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PRIVACY POLICY
Boyd Connected Services, Inc. Privacy Policy
Effective From: February 10, 2019
General Information. Boyd Connected Services is glad that you are using our sites, and we respect the privacy of our users, members, customers, vendors, business partners and other visitors to our websites. We too, are humans, and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of your personal information that you provide to us. As such, Boyd Connected Services has created and posted this Privacy Policy to help you to understand what personal information we collect and how that personal information is used. This Privacy Policy applies to the data we (Boyd Connected Services and any of our subsidiaries) collect through the www.boydconnected.com website and domains, subdomains and other webpages which we operate (“Sites”) and in which we post a direct link to this Policy.
The information Boyd Connected Services collects. On or through our Sites, you can use our goods, products or services, and the goods, products or services of our affiliates, partners and vendors. Through our Sites or our affiliate’s, partner’s or vendor’s sites, you can register your information, become a member, order goods, products or services, register products, gain access to temporary goods, products or services, request information, subscribe to marketing, sales or support materials, register to use goods, products or services, obtain access to product or service information, learn about our offerings or the offerings of our affiliates, partners or vendors, contact us for help and support, gain access to training material, contact us, apply for jobs at Boyd Connected Services and more. Boyd Connected Services may collect information about individuals and/or their respective companies or those entities that users are legally acting on behalf of, such as their name, billing and/or mailing address, telephone number(s), email address, age, birthday, challenge/response questions and answers, unique information about you, usernames and passwords, billing and transaction information, credit card or other financial information and contact preferences. Additional personal information collected either online, over the telephone, via mail, facsimile or other methods, may be supplemented with information you provide to Boyd Connected Services, as well as other sources such as trade shows or seminars, and other data appending methods such as beacons, spot tags, tracking and cookies as referenced below.
Children.
Boyd Connected Services Services are not marketed to or intended for use by individuals who cannot legally bind a contract. Accordingly, Boyd Connected Services does not intentionally gather any Personal Information about visitors or customers who are under the age of 18. If you do not meet this criteria, please stop using our site immediately.
Important notice for European users and customers. Please note that information covered by this Privacy Policy may be hosted and stored in the United States of America, which does not have similar data protection laws as the European Union and that, due to differing laws and legal practice, law enforcement agencies in the United States may have access to your Personal Information. For systems and personal information that will be hosted and stored within the European Union will follow applicable laws.
California privacy rights. California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Sites that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, email us at info@Boydconnected.com.
Boyd Connected Services’s use of your personal information.
Boyd Connected Services will use personal information to provide users, members, customers, business partners, affiliates, vendors, suppliers and website visitors with information and services and to help us better understand your needs and interests. We may use your information to help you register, complete a transaction, order a good, product or services, to communicate with you, to deliver goods, products or services to you, to bill you for use of goods, products or services, and to provide ongoing service and support. Occasionally we may use your information to contact you to answer questions, ensure your happiness with our goods, products or services or the goods, products or services of our affiliates, vendors and partners, and complete surveys that we use for marketing and quality assurance purposes. Boyd Connected Services may use your information or information on services provided to by Boyd Connected Services or their affiliates, partners or vendors for promotional purposes.
Boyd Connected Services’s sharing of your personal information.
Boyd Connected Services contracts with third party service providers, affiliates, partners, vendors and suppliers (including sales agencies, distributors and resellers) to deliver certain goods, products, services, support functions and other customer solutions. Boyd Connected Services may share your personal information party service providers, affiliates, partners, vendors and suppliers (including sales agencies, distributors and resellers) to the extent needed to deliver the service or respond to requests for information on products or services or otherwise support your needs. Third party service providers, affiliates, partners, vendors and suppliers (including sales agencies, distributors and resellers) and suppliers receiving personal information are expected to apply the same level of privacy protection as contained in this Privacy Policy. They are required to keep your information confidential and may not use it for any purpose other than as originally intended.
Boyd Connected Services may offer services that are co-branded or re-branded and offered in conjunction with or by another company. If you register for or use such services, both Boyd Connected Services and the other company may receive information collected in conjunction with the co-branded services.
Except as described in this Privacy Policy, Boyd Connected Services is not in the business of selling or renting your information to others and will not share personally identifiable information with other third parties without your permission, unless required by, or in connection with, law enforcement action, subpoena or other litigation, or applicable law or in connection with a prospective or actual sale, merger, transfer or other reorganization of all or parts of our business, or within the group of affiliated Boyd Connected Services companies, if and to the extent legally permissible.
We reserve the right to fully use and disclose any information that is not in personally identifiable form.
Communication Preferences. As you sign-up or register for information or use of our goods, products or services, or the goods, products or services of our affiliates, vendors or partners, you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out of communication preferences. Alternatively, you may contact us at info@boydconnected.com to request changes and we will make best efforts to update your preferences, based upon the information you have provided to us.
Access.
If you would like to request access to personal information that we may have collected from you (possibly subject to handling fees), please contact info@ boydconnected.com. To ensure you are you, and to protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting access to data.
Security of Personal Information.
Boyd Connected Services is committed to taking commercially reasonable efforts to secure the personal data you choose to provide us. To protect the privacy of any personal information you may have provided, Boyd Connected Services employs industry-standard controls which may include but not be limited to physical access controls, data encryption (at rest or in transit, or both), firewalls of various types, intrusion detection, IP reputation management, and monitoring of various systems and networks. Access to confidential or sensitive information is limited to those individuals and agents having a need to know.
