This policy is intended to help you understand how Dinsmore Compliance Services, LLC, and its affiliates (we or us) collect, use, and safeguard the information you (you or user) provide on our website (site) and otherwise in connection with our services.
What We Collect
Anonymous data
We collect anonymous data, including Internet addresses, time of visits, and pages viewed. We use this information to monitor and improve the performance of the site.
Personal information
We collect personally identifiable information (personal information) from users in a variety of ways, including when you provide personal information by using the contact forms and email addresses on this site. If you accept the opportunity to be contacted by us – by personal email, telephone, mail, or email newsletter – you can revoke that acceptance at any time by contacting us and put “Contact Information Opt-out” in the subject line and in the body of your message. You can choose not to provide personal information to us; however, if you do not provide necessary information, or if you delete or remove it, we may not be able to perform certain services for you.
Types of non-public personal information we may collect on or through the site include:
- name, postal address, email address, and telephone number;
- information received on applications, forms, and in other communications to us, whether in writing, in person, by telephone, or by any other means;
- information about your interactions and transactions with us or others; and
- information from your interactions and transactions with us.
Profile
We may store information we collect through cookies, log files, and/or clear gifs to create a profile that details viewing preferences. Consequently, collected information is tied to the user’s personal information and may be used to provide offers, improve the content of the site, and for other internal business purposes. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you reject cookies, you may still use the site, but please note that some parts of the site may be limited or not function properly. We do not share profiles with third parties except as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Use of Personal Information
We collect and use personal and non-personal information through the site for the following purposes:
- To run, operate, and market our site and services
We use user information and share it with select third parties in order to display content on the site correctly and to otherwise make the site function properly. We also use user information and share it with select third parties in order to maintain, develop, and market the site and in connection with other services we provide.
- To research our site and services
We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site and to evaluate the effectiveness of the site and our marketing and business efforts.
- To improve our site and services
We use user information and feedback and share it with select third parties to improve our site and services.
- To send users information about topics we think will be of interest to them.
We use user information and share it with select third parties on an ongoing basis to share alerts, details, news, and marketing information about our services and the services of select third parties.
- To send periodic emails
We may use your email address to send you information and updates or to respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.
Sharing of Personal Information
We use third-party service providers to help us operate our business and the site or administer activities on our behalf. We may share your personal information with these third parties for those limited purposes. We also may disclose any collected information, including your personal information, if we have a good-faith belief that: (1) the disclosure is necessary or useful to our provision of services; (2) the disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, interests, or property; (3) the disclosure is necessary or useful to protect your safety or the safety of others, to investigate fraud, or to respond to a government request; (4) the disclosure is required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena, search warrant, court order, or similar legal or administrative process; and (5) we, or the site, have a transfer of ownership or otherwise are acquired, in which case your information will likely be among the assets transferred. We do not rent, lease, or sell personal information or aggregated non-personally identifiable information collected through this site.
Choice/Opt-out
Our users are given the opportunity to opt-out of having their information used for marketing and information communications. Users can change or update their contact preferences by contacting us and put “Communications Preferences/Opt-Out” in the subject line and in the specific preferences you wish to change in the body of your message. Users can also opt-out of certain communications with us entirely.
Depending on jurisdiction, you may have additional rights to access and control your personal information. If you believe that the site contains information about you that needs to be updated, changed, or corrected, or if you wish to opt-out of or otherwise control any specific use of your information, please submit a request by contacting us. In accordance with applicable law, we will comply with an individual’s requests regarding (i) access, change, correction, deletion, or transfer of any such individual’s personal information we store; and (ii) opt-outs or other requests changing or limiting the use or disclosure of any such individual’s personal information we store, including the sharing or sale of such information.
Other Information
Children’s Privacy
We believe protecting the privacy of children is very important. Our site is not designed to attract individuals under the age of 18. In accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, we do not collect or store any personal information, even in aggregate, about children under the age of 13. If we discover we have received any information from a child under the age of 13 in violation of this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you believe we have any information from or about anyone under the age of 13, please contact us and put “Notice of Children’s Data Privacy” in the subject line and details about the subject in the body of your message.
