PRIVACY POLICY

We are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information.

This privacy policy is intended to help you understand the kinds of information we may gather about you when you visit the site or use any of its features, how we may use and disclose the information, and how you can control, correct and/or update the information.

By visiting this site, you are accepting the policies and practices described in this Policy. Each time you visit the site, you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of the information that you provide as described in this Policy.

From time to time, we may change the Privacy Policy. When we do, the “Last Updated” line at the top of this page will be revised. You are responsible for regularly reviewing this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of those changes.

PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

When you use our Services by, among other actions, creating an account, subscribing to our newsletter, browsing our Site or otherwise interacting with our Services, we gather personal information. This information is necessary for delivering you the Services or enhancing your customer experience.

This may consist of data such as your name, email address, postal address and telephone number. You will be able to select how we use your information for marketing purposes and you can update your marketing preferences at any time.

We use web beacons in our emails to track the success of our marketing campaigns. If you open an email from us, we can see which of the pages of our website you visited. Our web beacons don’t store any information on your computer but, by communicating with our cookies on your computer, they can tell us when you have opened an email from us. We may keep track of the emails that we send you. We also keep a record of what communications you have selected to receive or not to receive.

As you use the site, certain information may also be passively collected. Through technologies like cookies, pixels, beacons and log files, we may collect information about how you use the site which we may use to deliver more useful content and information to you.

Our website contains links to products and services offered by third party websites. If you click on those links we will use data collected about your activity on our site to direct you to the third party site. We and the third party may collect data to show us that you have clicked on the link and whether you purchased any products and services. We may receive a commission from the third party if you link to their site from our site and purchase goods and services from them.

USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We collect, use or otherwise process personal information as allowed under applicable law, including where based on one or more of the following:

The performance of the contract we have with you;
The compliance of a legal obligation to which we are subject; or
The consent you provide to us at the point of collection of your personal information.

We use personal information to:

Provide you with content and services that you request or that we think is relevant to you;
Communicate with you about changes to our policies;
Send you newsletters and emails;
Provide you with advertising, including advertising based on your activity on our Services or activity on third-party sites and applications;
Administer contests, sweepstakes, promotions, and surveys;
Optimize or improve our products, services and operations;
Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal;
Communicate with you about your account, respond to your inquiries and send you information about features and enhancements of the Services; and
Perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Services.

We may aggregate and/or anonymize personal information so that it will no longer be considered personal information. We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose.

HOW WE DISCLOSE INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

We will only disclose your personal information collected via the Services to other companies as described in this Privacy Policy. We will not rent, sell, or share your Personal Information with third parties except as specifically approved or under the circumstances described below. If you object to our use or disclosure of Personal Information collected about you in the ways identified in this Policy, do not use the site.

We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties: (a) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena, or court order; or (b) in certain instances, such as a physical threat to you or others, a threat to homeland security, a threat to our system, or cases in which we believe it is necessary to investigate or prevent harm, fraud, abuse, illegal conduct, or a possible violation of this Policy or the Terms of Use.

We may provide your Personal Information to third-party service providers who work with us to operate our business and the site. Examples of such service providers include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for sending email, analyzing data, and providing marketing assistance. These service providers will have access only to your Personal Information to the extent that it is reasonably necessary to perform their services, and they will have a contractual obligation to keep your Personal Information confidential.

We may disclose personal information collected from you if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (a) conform to applicable law or comply with legal process; (b) protect and defend the our rights or property, the Services or our users, and (c) act under emergency circumstances to protect the personal safety of any of our employees, agents or contractors, or those of any of our parent companies, affiliates or subsidiaries, any users of the Services or the public.

We may use a third-party network advertiser to serve the advertisements on this website or we may use an audience or traffic measurement service to analyse the traffic on this website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to this website and other websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products or websites you might be interested in. Audience and traffic measurement services allow us to collect traffic and behavioural information from the website by monitoring anonymous visitor activity. This website’s advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have your cookies enabled in your browser.

