Effective Date: March 11, 2019


Mountz, Inc. values your privacy and wants your experience with Mountz and its subsidiaries and/or related companies (collectively "Mountz", "we," "our" or "us"), our websites, related subdomains (the "Sites") and blogs to be satisfying and safe. In that regard, we have established the following privacy policy to explain and describe what personal information Mountz collects, how Mountz uses it and your options regarding information Mountz may collect about you. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you expressly consent to the information handling practices described in this Policy. This Privacy Policy is a part of and incorporated into Mountz's Terms of Use for its Sites. Your continued use of our Sites or any other content, products or other services covered by this Policy constitutes your acceptance and agreement to this Policy, as it may be updated from time to time.


Contacting Us


If you have questions about this policy, please feel free to contact us at:

Mountz Inc.

1080 N. 11th St

San Jose, CA 95112

Toll-free: 408-292-2214 (U.S. Only)

Voice: +1-408-292-2214

Fax: +1-408-292-2733

sales@mountztorque.com


1. Information We Collect

In describing our collection, use, and sharing of information in this Policy, we refer to our collection and use of "Personal Information." "Personal Information," as used in this Policy, is personally identifiable information, which is information that directly identifies an individual, such as first and last name, mailing address, email address, billing information, IP addresses, demographics, passwords or other online contact information, or telephone number. We collect Personal Information, as well as non-personally identifiable information on Mountz Sites.


We collect Personal Information in two ways. First, we collect information you provide to us in optional, voluntary submissions, such as in registration forms, user profiles, promotional signups, sweepstakes/contest entries, requests for customer service, software and mobile applications downloads and curriculum vitae submissions. Second, some Personal Information may be collected automatically. This is described below in "Passive Data Collection."


We may also obtain information, including Personal Information, from third party sources. If we directly combine information from third parties with Personal Information that we have collected, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information and handle it in accordance with this Policy. In addition, please note that we may solicit third parties to collect Personal Information on our behalf and in such cases we instruct those third parties to comply with this Policy and all applicable data protection laws.


Our Sites are not directed to children under 18. 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. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our files.


You are under no obligation to provide, and can decline to provide, any requested information at any time. However, if you decline to provide personal information that is reasonably necessary to utilize certain functions on our Sites, you may not be able to utilize those functions.


Passive Data Collection

We may receive passively-collected information through a variety of methods including but not limited to the methods described below.


Cookies


We may use a variety of methods, including "cookies" to collect information, if you consent to our use of cookies.


What is a cookie?

Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit, or to another website that recognizes that cookie. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user's device. You can find more information about cookies at: www.allaboutcookies.org, http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/, and http://www.google.com/goodtoknow/.


Cookies do lots of different jobs, like letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improve the user experience. They can also help to ensure that advertisements you see online are more relevant to you and your interests.


The cookies used on our Sites and/or Services have been categorized based on the categories found in the ICC UK Cookie guide. A list of all the cookies used on our Sites and/or Services by category is set out below.


Performance Cookies

Mountz collects cookies on our Sites and/or Services to capture information about page visits (e.g. "performance cookies.") This information is anonymous and Mountz uses this information only internally - to deliver the most effective content to our visitors. Information from the cookie is used to gauge page popularity, analyze traffic patterns on our Sites and/or Services and guide development of other improvements to our Sites, Services and/or products.


Targeting, Performance, and Functionality Cookies

In our email programs, Mountz employs some tracking methods (e.g. "targeting, performance, and functionality cookies"). We track who opens our e-mail messages and when you open our e-mail messages; and we track "clicks" via encoded URLs-meaning we track whether you click on the links contained in our e-mail messages. This information is used internally only to help us deliver relevant messaging, and is not shared with any third parties.


Functionality and Necessary Cookies

Mountz does not require that you accept cookies and you may withdraw your consent to our use of cookies at any time by adjusting your browser's privacy settings; however, some functionality on our Sites (e.g. "functionality cookies"), our product or service check-out process, and Services may be disabled if you decline to accept cookies ( e.g. "necessary cookies").


Opting Out of Cookies

You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You may also change your cookie settings through preference options in our Sites and/or Services, where applicable. We will indicate, upon selecting your preferences, that we will use a cookie to remember your preferences.

