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Privacy Policy

The last update to our Privacy Policy was posted on October 19, 2021

ParcelShield, LLC (“ParcelShield,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the website www.parcelshield.com (the “Website”). This Online Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs the collection, processing, use, storage, and disclosure of online information of customers and visitors of our Website (“User,” “you,” or “your”). ParcelShield and our affiliates value and respect your right to privacy and confidentiality, and we recognize the importance of protecting information collected about our clients. This purpose of this Privacy Policy is to describe in detail the privacy practices that apply for all of our inbound marketing services and your use of the Website. This Privacy Policy also describes the choices you can make about our use of your information.

We may update or modify this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended version, including the effective date of the updated version. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates or changes. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your Personally Identifiable Information (as defined below) in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address held on file, if any). This Privacy Policy is binding on all those who access, visit, and/or use our Website, whether acting as an individual or on behalf of an entity, including you and all persons, entities, or digital engines of any kind that harvest, crawl, index, scrape, spider, or mine digital content by an automated or manual process or otherwise. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and in its entirety. Your continued use of the Website is considered your acceptance of these terms, and you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy. If you do not agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy or any subsequent modifications, you should not access or use our Services or disclose any personal information through our Services. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into our Terms of Service.

We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your data; however, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such techniques will prevent unauthorized access to your data. Any transmission of Personally Identifiable Information is at your own risk.

1. HOW TO CONTACT US

You can update your preferences and information by contacting us at the e-mail address or phone number below. Additionally, if you have any questions or concerns about our use of your Personally Identifiable Information, please do not hesitate to contact us through any of the methods below.

Phone: 1-855-804-9533

Email: [email protected]

Web: parcelshield.com/contact

2. DEFINITIONS

“Personally Identifiable Information” or “PII” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, can reasonably be associated with, or can reasonably be linked to a particular individual or household without extraordinary effort. Personally Identifiable Information may include information such as your name, address, phone number, and other related information that you provide to us. We collect information from you both when you provide it voluntarily and also automatically when you use our Website.

“Non-Personal Information” or “NPI” is information that is in no way personally identifiable and that is obtained automatically when you access our Website.

3. OUR COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

Our Privacy Policy covers: the PII that we may collect from you, how your information is used, how we may share your PII, and your rights and options regarding your PII. 

ParcelShield is committed to the security and privacy of all our customers. We take your privacy seriously, and we will work with you to ensure that you have an enjoyable online experience.

ParcelShield and our affiliates respect your privacy and recognize the need for appropriate protection and management of your PII that you share with us. 

4. OTHER WEBSITES

This Website may contain links to other websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but not limited to any third party websites, services and applications that are linked or made available on our Website (“Third Party Services”). You understand that these websites are not under our control and are not subject to our Privacy Policy, and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose any PII through those Third Party Services. These websites will likely have their own privacy policies, and you should read the privacy policies of third-party websites carefully. By providing a link to a Third Party Service, we are not endorsing or attempting to associate with any other entity, their content or services, or the persons or entities associated with those other websites. We have no responsibility for these Third Party Services and provide links to these third-party websites solely for your convenience. We are not responsible for the content, privacy policies, actions, or security of any Third Party Service. You also agree and acknowledge that ParcelShield will not be responsible or liable, directly or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in connection with use of or reliance on any content, services, resources or goods on or through any such Third Party Service. You acknowledge that your use and access of these other websites is solely at your own risk.

5. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

a. Personally Identifiable Information

We collect Personally Identifiable Information when you are using or accessing the Website. We collect information from you both automatically when you use our Website and when you voluntarily provide such information. We collect Personally Identifiable Information from you and any devices (including mobile devices) you use when you: use our Website, provide us information on a web form, request information, when you otherwise correspond with us, or engage or connect with us through the Website.

