Common use of Functional Cookies Clause in Contracts

Functional Cookies. These cookies enable the website to remember a user's choices - such as their language, user name, and other personal choices - while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website. Media Cookies These cookies can be used to improve a website's performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company. Advertising or Targeting Cookies These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies. Session Cookies These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as rememb ering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, th ey are not stored long term. Persistent Cookies These cookies are stored on a user's device in between browser sessions, which allows the user's preferences or actions across a site (or, in som e cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users' choice s and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them. We may also use cookies for: Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited Personalizing content that you see on our website Our website analytics Remarketing our products or services to you Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests Affiliate marketing Allowing you to post comments Allowing you to share content with social networks Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our web site correctly or at all. Web Beacons We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beac ons also help us to understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors. Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Notice Google Analytics Privacy Notice Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as a ge, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before comin g to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Anal ytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only t he IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with PD. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique u ser the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect infor mation about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit xxxxx://xxx.xxxxxx.xxx/policies/ privacy/partners/You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: xxxxx://xxxxx.xxxxxx.xxx/dlpage/gaoptout How Your Information Is Used We use the information we receive from you to: Provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us Personalize and customize our content Make improvements to our website Contact you with updates to our website Resolve problems and disputes Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you Communications and Emails When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a member or user. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your contact preferences at any time through your account or by sending us an email with your request to: privacy@k xxxxxxxxxx.xxx Sharing Information With Affiliates and Other Third Parties We do not sell or rent your PD to third parties for marketing purposes. However, for data aggregation purposes we may use your NPD, which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your PD. We may provide your PD to third-party serv ice providers we hire to provide services to us. These third-party service providers may include but are not limited to: payment processors, web an alytics companies, advertising networks, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies. Legally Required Releases of Information We may be legally required to disclose your PD if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist l aw enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Terms of Service ; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates. Disclosures to Successors If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retai n the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our compa ny files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business. Community Discussion Boards Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate with each other through online community discussion boards or other mechanisms. We do not filter or monitor what is posted on such discussion boards. If you choose to post on these discussion boards, you should use care when ex posing any PD, as such information is not protected by our privacy notice nor are we liable if you choose to disclose your PD through such posting s. Also, PD you post on our website for publication may be available worldwide by means of the Internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others. Retaining and Destroying Your PD We retain information that we collect from you (including your PD) only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it. Updating Your PD You can update your PD using services found on our website. If no such services exist, you can contact us using the contact information found at the top of this notice and we will help you. However, we may keep your PD as needed to enforce our agreements and to comply with any legal obligations. Revoking Your Consent for Using Your PD You have the right to revoke your consent for us to use your PD at any time. Such an opt out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your PD, send us an email with your request to: xxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxx Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties If any postings you make on our website contain information about third parties, you must make sure you have permission to include that information in your posting. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings about which we are notified, if such postings violate the privacy rights of others. Do Not Track Settings Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser's user manual. Links to Other Websites Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. These websites will likely have their own privacy notices. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these websites to see how they treat your PD. Protecting Children's Privacy Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16, we realize that a child under the age of 16 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so. Our Email Policy You can always opt out of receiving further email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business, or if our company files for bankruptcy. Our Security Policy We have built our website using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your PD. We and the third parties who provide services for us, also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your PD. When we collect your credit card information through our website, we will encrypt it before it travels over the Internet using industry-standard technology for conducting secure online transactions. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your PD or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place. Use of Your Credit Card You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over these services. We use our commercially reasonable efforts to make sure your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number. Transferring PD From the European Union (PD) that we collect from you may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, specifically the United States and India. The European Union has not found the United States and some other countries to have an adequate level of protection of PD under Article 45 of the GDPR. Our company relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. For European Union customers and users, with your consent, your PD may be transferred outside the European Union to the United States, India and or other countries. We will use your PD to provide the goods, services, and/or information you request from us to perform a contract with you or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. Wherever we transfer, process or store your PD, we will take reasonable steps to protect it. We will use the information we collect from you in accordance with our privacy notice. By using our website, services, or products, you agree to the transfers of your PD described within this section. Changes to Our Privacy Notice We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy notice, we will post those changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your PD in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise we will use and disclose our users' and customers' PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change. Questions About Our Privacy Notice Terms of Use These terms of service ("Terms") are a legal agreement between you ("You") and Double Jade LLC ("Us" or "We"). These Terms govern the use of Our KBPublisher Cloud Service ("Service"). These Terms will also apply if You create a free trial of Our Service.