Stuttgart GnomesPRIVACY
NOTICE
Last updated July 11, 2021
Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at
Stuttgart Gnomes, LLC
("
Company
", "we", "us",
"our"). We are committed to protecting your personal information
and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy
notice, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact
us at mquinn14@student.umgc.edu.
When you
visit our website http://cmst386-mquinn14.azurewebsites.net
(the "Website"),
and more generally, use any of our services (the
"Services", which include the
Website
), we
appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy
very seriously. In this privacy notice, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way
possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation
to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important. If
there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please
discontinue use of our Services immediately.
This privacy notice applies to all information
collected through our Services (which, as described above, includes
our
Website
), as
well as, any related services, sales, marketing or events.
Please read this privacy notice carefully
as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we
collect.
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
1.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
In
Short: We
collect personal information that you provide to
us.
We
collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you
register on the
Website,
express an interest in
obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you
participate in activities on the
Website
(such as by posting messages in our online
forums or entering competitions, contests or giveaways)
or otherwise when you
contact us.
The
personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions
with us and the
Website
, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The
personal information we collect may include the following:
Personal Information Provided by You.
We collect
names;
phone numbers;
email addresses;
mailing addresses;
contact preferences;
contact or authentication data;
billing addresses;
usernames;
passwords;
and other similar information.
All
personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete and accurate, and
you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
2.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR
INFORMATION?
In Short:
We process your information for
purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment
of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations,
and/or your
consent.
We
use personal information collected via our
Website
for a variety of business purposes described below. We process
your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business
interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent,
and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific
processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We
use the information we collect or receive:
- To facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account (such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.
- To post testimonials. We post testimonials on our Website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and the content of the testimonial. If you wish to update, or delete your testimonial, please contact us at mquinn14@student.umgc.edu and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.
- Request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Website .
- To enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.
- To manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing our account and keeping it in working order.
- To send administrative information to you. We may use your personal information to send you product, service and new feature information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- To protect our Services. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
- To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for business purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or in connection with our contract.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
- Fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Website .
- Administer prize draws and competitions. We may use your information to administer prize draws and competitions when you elect to participate in our competitions.
- To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.
- To send you marketing and promotional communications. We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our Website , subscribing to marketing or otherwise contacting us, we will collect personal information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the "WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?" below).
- Deliver targeted advertising to you. We may use your information to develop and display personalized content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.
In Short: We
only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide
you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business
obligations.
We may process or share your data that we hold
based on the following legal basis:
- Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
- Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
- Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.
More specifically, we may need to process your
data or share your personal information in the following
situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Other Users. When you share personal information or otherwise interact with public areas of the Website , such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly made available outside the Website in perpetuity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you within our Website , and view your profile.
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4. HOW
LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION?
In
Short: We keep your
information for as long as necessary to fulfill the
purposes outlined in this privacy notice unless
otherwise required by law.
We will only keep your
personal information for as long as it is necessary for
the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a
longer retention period is required or permitted by law
(such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).
No purpose in this notice will require us keeping your
personal information for longer than
eighteen (18) months past
the start of idle period of the user's account
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.
When we have no ongoing
legitimate business need to process your personal
information, we will either delete or anonymize such
information, or, if this is not possible (for example,
because your personal information has been stored in
backup archives), then we will securely store your
personal information and isolate it from any further
processing until deletion is possible.
5. DO WE
COLLECT INFORMATION FROM
MINORS?
In
Short: We do not
knowingly collect data from or market to children
under 18 years of age.
We do not knowingly
solicit data from or market to children under 18 years
of age. By using the Website
,
you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are
the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to
such minor dependent’s use of the Website
.
If we learn that personal information from users less
than 18 years of age has been collected, we will
deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to
promptly delete such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have collected from
children under age 18, please contact us at
mquinn14@student.umgc.edu
.
6. WHAT
ARE YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short:
In some
regions, such as the European Economic Area (EEA)
and United Kingdom (UK), you have rights that allow
you greater access to and control over your personal
information.
You may
review, change, or terminate your account at any
time.
In some regions (like the
EEA and UK), you have certain rights under applicable
data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to
request access and obtain a copy of your personal
information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure;
(iii) to restrict the processing of your personal
information; and (iv) if applicable, to data
portability. In certain circumstances, you may also have
the right to object to the processing of your personal
information. To make such a request, please use the contact
details provided below. We
will consider and act upon any request in accordance
with applicable data protection
laws.
