Effective date: February 19, 2020
1. OVERVIEW. This privacy policy describes how Equipment Simulations LLC (“we,”“our,” “us”) maintains, uses and shares information that we may collect when you use our website at www.photos4sims.com, including any photographs or other products or services made available by means of this website (the “Service”).
We may change this privacy policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted here. If we make a material change in the way we use your Personal Data (as defined below), we will prominently note the change on the Service.
2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT. Some of the information we may collect when you use the Service, such as your name, postal address, email address or telephone number, or, if you buy something, your credit/debit card or other payment information, may allow you to be identified. We call this information, and other information which relates to you individually, “Personal Data.”
3. HOW WE COLLECT AND USE PERSONAL DATA.
(a) Inquiries. If you send us a comment or question or make an inquiry to customer support, we will retain the information that you provide to us (e.g., name, telephone number, organization name, email address) for the purpose of responding to you, as well as for improving the Service.
(b) Registration. When you register to use the Service, you will need to create a user name and password and provide an email address. We will use this information to determine whether you are authorized to use certain features of the Service, such as purchasing rights to use photographs.
(c) Visitors. If you are just visiting the Service and not requesting information, making a purchase, submitting a review, contacting us or otherwise voluntarily submitting Personal Data, we will not ordinarily collect any Personal Data about you except through web logs, as described below. In that case, we obtain the information that you provide and will use it to respond to your inquiry or request. We do not share any of this information with anyone else, except to respond to your request, if you consent, or as otherwise described in this privacy policy.
(d) Purchases. If you purchase rights to use photographs or any other product or service via the Service, and you furnish your credit/debit card number or other payment information for such purpose, we or our service provider will only use this information to fulfill your purchase.
(e) Reviews. You may have an opportunity to review photographs available on the Service. If you submit such a review, any information you provide will be public, including the name that you provide for such purpose. When you submit a review, you will have the opportunity to save your name, email address and the URL of the Service in your browser to facilitate provision of additional reviews. We use cookies to provide this feature (see below).
(f) Web Logs. We maintain web logs that automatically record basic information about everyone who visits the Service. We use web log information to help us design our website, to identify popular features, to improve our Service, and for other managerial and analytic purposes. These logs contain:
• The Internet domain from which you access the Service.
• Your IP address.
• The type of browser and operating system that you use.
• The date and time you visited the Service.
• The pages that you visited on the Service.
• The address of the website you linked from to get to the Service.
(g) Cookies. We use cookies and may use similar technologies to help you navigate the Service, to allow us to learn how you use the Service, and to improve the Service. Cookies are text files we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not reveal any Personal Data unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, making a purchase. From time to time, we may engage third parties to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit the Service. If we do so, the information provided to such third parties will not include Personal Data. The use of cookies by any partners or service providers is not covered by our privacy statement. We will not have access to, or control over, these cookies.
(h) Links to Other Websites. The Service may include links to other websites whose privacy practices differ from ours. If you submit Personal Data to any of those sites, your information will be governed by their privacy policies.
(i) Communicating with You. We may use your Personal Data for the purpose of communicating with you and responding to your inquiries.
(j) Affiliates. We may share your Personal Data with other businesses from time to time to allow them to communicate with you about matters that we believe may be of interest to you. You may opt out from such sharing by providing us with a request using the contact information set forth below.
(k) Service Providers. We contract with third party service providers to perform functions, such as processing of credit/debit card purchases, for us. These service providers will be given access to certain Personal Data for the purpose of performing those functions, but they will be contractually bound to maintain the confidentiality of the Personal Data and not to use it for any other purpose.
(l) Social Media; Streaming. The Service may include social media features, such as links that allow you to follow us on Facebook. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you are visiting on the Service, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Your interactions with these features are subject to the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.
(m) Geolocation. If you use a mobile device to access the Service, we may collect certain additional information. We may receive information about your location and your mobile device, including a unique identifier for your device, your mobile operating system, and the type of mobile Internet browser that you use. We may use this information for research purposes or to facilitate providing you with the Service. Most mobile devices provide users with the ability to disable location Service.
(n) Business Transfers. If we were to transfer all or substantially all of our assets to another entity, one of the assets we would likely include in the transfer is our database of Personal Data.
(o) Disclosures for Legal Reasons. We will disclose Personal Data when we are required to do so by law, regulation or securities exchange requirements or in response to a court order or subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request or when we believe such disclosure is appropriate to protect our legal rights or to safeguard anyone’s property or safety.
4. YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
If you would like us to stop sending you email or other communications or would like to access your Personal Data to correct or delete it, you may send us a request using the contact information at the end of this Privacy Policy. We will fulfill any opt-out requests within ten (10) business days. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the information we collect is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and current.
5. YOUR RIGHTS.
Residents of the European Union have certain rights, as provided by applicable law, which include the rights to: (i) request confirmation of whether we store, use or share any of your Personal Data; (ii) obtain access to or a copy of your Personal Data; (iii) receive an electronic copy of Personal Data that you have provided to us, or ask us to send that information to another company (the “right of data portability”); (iv) restrict our uses of your Personal Data or object to those uses; (v) seek correction of inaccurate, untrue or incomplete Personal Data; or (vi) request erasure of Personal Data held about you by us, subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law.
