Privacy Policy

Last Updated 5/24/18

Thanks for using Boingnet. This policy explains the what, how, and why of the information we collect when you use Boingnet. It also explains the specific ways we use and disclose that information. We never sell your information, lists or email addresses and we do everything in our power to protect it. We never sell your information, lists or email addresses and we do everything in our power to protect it. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Websites or the Services.

THE BASICS

1. Definitions

We’ll start by getting a few definitions out of the way that should help you understand this policy. When we say “we,” “us,” and “Boingnet,” we’re referring to Postalytics Inc., a State of Delaware Corporation. When we say “you”, “user”, “Client”, “Customer” or “Member,” we’re referring to the person or entity that’s registered with us to use the Services. When we say “end user”, “target” or “campaign target” we are referring to individuals who are the targets in a campaign being run by a Boingnet client.

We provide online platforms that you may use to create, send, and manage emails (the “Services”). We offer the Services on our websites http://www.Boingnet.com and http://v2.boingnet.com (each a “Website” and together the “Websites”). In the course of providing the Services, we may collect Personal Information, which means information about a Member. A “Contact List” is a list of physical or email addresses or mobile phone numbers that one of our Members has sent, or intends to send, emails to, and all information relating to those email addresses.

2. Changes

If there are any changes to this Privacy Policy, we’ll post them on the Website and send them to the last email address you gave us. Any changes will be effective as of the date we post on the Website or send the email (or whichever date is later). You may object to any changes within 20 days after they’re posted on our Website or delivered to you, in which case none of the proposed changes will be effective with respect to information that we’ve already collected from you, but will apply only to information we collect in the future. We won’t treat information of any open account differently from any other open account. If you object to changes in our Privacy Policy, we’ll have to terminate your account. That said, if we ever changed our Privacy Policy to expand our rights to use or disclose Personal Information for marketing purposes, you‘d be able to opt out without termination.

3. Effective Date

This Privacy Policy is effective with respect to any data that we’ve collected, or collect, about and/or from you, according to our Terms of Use.

4. Questions

For Non-EEA Residents:

If you have any questions or comments, or if you want to update, delete, or change any Personal Information you’ve submitted on the Website, please email us at privacy@boingnet.com or use our contact form to get in touch. You may also contact us by postal mail at:

Postalytics, Inc. d/b/a Boingnet
Privacy Department
55 Accord Park Drive
Rockland, MA 02370

For EEA Residents:

For the purposes of EU data protection legislation, Postalytics Inc. d/b/a Boingnet is the controller of your Personal Information. Our Data Protection Officer can be contacted at privacy@boingnet.com.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information
We process Personal Information about you as a data controller as described in this policy, where such processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Our legitimate interests typically include: improving, maintaining, providing, and enhancing our technology, products and services; ensuring the security of the Services and our Website; and for our marketing activities.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information (EEA Persons Only)
If you are from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Information described above will depend on the Personal Information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect and use Personal Information from you where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data-protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Typically, our legitimate interests include improving, maintaining, providing, and enhancing our technology, products, and services; ensuring the security of the Services and our Websites; and for our marketing activities.

If you are a User, we may need the Personal Information to perform a contract with you. In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Information from you.
If we ask you to provide Personal Information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contact with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your Personal Information is mandatory or not, as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your Personal Information.

Where required by law, we will collect Personal Information only where we have your consent to do so.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your Personal Information, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “Questions” section below.

International Transfers

We operate in the United States
Our servers and offices are located in the United States, so your information may be transferred to, stored, or processed in the United States. While the data protection, privacy, and other laws of the United States might not be as comprehensive as those in your country, we take many steps to protect your privacy.

Users located in Australia
If you are a User who lives in Australia, this section applies to you. We are subject to the operation of the Privacy Act 1988 (“Australian Privacy Act”). Here are the specific points you should be aware of:

Where we say we assume an obligation about Personal Information, we are also requiring our subcontractors to undertake a similar obligation, where relevant.

We will not use or disclose Personal Information for the purpose of our direct marketing to you unless you have consented to receive direct marketing; you would reasonably expect us to use your personal details for the marketing; or we believe you may be interested in the material but it is impractical for us to obtain your consent. You may opt out of any marketing materials we send to you through an unsubscribe mechanism or by contacting us directly. If you have requested not to receive further direct marketing messages, we may continue to provide you with messages that are not regarded as “direct marketing” under the Australian Privacy Act, including changes to our terms, system alerts, and other information related to your account.

