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Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to Breezio, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as, “Breezio”). This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) relates to the information collection and use practices employed by Breezio specifically for the Subscriber’s portal for which the Subscriber has given you access. This statement includes both Breezio’s European Union – U.S. Safe Harbor Privacy Statement and the Website Privacy Statements.
This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures for collecting, using, protecting and disclosing your information. End Users can access the Subscriber’s portal, hosted by Breezio, (the “Service”) through the internet, applications on Devices, through APIs, and through third-parties. A “Device” is any computer used to access the Subscriber’s portal, including without limitation a desktop, laptop, mobile phone, tablet, or other consumer electronic device. This Privacy Policy governs your access of the Subscriber’s portal, regardless of how you access it, and by using our Services you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses described in this Privacy Policy. All of the different forms of data, content, and information described below are collectively referred to as “information.”
Breezio complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.- Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. Breezio has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view Breezio’s certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/
By visiting the Subscriber’s portal and/or using our Breezio Services, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. The Information We Collect And Store
We may collect and store the following information when running the Breezio Service for the Subscriber’s portal:
Information You Provide. When you register an account, we collect some personal information, such as your name, phone number, email address and home and business postal addresses. You may also ask us to import your contacts by giving us access to your third party services (for example, your email account) or to use your social networking information if you give us access to your account on social network connection services. You may also provide us with your contacts’ email addresses when sharing folders or files with them.
Files. We collect and store the files you upload, download, or access with the Breezio Service (“Files”). If you add a file to your Subscriber’s portal that has been previously uploaded by you or another user, we may associate all or a portion of the previous file with your account rather than storing a duplicate.
Log Data. When you use the Service, we automatically record information from your Device, its software, and your activity using the Services. This may include the Device’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, the web page visited before you came to our website, information you search for on our website, locale preferences, identification numbers associated with your Devices, your mobile carrier, date and time stamps associated with transactions, system configuration information, metadata concerning your Files, and other interactions with the Service.
2. How We Use Personal Information
In the course of using the Service, we may collect personal information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Information”). Personal Information is or may be used: (i) to provide and improve our Service, (ii) to administer your use of the Service, (iii) to better understand your needs and interests, (iv) to personalize and improve your experience, and (v) to provide or offer software updates and product announcements. If you no longer wish to receive communications from us, please follow the “unsubscribe” instructions provided in any of those communications, or update your account settings information.
3. Information Sharing and Disclosure
Your Use. We will display your Personal Information in your profile page and elsewhere on the Service according to the preferences you set in your account. Any information you choose to provide should reflect how much you want others to know about you. Please consider carefully what information you disclose in your profile page and your desired level of anonymity. You can review and revise your profile information at any time. We may also share or disclose your information with your consent, for example if you use a third party application to access your account (see below). Through certain features of the Service, you may also have the ability to make some of your information public. Public information may be broadly and quickly disseminated. We are not responsible for any information you give other websites we link to. This Policy only applies to information collected by Breezio through the Subscriber’s portal. It does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or employees that we do not manage. The Subscriber’s portal may contain links to third party websites, and any information you provide to those sites will be covered by any privacy policy they may have. Please be sure to read the privacy policy of any third party sites you visit. it is those sites’ responsibility to protect any information you give them, so we cannot be held liable for their wrongful use of your personally identifying information.
Service Providers, Business Partners and Others. We may use certain trusted third party companies and individuals to help us provide, analyze, and improve the Service (including but not limited to data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, payment processing, and improvement of the Service’s features). These third parties may have access to your information only for purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf and under obligations similar to those in this Privacy Policy.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of Breezio's Rights. We may disclose to parties outside Breezio information stored in your Breezio and information about you that we collect when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with a law, regulation or compulsory legal request; (b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of Breezio or its users; or (d) to protect Breezio’s property rights. If we provide your Breezio files to a law enforcement agency as set forth above, we will remove Breezio’s encryption from the files before providing them to law enforcement. However, Breezio will not be able to decrypt any files that you encrypted prior to storing them on Breezio.
Business Transfers. If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your information may be transferred as part of that transaction, but we will notify you (for example, via email and/or a prominent notice on our website) of any change in control or use of your Personal Information or shared information, or if either become subject to a different Privacy Policy. We will also notify you of choices you may have regarding the information.
Non-private or Non-Personal Information. We may disclose your non-private, aggregated, or otherwise non-personal information, such as usage statistics of our Service.
4. Changing or Deleting Your Information
If you are a registered user, you may review, update, correct or delete the Personal Information provided in your registration or account profile by changing your “account settings.” If your personally identifiable information changes, or if you no longer desire our service, you may update or delete it by making the change on your account settings. In some cases we may retain copies of your information if required by law.
5. Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services, you may delete your account by contacting support@breezio.com. We may retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Consistent with these requirements, we will try to delete your information quickly upon request. Please note, however, that there might be latency in deleting information from our servers and backed-up versions might exist after deletion. In addition, we do not delete from our servers files that you have in common with other users.
6. Breezio Community
Depending upon the Subscriber’s portal settings, our Service can offer publicly accessible community services such as blogs, forums, and wikis. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. Your posts may remain even after you cancel your account.
7. Security
The security of your information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as a credit card number), we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us at info@breezio.com.
8. Our Policy Toward Children
Our Services are not directed to persons under 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at support@breezio.com. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will take steps to delete such information from our files.
9. Changes to our Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. If we make a change to this privacy policy that we believe materially reduces your rights, we will provide you with notice (for example, by email). And we may provide notice of changes in other circumstances as well. By continuing to use the Service after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.
10. Enforcement/Dispute Resolution
To file a complaint regarding this Policy, you should contact Breezio at legal@breezio.com. Breezio’s General Counsel will explain the process to be followed when filing a complaint and will investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information by referencing the privacy principles stated in this Policy. For complaints that cannot be resolved, Breezio has agreed to participate in the following dispute resolution procedures in the investigation and resolution of complaints to resolve disputes pursuant to the Safe Harbor Principles: (1) For disputes involving all personal information received by Breezio from Switzerland, Breezio has agreed to cooperate with the Swiss FDPIC; (2) For disputes involving all personal information received by Breezio from the EEA, Breezio has agreed to cooperate with the independent dispute resolution service provided by the Data Protection Authorities, (the “DPA”) in the EEA and to participate in the dispute resolution procedures of the panel established by the European Data Protection Authorities.
11. Publicly Available
Breezio will work with you to resolve any concerns you may have about this Policy. To ask questions regarding this Policy or any of Breezio’s privacy practices, request the deletion of personal information, or issue a complaint, you can contact Breezio via email support@breezio.com - or mail at the following address: Breezio, 30 West Gude Drive # 150, Rockville, Maryland 20850 USA. Phone: 240-903-0999
A copy of our privacy policy is also available at http://www.breezio.com/terms-of-use/