Where we are relying on consent to process your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. However, withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or Service to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the email or physical address set out below. You will not have to pay a fee to exercise any of these rights.
In addition, if you are a resident of the European Union, you have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority if you believe that your Personal Data has been collected or used in violation of relevant privacy requirements.
6. RETAINING AND DELETING PERSONAL DATA
We retain Personal Data no longer than is reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collect the information and to comply with our legal obligations.
7. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
We are headquartered in the United States. Your information will likely be collected in the country where you reside and, if that is outside the United States, will be subsequently transferred or stored in the United States. In accordance with applicable law, we implement measures to ensure that any transferred Personal Data remains protected and secure. You can obtain further information about these measures by contacting us using the contact details set out below.
8. AUTOMATED PROCESSING
We do not use your Personal Data to make automated decisions about you without any human input. In we ever begin to do so, if and as applicable, and to the extent required by applicable law, we will endeavor to implement suitable safeguards, including, for example, an opportunity for you to request human intervention, express your point of view, contest any decisions made, and request that we restrict the use of your Personal Data for the purposes of these automated decisions.
9. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA.
We do not process any of your Personal Data in the following special categories: (i) Personal Data revealing your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership; (ii) genetic data; (iii) biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying you; or (iv) data concerning your health, sex life or sexual orientation.
10. DO NOT TRACK.
We do not note if you set your web browser to send a “do not track” or similar request when you visit our Service, and doing so will not affect the performance of the Service.
11. SECURITY
We use reasonable efforts to maintain the security of all Personal Data, including technological safeguards, but cannot guarantee that an unauthorized breach or disclosure of such information could never occur.
12. CHILDREN
The Service is intended for use by adults. The Service does not target children under the age of 13, nor do we knowingly collect any Personal Data by means of the Service from children under the age of 13.
13. ACCOUNTABILITY
We are committed to adhering to our privacy policy and applicable laws and to making your online experience secure and valuable. If you have a question, request, complaint, dispute or concern related to this privacy policy, you may send a message by email to support@photos4sims.com, or by postal mail or courier to: Equipment Simulations LLC, Attn: Jonathan Kaye, PO Box 63684, Philadelphia, PA 19147. We will work with you to obtain a prompt resolution of any issues you may have.
14. USE OF EXTERNAL TOOLS ON OUR WEBSITE
We have integrated various tools from different companies into our website, which allow us to evaluate user behavior or to establish links with other websites.
Google Analytics
The controller has integrated the component Google Analytics (with anonymization function) on this website.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service. Web analysis is the gathering, collection and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Among other things, a web analysis service collects data on which website a data subject has come to a website from (so-called referrers), which subpages of the website were accessed or how often and for which period of time a subpage was viewed. A web analysis is mainly used to optimize a website and for the cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
The operator of the Google Analytics component is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA.
Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.
As IP anonymization is activated on our website, your IP address will be shortened by Google within Member States of the European Union or other states in agreement with the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by a Google server in the USA. On behalf of the operator of the website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and to provide further services related to website and internet use to us. The IP address transferred through your browser to Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google.
In addition, this website uses the Analytics feature UserID to track interaction data. This User ID will be additionally anonymized and encrypted and will not be linked with other data.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.
In addition, you may prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
This browser add-on informs Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about website visits may be transmitted to Google Analytics.
In addition, a cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via the Internet browser or other software programs.
Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/ The following link provides a further explanation of Google Analytics https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.
Our website also uses Google Analytics performance reports relating to demographics and interests and reports on Google Display Network impressions. You can disable Google Analytics for display advertising and customize the ads on the Google Display Network by visiting the ad settings at this link: https://adssettings.google.com.
Google Tag Manager
This website uses Google Tag Manager. Through this service so-called website tags can be managed centrally via a user interface. Google Tag Manager only implements tags.No cookies are used and no personal information is collected.
For each third-party data collection, Google will provide a respective privacy policy: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/
However, Google Tag Manager will not access these data. If deactivation has been implemented for certain domains / websites or cookies, it will remain in effect for all tracking tags as far as they are implemented with the Google Tag Manager.
Facebook Tracking Pixel
With your consent, we will use Facebook’s “tracking pixel”. This pixel can be used to track user behavior after they have been redirected to our website by clicking on a Facebook and / or Instagram ad. This allows us to record the effectiveness of Facebook and Instagram advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and, if necessary, to take optimization measures. The tracking of users who have landed on our website after clicking on one of our Facebook and Instagram ads can remain active up to 180 days.
The data collected in this way is anonymous for us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, about which we will inform you to the best of our knowledge.
Facebook may connect this data to the Facebook account and also use it for its own advertising purposes, according to its data usage policy.
If you want to disable cookie storage for Facebook, you can do so via your browser settings.