Our servers are located in the United States. In addition, we or our subcontractors may use cloud technology to store or process Personal Information, which may result in storage of data outside Australia. It is not practicable for us to specify in advance which country will have jurisdiction over this type of offshore activity. All of our subcontractors, however, are required to comply with the Australian Privacy Act in relation to the transfer or storage of Personal Information overseas.

If you think the information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, we will take reasonable steps, consistent with our obligations under the Australian Privacy Act, to correct that information upon your request.

If you are unsatisfied with our response to a privacy matter then you may consult either an independent advisor or contact the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner for additional help. We will provide our full cooperation if you pursue this course of action.

California Privacy
Under California Law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship, (a) a list of the categories of Personal Information, such as name, email, and mailing address, and the type of services provided to the customer that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third-parties’ direct marketing purposes, and (b) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please contact us through our contact form or email us at privacy@boingnet.com.

YOUR INFORMATION

5. Information We Collect

1. Information You Provide to Us: When you register to use the Services, communicate with our customer service team, send us an email, or post on our blog, you’re giving us information that we collect. That information may include your IP address, name, physical address, email address, phone number, credit card information, and other details like gender, occupation, and other demographic information. By giving us this information, you consent to your information being collected, used, disclosed, and stored by us, only as described in our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

Certain parts of our Websites may ask you to provide Personal Information voluntarily. For example, we may ask you to provide certain Personal Information (such as your name, contact details, company name, profile information) in order to sign up for a free or paid Boingnet account, apply for a role with Boingnet, or otherwise submit inquiries to us. We may also collect Personal Information, such as your contact and job details and feedback, when you attend our events, take part in surveys, or through other business or marketing interactions we may have with you. You may choose to provide additional information when you communicate with us or otherwise interact with us, and we will keep copies of any such communications for our records.

The Personal Information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your Personal Information. We will also let you know prior to collection whether the provision of the Personal Information we are collecting is compulsory or may be provided on a voluntary basis and the consequences, if any, of not providing the information.

When you visit our Websites, we may also collect certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including countries in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered Personal Information under applicable data protection laws.

Contact List and Email, Physical Address, SMS/Text Information: When you add a Contact List or use Boingnet to create a message via email, direct mail or SMS/Text or when you create a landing page or microsite the Services, we have access to the data on your list and the information in your email, direct mail, SMS/Text, landing page or microsite.A Contact List can be created in a number of ways, including by importing Lists, such as through a CSV or directly from your CRM or other tools. Your Contact Lists are stored on a secure Boingnet server. We do not, under any circumstances, sell your Contact Lists. If someone on your Contact List complains or contacts us, we might then contact that person. You may export (download) your Contact Lists from Boingnet at any time.If we detect abusive or illegal behavior related to your Contact List, we may share your Contact List or portions of it with affected ISPs or anti-spam organizations to the extent permitted or required by applicable law.

Personalization & Variable, Relevant Content: Boingnet enables its users to create personalized, one to one messages and web experiences for marketing campaigns by enabling Contact List information provided by our users such as name, sex, address and/or any other information can be inserted into messages, URL’s, landing pages and microsites. Additionally, Boingnet enables users to create unique, highly relevant experiences by using variable data, variable content and variable logic techniques to customize the look and feel, the presentation of content and the flow of landing pages and microsites.

Campaign Behavior: Boingnet enables its users to send messages and provide access to landing pages and microsites and tracks the behavior of the campaign targets for analysis and for campaign follow up. Such behavior includes actions like opens, clicks, visits, forms filled out, buttons selected as well as lack of actions like targets who do not open, respond, click or fill out forms. A Boingnet feature enables Users to send specialized messages, landing pages & microsites to segments of a campaign defined by the actions or lack of actions. All of the information tracked and gathered about Campaign Behavior is used to build reports for users to understand the effectiveness of their campaigns.

Information from your Use of the Service: We may get information about how and when you use the Services. This information may include your IP address, time, date, browser used, and actions taken by you within the application.

