thinkPARALLAX

Your privacy is important to us. As such, it is the policy of Parallax Visual Communication, DBA thinkPARALLAX, Inc., (“we,” “our,” or “us”), to collect, process, and retain personal information responsibly in the course of providing information and services to customers, applicants and employees, including when visiting or using our website and engaging our online services. This privacy policy describes our collection and use of personal information about you, including on our websites, blogs, message boards, social media pages, and services we may provide that link to this policy (collectively, the “Services”). We may also offer additional services that have their own privacy policies. In these cases, please refer to the privacy policy associated with the service you are using for the governing privacy policy. For the purposes of this policy, personal information is defined as information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular person.

Generally, we may collect, use, or disclose your personal information for one or more of the following purposes: (a) to fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information; (b) to administer our website and online Services; (c) to market to you; (d) to address and remedy any inquiries or complaints made by or about you related to our Services; (e) to recognize you and remember your information when you return to our website; (f) to help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our services, technology assets, and business; (g) to operate, maintain, and provide to you the features and functionality of our Services; (h) to personalize your experience and to deliver custom content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests; and (i) to respond to law enforcement requests. Consistent with this policy, we collect information in the following ways:

Information We Collect About You

Voluntarily Provided Information

Categories of personal information we may collect about you include:

full name
email address
postal address
tax identification number
identification number
date of birth
sex
race
ethnicity
phone number
employer
job title
financial data and documents
identity verification data and documents

Please see How We Use Personal Information below for additional information on the personal information that we collect and how we use it.

We collect many of the types of personal information listed above directly from you when you use the Services or otherwise interact with us, especially as a customer or applicant.

We also collect personal information when you voluntarily provide it or make it available to us by (1) registering for webinars , or registering for a newsletter or other communication; (2) providing feedback to us through a feedback tool; (3) signing up for, attending or viewing a recording of one of our events or presentations. Each manner in which we collect personal information about you occurs only when you voluntarily provide information to us.

Information Created in the Course of Your Use of the Services

Cookies and Automatically Collected Information

We may collect the following personal information automatically through your use of the online Services:

IP/MAC address
online identifiers
Real names

For certain online Services, we also use cookies and similar technologies to enhance the usability of our website, track web traffic and advertising. We and our service providers and may use cookies and similar technologies to, over time, collect information about your usage of our online Services and across different websites that have a business relationship with us or one of our service providers or third-party advertisement servers. To make choices about interest-based ads from participating third parties, please visit the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) consumer opt out page. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. You can find more information regarding management of your cookies at About Cookies.

We do not currently respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide a method to opt out of the collection of information across the networks of websites and online services in which we participate. If we do so in the future, we will describe how we do so in this privacy policy. For more information about do-not-track, visit www.allaboutdnt.org.

When automatically-collected personal information is not necessary for us to provide you with the online Services, we will obtain your consent for the use of the automatic collection technologies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies described above. In these cases, and when required by law, we will request your consent.

Other Sources

We may collect personal information about you from other sources, such as third-party contact aggregation companies. One such company is RocketReach. Please refer to RocketReach’s privacy policy (https://rocketreach.co/privacy) for additional information on how Rocket Reach collects and uses personal information and how to exercise your privacy rights with RocketReach.

Third-Party Websites

We may provide links to third-party websites. You acknowledge that such links are provided for your convenience only and do not constitute an endorsement by us of such third-party websites. Since we do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for the contents of any linked-to, third-party websites or any hyperlink in a linked-to website, we assume no responsibility for the privacy practices of such websites. We strongly recommend that you review the privacy policies of all third-party websites.

How We Use Personal Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

Identification and authentication: We use your identification information to verify your identity when you access and use the online Services. We may also use identification information that you provide for the purposes of verifying your identity upon your request to exercise your privacy rights.
Operating the Services and Providing Other Services to You: We process your personal information to provide the Services you have requested and other services for which we have an agreement with you. Sensitive data will only be collected based on customer asking for a survey or analysis related to the Services we provide and which you request. This is so we can comply with our contractual obligations to you.
Improving our Services: We analyze information about how you use the Services to provide an improved experience for our customers of all our Services, including product testing and site analytics. It is in our legitimate business interest to use the information provided to us for this purpose, so we can understand any issues with the Services and improve them.
Marketing: We may use your personal information to send you newsletters or information about us or third-party products and services that may be of interest to you. We may also analyze user personal information in order to better understand our users and their interests and inform our marketing strategies. Where required by law, we will obtain your consent before sending such marketing messages and provide you with the opportunity to unsubscribe from such messages.
Exercising our rights: We may use your personal information to exercise our legal rights where it is necessary to do so.
Complying with our obligations: We may process your personal information to, for example, carry out fraud prevention checks or comply with other legal or regulatory requirements, where this is explicitly required by law.
Customizing your experience: When you use the Services, we may use your personal information to improve your experience of the Services, such as by providing interactive or personalized elements on the online Services and providing you with content based on your interests;
Applicants for employment: We may collect and use sensitive personal information when you submit an application for employment with the Company. The sensitive personal information that is collected may include, but is not limited to, name, email address, phone number and other commonly collected employment application information. We also collect and store birth dates, marital status, and other identifiers as employees have provided them on payroll forms for payroll purposes.
Anonymization: We may also anonymize your personal information in such a way that you may not reasonably be re-identified by us or any other company, and may use this anonymized information for any other purpose.

