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Bottango PRIVACY NOTICE

LAST UPDATED: August 16th, 2020

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Bottango, LLC (“Bottango,” “we” or “us”) provides this Privacy Notice to explain our practices relating to our collection, use, processing and sharing of information we collect from you or that you may provide to Bottango whey you visit our website or otherwise interact with us. This Privacy Notice is incorporated into and forms a part of our Terms of Use (www.bottango.com/terms). Capitalized terms used in this Privacy Notice but not defined have the definitions assigned to them in the Bottango Terms of Use.

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This Privacy Notice applies to information that Bottango collects: on or through the Bottango website (http://Bottango.com) (the “Site”); in email, text and other electronic communications between you and Bottango; through software applications you download through the Site (“Software”); and when you interact with our advertising on third-party websites and services.

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Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. By using our Site or taking any of the actions described above, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Notice. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Notice, do not access or use the Site or engage in the actions described above. 

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  1. INFORMATION COLLECTED

    1. Personal Data. We may collect certain information that personally identifies you or in conjunction with other information can identify you, such as your name, postal address, email address, telephone number, name of the company you work for, your job title, your responses to surveys or forms, and other information that you choose to submit when you communicate with us.

    2. Device, Log and Similar Data. We may collect information about your device or usage of our Site and Software. This information may include, but is not limited to, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, internet service provider or mobile carrier, operating system, browser type, device type, location, language, referring website, application or ad, log files, time and date stamps, pages and files on the Site that you view, links you click on, and crash or bug reports with error causing or non-executing code texts and functions. Some of this information, either alone or in connection with other information we collect, could personally identify you.

    3. Wix. The Site is hosted by Wix. Wix collects information when you visit this Site, including: information about your browser, network and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to the Site; and your IP address. Wix needs the data to run the Site, and to protect and improve its platform and services.

    4. Google Analytics. This site uses Google Analytics to run the site and improve it's services. Google Analytics collects information when you visit this Site, including: information about your browser, network and device; web pages you visited prior to coming to the Site; and an anonymized form of your IP address.

  2. HOW WE COLLECT INFORMATION

    1. Communications.  We collect information, which may include Personal Data, when you: contact us to request information about our products; request customer support; use a “contact us” or similar feature; send us bug reports, crash reports or feedback; or otherwise communicate with us (including without limitation through email and social media platforms such Facebook).

    2. Subscriptions and Responses. We collect information, which may include Personal Data, when you subscribe to receive newsletters or other periodic updates from us, respond to questions or surveys, post to discussion boards or forums.

    3. Interactions with the Site; Cookies. We collect information, which includes device, log and similar data, and may include Personal Data, automatically when you navigate or interact with our Site or emails or you opt-in to enable automatic crash and bug reports for the software. Bottango, and third parties providing services to Bottango, utilize certain technologies to recognize you when you use the Site, track your interactions with the Site, and personalize your experience. These technologies include devices such as cookies, web beacons, pixels and similar devices. Cookies are small data files we transfer to your computer hard drive. We utilize some cookies that remain on your computer after you leave the Site so that we can recognize you when you return. We also utilize session cookies to enable certain features of the Site, to better understand how users interact with the Site and monitor use of the Site users and web traffic to the website. Session cookies are deleted from your computer when you log off from the Site and close your browser. You maintain control over some of the information we collect through the use of cookies, and you can set your preferences regarding the use of cookies through your browser settings. If you choose not to accept cookies, you may not be able to access portions of the Site or use certain functionality of the Site. It helps us to improve our Site and to deliver a better and more personalized service.

    4. Our hosting service provider, Wix, uses cookies in connection with the hosting the Site. For information about viewing the cookies placed on your device, visit: Cookies and your Wix Site.

      1. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Wix, to securely serve the Site to you.

      2. These analytics and performance cookies are used on the Site, as further described below, only when you acknowledge a cookie banner on our Site. We use analytics cookies to view Site traffic, activity, and other usage data.

