PRIVACY POLICY FOR ONLINE ACTIVATION
At ONLINE ACTIVATION, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by our websites and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
ONLINE ACTIVATION has created this Privacy Policy Statement in order to inform you of our commitment to privacy and to describe our policies for the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information that may be collected by ONLINE ACTIVATION when you visit our websites or use certain services. In a few cases, ONLINE ACTIVATION'S other websites may contain additional privacy policies. Your visits to those Websites will be governed by the privacy policies, if any, that govern those sites.
PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT BEFORE USING THIS SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT, DO NOT USE THE WEBSITE. BY SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE WEBSITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY STATEMENT.
Your use of this Website is also subject to the Terms and Conditions of Use. Please review those Terms and Conditions of Use for additional details regarding your use of this Website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including:
• Provide, operate, and maintain our website.
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website.
• Understand and analyze how you use our website.
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
• Send you emails.
• Find and prevent fraud.
Log Files
ONLINE ACTIVATION follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering geographical information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, our websites utilize what are known as 'cookies'. These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information. They are also used to analyze the statistical traffic on our website.
What are Cookies?
Cookies are small text files which are stored on the browser or hard drive of your computer or mobile device when you visit a webpage or application. A 'session cookie' stores temporary information that is deleted when you close your web browser or turn off your computer or device. A 'persistent cookie' enables the site to recognize when you return to it and remains stored on your computer until you delete it. Cookies work to make your experience browsing our site as smooth as possible by remembering your preferences the next time you visit the site.
You should read this Policy in it's entirety to understand what types of cookies we use, the information we collect from them, and how that information is managed.
What Types of Cookies do we use?
We use a few types of cookies to improve the user experience on the website, such as:
• Google Analytics for statistical assessment and website performance improvement;
• Cookies for personalizing the content of the site for users, such as setting the default language.
You can set up warnings for every time any website places a cookie in your browser, or you can choose to disable all cookies. You can do both through your browser settings. Since each browser has a different procedure for managing cookies, look at your browser Help Menu to learn the correct way to do it.
Some cookies are essential for our Websites to operate smoothly; others are used to improve Websites functionality, analyze aggregated usage statistics to improve Websites performance, and for advertising. Like many websites, we and/or our third party providers use cookies to recognize you as you use or return to the Website. Our cookies are categorized in the following categories:
• Essential cookies. These cookies are essential for enabling user movement around our Websites. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes and do not remember where you have been on the internet. This category of cookies cannot be disabled.
• Functionality cookies. Functionality cookies are used to remember information you have entered or choices you made (e. g., language) on the Websites, so the next time you visit the Website you will not have to set them again.
• Analytics cookies. These cookies are set to collect information about how visitors use our Websites. They allow us to make improvements to our Websites and report our performance.
• Advertising cookies. These cookies are placed by third-party advertising platforms or networks to deliver ads and track ad performance. In some cases, these cookies enable advertising networks to deliver ads that may be relevant to you based upon your activities on our Websites and other Websites (in such cases, ad serving might be based on automated decision-making).
Cookies in Use
Our Websites use different cookies. The tables below list and explain why we use them and how long they are stored on your device. Please note that this list of cookies is not exhaustive.
• Google Analytics
Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.
Although Google Analytics records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor (see below).
Google Analytics makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google developer guides. For your information, our websites particularly use the analytics.js implementation of Google Analytics.
Learn more about Google Analytics
• Google Tag Manager
We are constantly trying to improve the customer experience on our website by providing visitors with more personalized and targeted campaigns and offerings. To do so, we use Google Tag Manager (GTM).
GTM is a small snippet of code that helps us track user behavior across our sites and then pushes the data to our Google Analytics account. Then, all the data is organized in a manner that allows for us to analyze and review for potential site improvements and remarketing campaigns.
Learn more about Google Tag Manager
Our Advertising Partners
Some of the advertising partners of our service may use cookies and web beacons as well. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each has their own Privacy Policy, which outlines their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
• Google Ads
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Advertising Partners Privacy Policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of our advertising partners.
• Google Ads
https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads
Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on our sites, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.
Note that ONLINE ACTIVATION has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
The ONLINE ACTIVATION Privacy Policy does not apply to any other third-party party advertisers or websites. Thus, we advise you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
How You Can Change Cookie Preferences and Block Cookies
Within your browser, you can choose whether you wish to accept cookies or not. Different browsers make different controls available to you. Generally, your browser will offer you the choice to accept, refuse or delete cookies at all times, or those from providers that website owners use i.e. third party cookies, or those from specific websites. The official website of your browser should contain instructions on how you can do this. For further information on what cookies may already be placed in your browser, and how to block them, please visit www.aboutads.info.
Alternatively, you can disable all cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page, the Google Ads Personalization Control page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add-on tool. Note that choosing to disable cookies may negatively impact some of the features on our website that make your experience more efficient and enjoyable.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access - You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification - You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure - You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability - You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Learn more about the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)
Contact Us
Email Address: info@onlineactivation.org
Telephone number: 1-800-317-0302
Effective as of March 2, 2023