incPrivacy Statement

Effective Date: [8/23/2023] 

CBOSS, Inc. (“CBOSS”, “we”, “us”, “our”) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This Privacy Statement applies to our data collection and usage practices when you use our website at www.cboss.com  (“Website”), the CBOSS, Inc. blog at blog.cboss.com (“Blog”), and the payment gateway located at epayments.cboss.com (“Gateway”) (collectively, “Services”). By using the Services, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of Personal Information

“Personal Information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with individuals. Personal Information does not include information that is publicly available, de-identified, or aggregated. CBOSS may collect Personal Information, which is information that can be used to identify you individually, from you directly when you interact with the Services. For example, when you use the Services, we may collect your email address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect additional information such as your account password or payment card information. The Personal Information that we collect, use, and share depends on how you use our Services.

Information We Collect. The categories of Personal Information we may collect through our Services include:

• Personal identifiers such as name, online identifiers like user account names, state, and federal government ID number (where required), signature, and unique identifiers that we use for advertising purposes.
• Contact information such as your email, postal address, billing address, delivery or shipping address, and phone numbers.
• Personal characteristics such as race, religion, or political affiliations.
• Financial information such as credit/debit card number, bank account number.
• Commercial information such as records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
• Geolocation data.
• Internet or other electronic network activity information, including, but not limited to, internet protocol address, browsing history, search history, device type, operating system, duration of session.

Information Collected Automatically. We use various tools and technologies, like cookies and pixels, to collect certain information automatically when you use our Services. A “cookie” is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a webpage server. Our Services may use both session ID cookies and tracking cookies. Session ID cookies make it easier for you to navigate the Services and expire when you close your browser. Tracking cookies help us understand how you use the Services and enhance your user experience. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the CBOSS services or websites you visit.

Please note that we (or other parties) may collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across different devices and online websites when you use the Services. Your web browser may have settings that allow you to transmit a “Do Not Track” signal when you visit various websites or use online services. Like many websites, our Services are not designed to respond to “Do Not Track” signals received from browsers. To learn more about “Do Not Track” signals, visit https://allaboutdnt.com/.

We may use third-party technologies (such as Facebook, Microsoft, and Google Analytics) to collect and use data in connection with your activity on the Services, including for interest-based advertising purposes. For example, we may use certain Google Analytics Advertising features such as dynamic remarketing, interest-based advertising, audience targeting, behavioral reporting, demographics and interests reporting, user segment analysis, device reporting, display advertising, and video ads reporting to personalize your online experience on the Services. These ad technology companies and advertisers may use, store, or access cookies and other tracking technologies to collect or receive information from the Services, and elsewhere on the Internet and use that information to create a profile of you, measure your interests, detect your demographics, detect your location, detect your device, personalize content, and provide advertising services to us, including advertisements targeted to your interests.

You may be able to opt out of certain interest-based advertising using the settings on your browser. To find out more about how these online analytics services manage the privacy of information in conjunction with delivering ads online, and how to opt out of information collection by these networks, please visit: youradchoices.com/appchoices, optout.aboutads.info, or thenai.org.

For more information on Microsoft’s data collection practices, please visit: privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement.

For more information on how Google Analytics uses the data it collects, visit: google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. To opt out of Google Analytics, visit: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/. To adjust your Google advertising settings, visit: adssettings.google.com.

How We Collect Personal Information

We collect information from a variety of sources. The following are categories of sources from which Personal Information may be collected:

• Directly From You. We may collect information directly from you (or a consumer authorized to act on your behalf) through your interactions with and use of our Services.

• Automatically through Technologies and Tools from the Services. We may automatically collect certain information from you once you use our Services. This information may include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses.

• From Your Interactions Using the Services. When you use our Services, we may collect information from your use such as your purchase history and your experience on the website.

• From Our Service Providers or Business Partners. We work with Service Providers or business partners that help us run our business and may collect information on our behalf.

Use and Disclosure of your Personal Information

CBOSS collects and uses your Personal Information for various purposes to operate our Services, including:(i) to provide and deliver the service you requested; (ii) to communicate with you (including to provide customer service support and to inform you of other products or services available from CBOSS and its affiliates); (iii) to facilitate and personalize your user experience; (iv) to contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered; (v) to improve our Services (including by analyzing trends); (vi) to investigate claims and/or legal actions, violations of our policies and procedures, compliance with relevant applicable laws and legal processes; (vii) to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal processes; and (viii) for any other purpose, with your consent.

CBOSS may disclose the information we have obtained with our affiliates, business partners, and Service Providers. For example, we may use a vendor to send you an email or postal mail. CBOSS, Inc. does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties in exchange for money.

CBOSS, Inc. does not use or disclose sensitive Personal Information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. CBOSS, Inc. keeps track of the websites and pages our customers visit within CBOSS, Inc., in order to determine what CBOSS, Inc. services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within CBOSS, Inc. to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

In addition, CBOSS may disclose your Personal Information: (i) if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with certain legal process served; (ii) when we determined the disclosure is necessary to protect and defend the rights or property of CBOSS; (iii) to protect the personal safety of users of CBOSS or the public; (iv) in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business assets (e.g., further to a merger, liquidation, reorganization, or any other business transaction, including negotiations of such transactions; or (v) with your consent or at your direction.

The Services may permit you to post or submit information that may be publicly available (such as when you leave a comment on the Blog). If you choose to submit such information may be disclosed to a public area of the Services. Your information will be considered “public” and may be accessible by anyone and can be used for other purposes outside of this Statement.

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain Personal Information for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as set out in this Privacy Statement, unless a longer retention period is permitted or required by law. We will also retain Personal Information as required to fulfill our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We may also retain Services usage data to improve the functionality of our Services, and destroy such data in accordance with our internal retention polices.