    5. Our analytics provider, Google Analytics, uses cookies to analyze traffic and interactions on this site. These analytics and performance cookies are used on the Site, as further described below, only when you acknowledge a cookie banner on our Site.

  3. USE OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT

    1. Operation and Improvement of our Site and Business. We use your information, including Personal Data, to operate our business and provide the Site and related services to you. We may also use your information to develop new features or services and to improve the quality of our services.

    2. Responding to Communications. We use your information, including Personal Data, to respond to your communications to us, including communications submitted through the Site (such as through forms) or via email.

    3. Customer Service and Technical Support. We use your information, including Personal Data, in order to provide customer service and technical support for our software and services. 

    4. Advertising and Marketing. We may use your information, including Personal Data, to send you marketing communications or provide advertising promoting our Site, products or services. If you do not wish to receive such communications, you can choose to opt-out of receipt using the unsubscribe link within each communication. 

    5. Research. We may use your information, other than Personal Data, in conjunction with information from other users in aggregate form, for our own internal research and analytical purposes.

    6. For Enforcement of Agreements. We may use your information, including Personal Data, to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights under agreements between you and Bottango.

    7. Security. We may use your information, including Personal Data, to investigate suspicious activity related to our Site, software or services, to enforce our Site policies, or as otherwise necessary to protect our legitimate interest in promoting the safety and security of our Site, systems, applications, and users.

    8. Complying with Legal Obligations. We may use your information, including Personal Data, when required to cooperate with public and government authorities, courts or regulators to the extent doing so requires the use or disclosure of information to protect our rights or is necessary for our legitimate interest in protecting against misuse or abuse of our Site, protecting our personal property or safety or that of third parties, pursuing remedies available to us and limiting our damages, complying with judicial proceedings, court orders or legal processes, responding to lawful requests, or for auditing purposes.

    9. Other Authorized Purposes. We may use your information, including Personal Data, for any other purpose for which you have provided Bottango authorization to use the information.

  4. INFORMATION SHARING AND DISCLOSURE

    1. Upon Consent. We may share your information, including Personal Data, with third parties if you provide us with authorization to do so or if necessary to provide you with services you’ve requested. Some features of our Site may provide you with the option to share information publicly or with specific third parties, in which case we would make such information available in accordance with the options you elect.

    2. Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your information, including Personal Data, with third-party service providers who assist us in providing the Site and related services and operating our business. This may include third-party service providers that provide web hosting (currently Wix), subscription management, payment processing, customer research and analytics (including Wix and Google Analytics), discussion groups or forums, and customer support. If we share your Personal Data with third-party service providers, we require those service providers to maintain the confidentiality of the Personal Data we provide to them, and to not use the Personal Data we share with them for purposes other than the services they are providing to us.

    3. Professional Advisors. We may disclose your information, including Personal Data, with professional advisors such as our lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers to the extent we are legally obliged to disclose such information or have a legitimate interest in sharing your Personal Data.

    4. Responses to Legal Process, Subpoenas or Court Orders. We may disclose your information, including Personal Data, as required by law, such as in response to a court order, subpoena, lawful demand by a public authority, or similar legal process.

    5. To Protect Our Business, Users or Others. We may disclose your information, including Personal Data, if we believe it is necessary to protect the property and/or rights of Bottango, you, or a third party, to protect the safety of the public or any person, in the event of a legal dispute, or to prevent or stop activity we believe may pose a risk of being illegal, unethical or in violation of the Terms of Use.

    6. Business Transfers. We may sell, assign, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including your Personal Data, in connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of our assets or in the event of bankruptcy.

  5. POLICY REGARDING CHILDREN 

    1. Our Site and related services are not intended for persons under 18 years of age, and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from persons under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us at legal@bottango.com. If we become aware that a person under 18 years of age has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to delete such information from our systems.