In addition, we may also collect PII about you from third parties in connection with our Website, including from the following sources:

  • Service providers (including hosting providers)
  • Data analytics service providers
  • Email, chat, and other communications service providers

We may collect the following categories of PII from you, depending on your interactions with the Website and the choices you make, as further described below. :

  • Identifiers: Your name, email address, phone number, unique personal identifier, and Internet Protocol (IP) address.
  • Company Information: Professional or employment-related information including but not limited to your company and your job title.
  • User Data: Any data entered voluntarily into a contact form on the Website.
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information:
    • Browse history. Data about the webpages you visit.
    • Search history: Data about the search terms you enter.
    • Device, connectivity, and configuration data: Data about your device and nearby networks, including regional and language settings.
  • Geolocation data: Data about your device’s location, which may be inferred from your IP address.

Generally, you control the amount and type of information you voluntarily provide to us when using our Website. You are not required to provide us with any PII as a visitor to our Website. You must provide us with certain PII, including your name, email address, and phone number, in order to make a request for particular resources, additional information, or otherwise communicate with us via the Website. We will offer you choices when we ask for PII, whenever reasonably possible. Notwithstanding any your rights and obligations under applicable law, as further discussed in “Your Rights and Options Regarding Your Personally Identifiable Information” below, we will, for all Users, make good faith efforts to provide you access to your PII upon request and to correct such data if it is inaccurate and delete it, when reasonably possible.

b. Computer Information Collected

When you use our Website, we automatically collect certain computer information by the interaction of your mobile phone or web browser with our Website. We may also collect any of the following:

I. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Our Website uses “Cookies.” Cookies are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer or mobile device when you use the Website, which are unique to your device. Your web browser stores Cookies in a manner associated with each website you visit. We or our third-party partners may use Cookies to recognize your web browser and tell us how and when you visit the Website, and to identify the areas of our Website that you have visited. Cookies help us learn which areas of the Website are useful and which areas need improvement. We also use Cookies and other technologies to enhance your online experience by eliminating the need to register multiple times for registration-required content. Finally, we may use Cookies to personalize the Content that you see on our Website.

i. Cookies may be either persistent or temporary (or session) Cookies. A persistent Cookie retains user preferences for a particular website, app or service, allowing those preferences to be used in future use sessions and remains valid until its set expiry date (unless deleted by the user before the expiry date). A temporary Cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser or app is closed.

Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of Cookies, and you can choose whether to accept cookies by changing the settings on your browser or device, as discussed further in “Your Rights and Options Regarding Your Personal Information,” below. If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some features of the Website will not function properly when you view them. We never place PII in Cookies.

ii. Automatic Information

In the interest of providing our visitors and customers with a secure online experience, our servers automatically record information when you visit our Website, including: your IP address, your browser type and selected language, and the date and time of your visit to the Website and any request made via the Website. We use all of this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our Website. 

iii. Analytics Privacy Policy

Our Website uses “Salesforce Pardot” analytics and “Google Analytics” to collect information about the use of our Website and User interaction with our marketing campaigns. These analytics service providers collect information, such as how often Users visit our Website, what pages of our Website Users visit, what materials Users download from our Website, browsers utilized by Users, what marketing campaigns Users interact with, and what other Websites any User used prior to coming to our Website. We use the information we get from these analytics service providers to improve our Website. We do not combine the information collected through the use of analytics applications with Personally Identifiable Information. 

6. HOW INFORMATION IS USED

We will retain and use your PII to the extent necessary to comply with our legal, accounting, or reporting obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes and enforce our legal agreements and policies. Additionally, we may continue to store your PII contained in our standard back-ups. In no event will we retain any PII collected for longer than seven (7) years.

The information we gather enables us to provide the Website to you and personalize, improve, and continue to operate the Website, gather information to help us detect, prevent and address technical and security issues, and help maintain the integrity and security of the Website and our technology assets, understand how you access and use our Website to ensure technical functionality of our Website, analyze your use of the Website, including your interactions features and information made available, linked to, or offered through our Website, and to communicate with you or facilitate or respond to a request by you, including to send you promotional communications, information and materials that we think may be of interest to you.

