OVERVIEW
ClickSpecs LLC and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries (collectively, “ClickSpecs,” “us”, “we” or “our”) value your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal information. ClickSpecs is a leading provider product data solutions.
In this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we describe the information that we collect from visitors to and users of our websites (“Sites”), our blogs, our Applications, and our online products and services (collectively, “Services”). By visiting our Sites or using any of our Services, you agree that your personal information will be handled as described in this Policy, which is incorporated by reference into the ClickSpecs Terms of Use, available at https://ClickSpecs.com/terms-of-use.
If you have questions or complaints regarding our privacy policy or practices, please contact us at Privacy@ClickSpecs.com.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND WHY?
The information we collect from you allows you to log into our Sites, use our Services and Applications. We also collect information from businesses, organizations, and individuals who request information from ClickSpecs.
Individuals and agents of individuals may provide us information directly or indirectly by registering or by otherwise using our Services (these individuals are referred to as “Users”). Relatedly, our Users may provide us personal information about individuals who have registered at a site being operated by our Users or who the Users wants us to contact or otherwise provide Services to on behalf of the Users.
Information We Collect Directly From You.
Account Information for our Sites. You may browse our Sites without creating an online account or providing us with your information, but to use certain features or to register, you may need to create an account or otherwise provide us with information. When you create an account with us or register, we may ask you to provide the following:
Your first and last name;
Your email address and your desired password;
Your display name (this is the name other people will see when you post items to one of our Sites or engage in other similar activities on our site);
Your date of birth;
Other profile data, such as contact information, occupation, gender and photo;
Log in Information for our Sites. Once you have signed up for a particular ClickSpecs Site, on subsequent visits to the same Site, you may simply need to enter your user ID or email address (as applicable) and password to gain access to the Site.
User Profiles, Comments and Posts. Some allow users to create or post content, such as comments, profiles, blogs, and messages. If you provide content to our Sites, we may collect and use that information as described in this Policy. Please note that such information may be viewed, collected or used by other registered users and public visitors to our Sites. Once posted, we cannot prevent such information from being used in a manner that may violate this Policy, the law or your personal privacy. Your profile, however, may offer privacy settings within your account to help you manage how your content is displayed.
Information We Collect Automatically. We may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, and other automated devices to collect information, including personally identifiable information, about you when you visit our Sites and receive emails from us. Specifically, we may collect the following information about your use of our Sites via these technologies: your browser type and operating system; web pages you view; links you click; your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address; your approximate geographic location; your interaction with the Sites; length of time you are logged in to our Sites; and websites visited before or after our Sites. In some of our email messages, we use a “click-through URL” linked to content on the ClickSpecs website. When Consumers click one of these URLs, they pass through a separate web server before arriving at the destination page on our Site. We track this click-through data to help us determine interest in particular topics and measure the effectiveness of our Consumer communications. If you prefer not to be tracked in this way, you should not click text or graphic links in the email messages. We also collect non-personal data (including, without limitation, of the type set forth above) from third parties. The information we collect from third parties may be combined with the information we collect. This information also may be associated with your username and combined with other information, including personally identifiable information that we collect about you. For more detailed information on our use of cookies and sother tracking technologies, please see our cookie policy here: http://ClickSpecs.com/cookie-policy.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
We may use the information that we gather about you for the following purposes:
To provide our Services to you, to communicate with you about your use of our Services and for other customer service purposes;
To provide information that you have requested to receive from us in response to your opt-in requests;
To provide our Services at the request of our Users;
To improve our Sites and Services by providing personalized experiences, location customization, personalized help, and instructions;
To send you email, follow-up questions about your Event or your participation in an Event, news and newsletters, promotions, and/or invitations to visit the Site; and
To better understand how users access and use our Sites and Services, both on an aggregated and individualized basis, and for other research purposes.
WHEN AND HOW DOES CLICKSPECS SHARE INFORMATION IT RECEIVES?
In Response to Legal Process. We may disclose the information we collect from you in order to comply with the law, a judicial proceeding, court order or other legal process, such as in response to a subpoena.
To Protect ClickSpecs and Others. We also may disclose the information we collect from you where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person or violations of our Terms of Use or this Policy.
HOW SECURE IS INFORMATION ABOUT ME?
We have implemented commercially reasonable precautions, including, where appropriate, password protection, encryption, and secure socket layering to protect our Sites and the information we collect from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Please be aware that despite our best efforts, no data security measures can guarantee 100% security all of the time. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any of your personal information via the Internet.
You should take steps to protect against unauthorized access to your password, computer, and web-enabled devices, among other things, by signing off after using a shared computer, inserting a password on your web-enabled device, choosing a password that nobody else knows or can easily guess, keeping your password private, and periodically changing your password. You should never share your log-in information with others. We are not responsible for any lost, stolen or compromised passwords, or for any activity on your account via unauthorized password activity. More information on ClickSpecs’s security can be found at: http://ClickSpecs.com/security.
