Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes LinkTrust’s use and sharing of personally identifiable
information (“PII”—which may include Your full name, email address, mailing
address, telephone number, or credit card number, etc.) that You voluntarily
provide to LinkTrust when You register (also known as
“Registration PII”), visit this website or subscribe to LinkTrust
services and products, including any other features, content, or applications
offered from time to time by LinkTrust in connection
with LinkTrust’s business. LinkTrust
is hosted in the
This site is a
general audience site and does not knowingly collect PII from children under 13
years of age.
From time to time LinkTrust may modify this Privacy
Policy to reflect industry initiatives or changes in the law, our PII
collection and use practices, the features of our services and products, or
technology, and such modifications shall be effective upon posting by LinkTrust on this site. Your continued use of this
site after LinkTrust posts a revised Privacy Policy
signifies Your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. It is therefore
important that You review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure You are
updated as to any changes. If LinkTrust
materially changes its practices regarding collection or use of Your PII, Your
PII will continue to be governed by the Policy under which it was collected
unless You have been provided notice of, and have not objected to, the change.
Collection and Submission of PII and
Non-PII
General
When LinkTrust
collects PII from You it is because You are voluntarily submitting
Registration PII to LinkTrust in order to use LinkTrust’s services and products. LinkTrust
may also collect PII from You when using LinkTrust
services or products, or that is generated in the course of the use of those
services or products (including the timing, frequency, and pattern of service
use), when You choose to subscribe to LinkTrust’s
email notifications and/or newsletters, when You provide LinkTrust
with content or suggestions You submit to LinkTrust
for review or publication to the internet, and any information contained in or
relating to any communication that You send to LinkTrust
or send through LinkTrust’s website.
In addition, LinkTrust collects other non-PII
including IP address, geographical location, aggregate user data, browser type
and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and
website navigation paths from You. This data is used to manage and improve LinkTrust’s site, track usage, to verify compliance with
the terms and conditions governing use of the LinkTrust
website, and for security purposes. LinkTrust may
also share statistical information about users, but those third-parties will
not be able to identify any individual user from this information.
You
can change Your Registration PII at any time and can control how LinkTrust and others communicate with You by controlling Your
account settings. Before You disclose to
LinkTrust any PII of another person, You must obtain
that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Cookies
Cookies are small bits of information
that LinkTrust places on Your computer. LinkTrust uses
cookies to identify Your Internet browser, store Your preferences, and
determine whether You have installed the enabling software needed to access
certain material on LinkTrust’s website. Data in
cookies may be read to authenticate user sessions or provide services. Cookies may be either “persistent cookies” or
“session cookies.” A persistent cookie
will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiration
date or deleted by You. A session cookie
will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information
the personally identifies a user, but PII that LinkTrust
stores about You may be linked to information stored in and obtained by
cookies. Cookies may be used by web
servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a
website and identify users returning to a website.
LinkTrust may from time to time use third-party
cookies in the course of providing services and product. In addition, third-party advertisements
displayed on LinkTrust’s website may also contain
cookies set by internet advertising companies or advertisers (known as “third-party
cookies”). LinkTrust does not control these third-party
cookies and You should check the privacy policy of the internet advertising
company or advertiser to see whether and how it uses cookies.
You can program Your computer to warn You each time a cookie is being sent,
block third-party cookies, or block all cookies. However, by blocking all
cookies You may not have access to certain features on LinkTrust’s
website. You can delete cookies already stored on your
computer, but deleting cookies will have a negative impact on the usability of
many websites, including LinkTrust’s website.
Third-Party Sites
LinkTrust services and products may be linked to internet
sites operated by other companies. LinkTrust may
also carry advertisements from other companies. LinkTrust
is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or other services
operated by third parties that are linked to or integrated with LinkTrust’s website or for the privacy practices of
third-party internet advertising companies. Once You leave LinkTrust’s website via such a link, access a third-party
application (such as widgets) or click on an advertisement, You should examine
the applicable privacy policy of the third-party or advertiser site to
determine, among other things, how they will handle any PII they collect from You.