Cookies: Boingnet and its partners use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the website, track users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole.We use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web server. Cookies are not used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize pages on our Websites, or register for the Subscription Service, a cookie helps us to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. When you return to the same Website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the customized features.You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Boingnet Subscription Service or Websites you visit. Boingnet keeps track of the Websites and pages you visit within Boingnet, in order to determine what portion of the Boingnet Website or Subscription Service is the most popular or most used. This data is used to deliver customized content and promotions within the Boingnet Website and Subscription Service to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Web Beacons: When we send emails to registered Boingnet customers, we’ll sometimes track who opened the emails and who clicked the links. We do that to measure our Email Campaigns’ performance and to improve our features for specific segments of customers. To do this, we include single pixel gifs, also called web beacons, in emails we send. Web beacons allow us to collect information about when you open the email, your IP address, your browser or email client type, and other similar details. We also include Web Beacons in the emails we deliver for you. We use the data from those Web Beacons to create the reports you see about who has or hasn’t opened emails or clicked links. Reports are also available to us when we send you email, so we may collect and review that information.

Information from Other Sources: We may get more information about you, like name, age, and participation in social media websites, by searching the internet or querying third parties (we’ll refer to that information as Supplemental Member Information). We only collect data that’s publicly available or provided by a third party according to its terms of use.

6. Use and Disclosure of Your Personal Information

We may use and disclose your Personal Information only as follows:

1. To promote use of our Services. For example, if you leave your Personal Information when you visit our Website and don’t sign up for any of the Services, we may send you an email asking whether you want to sign up. And if you use any of our Services, and we think you might benefit from using another Service we offer, we may send you an email telling you about it.
2. To bill and collect money owed to us. This includes sending you emails, invoices, receipts, notices of delinquency, and alerting you if we need a different credit card number. We use third parties for secure credit card transaction processing, and we send billing information to those third parties to process your orders and credit card payments. To learn more about the steps we take to safeguard that data, see Section 7 below.
3. To send you System Alert Messages. For example, we may let you know about temporary or permanent changes to our Services, like planned outages, new features, version updates, releases, abuse warnings, and changes to our Privacy Policy.
4. To enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and applicable law. This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us prevent violations.
5. To provide customer support.
6. To protect the rights and safety of our Members and third parties, as well as our own.
7. To meet legal requirements like complying with court orders and valid subpoenas.
8. To provide information to representatives and advisors, like attorneys and accountants, to help us comply with legal, accounting, or security requirements.
9. To prosecute and defend a court, arbitration, or similar proceeding.
10. To support and improve the Services we offer. This includes adding features that compare the results of Members’ Campaigns.
11. To communicate with you about your account for informational, not promotional, reasons.
12. To transfer your information in the case of a sale, merger, consolidation, or acquisition.
13. To send you informational and promotional content that you may choose (or “opt in”) to receive. You can stop receiving our promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions included in every email.

7. Other Data Protection Rights

You and your Contacts may have the following data protection rights:

To access, correct, update or request deletion of Personal Information. Boingnet takes reasonable steps to ensure that the data we collect is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete and up to date. As a Member, you can manage many of your individual account and profile settings within the dashboard provided through the Boingnet platform. You can also manage information about your Contacts within the dashboard provided through the Boingnet platform to assist you with responding to requests to access, correct, update or delete information that you receive from your Contacts.

In addition, individuals who are residents of the EEA can object to processing of their Personal Information, ask to restrict processing of their Personal Information or request portability of their Personal Information. You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided in the “Questions” section. If any of your Contacts wishes to exercise any of these rights, they should contact you directly.

Similarly, if Personal Information is collected or processed on the basis of consent, the data subject can withdraw their consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your Personal Information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent. If you receive these requests from Contacts, you can delete them from your lists within the Boingnet platform to ensure that you only market to Contacts who have not opted out of receiving such marketing.

The right to complain to a data protection authority about the collection and use of Personal Information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority. Contact details for data protection authorities in the EEA are available here.

We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection law. We may ask you to verify your identity in order to help us respond efficiently to your request. If we receive a request from one of your Contacts, we will either direct the Contact to reach out to you, or, if appropriate, we may respond directly to their request.

Tools and Algorithms

Boingnet analyzes email lists and addresses to find trends in the data. That information helps us keep the evil spammers out.

