The following Privacy Policy applies to all products and services provided by Touched Be Blessed Services, Inc., Active Grant Service Program hereinafter referred to as (TBBS A-Grant Services).
TBBS A-Grant Services knows that privacy is important to you. This Privacy Notice describes how we collect, use, disclose, store and protect your information. By using a TBBS A-Grant Services product, service or website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Notice.
1. YOUR INFORMATION
Information you provide to us. We collect information that you provide to us when you use our products and services or anytime you are in contact with us. Some types of information you may provide include:
Registration information that you may be required to provide when you sign up to use our services, including your name, address, telephone number, and email address;
Login information that you use to sign in to our services, such as your username, and password;
Business information, including the name, state, Federal type of entity, year in business;
Demographic information about you, including your age, gender, hobbies, interests, and country of residence;
Payment information that you submit, including your credit card number, expiration date, and credit card security code, where needed to complete a transaction you have initiated;
Messages, photos, videos, drawings, audio recordings and other information shared by you through the interactive features of our products and services;
Correspondence you send directly to us; and
Information you provide to us offline (through, for example, regular mail, in-person donation and sponsorship forms, and service transactions and direct purchases.
Information we collect automatically.
We collect some information automatically when you use our products and services. Some types of information we collect automatically include:
Information about your use of our products, services and websites, including your browser type, operating system, platform, IP address, MAC address, language and region;
Information about websites you visited before and after visiting our websites, search queries that landed you on our websites, search queries you conducted on our websites, and pages and advertisements you viewed and links you clicked on while using our websites;
Information about your TBBS A-Grant Services device including device serial number, device ID, wireless access point, and other technical information about your device; and
Information about your game play, social network access, online status, use of our online services, friends and friend codes, purchases, and other information about your interactions with our products and services.
Information we receive from other sources.
We may receive information about you from other sources, including through third-party services and retailers. Some examples of information we may receive from other sources include:
• Navigation data, including websites visited and advertisements viewed or clicked;
• Information about consumer service transactions; and
• Purchase information.
Please note that we may add information we receive from other sources to the information we already have about you. We also may combine your information with information about other users, including game play, demographic, search term, clickstream and purchase information, and use this combined information in an aggregated format.
2. COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, LOG FILES AND THIRD PARTY PARTNERS
In order to collect some of the information described above, we may use web beacons, cookies, log files, and similar technologies in some of our products and services, including our emails.
• Web Beacons: We may use web beacons (also referred to as pixel trackers or clear GIFs), which are small graphic images placed on a web page, on a web-based document, or in an email message. Web beacons are designed to collect certain user information and monitor certain user activity. Information collected by web beacons might include your IP address, MAC address, the URL of the page you came from, or your interactions with our website or an email message we send to you. We may use the information collected through web beacons, for example, to determine how to improve certain products and services by identifying popular web pages, services, features, and products; to personalize our products and services; to make recommendations for products and services; and to complete transactions you have requested.
• Cookies: We may use cookies, which are unique identifiers that are sometimes placed on your device to record data about your visits to a website, so that the site can recognize your device and personalize your visit. Information collected by cookies may be linked to your transaction history, online game play or other information. We may use information collected by cookies, for example, to determine how to improve certain products and services by identifying popular web pages, services, features, and products; to personalize our products and services; to make recommendations for products and services; and to complete transactions you have requested.
• Log Files: We maintain log files which record activity related to the use of our products and services, such as the number of hits a particular webpage has received, the type and quality of a user's Internet connection, the type of hardware and/or software used to access a particular service, which features of a service are used and their frequency of use. The entries within these log files may include, for example, your IP addresses, MAC addresses, cookie information, device ID, transactional data, device settings, and download activity. We may use these log files, for example, to monitor traffic on our website, to facilitate use of certain services and to troubleshoot technical problems.
• Third Party Partners: We also may permit our third party partners to set cookies and web beacons on our websites or within emails sent on our behalf, to help us perform various internal functions necessary to operate our business. These third parties may use these cookies and web beacons to collect information about your visit to our website and may use that information during, or after, your visits to our website to provide you advertisements about goods and services that may be of greater interest to you.
