sFontes LLC (“sFontes,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) provide this sFontes Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain how we collect, use, disclose, and process personal data about you in relation to sFontes websites, services, events, whitepapers, and other materials or experiences offered by sFontes or that otherwise link or refer to this Privacy Policy (the “Offerings”).
This Privacy Policy also does not apply when a responsible third party collects and uses your personal data. In such cases, the privacy practices of that third party will apply to your interaction with that third party. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policy of such third parties.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal data, please contact us using the contact details provided in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy. Our website may include links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of sFontes. If you submit personal data to any of those sites or services, your information is governed by their privacy policies. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy policy of any website you visit.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the Privacy Policy and, in some cases, we may provide you with additional notice, such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy in its entirety to stay informed about our personal data practices and the choices available to you.
What Categories of Personal Data Do We Collect?
sFontes may collect the following categories of personal data from you:
Business Contact Personal Data: First name, last name, job title, employer name, work address, work email, and work telephone number.
Automatically Collected Technical and Device Data: User information used to create and log into the Offerings, including your business contact personal data as described above and password. Log information, including the type of browser you use, access times, pages viewed, your IP address, and the page you visited before navigating to our Offerings. Activity information, such as which reports you download from our Offerings. Device data, including information about the computer or mobile device you use to access our Offerings, including the hardware model, operating system and version, unique device identifiers, and mobile network information.
Cookies and Analytics Data: Like most online services, we may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect data about your activity, browser, and device. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Offerings, your experience, and to see which areas and features of our Offerings are popular by counting visits. Web beacons are electronic images that may be used on our Offerings or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits and understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
Feedback Data: Through our Offerings or social media platforms, sFontes makes available various online community forums and blogs. You may choose to participate with these resources by interacting with us, interacting with other users or adding your own posts. sFontes may invite you to participate in studies or otherwise provide feedback about your experience. If you do so, then sFontes considers your participation and your posts to be freely given, and we may collect and use your feedback without compensation or attribution to you. However, we’re under no obligation to publish, maintain or retain any of your posts.
When Do We Collect Your Personal Data?
Business Contact Personal Data: sFontes collects your business contact personal data when you:
Sign up to attend or participate in a training event, seminar, class or workshop
Sign up for a contest or promotion
Sign up for SMS or email alerts or notifications related to our Offerings
Download a white paper or other materials
Agree to be recorded during a telephone conversation or virtual meeting
Log in to an Offering feature or portal
Automatically Collected Technical and Device Data: sFontes automatically collects your technical and device data when you:
Visit our Offerings and social media platforms
Log in to an Offering feature or portal
Cookies and Analytics Technologies: sFontes uses cookies and analytics technologies when you:
Visit our Offerings and social media platforms
Log in to an Offering feature or portal
If you would prefer not to be tracked, most browsers will allow you to (i) change your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you choose whether to accept it; (ii) disable existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject cookies — however, doing so may affect how our Offerings work.
Feedback Data: sFontes will collect your feedback when you:
Participate in our online community forums and blogs
Respond to sFontes polls and questionnaires
If you interact with sFontes, interact with other users or add your own posts, then sFontes considers your participation and your posts to be freely given, and we may use your feedback without compensation or attribution to you. sFontes is under no obligation to publish, maintain or retain any of your posts.
How Do We Use Your Personal Data?
sFontes may use your personal data to:
Provide, maintain, and improve our Offerings, such as to administer your use of our Offerings and to enable you to enjoy and easily navigate the Offerings.
Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, support, and administrative messages, and respond to your comments, questions and customer service requests;
Communicate with you about services, offers, and events offered by us and others, and provide newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and information we think will be of interest to you;
Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Offerings;
Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of sFontes, our customers, and others;
Personalize and improve the Offerings and provide advertisements, content or features that match your interests;
Facilitate contests, sweepstakes, and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards;
Manage our contractual relationships with vendors, suppliers, business partners, consultants and other service providers with whom we do business; and
Carry out internal functions including training.
What Sources Provide Us with Personal Data?
As described above, sFontes collects personal data from you when you interact with us online or in person. We also collect your personal data from other sources when we reasonably believe that they have your consent or another lawful basis for providing your personal data to sFontes.
Other sources of personal data include:
Partners and resellers that market and sell our Offerings
sFontes-related companies
Service providers that perform services on our behalf, such as survey and marketing providers
Publicly available sources, such as social media platforms
Data brokers
Providers that make user-generated content available to others, such as local business reviews or public social media posts
Communication services, including email providers and social networks, when you give us permission to seek personal data from these sources
Referrers, who may share a contact’s name and email address with us using a referral option
Does sFontes Share Your Personal Data?
