We respect the privacy of all our store customers.
Privacy Policy
Last modified: October 18, 2018
Introduction
Better Venting, LLC (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from
you or that you may provide when you visit the website betterventing.com (our “Website”) and
our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that
information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
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On this Website.
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In email and other electronic messages between you and this
Website.
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When you interact with our advertising and applications on
third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include
links to this policy.
It does not apply to information collected by:
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us offline or through any other means, including on any other
website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and
subsidiaries); or
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any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries),
including through any application or content (including advertising) that may
link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and
practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not
agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website.
By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This
policy may change from time to time (see Changes
to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make
changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy
periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No
one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We
do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you
are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or
through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through
the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this
Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name,
address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you
may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a
child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that
information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child
under 13, please contact us at privacy@inovate.com.
Information You Provide to Us
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of
our Website, including information:
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by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal
address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other information the Website
collects that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under
an applicable law (“personal information”);
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that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as geographic
location, demographics, and site visit characteristics; and/or
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about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access
our Website and usage details.
We collect this information:
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Directly from you when you provide it to us.
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Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information
collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and
information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking
technologies.
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From third parties, for example, our business partners.
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
Information
We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
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Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website.
This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our
Website, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you
for information when you report a problem with our Website.
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Records and copies of your correspondence (including email
addresses), if you contact us.
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Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for
research purposes.
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Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of
the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial
information before placing an order through our Website.
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Your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed
(hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted
to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User
Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to
others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be
aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we
cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may
choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not
guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized
persons.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use
automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about
your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
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Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data,
location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you
access and use on the Website.
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Information about your computer and internet connection, including
your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about
your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other
online services (behavioral tracking). To opt out of behavioral tracking on
this website, please leave the site.
Actively browsing the site implies you comply with our activity tracking
information captured.
The information we collect automatically may include personal
information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we
collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our
Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by
enabling us to:
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Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
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Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize
our Website according to your individual interests.
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Speed up your searches.
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Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may
include:
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Cookies (or browser cookies). A
cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may
refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your
browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access
certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so
that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your
browser to our Website.
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Flash Cookies.
Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies)
to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to,
from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser
settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your
privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
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Web Beacons. Pages
of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web
beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs)
that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those
pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example,
recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and
server integrity).
Third-Party
Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the
Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and
servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may
use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking
technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The
information they collect may be associated with your personal information or
they may collect information, including personal information, about your online
activities over time and across different websites and other online services.
They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral)
advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or
how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other
targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For
information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from
many providers, see Choices About How We
Use and Disclose Your Information.
How We
Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide
to us, including any personal information:
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To present our Website and its contents to you.
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To provide you with information, products, or services that you
request from us.
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To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
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To provide you with notices about your account, including
expiration and renewal notices.
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To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from
any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and
collection.
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To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or
services we offer or provide through it.
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To allow you to participate in interactive features on our
Website.
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In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
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For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and
third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not
want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located in the checkout
process or your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your
Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us
to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we
do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your
consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the
advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and
information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you
provide as described in this privacy policy:
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To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
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To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use
to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep
personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we
disclose it to them.
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To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or
transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or
as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal
information held by the Company about our Website users is among the assets
transferred.
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To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the
information.
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With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
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To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including
to respond to any government or regulatory request.
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To enforce or apply our Terms and Conditions for Online
Sales [betterventing.com/terms-of-sale]
and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
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If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect
the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This
includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the
purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal
information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with
the following control over your information:
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Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You
can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you
when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie
settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you
disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be
inaccessible or not function properly.
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Promotional Offers from the Company. If
you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the
Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can
opt-out by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes in promotional
correspondence, or by sending us an email stating your request to privacy@inovate.com.
If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking
to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to
information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty
registration, product service experience or other transactions.
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We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your
information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties
may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or
used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the
Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change
your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account
profile page.
You may send us an email at privacy@inovate.com to request access
to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We
cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user
account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe
the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information
to be incorrect.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of
your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or
might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use
of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is
governed by our Terms of Use [www.betterventing.com/terms-of-use].
Data Security
We have implemented 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 our secure
servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions [and [personal identifiable
information]] will be encrypted using SSL technology.
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 Website, 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 Website like
message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any
user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is
not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal
information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information
transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your
own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or
security measures contained on the Website.
Transferring Personal Data from the EU to the US
The Company has its headquarters in the United States and this
Website is intended for persons residing or located in the United States.
Information we collect from you will be processed in the United States. We have
not sought nor received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under
Article 45 of the GDPR. The Company relies on derogations for specific
situations as set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR. In particular, the Company
collects and transfers to the United States personal data only: with your
consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate
interest of the Company. The Company endeavors to apply suitable safeguards to
protect the privacy and security of your personal data and to use it only
consistent with your relationship with the Company and the practices described
in 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 with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the
Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’
personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address
specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The
date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable
email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this
privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our
privacy practices, contact us at:
810 Saturn Street Suite 20, Jupiter, FL 33477 or privacy@betterventing.com
or via our telephone number:
561-510-2131