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Crowd Control Privacy Policy

This Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes the privacy practices of Crowd Control LLC and its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively, “Crowd Control” or “the App” or “us” or “we” or “our”).

Crowd Control provides customer management tools to other businesses – our clients. To take advantage of our services, our clients share with us information about their individual consumers and online store, including contact details and shopping histories. We use this information to provide our clients with a service that uses their online store to facilitate the order creation and management as well as track and monitor customer activity.

This Privacy Notice applies to the crowdcontrol.co website and any other websites, online services, or assets controlled or otherwise associated with the use of our services.

Our website and online services are designed for businesses and are not intended for personal, family, or household use. Accordingly, we treat all personal information covered by this Privacy Policy, including information about any visitors to our website, as pertaining to individuals acting as business representatives, rather than in their personal capacity.

 

Information we collect

 

Information we collect for Crowd Control’s own business purposes

We may collect information about individuals who interact with Crowd Control when using our website or services (such as employees or customers of our clients).

 

How we collect the information

We may collect information:

  • Directly from individuals
  • From third party vendors, data brokers, or business partners
  • From recruiters

 

Types of information we collect

The types of information we collect include:

  • Personal and business contact information (such as name, business name, address, telephone number, email address, and mailing address)
  • Payment information (such as credit card or other financial account numbers)

 

Information we collect from or on behalf of our clients

We may collect information about individual consumers from our clients or – at clients’ request – from their service providers. Typically, we may collect clients’ consumers’ contact details and demographic data, shopping histories, and details about consumers’ interactions with Crowd Control services, communications, or assets.

We collect personal information directly from the relevant individual, through your Shopify account and interactions with Crowd Control services, communications, or assets, or using the following technologies: “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org. “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps. “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

 

How We Use Your Personal Information

We use the personal information we collect from you and your customers in order to provide the Service and to operate the App. Additionally, we use this personal information to: Communicate with you; Optimize or improve the App; and Provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

 

Information we share

We may share personal information for the purposes set out in the Privacy Notice with:

  • Service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as technology partners (including providers of payment processing, technology support, web hosting, and email communications
  • Survey and market research providers
  • Advertising and marketing partners
  • Analytics organizations

Unless prohibited by applicable law, we reserve the right to transfer the information we maintain in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets. If we engage in such a sale or transfer, we will – where required by applicable law – make reasonable efforts to drect the recipient to use your personal information in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Notice. After such a sale or transfer, you may contact the recipient with any inquiries concerning the processing of your personal information.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

 

Behavioral Advertising

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

Some of the business partners that collect information about users’ activities on our websites may be members of organizations or programs that provide choices to individuals regarding the use of their browsing behavior for purposes of targeted advertising. For example, users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the Network Advertising Initiative by clicking here or the Digital Advertising Alliance by clicking here. European users may opt out of receiving targeted advertising on websites through members of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance by clicking here, selecting the user’s country, and then clicking “Choices” (or similarly-titled link). Please note that we also may work with companies that offer their own opt-out mechanisms and may not participate in the opt-out mechanisms that we linked above.

 

Your Rights

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

 

Data Retention

We will retain personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which the information was collected, depending on the purpose(s) for which the information was collected, the nature of the information, any contractual relationship that may govern the retention of the data, and our legal or regulatory obligations. We will then destroy the personal information or anonymize the information, in accordance with applicable law.

 

Changes to the Privacy Notice

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

 

How to contact us

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at amigo@crowdcontrol.co.