When we collect and use your personal data as described in this Privacy Policy, sFontes may share it with those listed below:
Service providers as necessary to provide our Offerings
Service providers as necessary to fulfill a request made by you
sFontes professional advisors, such as auditors, insurance providers, financial service providers and attorneys
Public authorities, as required by law to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process or to protect sFontes or its customers
Customers as necessary to prevent or investigate alleged fraud or other unlawful criminal activity
Advertisers. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.
Event sponsors. In addition to this Privacy Policy, your personal data is subject to sponsors’ privacy practices
Contest and promotion sponsors
How Does sFontes Secure Personal Data?
We store your personal data in different ways, including in paper and in electronic form, both at our own premises and with the assistance of our service providers.
We maintain reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect the security and the confidentiality of your personal data and require the same of any service providers who may process your data on our behalf. Please keep in mind, however, that no data transmission over the Internet or from a website can be guaranteed to be secure from intrusion. Therefore, while we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Any unauthorized access to or use of the Offerings or the information stored by us should be reported to us immediately by sending an email to: [email protected].
Transfer of Personal Data to the U.S. and Other Countries
sFontes is based in the United States and we process and store personal data in the U.S.
Access and Choice
You may request to access, review, update, correct, or delete the personal data provided in your registration or that you otherwise provided to us by contacting us at [email protected]. Please note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.
Personal Data of Children
sFontes Offerings are not directed at children, and sFontes does not knowingly collect or sell personal data from individuals under the age of 16.
Third Party Websites
Through the Offerings, we may provide links to websites outside of our website, as well as to third party websites. These linked sites are not under our control, and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for third party websites’ policies or processing, collection, use, disclosure or management of your personal data. Before disclosing your personal data on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that website and its privacy statement or policy. If you provide us with personal data about any third party who is an individual, you must obtain that person’s permission to give us the data and inform them that you have given the data to us.
Promotional Communications
You may opt-out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions at the bottom of those emails or by contacting us with your request at [email protected]. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].
Additional Information for Certain Jurisdictions
These additional disclosures are required by certain state privacy laws to the extent they apply to your use of the Offerings, and serve as a Notice at Collection under the California Privacy Rights Act.
Categories of Personal Data Collected
The personal data that we may collect, or may have collected from consumers in the preceding twelve months, fall into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act and other state privacy laws, depending on how you engage with the Offerings:
Business contact information, including identifiers such as name, email address, address and phone number.
Commercial information, such as records of Offerings purchased and other transactional data.
Internet or other network or device activity details, such as technical data about your use of our Offerings or social media platforms.
Geolocation data, such as your approximate location based on IP address.
For more information about the personal data we collect, visit the “What Categories of Personal Data Do We Collect?” section above. We collect this data for the business and commercial purposes described in the “How Do We Use Your Personal Data?” section above.
Categories of Personal Data Disclosed for a Business Purpose
The personal data that we may have disclosed about consumers for a business purpose in the preceding twelve months fall into the following categories established by the California Privacy Rights Act and other state privacy laws, depending on how you engage with the Offerings:
Business contact information, including identifiers such as name, email address, address and phone number.
Commercial information, such as records of Offerings purchased and other transactional data.
Internet or other network or device activity details, such as technical data about your use of our Offerings or social media platforms.
Geolocation data, such as your approximate location based on IP address.
Audio, electronic or visual data, such as part of a photo or recording for a sFontes in-person or virtual event.
For more information about the personal data we collect, visit the “What Categories of Personal Data Do We Collect?” section above.
Your Data Rights
You may have certain data rights under state privacy laws, including requesting information about the collection of your personal data by us, to access your personal data in a portable format, and to correct or delete your personal data. You may also have the right to limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal data. sFontes does not collect, share or sell sensitive personal data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or appeal a decision with regard to a request made previously, you may contact us at [email protected]. Depending on your data choices, certain Offerings may be limited or unavailable.
Depending on the nature of your request to exercise your rights above, to ensure the security of your data, we will generally ask you to verify your request using the contact information you have already provided. If you are an authorized agent making a request on behalf of a consumer pursuant to applicable state law, we may ask you to provide information verifying you have proper authority to make the request on behalf of the consumer or we may ask the consumer to verify their identity with us directly.
No Sale or Sharing of Personal Data
We do not sell or share any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Privacy Rights Act.
De-identified Data Disclosure
sFontes may use de-identified data in some instances. sFontes either maintains such data without attempting to re-identify it or treats such data as personal data subject to applicable law.
Retention Disclosure
To enable your continued use of the Offerings, we keep your personal data for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as permitted or as may be required by law, or as otherwise communicated to you.
Colorado Privacy Act and Oregon Privacy Act Profiling Disclosure
We do not engage in profiling of consumers in furtherance of automated decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects, as those terms are defined under the Colorado Privacy Act or the Oregon Privacy Act.