1. INTRODUCTION
Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. It
provides important information about your personal information and tells you
about your rights under applicable privacy laws.
INSTANTPHONEDATA.COM, the website located at
https://www.instantphonedata.com (the “Site”), provides information and
resources to connect users with third party providers of certain products,
services and/or applications that may be of interest to our users (the “Service”).
When we refer to the “Services” throughout this Privacy Notice, we mean
the Site, Service and any other services provided by us to you in connection
with the Site.
BY ACCESSING OR USING OUR SERVICES, OR SUBMITTING
INFORMATION IN CONNECTION WITH YOUR USE OF THE SERVICES, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND
AGREE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS PRIVACY NOTICE.
2. UPDATES AND MODIFICATIONS
TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to update or modify this
Privacy Notice at any time. The revised Privacy Notice will be posted at
https://www.instantphonedata.com/privacy. All updates and modifications to
Privacy Notice will be effective from the day they are posted online (except as
stated below). If we make any material changes to Privacy Notice, we will
notify you of these changes by posting a notice of the changes on our Site. It
is your responsibility to regularly visit and review Privacy Notice. If you do
not agree to any updates or modifications to Privacy Notice, simply do not use
or access the Services. Your continued use of the Services after we have posted
the updated Privacy Notice, or, in the event of material changes, ten (10) days
following the date we posted the notice of such changes on the Site, as
applicable, signifies to us that you acknowledge and agree to be bound by the
revised Privacy Notice.
3. WHAT INFORMATION DO
WE COLLECT?
“Personal information” or “personal data”
means any information about an individual from which that person may be
identified. For example, it may include your name, telephone number, email
address, or payment information, and in some jurisdictions your IP address. It
does not include data from which the identity of an individual has been
definitively removed along with any identifiers connected to such individual
(also known as anonymous or anonymized data).
We may collect personal information when you:
Information We Collect:
a. Information Collected Directly
We
collect the following personal information directly from users in connection
with the use of the Services:
o
Phone numbers of individuals submitted by users of
the Services; and
o
Your name and email address and any other
information you may provide by filling out our "contact us" forms or
otherwise contacting us (such as your feedback or other communications with
us).
b. Information Collected Indirectly
o Usage Information
When
you use or interact with the Services we, or our authorized third-party service
providers, automatically collect information about your use and interactions
with the Services, including, without limitation, technical information about
the devices and software used to access the Services, such as the type of
Internet browser or mobile device you use, IP address or device ID (or other
persistent identifier that uniquely identifies a user's computer or mobile
device on the Internet), the operating system of a user's computer or mobile
device, mobile device information, device event information, crash data, and
log data, and analytics information, such as access dates and times,
information about your approximate location (as determined through your IP
address), and the website or source that linked or referred you to the Services
(collectively, "Usage Information").
This
information allows us to understand how you've used the Services (which may
include administrative and support communications with us or whether you have
clicked on third-party links), and other actions you have taken in connection
with your use of the Services.
o Unique ID
When
a user submits a phone number through the Services, we generate a unique ID for
that user that is tied to the phone number (a "Unique ID"). In
addition, a user's Unique ID may be tied to certain Usage Information for such
user, and is considered "pseudonymized data". We do not make any
attempt to link the Unique ID to any personally identifiable information, such
as your name or device serial number. Note that while we are not able to
identify a user through the Unique ID, we may share your Unique ID with a Third
Party Service that you clicked on and/or interacted with, and the operator of
the Third Party Service may be able to identify you if you have made a purchase
or provided certain personal information to such Third Party Service.
o Cookies and Similar Technologies
When
you visit or access the Services, we or our authorized third parties collect
certain information by automated means using cookies, web beacons, tags,
scripts, server logs, and/or similar technologies to automatically collect
Usage Information and/or generate a Unique ID. A cookie is a small text file
that is stored on a user's computer for record-keeping purposes. We use both
session ID cookies and persistent cookies. We track our users use of the
Services, but do not track users across third party websites. Typically, all
Usage Information is gathered in anonymous form and does not identify you
personally.
We
may use third party tools and technologies to help us gather Usage Information
and/or generate a Unique ID. For instance, we use Google Analytics to collect
and process certain Usage Information with technologies such as tracking
pixels.
Google
provides some additional privacy options described at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ with
respect to Google Analytics cookies. To opt out from Google Analytics, you can
download a plug-in from https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
c. Aggregated Data
With
the personal information and other data (including, Usage Information)
collected by us, we process "Aggregated Data", such as
statistical or demographic data. Aggregated Data may be derived from personal
information, but is not considered personal information under the law if it
does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may
aggregate usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific
feature of the Services. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with
your personal information so that it can directly or indirectly identify you,
we treat the combined data as personal information, which will be processed in
accordance with this Privacy Notice.
