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Privacy Policy

Code Truck LLC (hereinafter “Code Truck”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) has established this set of policies concerning privacy (our “Privacy Policy”) and it applies to websites and services of Code Truck that collect data and display or incorporate these terms, as well as our product support services. It does not apply to those Code Truck sites, services and products that do not display, incorporate or link to this Privacy Policy or that have their own policies. Please read our Privacy Policy below as well as any supplemental information for further details about particular Code Truck sites and services you use. Some products, services or features mentioned in this Privacy Policy may not be available in all markets at this time.

Collection of Your Personal Information

We collect information as part of operating our websites and services.

1. At some Code Truck sites, we may ask you to provide personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address, or telephone number. We may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favorites. If you choose to make a purchase of an available Code Truck product or to sign up for an available paid subscription service, we may ask for additional information, such as your credit card number and billing address.
2. In order to access some Code Truck services, you may be asked to sign in with an e-mail address and password, which we refer to as your Code Truck account. By signing in on one Code Truck site or service, you may be automatically signed into other Code Truck sites and services that use your Code Truck account.
3. We may collect additional information about your interaction with Code Truck sites and services without identifying you as an individual. For example, we may receive certain standard information that your browser sends to every website you visit, such as your IP address, browser type and language, access times and referring web site addresses. We may also use web site analytics tools on our sites to retrieve information from your browser, including the site you came from, the search engine(s) and the keywords you used to find our site, the pages you view within our site, your browser add-ons, and your browser's width and height.
4. We may use technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about the pages you view, the links you tap or click and other actions you take on our sites and services.
5. We may also deliver advertisements (see the Display of Advertising section below).
6. When you receive communications or promotional e-mail from Code Truck, we may use web beacons (described below), customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the e-mail has been opened and which links you click in order to provide you more focused e-mail communications or other information.
7. In order to offer you a more consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with Code Truck, information collected through one Code Truck service may be combined with information obtained through other Code Truck services. We may also supplement the information we collect with information obtained from other companies. For example, we may use services from other companies that enable us to derive a general geographic area based on your IP address in order to customize certain services to your geographic area.

Use of Your Personal Information

Code Truck collects and uses your personal information to operate and improve its sites and services. These uses include providing you with more effective customer service; making the sites or services easier to use by eliminating the need for you to repeatedly enter the same information; performing research and analysis aimed at improving our products, services and technologies; and displaying content and advertising that are customized to your interests and preferences. For more information about the use of information for advertising, see the Display of Advertising section below. We may also use your personal information to communicate with you. We may send certain mandatory service communications such as welcome letters, billing reminders, information on technical service issues, and security announcements. Some Code Truck services may send periodic communications that are a component of the service. Additionally, we may also occasionally send you product surveys or promotional mailings to inform you of other products or services available from Code Truck and its affiliates, and/or share your personal information with Code Truck business partners so they may send you information about their products and services. You can opt-out from receiving promotional e-mail anytime by following the steps as described in the promotional e-mail.

Sharing of Your Personal Information

Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not disclose your personal information outside of Code Truck and its controlled subsidiaries and affiliates without your consent. Some Code Truck services may be co-branded by Code Truck and another company (our “Business Partner”). If you register to use or use such a service, both our Privacy Policy and our Business Partner’s privacy policy may be displayed. If so, both Code Truck and our Business Partner may receive information you provide such as on registration forms and your information may be gathered by both us and our Business Partner and will be subject to both our Privacy Policy and our Business Partner’s privacy policy, whose terms may differ from ours. Code Truck may occasionally hire other companies or vendors to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, hosting websites, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services. Those service providers or vendors will be permitted to obtain only the personal information they need to deliver the service. They are required to maintain the confidentiality of that information and are prohibited from using it for any other purpose than for delivering the service to Code Truck in accordance with Code Truck’s instructions and policies. However, our service providers or vendors may use aggregate data for fraud detection to help improve their services. This helps them to more accurately detect fraudulent transactions. We may access or disclose information about you, including the content of your communications, in order to:

1. comply with the law or respond to lawful requests or legal process;
2. protect the rights or property of Code Truck or our customers, including the enforcement of our agreements or policies governing your use of the services; or
3. act on a good faith belief that such access or disclosure is necessary to protect the safety or welfare of Code Truck employees, customers or the public.

We may also disclose personal information as part of a corporate transaction such as a merger or sale of assets.

Accessing Personal Information

Some Code Truck services may give you the ability to view or modify personal information online. To help prevent personal information from being viewed by others, you first will be required to sign in. The method(s) for accessing personal information will depend on which Code Truck sites or services you use.

Compliance with Privacy Laws and Regulations

Code Truck is committed to complying with applicable privacy and data protection laws. Depending on where you live and how you interact with our services, different regulations may apply to your personal information, including but not limited to:

1. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Economic Area (EEA), which provides rights such as access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection to processing.
2. The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), which provide California residents with rights to know about, delete, and opt-out of the sale or sharing of their personal information.
3. The Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), the Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), and other state-specific privacy laws within the United States.
4. The Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in Canada.

If you are located in a jurisdiction where these or other privacy laws apply, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. To exercise these rights, please contact us at privacy@codetruck.net. We will respond to verifiable requests within the timeframes required by applicable law.

Communication Preferences

You can request a termination of the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Code Truck sites and services by following the specific instructions in the communication you receive. For further information, please contact privacy@codetruck.net.

Display of Advertising (Opt-Out)

Our websites and online services may include advertising. When we display advertisements to you, we will place one or more persistent cookies on your computer in order to recognize your computer each time we display an ad to you. Because we may serve advertisements on our own websites, we are able to compile information over time about the types of pages, content and ads you, or others who are using your computer, visited or viewed. This information is used for many purposes, for example, it helps us try to ensure that you do not see the same advertisements over and over again. We also use this information to help select and display targeted advertisements that we believe may be of interest to you. We may also allow third-party ad companies, including other ad networks, to display advertisements on our sites. In some cases, these third parties may also place cookies on your computer. You may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from Code Truck that are delivered by e-mail by contacting privacy@codetruck.net.

Security of Your Personal Information

Code Truck is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. For example, we will store the personal information we collect on computer systems with limited access, which are located in controlled facilities. When we transmit highly confidential information (such as a credit card number or password) over the Internet, we will protect it through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol. If a password is used to help protect your accounts and personal information, it is your responsibility to keep your password confidential. Do not share this information with anyone. If you are sharing a computer with anyone you should always log out before leaving a site or service to protect access to your information from subsequent users.

Data Retention

Code Truck retains personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including providing our services, complying with legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our agreements.

Different types of information may be kept for different periods:

1. Account information: We retain your account information while your account remains active and for a reasonable period afterward to allow you to reactivate your account if desired.
2. Transaction data: Information related to purchases and subscriptions is retained for financial reporting and tax purposes, typically for a period of at least 7 years.
3. Usage data: We may retain anonymized or aggregated usage data indefinitely as it does not identify you personally.
4. Communications: Customer service communications and correspondence may be retained to improve our services and for record-keeping purposes.

Collection and Use of Children’s Personal Information

Many Code Truck sites and services are intended for general audiences and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children. When a Code Truck site does collect age information, and users identify themselves as under 13, the site will either block such users from providing personal information, or will seek to obtain consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing of their children’s personal information. We will not knowingly ask children under the age of 13 to provide more information than is reasonably necessary to provide our services.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Code Truck uses cookies and similar technologies to provide and improve our websites and services. These technologies include:

1. Cookies: Small text files stored on your device that allow us to recognize your browser and remember certain information.
2. Local Storage and Session Storage: Browser-based storage mechanisms that allow us to store data with no expiration date (local storage) or until the browsing session ends (session storage).
3. Pixel Tags/Web Beacons: Small graphic images in web pages or emails that allow us to determine whether you've performed specific actions.
4. SDKs (Software Development Kits): In our mobile applications, we may use SDKs to collect information about how you interact with our apps.
5. Fingerprinting Technologies: In limited cases, we may use device or browser attributes to identify your system for security and fraud prevention purposes.

These technologies serve various purposes:

1. Essential: Technologies necessary for the functionality of our websites and services.
2. Functional: Technologies that enhance your experience but are not essential.
3. Analytics: Technologies that help us understand how our services are used.
4. Advertising: Technologies used to deliver relevant advertisements and track their effectiveness.
5. Social Media: Technologies that enable social media features on our services.

Most web browsers allow you to control cookies through their settings preferences. Many browsers also offer "Do Not Track" functionality, which we honor to the extent technically feasible. Additionally, you can use our preference center to manage your consent for non-essential cookies and similar technologies. Please note that blocking certain cookies may impact the functionality of our services.

Use of Cookies

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to store your preferences and other information on your computer in order to save you time by eliminating the need to repeatedly enter the same information and to display your personalized content and targeted advertising on your later visits to these sites. Code Truck web sites may also use cookies as described in the Display of Advertising sections of this Privacy Policy. When you sign in to a site using your Code Truck account, we may store your unique ID number, and the time you signed in, among other things, in an encrypted cookie on your hard disk. This cookie allows you to move from page to page at the site without having to sign in again on each page. We may also use cookies to improve the sign in experience. For example, your e-mail address may be stored in a cookie that will remain on your computer after you sign out. Such a cookie allows your e-mail address to be pre-populated, so that you will only need to type your password the next time you sign in. If you are using a public computer or do not otherwise want this information to be stored, you generally have the ability to decline cookies. 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 sign in or use other interactive features of Code Truck sites and services that depend on cookies, and we may not be able to honor certain of your selected advertising preferences that are dependent on cookies.

Use of Web Beacons

Code Truck web pages may contain electronic images known as web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that may be used to assist in delivering cookies on our sites and allow us to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. We may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or our newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. Code Truck may also employ web beacons from third parties in order to help us compile aggregated statistics regarding the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns or other operations of our sites. We prohibit web beacons on our sites from being used by third parties to collect or access your personal information. Finally, we may work with other companies that advertise on Code Truck sites to place web beacons on their sites in order to allow us to develop statistics on how often clicking on an advertisement on a Code Truck site results in a purchase or other action on the advertiser's site.

Controlling Unsolicited E-mail (“Spam”)

Code Truck is concerned about controlling unsolicited commercial e-mail, or “spam.” Code Truck has a strict policy prohibiting the use of a Windows Live Hotmail or a Code Truck-provided e-mail account to send spam. Code Truck will not sell, lease or rent its e-mail subscriber lists to third parties. While Code Truck continues to actively review and implement new technology, such as expanded filtering features, there is no technology that will totally prevent the sending and receiving of unsolicited e-mail. Using junk e-mail tools and being cautious about the sharing of your e-mail address while online will help reduce the amount of unsolicited e-mail you receive.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We will update this Privacy Policy as needed to reflect changes in applicable law, our services and customer feedback. When we make changes, we will revise the “last updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. If there are material changes to our Privacy Policy or in how Code Truck will use your personal information, we will notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes on our affected websites or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to be informed of how Code Truck is protecting your information. Code Truck reserves the right to change its Privacy Policy in its sole discretion and without advance notice.