At DMCA Authority, accessible at dmcaauthority.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that are collected and recorded by DMCA Authority and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at support@dmcaauthority.com
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
We are a Data Controller of your information.
DMCA Authority legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Information we collect and the specific context in which we collect the information:
- DMCA Authority needs to perform a contract with you
- You have given DMCA Authority permission to do so
- Processing your personal information is in DMCA Authority legitimate interests
- DMCA Authority needs to comply with the law
DMCA Authority will retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your information to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our policies.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. If you wish to be informed what Personal Information we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:
- The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
- The right of rectification.
- The right to object.
- The right of restriction.
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
Log Files
DMCA Authority follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, DMCA Authority uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to www.website.com and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
Some of advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Google
Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy covers dmcaauthority.com use of the personal information you submit. Personal information is information about you that is personally identifiable, and includes your first and last name, home mailing address, email address, phone number and/or any additional information that is not otherwise publicly available (“Personal Information”).
If you supply your email address, we will send you emails from time to time with tips, tools, and recommendations on service providers. You can unsubscribe at any time through a link at the bottom of each email.
Information We Collect About You
We may collect the following information from you when you use the services on our Site:
- The Personal Information that You Provide. We collect Personal Information from you when you subscribe to our email list and/or access guides, tools, and PDFs.
- Analytical Information. We use automated methods to collect and aggregate information regarding general use of the Site. This is collected and stored in the form of user analytics, and is used to help us improve user experience and the relevance of content that we provide and deliver. This analytical information may include, but is not limited to:
- Your IP address and the type of browser and operating system used.
- The date and time you accessed the Site and the pages you visited.
- Whether or not you linked from or to another website.
- Whether or not you open any email from dmcaauthority.com, and if so, the links that you click within the email.
- Your ISP or mobile carrier, and the type of handheld or mobile device that you used.
- Cookies, Local Shared Objects, Web Beacons and other Data Technologies. dmcaauthority.com automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser. This information may include, but is not limited to:
- Cookies. Cookies are small identifiers sent from a web server and stored on your device for the purpose of identifying your browser and/or storing information or settings in your browser.
- Local Shared Objects. Local shared objects are used to store your preferences or display content based on what you have viewed on other websites. They are sometimes known as “Flash Cookies”, and are used to personalize your viewing experience.
- Web Beacons. Web beacons link web pages to web servers and their cookies.
- Data Technologies. Any other technology that may be developed to track and analyze online browsing patterns and provide more customized browsing experiences on dmcaauthority.com.
- Publicly Posted Information. dmcaauthority.com may collect information that you make available to us and others via social media networks, forums, blogs, list serves, chat rooms or similar functionality. This information is public information that we or others may share or use in accordance with the law.
- Combined Information and Information from Other Sources. We may combine Personal Information that you provide to us with information we receive from our affiliates and other sources, as well as with other information that is automatically collected. The combined information may include information about vehicle history, your interests and activities, additional demographic data, your use of the Site, your use of other websites, devices and mobile applications and information from our affiliates and other sources, and may be used to verify the accuracy of the data that you submit and/or provide us and our partners with additional insight about your preferences and the nature of your online request.
How We Use the Personal Information We Collect
dmcaauthority.com may share your Personal Information in the following ways:
- To Provide You with the Products or Services You Requested. We may share the Personal Information that you provide to our partners and their representatives and/or affiliates so that they can follow up with you about the nature of your request. We do this in return for compensation or otherwise. These partners may also follow up with a phone call and/or email communication to request and/or share additional information about your request. These entities may use your Personal Information to communicate with you about your request in accordance to their respective privacy policies.
- For Everyday Business. dmcaauthority.com and/or the entities with whom we share your information may contact you for everyday business purposes, include providing you with information about similar products or offers to the one that you inquired about, as well as managing your user account (if any), diagnosing technical issues, improving financial performance, improving user experience and evaluating our business.
- In Response to Legal Action. dmcaauthority.com will share your Personal Information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims.
- To Prevent Fraud or Illegal Action. dmcaauthority.com will share your Personal Information when we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of dmcaauthority.com’s Terms or Use, or as otherwise required by law.
Outside of these circumstances listed above, we do not sell or otherwise share your Personal Information.
Transferability Notice. By providing us with your Personal Information, you expressly consent to the onward transfer of this Personal Information to the parties with whom we share it and understand that your Personal Information will be used in accordance to the terms of the Privacy Policies of the entities with whom we transfer the Personal Information.
If a person or entity bought dmcaauthority.com or the Site or if dmcaauthority.com is merged with another company or entity, dmcaauthority.com will transfer your Personal Information to the entity who either acquired or merged with dmcaauthority.com so that this party could carry on dmcaauthority.com business functions.