We use the information we receive from you as follows: 

a. Providing Requested Materials and Services

We may use PII to provide the materials and services you’ve requested, including communicating with you about technical issues, new materials and services, and other information of interest to you. We may use PII to notify you about changes to our Website, or materials and services. We may also use PII for auditing, research and analysis to operate and improve our materials and services.

b. Providing and Improving Our Website

We may use the PII you provide to us, along with any computer information we receive, to provide our Website to you as well as to make improvements to it. We may use PII to gather analysis and assess trends and interests, to monitor usage of our Website, to detect, prevent, and address technical issues, and to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Website when you choose to do so.

c. Communications and Email Alerts

When we communicate with you about our Website, we will use the email address you provided when registering, requesting information or materials from the Website, or signing up for an email communications list. We may also send you Website alerts regarding your use of our Website. Finally, we may also send you emails with promotional information about our Website or offers from us or our affiliates, unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change contact preferences at any time through your account. You can opt-out of promotional messages, and you also can opt-out of receiving Website alerts.

7. SHARING YOUR INFORMATION

We do not sell, rent, or otherwise provide your PII to third parties in exchange for money or for marketing purposes, and we will not do so. However, we may share NPI with third parties at our discretion, including use of NPI for data aggregation purposes which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your PII. In connection with our Website and our services, we may provide your Personally Identifiable Information to certain third parties and service providers who we engage to help us run our business and perform the services. Such affiliates and service providers will only receive information necessary to provide the Website, including under the following circumstances:

  • Web hosting providers.
  • Marketing service providers we use to communicate with you.
  • Advertising service providers we use to assist us in providing personalized advertising.

Web analytics providers who monitor and analyze the use of our Website (including, as mentioned above, Google Analytics and Salesforce Pardot). For more information about Google Analytics, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and for more information about Salesforce Pardot, please visit https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/Some state laws may define this as a “sale” of data even though we do not exchange data for money.

a. Disclosures for Our or Your Protection; Legally Required Releases of Information

We will share your PII with third parties if such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with a subpoena, applicable law, regulation, or other legal process or governmental request; (b) assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) investigate or prevent fraud, abusive or unlawful uses or activities, violations of our Terms of Service governing use of our Website and services and/or any law, rule, or regulation; (d) protect us from legal action or claims from third parties including you and/or other users; (e) protect the security or integrity of our Website and services; and/or (f) protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, our users, employees, and affiliates. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention.

b. Disclosures In the Event of a Business Transfer

If our business is acquired or merges, in whole or in part, with another company that would become responsible for providing the Website to you, we may share information with the other business in connection with the transaction, and your PII may be transferred to the new business upon completion of the transaction. The new business would retain the right to use your PII according to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

8. YOUR RIGHTS AND OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

If you need assistance with updating your PII or removing yourself from our mailing lists, send us an email (at [email protected]) with your request, or contact us using any of the methods provided on our Website or listed under “How to Contact Us” above. 

a. Opting Out of Sharing Information

You can always opt out of future unaffiliated third-party disclosures of your information. Such opt-out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers who provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management, or promotional services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments or otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept.

b. Marketing Preferences

By providing your telephone number and/or email address to us, you consent to receive phone calls and/or emails from or on behalf of us and/or our partners and suppliers, including automated marketing messages sent via email. If you would like to opt out of marketing-related email communications from us, you can use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us as set forth in “How to Contact Us” above. If you later opt back into getting marketing communications from us, we will remove your information from our opt-out databases.

c. Personalized Advertising

If you do not wish to participate in our advertising personalization programs, you can opt-out by following the directions provided within the applicable advertisement, or through disabling ad cookies through your browser settings.

d. Cookies; “Do Not Track” Settings

As noted above in “Computer Information Collected” above, you can choose whether to accept Cookies by changing the settings on your browser or device. If you choose to disable Cookies, your experience with the Website may be impaired and some features may not work as they were intended.

