This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") governs the manner in which
we process information collected from our users ("you", "your" or
"user") in connection with the access to or use of our software
application, browser extension, website and new tab app, all, as
detailed in our End User License Agreement (“Agreement” or “EULA”) .
We have included below information about which data is collected,
how we process and use your data, but before we would like to
explain the basis on which we do so:
1. Where you sign up for any of our services, we process your
personal data in order to perform our contract with you;
2. If we have a legitimate interest in processing data, such as for
direct marketing or online identifiers; or
3. We will also process your personal data where you have provided
us with consent to do so.
1.1 pdfchampions (“Company,” or “we,” or “us,” or “our”) is committed
to safeguarding the privacy of our website and service users
(“users,” or “you”).
1.2 This Privacy Policy applies to our website at
https://www.pdfchampions.com and other websites on the internet (the
“Sites”) and when you download our pdfchampions software.
1.3 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller
with respect to your personal data, in other words, where we
determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal
data.
1.4 Terms of Service and End User License Agreement. Use of the
Service is subject to the terms of our Terms of Service and our End
User License Agreement which are hereby incorporated and made part
of this Privacy Policy. By using the Service, you agree to be bound
by our Terms of Service and End User License Agreement.
1.5 Your use of the Service is subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in this Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”).
1.6 We continually strive to find new ways to enhance your
experience with the Service and we may modify this Privacy Policy
from time to time to reflect changes in our privacy practices. You
are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy periodically and to
check the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy for
the most recent version. If we make changes to this Privacy Policy,
we will notify you here, by email, or by means of notice through the
Website, the Application, or any other part of the Service at our
sole discretion.
PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. BY ACCESSING OR USING THE
SERVICE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ, UNDERSTAND, AND AGREE
TO BE BOUND BY ALL THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO SUCH TERMS, EXIT THIS PAGE AND DO NOT ACCESS OR USE THE
SERVICE..
Company collects two types of information about you:
2.1 Personally Identifiable Information. Personally Identifiable
Information is information that identifies a specific person. When
you engage in certain activities via the Company Service, including
but not limited to creating an account, sending feedback, or
otherwise participating in the Company Service (collectively,
“Identification Activities”), we may ask you to provide certain
information about yourself. If you elect to engage in an
Identification Activity we may ask you to provide us with certain
personal information about yourself, such as your name, address
(including zip code), email address, credit card information,
telephone number and/or any other information you provide to us, to
process your transaction, send communications about them to you, and
populate forms for future transactions. When you enroll in the
Company Service, we may also ask you to provide us with additional
information, such as credit card information. Depending on the
Identification Activity, some of the information we ask you to
provide may be identified as mandatory and some identified as
voluntary. If you do not provide mandatory information for an
Identification Activity, you will not be permitted to engage in that
Identification Activity with the Company Service. Depending on the
Identification Activity, Company might not re-ask you for Personally
Identifiable Information if such are already stored with us. If you
enroll in the Company Service through a third party (such as
Facebook or Google) then Company may receive Personally Identifiable
Information from such third party and by using the Company Service,
you consent to such receipt of Personally Identifiable Information
and its use pursuant to this Privacy Policy by Company.
We may use or share Personally Identifiable Information to provide
products and/or services to enhance the operation of the Company
Service, improve our marketing and promotional efforts, analyze use
of the Company Service, improve the Company Service, and tailor your
experience with third parties as provided below in this Privacy
Policy. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to
troubleshoot, resolve disputes, accomplish administrative tasks,
contact you, enforce our agreements with you, including our Terms of
Service and this Privacy Policy, comply with applicable law, and
cooperate with law enforcement activities.
2.2 Non-Personally Identifiable Information. Non-Personally
Identifiable Information is information that does not identify a
specific person. This type of information may include things like
the Uniform Resource Locator (“URL”) of the website you visited
before coming to the Company Service or otherwise participating in
the Company Service, the URL of the website you visit after leaving
the Company Service, the type of browser you are using, your
Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, mobile carrier information, mobile
device information, or general and/or aggregated location data that
does constitute Personally Identifiable Information. We, and/or our
authorized Third-Party Service Providers, may automatically collect
this information when you visit or use the Company Service using
electronic tools like Cookies and Web beacons or Pixel tags, as
described below in this Privacy Policy. Most of the other
information we collect for mobile, such as your mobile device
identification and mobile device type, the request type, your mobile
carrier, your mobile carrier user identification, and the content of
your request, does not by itself identify you to Company, though it
may be unique or consist of or contain information that you consider
personal. We use Non-Personally Identifiable Information to
troubleshoot, administer the Company Service, analyze trends, gather
demographic information, comply with applicable law, and cooperate
with law enforcement activities. We may also share this information
with our authorized Third-Party Service Providers to measure the
overall effectiveness of our products and services.
2.3 Information We Retain.
(a) We track and store app installation data in order to validate
the installation process and reward relevant affiliates / traffic
sources.
3.1 In this Section 2 we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) the purposes for which we may process personal data
(c) the legal bases of the processing.
