Privacy
Sparkling Logic firmly believes in the importance of online privacy. Our Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand how we collect, use and safeguard the information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our Services.
We do not collect any information that enables us to determine your actual identity before, during or after your visit to this Website (SparklingLogic.com), other than information that you voluntarily supply to us. Voluntarily supplied information is requested only when activating the following Services: signing up for our Mailing List, sharing your astute thoughts regarding our blog posts, or submitting information through our various forms.
Sparkling Logic serves as the data controller of your personal information. When you provide your information directly to us, this information is used by Sparkling Logic solely for the purposes identified at the point you provide it.
Sparkling Logic often performs the role of data processor in our relationship with clients when we receive personal data and execute marketing, communication or public relations initiatives on their behalf. Sparkling Logic adheres to the privacy policies of its clients in the exchange of client-based personal information.
For purposes of this Agreement,
- “Website” refers to our Company’s website, which can be accessed at https://www.SparklingLogic.com
- “Services” refers to our Company’s services accessed via our Website, in which visitors can sign up for our Mailing List, share thoughts regarding our blog posts, or submit information through our various forms.
- The terms “Sparkling Logic”, “we”, “us”, and “our” refer to our Company.
- “You” refers to you, as a visitor of our Website or a consumer of our Services.
By accessing our Website or our Services, you accept our Privacy Policy, and you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy. Additionally, consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of our Privacy Policy when you first visit our Website permits us to use cookies every time you visit our Website.
Note: Our Privacy Policy was created in part using templates from UpCounsel (upcounsel.com) and Website Planet (websiteplanet.com).
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect “Non-Personal Information” and “Personal Information.” Non-Personal Information includes information that cannot be used to personally identify you, such as anonymous usage data (platform types and number of clicks, opens, bounces and unsubscribes). Personal Information includes your name, email, website and comments that you submit to us voluntarily to request or interact with our Services.
You are free to explore our Website without providing any Personal Information.
To activate Services provided through our Website, you do not need to submit any Personal Information other than your name and email address when signing up for our Mailing List, sharing thoughts regarding our blog posts, or submitting information through our various forms. To use our Services thereafter, you do not need to submit further Personal Information.
Children’s Privacy
Our Website and our Services are not directed to anyone under the age of 13. Our Website does not knowingly collect or solicit information from anyone under the age of 13, or allow anyone under the age of 13 to sign up for our Services. In the event that we learn that we have gathered personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without the consent of a parent or guardian, we will delete that information as soon as possible. If you believe we have collected such information, please contact us at info@sparklinglogic.com
HOW WE USE AND SHARE INFORMATION
Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share for marketing purposes your Personal Information with third parties without your consent. We do share Personal Information with vendors who are performing services for our Company, such as the servers for our email communications who are provided access to a visitor’s email address for purposes of sending emails from us. Those vendors use your Personal Information only at our direction and in accordance with our Privacy Policy.
In general, the Personal Information you provide to us is used to help us communicate with you. For example, we may use Personal Information to contact our visitors in response to questions, solicit feedback, request survey responses, and provide technical support.
We reserve the right to share Personal Information with outside parties if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of the information is reasonably necessary to meet any applicable legal process or enforceable governmental request; address fraud, security or technical concerns; or to protect against harm to the rights, property, or safety of our visitors or the public as required or permitted by law.
Non-Personal Information
In general, we use Non-Personal Information to help us improve our Website, available Services, and customize the visitor experience. We also aggregate Non-Personal Information in order to track trends and analyze use patterns on our Website. This Privacy Policy does not limit in any way our use or disclosure of Non-Personal Information and we reserve the right to use and disclose such Non-Personal Information to our partners, advertisers and other third parties at our discretion.
In the event we undergo a business transaction such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, your Personal Information may be among the assets transferred. You acknowledge and consent that such transfers may occur and are permitted by this Privacy Policy, and that any acquirer of our assets may continue to process your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy. If our information practices change at any time in the future, we will post the policy changes to our Website so that you may opt out of the new information practices. We suggest that you check our Website periodically if you are concerned about how your information is used.