CAN I ACCESS AND MODIFY MY PERSONAL INFORMATION?
Upon request, ClickSpecs will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. To request this information please e-mail us at Privacy@ClickSpecs.com
If your personal information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may correct, update, delete/remove, or ask to have it removed from a public forum or testimonial by making the change within your account settings or by contacting us via one of the methods listed in this Policy. We will respond to your request to access within 30 days. Please note that copies of information that you have updated, modified, or deleted may continue to reside in our systems for a period of time. Also, you may not be able to remove your personal information from archived web pages that we no longer maintain, such as your name and race time from a past Event. In the event we are unable to complete your access request, we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law.
WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE REGARDING MY INFORMATION?
ClickSpecs may send you emails from time-to-time, for example, to ask you about an product page in which you participated. When you use our Services, you may have the option of signing up for news and offers from us or other third parties, which may include, information about products, our newsletter or other items that we (or third parties) believe may be of interest to you. If, at any time, you would like to stop receiving the information that you have requested to receive from us, you may follow the opt-out instructions contained in any such e-mail. Please note that it may take up to 10 business days for us to process opt-out requests.
To opt-out of products, programs, Services or offers from our affiliates and trusted partners, please contact Privacy@ClickSpecs.com or log into your account and update your subscription preferences. If you opt-out of receiving emails or promotions from us, we still may send you e-mails about your account or any Services you have requested or received from us, or for other customer services purposes. In addition, you may still receive emails sent by our Clients through means other than our system. Further, if you opt-out of receiving information related to a particular Event, you will still receive ClickSpecs communications and communications from other organizers whose Events you have attended or are registered to attend or who have otherwise obtained your email address. So you may have to unsubscribe from multiple emails before you stop receiving all communications related to Events for which you registered through our Services. Note that you cannot unsubscribe from update communications about the Services unless you close your account.
If you wish to not have your personal information shared with third parties for the creation and display of targeted advertisements, you will need to close your account. This action may be possible through the settings within your account or by contacting us at Privacy@ClickSpecs.com.
By electing to stop receiving all communications from us or through our system you will no longer receive any updates on your account. We do not recommend that you do this unless you plan to no longer use the Services, or are not currently registered. Even after you opt-out of all communications, we will retain your information in accordance with this Policy, however, we will no longer use it to contact you. However, our Clients who have received your information in accordance with this Policy may still use that information to contact you in accordance with their own privacy policies, but they may not use our system to do so.
If you would like to delete your account with us, you may do so by emailing us at Support@ClickSpecs.com and specifying which account(s) to delete.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER INFORMATION TO THE UNITED STATES
U.S. - Swiss Safe Harbor Framework
ClickSpecs LLC complies with the U.S. – Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use and retention of personal data from Switzerland. ClickSpecs LLC has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view ClickSpecs LLC's certification, please visit https://safeharbor.export.gov/swisslist.aspx.
EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
Our websites include social media features, such as the Facebook “Like” button and widgets such as the “share this button” or inter-ClickSpecs mini-programs. These features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing such feature.
ClickSpecs LLC is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives under the Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequent transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. ClickSpecs LLC complies with the Privacy Shield principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, ClickSpecs LLC is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, ClickSpecs LLC may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
CHILDREN UNDER 13
Parents have the right to consent to the collection and use of personal information from children under the age of 13 (collectively, “Children,” and individually, a “Child”) without also consenting to the disclosure of such information to outside third parties, except in order to provide the Services. ClickSpecs does not share personal information collected from Children with third parties for any purpose other than to provide the Services.
TERMS OF USE
Your use our Sites or Services, as well as any dispute over privacy, is subject to this Policy and our Terms of Use, http://ClickSpecs.com/terms-of-use, including applicable limitations on damages and the resolution of disputes.
SPECIAL INFORMATION FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
California “Shine the Light” Request. California residents may request a list of all third parties to which ClickSpecs has disclosed certain personally identifiable information about you for marketing purposes. You may make one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for your response. You may request this information in writing by contacting us at:
Attn: ClickSpecs Privacy
ClickSpecs LLC
PO Box 55 Weimar
CA 95736 USA
Email: Privacy@ClickSpecs.com
For information on our online tracking practices please refer to the section entitled Information We Collect Automatically.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may change this Policy from time to time, so be sure to check back periodically. If we make any changes to this Policy that materially affect our practices with regard to the personal information we have previously collected from you, we will endeavor to notify you in advance of such change, by highlighting the change on the Sites or by sending an email to you at the email address that you have registered with us. Your continued use of the Services after any changes or revisions to this Policy will indicate your agreement with the terms of the revised Policy.
CONTACT US
ClickSpecs regularly reviews its practices regarding personally identifiable information and this Policy. If you have any questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at:
Attn: ClickSpecs Privacy
ClickSpecs LLC
PO Box 55 Weimar
CA 95736 USA
Email: Privacy@ClickSpecs.com