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Phluit Sites Privacy Policy

1. Please read carefully

Sites.Phluit.com cares deeply about the privacy of its visitors and users. To that end, this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Sites.Phluit.com Ltd., together with its affiliated companies worldwide (“Sites.Phluit.com”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), collect, use, and share your Personal Information, as well as an explanation of the data rights you may have in that Personal Information. This Privacy Policy applies to all Sites.Phluit.com users, including unregistered visitors, registered users, and premium users (collectively, “Users”, “you”, or “your”), and to all Sites.Phluit.com services, including our websites (including www.Sites.Phluit.com and any of its subdomains, the “Website”), web applications (“Sites.Phluit.com Apps”), mobile applications (“Mobile Apps”), and related services (collectively, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy is not intended to override the terms of any contract you have with us, nor any rights you may have under other applicable data privacy laws.

Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information.  If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave and discontinue all use of any of our Services.  If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please contact us here.

By accessing or using any of our Services, you acknowledge that you have read this Privacy Policy.

 

2. What ‘Personal Information’ do we collect?

2.1. User information:

To provide you the Services, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal Information you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources. Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:

Information you provide us. When you register for our Services, purchase and/or register domain names, use any of our Services; and/or when you contact us directly by any communication channel (e.g., Sites.Phluit.com’s support tickets, emails), you may provide us Personal Information, such as name, email address, phone number, payment information (for Users with Paid Services), information you include in your communications with us and with other users on our platform, and Personal Information contained in scanned identification documents (such as an ID card, driver’s license, passport, or official company registration documents).  

Information we collect when you use the Services. When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, we may collect aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc

Information we collect from other sources. We may receive Personal Information about you from third-party sources, such as i) security providers , fraud detection and prevention providers for example to help us screen out users associated with fraud, ii) social media platforms, when you log-in or sign-up using your social media account, we may receive Personal Information from that service (e.g., your username, basic profile Personal Information) and in some cases, we may collect Personal Information from lead enhancement companies which help us to improve our service offering; iii) advertising and marketing partners in order to monitor, manage and measure our ad campaigns.

2.2. Users of users ‘Personal Information’

We may also collect Personal Information pertaining to visitors and users of our User’s websites or services (“Users-of-Users”), solely for and on our Users’ behalf (as further described in Section ‎6 below).

2.3. Sites.Phluit.com jobs applicant information

We also collect information that is provided to us by Sites.Phluit.com jobs candidates (“Applicants”), when they apply to any of the open positions published at https://makes.monster/jobs, by e-mail or otherwise (as further described in Section ‎15 below).

3. Why do we collect such ‘Personal Information’

We use your Personal Information for the following purposes:

To provide and operate the Services;

.To further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;

To provide our Users with ongoing customer assistance and technical support;

To be able to contact our Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages (as further detailed in Section 8 below);

To help us to update, expand and analyze our records to identify new customers;

To facilitate, sponsor, and offer certain contests, events, and promotions, determine participants’ eligibility, monitor performance, contact winners, and grant prizes and benefits;

To analyze our performance and marketing activities;

To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;

  • To provide you with professional assistance , only upon your request;
  • To enhance our data security and fraud prevention capabilities; and
  • To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

We use your Personal Information for the purposes set out in Section 3 where:

  • Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with a website builder, to provide you with our customer assistance and technical support);
  • Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have; or
  • Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests and business purposes (for example, to maintain and improve our Services and the effectiveness of Sites.Phluit.com by identifying technical issues), provided it is conducted in a way that is proportionate and that respects your privacy rights.

4. How we share your ‘Personal Information’

We may share your Personal Information with service providers and others (or otherwise allow them access to it) in the following manners and instances:

Third Party Service Providers:  Sites.Phluit.com has partnered with a number of selected service providers, whose services and solutions complement, facilitate and enhance our own. These include hosting and server co-location services, communications and content delivery networks (CDNs), data and cyber security services, billing and payment processing services, domain name registrars, fraud detection and prevention services, web analytics, e-mail distribution and monitoring services, session recording and remote access services, performance measurement, data optimization and marketing services, content providers, and our legal and financial advisors (collectively, “Third Party Service Provider(s)”). 