Subpoenas

Occasionally, we have to disclose information about our customers to meet legal requirements. Third-party disputes are a common example: If two parties have a dispute, and one of them used Boingnet in a way that’s relevant to the dispute, then we might get a request for user data. Whether we say “no way” or comply depends on the subpoena.

Unsubscribe Links

It’s the law! Unsubscribe links are required by the CAN-SPAM act. Plus, making it easy for people to opt out is the nice thing to do.

7. Public Information and Third Parties

1. Blogs, Support Forums and Social Media. We have public blogs, support forums and links to Social Media sites about Boingnet on our Websites. Any information you include in a comment on any of these properties may be read, collected, and used by anyone. If your Personal Information appears on our blogs and you’d like it to be removed, contact us here. If we’re not able to remove your information, we’ll let you know why.
2. Social Media Widgets. Our Websites include social media features, like the Facebook Like button. These features may collect information about your IP address and which page you’re visiting on our site, and they may set a cookie to make sure the feature functions properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our site. Your interactions with those features are governed by the privacy policies of the companies that provide them.
3. Links to Third-Party Sites. Our Websites include links to other websites, whose privacy practices may be different from Boingnet’s. If you submit Personal Information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any Website you visit.

8. Content of Campaigns

When you send campaign messages, they bounce around from server to server as they cross the internet and phone networks. Direct mail messages are handled by humans in many places. Along the way, server administrators and/or other humans can read what you send. Email, SMS/Text, Social Media and Direct Mail weren’t built for confidential information. If you have something confidential to send, please don’t use Boingnet.

Sometimes we review the content of our Members’ campaigns to make sure they comply with our Terms of Use. To improve that process, we have software that helps us find campaigns that may violate our Terms. Our employees or independent contractors may review those particular campaigns. This benefits all of our Members who comply with the Terms of Use because, among other things, it reduces the amount of spam being sent through our servers and helps to maintain high deliverability.

Confidentiality

Our rule of thumb is “Never send anything in an email, Landing Page or SMS/Text that you want to remain private.”

YOUR LISTS

9. Your Contact Lists

Your subscriber lists are stored on a secure Boingnet server. We don’t, under any circumstances, sell your lists, contact people on your lists, market to people on your lists, steal your lists, or share your lists with any other party, unless it’s required by law. If someone on your list complains or contacts us, we may then contact that person. Only authorized employees have access to view Contact Lists. You may export (download) your lists from Boingnet at any time, as long as we have a copy.

We’ll use and disclose the information in your Contact Lists only for the reasons listed under Use of Your Personal Information, except the following. (In other words, we will not use and disclose the information in your Contact Lists to):

• bill or collect money owed to us;
• send you system alert messages;
• communicate with you about your account; or
• send you informational and promotional content.

Your List Data

It’s worth repeating: We respect your privacy and your subscribers’ privacy. We’d never sell your information or bother anyone on your mailing list.

SECURITY

10. Notice of Breach of Security

Nobody’s safe from hackers. If a security breach causes an unauthorized intrusion into our system that materially affects you or people on your Contact Lists, then Boingnet will notify you as soon as possible and later report the action we took in response.

11. Safeguarding Your Information

To protect your information, our credit card processing vendor has been audited by a PCI-certified auditor and is certified to PCI Service Provider Level 1. This is the most stringent level of certification available in the payments industry. To accomplish this, they make use of best-in-class security tools and practices to maintain a high level of security.

Boingnet accounts require a username and password to log in. You must keep your username and password secure, and never disclose it to a third party.

COMPLIANCE

12. Accuracy of Data, Transparency, and Choice

We do our best to keep your data accurate and up to date, to the extent that you provide us with the information we need to do that. If your data changes (like a new email address), then you’re responsible for notifying us of those changes.

We only store data about you for as long as it’s reasonably required to fulfill the purposes that gave us the right to access it in the first place. We keep some data indefinitely, relating to when and where campaigns & messages were sent, which bounced, which resulted in a complaint, and similar information, because we use it to help us screen out people who violate SPAM laws, and for other reasons explained in this policy.

We’ll give you access to any Personal Information about you that we hold within 30 days of any request for that information you make by emailing legal@Boingnet.com. Unless it’s prohibited by law, we’ll remove any Personal Information about you from our servers at your request.

Thanks for taking the time to learn about Boingnet’s privacy policy, and thanks for trusting us to handle your marketing campaigns.