THE PLAZA

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at The Plaza Company (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are deeply committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy on our platform. If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy and our practices with regards to your personal information, please do not hesitate to contact us via email here: info@theplazacompany.com.

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When you visit our website (the "Website"), https://www.theplazacompany.com, and more generally, any use of our services (the "Services", which include the Website), we appreciate that you are trusting us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. Within this Privacy Policy, we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use the information we collect, and what rights you have in relation to the information we collect. We hope you take some time to read through our Privacy Policy carefully as it is important. If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

Table of Contents

Section 1. What information do we collect?
Section 2. How do we use your information?
Section 3. Will your information be shared with anyone?
Section 4. Who will your information be shared with?
Section 5. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies?
Section 6. How do we handle your social logins?
Section 7. Is your information transferred internationally?

Section 8. What is our stance on third-party websites?

Section 9. How long do we keep your information?

Section 10. How do we keep your information safe?

Section 11. What are your privacy rights?

Section 12. Controls for Do-Not-Track features. 

Section 13. Does the State of California residents have specific privacy rights?

Section 14. Do we make updates to this Privacy Policy?

Section 15. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you? 

Section 1. What information do we collect?
We collect the personal information you voluntarily provide to us when you register an account on our website, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services, when you participate in activities on our website, such as by posting messages in Community Forums, Community Groups, and Newswire, entering competitions, contests, or giveaways, or otherwise when you contact us. We may collect the following personal information from you:

Personal Information Provided By Yourself 

We collect the following personal information provided to us: personal names, email addresses, phone numbers, mailing addresses, usernames and passwords, billing addresses, debit/credit card numbers, and other similar information.

Payment Data

We may collect data necessary to process your payment if you make any purchases or donations, such as your payment instrument number and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored through PayPal, Stripe, and Wix Payments. You may find their privacy policies here: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full 

https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

https://www.wix.com/about/privacy

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Social Media Login Data 

We provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details, including with your Facebook and Google accounts. All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such information.

 

Automatically Collected Information

We automatically collect certain information when you access, use, or navigate our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity, but may include device and usage information, such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, geographic location, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain both the security and operation of our website and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes. Similar to many businesses and organizations, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies as described below.

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• Log and Usage Data: Log and usage data is service-related, diagnostic usage and performance information our servers automatically collect when you access our website. Depending on how you interact with us, this log and usage data may include your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device information, browser type, and information about your activity on our website, such as the date and time stamps associated with your usage, pages and content viewed, searches, interactions, error reports, and hardware settings.

• Device Data: We collect device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other devices you use to access our website. Depending on the device used to access our website, this device data may include information such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device application identification numbers, hardware model, operating system, geolocation, browser type, and internet service provider or mobile carrier.

• Location Data: We collect information data from you, including information about your device's location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information we collect depends on the type of settings of the device you use to access our website. For example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your current location based on your Internet Protocol (IP) address. You can opt-out of allowing us to collect this information by either refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location settings on your device; however, if you choose to opt-out, you may not be able to use certain aspects of the Services.

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Information Collected From Other Sources
With the purpose of enhancing our ability to provide relevant marketing and services to you, we may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, affiliate programs, data providers, social media platforms, as well as from other third parties. This information includes mailing addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and social media profiles for the purposes of targeted advertising and event promotion. If you interact with us on a social media platform using your social media account, we receive personal information about you, such as your name and email address. Any personal information that we collect from your social media account depends on the privacy settings of your social media account.

Section 2. How do we use your information?
We use personal information collected from our website for a variety of business purposes as described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you when you have consented for us to do so, and for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose as described below.

 

We use the information we collect or receive:

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• to facilitate account creation and logon process. If you choose to link your account with us to a third-party account, such as your Google or Facebook account, we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process for the performance of the contract.

• to post testimonials. We post testimonials on our website that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and the consent of the testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, please contact us via email here: info@theplazacompany.com. Make sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.

• to request feedback. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our website or services.

• to enable user-to-user communications. We may use your information in order to enable user-to-user communications with each user's consent.

• to manage user accounts. We may use your information for the purposes of managing user accounts and keeping them in working order.

• to send administrative information to you. We may use your information to send you details regarding our products and services, in addition to updates to our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines, and other policies.

