Polymerall Privacy Policy
Effective: July 31, 2024
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how Polymerall LLC (“Polymerall,” “we,” “our,” “us”) collects, uses, and discloses certain personal information obtained through our website located at https://polymerall.com/ (“Site”). By visiting our Site and/or using the features made available to you on the Site (the “Services”), you are agreeing to the terms of this Policy.
1. What Information We Collect and Maintain About You
We collect personal and other information from you directly when you provide it to us through the Services. We may also automatically collect certain information about you and your computer, smartphone, or other device when you use, access, or interact with our Services.
Personal information you provide.
You can visit the Site without submitting any information that we can use to identify you personally. However, at your option, you can provide us with information if you request a quote for one of our products, for example, your name, phone number, email address, company name, and location.
Cookies.
We also use cookies on the Site. Cookies are small data files that are stored on your computer by your web browser and often include an anonymous unique identifier. The Site utilizes cookies for the purposes of managing our website and to understand and measure its performance. For example, cookies can be used to collect or store information about your use of the Site during your current session and over time (including the pages you view and the files you download), your computer’s operating system and browser type, your Internet service provider, your domain name and IP address, your general geographic location, the website that you visited before the Services, and the link you used to leave the Services. If you are concerned about having cookies on your computer, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being set, allowing you to decide whether to accept it. You can also delete cookies from your computer Please be aware that if you disable cookies on your browser, you may not be able to use certain features of the Site or other websites or certain features may not work as intended. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Pixel tags.
A pixel tag (also known as a web beacon, clear GIF, pixel, or tag) is an image or a small string of code that may be placed in a website, advertisement, or email. It allows companies to set or read cookies or transfer information to their servers when you load a webpage or interact with online content. For example, we or our service providers may use pixel tags to determine whether you have interacted with a specific part of our Services, viewed a particular advertisement, or opened a specific email.
Server logs.
Server logs automatically record information and details about your online interactions with us. For example, server logs may record information about your visit to our Services on a particular time and day and collect information such as your IP address or your device ID, bower type, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
Third-party online tracking and advertising.
We also may partner with certain third parties to collect, analyze, and use some of the personal and other information described in this section. For example, we may allow third parties to set cookies or use web beacons on the Services or in email communications from us. This information may be used for a variety of purposes, including online website analytics and interest-based advertising, as described below.
Aggregated and deidentified information.
From time to time, we may also collect and share aggregated or deidentified information about Service users, such as by publishing a report on trends in the usage of the Site and Services. Such aggregated or deidentified information will not identify you personally.
Information we do not collect.
We do not collect sensitive personal data that may include data revealing racial or ethnic origins, religious beliefs, sexuality, citizenship, immigration status, mental or physical health conditions or diagnoses, precise geolocation data.
We do not collect biometric data generated by automatic measuerments of an individual’s biological characteristics.
Content of the Site is not directed to individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information that we collect for a variety of purposes, including to:
- Communicate with you
- Respond to your questions or requests concerning the Services offered by us;
- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, send you information about our Services that are likely to be of interest to you;
- Improve your user experience and the quality of our Site;
- Comply with legal and/or regulatory requirements;
- Count and recognize visitors to the Site;
- Analyze how visitors use the Site and its various features;
- Create new products and services or improve our existing products and Services;
- Enable additional website analytics and research concerning the Services;
- Engage in interest-based advertising; and
- Manage our business.
We use the information about your device that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site).
3. With Whom and Why We Share Your Information
We share your information with other parties for a variety of purposes, as described below.
Partners.
We may share your information with our partners with whom we work to provide you with picks, leaderboards, and prizes.
Other users.
As part of the Services, we maintain leaderboards where our users can track their success against other users. The leaderboards display each user’s first name and the first initial of the user’s last name along with the user’s hometown, if the user has provided a hometown in their profile. In addition, users can view other users’ picks and results in each Leaderboard in which the user participates. Users can also create Leaderboards and invite other users to participate by searching through users.
Analytics.
We partner with certain third parties to obtain the automatically collected information discussed above and to engage in analysis, auditing, research, and reporting. These third parties may use web logs or web beacons, and they may set and access cookies on your computer or other device. In particular, the Services may use Google Analytics to help collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed above. You can read more about how Google uses your personal information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Interest-based advertising.
