Dinghy & NSM Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2020

Introduction

Dinghy USA Inc. and NSM Insurance Services, LLC (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy.

This privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the any websites of Company, including https://dinghy.us (collectively, our “Websites”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.
This privacy policy applies to information we collect:

  • On our Website.
  • In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and our Website.
  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this privacy policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our Websites.

Please read this privacy policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Websites.

By accessing or using our Websites, you agree to this privacy policy. This privacy policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the privacy policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Websites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on our Websites.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on our Websites or on or through any of their features or register on any of our Websites, make any purchases through our Websites, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Websites or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at support@dinghy.us

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may obtain information about you when you choose to provide it to us and when we collect it from third parties. We may also collect certain information about your device or usage by automated means, including through technologies such as cookies, flash cookies, web server logs, and web beacons.

Information That You or Others Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Websites may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Websites. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Websites, subscribing to our services or purchasing products or services on our Websites, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Websites. Examples of data elements may include: name, address, city, state, ZIP code, email address, telephone number, other contact information, birth date, and household information.
  • Information about your transactions and relationships with us, our affiliated companies, and others (such as products or services purchased, survey responses, account balances, your policy coverage, premiums, and payment history)
  • Financial and payment information (such as payment card number, expiration date, account number, and billing address)
  • Product preferences, advertisement preferences, search queries, and other information about how you use our Websites
  • Content you submit or post (such as photographs, videos, reviews, articles, comments, or any other information you provide to us or post)
  • Employment information
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted “) on public areas of our Websites, or transmitted to other users of our Websites or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions “). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Websites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, 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 Websites, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Websites.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.
    The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.
    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 Websites. 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 Websites.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Websites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Websites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our the Websites and our e-mails 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 e-mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • Web server logs: In conjunction with obtaining information through cookies, our web servers may log details regarding your device, operating system, or information about your usage of our Websites.
    Note that we do not currently honor “Do Not Track” signals from website browsers.

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, 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.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, please note we partner with Google Analytics.

For information on how Google Analytics uses data please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps,” located at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for the following purposes:

  • offering you products and services, deciding if you qualify for our products and services, and servicing your account
  • establishing and verifying the identity and eligibility of users;
  • opening, maintaining, administering, managing, and servicing users profiles, accounts or memberships;
  • processing, servicing or enforcing transactions (including credit or debit card transactions), including payment and settlement of insurance claims;
  • providing products, content, content suggestions, services, and support;
  • conducting special events, sweepstakes, surveys, programs, contests, and other offers (and communicating with you about such events);
  • analyzing and improving our products, services, or Websites (including developing new products and services; improving safety; managing our communications; analyzing our products; performing market research; performing data analytics; and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions);
  • providing users with product, service, or company updates;
  • marketing and advertising our products or services as well as products and services of third parties (such as affiliates, subsidiaries, and business partners);
  • responding to your inquiries or comments, or contacting you as necessary;
  • operating and communicating with you about or through external social networking platforms
  • maintaining the security and integrity of our systems, including maintaining internal records;
  • conforming to legal requirements or industry standards, complying with legal process, detecting and preventing fraud or misuse, defending our legal rights, or protecting others;
  • as part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, transfer, sale, corporate change, or any other transaction involving all or a portion of Company’s assets

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users (including you), and information that does not identify any individual (including you specifically), without restriction.

We do not share your personal information with third parties for the third parties’ own direct marketing purposes. However, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business 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 Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of our Websites may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Promotional Offers from Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by us to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to info@dinghy.us or by clicking the link in the email we send you. If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt-out does not apply to information regarding transactions you engage in with Company, such as emails we send as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an e-mail at support@dinghy.us to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We will make reasonable efforts to honor your request where feasible. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account (if one exists). We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from our Websites, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.

Data Security

Your privacy and the security of your information is important to us. We have implemented measures that are reasonably designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we utilize standard industry practices to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Websites. 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 our Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

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

Dinghy
555 North Lane, Suite 6060
Conshohocken, PA 19428
or by telephone at: 1-800-970-9778
or by email at: support@dinghy.us

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