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Privacy Notice

Effective Date: 10/31/2022

Data Controller Contact Information

PreSearch Background Services, Inc. — 310 Stuntz Ave STE 201, Ashland, WI 54806.

Our privacy notice governs our privacy practices when you are using our websites, https://psbi.com, app.psbi.com, and orders.presearchinc.com. Our privacy notice tells you what personal data and nonpersonal data we collect from you, how we collect them, how we protect them, how we share them, how you can access and change them, and how you can limit our sharing of them. Our privacy notice also explains certain legal rights that you have concerning your personal data. Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.

Definitions

The terms “us”, “we”, and “our” refer to the owner of this Website.

‘NONPERSONAL DATA’ (NPD) means any information that is in no way personally identifiable.

‘PERSONAL DATA’ (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. PD is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, PD is broader in scope and covers more data.

‘SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA’ (SPD) is a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security, access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; a consumer’s exact geolocation; a consumer’s ethnic or racial origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, text messages, and email unless the business is the intended receiver of the communication; a consumer’s genetic data; the processing of biometric data to uniquely identify a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed about a consumer’s health; sex life or sexual orientation. Sensitive personal information that is “publicly available” is considered sensitive personal information or personal information.

Topics Covered in Our Privacy Notice

Your Rights
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
How Your PD Is Used and Shared
Retaining and Destroying Your PD
Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties
Do Not Track Settings
Links to Other Websites
Protecting Children’s Privacy
Our Email Policy
Our Security Policy
Use of Your Credit Card
Transferring PD from Other Countries
Changes to Our Privacy Notice

Your Rights

Contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice to exercise any of your legal rights contained within this privacy notice. We will respond to your request within 30 days after receiving it.

When using our website and submitting PD to us, you have certain rights under privacy laws in the United States including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CaCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA), and privacy laws of other countries including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation of 2016 (the “EU GDPR”), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR / the Data Protection Act 2018), the Data Protection Act 2018, and other global privacy laws. Even if not listed here, we will make reasonable efforts to honor data subject access requests even though we may be under no legal obligation to do so. However, we reserve the right to decline any data subject access request that we are not legally obligated to comply with. Your rights include but are not limited to the following:

The right to equal service, price, and not being discriminated against even if you exercise your privacy rights.
The right to one or more means where you can submit requests under this privacy notice including (at minimum) a toll-free telephone number, or if the business maintains an Internet website, a website address email address.
The right to know whether your PD is sold, shared, or disclosed, and to whom.
The right to request that we do not sell or share any of your PD.
The right to request that we disclose the categories of personal information we collected, the sources, the business or commercial purpose, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose it, and the specific pieces of personal information collected about you.
The right to be informed about the PD that we collect from you and how we process them.
The right to get confirmation that your PD are being processed and to access your PD.
The right to have your PD corrected if they are inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to request the removal or deletion of your PD if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing them. The right to deletion is not absolute and can be overridden where we still have a legal ground or overriding legitimate interest.
The right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your PD. When restricted, we are permitted to store your PD but not to process them further.
The right to request the PD you provided and use them for your own purposes; upon express request we will provide your data within 30 days, subject to commercial and industrial secrets.
The right to object to us processing your PD based on legitimate interests or public interest (including profiling), direct marketing and targeted advertising (including profiling), and scientific/historical research and statistics.
The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal or similarly significant effects.
The right that we limit collection of your PD to that which is adequate, relevant and reasonably necessary for the purposes processed.
The right that we do not process your PD for purposes that are neither reasonably necessary nor compatible with the disclosed purposes unless we obtain your consent.
The right to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf, with a valid power of attorney and valid government-issued identification.
The right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with your rights.

Information We Collect and How We Collect It

Generally, you control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website.

Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing PD

Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you buy our products and services, or fill in any of the contact forms on our website, is based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract.

Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This may include your IP address or proxy server, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your operating system, and data about your browsing activity. We use this information to help improve our website.

When Entering and Using Our Website

When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.

Our Use of Cookies

Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. By agreeing to accept our use of cookies you give us and our partners permission to place, store, and access the cookies described below.

Strictly Necessary Cookies – necessary for the proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, and validating your session.
Functional Cookies – enable the website to remember users’ choices, such as language and usernames.
Media Cookies – used to improve performance and provide special features and content; placed by us or third parties.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies – used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve related advertisements.
Session Cookies – link the actions of a user during a browser session; they expire after a browser session.
Persistent Cookies – stored on a user’s device between sessions so preferences or actions can be remembered.

Web Beacons

We may use web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and of special promotions or newsletters, including statistically monitoring how many people open our emails.

At User Registration or When Buying Products or Services

We may collect your first and last name, email address, physical address, credit card or other payment information, phone number, and other information put in our comment box.

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website such as age, gender, interests, demographics, and pages visited. We do not combine this with PD. You can opt out at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

What Happens If You Don’t Give Us Your PD

If you do not provide enough PD, we may not be able to provide all our products and services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your PD.

How Your PD Is Used and Shared

We use the information we receive from you to:

provide the products and services you requested or purchased;
personalize and customize our content;
make improvements to our website;
contact you with updates to our website, products, and services;
resolve problems and disputes;
contact you with products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We do not sell or rent your PD to third parties for marketing purposes. For data aggregation purposes we may use your NPD, which might be sold to other parties at our discretion; such aggregation would not contain your PD. At times we give your PD to third-party service providers we hire, including payment processors, courts, financial institutions, software providers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.

Legally Required Releases of Information

We may disclose your PD where required by subpoena, law, or legal process; to assist law enforcement or government agencies; to protect us from legal action or claims; or to protect the legal rights, property, or safety of our company, users, employees, and business partners.

Disclosures to Successors

If our business is sold or merges, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business, which may use it according to this privacy notice and any changes it institutes. We also retain this right if our company files for bankruptcy and assets are sold.

Retaining and Destroying Your PD

We will maintain your PD in a structure that identifies you only for as long as it serves the purpose(s) for which it was collected, or for legal, business, or tax purposes. We will attempt to permanently erase or anonymize your PD once it reaches the end of its retention period or upon a valid request. Some data may still exist within our systems, for example if it is waiting to be overwritten; such data is put away from use and cannot be readily accessed.

Protecting Children’s Privacy

Our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child is using our website, please contact us. If we discover a child under 18 is accessing our website, we will delete their information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users.

Our Security Policy

We have built our website and services using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your PD. We and our third-party providers maintain technical and physical safeguards. We cannot guarantee the prevention of loss or misuse of your PD or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect any password you have for our website.

Transferring PD from Other Countries

PD we collect may be stored, processed, and transferred among the countries in which we operate. The European Union has not found the United States and some other countries to have an acceptable level of protection under Article 45 of the GDPR; our company relies on derogations for specific situations under Article 49. With your consent your PD may be transferred to the United States or other countries. Wherever we transfer, process, or store your PD, we will attempt to apply reasonable safeguards, and we enter into data processing agreements and standard contractual clauses when appropriate. By using our website, you agree to these transfers.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If we change it, we will post those changes on our website. If we decide to disclose or use your PD in a method different from that specified when collected, we will provide advance notice by email to the address on file. Your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change constitutes acceptance of that change. If you have questions, please contact us through the information at the top of this privacy notice.