• to protect our website and other systems. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our website and other systems safe and secure.

• to enforce our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines, and other policies for business and moderation purposes, to comply with legal and regulatory requirements, or in connection with our contract.

• to respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond to either the subpoena or other legal request.

• fulfill and manage your orders. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through our website.

• administer sweepstakes and competitions. We may use your information to administer sweepstakes and competitions when you elect to participate in our competitions.

• to deliver and facilitate the delivery of services to the customer. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.

• to respond to inquiries and offer support to customers and users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our website, services, and products.

• to send you marketing and promotional communications. We or our third-party marketing partners may use the information you send to us for our marketing purposes if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. For example, when expressing an interest in obtaining information about our website, services, and products, subscribing to our marketing and promotional communications or otherwise contacting us, we will collect information from you. You can opt-out of our marketing and promotional communications anytime you wish to do so. 

• for other business purposes. We may use your information for other business purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our marketing and promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our website, services, and products.

Section 3. Will your information be shared with anyone?
We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:
 

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.

• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.

• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.

• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, subpoenas, or any other legal processes.

• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies or guidelines, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved with.

 

We may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

 

• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your personal information during negotiations of any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

• Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us on our behalf and require access to such information to perform their services, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on our website, which will enable them to collect data on our behalf about how you interact with our website over time. This information may be used, among other things, to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, pages, or features, and better understand the online activity of our visitors and Site Members. Unless otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, we do not share, sell, lease, or trade any of your private information with third parties for their promotional purposes. We have contracts in place with our data processors, which are designed to help safeguard your personal information, so they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have specifically instructed them to do so. They will also not share your personal information with any company or organization apart from us.

• Third-Party Advertisers: We may use third-party advertising companies to serve advertisements when you use our website. These third-party advertising companies may use information regarding your previous visits to our website and even other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

• Affiliates: We may share your personal information with our affiliates, including our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we either control or have common control with us. We will require all of our affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. 

Section 4. Who will your information be shared with?
We only share and disclose your information with the following third parties as described below. We have categorized each party, so that you may easily understand the purpose of our data collection and processing practices. If we have processed your data based on your consent and you wish to revoke your consent, please contact us via email here: info@theplazacompany.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

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• Advertising, Direct Marketing, and Lead Generation: Google AdSense

• Allow Users to Connect to Their Third-Party Accounts: Facebook account and Google account

• Live Chat with Customers and Users: Tawk.to

• Content Optimization: YouTube video embed

• Invoice and Billing: Wix Payments, PayPal, and Stripe

• User Account Registration and Authentication: Facebook Login and Google Sign-In

• Website Hosting: Wix.com Ltd

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Section 5. Do we use cookies and other tracking technologies? 
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons and pixels, to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies is featured in this Privacy Policy. 

Section 6. How do we handle your social logins? 
Our website offers you the ability to register an account and login using your third-party social media account details, specifically with your Facebook or Google accounts. Whether you choose to do this, we will receive certain profile information about you from your social media provider. This profile information we receive may vary depending on the social media provider, but will often include your name, email address, profile picture, as well as other information you choose to make public on such social media platform.

We will use the information we receive only for the purposes that are described in this Privacy Policy or that are otherwise made clear to you on our website. Please note that we do not control and are not responsible for other uses of your information by your third-party social media provider. We recommend that you review their Privacy Policy to understand how they collect, use, and share your information and how you can set your privacy preferences on their sites and apps.

Section 7. Is your information transferred internationally?
Our website servers are located in the United States of America. If you are accessing our website from outside of the United States of America, please be aware that your information may be transferred, stored, and processed by us in our facilities and also by third parties with whom we may share your information. If you are a resident in the European Economic Area, then these countries may not necessarily have data protection laws or other similar laws as comprehensive as those in your country; however, we will take all the necessary measures to protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

Section 8. What is our stance on third-party websites?
Our website may contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and those advertisements may link to other websites, online services, or mobile applications. We cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected by third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, online services, or mobile applications that may be linked to our website. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly to respond to your questions.