4. TARGETING &
ADVERTISING
We may use third party advertising partners who use
targeting/advertising cookies to deliver advertisements that are more relevant
to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you
see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of the
advertising campaigns. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the
website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website
and this information is shared with other organizations such as advertisers.
Targeting or advertising cookies will often be linked to site functionality
provided by other organizations. We, through the third party advertising
partners listed below, use these cookies to:
o Advertising and the Services across
the Internet;
o Place Advertisements for the Third
Party Products and/or Service on our Site;
o Tailor our marketing to better suit
your needs and only display ads that are relevant to you;
o Keep track of which advertisements
you have already been shown so that you are not always shown the same ones;
o Keep track of how many visitors click
on the advertisement; and/or
o Keep track of how many orders are
placed by way of the advertisement.
5. HOW DO WE USE THIS
INFORMATION?
We use information collected in connection with the
access and/or use of the Services in the following instances:
o To perform and provide the Services
to you;
o To transfer you to Third Party
Products and/or Sites;
o Respond to your queries and requests,
or otherwise communicate directly with you;
o Compile statistics and analytics
about your use of and interaction with the Services using Usage Information, including
details about how and where our Services are accessed, how often you visit or
use the Services, the date and time of your visits, your actions on the
Services, and other similar traffic, usage, and trend data, which allow us to
better understand the functionality of our Services on your computer or device
and gain insights about how our Services are used in order to improve your
experience;
o Gather important functionality,
testing, and performance data about our Services from Usage Information, including
performance data related to the Site, such as networking activity, CPU load,
and resource usage, among other relevant data;
o Gather demographic information about
our user base; o Detect any fraudulent or illegal
activity against you and/or us;
o Perform system maintenance and
upgrades, and enable new features;
o Operate, maintain, secure and improve
the Services; o To comply with a legal or regulatory
obligation (for example, keeping records of our sales for tax compliance); and
o Provide information to regulatory
bodies when legally required, and only as outlined below in Legal and/or
Security Obligations.
6. HOW DO WE SHARE THIS
INFORMATION?
o
a. Within our Organization
and to Third Party Service Providers
Personal information that we collect about you
through the Services may be shared with the employees, contractors, and agents of
our website and our affiliated and subsidiary entities (“Affiliates”)
who are involved in providing or improving the Services that we offer to you.
We obligate the employees, contractors and agents of our website and our
Affiliates to ensure the security and confidentiality of your personal
information and to act on that personal information only in a manner consistent
with this Privacy Notice.
In addition, we share personal information with
third parties that provide services to help us provide the Services, and to
otherwise operate our business. Depending on how you use the Services, the
following categories of third parties collect data on our behalf or receive
personal information:
§ Hosting services providers;
§ Analytics providers; § Advertising and marketing partners;
§ Customer support providers;
§
Providers of business operations and communication
tools;
§ Other third-party service providers that help us
provide features and functions for the Services; and
§ Professional service providers, such as auditors,
lawyers, consultants, accountants and insurers.
We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal
information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our
third-party service providers to use your personal information for their own
purposes and only permit them to process your personal information for
specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions, unless the data is
rendered fully anonymous.
o
b. Third Party Products
When you choose to interact with and/or request
information regarding any Third Party Product and/or Sites, certain data and
information may be exchanged between us and the provider of the applicable
Third Party Products and/or Sites. For example, we may share the Unique ID
generated and associated with the phone number submitted to such Third Party
Products and/or Sites. Note that Third Party Products and/or Sites with whom
you choose to share your information with are not our service providers. The
applicable providers of Third Party Products and/or Sites may use your personal
information differently than we do and we do not control their use of your
information. Please review the privacy policies of any Third Party Products
and/or Sites you decide to enable in connection with the use of the Services.
o
c. Business Transfers
We may also share data with third parties to whom
we choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets.
Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a
change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal
information in the same way as set out in this Privacy Notice.
o d. Legal and/or Security
Obligations
If we are required to disclose personal information
by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena, warrant or other judicial or
administrative order, our policy is to respond to requests that are properly
issued by law enforcement within the United States. Under such circumstances,
we will attempt to provide you with prior notice that a request for your
information has been made in order to give you an opportunity to object to the
disclosure. We will attempt to provide this notice by email, if you have given
us an email address. However, government requests may include a court-granted
non-disclosure order, which prohibits us from giving notice to the affected
individual. In cases where we receive a non-disclosure order, we notify the
user when it has expired or once we are authorized to do so.