3.2 We may process data about your use of our website and services
("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address,
geographical location, browser type and version, operating system,
referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation
paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and
pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our
analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the
purposes of analyzing the use of the website and services. The legal
basis for this processing is your consent or our legitimate
interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.3 We may process your account data ("account data"). The account
data may include your name and email address. The source of the
account data is you. The account data may be processed for the
purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring
the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of
our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this
processing is your consent or our legitimate interests, namely
monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.4 We may process your information included in your personal
profile on our website ("profile data"). The profile data may
include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile
pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and
hobbies, educational details and employment details. The profile
data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring
your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this
processing is your consent or our legitimate interests, namely
monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.5 We may process information that you post for publication on our
website or through our services ("publication data"). The
publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such
publication and administering our website and services. The legal
basis for this processing is your consent or our legitimate
interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.6 We may process information contained in any inquiry you submit
to us regarding goods and/or services ("inquiry data"). The inquiry
data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and
selling relevant goods and/or services to you. The legal basis for
this processing is your consent or our legitimate interests, namely
monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.7 We may process information relating to transactions, including
purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or
through our website ("transaction data"). The transaction data may
include first and last names, an email address to be used as a
login, billing contact information, credit card number and a
password. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of
supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper
records of those transactions. The legal basis for this processing
is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking
steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our
legitimate interests.
3.8 We may process information that you provide to us for the
purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters
("notification data"). The notification data may be processed for
the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or
newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is your consent or
our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our
website and services.
3.9 We may process information contained in or relating to any
communication that you send to us ("correspondence data"). The
correspondence data may include the communication content and
metadata associated with the communication. Our website will
generate the metadata associated with communications made using the
website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for
the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal
basis for this processing is your consent or our legitimate
interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.10 We may process any of your personal data identified in this
policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of
legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative
or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this process is our
legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our
legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.11 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process
your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process
any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in
order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of
another natural person.
3.12 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us
unless we prompt you to do so.
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to any member of our group of
companies, this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company
and all its subsidiaries insofar as reasonably necessary for the
purposes, and on the legal bases, set out in this policy.
4.2 We may use Third Party Service Providers to serve ads when you
participate in the Service. These companies may use Non-Personally
Identifiable Information about your visits and use of the Service,
and visits to other websites or locations to provide, through the
use of network tags, advertisements about goods and services that
may be of interest to you.
4.3 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out
in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such
disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to
which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or
the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose
your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the
establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court
proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
6.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be
stored on your computer when you visit our website.
6.2 We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website.
Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of
cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to
create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy
is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
7.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to
delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to
browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain
up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these
links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
(b)
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
(Firefox);
(c)
https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy
(Edge).
7.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the
usability of many websites.
7.3 If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the
features on our website.
8.1 We continuously improve our websites and our products, and we
utilize different third-party web analytics tools to help us do so.
We are interested in how visitors use our websites, our desktop
tools, our mobile applications, what they like and dislike, and
where they have problems. Our products, desktop tools and mobile
applications use analytical tools to understand feature usage
patterns, to enhance and improve your product experience and offer
you specific usage tips and guidance. In connection with normal
business operations, as well as to increase functionality and
enhance your user experience, this usage information may be linked
to personal information that we have about individual users. We
maintain ownership of this data and we do not share this type of
data about individual users with third parties.
8.2 This information is used solely to assist us in maintaining more
effective and useful websites and products for our customers. This
data will not be shared with third parties without your prior
consent or unless required by law.
The Service are not directed to people under the age of eighteen (18) or the age of majority in the jurisdiction where you reside If you become aware that your child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us at the email address listed below. If we become aware that a child under eighteen (18) has provided us with personal information, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child’s account.
11.1 This Section 11 sets out our data retention policies and
procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with
our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of
personal data.
11.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall
be kept until such time as we receive a request for deletion from
you.
11.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 11, we may
retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for
compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in
order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of
another natural person.
California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and the California Business and Professions Code. As required by COPPA, we will provide you with the categories of Personally Identifiable Information that we collect through the Service and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom such Personally Identifiable Information may be shared for direct marketing purposes at your request. California law requires us to inform you, at your request, (1) the categories of Personally Identifiable Information we collect and what third parties we share that information with; (2) the names and addresses of those third parties; and (3) examples of the products marketed by those companies. COPPA further requires us to allow you to control who you do not want us to share that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email or physical mail to the address found below. When contacting us, please indicate your name, address, email address, and what Personally Identifiable Information you do not want us to share with our marketing partners. The request should be sent to the attention of our legal department and labeled “California Customer Choice Notice.” Please allow 30 days for a response. Also, please note that there is no charge for controlling the sharing of your Personally Identifiable Information or requesting this notice.
We are not liable for any damages, losses, or costs incurred due to the use or inability to use our services, except where prohibited by law.
For additional inquiries about the privacy of your information, you can contact us by emailing us at support@pdfchampions.com