Privacy Policy

Last Updated date: June 08, 2022

Used Terms:

  • pointwize.com (also may be referred as: “we”, “us”, “Service”, “our site”, “our website”, “this website”, “pointwize.com”, “owner”…) More info about our organization can be found on “About” page, if such exists)
  • Any natural person or legal entity using this Website (also may be referred as: “User”, “you”…)
  • Personally identifying information (also referred as: “PII”. It may include, but not limited to: Name, Email, Number, Address …)
  • Personal Data (Means the data about a living individual who can be identified from those data or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession)
  • Cookies (Means small files stored on your device like a computer or mobile device).
  • Terms Of Use (also may referred as: “Terms”, “Terms and Conditions”, “TOC”;)
  • Digital Millennium Copyright Act (also referred as: “DMCA”.)
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (also referred as “CCPA”.)

Welcome to pointwize.com. We understand that privacy online is important to users of our Site, especially when conducting business. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) who visit without transacting business and Visitors who register to transact business on the Site and make use of the various services offered by (collectively, “Services”) (“Authorized Customers”).

Who we are


You can learn more about our website through “About” page (available in the navigation menu).


Introduction


This privacy policy will be applied fully and affect to your use of our website. By using our website, you consent to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to our site, only to information we collect through our site and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources. Here we explain what information may be collected on our website, what are our purposes, how we use this information and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. We will retain personal information as long as necessary for the fulfilment of those purposes. We collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, where appropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned. Personal data should be relevant to the purposes for which it is to be used, and, to the extent necessary for those purposes, should be accurate, complete, and up-to-date.

This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and Conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. We make information about our policies and practices relating to the management of personal information readily available to customers.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, we collect information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, referring site, the date-time of visitor request and some other metrics. Our purpose in collecting such information is to better understand how our visitors use our website, to make the website more customized and optimized to visitors, to make security revisions of our systems and for similar important reasons. From time to time, we may release non-PII in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

We only disclose non-PII under the same circumstances that we disclose PII (as described below).

Personally identifying information (PII) Policy

Your personal data is used to provide the information, goods and services, for billing, order fulfilment and other essential functions offered through our website to you. The amount and type of information our site gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, when we permit some kind of functionality on our website (like: Registrations, comments, feedback forms or other common interactional functionalities) then the visitor who tries to use such functionality, may be asked to provide a name, username, email address or similar common personal information.

What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?

We may collect basic user profile information from all of our Visitors. We collect the following additional information from our Authorized Customers: the names, addresses, phone numbers and email addresses of Authorized Customers, the nature and size of the business, and the nature and size of the advertising inventory that the Authorized Customer intends to purchase or sell.

What organizations are collecting the information?

In addition to our direct collection of information, our third-party service vendors (such as credit card companies, clearinghouses and banks) who may provide such services as credit, insurance, and escrow services may collect this information from our Visitors and Authorized Customers. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Visitors and Authorized Customers. Some of these third parties may be intermediaries that act solely as links in the distribution chain and do not store, retain, or use the information given to them.

How does the Site use Personally Identifiable Information?


We use Personally Identifiable Information to customize the Site, to make appropriate service offerings, and to fulfil buying and selling requests on the Site. We may email Visitors and Authorized Customers about research or purchase and selling opportunities on the Site or information related to the subject matter of the Site. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to contact Visitors and Authorized Customers in response to specific inquiries or to provide requested information.

Security


Personally Identifiable Information collected by is securely stored and is not accessible to third parties or employees of except for use as indicated below. The security of your Personal Information is important to us, and we protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure or use, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, as there exist 3rd party factors that are not under our control (internet provider, the server where our sites are hosted, the infrastructure or management system which serves our website and some other 3rd party factors). While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

When you see that our website starts with HTTPS://, then it means our website uses secure sockets layers (SSL), which encrypts all information you input before it is sent to us.


Links to External Sites


Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. If you wish, you can review the Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

Advertisements

If our website shows ads (like Google AdSense, DoubleClick or similar alternatives), then the ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. This information allows ad networks to (among other things) deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by our site and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments


When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.


Media


If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.


Cookies


To enrich and perfect your online experience, our site use “Cookies” (a cookie is only a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s device, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns), similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising or store your preferences on your computer. We use cookies to identify and track visitors, to distinguish one user from other users, their usage of our website, and their website access preferences. Cookies also provide us with information about how this website is used so we can keep it as up to date, relevant and error-free as possible. Visitors, who don’t wish to have cookies placed on their computers, they should set their browser to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features of our website will not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to use cookies our cookies.

