Static Contact Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies to all information collected or submitted to Static Content.

By using our services, you consent to the practices described in this statement.

You also acknowledge that we process your information in countries where our data centers operate and that this might be outside of your country. Privacy laws and standards may vary across these countries, affecting how authorities access personal data. We transfer information only where legally permitted and take steps to ensure appropriate protections.

Collection of your Personal Information

Static Contact collects personal information, including names and email addresses. If you use our products and services, we may also need billing and credit card details. We automatically gather computer-related data like IP addresses and browser types. This helps prevent fraud, maintain security, and provide usage statistics. Remember to review privacy statements for linked third-party websites and services, and agree not to use the Static Contact Service to collect sensitive personal data.

Static Contact is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content of third party websites and disclaims any liability for the third party collection of sensitive personal data using the Static Contact Service.

Static Contact collects, stores, and uses your personal information to operate the Service and deliver requested services.

How we use your Personal information

We may also inform you about other products or services, or request feedback to better our offering.

Static Contact does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Static Contact may share your data with trusted partners for research, statistical analysis, email communications, or customer support. These partners are only allowed to use your personal information to provide these services and must maintain its confidentiality.

We may track user visits within Static Contact to analyze service popularity and deliver personalized content and advertising based on user interests.

Your personal information will only be disclosed by Static Contact if required by law or to protect rights, property, or safety under certain circumstances.

Your information additional rights

Depending on your location, you may have additional rights regarding your information, including:

1. Access and portability: You can request a copy of your personal data provided to Static Contact by contacting us.
2. Correction: You can update your personal data.
3. Deletion: You can request Static Contact to delete your personal information, except where retention is required by law, by contacting us.
4. Withdrawal of consent or objection to processing: You can request Static Contact to stop processing your personal data in certain situations by contacting us.

Cookies

The Static Contact website uses cookies to enhance your online experience. A cookie is a text file stored on your hard drive by a web server. It is uniquely assigned to you and can only be read by the server in the domain that issued it.

Cookies serve the convenience of saving you time by informing the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For instance, if you customize pages or register with Static Contact, a cookie helps recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This allows you to easily access customized features when you revisit the Static Contact website.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. However, declining cookies may limit your access to certain interactive features of Static Contact services or websites.

Use of Confidential Information

Our primary purpose is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient and customised experience and to provide the Services you have requested and use of the Site. We may also use the information that you have provided to ensure that the content of our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer and to allow you to participate in our interactive features on our Site and through our Service when you choose to do so.

By using our Site and providing your personal information you agree that we can use your personal information to:

• provide the Services, Site and customer support;
• for verifying your identity for security purposes;
• resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems;
• prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, and enforce our User Terms; manage, customise and improve our services, content and advertising; tell you about our Services and provide you with targeted marketing, product updates, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences;
• compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties; and
• produce anonymised and aggregated analytics and reports.

You acknowledge that we may disclose your first name and URL of any affiliate connection or organisation to any organisation for the purposes of us mentioning winners and others whose performance is outstanding.

We do not share personal information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to accomplish Static Contact's functionality. We may share anonymous, aggregate statistics with outside parties, such as how many people use Static Contact and what sorts of options they are considering.

We may disclose your information in response to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal requirements; to exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud or abuse, violations of our policies; or to protect our rights and property.

In the future, we may sell to, buy, merge with, or partner with other businesses. In such transactions, user information may be among the transferred assets.

Legal Bases for Processing Personal Data

Contract - to provide the Services, Site and customer support; verify your identity for security purposes; resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems; and enforce our User Terms, the processing is necessary for the contract we have with you.

Consent - if we tell you about our Services and provide you with targeted marketing, product updates, and promotional offers, you have given us clear consent to process your personal data for that specific purpose.

Legal obligation - to prevent, detect and investigate potentially prohibited or illegal activities, the processing is necessary for us to comply with the law.

Legitimate interests - to manage, customise and improve our Services, content and advertising; compare information for accuracy, and verify it with third parties, the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party unless there is a good reason to protect your personal data which overrides those legitimate interests.

Thrid-parties

Our site's third-party plug-ins collect information about your usage. For example, when you visit a Static Contact page with a social plug-in from an external site (like a ‘Like' or ‘Send' button), you're also loading content from that third-party site. Consequently, the third-party site may request cookies directly from your browser. These interactions follow the third-party site's privacy policy.