Sites.Phluit.com may share the following categories of Personal Information with Third Party Service Providers for a business purpose:

  • identifiers, including name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers.
  • commercial Personal Information, for example Personal Information regarding products or services purchased, obtained, or considered.

4.1.The Personal Information may be shared solely in accordance with this policy.

Law Enforcement, Legal Requests and Duties: Sites.Phluit.com may disclose or otherwise allow access to any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy pursuant to a legal request, such as a subpoena, legal proceedings, search warrant or court order, or in compliance with applicable laws, if we have a good faith belief that the law requires us to do so, with or without notice to you.

4.2.Protecting Rights and Safety:  Sites.Phluit.com may share any categories of your Personal Information described in this Privacy Policy if we believe in good faith that this will help protect the rights, property or personal safety of Sites.Phluit.com, any of our Users, any Users-of-Users, or any member of the general public, with or without notice to you.

4.3.Sites.Phluit.com Subsidiaries and Affiliated Companies: We may share your Personal Information internally within our family of companies, for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. For example, we may share your Personal Information with Sites.Phluit.com Inc., our US-based subsidiary, in the course of facilitating and providing you (and your Users-of-Users) with our Services.

Sharing Personal Information by Sites.Phluit.com subsidiaries and affiliated companies in the European Union, the United Kingdom and Switzerland with Sites.Phluit.com’s subsidiaries located outside these regions will only take place under an approved transfer mechanism, such as the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses.

4.4.In connection with a change in corporate control: In addition, should Sites.Phluit.com or any of its affiliates undergo any change in control, including by means of merger, acquisition or purchase of substantially all of its assets, your Personal Information may be shared with the parties involved in such event.

4.5.Upon Your Further Direction: The Sites.Phluit.com Services enable you, through different techniques, to engage and procure various third party services, products and tools for enhancing your web or mobile sites, including, without limitation, applications and widgets offered to you by third parties through the Sites.Phluit.com Website (including the Sites.Phluit.com App Market), eCommerce payment providers, third party designers who may assist you with your website, etc. (collectively, “Third Party Services”). If you choose to engage with such Third Party Services, they may have access to and process Personal Information of your Users-of-Users collected through your web or mobile sites. For example:

  1. a) Framed Pages: our Services may enable you to integrate Third Party Services directly into your web or mobile sites, such as via page framing techniques to serve content to or from Third Party Services  or other parties (“Frames”). In these circumstances, the Third Party Services may collect Personal Information from your Users-of-Users.
  1. b) App Market Developers: We allow third party developers (“Third Party Developer(s)”) to develop and offer their own applications via the Sites.Phluit.com App Market (“Third Party App(s)”) to Users, which you may integrate into your web or mobile sites. Each Third Party Developer is bound by the Sites.Phluit.com App Market Partner Agreement, which among other things, restricts the ways in which such developers may access, store, share, and use the Personal Information you and/or your Users-of-Users provide to them.
  1. c) Social Media Features: Our Services may enable you to integrate certain Social Media features, widgets, and single sign on features, such as “Facebook Connect,” or “Google Sign-in” (“Social Media Features”) into your web or mobile sites. These Social Media Features may collect certain Personal Information from your Users-of-Users such as identifiers, including name, alias, unique personal identifier, online identifier, internet protocol address, email address, or other similar identifiers. Social Media Features are hosted either by a third party or directly on our Services.

Please note that in the examples listed above in this Section 4.6, Sites.Phluit.com merely acts as an intermediary platform allowing you to procure the services of such Third Party Services (including, but not limited to, Third Party Developers, Third Party Apps and Social Media Features) with which you are interacting directly, and at your discretion. In this respect, Sites.Phluit.com acts as a service provider to you, disclosing information to the Third Party Services on your behalf. Sites.Phluit.com will share your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information with Third Parties Services only upon your direction or with your permission and is not, and shall not be, in any way responsible for such Third Party Services processing of such Personal Information, or liable with respect thereto.

Sites.Phluit.com does not control and is not responsible for the actions or policies of any Third Party Service, and your use of any Third Party Service is at your own risk. We encourage you to review any privacy policy accompanying a Third Party Service and ask such Third Party Service for any clarifications you may need before deciding to install and/or use their services.