Are Cookies Used on the Site?

Cookies are used for a variety of reasons. We use Cookies to obtain information about the preferences of our Visitors and the services they select. We also use Cookies for security purposes to protect our Authorized Customers. For example, if an Authorized Customer is logged on and the site is unused for more than 10 minutes, we will automatically log the Authorized Customer off. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.


Cookies used by our service providers

Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. You can find more details about which cookies are used in our cookies info page.

How to view or delete your cookies?

To delete cookies in your browser, please follow the instructions explained at https://aboutcookies.org/ .

How can you request a copy or erasure of personal information about you?

Contact us and send us the request for which of your personal information you want to be deleted.

How can Visitors correct any inaccuracies in Personally Identifiable Information?

Visitors and Authorized Customers may contact us to update Personally Identifiable Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies by emailing us at admin@pointwize.com

Can a Visitor delete or deactivate Personally Identifiable Information collected by the Site?

We provide Visitors and Authorized Customers with a mechanism to delete/deactivate Personally Identifiable Information from the Site’s database by contacting. However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a Visitor’s entry without retaining some residual information. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted, and we will not sell, transfer, or use Personally Identifiable Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.

Your rights

These are summarized rights that you have under the data protection law

  • The right to access
  • The right to rectification
  • The right to erasure
  • The right to restrict processing
  • The right to object to processing
  • The right to data portability
  • The right to complain to a supervisory authority
  • The right to withdraw consent

How long we retain your data

When you publish something, upload media, login, register or doing other actions on our site, the specific cookies might be saved in your browser in order to provide stable functionality. Expiration dates of cookies vary, and we can’t exactly describe the logic behind creation/deletion of the cookies (coming from our website) and how long each cookie might last or when it will be destroyed, as all these depends on dynamic nature of website CMS and user interaction with the website. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata might be retained indefinitely. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Used services

So, our site might use different third-party services, companies or individuals to facilitate our Service, to analyze, monitor, collect statistical information, change website design, provide embedded services, enrich user interface or add a different kind of functionalities to our site. Such 3rd party services might use their specific cookies. Any data we collect will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy. Any data that a third-party service collects will be used in accordance with its privacy policy. We have a right to disclose statistical/usage/analytical information publicly for different purposes, like to describe our services to potential partners, provide it other reputable third parties or for other lawful purposes. Of course, this does not include your personally-identifying information, email addresses or other sensitive data. If you are concerned about your data, you have the right, subject to the payment of a small fee to request access to personal data which may hold or process about you. For better clarity, an example of the services our site might use could be:

  • Remarketing services to advertise on third party websites (including Google) to previous visitors to our site (for example, this could be in the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, or other alternatives offered by third-party service). Third-party vendors, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits (You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page).
  • Analytical services to monitor the behaviour of visitors to our website. We may use third-party services (like Google Analytics or other alternatives) for such purposes.
  • Functional 3rd party services to enrich user interface, like JavaScript modules, messaging services, contact forms or other kinds of plugins and which provide extra functionalities for our site.

Embedded content from other websites

Pages on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.


Email newsletter


If our site has a newsletter, and you sign up to our newsletter, then we may use your email address to send you information about products or services. You can opt-out of these at any point.

Protection of Certain PII

Our website discloses PII or Potentially PII only to those of its employees, contractors affiliated (partner) organizations or service providers (i) in order to process it on our organization’s behalf or to provide services available at our website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. We will not rent, trade or sell PII or potentially PII to anyone. We also offer the opportunity to “opt-out” of receiving information or being contacted by us or by any agency acting on our behalf. Other than to the recipients as described above, we disclose such information only:

  • We are required by law, court order or other governmental requests.
  • When we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or ours, third parties or the public at large.
  • If we believe action is necessary for fraud, cybercrime or to protect the website, rights, personal safety of a person(s).
  • To enforce or apply the terms of any of our user agreements.

If you are a registered user on our site and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with us and our products. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially PII or PII.

Children’s Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. When we discover that a child has provided us with Personal Information, we will delete such information from our storage.

Affiliate Disclosure

This site uses affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

E-commerce

In case if products or services are sold on our site, then those who engage in transactions with our website – by purchasing our services or products, are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, our site collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with our site. We do not disclose PII other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply PII, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. When making payments (unless there are any embedded payment processor fields built-in our website and you see that you make a payment directly within our website) you will be redirected to 3rd party payment processor’s website (like PayPal, Visa, Stripe or other reputable payment processor website), where you put your credentials, and not on your site. SO, WE DO NOT HAVE AN ACCESS AND DON’T COLLECT CREDIT CARD or PAYPAL CREDENTIALS.

