Privacy Policy
Effective Date:
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes the privacy practices of EMPUROS LTD. (“Empuros” “us” “we” “our”) in connection with the EMPUROS website located at www.empuros.com and any other website to which this Privacy Policy is posted (the “Site”), and our mobile application(s) (collectively, with the Site the “Services“).
What Types of Personal Information We Collect
Information you provide to us. Personal information you provide to us through the Services or otherwise includes:
- Contact information, such as your first and last name, email and mailing addresses and phone number.
- Account information, such as your user name and password.
- Content you choose to upload to the Services, such as comments and messages in, for example, review forms, review areas, and other message areas (“Forums”).
- Transaction information, such as information about payments from you and other details of products or services you have purchased from us.
- Marketing information, such as information such your preferences for receiving communications about our activities, events, and publications, and details about how you engage with our communications.
- Feedback or correspondence, such as information you provide when you contact us with questions, feedback, or otherwise correspond with us online.
- Other information that we may collect which is not specifically listed here, but which we will use in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.
Information we obtain from social media platforms. We may maintain pages for EMPUROS on social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, and other third party platforms. When you visit or interact with our pages on those platforms, the platform provider’s privacy policy will apply to your interactions and their collection, use and processing of your personal information. You or the platforms may provide us with information through the platform, and we will treat such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Information we obtain from other third parties. We may receive personal information about you from third-party sources. For example, a business partner may share your contact information with us if you have expressed interest in learning specifically about our products or services, or the types of products or services we offer. We may obtain your personal information from other third parties, such as marketing partners, publicly-available sources and data providers.
Cookies and Other Information Collected by Automated Means We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and activity occurring on or through the Services. The information that may be collected automatically includes your computer or mobile device operating system type and version number, manufacturer and model, device identifier (such as the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising), browser type, screen resolution, IP address, the website you visited before browsing to our website, general location information such as city, state or geographic area; and information about your use of and actions on the Services, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times, and length of access. Our service providers and business partners may collect this type of information over time and across third-party websites and mobile applications.
On our webpages, this information is collected using cookies, browser web storage (also known as locally stored objects, or “LSOs”), Flash-based LSOs (also known as “Flash cookies”), web beacons, and similar technologies, and our emails may also contain web beacons. In our mobile application, we may collect this information directly or through our use of third-party software development kits (“SDKs”). SDKs may enable third parties to collect information directly from our mobile application.
A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor‘s computer or other Internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. Browser web storage or LSOs, are used for similar purposes as cookies. Browser web storage enables the storage of a larger amount of data than cookies. A “web beacon,” also known as a pixel tag or clear GIF, is typically used to demonstrate that a webpage was accessed or that certain content was viewed, typically to measure the success of our marketing campaigns or engagement with our emails and to compile statistics about usage of our websites. A SDK is third-party computer code that we may incorporate into our mobile applications that may be used for a variety of purposes, including to provide us with analytics regarding the use of our mobile applications, to integrate with social media, add features or functionality to our app, or to facilitate online advertising.
We may also use Flash LSO on our website to collect and store information about your use of our website. Unlike cookies, Flash LSOs cannot be removed or rejected via your browser settings. If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer or mobile device, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions. Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including, potentially, Flash applications used in connection with our website.
Web browsers may offer users of our websites or mobile apps the ability to disable receiving certain types of cookies; however, if cookies are disabled, some features or functionality of our websites may not function correctly. Please see the “Targeted online advertising” section for information about how to exercise choice regarding the use of browsing behavior for purposes of targeted advertising.
How We Use the Personal Information We Collect
We use your personal information for the following purposes and as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy or at the time of collection:
To operate the Services.
We use your personal information to:
- provide, operate and improve the Services, including to facilitate transactions
- provide information about our products and services
- establish and maintain your user account on the Services
- communicate with you about the Services, including by sending you announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
- communicate with you about events, surveys or contests in which you participate
- understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Services and our communications
- provide support and maintenance for the Services
- to respond to your requests, questions and feedback
For research and development. We analyze use of the Services to improve the Services and to develop new products and services, including by studying user demographics and use of the Services.
To send you marketing and promotional communications. We may send you EMPUROS-related marketing communications as permitted by law. You will have the ability to opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications as described in the opt out of marketing section below.
To display advertisements. We work with advertising partners to display advertisements on the Services. These advertisements are delivered by our advertising partners and may be targeted based on your use of the Services or your activity elsewhere online. To learn more about your choices in connection with advertisements, please see the section below titled “Targeted online advertising.”
To comply with law. We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
For compliance, fraud prevention, and safety. We may use your personal information and disclose it to law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties as we believe necessary or appropriate to: (a) protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); (b) enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Services; and (c) protect, investigate and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity.
With your consent. In some cases we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.
To create anonymous data. We may create aggregated and/or de-identified data from your personal information and other individuals whose personal information we collect. We make personal information into aggregated and/or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this aggregated and/or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Service and promote our business.
When Do We Share Personal Information We Collect
We do not share your personal information with third parties without your consent, except in the following circumstances or as described in this Privacy Policy:
Service Providers: We engage service providers to perform functions and provide services to us related to the operation of the Services. We may share your personal information with such service providers subject to confidentiality obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy, and on the condition that the third parties use your personal information only on our behalf and pursuant to our instructions. Examples of third party service providers that we may use include providers of products, shipment processors, payment processors, customer support providers, and email delivery providers.