If we are relying on your
consent to process your personal information, you have
the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please
note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of
the processing before its withdrawal, nor will it affect
the processing of your personal information conducted in
reliance on lawful processing grounds other than
consent.
If you are a resident in
the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully
processing your personal information, you also have the
right to complain to your local data protection
supervisory authority. You can find their contact
details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are a resident in
Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection
authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
If you have questions or
comments about your privacy rights, you may email us at
mquinn14@student.umgc.edu
.
Account Information
If you
would at any time like to review or
change the information in your account
or terminate your account, you can:
- Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
- Contact us using the contact information provided.
Upon your request to
terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete
your account and information from our active
databases. However, we may retain some information
in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations, enforce
our Terms of Use and/or comply with applicable legal
requirements.
Opting out
of email marketing: You can
unsubscribe from our marketing email list at any
time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the
emails that we send or by contacting us using the
details provided below. You will then be removed
from the marketing email list — however, we may
still communicate with you, for example to send you
service-related emails that are necessary for the
administration and use of your account, to respond
to service requests, or for other non-marketing
purposes. To otherwise opt-out, you may:
- Access your account settings and update your preferences.
- Contact us using the contact information provided.
7.
CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK
FEATURES
Most web browsers and
some mobile operating systems and mobile
applications include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature
or setting you can activate to signal your privacy
preference not to have data about your online
browsing activities monitored and collected. At this
stage no uniform technology standard for recognizing
and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As
such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser
signals or any other mechanism that automatically
communicates your choice not to be tracked online.
If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we
must follow in the future, we will inform you about
that practice in a revised version of this privacy
notice.
8. DO
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC
PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short: Yes, if
you are a resident of California, you are
granted specific rights regarding access to your
personal information.
California Civil Code
Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light"
law, permits our users who are California residents
to request and obtain from 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. If you are a California resident and
would like to make such a request, please submit
your request in writing to us using the contact
information provided below.
If you are under 18
years of age, reside in California, and have a
registered account with the
Website
,
you have the right to request removal of unwanted
data that you publicly post on the Website
.
To request removal of such data, please contact us
using the contact information provided below, and
include the email address associated with your
account and a statement that you reside in
California. We will make sure the data is not
publicly displayed on the Website
,
but please be aware that the data may not be
completely or comprehensively removed from all our
systems (e.g. backups, etc.).
CCPA Privacy Notice
The
California Code of Regulations
defines a "resident"
as:
(1) every individual
who is in the State of California for other than a
temporary or transitory purpose
and
(2) every individual
who is domiciled in the State of California who is
outside the State of California for a temporary or
transitory purpose
All other individuals
are defined as "non-residents."
If this definition of
"resident" applies to you, we must adhere to certain
rights and obligations regarding your personal
information.
What
categories of personal information do we
collect?
We have collected the
following categories of personal information in the
past twelve (12) months:
|
Category |
Examples |
Collected |
|
A.
Identifiers
|
Contact
details, such as real name, alias,
postal address, telephone or mobile
contact number, unique personal
identifier, online identifier,
Internet Protocol address, email
address and account
name
|
NO
|
|
B.
Personal information categories
listed in the California Customer
Records statute
|
Name,
contact information, education,
employment, employment history and
financial
information
|
YES
|
|
C.
Protected classification
characteristics under California or
federal law
|
Gender
and date of
birth
|
NO
|
|
D.
Commercial
information
|
Transaction
information, purchase history,
financial details and payment
information
|
NO
|
|
E.
Biometric
information
|
Fingerprints
and voiceprints
|
NO
|
|
F.
Internet or other similar network
activity
|
Browsing
history, search history, online
behavior, interest data, and
interactions with our and other
websites, applications, systems and
advertisements
|
NO
|
|
G.
Geolocation
data
|
Device
location
|
NO
|
|
H.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal,
olfactory, or similar
information
|
Images
and audio, video or call recordings
created in connection with our
business
activities
|
NO
|
|
I.
Professional or employment-related
information
|
Business
contact details in order to provide
you our services at a business
level, job title as well as work
history and professional
qualifications if you apply for a
job with us
|
NO
|
|
J.
Education
Information
|
Student
records and directory
information
|
NO
|
|
K.
