PRIVACY NOTICE
Last updated May 12, 2022
This privacy notice
for Bellwether LLC
DFStud)
DFStud
- Visit our
website
at https://dfstud.com , or any website of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with
us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events
Questions or concerns? Reading this privacy
notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our
policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or
concerns, please contact us at corey@dfstud.com
.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
This summary provides key points from our privacy notice,
but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link following
each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking
for. You can also click here to go directly to our table of
contents.
What
personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we
may process personal information depending on how you interact with
DFStud
Do we
process any sensitive personal information?
Do we
receive any information from third parties?
How do
we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and
administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with
law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your
information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so. Click here to learn more.
In
what situations and with which
How do
we keep your information safe? We have
What
are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable
privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.
Click here to learn more.
How do
you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by filling out our
data subject request form available
Want to learn
more about what DFStud
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to
us
In
Short: We collect personal
information that you provide to
us.
We collect
personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you
Personal Information Provided by You. The
personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the
Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information
we collect may include the following:
-
names
-
email addresses
-
passwords
Sensitive Information.
Payment
Data. We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases,
such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code
associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored byStripe
.
You may find their privacy notice link(s) here:
https://stripe.com/privacy
All personal
information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us
of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
In
Short: Some information —
such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device
characteristics — is collected automatically when you visit our
Services.
We
automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This
information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but
may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device
characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country,
location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information.
This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and
for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
Like many
businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
The information
we collect includes:
- Log and
Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic, usage, and
performance information our servers automatically collect when you access or use our
Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact with us, this log
data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and settings and
information about your activity in the Services (such
as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed, searches, and
other actions you take such as which features you use), device event information (such as
system activity, error reports (sometimes called
"crash dumps" ), and hardware settings).
- Device
Data. We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone,
tablet, or other device you use to access the Services. Depending on the device used, this
device data may include information such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and
application identification numbers, location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service
provider and/or mobile carrier, operating system, and system configuration information.
- Location Data. We collect location data such as
information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much
information we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the
Services. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data
that tells us your current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing
us to collect this information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling
your Location setting on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able
to use certain aspects of the Services.
2. HOW DO WE
PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process
your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services,
communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with
law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your
consent.
We
process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact
with our Services, including:
- To
facilitate account creation and authentication and otherwise manage user
accounts. We may process your information so you can create and log in to your
account, as well as keep your account in working order.
- To
deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may process your
information to provide you with the requested service.
- To respond to user inquiries/offer support to
users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries and
solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
- To send administrative information to
you. We may process your information to send you details about our
products and services, changes to our terms and policies, and other similar
information.
- To
fulfill and manage your orders. We may process your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Services.
- To enable user-to-user
communications. We may process your information if you
choose to use any of our offerings that allow for communication with
another user.
- To request feedback. We
may process your information when necessary to request feedback and to
contact you about your use of our Services.
- To send you marketing and promotional
communications. We may process the personal information you
send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your
marketing preferences. You can opt out of our marketing emails at any time.
For more information, see
" WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS? "
- To deliver targeted advertising to
you. We may process your information to develop and display
personalized content and advertising tailored to your interests, location, and more.
- To post testimonials. We
post testimonials on our Services that may contain personal information.
- To protect our Services. We
may process your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services
safe and secure, including fraud monitoring and
prevention.
- To administer prize draws and
competitions. We may process your information to
administer prize draws and competitions.
- To evaluate and improve our
Services, products, marketing, and your experience. We
may process your information when we believe it is necessary to
identify usage trends, determine the effectiveness of our
promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Services,
products, marketing, and your experience.
- To identify usage trends.
We may process information about how you use our Services to better
understand how they are being used so we can improve
them.
- To determine the
effectiveness of our marketing and promotional
campaigns. We may process your information to
better understand how to provide marketing and promotional
campaigns that are most relevant to you.
- To comply with our
legal obligations. We may process your
information to comply with our legal obligations, respond to
legal requests, and exercise, establish, or defend our legal
rights.
In
Short: We may share
information in specific situations described in this
section and/or with the following
We
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Other
Users. When you share personal
information
Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of your activity, communicate with you within our Services, and view your profile.
