Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY
for TAPinto.net

Last update:  September 20, 2023

TAPinto.net, hereinafter referred to as TAP ("TAP") is committed to respecting and protecting the privacy of visitors to our Website (the "Website") as well as the privacy of registered users of the interactive features of the Website (“Users”). As part of our commitment to protecting your privacy online, we have written this policy to help you understand how we gather information about Users of the Website, how we use the information we gather and what steps we take to protect the information you share with us.

For unregistered visitors, we've structured the Website so that, in general, you can visit us on the Web without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information.

If and when you choose to provide us with personally identifiable information (any information by which you can be identified), you can be assured that it will only be used to support your relationship with TAP.

What information do we collect and why?

TAP reserves the following rights regarding the information you submit:

Type of Information

How and Why We Use It

Your name, email address, phone number and other contact or payment information you submit when registering on the Website or when submitting any online forms

  • To include you on our mailing list
  • To communicate with you
  • To respond to your specific requests
  • To process accounts and provide newsletters
  • To enforce our Terms of Use

 

Credit card information and billing address

  • To facilitate payment processing by third-party payment processors

User-submitted content from Contributors

  • To publish on our Website

Information about what pages you have viewed

  • To improve our Website
  • To provide visitor assistance

Information about your location (based on Internet Protocol (“IP”) address) and your device (hardware type, hardware identifier, device name, operating system version, unique device ID (persistent / non-persistent), media access control (“MAC”) address, international mobile equipment identity (“IMEI”)

 

  • To provide account support and troubleshooting
  • To calculate aggregated, anonymous statistics on visitors to the Website
  • To better operate our Website

 

Non-personally identifiable, aggregated, information regarding what pages of the Website you choose to access, traffic patterns, demographics, and other statistics about our Website and our users

  • For analytics, targeting, monitoring, marketing, demographic, and promotional purposes as well as to assist us in customizing the content of our Website
  • To produce statistical and/or demographic data for use by advertisers, potential advertisers, and other business partners and affiliates

Other requests you make (e.g. to send an event to a web-based calendar)

  • To fulfill that specific request

 

What information do we disclose?

We Only Share Your Personally Identifiable Information with Outside Parties When:

  • You have provided your explicit consent to share the information.
  • We find that your actions on our Website violate our Terms of Use agreement to the extent that an outside investigation is warranted.
  • We believe doing so is necessary to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TAP and its Users.
  • We sell or otherwise transfer such information to a successor or subsidiary of TAP, including but not limited to the case of a merger, sale, or other asset transfer.
  • We use a third-party service provider with its own secure privacy practices, e.g. for mailings and payment processing
  • It is required to cooperate with interception orders, warrants, or other legal process that TAP determines in its sole discretion to be valid and enforceable; or
  • It is necessary to provide to a law enforcement agency when the contents are inadvertently obtained by TAP and appear to pertain to the commission of a crime.

We will provide you with notice if we believe we are compelled to comply with a third party’s request for information.

 

User Accounts

For those who opt in to register as a subscriber and/or sign up to receive E-news from TAP, TAP will regularly send you email newsletters.  For those who subscribe, TAP reserves the right to send promotional emails about products and services we and our marketing partners offer, and occasional news regarding TAP.

We provide Users the opportunity to opt out of receiving any further communications from us when they receive emails from us. We also give Users the option of contacting us at any time to remove their information from our database or to stop future distributions to them of email updates or other information.

Contact Us/Opting Out 

TAP is the entity responsible for the processing of your personal information as described in this policy. TAP has appointed a privacy officer, who is accountable for compliance with these privacy policies and can answer any questions you may have regarding these policies. You may contact the privacy officer by e-mail at

privacy@tapinto.net.

You can opt out of any feature or reach us for any reason by sending an email to contact@tapinto.net, or you can send mail to the following postal address:


TAP IP LLC
P.O. Box 794
New Providence, NJ 07974
United States of America
Attn: Website Coordinator

We also give you the option of changing or modifying any information you have previously provided to us. To do so, please send an email to contact@tapinto.net, or contact the address above.

Despite our reasonable precautions to protect your information from loss, misuse or alteration, you should recognize that there is no such thing as "perfect security" on the Internet. To help us protect your privacy, you should maintain the secrecy of any password you set up in registering for TAP’s service or making purchases on the Website. In the interest of protecting your privacy, the sharing of passwords and/or accounts is strictly prohibited. Any User found to be sharing their account and/or login credentials with an unauthorized user shall be subject to immediate termination of their account.

 

Accuracy and Security of Personal Information

TAP uses encryption technology to safeguard your credit card data used in electronic transactions. Any personal information you provide to TAP is kept on secure servers. TAP uses reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures (a) to safeguard personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification; and (b) to ensure the integrity of the personal information.

TAP does not retain any credit card information on its servers. All credit card transactions are processed by third party service providers and any payment information that is retained as a result of such transactions is held by the payment processor on their own servers in accordance with and subject to their own terms and conditions. By submitting your credit card or other payment information to this Website, you agree to be bound by our payment processor’s terms and conditions.