Additionally, some web browsers have Do Not Track settings that enable you to request that our Website does not track your movement within our Website. However, these features are not yet uniform, so we do not currently respond to such settings when transmitted to and detected by our Website. Therefore, if you opt to activate your browser’s “do not track” feature in your web browser, we and our third-party providers may continue collecting information about your online activities as described in this Privacy Policy. This does not change our compliance in any other way with our Privacy Policy. You may opt to activate your browser’s do not track settings.

e. State or Country-Specific Rights

Depending on whether you live, you may have certain rights with respect to Personal Information that we have collected and used under certain circumstances, which may include the following:*

  • The right to request the following information regarding our use of your PII:
    • The categories of your PII that we have collected;
    • The purposes for which we have collected or used such PII;
    • The categories of sources for the PII we have collected about you;
    • The categories of third parties with whom we have disclosed your PII;
    • If we have disclosed your PII for a business purpose, a list identifying the PII categories that each category of recipient obtained; and/or
    • If we have sold or shared your PII, a list identifying the PII categories that each category of recipient purchased or received.
  • The right to receive a copy of your PII.
  • The right to request correction of your inaccurate PII.
  • The right to request us to erase your PII when we no longer need such data in connection with the Website (subject to certain exceptions that may apply under applicable law).
  • The right to opt out of sales or sharing of your PII. To exercise the right to opt-out, you (or your authorized representative) may submit a request to us by visiting the following Internet web page link: “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information”.

 

* If you are a resident of a jurisdiction where one or more of these rights are granted to you under applicable law, and you wish to exercise any such rights listed above, please contact us by either:

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your PII. Please understand that we are required to verify your request and may require you to provide some information to enable us to carry out such verification. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with PII if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the PII relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use PII provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

9. TRANSFER OF DATA; SPECIAL NOTICE TO NON-U.S. USERS

Your information, including PII, may be transferred to – and maintained on – computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction. If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including PII, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

We will take all the steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your PII will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other Personal Information.

If you are located in a country outside the U.S. and submit Personally Identifiable Information to us, you consent to the general use and disclosure of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer and/or storage of that information to the U.S. and other countries outside your home country.

10. SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Subject to the following paragraph, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive personal information as this term is defined under applicable data protection and privacy laws (for example, social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Website or otherwise to us.

If you send or disclose any sensitive personal information to us, you consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to our processing and use of such sensitive personal information, you must not submit such content to our Website.

11. POLICY ON CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Website is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 18, particularly children under the age of 13 (“Children” or “Child”). By using the Website, you represent that you are at least 13. If you do not meet this age requirement, please do not access or use the Website. We do not knowingly collect PII from Children, and we do not target the Website to Children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us at any of the methods set forth under “How to Contact Us” above. We may ask for proof of identification before we remove any information to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover on our own that we have collected PII from a Child without verification of parental consent, we will delete the information as soon as we discover it, we will not use the information for any purpose, and we will not disclose the information to third parties. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so. If you are a Child, please seek the permission of a parent or guardian before accessing our Website.

12. OUR EMAIL POLICY

We comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act. You can always opt out of receipt of further email correspondence and marketing campaigns from ParcelShield or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business as discussed under “Disclosures in the Event of a Business Transfer” above.

13. OUR SECURITY POLICY

We have taken steps to build our Website using sophisticated encryption and authentication tools designed to protect the security of your PII. When we collect your PII through our Website, we will encrypt your PII before it travels over the Internet using industry standards as established for conducting secure online transactions. We also use industry standard technologies such as secure routers and fire walls to make sure that your PII is safe. However, no method of data transmission over the Internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant that such techniques will prevent unauthorized access to your data.

We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our Website and not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our Website when you are done using it, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place. 

14. LIMITATION OF LIABILITY

You assume the sole risk of transmitting your information as it relates to the use of this Website, and for any data corruptions, intentional interceptions, intrusions or unauthorized access to information, and of any delays, interruptions to or failures preventing the use this Website. In no event shall ParcelShield be liable for any direct, indirect, special, consequential or monetary damages, including fees, and penalties in connection with your use of materials posted on this Website or connectivity to or from this Website to any other site.

15. GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement will be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of the State of Florida, except to the extent preempted by federal law. In the event that there is any dispute concerning or arising out of this Agreement or performance of this Agreement, User and ParcelShield agree that the sole venue and jurisdiction shall be vested in Orlando, Florida. Arbitration and all enforcement proceedings, if any, shall take place in that jurisdiction. To the fullest extent permissible by law, you waive any objection to venue or personal jurisdiction.

16. QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR PRIVACY POLICY

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact at any of the methods provided in the “How to Contact Us” section at the beginning of this policy.