Disclosures of Personal Information

We may share your personal information with third parties under the following circumstances:

Service providers and business partners: We may share your personal information with our service providers and business partners that perform marketing services and other business operations for us for the purposes set forth above.
Where required by law: We may share your personal information with law enforcement agencies, courts, other government authorities or other third parties when necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or otherwise to protect our rights.
In the context of a transaction: We may share your personal information with potential transaction partners, service providers, advisors, and other third parties in connection with the consideration, negotiation, or completion of a corporate transaction in which we are acquired by or merged with another company or we sell or transfer all or a portion of our assets or business. Should such a corporate sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to obligate the entity to which we transfer your personal information to use it in a manner that is consistent with this privacy policy.

We may also share de-identified aggregate information that may not reasonably be re-identified by us or any other company with third parties and advertisers so they can measure the effectiveness of any advertisements viewed in connection with our Services. For example, we may tell advertisers the number of users who clicked on a particular advertisement but not disclose the identities of those users.

Sale, Rental or Sharing of Personal Information

We do not share, swap, or rent your personal information. Neither do we authorize any third party to use personal information submitted by users of our Services for the third party’s own purposes.

Information Security and Storage

As part of our commitment to maintaining reasonable security, the organization has taken steps to protect the information it has gathered about you, including encrypting data at rest, providing employees or contractors access to data on an as needed basis (which is reviewed on a periodic basis).

We retain your personal information for as long as we have a relationship with you and longer if for legitimate business purposes. When deciding how long to keep your personal information after our relationship with you has ended, we take into account our legal obligations. We may also retain records to investigate or defend against potential legal claims.

Non-U.S. Website Users

By using our online Services from outside the United States, your personal information and other information will be sent directly to the United States for processing where data protection and privacy regulations may be different than other parts of the world, such as the European Union, and which may not offer an equivalent level of protection to that in the European Union or certain other countries.

We have put in place appropriate safeguards in accordance with applicable legal requirements to provide adequate protections for your personal information. For more information on the appropriate safeguards in place and to obtain a copy of such safeguards, please contact us at the contact information set forth below.

Customer Service and how to Acquire Additional Information

We are committed to providing every user with prompt, high-quality support at all times. Email is the primary form of contact for users and we encourage you to email us with questions, comments and concerns. You may also contact us by telephone. Additional information can be found at: https://www.thinkparallax.com/contact.

Residents of the European Economic Area

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain rights regarding the personal information we hold about you, subject to local law. These may include the rights to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to our use of, or receive a portable copy in a usable electronic format of your personal information. You also may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection or privacy regulator.

We encourage you to contact us at the contact information set forth below to update or correct your information if it changes or if the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate. Where you have provided your consent to any use of your personal information, you can withdraw this consent at any time.

Please note that we may require additional information from you in order to honor your requests.

If you would like to discuss or exercise any rights you may have under law, please contact us at the contact information set forth below.

If you or your authorized agent would like to discuss or exercise such rights, please contact us at admin@thinkparallax.com with your first and last name, mailing address, and phone number, along with which right you would like to exercise. As a part of this process, we may use existing account verification systems and/or require that you or your authorized agent provide certain information to us for verification purposes.

Additionally, please see How We Use Personal Information for further detail on the categories of personal information that we collect and disclose.

Changes to this Policy

This privacy policy may be amended from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page and the effective date of such changes reflected above as the date last updated.

Contacting Us

Use the contact information below if you have questions, concerns, or complaints about this privacy policy or our privacy practices or would like additional information about thinkPARALLAX’s privacy practices. Where applicable law requires the identification of a controller, that is:

thinkPARALLAX, Inc.
555 Second Street, Unit 1
Encinitas, CA 92024
admin@thinkparallax.com
760-634-0273