Linked Sites
Our website may contain links to other websites. We assume no responsibility for the content or practices of linked websites and such linking should not suggest nor imply any affiliation or endorsement by us of the linked website. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected through this site.
Security
We follow industry standards and practices to safeguard all of the information collected through the site, both anonymous and personal; however, we cannot guarantee the security of your information. While we use commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of your information, we hereby disclaim and you hereby release and hold us harmless for all liability for disclosure of any information obtained on or through the site.
Storage
We reserve the right to store your information for the amount of time we reasonably determine to be necessary in order to perform the purposes for which that information was collected or otherwise processed.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) signed into law June 28, 2018 and entering into effect Jan. 1, 2020, California residents have certain rights and privileges. You can exercise any of the following rights by notifying us as described below:
- Disclosure Request. Upon request and when possible, we will disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. Additionally, you may also obtain the categories of information about you that we have sold, the categories of third parties to whom the information was sold, and the categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose. You may submit these requests by visiting www.dinsmorecomplianceservices.com/contact_us and put “Request for California Privacy Information Disclosure” in the subject line and in the body of your message. When such a request cannot be honored, we will advise you accordingly.
- Deletion. If you should wish to cease use of our Site and have your personal data deleted from our Site, then you may submit a request by visting www.dinsmorecomplianceservices.com/contact_us and put “Request for California Privacy Information Deletion” in the subject line and in the body of your message. Upon receipt of a verifiable request for deletion, we will confirm receipt and will confirm once your personal data has been deleted.
- Right to Sue for Security Breaches. You also have the right to sue in the event your nonencrypted or nonredacted personal information, is subject to an unauthorized access and exfiltration, theft, or disclosure as a result of the violation of the duty to implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices. Prior to exercising this right, you must provide us with 30 days written notice by emailing us at [email protected] and provide us with an opportunity to fix this violation.
Under California’s “Shine the Light” law, California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us once a calendar year information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing uses. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2021 will receive information regarding 2020 sharing activities).
To obtain this information in connection with information collected through the site, please submit a request by visting www.dinsmorecomplianceservices.com/contact_us and put “Request for California Privacy Information” in the subject line and in the body of your message. We will provide the requested information to you at your provided e-mail address in response.
California Do Not Track Disclosures
We do not collect personal information about users’ online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. For this reason, at this time, the site does not respond to “do not track” signals. Third parties may collect personally identifiable information through the site as described in this privacy policy.
International Transfer
Your information, including personal information, 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 than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note we transfer your information, including personal information, to the United States and process it there. Your submission of information to us represents your consent to that transfer. Please note the European Union (EU) has not adopted an adequate decision with respect to data transfers to the United States; however, we value your privacy and protect your data using reasonable information security practices.
EU Data
Individuals in the EU may have certain rights with respect to their personal information, including the rights to:
- request access to and rectification or erasure of your personal information;
- request information about our processing, including categories of your personal information collected, information about the source of that collection, the purposes of collection, the recipients or categories of recipient to whom your personal information has been or will be disclosed;
- restrict or object to how we process your personal information;
- withdraw your consent for us to process your personal information in some circumstances;
- lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority; and
- receive your personal information provided to us or have that personal information transmitted to another controller without hindrance (also known as data portability).
To exercise any of these rights please contact us put “EU Privacy Request” in the subject line and in the body of your message.
We reserve the right to ask for information verifying your identity prior to disclosing any information to you. Should we ask for verification, the information you provide to verify your identity will be used only for that purpose, and all copies of this information in our possession will be destroyed when the process is complete.
Revisions To This Policy
We reserve the right to periodically revise this policy. Please check this page periodically for changes. The document revision date displayed below will indicate when this policy was last revised. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, and other places we deem appropriate so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy version under which the information was collected.