User or Member Generated Content Areas.
Boyd Connected Services may have areas, goods, products or services on their Sites such as forums, microsites, chat rooms or other public features (“Forums”) that allow users or members to publish content for others to see. Any information that is disclosed in these public Forums becomes public information which could be read, collected or used by other users to send you unsolicited messages. You should use care and caution when posting your personal information to these Forums. Boyd Connected Services is in no way responsible for the content you submit or post in these Forums.
Boyd Connected Services may, from time to time, send email regarding our products and services to users who have posted to our Forums, blogs, user-editable documents, and commenting systems. Any opinion express in their Forums, blogs, user-editable documents or commenting systems are the opinions of that particular person and do not reflect the opinion of Boyd Connected Services in any fashion or form. Use of any of these online communication tools is subject to our Terms of Use, which contain disclaimers, limitations of liability and a choice of Texas law. Personal information given to Boyd Connected Services may be transferred across state, outside the borders of the United States data consolidation, storage and information management.
Cookies, Logging, Spotlight Tags and Web Site Usage Information. Boyd Connected Services may use commonly-used information gathering tools and methods, including cookies, logging, spotlight tags and Web beacons, to collect information as you navigate our Sites (“Web Site Usage Information”). This section describes the types of Web Site Usage Information that may be collected on the Sites and how this information may be used.
Cookies.
Boyd Connected Services may use cookies to make your interactions with our Sites easy and meaningful. When you visit our Sites, our servers send a cookie to your computer. By themselves, cookies do not personally identify who you are or contain any information about you – they simply recognize your Web browser with a unique ID. Unless you choose to identify yourself via our Sites, by entering your personal information in a Web form, you remain anonymous to the us. Boyd Connected Services may use cookies that are session-based and persistent-based. Session cookies exist only during one session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser or turn off your computer.
If you chose to identify yourself to us, we may use cookies containing encrypted information to allow us to identify you. When you use our Sites and register as a user or member with us, we may use persistent or session cookies that only we can read and use to identify Web browsers that you have used previously on our Sites. A unique identifier may be assigned you that may be associated with a cookie. We are diligent about the confidentiality and security of the data stored in cookies and we will never place credential information within those cookies. If you disable the use of cookies in your Web browser, some or all functions of the Sites may not work. Boyd Connected Services may also use information from cookies in combination with other data to enhance your experience or provide you with information about us and our goods, products or services.
Web Beacons.
Boyd Connected Services may use Web beacon technology by itself, or with cookies, to compile information about your usage on or in the Sites and interaction with emails from us. Web beacons are transparent images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Web site tied to the Web beacon, and a description of a Web site tied to the Web beacon. For example, Boyd Connected Services may place Web beacons in marketing emails or on advertisements in other web sites that notify us when you click on a link that directs you to one of our Sites. Boyd Connected Services uses Web beacons to improve our Sites and communications to you for the best possible experience. Boyd Connected Services may also use information from Web beacons in combination with other data to provide you with information about the Company and the Services.
IP Addresses.
When you visit our Sites, we may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses to track and aggregate non-personal information.
Third Party Cookies.
From time-to-time, we may use third parties to track and analyze how people use our Sites, and/or the performance of other affiliate, partner or vendor advertisements or offerings, or the performance of our advertisements or offerings. Any information we provide to third-parties will no contain personal information.
From time-to-time we may also contract and work with third-party advertising companies and systems that collect IP addresses and other information on our Sites and emails and on third-party Web sites. These third-party advertising company’s systems log and retain your online activities over time by collecting information through automated means, which may include the use of cookies, beacons, IP addresses or other technologies. This information is used to provide advertisements about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see the same advertisements on other Web sites too because of this. This process also helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.
More information on cookies can be found on the World Wide Web Consortiums website at: https://www.w3.org/
Links to Non-Boyd Connected Services Websites and Third Parties.
The Boyd Connected Services Sites may provide links to third-party web sites for your convenience and information. While Boyd Connected Services makes reasonable efforts to select appropriate affiliates, partners or vendors, some links to third-party websites are dynamically generated and not selected by Boyd Connected Services. Boyd Connected Services is not responsible for ANY third-party web sites you visit from our website, nor do we endorse or make any representations about third party web sites. The personal data you choose to give these third parties is not covered by the Boyd Connected Services Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any company before submitting your personal information. Some third party companies may choose to share their personal data with us; that sharing is governed by that third party company’s privacy policy.
Contact Information. If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or believe that the privacy of your personal information has not been respected, you may contact us via email at: info@boydconnected.com.
Changes to this Policy. Boyd Connected Services will review and update this Policy periodically and will note the date of its most recent revision. If we make material changes to this Policy, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes prior to implementing the changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how Boyd Connected Services is protecting your information.
Dispute Resolution.
Any questions or concerns regarding the use or disclosure of Personal Information should be directed to info@boydconnected.com. Boyd Connected Services will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of Personal Information in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Policy.
Severability.
This Privacy Policy shall apply to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law. If for any reason any provision of this Privacy Policy is held to be invalid or unenforceable to any extent under applicable law, then (i) such provision will be interpreted, construed, or reformed to the extent reasonably required to render it valid, enforceable, and consistent with the original intent underlying such provision and (ii) such invalidity or unenforceability will not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision of this Privacy Policy and all such provisions shall remain in full force and effect.