Section 9. How long do we keep your information?
We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, such as either tax, accounting, or other legal requirements. No purpose in this Privacy Policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than the period of time in which users have an account with us. When we have no legitimate business reason to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information or if this is not possible because your personal information has been stored in backup archives, then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

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Section 10. How do we keep your information safe?
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process; however, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be one hundred percent secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or any unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly access, steal, or modify your personal information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our website is solely considered at your own risk. You should only access our website within a secured environment as doing so will greatly assist us with protecting your personal information.
 

Section 11. What are your privacy rights?
Within some regions, such as the European Economic Area, you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, request rectification or erasure, or restrict the processing of your personal information. Under certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us via email here: info@theplazacompany.com. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at anytime. Please be aware; however, that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance of lawful processing grounds other than consent.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority. You can find their contact details here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.html. If you are a resident of Switzerland, the contact details for the data protection authorities are available here: https://www.edoeb.admin.ch/edoeb/de/home/der-edoeb/kontakt.html.

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Account Information
You can anytime review or change the information on your account by logging into your account and accessing your account settings. Additionally, you may request anytime to terminate your account from our website. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and information from our active databases; however, we may retain some information in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, comply with applicable legal requirements, and enforce our Privacy Policy, Terms and Conditions, Community Guidelines, and other policies.

 

Cookies and Similar Technologies
Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove and reject cookies. If you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our website. You can opt-out of interest-based advertising from advertisers on our website by visiting here: https://www.aboutads.info/choices/.

Opting Out of Email Marketing

You can unsubscribe from our email marketing list at anytime by clicking on the unsubscribe button located on the bottom of our marketing emails. You will then be removed from our email marketing list; however, we may still communicate with you to send you service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.

Section 12. Controls for Do-Not-Track features
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected, but at this moment, no uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing Do-Not-Track signals have been finalized. Accordingly, we do not currently respond to Do-Not-Track browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked while online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must be required to follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Policy.
 

Section 13. Does the State of California residents have specific privacy rights?
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are residents of the State of California to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediate preceding calendar year. If you are a State of California resident and would like to make a request, please submit your request to us via email here: info@theplazacompany.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.

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If you are under 18 years of age, reside in the State of California, and have a registered account on our website, you have the right to request removal of any unwanted data that you publicly posted on our website. You can request the removal of such data by contacting us via email here: info@theplazacompany.com. Make sure to include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in the State of California. We will ensure that the data is not publicly displayed on our website, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from all of our systems.

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Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of a Consumer's Privacy Rights

Upon receiving your verification request, we will need to verify your identity to determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. Our verification methods require us to ask you to provide information about yourself, so then we can match it with the information you have previously provided us. For instance, depending on the type of request you submit, we may ask you to provide certain information, so that we can match the information you provide with the information we already have on file or we may contact you through a communication method that you have previously provided to us. We may also use other verification methods as the circumstances dictate.

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We will only use the information provided in your request to verify your identity. If we cannot verify your identity from the information already maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of verifying your identity and for security or fraud prevention purposes. We will delete the additionally provided information as soon as we finish verifying you.

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Right to Know and Request Rights

Depending on the circumstance, you have a right to know:

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• whether we collect and use your personal information

• the categories of personal information that we collect

• the purposes for which the collected personal information is used

• whether we sell your personal information to third parties

• the categories of personal information that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose

• the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold or disclosed for a business purpose

• the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information

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In accordance with applicable law, we are not obligated to provide or delete consumer information that is de-identified in response to a consumer request or to re-identify individual data to verify a consumer request.

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Other Privacy Rights 

• you may object to the processing of your personal information

• you may request correction of your personal information if it is incorrect or no longer relevant

• you can designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your behalf in accordance with the CCPA

• you may request to opt-out from future selling of your personal information to third parties. Upon receiving a request to opt-out, we will act upon the request as soon as possible, but no later than 15 days from the date of the request submission

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We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights. 

Section 14. Do we make updates to this Privacy Policy?
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Updated versions of this Privacy Policy will be indicated by an updated revision date located on the top of the page and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we may notify you by either prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your personal information.

Section 15. How can you review, update, or delete the data we collect from you? 
Based on the applicable laws of your country, you may have the right to request access to the personal information we collect from you, change that information, or delete it in some circumstances. You may contact us via email to submit a request to either review, update, or delete your personal information here: info@theplazacompany.com. We will respond to your request within 30 days.