  6. SECURITY 

    1. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the information we collect, maintain and transmit. We have in place commercially reasonable means designed to provide reasonable and appropriate administrative, technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against risks such as temporary or permanent loss, destruction, and unauthorized or unlawful access, alteration, use or disclosure. This includes, for example, firewalls, password protection and other access and authentication controls. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot, and do not, guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot, and do not, guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or administrative safeguards. If you believe your Personal Data has been compromised, please contact us at legal@bottango.com.

    2. If we learn of a security breach involving your Personal Data, we will inform you of the occurrence of the breach in accordance with applicable law.

  7. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE 

    1. Bottango may modify this Privacy Notice from time to time to reflect changes in our practices, policies, technologies and legal requirements. If we modify this Privacy Notice, we will update the “Last Updated” notice at the top. Any changes to this Privacy Notice are effective when we post the revised Privacy Notice on the Site. If any change to our Privacy Notice materially affects the use of your Personal Date, we will use reasonable efforts to notify you in advance, such as by sending an email (if you have provided Bottango with your email address) or by posting a prominent notice of the changes on the Site, and give you a reasonable period of time to object to any changes. Objecting to changes may affect the availability of certain parts of the Site or the functionality of certain services we can provide to you. Bottango will treat your continued use of Site after the effective date of any updated Privacy Notice as your acceptance of the Privacy Notice as revised. However, we will seek your affirmative consent to any material changes in our use of your Personal Data as described in a revised Privacy Notice if required by applicable data protection laws. You should review our Privacy Notice each time you access and use the Site.

  8. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SERVICES

    1. This Privacy Notice does not address, and Bottango is not responsible for, the policies and practices of third parties, including policies and practices related to privacy and security, data collection, processing, use, storage, and disclosure. This includes: (a) any third party operating a site or service to which the Site may link – the inclusion of a link on the Site does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by Bottango; or (b) any app provider or social media platform provider (such as Facebook or Discord) - including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with use of the Site.

  9. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS 

    1. We do not share your Personal Data with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your consent.

  10. EU GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (“GDPR”) NOTICE

    1. 10.1.Scope. This section applies when we act as the controller of Personal Data and the processing of such Personal Data is governed by the GDPR.

    2. 10.2.Personal Data We Collect. The Personal Data we collect is described above in Section 1.

    3. 10.3.Use of Personal Data We Collect. We use collected Personal Data for the purposes described above in Section 2.

    4. 10.4.Lawful Grounds. The lawful basis for us to process your Personal Data under the GDPR is the processing is necessary for our performance of our contact with you to provide the Site and related services. We also rely on our legitimate interest in understanding how users interact with our Site and services and in promoting and improving our services. We rely on your consent to send you marketing communications. 

    5. 10.5.Information Sharing and Disclosure. We may share or disclose your Personal Data, as described in more detail in Section 4 above.

    6. 10.6.Security. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect your Personal Data, as described in more detail in Section 6 above. We have in place commercially reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect your Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unauthorized form of processing of your Personal Data in our possession. We cannot, and do not, guarantee the security or privacy of any information you transmit to us through the Site, and you do so at your own risk.

    7. 10.7.Transfer to United States. We are located in the United States. By submitting your Personal Data via our Site or through your interaction with the Site or related services, the Personal Data will be transferred to the United States for our performance of our contract with you to provide the Site and services.

    8. 10.8.Retention. We retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to provide you the Site and related services and for the purposes identified above in Section 2.

    9. 10.9.Your Rights. you have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:

      1. Right of access to and information about the process of your Personal Data;

      2. Right of rectification (to correct, supplement or update);

      3. Right of erasure (also referred to as the right to be forgotten);

      4. Right to restrict processing;

      5. Right of portability;

      6. Right to object to processing; and

      7. Where we rely upon consent as the lawful grounds for processing, the right to withdraw your consent.

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11. QUESTIONS

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice, or if you wish to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Notice, please contact us at legal@bottango.com.

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