Mountz never gives away information about our users. If you choose to provide Personal Information about yourself, Mountz will use this information only to communicate directly with you. Mountz will not sell, rent or otherwise disclose that information to third parties unless such disclosure is necessary for the purposes set forth in this Policy, by law or a policy or notice contained or associated with a specific Site(s) and/or Service(s).


Analytics Tools

We use analytics tools and other third party technologies, such as Google Analytics and DoubleClick Cookies, to collect non-personal information in the form of various usage and user metrics when you use our online Sites. These tools and technologies collect and analyze certain types of information, including cookies, IP addresses, device and software identifiers, referring and exit URLs, onsite behavior and usage information, feature use metrics and statistics, usage and purchase history, MAC Address, mobile unique device ID, and other similar information.


The third party analytics companies who collect information on our Sites and other online products and/or services may combine the information collected with other information they have independently collected from other websites and/or other online or mobile products and services relating to your activities across their network of websites as well as online and/or mobile products and services. Many of these companies collect and use information under their own privacy policies.


In addition to our use of technologies as described herein, we may permit certain third party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to you based on your use of Mountz Sites and/or Services and to otherwise collect and use data about your use of Mountz Sites, as further described in this Privacy Policy.


You may opt out of the Double Click cookie by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page or you may opt out of Google Analytics by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page.

Google has additional information available about their Remarketing Privacy Guidelines, Policies, and Restrictions.


2. How We Use Information

Generally, we use Personal Information to establish and enhance our relationship with our users through four main categories: (1) Communication; (2) Optimization; (3) Advertising; and (4) Sharing Features. Below, we provide some specific examples of how we use the Personal Information and other information we collect.


Communication and Responding to Requests

We use your information, including Personal Information to provide you with customer support, process transactions, respond to users' requests, send newsletters and updates, send special offers and advertisements, seek your opinions and feedback, and connect users to Mountz Sites, Services and/or products, and to products and services of our partners and licensees.


Optimization

We use user information, including Personal Information, behavioral metrics, and other non-personally identifiable information to operate, provide, improve, and maintain our Sites, Services and products, to develop new products and services, to prevent abuse and fraud, to personalize and display advertisements and other content for you, and for other administrative and internal business purposes.


Advertising

We use user information, including Personal Information, behavioral metrics, geo-location data, demographic data and marketing preferences to personalize and display advertisements and other content for you.


Sharing Features

We use your information, including Personal Information and any other information you submit directly or through passive means to provide you with various ways to connect and share content (e.g., web content, user generated videos, text, drawings, and screen and lecture captures, and quizzing features, media, tools, services and other products) with third parties. For example, we may provide you with the opportunity to email a link to certain content to another person. To use this feature, we may require you to provide certain Personal Information including your email address and the email address of each person to whom you send the link.


We also may allow you to share links to content with users of various third party services (e.g., social networking, search and sharing services). When sharing links using one of these third party services, if you are not already logged in to the third party service, you will need to supply login credentials for it. If you are not a registered user of the third party service, you will need to sign up for it. You are supplying the registration information or login credentials for the third party service directly to that third party, and not to us. By using any of these third party services to share links to content, you permit us to access, use and disclose any information relating to your account on each such third party service (such as your user name and profile information) that is available to us through the third party service, including through its application programming interface (API) pursuant to this Policy.


3. When We Disclose Personal Information

We do not share Personal Information with third parties except in the limited circumstances described in this Policy.


Service Providers

We may provide Personal Information to third parties for their use in performing internal business functions (e.g., payment processing, customer service, maintenance, security, data analysis, email transmission, beta testing, or data hosting) on our behalf. Additionally, some third party service providers may collect information, including Personal Information, on our behalf. Whenever possible, we require such third-parties to only collect and use Personal Information in accordance with this Policy, to maintain the confidentiality, security, and integrity of such Personal Information, and for no purpose other than providing us with our requested services.


Legal Requirements

We may disclose Personal Information if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is required by a subpoena, warrant, or other judicial or administrative order or otherwise required by law. Additionally, we may disclose Personal Information where we, in good faith, deem it appropriate or necessary to prevent violation of our Terms of Use or our other agreements; take precautions against liability; protect our rights, property, or safety, or those of a partner, any individual or the general public; maintain and protect the security and integrity of our Sites, Services and/or products or infrastructure; protect ourselves and our Sites, Services and/or products from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; investigate and defend ourselves against third party claims or allegations; or assist government regulatory agencies.


