Effective Date: April 20, 2017
PushBlack Finance is a project of PushBlack Now. PushBlack Now (“PushBlack Now” “we” or “us”) is the provider of the Services. PushBlack Now respects your privacy, and we created this privacy policy (the “Policy”) to explain how we collect, use and disclose your information when you use the Services. The Policy is only applicable to our Services and not to any other website, service, or online platform. Capitalized terms that are not defined in this Policy have the meaning given them in our Terms and Conditions. BY UTILIZING ANY OF THE SERVICES AND/OR REGISTERING WITH US, YOU SIGNIFY THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTOOD, AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THIS POLICY, INCLUDING OUR TERMS AND CONDITIONS, WHICH ARE INCORPORATED HEREIN BY REFERENCE.
Types Of Information Collected
PERSONAL INFORMATION
PushBlack Now may ask you for some or all of the following types of information which may be identifiable to you when you register for our Services, access various content or features, complete email, SMS, telephone, online, or in-person surveys, or directly contact us: (i) contact information for you and your family and friends, such as names, email addresses, and telephone numbers (ii) demographic information, such as your age, gender identity, race/ethnicity, education level, zip code, household structure, household income, number of children, ages of children, children’s birthdays, and names of children’s schools; and (iii) information for the purpose of authenticating yourself or your account if we have reason to believe, in our sole discretion, that you may be violating Service policies or for any other reason we deem necessary (collectively “Personal Information”). You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of all Personal Information you submit to PushBlack Now.
We also collect and store the Personal Information you voluntarily submit to us through registering with us or uploading or posting User Content through our Services. If you are signed into your Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook account and you “like” or “comment” on PushBlack Now Content or other User Content, your Pinterest, Instagram, Twitter, or Facebook username will be displayed and so available to the public. You agree that your username, likes, feedback, and any associated comments may become public information; we therefore urge you to exercise caution when deciding to disclose any Personal Information through the Services.
In addition, if you choose to purchase or subscribe to a Service of PushBlack Now that requires a Fee or to make a donation to PushBlack Now, you will be required to provide us with your billing information, including, without limitation, bank account numbers, credit card or debit card numbers, account details, ACH information, and similar data (collectively, “Billing Information”).
Personal data collected through the short code or sms program, won't be shared, sold or rented to affiliated or unaffiliated third parties for their own marketing purposes.
PushBlack does not collect or maintain the names of, or any information about any individual who is not a resident of the United States. If you are not currently a resident of the United States, present in the United States, please do not provide your name or any identifying information through the Site.
NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
COOKIES AND OTHER TECHNOLOGIES
We may utilize cookies and other technologies, such as, web beacons (also known as “clear gifs” and “pixel tags”) to recognize you, customize your experience, and serve advertisements. Cookies are very small files placed on your computer, and they allow us to count the number of visitors to PushBlack Now sites and distinguish repeat visitors from new visitors. They also allow us to save User preferences and track User trends. We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third party products and/or services by serving advertisements through PushBlack Now Services. These advertisers and ad servers may use cookies and/or web beacons to monitor information related to served advertisements. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Policy covers the use of cookies by PushBlack Now and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in your browser, you can opt out by setting your browser to reject cookies or to notify you when a website tries to put a cookie in your browser software. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still use our Services, although your ability to use some of the features may be affected.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
We automatically receive and collect information such as your IP address, the URLs of websites you arrive at PushBlack Now sites from or leave PushBlack Now sites to go to, your type of browser and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us, your operating system, your mobile provider, your mobile device, and your internet service provider. We may use such information to better understand how PushBlack Now visitors use our Services, to analyze trends, administer the website, prevent fraud, and gather broad demographic information.
PushBlack Now does not monitor, recognize, or honor any opt-out or do not track mechanisms, including general web browser “Do Not Track” settings and/or signals.
