At Nested Bean, the privacy of our users and visitors are especially important to us. The purpose of this privacy policy is to provide you with a description of the types of personally information (also, “PII”) we collect about you when you use our Services (defined below) and how we use that information. This Privacy Policy only applies to personal information collected about you while you are accessing or using the Services. By registering to use the Services or otherwise accessing the Services, you accept this Privacy Policy and certify that you have reviewed it. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH ANY OF THE TERMS SET FORTH HEREIN, PLEASE DO NOT USE THE SERVICES OR REGISTER TO USE THE SERVICES.

How Do We Collect Information, What Do We Collect and How Do We Use It?

We collect and store information that you voluntarily provide to us as well as data related to your use of the Services. Below is a more specific list of the personal information we collect and how we use it with your consent. You may be asked additional questions regarding items on this list to ensure we have your consent to collect and use your personal information for specific purposes.

Email Address. When you voluntarily provide us with your email address, we collect your email address from which your identity is or may be discernible.

Account Creation. If you establish an account on the Services, we may collect your name, email address, billing address, job title, employer name, and other information to support your use of the Services.

Payment and Transactional Data. When you pay for use of certain areas or features of the Services, if applicable, our payment processor or the applicable app store collects the financial information required to process your payments, including name, payment card information, bank account number, billing information. In addition to this Privacy Policy and our Terms, information related to your payments or purchases is also processed according to such app store’s services agreement and privacy policy.

Support Requests: When you contact us for support, we may collect personal information as part of the support process, including but not limited to your name, username, address, telephone number, mobile number, email address, and other information from which your identity is or may be discernible.

Surveys and User Research: We may send you surveys or contact you with questions to provide us with feedback on our Services. We collect any responses that you provide. Participation in surveys or research tasks is elective and does not affect your access to the Services.

Sweepstakes, Contests and Promotions: Promotions entrants may be required to consent to certain information sharing.

Automatically Collected Information: In addition, we may collect certain information and data related to your use of the Services (see “What Are Cookies and How Do We Use Them?” below). Such information may include the date and time of your visit, information about your usage of, and interaction with, our software, the Services, the IP address of your computer or mobile device, your computer or mobile device browser information, the internet address that you visited prior to and after reaching the Services, the name of the domain and host you used to access the internet, the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device’s unique device ID, the features of the Services which you accessed, and correspondences between you and us. We may also use cookies and web beacons to track your interaction with the Services, and to customize our Services for you.

Information Third Parties Provide About You

We may receive information about you from other websites you post on, third parties, such as when they submit information to us about you or when they post content on the Services. Additionally, we may supplement the information we collect with records from third-parties for a variety of purposes, including to help us correct or supplement our records, enhance our ability to serve you, to help prevent or detect fraud, to tailor our content and ads to you, and to offer you opportunities that may be of interest to you.

To the extent we combine information we receive from those sources with your PII, the combined information will be treated as PII under this Privacy Policy, unless we have disclosed otherwise. In no other circumstances will this Privacy Policy apply to information we receive about you from third parties.

Interactions with Third-Party Sites

The Services may include functionality that allows certain kinds of interactions between the Services and your account on a third-party site or application. The use of this functionality may involve the third-party providing information to us. If we offer and you choose to use this functionality, the third-party service may send PII about you to us. If so, we will treat it as PII under this Privacy Policy since we are collecting it as a result of your interaction on our Services.

In addition, we may provide third-party sites’ interfaces or links on the Services to facilitate sending a communication from the Services. For example, we may use third parties to facilitate emails, advertising, or postings. These third parties may retain any information used or provided in any such communications and these third parties’ practices are not subject to our Privacy Policy. We may not control or have access to your communications with or through these third parties. We may not control or have access to your communications with or through these third parties, and we are not responsible for their practices. You should review the applicable third-party privacy policies before using such tools.

How Do We Use Information We Collect?

Our primary purpose in collecting information is to provide you the Services. We may use the information you provide to us for other purposes as follows:

Provision of Services. We may use and disclose your PII and usage information to support the delivery of our services on the Services.

Support the Services: We may use the information you provide us to provide any customer support you request, including troubleshooting problems, and monitor such requests, and to inform you about updates to the Services.

Improve the Services: We may use the information you provide us to customize, measure, and improve the Services, including through data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey processes.

Enforce Rights: We may use the information you provide us to enforce your and our rights (including payment for the Services in the case of paying users) and protect you against fraud.

Marketing Purposes: We occasionally may contact you about new product and features. You may remove your name from our mailing lists to stop receiving these emails.

Can We Use De-Identified Information?

In addition to the uses of personal information above, we may remove the identifiable parts of your information to create de-identified forms (“De-identified Information”). De-identified Information may be compiled with other data in aggregated forms. We use this De-identified Information in the following ways:

Disclosure for Business Purposes: We may also license, sell, or otherwise share De-identified Information with clients, partners, investors, and contractors for any purposes related to our business practices.