4. WHAT IS
OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY
WEBSITES?
In
Short: We are not
responsible for the safety of any
information that you share with third
parties that we may link to or who
advertise on our Services, but are not
affiliated with, our
Services.
The Services
In
Short: We may
use cookies and other tracking
technologies to collect and store
your
information.
We may use
cookies and similar tracking
technologies (like web beacons and
pixels) to access or store information.
Specific information about how we use
such technologies and how you can refuse
certain cookies is set out in our Cookie
Notice
.
6.
HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION?
In
Short: We keep
your information for as long as
necessary to
the purposes outlined in this
privacy notice unless otherwise
required by
law.
We will
only keep your personal information for
as long as it is necessary for the
purposes set out in this privacy notice,
unless a longer retention period is
required or permitted by law (such as
tax, accounting, or other legal
requirements). No purpose in this notice
will require us keeping your personal
information for longer than
twelve (12)
months past the termination of the
user's account
.
When we
have no ongoing legitimate business need
to process your personal information, we
will either delete or
such information, or, if this is
not possible (for example, because your
personal information has been stored in
backup archives), then we will securely
store your personal information and
isolate it from any further processing
until deletion is possible.
7.
HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR
INFORMATION
SAFE?
In
Short: We aim
to protect your personal information
through a system of
and technical security
measures.
We have
implemented appropriate and reasonable
technical and
security measures designed to
protect the security of any personal
information we process. However, despite
our safeguards and efforts to secure
your information, no electronic
transmission over the Internet or
information storage technology can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we
cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other
third parties will not be able to
defeat our security and improperly
collect, access, steal, or modify your
information. Although we will do our
best to protect your personal
information, transmission of personal
information to and from our Services is
at your own risk. You should only access
the Services within a secure
environment.
8.
DO WE COLLECT
INFORMATION FROM
MINORS?
In
Short: We do
not knowingly collect data from or
market to children under 18 years of
age.
We do not
knowingly solicit data from or market to
children under 18 years of age. By using
the Services, you represent that you are
at least 18 or that you are the parent
or guardian of such a minor and consent
to such minor dependent’s use of the
Services. If we learn that personal
information from users less than 18
years of age has been collected, we will
deactivate the account and take
reasonable measures to promptly delete
such data from our records. If you
become aware of any data we may have
collected from children under age 18,
please contact us at
corey@dfstud.com
9.
WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short:
You
may review, change, or terminate
your account at any time.
If you are
located in the EEA or UK and you believe
we are unlawfully processing your
personal information, you also have the
right to complain to your local data
protection supervisory authority. You
can find their contact details here:
https://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm.
If you are
located in Switzerland, the contact
details for the data protection
authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/en/home.html.
Withdrawing
your consent: If we
are relying on your consent to process
your personal information,
you have the right to withdraw
your consent at any time. You can
withdraw your consent at any time by
contacting us by using the contact
details provided in the section
HOW
CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
below
However,
please note that this will not affect the
lawfulness of the processing before its
withdrawal, nor
when applicable law allows,
will it affect the processing of your
personal information conducted in reliance
on lawful processing grounds other than
consent.
Opting
out of marketing and promotional
communications: You
can unsubscribe from our marketing and
promotional communications at any time by
to the SMS messages that we send,
"
HOW CAN
YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
below. You will then be removed from
the marketing lists. However, we may still
communicate with you — for example, to send
you service-related messages that are
necessary for the administration and use of
your account, to respond to service
requests, or for other non-marketing
purposes.
Account
Information
If you would at any
time like to review or change the
information in your account or terminate
your account, you can:
-
Contact us using the contact information provided.
-
Log in to your account settings and update your user account.
Upon your
request to terminate your account, we will
deactivate or delete your account and
information from our active databases.
However, we may retain some information in
our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot
problems, assist with any investigations,
enforce our legal terms and/or comply with
applicable legal requirements.
Cookies
and similar
technologies: Most
Web browsers are set to accept cookies
by default. If you prefer, you can
usually choose to set your browser to
remove cookies and to reject cookies. If
you choose to remove cookies or reject
cookies, this could affect certain
features or services of our Services. To
opt out of interest-based advertising by
advertisers on our Services visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
If you have
questions or comments about your privacy
rights, you may email us at corey@dfstud.com
.
