Selekt Partners Privacy Policy
Who We Are
Selekt Partners provides an online marketplace where Vendors and Clients can identify each other and buy and sell Services online. Selekt Partners website available at www.selektpartners.com, the Selekt Partners mobile application, and the various content, features, and services offered on and in connection with the Site and applications, are owned and operated by Selekt Partners, LLC.
Information We Obtain About You On The Site
Selekt Partners respects the privacy of users of www.selektpartners.com (“Site”) and/or the Site Services and developed this privacy policy to inform our users of the Site and/or the Site Services with information on how their privacy and personal information the Site collects and uses are protected. Selekt Partners is committed to protecting the privacy of our users to the Site and assures our users that all personal information they provide through the Site and Site Services will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Visitors to selektpartners.com may include Clients, Vendors, Agency, and/or Third Parties. The Site and Site Services are intended for a general audience of users eighteen (18) years or older. We do not knowingly collect personal information from a person under eighteen (18) years old. If you are aware of and/or believe any person under eighteen (18) years old provided us with personal information on the Site, please contact us at legal@selektpartners.com or support@selektpartners.com. If we become aware that an individual younger than eighteen (18) years old provided personal information on the Site, we will use all efforts to remove such information from the Site.
As a registered user of the Site, information you provide to us when you register on the Site may be collected and stored on selektpartners.com website for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our web site or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law. This includes information that identifies you, such as your name, home address, business address, billing address, telephone number, email address, credit card or other financial account information to make or receive payment for services conducted on the Site, and other personally identifiable information such as your date of birth or taxpayer identification number as may be required by law for filing taxes. In addition, we may also collect and store non-personal identifiable information such as your project transaction(s) history or general project-related data between Vendors and Clients on the Site and Site Services, zip codes, or information about your use of the Site Services. We may occasionally obtain from third parties personal and non-personal information about you such as additional demographic information or updated address information. We encourage you to check our website periodically to ensure that we have accurate and up-to-date information about you.
Your Personal Information And Third Parties
We may work with third-party companies for Service-related services such as payment processing, database management, or web analytics who may have access to your personal information in order to work on tasks on our behalf. Also, Selekt Partners may employ marketing agencies to provide us with information regarding how visitors to our Site use the Site and Site Services, to present our advertisement on other websites and within mobile apps, to provide you with advertisements that may be of interest to you, or we may allow third parties to display advertisements on our Site. We do not share your Personal Information with third party companies for their marketing purposes. Our Site may contain links to the website of other third-party companies of which we have no control over their website. We do not endorse or represent any affiliation with those third-party companies, nor do we endorse their privacy or information security policies or practices. If you choose to click on a third-party company link on our Site, you will be directed to that third party website. Please note that these third-party companies and marketing agencies may use their own tracking technologies such as cookies or web beacons on your device to collect information about you, including your personal information, when you view or interact with their advertisements on our Site. These third-party companies can use the information they collect from you to deliver targeted marketing advertisements to you. To opt-out of these marketing communication(s) from third party companies, you will need to contact the third-party companies directly. When following a link to a third-party website, please be aware we are not responsible for data or information provided to that third party company. If you voluntarily disclose your personal information to a third party or parties, your personal information will be subject to that third party or parties privacy policy. When you click on a link to other third-party companies or even visit these third-party companies on our Site, we encourage you to read the privacy policies or statements of those companies. This privacy policy applies only to our Site. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of third parties.
Information provided to us about you from Third Parties will be treated as described in this Privacy Policy. You may, at any time, opt-out of interest-based marketing communications from Selekt Partners by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the corresponding email, by replying “STOP” to any text message received, or by contacting us at support@selektpartners.com. We may not offer you the opportunity to opt-out of receiving administrative notices, service announcements, or transactional communications.
We do not share, disclose, or sell your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission, in the event of an acquisition, merger, or bankruptcy, are required by law to do so, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure of your personal information is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Selekt Partners, third parties, or the public at large.
Use Of Personal Information
The amount and type of information that Selekt Partners collects from users on the Site depends on the nature of the circumstances and the user interaction with the Site and Site Services. We may share non-identifiable information with third parties. We may use information we collect about you to process your registration for an account, manage your account, provide you with customer support, publicly display comments, reviews, ratings and other content provided by you, perform research and analysis about your use of our services, verify and validate the information you provide, manage our business, perform analysis for enhancing and/or improving our services, to enforce our policies and Terms of Use agreement, to enforce and comply with the law, fraudulent protection, investigation purposes, for compliance purposes such as auditing relating to interactions or transactions, in the event we are part of a merger, acquisition, or bankruptcy, communicate with you about new features and/or services made to the Site that may be of interest to you, process projects you submitted on the Site, or solicit feedback information from you, as this may help us improve our Services to you. If for any reason you no longer desire for us to contact you for marketing purposes, you may click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the corresponding email or contact us at support@selektpartners.com to be removed from our mailing list. If you choose to unsubscribe from our mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you such as government-issued identification documents you submit to verify your identity for additional time for business continuity purposes.
Use Of Your Financial Information
We may use your billing address and financial information, such as credit card or other payment method that we collect to process, make, and/or receive payment for services conducted on our Site, to protect against fraudulent transactions and identity, and as needed to manage our business.
Access To Your Personal Information
If you have a membership account with us, you have the ability to review and update your personal information, or cancel your membership account, by logging into your account or by contacting us at support@selektpartners.com.
