Privacy Policy
InvestSC Privacy Policy
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InvestSC, Inc., its affiliates, and subsidiaries (collectively, “InvestSC,” “us,” “we,” or “our”) operates www.investsc.com, and any other website (each a “Website” and collectively, the “Websites”) that links to this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”). This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect, how we use it, with whom it is disclosed, the purpose such is disclosed, and the rights you may have available to you regarding your personal information. This Privacy Policy covers personal information collected on our Websites and in connection with our services. The Privacy Policy does not apply to any website operated by an InvestSC affiliate or subsidiary that has a separate privacy policy.
Please carefully read this Privacy Policy as we may update it from time to time as indicated by the Last Updated date at the top of this page. Your continued use of the Websites indicates your acknowledgment of this Privacy Policy and that you accept the Terms of Use that are hereby incorporated by reference. If you do not agree with any portion of this Privacy Policy, now or as amended by us, please immediately cease using our Websites and services.
Contents
Collection of Information
Information You Provide to Us
Use of Information
Disclosure of Information
Cookies and Other Web Technologies
Security
Children Under the Age of 18
Third-Party Tracking & Websites
Notice to Individuals Outside the United States
Changes to This Privacy Policy
Contact Us
Collection of Information
“Personal information” is information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with an individual. Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
We may interact with you in a variety of ways and collect personal information during those interactions. While some personal information we collect is required to provide you the services you are requesting, you may voluntarily provide other personal information.
We collect personal information from these sources:
- Directly from you.
- Automatically through cookies and other similar tracking technology when you interact with the Websites or communications we send to you.
- From other sources such as marketing or advertising service providers, vendors that provide services on our behalf, and other publicly available
- sources.
Information You Provide to Us
We may collect the following categories of personal information from you:
- Personal Identifiers such as your first and last name, professional title, business affiliation and address, driver’s license number, Social Security number, online identifiers, internet protocol (“IP”) address, email address, phone numbers, account registration information, or similar identifiers.
- Device Information such as device model, IP address, cookies, beacons, pixel tags, mobile ad identifiers, or similar unique identifiers.
- Internet/Network Activity such as your interaction with the Website, application, or platform.
- Commercial Information such as services you have enrolled in and, if applicable, full bank account number and routing number, tax residency, tax or employer identification number.
- Communications such as a record of the contents of communications with the Website or one of our representatives.
- Demographic Information such as age, gender, race, ethnicity, and other founder information, some of which may include characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law.
- Geolocation Information such as country, city, and zip code as determined by your IP address[, approximate or precise location information, and GPS coordinates].
- Sensitive Personal Information may be collected solely to provide you the services you have requested. InvestSC does not use sensitive personal information for inferring characteristics about you.
You may also provide us additional information at your sole discretion when you contact us via the webform or talk to a customer service representative.
Use of Information
We use your personal information to:
- Create, manage, and administer your account, such as to provide access to the registered user portions of the Website and verify the identity of applicants.
- Provide the services you request, such as improving our offerings, auditing, data analysis, or troubleshooting.
- Communicate with you about the services, such as responding to communications, contacting you, or to market our services. If you contact our customer services representatives, we will use information about you to help you resolve a problem or answer your question.
- Prevent fraud, protect and enforce our legal rights; and otherwise comply with law, such as protecting the rights of individuals, employees, and InvestSC, as well as preventing loss, fraud, abuse, illegal use, and other misuse or violations of our Terms of Use. We also will use information to comply with applicable law, such as reporting requirements, identifying conflicts of interest, proceedings, process, court orders, or governmental requests.
- Improve our offerings and understand how you interact with the services, such as operating and maintaining the safety, security, and integrity of the Website, databases, and other technology assets, as well as diagnosing technical and service problems.
- Personalize and understand your experience, such as your personal or professional interests, demographics, user experience with us, and contact preferences, as well as to customize offers to your interests.
- Any other purpose with your consent.
Email choices: You can opt out of marketing or advertising emails by following the unsubscribe process included any promotional email you received. You may also request to opt out of marketing or advertising emails by contacting us at wcruz@investsc.net. Please keep in mind that if you opt out of receiving marketing messages, you will still receive transactional and service-related emails from us (such as emails related to your services, your account, correction of personal information, password reset requests, reminder emails you have requested, updates to our terms and policies and other similar communications essential to your transaction) that may be necessary for us to make the services available to you or respond to your inquiries.
SMS choices (texts): We may provide you with promotional offers and other marketing communications by text message. You may opt in by indicating your preference in our online contact forms. If you agree to receive SMS communications from us, then we may send you information, including promotional or marketing text messages, to the phone number you provide. You may opt out of receiving text messages by replying “Stop” to any message you receive, or, to opt out of marketing or advertising calls, by contacting us through one of the methods specified in the Contact Us section below and sharing the phone number that you would like to opt out.