Your use of this Site establishes a business or other applicable relationship with us for purposes of CAN-SPAM, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act and all other applicable law that addresses unsolicited commercial communications.
If you wish us to learn more about the data that we collect, opt-out from communications and/or refrain from providing your Personal Information in this manner, please see the opt-out information and contact information provided below.
Our Use of Cookies and Related Technology
As disclosed earlier, dmcaauthority.com may set and access cookies on your computer. We offer certain features that are only available through the use of cookies. We use cookies to help identify you, maintain your search results and introduce you to new products and/or services. You are always free to decline our cookies, if your browser permits, though doing so may interfere with your use of the Site.
dmcaauthority.com may engage advertising agencies and/or direct clients to provide advertisements on the Site. Those entities might use cookies and other tracking devices to collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites and services. That information may include: browser, IP address, page(s) visited, time, and date. This information is used to evaluate advertising activities and/or introduce related products, services and/or offers from these entities or their clients.
You might be able to exercise choices regarding such companies using third-party tools. Information about those third-party tools is available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and http://www.aboutads.info/choices/.
Additionally, most web browsers include a “do not track” setting. There is a lack of certainty among companies on the web about the impact of the setting on the information collected. If you enable that setting, it will not change what information is exchanged with your computer, or how that information is used, when you visit our website(s).
Data Security
dmcaauthority.com uses commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical security measures designed to safeguard information about you in our possession against loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. Despite these measures, we cannot guarantee perfect security of networks, servers and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.
Your Data Rights
You have the following rights as related to how we collect and store your Personal Information:
- Right to Request Information Collected and Shared. You have a right to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you. Please see below for the methods for submitting such a request.
- Right to Request Information Sold. You have a right to request disclosure of an itemized list of the categories of Personal Information that we have collected about you, sold about you (including the categories of the third parties to whom the information was sold) or disclosed about you for a business purpose. Please see below for the methods for submitting such a request.
- Right to Delete. You have a right to request us to delete the Personal Information we have collected about you. Please see below for the methods for submitting such a request.
- Right to Opt Out from Communications. You have the right, at any time, to opt out of receiving communications from us. Please see below for the methods for submitting such a request.
- Right to Opt Out from Information Being Sold. You have the right, at any time, to opt out of the sale of your Personal Information by us to a third party. Please see below for the methods for submitting such a request.
- Right to Non Discrimination Related to Exercising Your Rights. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise any of these rights.
Methods to Submit a Request:
- Via Email: To exercise any of the aforementioned data rights, please email us at: support AT dmcaauthority.com subject line “DMCA Authority – Right to Request”. In the body of your email, please clearly state the right you would like to exercise (e.g. Right to Request Information Collected and Shared, Right to Request Information Sold, Right to Delete, Right to Opt Out from Communications and/or Right to Opt Out from Information Being Sold.”
dmcaauthority.com will comply with such requests as soon as is commercially practicable. This compliance may involve batch processing and other processes that may take ten (10) days or longer to process.
NOTE: On a case by case basis and in compliance with the California Consumer Privacy Act and any other state or federal statutes governing the collection and storage of Personal Information, we may continue to keep your Personal Information and any related information to the extent necessary to respond to any request involving your data rights above and/or respond to any governmental or legal proceedings.
Opt-Out Rescission. If you opt out per the process set forth above, but then either (a) provide your Personal Information to us again using the Site, (b) provide your Personal Information to us again using a related site owned by a dmcaauthority.com affiliate or parent or (c) under other circumstances permit us to use your Personal Information, then we will regard your opt-out as rescinded.
Opt-Out and Third Party Responsibility. Please also note that an opt-out request received by us after we have passed on your Personal Information to a third party will not affect use by that third party of your information. Please refer to that third party’s respective privacy policy for terms governing opt-out process.
Special Information for California Residents
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 entitles California users to request information concerning whether a business has disclosed certain information about you to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. California users who wish to request further information in compliance with this law or have questions or concerns about dmcaauthority.com’s privacy practices may contact us at support AT dmcaauthority.com subject line “DMCA Authority – CA Privacy Disclosures”.
Online Tracking Policy for California Residents: As of the effective date of this Privacy Statement, there is no commonly accepted response for Do Not Track signals initiated by browsers, therefore we do not respond to them.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
dmcaauthority.com may update this policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will revise the date at the top of this Privacy Policy. In some cases, we will also email users who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes.
Disputes
This Privacy Policy, the use of your Personal Information and any dispute you may have related to such is governed by the laws of the State of Pennsylvania, USA. By accessing this Site and by using the services offered on the Site, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of the courts in Chester County, Pennsylvania, USA.
If you have questions or concerns about your privacy when using this site, please contact us by e-mail at: support AT dmcaauthority.com.