Additionally, third parties provide certain cookies and similar technologies on our site for targeted online marketing and other purposes. These technologies allow our partners to recognize your device each time you use our services. Remember that when you use third-party sites or services, their own terms and privacy policies apply.

While Static Contact manages these third-party technologies on our sites and apps, they remain subject to the respective third parties' privacy policies. We rely on your consent for non-essential cookie collection.

We only speak for ourselves

Our policy applies only to Static Contact. It does not cover practices of third parties we don't control or individuals we don't employ. If you share information with others, their practices may differ. We don't oversee third-party privacy policies. While using our services, consider reading and questioning third-party privacy practices. Under European law, sellers and API users are independent data controllers, responsible for their own policies regarding personal information obtained through the Services.

Global data storage and use of our services

Using Static Contact's services is voluntary. By agreeing to our Terms of Use, you enter a contract with us. Since we operate globally and use cloud infrastructure to deliver our services, we may transfer your personal information worldwide and this could include the US. This transfer is essential for providing our services.

Security of your Personal Information

Static Contact secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. When sensitive personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol.

Retention

We retain your personal data while we have a relationship with you and for a period of time afterwards where we have an ongoing business need to retain it, such as to comply with accounting, tax or legal obligations. After that period, your data is erased or anonymised.

Children and minors

Static Contact does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

GDPR

If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you, to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information below.

CCPA

If you are a resident of California, you have the right to access the Personal Information we hold about you (also known as the ‘Right to Know'), to port it to a new service, and to ask that your Personal Information be corrected, updated, or erased. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us through the contact information above.

If you would like to designate an authorised agent to submit these requests on your behalf, please contact us at the address below.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To make such a request, contact Static Contact at team@staticcontact.com. All such requests are subject to verification of the identity of the requestor and the legitimacy of the request. We respond to all legitimate CCPA data requests within 45 days. We take steps to determine whether the request is legitimate, but this does not extend the 45 days. The time period to provide the information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary, and in this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

To the extent we act as the website's service provider (for example, when we process your submissions on their behalf), you can exercise your CCPA rights directly with the website(s) you use.

Your Responsibilities

When using Static Contact's API, you process personal information (such as email addresses and names) when communicating with users. Under EU law, you become an independent controller of data related to other users obtained through the Services. It's your responsibility to protect this information and comply with relevant legal requirements. You must create your own privacy policy accessible to Static Contact users you interact with, that is consistent with this policy and Static Contact's Terms of Use.

For more information on the General Data Protection Regulation, see more resources at https://gdpr-info.eu and http://gdprandyou.ie.

As a data controller, if you process user personal information outside of the Services, you must comply with data protection laws. This includes honoring requests for data access, portability, correction, deletion, and objections to processing. You are responsible for unauthorized disclosures of personal information, such as disclosures made without proper consent or unintentional breaches.

If you receive a user's information through a relationship with them, it should only be used for Static Contact-related communications or transactions facilitated by Static Contact. Using this information for unsolicited messages or unauthorized transactions is prohibited without the user's consent and compliance with Static Contact policies and laws.

If Static Contact and you are found to be joint data controllers and Static Contact faces legal or financial consequences due to your actions, you agree to indemnify Static Contact for all related expenses.

Withdrawing Consent

You can withdraw your concent for processing of your information and use of the Services at any time. For instance, to stop email marketing, use the unsubscribe link found at the bottom of our marketing emails. To permanently delete your account, please email team@staticcontact.com requesting the closure of your account and deletion of your data. This deletion is permanent and your account cannot be reinstated. We will only keep information that we are required to by law.

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe

Static Contact sends both required service-related messages (such as transactional or legal notices) and optional newsletters. You can opt out of marketing communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the messages you receive.

Governing Law

Your information is provided to us in accordance with the laws of New Zealand.

Changes to this Statement

Static Contact periodically updates its Privacy Statement based on company and customer feedback. We encourage you to review it to stay informed about how we protect your information.

Contact Information

For inquiries regarding Static Contact's privacy practices, please contact Static Contact at team@staticcontact.com.

Last updated: June 24, 2024