Note that if we receive information that provides
us with a good faith belief that there is an exigent emergency involving the
danger of death or serious physical injury to a person, we may provide
information to law enforcement trying to prevent or mitigate the danger (if we
have it), to be determined on a case-by-case basis.
7. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP
DATA AND HOW DO WE PROTECT IT?
o
a. Data Retention
Your personal information is processed for the
period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it is collected, to comply
with legal and regulatory obligations and for the duration of any period necessary
to establish, exercise or defend any legal rights.
In order to determine the most appropriate
retention periods for your personal information, we consider the amount, nature
and sensitivity of your information, the reasons for which we collect and process
your personal information, and applicable legal requirements.
In some instances, we may choose to anonymize your
personal information instead of deleting it, for statistical use, for instance.
When we choose to anonymize, we make sure that there is no way that the
personal information can be linked back to you or any specific user
o
b
. Data Security &
Protection
We have put in place reasonable and appropriate
security measures designed to prevent your personal information from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or
disclosed. For example, we use encryption, secure socket layer, firewalls, and
password protection. In addition, we limit access to personal information to
those employees, agents, contractors and the third parties who have a business need
to know.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any
suspected data security breach. However, no method of transmission over the
Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, and while we take
reasonable steps to provide secure services, by using the Services, you
understand and assume the risks associated with your activities on the
internet.
In addition, as described in this Privacy Notice, our
website cannot secure, and has no responsibility for, any personal information
that you share or release on your own or that you request us to share or
release.
We have put in place reasonable and appropriate
security measures designed to prevent your personal information from being
accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or
disclosed. For example, we use encryption, secure socket layer, firewalls, and
password protection. In addition, we require two-factor authentication for all
employees and contractors who may access your data to provide our Services, and
we limit access to those employees, agents, contractors and the third parties
who have a business need to know.
8. WHAT INFORMATION IS
NOT COLLECTED OR NOT COVERED UNDER THIS PRIVACY NOTICE?
o a. Children’s Privacy We do not target the its Services to persons under
the age of 16 and does not knowingly collect personal information from minors.
Therefore, we ask you not to provide us with personal information of persons
under the age of 16. If we learn that personal information of persons under 16
years of age has been collected on or through the Services, then we may
deactivate the account or otherwise terminate access to the Services and/or
make the user content inaccessible.
o b. Sensitive Data We do not require you to provide any sensitive data
about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life,
sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information
about your health and genetics, and biometric data to use the Services.
o c. Payment Processing We do not collect or store any payment information.
o d. External Websites On or through the Services, we may provide or make
available, for informational purposes only, links to other websites or
resources with which we do not have a contractual relationship and over which
we do not have control, including, without limitation, links to websites and/or
resources related to the Third Party Products and/or Sites (collectively, “External
Websites”). Such links are not paid advertisements, nor do they constitute
an endorsement by us of those External Websites, and are provided to you only
as a convenience. By clicking on links to External Websites, the operators of
the External Websites may collect your personal information. We are not
responsible for the content or data collection practices of those External
Websites, and your use of External Websites is subject to their respective
terms of use and privacy policies.
o e. Third Party Social
“Share” Buttons and Plug-ins On or through the Services, we provide third-party
“share” buttons which enable you to share certain content via social media
sites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, and LinkedIn). These
“share” buttons may function as web beacons when you interact with the button.
Please note that when you “share” using the buttons, you may send to the third
party provider of the “share” button the information that you are viewing. If
you are not logged into your account with the third party provider, then the
third party may not know your identity. If you are logged in to your account
with the third party, then the third party may be able to link information or
actions about your interactions with the Services to your account with the
applicable third party provider. Please refer to each third party’s privacy
policies to learn more about its data practices.
9. NOTICE TO USERS
OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
The Services and its servers are operated in the
United States. If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware
that your information, including your personal data, may be transferred to,
processed, maintained, and used on computers, servers, and systems located
outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction
where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to use the Services,
you hereby irrevocably and unconditionally consent to such transfer,
processing, and use in the United States and elsewhere.
10. HOW CAN A USER REACH OUT OR CONTACT THIS WEBSITE? If you have any questions about this Privacy
Notice, or need to contact us regarding a privacy matter, please email us at: [email protected].
Last Revised: September 23, 2022
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