Inferences drawn from other personal
information
|
Inferences
drawn from any of the collected
personal information listed above to
create a profile or summary about,
for example, an individual’s
preferences and
characteristics
|
NO
|
We may also collect
other personal information outside of these
categories instances where you interact with us
in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the
context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
How do we use
and share your personal
information?
More information about
our data collection and sharing practices can be
found in this privacy
notice
.
You may contact us
by email at
mquinn14@student.umgc.edu
,
or by referring to the contact
details at the bottom of this document.
If you are using an
authorized agent to exercise your right to opt-out
we may deny a request if the authorized agent does
not submit proof that they have been validly
authorized to act on your
behalf.
Will your
information be shared with anyone
else?
We may disclose your
personal information with our service providers
pursuant to a written contract between us and each
service provider. Each service provider is a
for-profit entity that processes the information on
our behalf.
We may use your
personal information for our own business purposes,
such as for undertaking internal research for
technological development and demonstration. This is
not considered to be "selling" of your personal
data.
Stuttgart Gnomes, LLC
has not
disclosed or sold any personal information to third
parties for a business or commercial purpose in the
preceding 12 months.
Stuttgart Gnomes,
LLC
will not sell personal
information in the future belonging to website
visitors, users and other consumers.
Your rights
with respect to your personal
data
Right to request
deletion of the data - Request to
delete
You can ask for the
deletion of your personal information. If you ask us
to delete your personal information, we will respect
your request and delete your personal information,
subject to certain exceptions provided by law, such
as (but not limited to) the exercise by another
consumer of his or her right to free speech, our
compliance requirements resulting from a legal
obligation or any processing that may be required to
protect against illegal
activities.
Right to be
informed - Request to
know
Depending on the
circumstances, you have a right to know:
- whether we collect and use your personal information;
- the categories of personal information that we collect;
- the purposes for which the collected personal information is used;
- whether we sell your personal information to third parties;
- the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose;
- the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
- the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
In accordance with
applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or
delete consumer information that is de-identified in
response to a consumer request or to re-identify
individual data to verify a consumer
request.
Right to
Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a
Consumer’s Privacy
Rights
We will not
discriminate against you if you exercise your
privacy rights.
Verification
process
Upon receiving your
request, we will need to verify your identity to
determine you are the same person about whom we have
the information in our system. These verification
efforts require us to ask you to provide information
so that we can match it with information you have
previously provided us. For instance, depending on
the type of request you submit, we may ask you to
provide certain information so that we can match the
information you provide with the information we
already have on file, or we may contact you through
a communication method (e.g. phone or email) that
you have previously provided to us. We may also use
other verification methods as the circumstances
dictate.
We will only use
personal information provided in your request to
verify your identity or authority to make the
request. To the extent possible, we will avoid
requesting additional information from you for the
purposes of verification. If, however, we cannot
verify your identity from the information already
maintained by us, we may request that you provide
additional information for the purposes of verifying
your identity, and for security or fraud-prevention
purposes. We will delete such additionally provided
information as soon as we finish verifying
you.
Other privacy
rights
- you may object to the processing of your personal data
- you may request correction of your personal data if it is incorrect or no longer relevant, or ask to restrict the processing of the data
- you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA.
- you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as feasibly possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission.
To exercise these
rights, you can contact us
by
email at
mquinn14@student.umgc.edu,
or by referring to the contact
details at the bottom of this document. If you have a
complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to
hear from you.
9. DO
WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS
NOTICE?
In
Short: Yes, we will update
this notice as necessary to stay compliant with
relevant laws.
We may update this
privacy notice from time to time. The updated
version will be indicated by an updated "Revised"
date and the updated version will be effective as
soon as it is accessible. If we make material
changes to this privacy notice, we may notify you
either by prominently posting a notice of such
changes or by directly sending you a notification.
We encourage you to review this privacy notice
frequently to be informed of how we are protecting
your information.
10.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
If you have questions
or comments about this notice, you may
email us
at
mquinn14@student.umgc.edu
or
by post
to:
Stuttgart
Gnomes, LLC
__________
__________
United States
11.
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR
DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM
YOU?
Based on the
applicable laws of your country, you may have the
right to request access to the personal information
we collect from you, change that information, or
delete it in some circumstances. To request to
review, update, or delete your personal information,
please submit a
request form by clicking here
.
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