Effective Date: May, 22 2024
ARC Automation LLC (“ARC Automation”, “we”, “us” or “our”) recognizes the importance of privacy the privacy of our online visitors. The following Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is the way we handle information learned about you from your visits to our website located at www.automatedretailcommerce.com (the “Site”).
PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. When you submit information to or through the Site, you consent to our collection, use, processing, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy. By using the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use automatedretailcommerce.com/terms-of-use and confirm that you are not located outside the United States. The Site is intended only for visitors within the United States.
ARC collects personally identifiable information from you, which may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, credit or debit card information, photographs and professional or employment-related information, education information, and any information you provide to us when you contact us via the Site’s “Contact” page. This information is collected and stored physically and electronically when you register an account with us or contact us via the Site’s “Contact” page.
Where permitted by applicable law, we may combine your personal information with other information we have collected from you.
In addition, information about your computer hardware and software is automatically collected by ARC when you visit the Site. This information may include: your IP address, Mac address, browsing history, information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to the Site, and other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information. We may also collect information about how you interact with the Site, such as what pages of the Site you visited and what you’ve clicked on. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain the quality of the Site and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.
What are cookies? A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.
Duration of cookies. We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.
Why do we use them? Cookies help us improve the Site by providing us with information about which parts of the Site are most popular, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools (such as web beacons and pixels) to help improve your experience with the Site. For example, we use Google Analytics to help analyze how users use the Site. These tools use cookies to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including IP address) is transmitted to our data collection tool service providers. This information is then used by us to evaluate visitors’ use of the Site and to compile statistical reports on website activity for ARC. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google’s Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on designed for this purpose.
How do I control cookies? Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site.
We also use third-party pixels, such as pixels from Google. Facebook, TikTok, LinkedIn and other softwares, to collect or receive information from our Site and elsewhere on the Internet to use such information to enable us to create targeted advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our ads. For additional information on ad targeting and to opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting, please see Section 4 (“Interest Based Advertising”) below.
We may collect information about your online activities on our Site to provide you with advertising about events and services tailored to your individual interests. We also may obtain information for this purpose from third-party websites on which our advertisements are served.
You may see certain advertisements on other websites because we work with advertising partners (including advertising networks) to engage in remarketing and retargeting activities. Our advertising partners allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These partners track your online activities over time and across websites, including our Site, by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of third-party cookies, web beacons and pixels. They use this information to show you advertisements that may be tailored to your individual interests. The information our advertising partners may collect includes data about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks. This process also helps us track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts. For example, we utilize certain of our advertising partners’ targeted advertising services to show you our advertisements on other websites based on your prior visits to our Site and other online activity.
Provided that a company participates in industry-developed programs designed to provide consumers choices about whether to receive targeted advertising, you may opt out of interest-based advertising generally through the Network Advertising Initiative website or by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ (web-based advertising) or http://www.aboutads.info/appchoices (for mobile advertising). To learn more, please visit the websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative and Digital Advertising Alliance at www.networkadvertising.org/choices. Opting-out does not mean that you will stop receiving advertisements from us. It means that you still stop receiving advertisements from us that have been targeted to you based on your visits and browsing activity across websites over time.
We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:
• to provide the Site to you and to improve the Site;
• to create and manage your account with ARC;
• to operate, improve, and personalize the services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• for customer service, security, to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
• for analytics purposes;
• to communicate with you;
• to provide and send marketing materials and communications with you;
• for our other business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, enhancing our Site, improving our events and programs, identifying Site usage trends, and determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns;
• as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (i) under applicable law; (ii) to comply with legal process; (iii) to respond to requests from public and government authorities; (iv) to enforce this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use; (v) to protect our operations; (vi) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others; and (vii) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
With Third Party Service Providers. We share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site or assist us in providing functionality on the Site, provide data analytics on the Site, and send out emails and text messages about the Site and/or events or programs.
For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as required by law or as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
Changes of Control. We reserve the right to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.
By providing your phone number and clicking submit online, you agree to our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy, and authorize us to make or initiate sales calls, text messages and prerecorded voicemails to that phone number using an automated system. Your agreement is not a condition of purchasing any products, goods or services and you may elect to do business with us over the phone. Message & data rates may apply, and message frequency may vary.
You may opt out of receiving promotional e-mails and text messages from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any such messages. Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional messages from us, this does not impact other transactional and administrative messages which you will continue to receive (such as emails relating to donations and payment information or changes to this Privacy Policy).
Our Site may contain links to third-party websites or online services. Any access to and use of such third-party websites and online services is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third-party websites and online services, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third parties.
ARC uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information, however, we will not be responsible for loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse of personal information that you provide through the Site that is stored by us, or for any damages resulting from such loss, corruption or unauthorized acquisition or misuse. It is your responsibility to protect the security of your login information.
Our Site does not currently take any action when it receives a Do Not Track request. Do Not Track is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visit www.donottrack.us.
We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of thirteen. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of thirteen.
Under Nevada law, ARC does not sell your personal information. However, if you are a Nevada resident, you may submit a request that we not sell any personal information we have collected about you by contacting us as set forth below.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@automatedretailcommerce.com.
ARC AUTOMATION LLC
Attn: INFO@AUTOMATEDRETAILCOMMERCE.COM
7901 4th St N, STE 300
St. Petersburg , FL 33702
UNITED STATES
Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.