Business and Marketing Partners. We may sometimes share your personal information with partners or enable partners to collect information directly via our Services. For example, we will notify you if we will share your personal information with partners in order to facilitate your transactions with us, and such partners may send you promotional materials or otherwise contact you regarding products and services that they offer. When you choose to register for any of our events, we may share the personal information you provide as part of the event with the named co-sponsors or other third parties affiliated with such event. We may also share your personal information with trusted third party partners for the partners’ marketing, advertising, or other purposes.
When you make a purchase through the Services, we share your personal information with Shopify. By making a purchase through the Services, you consent to the use and access of your personal information by Shopify as provided in their privacy policy (as updated from time to time), which can be found here (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).
Other users of the Services and the public. We may provide functionality that enables you to disclose personal information to other users of the Services or the public. For instance, you may be able to submit content to the Services (such as comments, reviews, and surveys), and we will display your name, username, and a link to your user profile along with the content you submit. We do not control how other users or third parties use any personal information that you make available to other users or the public.
Professional advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
For compliance, fraud prevention and safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes described above.
Business transfers: In the event that we are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your Personal Information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. In such a case, we will make reasonable efforts to require the recipient to honor this Privacy Policy.
Your Choices
Access or Update Your Information: If you are a registered user of our Services, we provide you with tools and account settings to access or modify the profile information you provided to us and associated with your account. You can notify us at any time by contacting us at customersupport@empuros.com and indicating that you want to edit, correct or remove (and therefore terminate our storage of) your personal information. Upon receipt of your request to remove your personal information, we will remove all information about you from our database to the extent technically feasible and not otherwise prohibited by law.
Targeted online advertising: Some of the business partners that collect information about users’ activities on or through the Services may be members of organizations or programs that provide choices to individuals regarding the use of their browsing behavior or mobile application usage for purposes of targeted advertising.
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. Users of our mobile applications may opt out of receiving targeted advertising in mobile apps through participating members of the Digital Advertising Alliance by installing the AppChoices mobile app, available here, and selecting the user’s choices. 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.
In addition, your mobile device settings may provide functionality to limit our, or our partners’, ability to engage in ad tracking or targeted advertising using the Google Advertising ID or Apple ID for Advertising associated with your mobile device.
If you choose to opt-out of targeted advertisements, you will still see advertisements online but they may not be relevant to you. Even if you do choose to opt out, not all companies that serve online behavioral advertising are included in this list, so you may still receive some cookies and tailored advertisements from companies that are not listed.
Opt out of marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us at customersupport@empuros.com. You may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.
Cookies & Browser Web Storage. We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and similar technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across the Services and third party websites. Most browsers let you remove or reject cookies. To do this, follow the instructions in your browser settings. Many browsers accept cookies by default until you change your settings. Please note that if you set your browser to disable cookies, the Site may not work properly. Similarly, your browser settings may allow you to clear your browser web storage.
Do Not Track. Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.
Other sites, mobile applications and services. The Services may contain links to other websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. These links are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. In addition, our content may be included on web pages or in mobile applications or online services that are not associated with us. We do not control third party websites, mobile applications or online services, and we are not responsible for their actions. Other websites and services follow different rules regarding the collection, use and sharing of your personal information. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites and mobile applications and online services you use.
Security Practices
The security of your personal information is important to us. We employ a number of organizational, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.
Our Policy Towards Children
EMPUROS maintains the Services for the use of individuals who are 18 years of age or older. We do not solicit or knowingly collect personal information from any individuals under such age, and we do not knowingly market our products or services to persons under such age. If we receive notice or believe that someone under 18 years old has provided us with personal information, we will use reasonable efforts to remove such personal information from our files, or to flag such personal information and (to the extent permitted by law) retain it for the sole purpose of ensuring that it is no longer used.
Our Services are not directed to, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from, persons under 13. If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, contact us at customersupport@empuros.com.
If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
Updates and Changes to this Policy
We may revise this Privacy Policy from time-to-time. If we make changes to the Privacy Policy that we determine are material, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Services. We may also provide notification of changes in another way that we believe is reasonably likely to reach you, such as via e-mail (if you have an account where we have your contact information) or another manner through the Services. Once posted, the changes to the Policy will be effective immediately (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). Your continued use of the Services after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
Contacting Us
If you have any questions, concerns or comments about this Privacy Policy or the treatment of your personal information please email us at customersupport@empuros.com.
Notice to European Residents
For residents of the European Union (and United Kingdom), EMPUROS LTD. shall server as the data controller responsible for your personal information collected pursuant to this Privacy Policy. Our digital operations are conducted, in whole or in part, in the United States. Regardless of where you live, you consent to have your personal data transferred to, processed and stored in the United States, and allow us to use and collect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
In addition, residents of certain countries, including European Union member states (and the United Kingdom), have some or all of the following rights with respect to personal information collected from and about them on the Services: the right to request access to, and the correction, erasure, and/or restriction of processing of, such personal information; in some instances, the right to object to the processing of such personal information; in some instances, the right to request that we export, in a structured, commonly used, and machine readable format, and transmit to another controller, such personal information; and the right to withdraw, at any time, any consent to the processing of such personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us at customersupport@empuros.com.
Notice to California Residents
Under California law, California residents who have provided personally identifiable information to a company may have the right to request a list of all third parties to whom that company had disclosed such information for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year, along with a list of the categories of personal information that had been so disclosed. If you are a California resident who would like information on how to exercise your rights concerning third party disclosures, you may send an email to:
Attn: California Privacy Rights Administrator
The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North Market Blvd., Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.