf using one of the channels described above, we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so and to verify your own identity directly with us (as described below). For questions or concerns about our privacy policies and practices, please contact us as described in the “How to Contact Us” section of our Privacy Policy.
To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal information or complying with your request. We may require you to provide any of the following information: your name, date of birth, the last four digits of your Social Security number, and the email and physical addresses associated with your Clerq account. If you have never used our Services or had an account with us and you request access to or deletion of your personal information, there is no reasonable method by which we can verify your identity to the level of certainty required by the CCPA.
If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
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