Security of your Personal Information

CBOSS takes reasonable measures to protect Personal Information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. We use industry standard methods to protect that information. Nonetheless, any transmission of information through the Internet is not entirely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Services.

Third Party Links

We may provide hyperlinks to other online platforms outside of the Services. This Statement applies only to the Services. Please note that if you visit a third-party website that is not operated by CBOSS, that third party may collect information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites, and you should review the terms, policies, and settings of these third-party websites to learn more about their practices.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect Personal Information online from individuals under the age of 16. If we become aware that we have obtained Personal Information from an individual under the age of 16, we will delete such information in accordance with application law.

Your Choices

Communication Preferences. If you do not wish to receive marketing emails from us, you can opt out of future emails by following the instructions provided in our emails. Opting out of marketing emails will not affect our administrative emails to you.

Accessing, Deleting & Changing Your Personal Information. Depending on your interaction with us, you may have certain rights related to the information we collect. Please contact us at privacy@cbossinc.com to exercise such rights.

Additional California Resident Disclosures

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), we are required to notify California consumers about our collection, use, and disclosure, and retention of their Personal Information through their interactions with our Services. This section should be read in conjunction with the rest of the Privacy Statement and will apply to the extent the law applies to you.

Additional Information about Collection and Use of Personal Information. We collected the following categories of Personal Information about California consumers. Note that the Personal Information we collect about you may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us and may not include all the examples listed below.

• Identifiers;
• Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1797.80(e));
• Contact information
• Personal characteristics;
• Commercial information;
• Financial information;
• Geolocation data;
• Internet or other electronic network activity information

For examples of the specific types of personal information we collect about California consumers, visit the “Information We Collect” section above. You can learn more about the categories of sources of the personal information we collect in the “How We Collect Personal Information” section above.

Additional Information about the Disclosure of Personal Information. We disclose the following categories of Personal Information to various recipients for a business purpose as described below.

• Personal identifiers.
  • Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service Providers, affiliates, and business partners
  • Why We Disclose Personal Information: (1) so that our Service can assist us in maintaining our relationship with you and communicating with you, including providing you with the products or services you requested and for customer service purposes; (2) to provide services for our business partners
• Contact information.
  • Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service Providers, affiliates, and business partners
  • Why We Disclose Personal Information: (1) so that our Service can assist us in maintaining our relationship with you and communicating with you, including providing you with the products or services you requested and for customer service purposes; (2) to provide services for our business partners.
• Financial information.
• Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service Providers, affiliates, and business partners

• Why We Disclose Personal Information: (1) to process your purchases, online orders, returns, exchanges, and other transactions; (2) to provide services for our business partners; and (3) to communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries.

• Commercial information

• Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service Providers, affiliates, and business partners
• Why We Disclose Personal Information: (1) to process your purchases, online orders, returns, exchanges, and other transactions; (2) to provide services for our business partners; (3) to communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries; and (4) to market or advertise to you

• Geolocation data.
  • Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service Providers
  • Why We Disclose Personal Information: (1) for security purposes, and (2) to improve our website and services
• Internet or other electronic network activity information
  • Categories of Recipients of Personal Information: Service Providers
  • Why We Disclose Personal Information: (1) for security purposes, and (2) to improve our website and services

How We Share and Sell Personal Information. Although we do not sell personal information in exchange for money, some of the ways in which we share personal information for advertising may be considered “sales” or “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising under the CCPA. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16 years of age. 

 We have sold and/or shared the categories of Personal Information provided below to marketing and advertising companies for the purpose of providing analytics and advertising for us:

• Personal identifiers
• Contact information
• Commercial information
• Internet or other electronic network activity information 

Your Rights. California residents are entitled to certain rights regarding their Personal Information, including the right:

• To know the categories and/or specific pieces of Personal Information collected about you, including whether your Personal Information is sold, shared, or disclosed, and with whom your Personal Information was disclosed;
• To access a copy of the Personal Information we retain about you;
• To correct any information we maintain about you that is inaccurate;
• To request deletion of Personal Information;
• To opt-out of the sale and/or sharing of Personal Information; and

If you choose to exercise any of your privacy rights, you will not receive discriminatory treatment by us.

Exercising Your Rights. You may exercise your privacy rights by contacting us using the contact information at the end of this Privacy Statement. We may ask for specific information to verify your identity prior to processing your requests. If you are an authorized agent or parent/guardian making a request on behalf of an individual or your minor child, we may require and request additional information to verify that you are authorized to make that request.

California’s “Shine the Light” Law. If you are a California resident, you are entitled, once a year, free of charge, to request information regarding our disclosure, if any, of certain categories of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. To make a Shine the Light request, you may contact us at info@cboss.com. Please note that your California’s Shine the Light law rights are distinct from your rights under California privacy law and must be exercised separately.

Information for Users Outside of the United States

If you are using the Services outside of the United States, please be aware that CBOSS is based in the United States and information we obtain through your use of the Services will be transferred to, processed, and stored on our service in the United States. The data protection laws and regulations that apply to your Personal Information may be different from the law in your country of residence.

Changes to this Statement

CBOSS will occasionally update this Privacy Statement. We will indicate any updates to this Statement by changing the “Effective Date” at the beginning of the Privacy Statement. CBOSS, Inc. encourages you to periodically review this Statement to be informed of CBOSS’s data collection practices. Your continued use of the Services after any update to this Statement will constitute your acceptance of our updates.

Contact Information

If you have questions about your Personal Information or your rights under this Statement, please contact CBOSS, Inc. at privacy@cbossinc.com.