Our use of personal information is limited to the purposes set forth in this Privacy Policy unless we obtain consent for such other processing.
Disclosure of Information
We disclose your personal information to:
- Affiliates and subsidiaries for business purposes, such as providing the services and our service offerings.
- Service providers that perform services on behalf of InvestSC and for ordinary business purposes including, but not limited to, cloud-hosting platforms, marketing assistance, financing, and processing payments.
- Third parties to complete your transaction, marketing campaigns, and targeted advertisements, and to protect the security and integrity of the services and correct any technical problems and malfunctions. We may engage third parties to act as our service providers and perform certain tasks on our behalf including, but not limited to, analyzing customer data, providing marketing assistance, financing, processing payments, and processing or storing data in connection with your use of our services and delivering services to customers.
- Others with your consent or at your direction, as well as to the extent necessary for the purposes of law enforcement or other issue of public importance. We may disclose information about you where there is lawful basis for doing so, if we determine the disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our Terms of Use or to protect our operations, rights, property, or other users, or in the event of sale, consolidation, transfer of assets, reorganization, merger, or liquidation of part or all of our assets.
Cookies and Other Web Technologies
The services uses cookies, and other similar technologies such as pixels and beacons, from third parties and service providers to help personalize your online experience, remember your preferences, analyze the use of the service, advertise our services to you, and maintain security of the services. Cookies help us understand how users interact with our services, including date and time of visits, pages viewed, amount of time spent using our digital offerings, or general information about the device used to access our services. Information related to these actions and technologies are automatically transmitted by your browser to us. Through the use of cookies and other similar technologies, information about video materials or services you engage with on the Website may be disclosed incidentally in the ordinary course of business.
We may also share information that we collect through these technologies with third parties, such as service providers, advertisers, and advertising companies as described in this Privacy Policy. Certain third-party content providers, advertisers, and advertising companies may also place cookies or other similar technologies on your computer or mobile device.
Web beacons and pixels allow us to count users who have visited various pages on our services. We may include web beacons in promotional email messages in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. Third parties may also deliver and use web beacons. While some may be used to support customizing advertising to you, others may be used to protect legal rights to content provided on our services, such as protecting the copyright to a photograph or video.
When you use social media platforms, applications, or tools that enable features like audio or video content (sometimes known as “plugins”), or other features that are operated or offered by third parties and are integrated into our services or allow you to connect to our services, we may collect information from those third parties. This may include payment services, login services or review platforms.
You can opt out of these online tracking technologies by submitting a request via email to wcruz@investsc.net. Please note, some features of our services may not be available, or function as intended as a result.
To learn how to opt out of certain ad network interest-based advertising in the U.S., please visit YourAdChoices and Network Marketing Initiative websites. Choices you make may be browser and device-specific. In addition, your mobile device settings may allow you to limit your device from sharing certain information for advertising purposes.
Security
We work to protect your personal information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alteration by using commercially reasonable security safeguards, coupled with security procedures and practices. Although InvestSC employs measures to maintain security, we cannot guarantee that your information will not be intercepted by third parties’ illegal efforts. It is your responsibility to maintain the privacy of your username and password. Unauthorized use of your registered account with us will enable access to your personal information. Please keep your username and password in a safe and secure place.
Children Under the Age of 18
The Websites and services are not intended for children under eighteen (18) years of age. No one under the age of eighteen (18) may provide any personal information to the Websites and we do not knowingly collect personal information directly from children under eighteen (18). If you believe we might have collected personal information from a child under eighteen (18) inadvertently, please email us at the email address provided in the Contact Us section below.
Third-Party Tracking & Websites
Third parties, other than our vendors (such as our website analytics provider), do not have authorization from us to track which websites you visited prior to and after visiting the Websites. Please note, however, that we cannot control third-party tracking and there may be some third-party tracking that occurs without our knowledge or consent.
The Websites may also contain links to other websites that are not controlled by us. These links are made available to you as a convenience, and you agree to use these links at your own risk. InvestSC disclaims any responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of such other websites. If you navigate to a third-party website from our Websites, we strongly encourage you to review and become familiar with that third-party website’s own privacy policy and statements.
Notice to Individuals Outside the United States
The Websites are only intended for individuals located in the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, any information you provide to us will be transferred to and stored in the United States and that, by submitting information to us, you explicitly authorize its transfer and storage within the United States. We will protect the privacy and security of personal information according to this Privacy Policy regardless of where it is processed or stored.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this Privacy Policy, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our services following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or requests about or related to this Privacy Policy, or any other concerns or suggestions, please contact InvestSC at:
Email: wcruz@investsc.net
Phone: [INSERT PHONE NUMBER]
Address:
InvestSC
Attn: President
1201 Main St., Suite 1600
Columbia, SC 29201