Business Transfers

If our organization, website, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that are transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that any acquirer of our website may continue to use your PII as set forth in this policy.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy

We respect the intellectual property rights of others just as we expect others to respect our rights. Pursuant to Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Title 17, United States Code, Section 512(c), a copyright owner or their agent may submit a takedown notice to us via our DMCA Agent listed below. As an internet service provider, we are entitled to claim immunity from said infringement claims pursuant to the “safe harbour” provisions of the DMCA. To submit a good faith infringement claim to us, you must submit the notice to us that sets forth the following information:

Notice of Infringement – Claim

  • A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner (or someone authorized to act on behalf of the owner);
  • Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
  • Identification of the infringing material to be removed, and information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to locate the material. [Please submit the URL of the page in question to assist us in identifying the allegedly offending work];
  • Information reasonably sufficient to permit the service provider to contact the complaining party including your name, physical address, email address, phone number and fax number;
  • A statement that the complaining party has a good faith belief that the use of the material is unauthorized by the copyright agent; and
  • A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and, under penalty of perjury, that the complaining party is authorized to act on behalf of the copyright owner.

Title 17 USC §512(f) provides civil damage penalties, including costs and attorney fees, against any person who knowingly and materially misrepresents certain information in a notification of infringement under 17 USC §512(c)(3).

Send all takedown notices through our Contact page. Please send by email for prompt attention.

Please note that we may share the identity and information in any copyright infringement claim we receive with the alleged infringer. In submitting a claim, you understand accept and agree that your identity and claim may be communicated to the alleged infringer.

Counter Notification – Restoration of Material

If you have received a notice of material being takedown because of a copyright infringement claim, you may provide us with a counter-notification in an effort to have the material in question restored to the site. Said notification must be given in writing to our DMCA Agent and must contain substantially the following elements pursuant to 17 USC Section 512(g)(3):

  • Your physical or electronic signature.
  • A description of the material that has been taken down and the original location of the material before it was taken down.
  • A statement under penalty of perjury that you have a good faith belief that the material was removed or disabled as a result of mistake or misidentification of the material to be removed or disabled.
  • Your name, address, and telephone number, and a statement that you consent to the jurisdiction of the federal district court for the judicial district in which the address is located (or if you are outside of the United States, that you consent to the jurisdiction of any judicial district in which the service provider may be found), and that you will accept service of process from the person or company who provided the original infringement notification.
  • Send your counter notice through our Contact page. Email is highly recommended.

Repeat Infringer Policy

We take copyright infringement very seriously. Pursuant to the repeat infringer policy requirements of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, we maintain a list of DMCA notices from copyright holders and make a good faith effort to identify any repeat infringers. Those that violate our internal repeat infringer policy will have their accounts terminated.

Modifications

We reserve the right to modify the contents of this page and its policy for handling DMCA claims at any time for any reason. You are encouraged to check back to review this policy frequently for any changes.

CCPA – California Consumer Privacy Act

(Privacy Notice for California Residents)

This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in the Website’s Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California. We adopted this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this notice.

Information We Collect

The Website collects information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or device (“personal information”).


Personal information does not include:

  • Publicly available information from government records.
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
  • Information excluded from the CCPA’s scope, like certain health or medical information and other categories of information protected by different laws.
  • We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:
  • Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.
  • Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website.

Use of Personal Information

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:

  • To fulfil or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
  • To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.
  • To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
  • To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.
  • As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
  • To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our or our affiliates’ assets in which personal information held by us or our affiliates about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collect for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.

We share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • Service providers.
  • Data Aggregators.

Your Rights and Choices

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights


You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will disclose to you:

  • The categories of personal information we’ve collected about you.
  • The categories of sources for the personal information we’ve collected about you.
  • Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.
  • The categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information.
  • The specific pieces of personal information we’ve collected about you (also called a data portability request).
  • If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
    • sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased.
    • disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.

Deletion Request Rights

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

  • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you
  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
  • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.). Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
  • Comply with a legal obligation.
  • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by Emailing us at admin@pointwize.com.

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.


You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:

  • Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we’ve collected personal information or an authorized representative.
  • Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.


We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.


Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

Response Timing and Format

We endeavour to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.

We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.

Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.

We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.

Personal Information Sales

We will not sell your personal information to any party. If in the future, we anticipate selling your personal information to any party, we will provide you with the opt-out and opt-in rights required by the CCPA.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

  • Deny you goods or services.
  • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
  • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
  • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Other California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website 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 admin@pointwize.com.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on our Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which we collect and use your information described below and in our Privacy Policy, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at: