PRIVACY POLICY
Last revised on: June 3, 2014
This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by Independa, Inc. and its related companies (“Independa” or “We” or “Us”). This Policy applies to the Independa website available at www.Independa.com (the “Site”). This Policy does not apply to websites or services, including Independa’s software-as-a-service offering, that post different statements.
WHAT WE COLLECT
Information You Give Us.
We collect any personal information you provide to us. For example, if you contact us through the form or contact information posted on our site, we will collect your email address along with any other information you provide to respond to your query.
Information Automatically Collected.
We automatically collect information about you and your computer when you visit our Site. For example, we may log your computer or device operating system type, IP address, browser type, browser language, the website you visited before browsing to our Site, pages you viewed, access times, and information about your use of and actions on our Site.
Cookies. We may automatically collect information using "cookies." Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive by a website. Among other things, cookies help us make our Site and your experience better. We use cookies to see which parts and features of our Site are popular and to count visits to our Site.
Web Beacons. We may log information using digital images called “web beacons” (also called “pixel tags”) on our Site or in our emails. We use web beacons to manage cookies, count visits, and to learn what marketing works and what does not. We also use web beacons to tell if you open or act on our emails.
Analytics. We use analytics services, such as Google Analytics and Mixpanel, to help analyze how users use the Site. These analytics uses cookies and web beacons to collect and store information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit, what features they use, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information we get from analytics services to improve our Site. For more information about Google Analytics and Mixpanel, click here and here.
Widgets. We may include widgets from third parties on some pages of the Site that allow interaction or information sharing by users. Some of these widgets provide specific services or content from a third party, such as a Facebook “Like” button. Your interaction with these widgets allows the third party to collect some information about you through cookies they placed on your device when you registered for their application or service. In some cases, the third party may recognize you through web beacons on our site or its cookies even when you do not interact with their application. Please visit the third-parties’ respective privacy policies to better understand their data collection practices.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We use personal information collected through our Site, or disclosed by you on our Site, for the purposes described in this Policy. For example, we may use your information to:
- operate, maintain, and improve our Site;
- understand you and your preferences to enhance your experience and enjoyment using our Site;
- respond to comments and questions and provide customer service and communicate about our services and other news about the Site; and
- protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity.
SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We do not share your personal information other than as follows:
- with third party vendors, consultants and other service providers who work for us and need access to your information to do that work;
- to comply with laws or to respond to lawful requests and legal process;
- to protect the rights and property of Independa, our agents, users, and others including to enforce our agreements, policies, and terms of use and in an emergency to protect the personal safety of any person; and
- in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets to another company.
We may create, use, and disclose de-identified and aggregated data for any purpose.
INFORMATION CHOICES AND CHANGES
You may “opt-out” of receiving our promotional emails by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-marketing emails. Non-marketing emails include emails about your accounts and our business dealings with you. You may send requests about your personal information to our contact information below. You may request to change your contact preferences and update your personal information.
When you visit our Site, we and others give you the following choices about use of mechanisms for tracking, including tracking of your online activities over time and across different websites and online services by third parties. Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can typically remove and reject cookies from our Site with your browser settings. If you remove or reject our cookies, it could affect how our Site and Services work for you. You can choose to opt-out of use of cookies by certain third-party analytics providers. For more information about opting out of Google Analytics and Mixpanel, click here and here. If you delete your cookies, use a different browser, or buy a new computer, you will need to renew your opt-out choice. While we and others give you choices described in this Policy, there are many ways web browser signals and other similar mechanisms can indicate your choice to disable tracking, and we may not be aware of or honor every mechanism.
CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your comments or questions about this Policy. You may contact us at our address:
Independa, Inc.
Attention: Office of the Chief Compliance Officer
11455 El Camino Real, Suite 365
San Diego, CA 92130
800.815.7829
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make any changes to this Policy, we will change the Last Revised date above.