HOW WE RETAIN AND PROTECT INFORMATION
The length of time we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information, which is described in further detail below.
Sparkling Logic retains Personal Information that you provide to us where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so. That may include as long as is required in order to contact you about our Services, or as needed to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to handle your Personal Information, we securely delete the information or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will delete this information at an earlier date if you request, as described in “Your Rights Regarding the Use of Your Personal Information” below.
If you choose to receive marketing communications from us, we retain the information for a reasonable period of time from the date you last expressed interest in our Services, for instance, when you last opened an email from us.
We retain information derived from cookies and other tracking technologies for a reasonable period of time from the date such information was created.
Sparkling Logic implements certain technological security measures designed to protect your information from unauthorized access including encryption, firewalls and secure socket layer technology. However, these measures do not guarantee that your information will not be accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed by breach of such firewalls and secure server software. By using our Services, you acknowledge that you understand and agree to assume these risks.
YOUR RIGHTS REGARDING THE USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You have the following data protection rights:
- If you wish to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so at any time by contacting us at info@sparklinglogic.com
- If you are a resident of the European Economic Area, you can object to processing of your personal information, ask us to restrict processing of your personal information or request portability of your personal information. Contact us at info@sparklinglogic.com to exercise these rights.
- You also have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing emails we send you. To opt-out of postal marketing, please contact us at info@sparklinglogic.com
- If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.
- You have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. Contact details for data protection authorities in the European Economic Area are available here.
- Sparkling Logic responds to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
As part of our Services, we may provide links to or compatibility with other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through our Website and our Services.
Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third party website accessed by selecting a link on our Website or via our Services. To the extent that you access or use our Services through or on another website or application, then the privacy policy of that other website or application will apply to your access or use of that website or application. We encourage our visitors to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Sparkling Logic reserves the right to change this policy at any time. We will notify you of significant changes to our Privacy Policy by sending a notice to the primary email address we have on record or by placing a prominent notice on our Website. Significant changes will go into effect 30 days following such notification. Non-material changes or clarifications will take effect immediately. We recommend that you periodically check our Website and this Privacy Policy for updates.
COOKIES
Our Website uses cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the visitor before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the visitor’s session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a visitor, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies. We use session cookies on our Website.
We use Google Analytics and Adwords cookies on our Website to recognize a visitor’s computer upon arrival at our Website, track visitor’s navigation of our Website, improve our Website’s usability, analyze the use of our Website, administer the Website, and prevent fraud and improve the security of our Website.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example: in Internet Explorer (version 10) you can block cookies using the cookie handling override settings available by clicking “Tools,” “Internet Options,” “Privacy,” and then “Advanced”; in Firefox (version 24) you can block all cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” “Privacy,” selecting “Use custom settings for history” from the drop-down menu, and unticking “Accept cookies from sites”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can block all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Content settings,” and then selecting “Block sites from setting any data” under the “Cookies” heading.
Blocking and/or deleting all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites. If you block cookies, you will not be able to use all the features on our website.
You can delete cookies already stored on your computer—for example: in Internet Explorer (version 10), you must manually delete cookie files (you can find instructions for doing so at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835 ); in Firefox (version 24), you can delete cookies by clicking “Tools,” “Options,” and “Privacy”, then selecting “Use custom settings for history”, clicking “Show Cookies,” and then clicking “Remove All Cookies”; and in Chrome (version 29), you can delete all cookies by accessing the “Customize and control” menu, and clicking “Settings,” “Show advanced settings,” and “Clear browsing data,” and then selecting “Delete cookies and other site and plug-in data” before clicking “Clear browsing data.”
Last Updated: This Privacy Policy was last updated on July 10, 2018. If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via telephone at 704-677-3037 or via email.