10.
CONTROLS FOR
DO-NOT-TRACK
FEATURES
Most web
browsers and some mobile operating
systems and mobile applications include
a Do-Not-Track (
) feature or setting you can
activate to signal your privacy
preference not to have data about your
online browsing activities monitored and
collected. At this stage no uniform
technology standard for
and implementing DNT signals has
been
. As such, we do not currently
respond to DNT browser signals or any
other mechanism that automatically
communicates your choice not to be
tracked online. If a standard for online
tracking is adopted that we must follow
in the future, we will inform you about
that practice in a revised version of
this privacy
notice.
11.
DO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY
RIGHTS?
In
Short: Yes, if
you are a resident of California,
you are granted specific rights
regarding access to your personal
information.
California
Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known
as the
"Shine The Light"
law, permits our users who are
California residents to request and
obtain from us, once a year and free of
charge, information about categories of
personal information (if any) we
disclosed to third parties for direct
marketing purposes and the names and
addresses of all third parties with
which we shared personal information in
the immediately preceding calendar year.
If you are a California resident and
would like to make such a request,
please submit your request in writing to
us using the contact information
provided below.
If you are
under 18 years of age, reside in
California, and have a registered
account with Services, you have the
right to request removal of unwanted
data that you publicly post on the
Services. To request removal of such
data, please contact us using the
contact information provided below and
include the email address associated
with your account and a statement that
you reside in California. We will make
sure the data is not publicly displayed
on the Services, but please be aware
that the data may not be completely or
comprehensively removed from all our
systems (e.g.
backups, etc.).
CCPA
Privacy Notice
The
California Code of
Regulations defines a
"resident"
as:
(1) every
individual who is in the State of
California for other than a temporary or
transitory purpose
and
(2) every
individual who is domiciled in the State
of California who is outside the State
of California for a temporary or
transitory purpose
All other
individuals are defined as
If this
definition of
applies to you, we must adhere to
certain rights and obligations regarding
your personal
information.
What
categories of personal information
do we
collect?
We have
collected the following categories of
personal information in the past twelve
(12) months:
| Category | Examples | Collected |
|
A.
Identifiers
|
Contact
details, such as real
name, alias, postal
address, telephone or
mobile contact number,
unique personal
identifier, online
identifier, Internet
Protocol address, email
address, and account
name
|
|
|
B.
Personal information
categories listed in the
California Customer
Records
statute
|
Name,
contact information,
education, employment,
employment history, and
financial
information
|
YES
|
|
C.
Protected classification
characteristics under
California or federal
law
|
Gender
and date of
birth
|
|
|
D.
Commercial
information
|
Transaction
information, purchase
history, financial
details, and payment
information
|
|
|
E.
Biometric
information
|
Fingerprints
and
voiceprints
|
|
|
F.
Internet or other
similar network
activity
|
Browsing
history, search history,
online
|
|
|
G.
Geolocation
data
|
Device
location
|
|
|
H.
Audio, electronic,
visual, thermal,
olfactory, or similar
information
|
Images
and audio, video or call
recordings created in
connection with our
business
activities
|
|
|
I.
Professional or
employment-related
information
|
Business
contact details in order
to provide you our
services at a business
level or job title, work
history, and
professional
qualifications if you
apply for a job with
us
|
|
|
J.
Education
Information
|
Student
records and directory
information
|
|
|
K.
Inferences drawn from
other personal
information
|
Inferences
drawn from any of the
collected personal
information listed above
to create a profile or
summary about, for
example, an individual’s
preferences and
characteristics
|
|
We may
also collect other personal information
outside of these categories instances
where you interact with us in person,
online, or by phone or mail in the
context of:
- Receiving
help through our customer support
channels;
- Participation
in customer surveys or contests;
and
- Facilitation
in the delivery of our Services and
to respond to your
inquiries.
How
do we use and share your personal
information?
You may
contact us
by email
at
corey@dfstud.com ,
or by referring to
the contact details at the bottom of this
document.