The Services also enable third-party tracking mechanisms to collect information about you and your computing devices for use in online interest-based advertising. For example, third parties may use the fact that you visited our Site to target online ads to you. In addition, our third-party advertising networks, such as Facebook, might use information about your use of our Site to help target advertisements based on your online activity in general. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at: http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
The use of online tracking mechanisms by third parties is subject to those third parties’ own privacy policies, and not this Policy. If you prefer to prevent third parties from setting and accessing cookies on your computer or other device, you may set your browser to block cookies. Additionally, you may remove yourself from the targeted advertising of companies within the Network Advertising Initiative by opting out http://optout.networkadvertising.org, or of companies participating in the Digital Advertising Alliance by opting out http://optout.aboutads.info/.
You can also opt out of interest-based advertising in mobile apps by adjusting the advertising preferences on your mobile device. In iOS, visit Settings > Privacy > Advertising > Limit Ad Tracking. In Android, visit Settings > Google > Ads > Opt out of interest-based ads or Opt out of Personalized Advertising.
Please note that the opt-outs described above will apply only to the specific browser or device from which you opt out, and therefore you will need to opt out separately on all of your browsers and devices. If you delete or reset your cookies or mobile advertising identifiers, change browsers (including upgrading certain browsers), or use a different device, any opt-out cookie or tool may no longer work and you will need to opt out again.
Do not track.
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.
Third-party service providers.
We use third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf, including web-hosting companies, mailing vendors, and analytics providers. These service providers may collect and/or use your information, including information that identifies you personally, to assist us in achieving the purposes discussed above.
We may share your information with other third parties when necessary to fulfill your requests for services; to complete a transaction that you initiate; to meet the terms of any agreement that you have with us or our partners; or to manage our business.
Legal purposes.
We also may use or share your information with third parties when we believe, in our sole discretion, that doing so is necessary: to comply with applicable law or a court order, subpoena, or other legal process; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations of our terms and conditions, or situations involving threats to our property or the property or physical safety of any person or third party; or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
4. External Links
This Services may contain links to third-party websites. If you use these links, you will leave the Services. We have not reviewed these third-party sites and do not control and are not responsible for any of these sites, their content, or their privacy policy. Thus, we do not endorse or make any representations about them, or any information, software, or other products or materials found there, or any results that may be obtained from using them. If you decide to access any of the third-party sites listed on our website, you do so at your own risk.
5. Data Security
We employ physical, technical, and administrative procedures to safeguard the personal information we collect online. However, no website is 100% secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to the Services or to us, and you transmit such information at your own risk.
6. Data Retention
We retain personal information about you necessary to fulfill the purpose for which that information was collected or as required or permitted by law. We do not retain personal information longer than is necessary for us to achieve the purposes for which we collected it. When we destroy your personal information, we do so in a way that prevents that information from being restored or reconstructed.
7. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
If you are a resident of certain states within the U.S., including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal information. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline your request as permitted by law. The rights include:
- Right to know whether or not we are processing your personal data;
- Right to access our personal data;
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data;
- Right to request the deletion of your personal data;
- Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared with us;
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights;
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under California’s privacy law), the sale of personal data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (“profiling”).
Depending on the state where you live, you may also have the following rights:
- Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s and Delaware’s privacy law)
- Right to obtain a list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including Oregon’s privacy law);
- Obtain the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you in the 12 months preceding your request;
- Right to limit use and disclosure of sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including California’s privacy law)
- Right to opt out of the collection of sensitive data and personal data through the operation of a voice or facial recognition feature (as permitted by applicable law, including Florida’s privacy law)
California Residents.
California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain form us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year.
How to Exercise Your Rights.
All requests for such information, to correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information in exercise these rights must be sent to:
marketing@polymerall.com.
Appeals.
Under certain U.S. state data protection laws, if we decline to take action regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by email us at marketing@polymerall.com. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decision. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney general.
8. International Users
The information that we collect through or in connection with the Services is transferred to and processed in the United States for the purposes described above. We also may subcontract the processing of your data to, or otherwise share your data with, affiliates or third parties in the United States or countries other than your country of residence. The data-protection laws in these countries may be different from, and less stringent than, those in your country of residence. By using the Services or by providing any personal or other information to us, you expressly consent to such transfer and processing.
9. Changes to this Policy
We may make changes to the Services in the future and as a consequence will need to revise this Policy to reflect those changes. We will post all such changes on the Services, so you should review this page periodically.
10. How to Contact Us
Should you have any questions or concerns about this Policy, you can contact us by email at marketing@polymerall.com.