Services Improvement: We may use De-identified Information for product improvement including to the Services as well as share it with third parties to evaluate their products or services.

Research: We may use De-identified Information for research whether scientific, marketing, or business in nature. This research may be made public through publication such as within a scientific journal.

How Do We Share the Information We Collect?

We do not sell, rent, trade, or otherwise transfer personally identifiable information to third parties who are not our affiliates or our service providers without your consent to do so. By using the Services, you accept and agree that we can share your PII as provided in this Privacy Policy. We may disclose PII: to our affiliated companies, carriers, third party service providers and/or agents, as reasonably necessary to provide you with the Services you have requested; as required by law or legal process; in response to lawful requests for information by governmental agencies, such as law enforcement authorities, authorized to request such information; to enforce our contractual agreements, including investigation of potential violations thereof; to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies and to otherwise protect our interests; to help detect and prevent harm to persons or property or otherwise to protect public safety; to third parties that perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to, third parties that host or operate our Services, analyze data, perform email list management services, provide customer service, or provide public relations and marketing services; and to vendors of products and services that are offered through the Services.

As with any other business, it is possible that in the future we could sell or buy subsidiaries or business units. In any such transaction, as well in the event all or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, personal information of our users will generally be one of the transferred assets. We reserve the right to include your personal information, collected as an asset, in any such transfer to a third party.

Information collected by or sent to us may be stored and processed in any country in which we and our affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers maintain facilities. We reserve the right to transfer your personal information outside of the country where you reside and/or from which you use our Services. By using our Services, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

How Long Is Your PII Kept by Us?

We will retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to: provide the use of our Services; invoice charges and to maintain records until invoices cannot be lawfully challenged and legal proceedings may no longer be pursued; communicate with you regarding other services that we offer; comply with applicable laws, regulations, and court orders; enforce our contractual agreements; or fulfill any of the purposes for which we collected the personal information as listed in this Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies and How Do We Use Them?

A “Cookie” is a simple text file stored on your computer or device for use by a browser. Certain features may only be available through the placement of a cookie. We may use “cookies” to assist in data collection and to track visitor usage and trends to help us better serve you. The use of cookies is a standard practice among internet web sites; most internet browsers permit a user to accept, decline or delete cookies. We may use persistent cookies to make it easier for you to navigate the Services. Specifically, we may use persistent cookies to track whether you are logged into the Services. A persistent cookie may remain on your local device for an extended period of time. You can remove persistent cookies by following directions provided in your internet browser’s “help” function. We may set a persistent cookie to store how you came to the Services and what items you interact with during your visit. Persistent cookies also enable tracking and targeting the interests of our users to enhance their experience on the Services. If you reject cookies, you will still be able to view contents through the Services, but your ability to use some areas of the Services may be limited. Some of our business partners (e.g., analytical tracking software providers) may use cookies and tracking technologies on the Services. We have no access to or control over these cookies or tracking technologies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies on our Services and does not cover the use of cookies or tracking technologies by any such business partner.

What about Ads and Information About You?

The Site may use third parties, such as network advertisers and ad exchanges, to serve advertisements on and off of the Site, and may use third-party analytics and other service providers to evaluate and provide Us and/or third parties with information about the use of the Site and viewing of ads and of our content. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits and activities across the Internet and mobile media (“Behavioral Ads”).

In addition, we may serve ads on the Services based on your usage information from your activities on the Services (“Contextual Ads”). Behavioral Ads and Contextual Ads enable us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. If you object to Contextual Ads, do not use the Services. If you object to Behavioral Ads from us on third-party sites, you can learn more about your ability to limit Behavioral Ads below.

Further, while we and third-party sites that display our ads may use a variety of companies to serve advertisements, you may wish to visit https://optout.networkadvertising.org, which provides information regarding this practice by Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) members, and your choices regarding having this information used by these companies, including the “opt-out” procedures of NAI members. Similarly, you can also find information from a similar group, the Digital Advertising Alliance, here: https://optout.aboutads.info.

In the event that we allow third-parties to display advertisements that are directly targeted at users in the EU, please visit http://www.youronlinechoices.com to learn more about your options. Similar limitations may apply to these opt-out methods. We are not responsible for effectiveness of, or compliance with, any third parties’ opt-out options or programs.

How Do We Protect Your PII?

We follow commercially accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to or collected by us, both during transmission and once we receive it. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. In the event of an inadvertent disclosure of your personal information, we will take all commercially reasonable steps to limit and remedy the disclosure as required by the applicable law. In light of the foregoing, your use and access of the Services is at your own risk. If you have any questions about security of our Services, please contact us in the manner set forth under the heading “How Can You Contact Us?” below.

Can Children Use the Services?

The Services are intended for the use of users who are at least 13 years of age. The Services are not directed to persons under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect or solicit information from, market to or accept services from persons under the age of 13 years old. If we become aware that a person under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to remove such personal information. For the avoidance of doubt, this section does not apply to information that you may voluntarily provide us about your child or children.