3. USE OF INFORMATION
We may use your information in order for us, our affiliated companies, or our third party partners, to: (i) fulfill your requests for products, services, and information, including to send you commercial and non-commercial messages and to process orders you have placed; (ii) contact you in connection with our products and services, including for marketing and promotional purposes; (iii) facilitate your use of our products, services and websites; (iv) enable your participation in online games, contests, sweepstakes, surveys, public forums, and other features offered through our products, services and websites; (v) make recommendations and customize the content, features, and advertising available through our products, services and websites; (vi) set up repair orders and respond to consumer service inquiries; (vii) provide back-end services, including system updates and system messages; (viii) provide free games, applications, trials, and other content; (ix) analyze and facilitate the use of our products, services and websites; (x) conduct demographic studies; (xi) understand, improve, and develop our products, services and websites; (xii) prevent potentially illegal or offensive activities; (xiii) enforce our rights or the rights of our users; (xiv) verify your identity and prevent fraudulent transactions; and (xv) for any other purposes disclosed to you at the time we collect your information or pursuant to your consent.
4. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION
At times we may make certain information that we collect available to our affiliated companies, to our third party partners, to other TBBS A-Grant Services users, and for other legal and business purposes.
For example:
TBBS A-Grant Services Affiliates. We may share information with other TBBS A-Grant Services affiliated companies that use it consistent with this Privacy Notice.
Third Parties. We may share information with our third party partners to help us perform various functions necessary to operate our business or fulfill your requests (for example, completing downloads or purchases, developing and executing marketing campaigns). We also may share such information to, for example, complete your transactions, provide you with advertising and other promotional materials, and assist in the creation of user accounts with third parties.
Other Users. We may share information, including, for example, your member name, member profile information, online status, searching information, with other TBBS A-Grant Services users when you use the online features of our products and services.
Local Communications. Some TBBS A-Grant Services devices have local communication features that can be activated by you. These features allow some of your information to be collected and shared, automatically, with us and with other TBBS A-Grant Services users. These features also allow us, and other TBBS A-Grant Services users, to automatically contact and interact with you. When these features are enabled by you, you may receive information about, and communications from, other TBBS A-Grant Services users, and you may also receive advertising and promotional materials from TBBS A-Grant Services and its third party partners.
Legal and Business Purposes. We may disclose your information in order to comply with legal process, to respond to claims or inquiries, or to protect the rights, property or personal safety of TBBS A-Grant Services, our users, or the public. Your information may also be disclosed as part of any sale or transfer of company assets, if legally permitted.
You are responsible for any information that you share with others through use of our products, services and websites. Please be aware that other users may be able to store, modify, or share with third parties, information that you provide to them.
5. THIRD-PARTIES
You may disclose your information to third parties when you use our products and services in order to access grant information and details, use third-party applications or plugins, view third-party advertisements, or visit third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and we recommend that you review their privacy notices before submitting any information to them.
6. ATTENTION PARENTS OR LEGAL GUARDIANS: PROTECTING CHILDREN'S PRIVACY
In accordance with applicable law, we obtain consent from parents for the collection of personal information from their children. You can find information about how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from our users, including children under the age of 13, in the sections above titled YOUR INFORMATION, USE OF INFORMATION, DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.
We strongly recommend that you supervise your child's use of our products and services at all times.
TBBS A-Grant Services is not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties, and we recommend that you review their privacy notices before your child provides or exchanges any personal information through third-party services or content.
7. SECURITY
TBBS A-Grant Services uses reasonable measures, and has established reasonable safeguards, to help protect your information from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. You should understand that no data storage system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.Please note that information collected by third parties may not have the same security protections as information you submit to us or that we collect, and we are not responsible for protecting the security of such information.
8. INTERNATIONAL USERS
Any information you provide, or that is collected through use of our products, services and websites may be stored, processed, and transferred within, or to, the United States, or any other country in which we or our affiliated companies or third party partners maintain facilities. As a result, it is possible that your information could be accessed by foreign governmental authorities, or otherwise, in accordance with applicable local laws. By using our US based website, or by designating the United States as the region for your TBBS A-Grant Services device, you consent to the collection, storage, processing, and transfer of your information in and to the United States, or other countries and territories, pursuant to the laws of the United States.
9. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the update the Privacy Notice at any time. When we update this Privacy Notice, we will revise the "Last Updated" date above. We recommend that you review this Privacy Notice each time you use our products, services or websites to help you stay informed of our privacy practices.
10. CONTACT US WITH YOUR PRIVACY QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR CONCERNS
If you have any questions, complaints or comments regarding this Privacy Notice, or any of our privacy practices, please contact a TBBS A-Grant Services Privacy Administrator via email at webmaster@touchedbeblessed.com, via phone at 1-888-602-0227, or via U.S. Postal Service at Touched Be Blessed Services, Inc. TBBS A-Grant Services, Attn: Privacy Administrator, P.O. Box 11695, Columbus Ohio 43211, U.S.A.