Sifted U.S. Privacy Policy
Last Updated on June 5th, 2023
Contents
- Data Categories and Collection Purposes
- Cookies and Other Web Site Technologies
- How We Use Your Data
- Data Sharing
- Security of Data
- Third-Parties/Service Providers
- Analytics
- Links to Other Websites
- Children’s Privacy
- Changes to this Policy
- Contact Us
Privacy Policy
Sifted, Inc. (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://sifted.com website ( “Service”).
Data Categories and Collection Purposes
To enhance our service, we collect various types of information. By visiting our website(s) or using our Services, you provide us with the following categories of personal data:
- Customer Account and Registration Data: This includes your email address, first and last name, phone number, address, state, province, ZIP/postal code, city, cookies, and usage data. It is necessary for creating an account, providing support, and maintaining your account.
- Service Data (Including Session, Location, and Usage Data): We gather information on how the Service is accessed and used. This includes data automatically logged by the website or Service, such as session duration, hardware and device details, IP addresses, location, language settings, operating system information, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. This information is crucial for delivering, operating, and enhancing our Services.
How We Use Your Data
The collected data by Sifted, Inc. serves multiple purposes, which include:
- Providing and ensuring the maintenance of our Service.
- Notifying you about any changes made to our Service.
- Enabling your participation in interactive features of our Service, should you choose to do so.
- Offering customer care and support services.
- Providing analysis and valuable insights to enhance the quality of our Service.
- Monitoring the usage patterns of our Service.
- Detecting, preventing, and addressing any technical issues that may arise.
Data Sharing
Your Personal Data and other information may be transferred to and stored on computers outside your jurisdiction, including countries with different data protection laws than those in your state, province, or country.
If you are outside the United States and choose to provide your Personal Information to us, please be aware that we may transfer your data to the United States or other countries where our service providers are located. These countries may not offer the same level of data protection as your jurisdiction.
By consenting to this Privacy Policy and submitting your information, you acknowledge and agree to such data transfers.
Sifted, Inc. will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We will not transfer your Personal Data to any organization or country without adequate controls in place to safeguard your data and personal information.
Data Disclosure
Under certain circumstances, Sifted, Inc. may need to disclose your Personal Data in good faith when it is deemed necessary to:
- Comply with any applicable legal obligations.
- Protect and defend the rights or property of Sifted, Inc.
- Investigate or prevent potential wrongdoing associated with the Service.
- Safeguard the personal safety of Service users or the general public.
- Mitigate potential legal liability.
Security of Data
We place great importance on the security of your data and make diligent efforts to safeguard your personal information. However, it is important to note that no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is entirely secure. Therefore, while we employ commercially acceptable measures to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Third Parties/Service Providers:
To assist in delivering our services and conducting related tasks on our behalf, such as service analysis, we may engage third-party companies and individuals. These entities are only permitted to access your personal data for the purpose of performing these tasks and are bound by confidentiality obligations, preventing them from disclosing or using the data for any other purposes.
Analytics
We may utilize third-party service providers, like Google Analytics, to analyze and monitor the usage of our service. Google Analytics tracks and reports website traffic and may use the collected data to personalize and contextualize ads within its advertising network. You can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on if you wish to prevent your activity on our service from being available to Google Analytics. For more information about Google’s privacy practices, please refer to the Google Privacy & Terms web page.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. We strongly advise you to review every site’s privacy policies. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for these third-party sites or services’ content, privacy policies, or practices.
Children’s Privacy
Our service is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 (“Children”), and we do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under this age. If you are a parent or guardian and become aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we discover that we have collected personal data from a child without verifiable parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may occasionally update our privacy policy and notify you of any changes by posting the revised policy on our website. Additionally, we will send an email and/or display a prominent notice on our service before the changes take effect. The “effective date” at the top of this privacy policy will also be updated. We recommend reviewing this privacy policy periodically for any updates.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: [email protected]
- By visiting the contact page on our website
- By phone number: 800.903.3073
- By mail: 8880 Ward Pkwy Suite 300 Kansas City, MO 64114, United States
