Effective April 2022

INTRODUCTION

EastCo Group, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. The purpose of this Privacy Policy (“policy”) is to inform you regarding the personally identifiable information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.eastcogroup.com (our “Website”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully.  If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our website. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this Privacy Policy.

See our Terms and Conditions (below) for more information about our online terms and policies in general.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, fax number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”).
• that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as geography; and/or
• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

• directly from you when you provide it to us (e.g. Contact form);
• automatically as you navigate the Website (information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through Cookies).
• from any third parties and/or companies that we may contract within our network/ad network.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTIONS

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer/mobile device and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.  It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests; and
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. It is your responsibility to seek out additional information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies.
• Web Beacons. Pages of the Website (and our emails) may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or from what you provide us.

THE PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide us, including any personal information, to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:

• We may use this information to collect data and statistical analysis about use of the site.
• We may use the information to improve our products and services.
• We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
• We may use this information to contact you back with respect to any comments or use of the contact form on this site.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.  We will hold, use and disclose personal information about you for the purpose for which we have collected it and related purposes including, but not limited to:

• Presenting our Website and its contents to you;
• Providing services to you;
• Responding to your inquiries; and
• Providing you with any news, publications, newsletters, and marketing materials that may interest you.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Some content or applications, including advertisements, that are or may be on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this policy:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support the business of the Company and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets;
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information;
• With your consent;

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request’ and
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our users or others.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this policy. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy policy applicable to the website in question.

AFFILIATE PROGRAM PARTICIPATION

The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. The Company may be a participant in an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and providing links to certain websites. This program may utilize cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

ADVERTISING

This Website may be affiliated with certain marketing companies for the purpose of placing advertising on the Website. Those third-party companies may collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. Where practical, the Company will update this policy disclosing those third-party companies.

DATA SECURITY

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website. If we learn of a security breach involving our collection of your personal information, we will inform you and others in accordance with applicable law.

DATA RETENTION

We store your personal information that we collect for as long as it is needed for the purposes outlined herein only.  However, if you ask us to remove personal information from active databases, we may retain it for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, satisfaction of legal obligations, or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so.

ACCESS, CORRECTION AND DELETION

Subject to certain exceptions prescribed by law, and provided we can authenticate your identity, you may check your personal information to verify, update, or correct it, and to have any obsolete information removed. You also have the right to request that your personal information be deleted or removed without the need for a specific reason, and you have the right to data portability if it should become relevant. You can also ask to review any of the information that we have retained, how we have used it, and to whom we have disclosed it at any time, by contacting us as indicated below under the heading “Contact Information”.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to make changes to this policy from time to time. The date the policy was last revised is identified at the top of this policy page. It is the user’s responsibility to periodically check the Privacy Policy page for updates to the policy.

UNSUBSCRIBE

The email address users provide may be used to respond to user’s inquiries, and/or other requests or questions. Emails to users may include, but is not limited to company news, updates, and related service information. If at any time the user would like to unsubscribe from receiving emails, the user may contact us via our Website or using the contact information below.

CONTACT INFORMATION

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

EastCo Group, LLC
Attn: Katie Johnson
info@eastcogroup.com

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