5. Where do we store your ‘Personal Information’?

Users’ and Users-of-Users’ Personal Information may be stored in data centers located in the United States of America. We may use other jurisdictions as necessary for the proper delivery of our Services and/or as may be required by law.

Sites.Phluit.com affiliates and Third-Party Service Providers that store or process your Personal Information on Sites.Phluit.com’s behalf are contractually committed to keep it protected and secured, in accordance with industry standards and regardless of any lesser legal requirements which may apply in their jurisdiction.

5.1.Transfer of EU Personal data : If you are located in Europe, when we will transfer your Personal Information to the United States or anywhere outside Europe, we will make sure that (i) there is a level of protection deemed adequate by the European Commission or (ii) that the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place. 

5.2.We may store and process Personal Information in the USA. whether by ourselves or with the help of our affiliates and service providers.

Sites.Phluit.com’s data storage providers are contractually committed to protect and secure your data. Among other things, Sites.Phluit.com will ensure that there is the adequate level of protection or that relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place for the international transfer of our EU users’ data.

Privacy Shield Certification: Sites.Phluit.com and its affiliates, including DeviantArt Inc., participates in, and has certified its compliance with, the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List, here.

In compliance with the Privacy Shield Principles, Sites.Phluit.com commits to resolve complaints about our collection or use of your personal information.  EU and Swiss individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our Privacy Shield policy should first contact us at: privacy@Sites.Phluit.com. For the avoidance of doubt, Sites.Phluit.com does not rely on the Privacy Shield as a mechanism for transferring GDPR protected personal data.

Sites.Phluit.com has further committed to refer unresolved Privacy Shield complaints to an alternative dispute resolution provider located in the United States. If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your complaint to your satisfaction, please visit If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third-party dispute resolution provider at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request for more information or to file a complaint.  The services are provided at no cost to you.

 

6. Users-of-users’ ‘Personal Information’

Sites.Phluit.com may collect, store and process certain Personal Information of Users-of-Users (“Users-of-Users Information”), solely on our Users’ behalf and at their direction. For example, each of our Users is able to import their e-mail contacts from third-party services like Gmail, or otherwise collect and manage contacts via their User Website. Such contacts are then stored with Sites.Phluit.com, on the User’s behalf.

 For such purposes, Sites.Phluit.com serves and shall be considered as a “Processor” and not as the “Controller” (as both such capitalized terms are defined in the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”)) of such Users-of-Users Information.

The Users controlling and operating such User Websites shall be considered as the “Controllers” of such Users-of-Users Information, and are responsible for complying with all laws and regulations that may apply to the collection and control of such Users-of-Users Information, including all privacy and data protection laws of all relevant jurisdictions.

You are responsible for the security, integrity and authorized usage of Personal Information about Users-of-Users’, and for obtaining consents, permissions and providing any required data subject rights and fair processing notices required for the collection and usage of such Personal Information.

Sites.Phluit.com cannot provide legal advice to Users or their Users-of-Users, however we do recommend that all Users publish and maintain clear and comprehensive privacy policies on their User Websites in accordance with any applicable laws and regulations, and that all Users-of-Users carefully read those policies and make sure that they understand and, to the extent required by applicable law, consent to them.

For more information on how Users-of-Users Personal Information may be handled by Sites.Phluit.com (which may be relevant for any specific notice you provide to and/or consent you obtain from your Users-of-Users), please see Sections 4, 12 and 13.

If you are a visitor, user or customer of any of our Users, please read the following: Sites.Phluit.com has no direct relationship with Users-of-Users whose Personal Information it processes. If you are a visitor, user or customer of any of our Users, and would like to make any requests or queries regarding your Personal Information, please contact such User(s) directly. For example, if you wish to request to access, correct, amend, or delete inaccurate Personal Information processed by Sites.Phluit.com on behalf of its Users, please direct your query to the relevant User (who is the “Controller” of such data). If Sites.Phluit.com is requested by our Users to remove any Users-of-Users’ Personal Information, we will respond to such requests in a timely manner upon verification and in accordance with applicable law (for example, thirty (30) days under the GDPR). Unless otherwise instructed by our User, we will retain their Users-of-Users’ Personal Information for the period set forth in Section 12 below.

