Privacy Policy

At PeppermintID.Net ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") we care deeply about protecting your privacy. We're providing this Privacy Policy to explain our practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of your personal information that we receive through our website located at PeppermintID.Net (the "Site").

When you visit our Site and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously and in this Privacy Policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it.

We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important.

This Privacy Policy applies to all information collected through our Site, and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this Privacy Policy as the ("Service "). Also, please note that, unless we define a term in this Privacy Policy, all capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meaning as in our Terms of Use. So, please make sure that you have read and understood our Terms of Use

By using any of our Services, or by providing us your personal information, you agree to this Privacy Policy and agree to be bound by our Terms of Use. If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue the use of our Site and our services. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or our practices with regards to your personal data, please contact us at: support@peppermintid.net

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in PeppermintID.Net . This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

WHAT IS PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We collect information about you in a range of forms, including personal information. As used in this Policy, "personal information" is defined to include any information which, either alone or in combination with other information we process about you, identifies you as an individual, including, for example, your name, postal address, email address and telephone number.

WHY DO WE NEED YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We will only process your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal information in order to provide you with access to our Website and Service. If you are registering with us, you will be asked to tick to agree to provide this information in order to access our Website/ Service, subscribe to our products, or view our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your information. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to our use of your personal information in line with this Policy, please do not use our Website or our Service

CONSENT

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect information about you in the following ways:

i. Information You Give Us

This includes:

  • The personal data you provide when you register to use our Website/Service, including your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, username, password and demographic information (such as your gender);
  • The personal data you provide for financial account information, such as credit card number and other payment information. Please note, we do not retain credit card information;
  • The personal data you provide when you subscribe to our services, what you subscribe, and how frequently you subscribe;
  • The personal data that may be contained in any video, comment or other submission you upload or post to the Website;
  • The personal data you provide in connection with our rewards program and other promotions we run on the Website;
  • The personal data you provide when you report a problem with our Website/Service or when we provide you with customer support;
  • The personal data you provide when you correspond with us by phone, email or otherwise;
  • The personal data you provide when you connect your account to another service such as LinkedIn, Facebook or Twitter, the other service may send us your registration or profile information on that service that you authorize.
ii. Information we automatically collect

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Site and/or App. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Site and/or App and other technical information. If you access our Site with your device, we may automatically collect device information (such as your device ID, model and manufacturer), operating system, version information and IP address. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Site and/or App, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can find out more about this in our Cookie Policy.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

  • Provide, operate, and maintain our website
  • Improve, personalize, and expand our website
  • Understand and analyze how you use our website
  • Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
  • Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
  • Send you emails
  • Find and prevent fraud

We also use anonymous or aggregated information to allow us to audit site usage, create marketing profiles, manage our relationship with advertisers, and to provide support services to us. This processing may involve profiling – for example to create audiences based on demographic or location-based information for marketing and customization.

We will have a lawful basis for processing your data if:

  1. We need to process your information in order to provide you with the products or service you have requested or to enter into a contract;
  2. You have consented to such processing;
  3. We have a legitimate interest for processing your data e.g., for fraud prevention; network and information systems security; data analytics; enhancing, modifying or improving our services; identifying usage trends; and/or
  4. We are legally obliged to process it.

LOG FILES

PeppermintID.Net follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not share your personal information except in the limited circumstances described here. We may share your personal data with:

i. Our Affiliates

We may share your information with our affiliates and subsidiaries bearing our brand for business, operational, promotional and marketing purposes.

ii. Third Party Service Providers

We may share your information with third party service providers that provide business, professional or technical support functions for us (including to the extent necessary or desirable to fulfill or complete your transaction), help us operate our business and Website, or administer activities on our behalf.

iii. Legal Obligations; Safety

We may access and disclose your data to respond to subpoenas, judicial processes, or government requests and investigations, or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law. We may disclose your information to protect the security of our Website, servers, network systems, and databases. We also may disclose your information as necessary, if we believe that there has been a violation of our Terms of Service, any other legal document or contract related to our Service, or the rights of any third party.

iv. Sale or Transfer of Business or Assets

We may sell or purchase assets during the normal course of our business. If another entity acquires us or any of our assets, data we have collected about you may be transferred to such entity. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, such data may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to require that the transferee use personal data provided through our Service in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

v. Aggregate or Anonymous Non-Personal Information

We may also share aggregate, anonymous, or de-identified non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.

THIRD PARTY SITES

This Privacy Policy only addresses the collection, processing and use (including disclosure) of information by us. Our Website/Services may contain various links to third-party websites. These sites may provide additional information, goods, services and/or promotions. These sites are owned and operated independently of us, and have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any information you provide to these Sites will be governed under the terms of their privacy policy, if any. We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the independent actions or policies of these independent sites, and is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.

USER CONTRIBUTIONS

You are responsible for any content, including personal information, that you contribute to be posted, published or displayed on the Website/Services, or transmit to other users of the Services (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to other users of the Website/Services at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain content, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website/ Services with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions; therefore, we cannot guarantee who will view your User Contributions.

We are not responsible for circumvention by third parties of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Services. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or may have been copied or stored by other Services users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Services, including User Contributions is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service and known or suspected violations should be reported to us directly.

Uploading User Contributions to our Website/Services does not grant us ownership of the Contributions and all rights are retained by the original owner. We will not sell or monetize the Contributions you provide, nor pass them on to third parties.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented technical measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Services. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Services.

Note that payment information goes straight to our payment provider without touching our servers. We therefore do not store or process your financial information on any part of our site.

In the case of a data breach, we will notify relevant parties and authorities as soon as we become aware of it.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. We will also keep your personal information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services and to maintain a record of your transactions for financial reporting purposes. We retain archived copies of your information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

OUR POLICY ON CHILDREN

Our Website and Service is not directed to children less than 18 years of age. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.

LIABILITY

You agree that you shall indemnify us against costs, claims, demands or expenses incurred or made against us as a result of any breach by you of this Privacy Policy.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. It is your responsibility to check this page from time to time to check for any change. Your continued use of the Website or our services shall be deemed to be your consent to such changes.

CCPA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

  • Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
  • Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
  • Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear:

  1. What personal information is concerned
  2. Which of the above rights you would like to enforce

For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.

GDPR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

  • The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
  • The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
  • The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
  • The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. In your request, please make clear:

  1. What personal information is concerned
  2. Which of the above rights you would like to enforce

For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event, within one month of your request. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.

CONTACTING US ABOUT PRIVACY ISSUES

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at: support@peppermintid.net