Upon cancellation of your account, you will not be able to access our Site or Site Services. After the cancellation of your membership account, you may at any time choose to re-open a new membership account at the sole discretion of Selekt Partners. If you have an account on this Site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Your Rights In Accordance With Applicable Law
You have the right to abstain from providing your personal information or you may withdraw your consent to process your personal information at any time; however, please note that some features of our Site Service may no longer be available to you. At any time, you may receive an electronic copy of your personal information that you provided to us. Request information about third parties with whom your personal information was shared.
Based on your rights described above, we will deny your request for access to or correction of your personal information if your request, for example, asks us to delete information we are required by law to keep, or if fulfilling your request would prohibit us from complying with the law or reveal personal information about another person. However, we will make reasonable efforts to honor your request to change your personal information, including your request to delete your personal information in your membership account. If you delete your personal information in your membership account, please note that your membership account will be immediately deactivated, and you will no longer be able to sign in to our Site or have access to the Site Services. If you cancel or deactivate your membership account, we may still retain certain information associated with your account for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our web site or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law, including your personal information, stored in our archives for analytical or administrative purposes, accounting or compliance purposes such as auditing relating to interactions or transactions, fraudulent protection, collect any fees owed, enforce and comply with the law or take other actions otherwise permitted by law, enforce our Terms of Use agreement, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our Site or our Site users.
If certain information has already been provided to third parties as described in this Privacy Policy, retention of that information will be subject to those third parties’ policies.
Please note that neither you nor Selekt Partners can delete all copies of information that has been previously shared with others on our Site Service. In addition, certain information you provide, including information in your messages or blogs you posted to the Service, will actively remain on the Service for analytical purposes and recordkeeping integrity, as well as to prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, enforce our terms and conditions, take actions we deem necessary to protect the integrity of our web site or our users, or take other actions otherwise permitted by law even if you close your membership account.
Vendor And Client Profile
Vendors and Clients have the opportunity to create a Profile on the Site which may consist of your organizational information and personal information about you, including your photograph. Please note that certain information from your profile, such as your name or photograph, may be publicly available or visible to users on the Site and the general public. If you believe an unauthorized profile has been created about you, you are required to notify us immediately at support@selektpartners.com and request for it to be removed. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
User Login
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Blog, Messaging, And Reviews
We may provide areas on our Site where you can communicate with other users to the Site, post information about yourself or others, as well upload content such as pictures, videos, audio files, etc., and to provide information for your project(s) completion. For example, Clients may wish to discuss with Vendors their project needs, and Vendors may wish to pose questions they may have about Clients’ projects or discuss their project proposals with Clients. Also, Selekt Partners collect information on the Site, such as reviews that Clients may post about Vendors’ performance on their project. Such postings are publicly viewable via our Site and Site Services and are subject to our Terms of Use agreement and this privacy policy. At our sole discretion, we may choose to remove reviews we collect from you pursuant to the provision of our Terms of Use agreement. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. If you leave a comment on the Site, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
If you choose to voluntarily provide and post personal information, such as your email address, on publicly-viewable web pages on the Site, that information will be publicly available and can be collected and used by others and others can share your information with Third Parties. Such information will be considered public information and will not be protected by this privacy policy. If you upload images to the Site, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Site can download and extract any location data from images on the Site.
We cannot control who reads your posting or what other users to the Site may do with the information you voluntarily post, so we encourage you to exercise discretion and caution with respect to your personal information you post on our Site. You are also fully responsible for maintaining the security of your account. You may request to have us remove your personal information from our blog or messaging forum by contacting support@selektpartners.com. If for any reason, we are not able to remove your personal information we will inform you of that position.
Use Of Cookies And Similar Other Technologies To Collect Information From You
We may use “cookies” or other similar technologies to automatically collect information from you when you visit our Site, the desktop app, and the mobile app. Cookies are text files transferred to your computer to track visitor activity such as the searches you conduct and the web pages you visited on our Site, to collect and save standard internet login information, and to collect information to better understand how visitors to the Site interact with the Site Services. This information is used to compile statistical reports on our Site activity. You can choose to decline the use of cookies usually by modifying your browser setting; however, this may limit your use of certain features and functionality offered on our Site Services. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
International Visitors To Our Site
This Privacy Policy is intended to provide protection of personal information that we collect on the Site from residents of the United States. If you are located outside of the United States and choose to provide your personal information when you visit our Site and use our Site Services, please be aware that your personal information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States, and our service providers may process Personal Information in the United States and elsewhere. We will protect your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Protect Yourself From Phishing Scams
Selekt Partners is greatly concerned about the practice of identity theft. Phishing is when scammers use the name of a legitimate company and imitate that legitimate company’s website that you may know to send you an email or text message to obtain your bank, email, or other personal or financial information. For more information about phishing, visit the website of the Federal Trade Commission at http://www.consumer.ftc.gov/articles/0003-phishing .
If you believe you have received an email or had a similar interaction with a third party pretending to be Selekt Partners, please report it immediately at support@selektpartners.com
Nevada Residents’ Privacy Rights
Under Nevada law, Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of their “personal information” for monetary consideration to operators of websites or online services. “Personal Information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.
We will not sell your personal information. If you are a Nevada resident you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law by emailing legal@selektpartners.com. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request. Once verified, we will maintain this information and contact you if the plans to sell it changes.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Selekt Partners may occasionally update or make changes to this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion. Changes to this privacy policy would be effective upon posting. We will notify you prior to any substantial changes to this privacy policy on how we protect the information we collect from you. We will notify you of any changes we make to this policy either via email and/or display a notice on the Site. We suggest that you check our Site periodically to inform yourself of any changes in this Privacy Policy or any of our other policies. Your continued use of our Site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contacting Us
For any questions you may have about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@selektpartners.com or legal@selektpartners.com