International Data Transfers
Information that LinkTrust
collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the
countries in which LinkTrust operates in order to
enable it to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In the course of providing its services and
product, information that LinkTrust collects may be
transferred to businesses in the following countries that do not have data
protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic
Area:
LinkTrust’s Use of PII
General Use of PII
LinkTrust will only use the PII You provide under
this Privacy Policy in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy
Policy. If LinkTrust obtains PII from a third-party,
such as a business partner, our use of that information is also governed by
this Privacy Policy.
LinkTrust may use your PII in order to provide the
services and product purchased through the LinkTrust
website or to enable Your use of the services and products. In addition, LinkTrust
may use your PII to send non-marketing commercial communications, statements,
invoices, and payment reminders to You, and to collect payments from You.
If You have consented, LinkTrust may also provide you
with email notifications, push notifications (or similar technologies),
newsletters, or certain marketing communications related to LinkTrust’s
business (or the businesses of carefully selected third-parties that LinkTrust believes may be of interest to you. You can inform LinkTrust
at any time if you no longer wish to receive such communications.
Disclosing
PII
LinkTrust may disclose Your PII to LinkTrust employees, agents, insurers, professional
advisers, suppliers, and contractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the
purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy.
LinkTrust may share Your PII with those who
help it manage or provide LinkTrust’s information
activities (for example, message board administration, order fulfillment,
statistical analyses, data processing), or with outside contractors or agents
who help LinkTrust with the administration of LinkTrust’s website and business, including but not limited
to payment service providers who process LinkTrust’s
website financial transactions.
There may be instances when LinkTrust may access or disclose PII without providing You
a choice in order to: (i) protect or defend the legal
rights or property of LinkTrust, its affiliates, or
their employees, agents and contractors (including enforcement of our
agreements); (ii) protect the safety and security of LinkTrust,
its users, or members of the public—including acting in urgent circumstances;
(iii) protect against fraud or for risk management purposes; (iv) comply with
the law or legal process; or (v) to a purchaser or prospective purchaser of any
business asset LinkTrust sells row contemplates
selling. In addition, if LinkTrust sells all or
part of its business or makes a sale or transfer of all or a material part of
its assets or is otherwise involved in a merger or transfer of all or a
material part of its business, LinkTrust may transfer
Your PII to the party or parties involved in the transaction as part of that
transaction.
Retaining
PII
PII
that LinkTrust processes for any purpose or purposes
shall not be kept for longer than is reasonably necessary for those
purposes. Without prejudice to the
foregoing sentence, LinkTrust will endeavor to delete
PII within three (3) months of any written request You submit requesting that LinkTrust do so, so long as such request does not affect LinkTrust’s ability to provide You with any service or
product.
Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, LinkTrust will
retain documents (including electronic documents containing PII in order to: (i) protect or defend the legal rights or property of LinkTrust, its affiliates, or their employees, agents and
contractors (including enforcement of our agreements); (ii) protect against
fraud or for risk management purposes; or (iii) comply with the law or legal
process to the extent required by law.
Security of PII
LinkTrust uses commercially reasonable
administrative, technical, personnel and physical measures to safeguard PII and
credit card information in its possession against loss, theft and unauthorized
use, disclosure or modification. In addition, LinkTrust
uses reasonable methods to make sure that PII is accurate, up-to-date and
appropriately complete. LinkTrust will store all PII provided by You on a secure
(password and firewall protected) server.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, You acknowledge that
the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure and LinkTrust cannot and does not guarantee the security of
data sent over the internet. You are
responsible for safeguarding Your password allowing access to the LinkTrust website.
Except when prompted to enter Your password on the login screen,
LINKTRUST WILL NEVER ASK YOUR FOR YOUR PASSWORD.
How to Access, Correct, or Change Your
Preferences Regarding PII
You may review Your
Registration PII LinkTrust maintains in its
records. LinkTrust will take reasonable steps to
correct any PII You inform it is incorrect. If You ask LinkTrust
to stop using Your PII, LinkTrust will honor that
request while retaining any record of Your PII that is necessary to comply with
applicable law.
If You would like to communicate with LinkTrust about this Privacy Policy or LinkTrust’s
collection and use of Your PII please contact LinkTrust
by emailing: Support@linktrust.com
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