 

7. Use of cookies and other third-party technologies

We and our Third Party Service Providers use cookies and other similar technologies (“Cookies”) in  order for us to provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience.

You can learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies and how you can exercise control over them in our Cookie Policy.

Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, however, most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.

 

8. Communications from Sites.Phluit.com

8.1. Promotional messages

We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional content and messages by e-mail, text messages, notifications within our platform, marketing calls and similar forms of communication from Sites.Phluit.com or our partners (acting on Sites.Phluit.com’s behalf) through such means.

If you do not wish to receive such promotional messages or calls, you may notify Sites.Phluit.com at any time or follow the “unsubscribe” or STOP instructions contained in the promotional communications you receive.

We may send you promotional messages and content.

You can easily opt-out of receiving promotional messages by contacting us or unsubscribing.

8.2. Service and billing messages

Sites.Phluit.com may also contact you with important information regarding our Services, or your use thereof. For example, we may send you a notice (through any of the means available to us) if a certain Service is temporarily suspended for maintenance; reply to your support ticket or e-mail; send you reminders or warnings regarding upcoming or late payments for your current or upcoming subscriptions; forward abuse complaints regarding your User Website; or notify you of material changes in our Services.

It is important that you are always able to receive such messages. For this reason, you are not be able to opt-out of receiving such Service and Billing Messages unless you are no longer a Sites.Phluit.com User (which can be done by deactivating your account).

We may also contact you with service and billing-related messages and content. You will not be able to opt-out of receiving such messages.

9. Your rights in relation to your ‘Personal Information’

Sites.Phluit.com believes that it is imperative that all Sites.Phluit.com users have control over their Personal Information. Therefore, depending on the way you use the Sites.Phluit.com Services, you may have the right to request access to, receive a copy of, update, amend or delete, port certain Personal Information to another service, restrict, or object to certain uses of your Personal Information (for example, for direct marketing purposes). Further, when we rely on your consent for processing of your Personal Information (for instance, for direct marketing) you can withdraw your consent at any time, and such withdrawal will take affect from thereon.

Sites.Phluit.com will not charge you more if you exercise any of these rights and will continue to provide you with the same level of service.

Before fulfilling your request, we may ask you for additional information in order to confirm your identity and for security purposes. We reserve the right to charge a fee where permitted by law (e.g. if your request is unfounded or excessive).

You have the right to file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection (but we still recommend that you contact us first).

Please note that permanently deleting your Sites.Phluit.com account erases all of your Personal Information from Sites.Phluit.com’s databases. After completing this process, you can no longer use any of your Sites.Phluit.com Services, your account and all its data will be removed permanently, and Sites.Phluit.com will not be able to restore your account or retrieve your data in the future. If you contact our support channels in the future, the system will not recognize your account and support agents will not be able to locate the deleted account.

 

10. Additional Information for California residents

If you are a California resident using the Services, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) grants you the right to request access to and deletion of the Personal Information Sites.Phluit.com collects about you, as well as to request that we disclose how we collect, use, and share your Personal Information. 

California residents also have a right to opt-out of the sale of their Personal Information by a business and a right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of their rights under the CCPA. 

No sale of Personal Information. Sites.Phluit.com does NOT sell (as such term is defined in the CCPA) your Personal Information or your customers’ (Users-of-Users) Personal Information to third parties, and Sites.Phluit.com has not sold Personal Information in the twelve months prior to the effective date of this Privacy Policy.

No Discrimination. Sites.Phluit.com does not discriminate against any User for exercising their rights under the CCPA.

California consumers can exercise their CCPA rights directly or through an authorized agent by signing in to their registered Sites.Phluit.com account at Sites.Phluit.com and following the instructions outlined below. Please note: in order to protect Users’ accounts and Personal Information and safeguard Users’ privacy rights, we verify Users’ deletion and access requests, and to that extent, we may ask you for additional information or documentation (depending on the case), such as account related information, and, in some cases, billing information used to purchase paid Services, and a copy of documents that can assist with verifying your identity. 