Our Use Of Your Information
Our primary purpose in collecting Personal Information is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your Personal Information to: provide the Services and customer support you request; troubleshoot problems and prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; customize, measure and improve our Services, content, and advertising; tell you about and administer our Services, targeted marketing, Service updates, contests, sweepstakes,rewards, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; monitor and enforce our Terms and Conditions; communicate with User about products and/or services Users may be interested in; verify User eligibility to use our Services.
Our Disclosure Of Your Personal and Non-Personal Informationformations
PushBlack Now is committed to maintaining your trust and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share information collected about you. We may disclose Personal Information and Non-Personal Information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
We may also use and/or share your Personal Information and Non-Personal Information with, and you authorize us to use and/or share this information with:
Service providers under contract who help with our business operations. We employ these companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products and services to you.
As we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.
Our affiliates and partners, so they can offer you special services, campaign opportunities, products, discounts, and other items or services. Likewise, we may receive information from such affiliates and partners to offer our Users special items or services.
We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our Services, content, and advertising.
We will not sell or rent your Personal Information to third parties without your explicit consent.
In an ongoing effort to better understand our Users, we may analyze certain Personal Information in order to operate, maintain, manage, and improve the Services and/or potential products and services we may offer in the future. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. We may share and/or license this aggregate data to our affiliates, agents, business and promotional partners, and other third parties. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe the Services and these products and services to current and prospective funders and business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
We may share some or all of your Information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us.
As we develop our organization, we might sell or buy organizations or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Information may be part of the transferred assets.
If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us or participate in our ad-customization programs, simply indicate your preference by following the directions provided with the communication or advertisement.
Use and Maintenance of Billing Information
When you make a donation or pay a fee directly to PushBlack through this Site, we will collect credit card information from you. That information is used solely for processing your contribution; is not maintained by PushBlack; and is never disclosed to anyone, for any other purpose other than for processing your contribution, under any circumstances.
PushBlack uses industry standard security measures to protect against the loss, misuse or alteration of all of the personally identifiable information that you provide.
No Spam Or Spyware
We do not tolerate spam. If you would like to report an incident of spamming or other unauthorized communications from other Users, please contact us at [email protected]. We maintain the right to investigate such incidents and take suitable action.
Account Protection
We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your Personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Nevertheless, no transmission over the Internet and no data storage method can be guaranteed to be safe 100% of the time. PushBlack Now cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information you transmit to PushBlack Now or guarantee that your end user data stored through the Services may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of our safeguards. In particular, email or SMS messages sent to us may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email or SMS.
Information associated with our Services is hosted on servers in the United States. Accordingly, if you are located outside of the United States, any information you provide to us will be transferred to the United States. By providing us with any information, you consent to its transfer and storage in the United States.
Email And SMS Communications
We may use your email and/or telephone number to deliver PushBlack Now’s Services. We may use your email for other promotional (e.g., new product offerings, special offers by us or other third parties) purposes. Email and SMS messages we send you may contain features that enable our databases to track your usage of the messages we send you, such usage includes whether the message was opened and what links (if any) were clicked. If you send a message to us, or fill out forms as a part of our Services, we will collect your contact information and the full content of your message including attached files, and other information you provide.
Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages
You may indicate your preference to opt out of receiving promotional communications by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional message you receive or by contacting us directly at [email protected].
Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to other Users through our Services or on other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. We do not control the privacy policies of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We are not responsible for any information we do not collect. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your Personal Information to others.
Children
PushBlack Now does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through our Services without their permission.
Californa Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
PushBlack complies with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. As part of that Act, all registered users of our Site may make any changes to their information at any time by logging into their Control Panel and going to the “Edit Profile” page. Changes to billing and/or credit card information must be made through PushBlack staff and may be initiated by contacting [email protected]
Changes To This Policy
We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy. Any such changes to this Policy will be posted here on our site so we urge you to please visit this page frequently. Revised Policies will supersede prior versions. Unless we say otherwise, revisions will be effective upon the effective date indicated at the top of this Policy. We encourage you to check the effective date of this Policy whenever you visit PushBlack Now’’s websites.
How To Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact PushBlack Now via email at [email protected] with “Privacy Policy” in the subject line.