If you are
using an
authorized
agent to exercise your right to
opt out we may deny a request if the
agent does not submit proof that
they have been validly
to act on your
behalf.
Will
your information be shared with
anyone
else?
We may
disclose your personal information with
our service providers pursuant to a
written contract between us and each
service provider. Each service provider
is a for-profit entity that processes
the information on our
behalf.
We may use
your personal information for our own
business purposes, such as for
undertaking internal research for
technological development and
demonstration. This is not considered to
be
of your personal
information.
Your
rights with respect to your personal
data
Right
to request deletion of the data —
Request to
delete
You can
ask for the deletion of your personal
information. If you ask us to delete
your personal information, we will
respect your request and delete your
personal information, subject to certain
exceptions provided by law, such as (but
not limited to) the exercise by another
consumer of his or her right to free
speech, our compliance requirements
resulting from a legal obligation, or
any processing that may be required to
protect against illegal
activities.
Right
to be informed — Request to
know
Depending
on the circumstances, you have a right
to know:
- whether
we collect and use your personal
information;
- the
categories of personal information
that we collect;
- the
purposes for which the collected
personal information is used;
- whether
we sell your personal information to
third parties;
- the
categories of personal information
that we sold or disclosed for a
business purpose;
- the
categories of third parties to whom
the personal information was sold or
disclosed for a business purpose;
and
- the
business or commercial purpose for
collecting or selling personal
information.
In
accordance with applicable law, we are
not obligated to provide or delete
consumer information that is
de-identified in response to a consumer
request or to re-identify individual
data to verify a consumer
request.
Right
to Non-Discrimination for the
Exercise of a Consumer’s Privacy
Rights
We will
not discriminate against you if you
exercise your privacy
rights.
Verification
process
Upon
receiving your request, we will need to
verify your identity to determine you
are the same person about whom we have
the information in our system. These
verification efforts require us to ask
you to provide information so that we
can match it with information you have
previously provided us. For instance,
depending on the type of request you
submit, we may ask you to provide
certain information so that we can match
the information you provide with the
information we already have on file, or
we may contact you through a
communication method (e.g.
phone or email) that you have
previously provided to us. We may also
use other verification methods as the
circumstances
dictate.
We will
only use personal information provided
in your request to verify your identity
or authority to make the request. To the
extent possible, we will avoid
requesting additional information from
you for the purposes of verification.
However, if we cannot verify your
identity from the information already
maintained by us, we may request that
you provide additional information for
the purposes of verifying your identity
and for security or fraud-prevention
purposes. We will delete such
additionally provided information as
soon as we finish verifying
you.
Other
privacy
rights
- You
may object to the processing of your
personal information.
- You
may request correction of your
personal data if it is incorrect or
no longer relevant, or ask to
restrict the processing of the
information.
- You
can designate an
authorized authorized authorized
- You
may request to opt out from future
selling of your personal information
to third parties. Upon receiving an
opt-out request, we will act upon
the request as soon as feasibly
possible, but no later than fifteen
(15) days from the date of the
request submission.
To
exercise these rights, you can contact
us
by email at
corey@dfstud.com ,
or by referring to
the contact details at the bottom of this
document. If you have a complaint about how we
handle your data, we would like to hear from
you.
12.
DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO
THIS
NOTICE?
In
Short: Yes, we will
update this notice as necessary to
stay compliant with relevant
laws.
We may
update this privacy notice from time to
time. The updated version will be
indicated by an updated
date and the updated version will
be effective as soon as it is
accessible. If we make material changes
to this privacy notice, we may notify
you either by prominently posting a
notice of such changes or by directly
sending you a notification. We encourage
you to review this privacy notice
frequently to be informed of how we are
protecting your
information.
13.
HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US
ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?
If you
have questions or comments about this
notice, you may
email us at
corey@dfstud.com
or
by post
to:
14.
HOW CAN YOU REVIEW,
UPDATE, OR DELETE THE
DATA WE COLLECT FROM
YOU?
Based on
the applicable laws of your country, you
may have the right to request access to
the personal information we collect from
you, change that information, or delete
it. To request to review, update, or
delete your personal information, please
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