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The Malin Group, Inc (collectively with its subsidiaries, “Company,” “the Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our,”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your privacy through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (the “Policy”).
By accessing, browsing, submitting information to and/or using the Platform, you agree and acknowledge on your own behalf (referred to throughout the Terms as “you”) that you have read, understand and agree to be bound by these Terms and to comply with all applicable laws including, without limitation, all federal, state and local tax and tariff laws, regulations, and/or directives. Use of the Platform and any information associated with the Platform may also be subject to a separate agreement between the Company and its Users (defined below). Accordingly, your access to the Platform may be as an employee or contractor of a User.
This policy describes
- The types of information we collect from you or that you may provide when you access or use our website application available at www.themalin.co (the “Web Application”), as well as our mobile application (the “Mobile Application”, together with the Web Application, the “Platform”).
- Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This Policy applies to information we collect on the Platform or in emails and other electronic messages between you and the Platform, and information gathered when you interact with our advertising on third-party websites if such advertisements include links to this Policy. This Policy applies to your use as a user of the Platform, including as an employee or contractor of our uses (as defined below).
This Policy 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 information collected by any third party through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from the Platform (for further information, see below, “Third-party Websites”).
Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, then please do not use the Platform. By using the Platform, you agree to the terms of this Policy. This Policy may change from time to time (see below, “Changes to this Policy”). Your continued use of Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.
User agreements
Use of the Platform and any user information associated with the Platform may also be subject to the terms of separate written agreements (the “User Agreements”) between the Company and its users (“Users”). When applicable, this Policy may be superseded by specific terms in the User Agreements. If you use or submit any materials on the Platform as an employee or contractor of a User, you agree to be bound by the User Agreements as well as any posted guidelines and policies related to the materials you wish to use or submit, as applicable. When applicable, if you do not agree to the terms of the User Agreements, you will not be able to use the Platform.
Use of the platform
To ensure that we provide you with the best possible experience, we will store, use, and share information about you in accordance with this Policy.
Information You Provide to Us
- Personal Information is any information that can be used to individually identify you from a larger group, such as data including, but not limited to, your:
- first and last name;
- email address;
- telephone number;
- age;
- mailing address;
- credit card or payment information (i.e. PayPal); and
- comments or messages provided in free text boxes.
You may provide us Personal Information when you:
- request information;
- submit a maintenance request or work order;
- claim any available perks;
- participate in a questionnaire or survey;
- subscribe to our emails;
- purchase products or services; and
- register yourself with the Platform.
The information that you provide in each case will vary. In some cases, you may be able to provide Personal Information via email or free text boxes, such as contacting the Company to request further information. When providing your Personal Information, please provide only relevant information and do not provide unnecessary sensitive information, such as Social Security numbers, credit card information or other sensitive personal data when it is not needed. Additionally, we may ask you to create a username and password that should only be known to you.
Automated Information Collection
In addition to the information that you provide on the Platform, the Company and the Platform Provider (defined below) may also collect information about you during your visit to the Platform. The Company and the Platform Provider collect this information using automated tools that are detailed below. These tools may collect information about your behavior and your computer system, such as your internet address (IP Address), the pages you have viewed, and the actions you have taken while using the Platform. Some of the tools used to automatically collect information about you may include:
a. Cookies. A “cookie” is a small data file transmitted from a website to your device’s hard drive. Cookies are usually defined in one of two ways, and we may use either (or both) of them:
(1) session cookies, which do not stay on your device after you close your browser, and
(2) persistent cookies, which remain on your device until you delete them or they expire.
The Company and the Platform Provider may use the following categories of cookies on the Platform.
i. Strictly Necessary Cookies. These cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the Platform and use its features. Without these cookies, services you have requested, such as maintaining a record of your purchased items (e.g. a shopping cart), cannot be provided.
ii. Performance Cookies.These cookies collect anonymous information on how you use the Platform to help us understand how you arrive at the Platform, browse or use the Platform and highlight areas where we can improve, such as navigation. The data stored by these cookies never shows personal details from which your individual identity can be established.
iii. Functionality Cookies. These cookies remember choices you make such as the country from which you visit the Platform, your preferred language, and your search parameters. This information can then be used to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and to make your visits to the Platform more tailored to your preferences. The information in these cookies may be anonymized. These cookies cannot track your browsing activity on other websites.
iv. Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies.These cookies collect information about your browsing habits in order to make advertising more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement as well as help measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. The cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks. These cookies remember the websites you visit and that information is shared with other parties, such as advertisers.
Of course, if you do not wish to have cookies on your devices, you may turn them off at any time by modifying your internet browser’s settings. However, by disabling cookies on your device, you may be prohibited from full use of the Platform’s features or lose access to some functionality.
b. Google Analytics. One of our trusted third parties is Google Analytics. The Platform sends aggregated, non-Personal Information to Google Analytics for the purpose of providing us with the ability to conduct technical and statistical analysis on the Platform’s performance. For more information on how Google Analytics supports the Platform and uses information sent from the Platform, please review Google’s privacy policy available at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.
c. Web Beacons. A Web Beacon is an electronic image. Web Beacons can track certain things from your computer and can report activity back to a web server allowing us to understand some of your behavior. If you choose to receive emails from us, we may use Web Beacons to track your reaction to our emails. We may also use them to track if you click on the links and at what time and date you do so. Some of the third-party marketers we engage with may use Web Beacons to track your interaction with online advertising banners on the Platform. This
information is only collected in aggregate form and will not be linked to your Personal Information. Please note that any image file on a webpage can act as a Web Beacon.