Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for DevoteMe
Last modified October 29th,
2024
This privacy statement explains DevoteMe.com data collection and use practices with respect to its website. By using the pages on the website, you agree to the information collection and use practices described in this privacy statement. We do not exchange, sell, or otherwise make available personal information to other teams or organizations.
Policy Changes
Updates or changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy on our website. Please check back frequently, especially before submitting personal information to DevoteMe.com, to see if this Privacy Policy has changed. By using DevoteMe.com, you acknowledge acceptance of this Privacy Policy in effect at the time of use.
Your DevoteMe.com
Profile is publicly available on the internet. Information included in the
profile and viewable by other people is: user display name/nick. Your
name, e-mail address, credit card information, and postal address are private.
Confidentiality
Posts you create are publicly viewable on the internet. Messages you write to other users are not publicly visible to others other than you and the other party. They can also be viewed by website administrators, for instance, in case of proving misconduct.
Protecting your
information
DevoteMe.com uses Transport Layer Security (TLS) using digital certificates and encryption technology to protect the security of all information as it is transmitted to and from us. Passwords created when logging in with E-mail users are securely saved in the site\'s database using Salt Cryptography. The Facebook and Google login on DevoteMe.com does not store your accounts' passwords on the DevoteMe.com site. Instead, the Google/FB platform authenticates the users and has a trust relationship with DevoteMe.com, allowing users to use our site.
For more information,
see OAuth 2.0.
Control of Personal
Information
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement, your personal information will not be shared outside of DevoteMe.com and its subsidiaries and affiliates without your permission.
This website is not
purposefully directed at children under the age of 13. We do not collect or
maintain personal information, via the Website or otherwise, from those we
actually know are children under 13 years of age. If you are under 13, you
should not submit any personal information to us. If you are the parent of a
child under 13, please help us protect your child’s privacy by instructing
them never to provide personal information on this Website or any other without
your permission.
Sales of personal
information
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. We will not:
- Deny you goods or services.
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties.
- Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
The information
DevoteMe collects
As a general visitor, you are not required to provide us with any personally identifiable information. However, we do automatically receive information from your browser or mobile device. This information includes the IP address of the computer/server that you use to access the Internet, your Internet Service Provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, computer operating system, pages accessed, and other similar information. We use all of this information to look at trends and to help us improve our offerings. Tools like Google Analytics and Azure Application Insights are used to gather this information. If you want to opt out of Google Analytics tracking, you can install this Google AnalyticsOpt-Out Browser Add-on.
As a user, you may be
required to provide us with personally identifiable information. We are
the sole owners of any information collected on this site. We only have access
to/collect information you voluntarily give us during sign-up or pass through
our platform as part of the user experience. We may also obtain personal
information from third parties and other sources, such as information from
Google and Facebook when you choose to sign in with those services. This
information includes your username, public social media profile picture,
and email address. Your email address will be used for account
confirmation and recovery and to send you service-related information or
receipts. We will not share your email with any third parties apart from
our email service providers mentioned in this privacy policy. We will not
send you newsletter emails if you have not opted into this. If you have
any inquiries about your information being stored here, you can send an email
to post[at]devoteme.com
When DevoteMe shares information
Our policy is to
maintain the confidentiality of the personally identifiable information of
individuals except in cases when the law requires disclosure or when
we have your permission to do so.
DevoteMe does not sell, lease, share, rent, or otherwise provide any personally identifiable information for marketing purposes to any companies or persons outside of DevoteMe. We may provide your personal identifiable information to service providers and affiliates that provide services in conjunction with our offerings, such as payment processors, fraud protection services, or other parties assisting in improving DevoteMe. Information is securely transmitted to these affiliates, and such affiliates will only receive information necessary to provide their respective services. They will be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such information. Please be aware that any personal information you voluntarily choose to display in any public location through our platform becomes publicly available and may be collected and used by others.
In the event that
DevoteMe or some or all assets related to our services are acquired by or
merged with a third-party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or
assign any information we have collected from users as part of that merger,
acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
When DevoteMe shares information
Our policy is to maintain the confidentiality of the personally identifiable information of individuals except in cases when the law requires disclosure or when we have your permission to do so.
DevoteMe does not
sell, lease, share, rent, or otherwise provide any personally identifiable
information for marketing purposes to any companies or persons outside of
DevoteMe. We may provide your personal identifiable information to service
providers and affiliates that provide services in conjunction with our
offerings, such as payment processors, fraud protection services, or other
parties assisting in improving DevoteMe. Information is securely
transmitted to these affiliates, and such affiliates will only receive
information necessary to provide their respective services. They will
be bound by confidentiality agreements limiting the use of such
information. Please be aware that any personal information you voluntarily
choose to display in any public location through our platform becomes
publicly available and may be collected and used by others.
In the event that
DevoteMe or some or all assets related to our services are acquired by or
merged with a third-party entity, we reserve the right to transfer or
assign any information we have collected from users as part of that merger,
acquisition, sale, or other change of control.
Exercising Access,
Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the
access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a
verifiable consumer request to us by sending an email to post[at]devoteme.com
Only you or a person registered with the California Secretary of State you authorize to act on your behalf may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request for your minor child. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within 12 months. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Please describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to understand, evaluate, and respond to it appropriately.
We cannot respond to
your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your
identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information
relates to you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable
consumer request to verify the requestor's identity or authority to make the
request. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within
forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90
days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
Links
The DevoteMe website contains links to other sites not under our control. Please note that the DevoteMe Privacy Policy does not apply to these sites, and DevoteMe is not responsible for, nor do we endorse, the privacy practices or the content of these sites. You should check the individual privacy policies of these sites to understand how they will utilize your personal information.
Third-party vendors
Third-party vendors, including Google (see How Google usesdata), use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visits to our site and/or other sites on the internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ad Settings in your Google account.
(Alternatively, you
can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for interest-based
advertising by visiting aboutads.info)
Embedded services and
or social media from Google, YouTube, and Facebook might also store
cookies for operating and showing their purposeful content. We use
no-cookie-mode or do not-track-mode where available from these service
providers.
How we use cookies
Like many other sites on the Internet, DevoteMe uses cookies—small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters. DevoteMe uses cookies and collects IP addresses and other automatically collected information to facilitate better the services you provide and to collect non-personal aggregate data for marketing and research purposes. If you accept the cookies used on our site, we may be able to identify your system by reading the cookies stored on your system. Still, we cannot identify you unless you’ve entered your personal information. We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features, and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners, who may combine it with other information you’ve provided or collected from your use of their services.
Analytics
Analytical cookies
help us improve our website by anonymously collecting and reporting information
on its usage.
