Privacy Policy

Last modified: October 25, 2016

Introduction

(A) Slyng Inc. (“Company”, “Slyng” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”, as may be referred to in other Company documentation, Website Terms of Use, and Retailer Terms of Use. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you (i) visit the website www.slyng.com and all subdomains related thereto (our “Website”), and (ii) register for a Slyng Account or Retailer Account to use some of our Services (as defined in the Website Terms of Use), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

(B) This policy applies to information we collect:

  • (i) On this Website or through our Services.
  • (ii) In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website, Slyng, or Retailers who utilize our Services to communicate with you.
  • (iii) When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Privacy Policy.

(C) It does not apply to information:

  • (i) Collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
  • (ii) any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your remedy is to not access or use our Website. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

II. Persons Under the Age of 21.

Our Website is not intended for persons under 21 years of age, subject to applicable state and Retailer regulations. No one under age 21 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 21, you may not use or register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use for the Slyng Account (as defined in the Website Terms of Use). If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a person under 21, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child (under the age of 18, for these purposes), please contact us at info@slyng.com.

III. Information We Collect About You; How We Collect It.

(A) We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website and Services, including information:

  • (i) Provided by you, including name, contact information (such as your email address and phone number), demographics information such as gender and geographic location, and any other information, such as reviews, content and biography you provide us;
  • (ii) Provided by you to register a Slyng Account using, or otherwise connect your account to, a social networking account (e.g. Facebook), we may also collect information provided to us by such social networking service including your name, email address, birthday, geographic location, interests, profile picture, gender, networks, user ID, list of friends, and other such information you have made public on your social networking account;
  • (iii) that is about you but individually does not identify you; or
  • (iv) about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website or Slyng, and usage details.

(B) We collect this information:

  • (i) Directly from you when you provide it to us;
  • (ii) Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies; and
  • (iii) Automatically from your mobile device or computer when you use our Services, including your IP address, device ID and type, browser type and language, the operating system, access times, geographic location while the Website or Services are accessed, and any referring website address. We do this to store preferences and track use of Slyng; advertising companies do this to track the number and performance of advertisements that may be more relevant to you.

(C) The information we collect on or through our Website or Services may include:

  • (i) Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for a Slyng Account (as defined in the Terms of Use). We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Services;
  • (ii) Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us; and
  • (iii) Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

As you navigate through and interact with our Services through the Website or Services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to the Website and use of our Services, including traffic data, location data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on for our Services.

(D) The information we collect automatically is statistical data, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • (i) Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
  • (ii) Provide user-focused Deals and relevant promotional offers;
  • (iii) Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize the Website and our Services according to your individual interests;
  • (iv) Speed up your searches and overall application infrastructure; and
  • (v) Recognize you when you return to the Website or use our Services.

(E) The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • (i) Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website or Services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • (ii) Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website and Services may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
  • (iii) Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and Services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

IV. Third-Party Use of Cookies; Other Tracking Technologies.

(A) Some content or applications, including advertisements and Third Party Materials (as defined in the Website Terms of Use), on the Website or Services are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, retailers and dispensaries, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

(B) We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

V. How We Use Your Information.

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • (i) To present our Website, Services and its contents to you;
  • (ii) To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
  • (iii) To disseminate promotions, Deals, and other promotional-based messaging from Retailers and other third parties;
  • (iv) To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
  • (v) To provide you with notices about your Slyng Account or Retailer Account, including expiration and renewal notices;
  • (vi) To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
  • (vii) To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or Services we offer or provide though it;
  • (viii) In any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
  • (ix) For any other purpose with your consent; and
  • (x) We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

VI. Disclosure of Your Information.

(A) We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • (i) To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • (ii) To contractors, service providers, Retailers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
  • (iii) To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Slyng Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Slyng Inc. about Slyng or Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • (iv) To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • (v) For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • (vi) With your consent.

(B) We may also disclose your personal information:

  • (i) To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • (ii) To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements.
  • (iii) If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Slyng Inc., Slyng users, Retailers, or others.

VII. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • (i) Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • (ii) Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target- audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to info@slyng.com.
  • (iii) Do Not Track Disclosure. Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. However, because of the uncertainty of DNT in the internet industry, and the various factors and players conforming compliance, we may not recognize nor respond to DNT signals.
  • (iv) Retailer Messaging. You can adjust your user settings in your Slyng Account to permit or prohibit Retailers and other third parties using our Services from messaging, emailing, or text messaging you. Please contact info@slyng.com if you have any questions.

VIII. Accessing and Correcting Your Information.

If you have a Slyng Account, you have the ability to review and update your personal information within the Services by opening your account and going to “user settings”, or “settings”. Further you may contact us at the email address provided below. If you choose to close your account or terminate your relationship with the Services, we will retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, enforce our Website Terms of Use, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our Services or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. In addition, if certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy above, retention of that information will be subject to those companies’ policies, typically found on their websites.

IX. Your California Privacy Rights.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@slyng.com.

X. Data Security.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where you have access to certain parts of our Website or Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or Services.

XI. Changes to Our Privacy Policy.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your Slyng Account or through a notice on the Website home page. The date this Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information.

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at info [at] slyng.com.

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