Effective Date: July 24, 2020
Thank you for using the Fosdal Medium LLC’s website. We know that privacy is important, so we are providing this Privacy Policy to communicate our policies with respect to your information when you use our website located at www.fosdalmedium.com (the “Website”), or any service made available on the Website (the “Services”). Any defined terms used but not defined in this Privacy Policy are defined in the Terms. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our Privacy Policy, you should not use the Services. By accessing or using the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time-to-time. Your continued use of the Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Information Collection and Use
Information You Give Us. While you browse some parts of the Website, the Services require you to input certain information. In doing so, you voluntarily give us information, such as your name, company name, telephone number, and email address. We refer to information that can personally identify you, such as your name and email address, as “Personal Information”. We may use your Personal Information to improve our services and to contact you to notify you of new services, changes to the Services or third-party services that may be of interest to you. Except as specifically stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not disclose your Personal Information to third parties.
Usage Information. We collect non-personal statistical information that does not individually identify you. It includes non-personal statistical information about your internet connection, the equipment that you use to access our Services and how you use our Services. We refer to this information as “Usage Information”. This information allows us to optimize the Services to the internet connections and equipment that is used to visit our website. For instance, we may collect information on how long you use the Services, on whether you have used the Services before and on how many occasions, how frequently you use the Services, and at what points you exit the Services to make the Services better. We collect this information both directly from you when you provide it to us and automatically as you navigate through and interact with our Services, (i) including details of your visits to our Services, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website and (ii) information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type. The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. We use session cookies to keep track of your login information. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you use the Services.
• Pixel Tags / Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third-party Service Providers
We may use third-party service providers in order to efficiently provide our Services to you. These services include such things as web hosting, survey providers, and credit card payment processing. Some third-party service providers will collect information directly from you and provide us with relevant data (such as credit card processing companies). We may use this information to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into, for instance, to collect any authorized fees. Information collected from these third-party services is governed by their privacy policies. You should view the privacy policy of third-party service providers before providing information to them. Even though we do not disclose your Personal Information for these purposes without your consent, if you interact with a third-party, the third-party may have access to your Personal Information.
Sharing Information
We may disclose Usage Information without restriction. We do not disclose your Personal Information except in the circumstances described here:
• Your Consent: We may share or disclose your Personal Information at your direction in connection with your use of the Services. For instance, we will email you documents to the email address you provide to us.
• Service Providers: We may share or disclose your Personal Information to contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• Business Transfers: In the event that we are involved in a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, your Personal Information held by us may be among the assets transferred.
• Law and Harm: Notwithstanding anything contrary in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose or share your Personal Information in order to comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Fosdal Medium, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
• Enforcement: We may disclose your Personal Information in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
• Tracking Technologies. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that many parts of the Website and Services may then be inaccessible or will not function properly.
• Email Communications. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address/contact information used by Fosdal Medium to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can choose to opt-out by unsubscribing to any email we may send.
• Copies of Documents. We will retain a copy of your documents for a commercially reasonable period of time. Subject to the terms of “Accessing and Correcting Your Information” below, if you would like us to delete any Personal Information in your documents, please send an email to hilary@hilaryfosdal.com. After you elect to have your Personal Information redacted, you will not be able to receive a replacement copy of your documents from the Fosdal Medium.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at hilary@hilaryfosdal.com to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Your California Privacy Rights
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to hilary@hilaryfosdal.com.
Data Security
We recognize that you are providing sensitive information in connection with your use of the Service and that security is critical to our Services. As such, we take commercially reasonable security precautions, and will continue to vigilantly safeguard your sensitive Personal Information. We update our security software with the latest patches frequently. Because we do not control the security of the Internet or other networks you use to access the Website or communicate with us, we cannot be, and are not responsible for, the security of information that you choose to communicate with Fosdal Medium while it is being transmitted. In addition, Fosdal Medium is not responsible for any data lost during transmission.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Services are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any Personal Information on the Website or through the Services. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Service. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 13, please contact us at hilary@hilaryfosdal.com.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
Fosdal Medium may amend this Privacy Policy from time-to-time, at its sole discretion. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified in this policy. You are responsible for periodically visiting our website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: hilary@hilaryfosdal.com.