TAP disclaims any and all liability should the reasonable measures used by TAP to protect your private and personal information fail. TAP is not liable or responsible for any conduct by third parties, including conduct that results in theft and/or dissemination of your personal and/or private information.

 

Use of Cookies

To enhance your experience with TAP, our server uses "cookies" to store user's preferences. Cookies are messages sent between TAP and your browser which are saved as text files on your computer. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personally identifiable information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, requesting email alerts or additional information. However, once you choose to furnish the Website with personally identifiable information, this information may be linked to the data stored in cookies.

Users may customize their browsers to not accept cookies. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the Website, it is possible that some parts of the Website will not function properly, and you will not be able to experience personalized visits to the TAP Website or subscribe to any service offerings on the Website.

 

Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

We use Google Analytics 4 to collect data about Website usage. This includes:

  • User interactions with the Website.
  • Source of the web traffic.
  • Number of sessions per user.

GA4 uses data collection technology such as cookies and collects data that is associated with users' Google accounts when users are logged in to their Google accounts. GA4 respects users' privacy settings regarding ad personalization.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics by installing Google Analytics' opt-out browser add-on, which can be found at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

 

Third-party Websites

Our Website may contain links to other Websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's Website. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content or practices of any third-party Websites.

This Privacy Policy applies only to the processing of your personal information by TAP. The Website may contain features or links to Websites and services provided by third parties. The policies and procedures described in this Privacy Policy do not apply to third party Websites. Any information you provide on third-party Websites or services is provided directly to the operators of such services and is subject to those operators’ policies, if any, governing privacy and security, even if accessed through the Website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of third-party Websites or services to which links or access are provided through the Website. We encourage you to learn about third parties’ privacy and security policies directly from those Websites before providing them with any information.

 

Requesting Your Information and California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

Because we value your privacy, we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act.  In addition to the information we have provided above, on request we can provide more information about (i) the information we collect and how third parties use it, (ii) contact information and addresses of such third parties, and (iii) information about the products or Websites those third parties market.  Please send such requests to “TAP California User Choice Notice” at the address above.  Once you receive this information, you may request that we modify or remove any of your personal information.  We reserve the right to verify your identity before sending you this information. 

 

GDPR Rights

If you are located in or are a citizen of the European Economic Area, you may have the following additional rights:

  • Request access to and receive information about the personal information we maintain about you, to update and correct inaccuracies in your personal information, to restrict or to object to the processing of your personal information, to have the information anonymized or deleted, as appropriate, or to exercise your right to data portability to easily transfer your personal information to another company. In addition, you may also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work or where an incident took place.
  • Withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your personal information, at any time and free of charge. We will apply your preferences going forward and this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent withdrawal. Those rights may be limited in some circumstances by local law requirements.

 

“Do Not Track” Browser Signals

We currently do not actively respond to Do Not Track browser signals and do not authorize the collection of personal information from Users through technologies deployed in advertising on the Website. 

 

Children’s Privacy

We recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of young children. Our Website is not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 without obtaining parental consent. If you are under 13 years of age, please do not use or access the Website at any time or in any manner. If we learn that personal information has been collected on the Website from persons under 13 years of age and without verifiable parental consent, then we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under 13 years of age has obtained an account on the Website, then you may alert us at contact@tapinto.net and request that we delete that child’s personal information from our system.

 

Jurisdiction and Data Storage

Please be aware that content submitted to TAP will be transferred to a data center in the United States.  If you post information to the Website, you are confirming your consent to such information being hosted and accessed in the United States.  Privacy laws or regulations in your country may differ from those in the United States, where TAP operates from, and whose laws govern this Privacy Policy.

The Website is hosted in the United States and is intended only for visitors located within the United States. Users outside the United States are not eligible to use our Website. If you are located outside of the United States or a citizen of a country other than the United States, please do not upload or enter any personal information to our Website.

 

Data Retention and Security

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We use certain physical, managerial, and technical safeguards that are designed to appropriately protect personal information against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing of the personal information in our possession. WE CANNOT, HOWEVER, ENSURE OR WARRANT THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU TRANSMIT TO US AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. WE ALSO CANNOT GUARANTEE THAT SUCH INFORMATION MAY NOT BE ACCESSED, DISCLOSED, ALTERED, OR DESTROYED BY BREACH OF ANY OF OUR PHYSICAL, TECHNICAL, OR MANAGERIAL SAFEGUARDS. The foregoing is subject to requirements under applicable law to ensure or warrant information security.

 

Policy Governs Use; Changes to Privacy Policy

The terms of this policy will govern the use and any information collected while it is in place. TAP reserves the right to change this policy at any time by posting revisions on the Website. Changes to this privacy policy will be effective at the time they are posted to the Website and continued use of the Website shall constitute acceptance of all terms in effect. This privacy policy is not intended to, and does not, create any contractual or other legal rights in or on behalf of any party.

By using this Website, you agree to the terms as well as any posted changes of this Privacy Policy.  By using this Website, you hereby consent to the collection and use of this information by TAP.  If you do not agree to the terms, DO NOT use our Website.