Use of the Max Branded site is granted in accordance with our Cookies policy, Privacy policy and Terms and Conditions.
Introduction
We take your privacy seriously. And we also want to be transparent about what information we collect, how we use, and share information we receive that could relate to you. This policy is intended to help you understand:
- What information is collected
- How we use the information
- How we share information
- How we store information securely
- Other important privacy information
This policy covers both our intent and practices regarding each of the subjects above. We do not feel anything contained in our privacy policy would be reasonably found objectionable. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not access or use our Services or interact with any other aspect of our business.
When Services are provided to you by a third party, that organization controls the information processed by their Services. This policy does not apply to the personal information that may be captured by such organizations.
What information of yours is collected
Information you provide us. We collect information about you that you provide to us directly when you contact us, or sign up for any service.
Account and profile Information. We collect information about you when you register for an account in Escrow.com and conduct transactions with our account. For example, the name and email used creating your account, and the terms, dates, and details of all transactions that you make with us.
Post and sharing activity. We collect information about you when you participate in any of our extended sites, like when you comment on our social media pages, or share our posts or our website pages on social media and across platforms.
Information we collect automatically when you interact with our properties. We collect information about you when you browse our sites, including taking certain actions within the sites, the features you use, the links you click on, frequently used search terms, information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other devices you use to access our sites, including the device type, your connection type, viewport size, operating system, browser type, IP address, URLs of referring/exit pages, device identifiers, and crash data.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. We use third-party advertising and analytics partners, who use cookies and other tracking technologies, to provide functionality and to recognize your preferences in each device you use to interact with our sites. For more information, please visit our cookies policy.
Max Branded pages in third party sites We may receive analytics about your interaction with our pages from social media sites, and / or data from public databases, and our business and channel partners.
How we use the information
To interact with you. We use your contact information, whether it is your email, or phone number, along with your name, and purchase history, to contact you for a variety of reasons, which include to offer you products we feel would make sense for you, or to obtain your feedback on your experience, our sites, our products, and things we could do better for you in the future.
To provide services that are more personalized. We keep track of some of your preferences to ensure your display of the content of our site meets your previous selections. We may use information gathered from third parties to personalize the offerings we show you when you visit our sites.
For research and development. We are always looking for ways to make our services smarter, faster, more secure, better integrated, and useful to our customers. We use atuomated information collectively, regarding how people use our services to troubleshoot issues, optimize performance, redesign pages taking activity patterns into consideration, identify trends, to develop new products, features and technologies that will offer significant benefit our guests and customers.
To refocus our advertising. We use information collected regarding the source of customers, the keywords they arrive with, and their interaction on our pages prior to purchasing our products to identify ways in which we can gain efficiencies in our advertising, and better use of our advertising budgets.
To improve our customer service. We use notes of interaction with our customers to improve our ability to serve them in a way that adresses their needs better.
How we share information
Public sharing. The information you share with us publicly, such as testimonials, posts, comments, and sharing in social media are information of yours that can be broadcast across platforms and have its visibility increased by other guests sharing it as well, per our Terms and Conditions, rights to information you publicly share.
Sharing with preferred partner third parties. We will NEVER give your personally identifiable information (willingly) to anyone intent on mass mailing or spamming you. We do not appreciate when it is done to us, and would never engage in that type of behavior. However, we may have service partners who have offers we feel would be advantageous for you due to the information you have shared with us. As a policy, we will obtain your approval before sharing any of your information with any third party. We will however, as a policy, only share our information with partners, who we know will not forward your information to spammers, and whose offers we feel are relevant, appropriate, and advantageous for you.
For third parties to provide services on our behalf. In some instances, we subcontract services from third parties to provide you with quality services on our behalf. When we hire such services, relevant information, such as your contact information and name can be shared, along with a scope of work that is to be performed for you.
For collection efforts. In some instances, where special circumstances have created financial payment plans with customers to allow access to quality names with deferred payment, third party collection efforts and other third party measures may be engaged to enforce the terms of the plan's agreement. In such cases we may share your relevant information to proceed with collection efforts.
Third party widgets. Some of our services contain widgets and social media features, such as the facebook like or share or Twitter "tweet" link. These widgets and features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on the Services, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Widgets and social media features are either hosted by a third-party or hosted directly on our Services.
To comply with law enforcement. Our loyalty to our customer is very important, and we have no desire to become involved in issues regarding legal compliance of our customers, however, our ultimate loyalty is to the people of the USA, and it is a value that is paramount in our priorities. We will share any and all information required to be shared by law enforcement, or legal subpoenas and orders issued to that effect by courts or agencies representing national security. Whether they are issued by USA authorities or international agencies like Interpol, who we feel are vested in upholding the interests of the citizenry of the world, including the best interests of Americans. In the same spirit as we hope international law enforcement will uphold the interests of Americans that may be abused by international entities or people.
Business transfers. We may share or transfer information we collect under this privacy policy in connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company. You may be notified via email and/or a prominent notice on the services provision changes if a transaction of such nature will be taking place, as well as any possible choices regarding the use of your information that may become available at the point of changes of ownership of data assets.
How we store information securely
LAN with firewall protection. While we implement safeguards designed to protect your information, such as maintaining a secure LAN system protected by a secure firewall, no security system is impenetrable and due to the inherent nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our systems or otherwise in our care, is absolutely safe from intrusion by others.
How long we keep information We retain information in perpetuity, for as long as your account information is active or relevant. We also retain some of your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, to enforce our agreements, to support business operations, and to continue to develop and improve our services. If your account is deactivated or disabled, some of your information and the content you have provided will remain in order to allow our anlysis teams to make full use of data for analysis purposes.
Other important privacy information
Corporate Accounts. In some instances, users who have accounts created as part of a larger corporate account will have administrators who control the sharing of their personal information. In those cases, many of the preferences regarding sharing of information will rest on such administrators.
California legislation. California legislature requires that online service providers allow customers the right to deletion of their account information. We extend that courtesy to all parties, regardless of their residence in California. If you wish to have your information permanently deleted from our records, we will abide by your wishes. Third party information may require you to contact them separately to achieve the same effect.
Your information is never for sale. As a policy, we do not sell your information to any third party. The only parties shared are those with confidence, relevance, and usefulness to you.
Children policy. Our services and products are not intended for people under the age of 18. We will not knowingly hold information of any underage person. If you have become aware of any child that has provided information to Max Branded, please contact us to purge our database of the underage information.