By using the Services, you may elect to disclose personal information:

On comments sections, contact forms and other services to which you are able to post information and content (including, without limitation, our Social Media Pages).
Through your social sharing activity. When you connect your Services account with your social media account, you will share information with your friends associated with your social media account, with other users, and with your social media account provider. By doing so, you authorize us to facilitate this sharing of information, and you understand that the use of shared information will be governed by the social media provider’s privacy policy.

Please remember that any information you share in public areas, such as comment sections or forums, or that you otherwise post, display or disseminate in an area that is viewable by other users of the Services, becomes public. Please be careful about what you disclose and do not disclose any Personal Information that you expect to keep private.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The site is not directed or intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, you should not register or provide Personal Information on the Site. If we later obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13 years of age, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our systems. If you are the parent or guardian of a child whom you believe has disclosed Personal Information to us, please contact us so that we may delete and remove your child’s information from our systems.

OTHER INFORMATION

Other information is any information that does not specifically identify you and is collected through technology includes tracking information collected by us as well as third parties. Other information includes:

Information about your computer, mobile device, or other device that you use to access the Services such as your device type and brand, operating system, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser client ID, browser language, Internet Service Provider;
Usage information about your use of our Services, such as a reading history of the pages you view;
Additional “traffic data” such as time of access, visitor ID, traffic channel, traffic source, traffic medium, campaign name, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times, and referring website addresses;
Search terms and search results;
Location data such as your IP address, geolocation information (longitude and latitude);
Demographic information and other information provided by you that does not reveal your specific identity; and
Other information that has been aggregated in a manner such that it no longer reveals your specific identity.

THIRD–PARTY COOKIES

We may use reputable third parties to present or serve advertisements that you may see on the Site and to conduct research about the advertisements. These third parties may place or recognize a unique cookie sometimes called a “third-party cookie,” on your browser (or may use web beacons or clear gifs to collect certain information) in order to understand Web usage patterns of people who see advertisements, to control the sequence of advertisements you see, to provide you with the most relevant advertising, and to make sure you don’t see the same ad too many times. These third parties may also connect information about pages you visit on this site with information about pages you visit on other sites and show you advertising based on this combined information.

We do not control these companies or what they do with the information they collect. Many of these third parties are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and abide by NAI principles, which prohibit the NAI members from connecting Personal Information to information they collect through cookies without your explicit consent. If you wish to opt out of participating in advertising programs conducted by NAI members, please go to the NAI Opt-Out site and follow the instructions on that site. After you opt-out, you will continue to see advertisements from these companies, but the advertising will not be tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our websites may include links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and, when you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit. We may monetise some of these links through the use of third party affiliate programmes. Notwithstanding such affiliate programmes, we are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of these websites or for third party advertisers, nor for the way in which they use information they collect about you.

HOW YOU CAN ACCESS, CHANGE OR DELETE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you would like to request to review, correct, restrict or delete personal information that you have previously provided to us, object to the processing of personal information, or request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), you may send us a request to [email protected].

In your request, please state what personal information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your personal information suppressed from our database or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.

We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion (e.g., when you enter a promotion, you may not be able to change or delete the personal information provided until after the completion of such purchase or promotion).

If you are a resident of California, under 18 and a registered user of the Services, you may ask us to remove content or information that you have posted to the Services by contacting us at the information listed above.

Please note that your request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information, as, for example, some of your content may have been reposted by another user.

THIRD PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as Disqus, Facebook, Twitter, Apple, Google, Microsoft, RIM or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including with respect to any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our Social Media Pages.

SECURITY
We place a priority on the security of Personal Information, and we undertake reasonable security measures, in accordance with industry standards, to protect the data that resides on servers under our control. However, we do not warrant that your Personal Information will be completely secure or will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet.

CONTACT US
If you have any questions regarding privacy or this Policy, you may contact us as follows:

[email protected]

The Big Bang Optics
117 W Sierra Ave
Portola
California 96122
United States
Phone: (530) 832-1458
Email: [email protected]

POLICY CHANGES

We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time, so we encourage you to check it periodically. If we make material changes we will endeavour to provide you with appropriate notice before such changes take effect.