Bloom Intelligence
Privacy Policy
Last Revised: October 19, 2017
Bloom Intelligence LLC (“Company”) is committed to protecting your privacy. We
have
prepared this Privacy Policy to describe to you our practices regarding the Personal Data (as
defined below)
we collect from users of our website, located at www.bloomintelligence.com
and our widgets (collectively, the “Site”) and online services
(“Services”).
1. Questions; Contacting Company; Reporting Violations. If you have any questions or
concerns or complaints about our Privacy Policy or our data collection or processing practices, or
if you
want to report any security violations to us, please contact us at the following address or phone
number:
Bloom Intelligence LLC
Attn: William Wilson
1700 N. Monroe Street 11-104
Tallahassee, FL 32303
727-877-8181
support@bloomintelligence.com
2. A Note About Children. We do not intentionally gather Personal Data from visitors
who are
under the age of 13. If a child under 13 submits Personal Data to Company and we learn that
the
Personal Data is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as
soon as
possible. If you believe that we might have any Personal Data from a child under 13, please
contact us
at support@bloomintelligence.com.
3. A Note to Users Outside of the United States. If you are a non-U.S. user of the Site, by
visiting
the Site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your Personal Data may be
processed
for the purposes identified in the Privacy Policy. In addition, your Personal Data may be
processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United
States,
where laws regarding processing of Personal Data may be less stringent than the laws in your
country.
By providing your data, you consent to such transfer.
4. Types of Data We Collect. “Personal Data” means data that allows someone to
identify or
contact you, including, for example, your name, gender, birth date, address, telephone number,
e-mail
address, as well as any other non-public information about you that is associated with or linked to
any of
the foregoing data. “Anonymous Data” means data that is not associated with
or linked
to your Personal Data; Anonymous Data does not, by itself, permit the identification of individual
persons.
We collect Personal Data and Anonymous Data, as described below.
Information You Provide to Us.
- We may collect Personal Data from you, such as your first and last name, gender, e-mail and
mailing
addresses, phone number, and password when you create an account to log in to our network
(“Account”).
- When you use our Services on your mobile device, we may also collect the unique device id
number.
- When connecting to our Services via a service provider that uniquely identifies your mobile
device, we
may receive this identification and use it to offer extended services and/or functionality.
- Certain Services may require our collection of your phone number. We may associate that phone
number to
your mobile device identification information.
- When you order Services on our Site, we will collect all information necessary to complete the
transaction, including your name, credit card information, billing information and shipping
information.
- We retain information on your behalf, such as files and messages that you store using your
Account.
- If you provide us feedback or contact us via e-mail, we will collect your name and e-mail
address, as
well as any other content included in the e-mail, in order to send you a reply.
- When you participate in one of our surveys, we may collect additional profile information.
- We also collect other types of Personal Data that you provide to us voluntarily, such as your
operating
system and version, product registration number, and other requested information if you contact
us via
e-mail regarding support for the Services.
Information Collected via Technology.
- Information Collected by Our Servers. To make our Site and Services more useful to you,
our
servers (which may be hosted by a third-party service provider) collect information from you,
including
your browser type, operating system, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (a number
that is
automatically assigned to your computer when you use the Internet, which may vary from session
to
session), unique device id number, domain name, and/or a date/time stamp for your visit.
- Log Files. As is true of most websites, we gather certain information automatically and
store it
in log files. This information includes IP addresses, browser type, Internet service
provider
(“ISP”), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and
clickstream data.
We use this information to analyze trends, administer the Site, track users’ movements around
the Site,
gather demographic information about our user base as a whole, and better tailor our Services to
our
users’ needs. For example, some of the information may be collected so that when you visit
the
Site or the Services again, it will recognize you and the information could then be used to
serve
advertisements and other information appropriate to your interests. Except as noted in
this
Privacy Policy, we do not link this automatically-collected data to Personal Data.
- Cookies. Like many online services, we use cookies to collect information. “Cookies”
are small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are
viewing
the website. We may use both session Cookies (which expire once you close your web
browser) and
persistent Cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to provide you with a
more
personal and interactive experience on our Site. This type of information is
collected
to make the Site more useful to you and to tailor the experience with us to meet your special
interests
and needs.
- Pixel Tags. In addition, we use “Pixel Tags”(also referred to as clear
Gifs, Web
beacons, or Web bugs). Pixel Tags are tiny graphic images with a unique identifier, similar in
function
to Cookies, that are used to track online movements of Web users. In contrast to Cookies,
which
are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, Pixel Tags are embedded invisibly in Web pages.
