Privacy Policy for AB WHISPERER INC
- AB WHISPERER INC. PRIVACY POLICY Last updated: August 12, 2024
- INTRODUCTION
AB Whisperer Inc. (“ABW”) respects, and is committed to protecting, your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) has been adopted in an effort to establish and maintain reasonable protections for personal data you may provide to us.
We want you to understand the information we collect from you, how we may use it, and what, how, when and why we may disclose it to others.
By providing personal data to us and opting into SMS texting, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy.
- POLICY LIMITATION
This Policy applies only to our website (all pages thereof) and any a) mobile and device-specific applications, b) third party social media sites, c) e-mail lists, and d) any online features, programs, and services offered, owned, or operated by us (individually and collectively, the “Website”). It relates to personally identifiable information and non-user-specific information collected through the Website.
If we make any changes to this Policy, we will notify you the next time you log into your account on our Website, at which time you will be prompted to accept such changes. The date of the most recent revision to this Policy appears under the heading of this Policy.
- WEBSITE OWNERSHIP AND OPERATION
The Website is owned and/or operated by ABW. It is serviced by a third party.
- WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT:
Personal Information (which you provide to us)
We will collect some or all of the following “Personal Information”, voluntarily provided by you to our Website:
– Full legal name
– Address(es)
– Phone number
– Email address
– Account number of your bank and/or any payment service and/or credit card account number you use to transact business with us
– Website account ID and password
– Security question responses
– Opt-in status for SMS and telephonic marketingABW does not give out your Personal Information to any third party for use not within the scope of normal business operations (such as, for example, to secure payment).
Other Information (which we collect about you)
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual, such as: your IP address, and browser and device information (which typically is automatically collected by your operating system such as, for example, your MAC address, app usage data, information collected through cookies (which allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Website, pages visited, and other anonymous traffic data. We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience while using the Website. It may also include information volunteered by you, such as survey information, and information regarding the purchases made by you on the Website.
- HOW WE USE PERSONAL AND OTHER INFORMATION:
(a) To enable the features of the Website and fulfill the purpose for which you provided it to us;
(b) To improve customer service, including providing texts to you for the purposes of, among other things, notifying you of the date/time during which Orders can be placed;
(c) To process payments;
(d) To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests;
(e) To send information to you, for example, information regarding the Website and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies;
(f) To run promotions and send periodic emails on topics which may be of interest to you;
(g) For our business purposes including, for example, data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying the Website, improving our marketing efforts, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of a promotional campaign, and operating and expanding our business activities;
(h) As we believe to be necessary or appropriate (i) to comply with legal process (in response to warrants, subpoenas or other judicial or governmental orders. You are hereby advised that in the event of a criminal investigation by state or federal authorities or regulatory inquiry, you specifically authorize us to disclose your information to law enforcement authorities and you release us from any and all liability related to such disclosures.), (ii) to respond to requests from public and governmental authorities, (iii) to enforce our terms and conditions, (iv) to protect our operations, (v) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or yours, and (vi) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain;
(i) With other third parties in order to assist with our marketing or other normal business activities, such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, customer service, email delivery, auditing, contests, promotions and other services;
(j) To identify you to anyone to whom you send messages through the Website; and
(k) To a prospective purchaser (or its representative) of our business.
If you submit content and/or participate in any chat facility offered on the Website, your content and/or communications on that chat facility are not private or confidential and may be viewed and used by others accessing the Website. Please do not submit any information to the chat facility that you do not want others to see.
By using our Website, you agree will are be responsible for any breach of security by any third party or for any actions of any third party (including other users of the Website and the Services) that receive any of the information that is disclosed to us.
- Miscellaneous
If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a simple procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies. However, if you do not accept these cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website; for example, you may need to log in every time you visit the Website. You also may not receive other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs.
We use IP Addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels of the Website, helping diagnose server problems, and administering the Website.
We are not responsible for the information collection, usage, disclosure, or security policies and practices of other organizations, such as META (by or through Facebook), Apple, Google, Microsoft, X, Pinterest, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operation system providers, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer.
- THIRD PARTY INVOLVEMENT
In addition to the use of a third party to service our Website, we use third parties, such as for example PayPal, to process transactions. Those third parties have privacy practices we do not control. Please note that information you may provide on another website to process a transaction is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of that site. Those websites may have privacy policies and practices that differ from ours.
We may use third-party advertisers on the Website. Our advertisers may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to, among other things, enable our advertisers to monitor ads you have viewed on the Website. A link to a third-party advertiser does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us.
- HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY
Security generally. We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical and administrative measures to protect Personal Information. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of any account you might have with us has been compromised), please immediately notify us through the Contact Us page on the Website.
Account and Password Security. For certain features available through the Website, we use encryption technologies provided for your protection; however, you are ultimately responsible for protecting your username and password from disclosure to third parties, and you are not permitted to circumvent the use of required encryption technologies. While we may provide certain encryption technologies and use other reasonable precautions to protect your confidential information, we do not and cannot guarantee or warrant that any information transmitted through the Internet or retained by us through and/or in relation to our Website is secure and/or free from delay, interruption, interception or error.
Accessing or changing your Personal Information. If you would like to review, correct or update Personal Information that you have previously provided to us, or opt out of SMS texts, you may contact us through the Contact Us page on the Website. In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed or updated. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identify before implementing your request.
Retained Information. We may need to retain certain information you provide to us for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transaction that you began prior to requesting a change to your Personal information (including deleting your account). There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which cannot be readily removed. It is our policy to remove your information from our system within one year after a) the date on which you notify us of your intent to discontinue use of our Services or b) the date which is one year after the date you last placed an order with us for Products, whichever date first occurs.