PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes the policies governing the collection, use and disclosure of information that Boiling Point Group, Inc., a California corporation, collects and receives from you, including information relating to your past use of the Boiling Point’s website and services.
Updates to this Privacy Policy
Boiling Point may update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the amended Privacy Policy on the Site and/or by sending a notice to the email address you provided. Your continued use of the site shall constitute your consent to such changes and you will be subject to the then-current Privacy Policy.
Collection and Use of Information
Boiling Point receives and may store any information you enter in on the Site or provide us in any other way. This may include personal information by which users are identified (user names, email address, first and last name, street address and telephone number).
Personal information may be used for general purposes, including, but not limited to, sending you Boiling Point’s newsletters, notifying you of updates and other products or services that may be of interest to you, requesting your voluntary opinion/feedback on current products and/or services and communicating with you in general.
Boiling Point also may receive and store information on our server logs about your browser and/or computer, including, but not limited to, IP address, pages viewed and requested, referring website and web browser software (e.g. Internet Explorer, Mozilla, etc.).
When you visit the Site, Boiling Point may assign a “cookie” to your computer. Web cookies are small-unique identifier text files that allow a web server to recognize that you are a user that accessed the server on previous occasions.
Boiling Point does not sell, rent or share the information with other people or nonaffiliated companies except when we have your permission or under the following instances:
(1) To send marketing and other communications to our visitors about Boiling Point products or services;
(2) To third party vendors that provide business services to Boiling Point, including customer service, marketing, etc.;
(3) In response to court order, subpoena, other legal process, or as otherwise required by law;
(4) To exercise or establish our legal rights and/or defend against claims;
(5) When Boiling Point believes it to be reasonably necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, violations of Boiling Point’s Terms of Use, or as otherwise required by law;
(6) In connection with a corporate transaction (e.g. consolidation, merger, sale of assets, etc.); or
(7) Providing anonymous or aggregate information (i.e. non-personal and non-billing information) to third parties (e.g. investors, advertisers, business partners and clients) to the extent necessary to allow them to understand the kinds and number of visitors to the Site and how those visitors use the Site.
Collection and Use of Information through Other Host Sites
Boiling Point may collaborate with other companies to make Boiling Point’s content and/or services available via their websites (“Host Sites”). Personal and/or demographic information you provided to Host Sites may be included in Boiling Point’s database, and we will handle such information received or gathered via Host Sites subject to this Privacy Policy.
On the other hand, information gathered via Host Sites or a website co-sponsored by Boiling Point and another company may become the property of the other company as well as of Boiling Point. The use of such information by the other company will be subject to the privacy policy of that company. Boiling Point is not responsible for that company's use of your personal or demographic information and suggests that you to examine their privacy policy and terms of use before deciding to provide any personal, billing and/or other information.
Security Measures
Boiling Point has employed appropriate physical, procedural and technological measures to help protect your personal and/or other information from unauthorized access or disclosure. However, we CANNOT guarantee that unauthorized third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your information for improper purposes. We are not responsible for the retention, use or privacy of personal and/or other information saved to the Site.
Feedback and Posting to Public Areas of the Site
We do not claim ownership of any feedback, reviews, questions, comments, ideas, suggestions, images and/or the like contained in any submission you submit via the Sites. However, by posting any of such contents to any area of the Site by electronic mail, postings on this Site or otherwise, you automatically grant, and you represent and warrant that you have the right to grant, to Boiling Point and its designees an irrevocable, perpetual, royalty free, non-exclusive, fully sub-licensable, worldwide license to use, distribute, reproduce, modify, publish, perform and display such contents and to incorporate such contents into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed. Furthermore, you grant Boiling Point an absolute right to use, distribute, publish or display such submissions for marketing purposes. Boiling Point may also contact you for further information concerning your submissions.
Any of your personal information posted in public areas may be accessed, collected and used by others over whom we exercise no control. Boiling Point is not responsible for use by third parties of information you post in public areas of the Site nor is Boiling Point responsible for any personal information posted in the public areas by any of its users.
If you have questions or suggestions, please write to: cs@bpgroupusa.com
Effective Date: October 1, 2012