Pixel
Tags also allow us to send e-mail messages in a format users can read, and they tell us whether
e-mails
have been opened to ensure that we are sending only messages that are of interest to our users.
We
may use this information to reduce or eliminate messages sent to a user. We do not tie the
information gathered by Pixel Tags to our users’ Personal Data.
- Flash LSOs. When we post videos, third parties may use local shared objects, known as
“Flash
Cookies,” to store your preferences for volume control or to personalize certain
video
features. Flash Cookies are different from browser Cookies because of the amount and type of
data and
how the data is stored. Cookie management tools provided by your browser will not remove
Flash
Cookies. To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash Cookies, click
here: http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager07.html.
- Third Party Analytics Services. We may also use third party tracking services to help us
analyze
how users use the Site and Services. These services collect only the unique device identifier
assigned
to your mobile device, rather than your name or other personally identifying information, and
use it to
collect information such as how often users access and use the Site and Services, and which
features
they use. We use this information to improve the Services. We do not combine the information
generated
thereby with your Personal Information and we do not associate you in any way with your device
identifier. Only these services know and associate you (on a non-identifiable basis) with your
identifier.
5. Use of Your Personal Data
(a) General Use. In general, Personal Data you submit to us is used either to
respond to
requests that you make, or to aid us in serving you better. We use your Personal Data in the
following ways:
- facilitate the creation of and secure your Account on our network;
- provide the Services;
- improve the quality of experience when you interact with our Site and Services;
- send you administrative e-mail notifications, such as security or support and maintenance
advisories;
and
- Market our products and services and those of third parties to you that we believe may be of
interest to
you.
(b) Creation of Anonymous Data. We may create Anonymous Data records from Personal
Data by
excluding information (such as your name) that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We use
this
Anonymous Data to analyze request and usage patterns so that we may enhance the content of our
Services and
improve Site navigation. We reserve the right to use Anonymous Data for any purpose and
disclose
Anonymous Data to third parties in our sole discretion.
6. Disclosure of Your Personal Data. We disclose your Personal Data as described
below and
as described elsewhere in this Privacy Policy.
- Third Parties Designated by You. When you use the Services, the Personal Data
you
provide will be shared with the third parties that you designate to receive such information.
Depending
on the type of access you grant to such third parties, they may also be permitted to edit the
information you have provided to us and to designate others to access and edit such information.
You may change your settings at any time as to who has access to your information by going to
your
account settings and changing your publishing options.
- Third Party Service Providers. We do not share your Personal Data with any third party
service providers other than those required to deliver the services described in this agreement. Such: services include conducting
quality assurance testing; facilitating creation of accounts; providing technical support; and/or to
providing other related services to the Company. These third party service providers are required not to use
your
Personal Data other than to provide the services requested by Company.
- Affiliates. We may share some or all of your Personal Data with our parent
company,
subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control
(“Affiliates”),
in which case we will require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
- Corporate Restructuring. We may share some or all of your Personal Data in
connection
with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or
proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our
business or
assets. In the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, Personal Data may also be
transferred as a business asset. If another company acquires our company, business, or assets,
that
company will possess the Personal Data collected by us and will assume the rights and
obligations
regarding your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy.
- Social Networking Sites. Some of our Applications and Services may enable you
to post
or share content to SNSs (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Yelp). If you choose to
do this,
we will provide information to such SNSs in accordance with your elections. You
acknowledge and
agree that you are solely responsible for your use of those websites and that it is your
responsibility
to review the terms of use and privacy policy of the third party provider of such SNSs. We
will
not be responsible or liable for: (i) the availability or accuracy of such SNSs; (ii) the
content,
products or services on or availability of such SNSs; or (iii) your use of any such SNSs.
- Other Disclosures. Regardless of any choices you make regarding your Personal
Data (as
described below), Company may disclose Personal Data if it believes in good faith that such
disclosure
is necessary (a) in connection with any legal investigation; (b) to comply with relevant laws or
to
respond to subpoenas or warrants served on Company; (c) to protect or defend the rights or
property of
Company or users of the Site or Services; and/or (d) to investigate or assist in preventing any
violation or potential violation of the law, this Privacy Policy, or our Terms of Use.
- Disclosures to Third Party Companies. We may enter into agreements with
companies that
desire access to Personal Information that we collect from you. AS A RESULT, WE MAY PROVIDE YOUR
PERSONAL INFORMATION TO SUCH THIRD PARTY COMPANIES. BECAUSE WE DO NOT CONTROL THE PRIVACY
PRACTICES OF THESE THIRD PARTY COMPANIES, YOU SHOULD READ AND UNDERSTAND THEIR PRIVACY POLICIES.
NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS – YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS (AS PROVIDED BY CALIFORNIA
CIVIL CODE
SECTION 1798.83
If we share Personal Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes,
then you
have the right to receive information about the categories of entities to which we have
disclosed such
information and the names and addresses of those entities. To submit your written request,
please send
it to us at support@bloomintelligence.com and put the following words in the subject line of the
email:
“California Privacy Request.” Within 30 days after receipt of your request, we will send you a
list of
the categories of Personal Information that we disclosed to third parties for their direct
marketing
purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year, along with the names and addresses such
third
parties, if any. Please note that the California “Shine the Light” law does not cover all
categories of
information that may be collected and disclosed or shared, and our policy relates only to
information
covered by the law. Please note that we are required to respond to one request per California
user each
year and we are not required to respond to requests made by means other than through this e-mail
address.
7. Third Party Websites. This Privacy Policy addresses only our use and disclosure
of
information we collect from and/or about you on the Site and Services. If you disclose information
to
others, or authorize us to do the same under this Privacy Policy, the use and disclosure
restrictions
contained in this Privacy Policy will not apply to any third party. We do not control the privacy
policies
of third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where
applicable.
Our Site may contain links to third party websites. When you click on a link to any other
website or
location, you will leave our Site and go to another site and another entity may collect Personal
Data or
Anonymous Data from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible
for, these
outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do
not apply
to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of your Personal Data after you click on
links to
such outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you
visit.
The links to third party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our
endorsement
of such third parties or their products, content or websites.
8. Your Choices Regarding Your You have several choices regarding use of
information on our
Services:
- Mobile Device. Certain features of the Services require access to your device’s
media
storage and contacts applications. Although you may decide whether or not to use these features,
on
Android devices you grant us permission to access this feature as part of the installation
process. If
you later decide to revoke this permission, you can do so by following the standard uninstall
process
from your device. Alternatively, on iOS devices, you can grant or revoke your consent at any
time and
prevent us from continuing to access your applications by changing the settings on your device.
- Email Communications. We will periodically send you free newsletters and
e-mails that
directly promote the use of our Site or Services. When you receive newsletters or promotional
communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further communications
from us
and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions
provided in the
e-mail you receive or by contacting us directly (please see contact information below). Despite
your
indicated e-mail preferences, we may send you service related communications, including notices
of any
updates to our Terms of Use or Privacy Policy.
- If you decide at any time that you no longer wish to accept cookies from our Service for any of
the
purposes described above, then you can instruct your browser, by changing its settings, to stop
accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Consult your
browser’s technical information. If you do not accept cookies, however, you may not be able to
use all
portions of the Service or all functionality of the Service. If you have any questions about how
to
disable or modify cookies, please let us know at the contact information provided below.
- Changing or Deleting Your Personal Data. All Users may review, update, correct
or
delete the Personal Information in their User account by contacting us or by editing their
profile via
the Service. If you completely delete all of your Personal Information, then your User account
may
become deactivated. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to honor your request. We may
retain an
archived copy of your records as required by law or for legitimate business purposes.
9. Feedback. If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback in
accordance with the terms in our Terms of Use, provided we do not associate such feedback with your
Personal
Information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat the Personal
Information in it in accordance with this Privacy Policy, provided that we may contact you in
regards to
such feedback.
10. Security of Your Personal Data. Company is committed to protecting the security
of your
Personal Data. We use a variety of industry-standard security technologies and procedures to
help
protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We also require you
to enter
a password to access your Account information. Please do not disclose your Account password to
unauthorized
people. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100%
secure,
however. Therefore, while Company uses reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Data, Company
cannot
guarantee its absolute security.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional
revision,
and if we make any material changes in the way we use your Personal Data, we will notify you by
sending you
an e-mail to the last e-mail address you provided to us and/or by prominently posting notice of the
changes
on our Site. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon the earlier of thirty (30)
calendar
days following our dispatch of an e-mail notice to you or thirty (30) calendar days following our
posting of
notice of the changes on our Site. These changes will be effective immediately for new users
of our
Service. Please note that at all times you are responsible for updating your Personal Data to
provide
us with your most current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address that you
have
provided us is not valid, or for any reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described
above,
our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of
the
changes described in the notice. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your
Personal
Data, you must notify us prior to the effective date of the changes that you wish to deactivate your
Account
with us. Continued use of our Site or Service, following notice of such changes shall indicate
your
acknowledgement of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such
changes.