PRIVACY POLICY
Balance, Inc., as operator of this website (“Balance” or “Company”) has created this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) in connection with information collected through its website located at https://www.balanceink.com/ (“Website”) mobile sites, and applications. By using the Website, you (“you”) agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy applies to all users, including those who use the Website without subscribing to the Website and those who have subscribed to the Website (collectively “users”). This Privacy Policy applies to our collection and use of your personal information (i.e., information that identifies a specific person, such as full name or email address).
1. INFORMATION THAT IS COLLECTED
1.1.PERSONAL INFORMATION
“Personal Information” is any information that can be used to identify, locate or contact you. We collect the following types of Personal Information:
Contact Information that allows us to communicate with you, such as your name, username, mailing address, telephone numbers, country of residence, email address or other addresses that allow us to send you e-mails or messages.
Relationship Information that helps us do business with you, such as your age, demographics and interests as well as your brand and marketing preferences.
Transaction Information about how you interact with Us including your purchase history, customer account information.
Usage Information about how you use the Website and mobile applications, to give us a better idea of how you interact with our brands and content.
1.2.AUTOMATIC INFORMATION
Examples of the information we collect and analyze include the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information such as browser type, version, and time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform; and the phone number you used to call our number. We may associate such automatic information with the Personal Information you provide.
We may also use browser data such as cookies, Flash cookies (also known as Flash Local Shared Objects), or similar data on certain parts of the Website for fraud prevention and other purposes to help us better serve users with information relevant to their particular desires, needs and/or interests. Please review our Cookie Policy (located at http://www.balanceink.com/privacy) to understand what types of browser data are collected.
Mobile
When using the Website on your mobile device, additional information, such as your location, may be automatically collected. Most mobile devices provide users with the ability to disable location services. Most likely, these controls are located in the device's settings menu. If you have questions about how to disable your device's location services, we recommend you contact your mobile service carrier or your device manufacturer.
Information from Social Media.
If you access or log-in to our Website through a social media service or use Balance’s social media services (including but not limited to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Google+, LinkedIn, Pinterest, or Youtube), the information we collect may also include your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, any information or content you have permitted the social media service to share with us, including but not limited to your profile picture, email address or friends lists, and any information you have made public in connection with that social media service. When you access the Website through social media, you are authorizing Balance to collect, store, and use such information and content in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
2. HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED
Balance uses your Personal Information to:
Deliver personalized content to you;
Provide you with marketing communications from Balance and, in some cases, our partners;
Create a profile and post projects on the Website to engage in Balance community;
Administer surveys and other promotional events that you may voluntarily choose to join; and
Manage our everyday business needs, such as payment processing and financial account management, product development, contract management, website administration, forum management, fulfillment, analytics, security and fraud prevention, corporate governance, reporting and legal compliance.
If Company intends to use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than as set out in this Privacy Statement, Company will provide you with information on that other purpose prior to that use.
Balance limits its sharing of your Personal Information to third-parties, and may share your Personal Information with:
Company’s affiliates, who may only use your Personal Information in compliance with this Privacy Statement;
Company’s service providers, who are instructed to only use your Personal Information in accordance with our instructions;
Unaffiliated joint marketing partners, but only if you have given us your consent; and
Other parties or entities where needed to affect the sale or transfer of business assets, in connection with a bankruptcy proceeding, to enforce our rights, protect our property, or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. Company may also disclose Personal Information when required to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, including to law enforcement agencies and courts in the countries where we operate.
Please note that Company may also use and disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable (i.e. Personal Information in an aggregate form that no longer identifies you).
3. SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Balance takes commercially reasonable steps to protect the security of your Personal Information. Company provides physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect information. Please be aware that, although Company endeavors to provide reasonable security for information we process and maintain, no website, internet transmission, computer system or wireless connection is completely secure and cannot prevent all potential security breaches. Company cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss, or other breaches will never occur. Your use of the Website is at your own risk.
4. EXTERNAL LINKS
Balance is committed to your right to privacy. However, please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the Website and not to any other websites or applications that you may access from the Website, each of which may have privacy policies that are materially different from this Privacy Policy. Balance encourages you to be aware when you leave the Website and to read the privacy policies of each and every other website and/or application, as Company is not responsible or liable for the commitments and obligations made to you in any privacy policy or the terms and conditions of any such website or application.
5. CONSENT TO PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES
The Website is operated in the United States. By providing any information to us, all users, including, without limitation, users in the member states of the European Union, Canada, China or elsewhere outside of the United States, fully understand and consent to this Privacy Policy. By using the Website, participating in any of our services and/or providing us with your information, you consent and agree to the collection, transfer, storage and processing of your information to and in the United States.
6. CHILDREN
The Website supports and complies with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and other applicable laws. Except where otherwise indicated, we do not knowingly collect or store any Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child under the age of 13 has provided us with information without his or her consent, he or she should contact us at info@balanceink.com. As required by law, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete such Personal Information from our files within a reasonable time.
7. ACCESS, CORRECTION AND OTHER RIGHTS
If you have an online account, you can log into your account at any time to access and update your information. You may ask Company to:
Provide you with a copy of your personal data;
Correct mistakes to your Personal Information including your profile;
Delete your Personal Information;
Restrict processing of your Personal Information; and
Provide you with a copy of the Personal Information you provided to us.
If you need any assistance updating your Personal Information, please contact us (info@balanceink.com)
8. DATA RETENTION
Company retains your Personal Information for as long as your account is active, or as long as needed for the business purposes described in this Privacy Policy, in accordance with applicable legal standards. Company will process your personal data for no longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, Company considers the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements. In some circumstances Company may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case Company may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
9. POLICY CHANGES
Company reserves the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you are encouraged to review this Privacy Policy from time to time. Your continued use of the Website following the posting of such modifications, alterations or updates will signify your acceptance thereof. Please note that each time you use the Website, the current version of this Privacy Policy will apply.
If Company changes its Privacy Policy, Company will date and post those changes on the Website so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how such information is used and under what circumstances, if any, such information is disclosed. Any and all changes to the Privacy Policy will also be reflected on this page. Unless we obtain your express consent, any revised Privacy Policy will apply only to information collected after such time as the revised Privacy Policy takes effect. If at any point Company decides to use Personal Information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, Company will notify you and you will then have a choice whether or not Company can use such information in this different manner.
10. ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By using the Website, you hereby accept all of the terms set forth in our Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to accept all or any portion of such terms, then you are respectfully asked not to use Balance, Inc.
CONTACT US:
Balance, Inc
69 Kenosia Ave,
Danbury CT 06810
Last Modified: May 2021
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