Such identification documentation (if requested) will be used only for verification purposes and we will delete it after your request is processed.

The following instructions apply to Personal Information we may collect from California residents on or through our Services.

Right to Know: If you want to exercise your right to know or receive a copy or access the Personal Information that you have stored with us, please follow the instructions provided in this Help Center article: <“Retrieving Your Sites.Phluit.com Account Data”>, which explains how you can retrieve your Personal Information directly from within your Sites.Phluit.com account.  Alternatively, you can also submit a request to access your Personal Information through this web form, by submitting a request by email to support@Phluit.com

Right to Deletion: If you want to exercise your right to request deletion of any of your Personal Information that you have stored with us, please follow the instructions provided in this Help Center article: <“Permanently Deleting Your Sites.Phluit.com Account”>, which explains how to delete your Personal Information that you can access directly through your User account. You can also choose to submit a request to delete all your Personal Information (including information accessible via your User account and any other Personal Information we hold about you) through this web form, by submitting a request by email to support@Phluit.com.

Once we receive and verify your consumer request, we will delete your personal information from our records unless an exception applies. We will make reasonable efforts to honor your request promptly and consistent with requirements under applicable law.

Please note that permanently deleting your Sites.Phluit.com account erases all of your Personal Information from Sites.Phluit.com’s databases. After completing this process, you can no longer use any of your Sites.Phluit.com Services, your account, and all its data will be removed permanently, and Sites.Phluit.com will not be able to restore your account or retrieve your data in the future. Additionally, if you contact our support channels in the future, the system will not recognize your account, and support agents will not be able to locate the deleted account.

If you cannot access your Sites.Phluit.com account or if you wish to exercise your CCPA rights through an authorized agent operating on your behalf, you, or your authorized agent (as applicable) may send a request to privacy@Sites.Phluit.com or reach out to our customer care department, including by requesting a callback from a customer care expert. To process your request, in order to protect Users’ accounts and Personal Information, we may ask you or your authorized agent for the verifying information detailed above, which may vary according to the circumstances of your request. Authorized agents will also need to provide Sites.Phluit.com with a copy of the consumer’s signed authorization designating them as their agent.

California residents have a few options to submit requests to exercise their rights. Please refer to this Section 10 for more detail on how you or your authorized agent may submit different types of requests.

Sites.Phluit.com does NOT sell (as such term is defined in the CCPA) your Personal Information or your customers’ Personal Information (Users-of-Users) to third parties.

 

11. Questions and complaints

If you have any questions or concerns about our collection, use or disclosure of Personal Information, or if you believe that we have not complied with this Privacy Policy or applicable data protection laws, please contact us – our details are set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.

Our Data Protection Officer team will investigate the complaint and determine whether a breach has occurred and what action, if any, to take. We take every privacy complaint seriously and will make all reasonable efforts to resolve your complaint promptly and in accordance with applicable law.  

You can file a complaint with your local supervisory authority for data protection at any time, however we recommend that you contact us first so we can try to resolve it.

12. Data retention

We may retain your Personal Information (as well as your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information) for as long as your User Account is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.

We may continue to retain your Personal Information after you deactivate your User Account and/or cease to use any particular Services, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users or their Users-of-Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.

We maintain a data retention policy which we apply to Personal Information in our care.

 

13. Security

Sites.Phluit.com has implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our Services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated purchase forms is protected by an industry standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection; and we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and Third Party Services for further enhancing the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors’ and Users’ privacy.

Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Sites.Phluit.com, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information, your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information or any other information you upload, publish or otherwise share with Sites.Phluit.com or anyone else. We encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and User Website, and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive Personal Information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.

Furthermore, because certain areas on our Services are less secure than others (for example, if you set your Support forum ticket to be “Public” instead of “Private”, or if you browse to a non-SSL page), and since e-mail and instant messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any Personal Information on any of these areas or via any of these methods.

14. Third-party websites

Our Services may contain links to other websites or services. We are not responsible for such websites’ or services’ privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Services and to read the privacy statements of each and every website and service you visit before providing your Personal Information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such linked third party websites and services.