Change of Ownership

Information about our users, including Personal Information, may be disclosed as part of any bankruptcy, merger, sale, transfer of company assets, acquisition, or similar transaction. In the event of such a transaction in which your Personal Information would be transferred to a third party, we will make reasonable efforts to notify you. For example, we will post a notice of the transfer of Personal Information on our Sites and/or Services and, if we have your email address, we will send notice of the transfer of Personal Information to that email address.


4. Third-Party Links

Our Sites may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit a third-party website by clicking on a third-party advertisement or link, you will be directed to that third party’s website. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies, which we encourage you to review. We have no responsibility or liability for the privacy policies or content of any third-party websites, and do not endorse any third party products or services.


5. Your California Privacy Rights

Residents of the State of California, under certain provisions of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. Should you make a request, in your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information from us in writing at sales@mountztorque.com, with the subject heading “California Privacy Rights.”


6. Keeping Your Information Secure

We use commercially reasonable technical, organizational, and administrative safeguards to protect information within our control against unauthorized or unlawful access, use, modification, destruction, processing or disclosure, and against accidental loss, destruction, or damage. We believe that these measures are reasonably adapted to the nature of the information in our custody. However, no security system or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% effective or secure. Moreover, when you submit information to us through our Sites, you should be aware that your information is transmitted across the Internet and that no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure. While we strive to protect your Personal Information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your Personal Information. In the event that we become aware of a security breach which we believe has resulted, or may result, in the unauthorized access, use, or disclosure of non-public personal information of users, we will promptly investigate the matter and notify the applicable parties of such breach. Such investigation will be without delay, consistent with (i) the legitimate needs of law enforcement; (ii) measures necessary to determine the scope of the breach; (iii) efforts to identify the individuals affected; and (iv) steps to restore the reasonable integrity of our Sites and systems.


7. Storage of Your Information

We will retain Personal Information we collect from you where we have justifiable business need to do so, and/or for as long as it is needed to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law, such as for tax, legal, or accounting purposes.You can request deletion of your Personal Information at any time, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.When we no longer have a justifiable business need to process your Personal Information, we will either delete it or anonymize it, or if neither is possible (for example, because your Personal Information has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.


8. EU/EEA Residents: Data Subject Rights under the GDPR

If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”) may apply to the personal data you provide to us through use of our Sites or otherwise through your interaction with us.If you wish to be informed what personal data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.

 

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

 

●     The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you

●     The right of rectification

●     The right to object

●     The right of restriction

●     The right to data portability

●     The right to withdraw consent


In order to make a request of us under this section of the Privacy Policy, please contact us in writing, either by email or postal mail, and include the following information: your name, email address, state or country of residence, description of the information or content you wish to receive or to be deleted or corrected, or the action you wish us to take, and sufficient information to allow us to locate such information or content. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the personal data associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request. In addition, please note that, depending on the nature of your inquiry, request or complaint, we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request and may require proof of identity, such as a government issued ID and proof of geographical address. We will consider your request under applicable law, and try to comply with lawful requests as soon as reasonably practicable. We reserve the right to require payment of a fee in connection with any request that involves administrative costs, to the extent permitted by applicable law.


9. Transfer of Your Information

All data that you provide to us in connection with orders for goods or while using our Sites will be maintained by us on our servers in the United States. It may also be transferred by us to other parties within the United States or elsewhere (which may include countries outside of the EU and EEA), such as transportation companies, freight forwarders, and payment processors, in order to complete the order. By using our Sites and Services, you consent to any such transfer of the data you provide and you acknowledge the risks involved, including that laws of the United States and, to the extent that they are involved, laws of countries outside of the EU and EEA, may not have the same level of data protection as the laws in the EU and EEA.


10. Changes and Updates to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will update the "effective date" at the top of the Policy. If we make material changes to how we use Personal Information, we will attempt to notify you by email of the change, if you have provided us with your email address, and to give you the opportunity to exercise choice as to how your Personal Information is used. We will post the updated Policy on the affected Sites and/or Service, and if we have your email address, we will send notice of the update to that email address.


We encourage you to review this Policy periodically to stay informed about our collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information. Your continued use of our Sites and/or Services or any other content, products or other services covered by this Policy constitutes your agreement to this Policy and any updates.