PracticeMarketer Privacy Policy
PracticeMarketer knows how important your practice is to you and we are committed to doing business with the highest ethical standards. This privacy Policy applies to all users of PracticeMarketer. We collect data from you as you review our site to help us understand your needs and to assist you in your practice growth.
This privacy notice explains how PracticeMarketer collects, uses, processes, discloses, retains, and protects personal information) when we provide Services to you; and when we process personal information at your instruction that may be included as part of the Content which you view, upload, download or otherwise appears on our Services.
PracticeMarketer offers a suite of social media management tools. Our Services enable you to bring together your social media accounts for easy access and management through a single online portal. PracticeMarketer helps its users manage social media campaigns, marketing and advertising; engaging audiences; scheduling and publishing messages; and analyzing their results. When you link your existing social media accounts to your PracticeMarketer account, you can choose to instantly collect, process, share and access Social Network content via your PracticeMarketer account.
Personal information we collect
Personal information is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is an individual that can be identified, directly or indirectly, be referenced to an identifier such as: a name, an identification number, specific location data, an online identifier, or other attributes specific to that natural person.
Personal information does not include information that has been anonymized or aggregated in such a way that it can no longer be used to identify a specific natural person, whether on its own or in combination with other information.
The personal information that we collect falls into two broad categories: Account Data and Content.
Account Data
Account data (“Account Data”) is personal information you provide us, or that we collect from you and your devices in connection with your access to and use of our Services (such as when you provide us information to register for an account, or information we collect about your browser when you connect to one of our Services, etc.). In legal terms, we collect and use this Account Data as a data controller.
There are two general categories of Account Data we collect in order to provide you with the Services.
1. Information you give us
Account information. You may provide us with information in connection with the creation and management of your account for the Services, such as a name, email address and a password to create a PracticeReteiever account.
Billing information. If you have purchased the Services, or if you make another financial transaction using our Services, we will collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes billing details and credit card information, other account and authentication information.
Other information. You may otherwise choose to provide us with information when you fill in a form, contact our customer support, respond to surveys or use other features of our Services. You may also provide us with other optional information as part of your account profile, including your usernames, avatars and links to the Social Network profiles you authenticate with your PracticeMarketer profile.
2. Information we automatically collect from your use of the Services
Log data and usage information. Like most websites, when you view content on or otherwise interact with our Services our servers automatically record information, including information that your browser sends whenever you visit a Website or that your Application sends when you are using it. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the web page you visited before using the Services, your browser type and settings, your device information, the date and time of your use of the Services, information about your browser configuration and plug-ins, language preferences, unique identifiers and cookie data.
As a rule we collect data from you in a few ways, Non-personal and personal information.
Non-Personal Information is in no way personally identifiable such as that which is used when you use a browser or mobile device to come to our website. We automatically receive things like your IP address, your computer operating system or mobile device, as well as the name of your isp or mobile carrier
Personal Information pertains to things like your name, email, phone, practice name, credit card, facebook and twitter account information and similar personally identifying information. This information is used to help us to set up your account, billing, login and authentication, contact information, advertising and research. You acknowledge that by setting up an account with PracticeMarketer you may allow others including PracticeMarketer to identify you and your accounts in accordance with our terms of service.
Location information. When you use our Services, we may collect information about your geographic location.
Cookies and similar technologies. We use cookies and similar technologies to provide and support our websites and Services
Confidentiality
Client records are regarded as confidential and therefore will not be divulged to any third party, other than if legally required to do so. PracticeMarketer may share your account data with law enforcement agencies on a case-by-case basis. We may or may not notify you if this happens, depending on the circumstances. PracticeMarketer may also share your account data with a third party under order from a court of competent jurisdiction related to a lawsuit or investigation. Again, we evaluate these requests on a case-by-case basis and we may or may not notify you if this happens. We may use your account data to contact you concerning a dispute related to your account, or for verification purposes to make sure no one else is accessing your account.
Clients have the right to request sight of, and copies of any and all Client Records we keep, on the proviso that we are given reasonable notice of such a request. Clients are requested to retain copies of any literature issued in relation to the provision of our services. Where appropriate, we shall issue Clients with appropriate written information, handouts or copies of records as part of an agreed contract, for the benefit of both parties. We will not sell, share, or rent your personal information to any third party or use your e-mail address for unsolicited mail. Any emails sent by this Company will only be in connection with the provision of agreed services and products.
Privacy Policy Exemptions
Our privacy policy does not cover any information you may disclose in an email, instant message or on the phone with one of our representatives. Therefore we request that you do not send any information that you consider to be private to us via any of these forms of communication. This also applies to anything that you post through any one of our networks to your online community. You do maintain the responsibility to understand the privacy policies of sites that you may visit from this site. These third party sites that have links from our site all have their own privacy statements. Please take the time to review these sites privacy policies.
PracticeMarketer may disclose personally identifiable information under such circumstances as to comply with subpoenas or when actions violate our terms of service.
California Privacy Rights
Under California law, a California resident with whom PracticeMarketerhas an established relationship has the right to request certain information with respect to the types of personal informationPracticeMarketer has shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes, and the identities of those third parties, within the immediately preceding calendar year, subject to certain exceptions. All requests for such information must be in writing and sent to: PracticeMarketer, 221 West Alameda Ave, Suite 204, Burbank CA 91502.
No selling of information
We will not sell your information to any third parties.
Content
The content which you upload, download, or view on our Services (defined as “Content” in our Terms) may, but not necessarily, contain personal information. When we refer to “Content” in this notice, we mean the personal information in Content that we process. We only process Content at your direction. In legal terms, we act as data processors for the personal information included in the Content. Our obligations and commitments as it relates to our processing of Content on behalf of our users is outlined in the section below called
Content – PracticeMarketer as a Data Processor
Account Data – How we use it
We use, store, and process Account Data as a data controller to provide, understand, improve and develop our Services, keep our Services safe and to comply with our legal obligations. More particularly, we use it to:
Identify of our users
We use Account Data to identify you when you login to your account.
Provide Services
We use Account Data to enable us to operate the Services and provide them to you, including to:
enable your access to our Services
allow you to communicate with us
verify your transactions, for purchase confirmation, billing, security, and authentication (including security tokens for communication with installed Third-Party Apps)
contact you about your account and provide customer service support, including responding to your comments and questions
keep you informed about the Services, features, surveys, newsletters, offers, contests and events we think you may find useful or which you have requested from us
sell or market PracticeMarketer products and Services to you
Improve and optimize our Services
We use Account Data to:
better understand your needs and the needs of users in the aggregate, diagnose problems, analyze trends, perform analytics, conduct research and improve the features and usability of the Services, test and troubleshoot new products and better understand and market to our users
analyze the Website or the other Services and information about our visitors and users, including research into our user demographics and user behavior
create aggregate (non-identifiable) statistics about users of the Services with a view to introducing improvements and improving the usability of the Services
Keep our Services safe.
We use Account Data to verify accounts and activity, maintain the integrity of our Services, and to keep the Services safe and secure.
Account Data – Legal basis for use
Our legal basis for collecting and using Account Data as a data controller will depend on the specific context in which we collect it. However, as a data controller, we will collect personal information from you where:
we have your consent to do so
where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you (e.g. to deliver the PracticeMarketer services you have requested)
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you, or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Where we rely on your consent to process Account Data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time. Please note that this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
If we ask you to provide Account Data to comply with a legal requirement 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). Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interest which are not already described in this notice, we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
Account Data – Access, control and correction of personal information and certain other important rights
As a user, you may update or correct most of your Account Data by logging in to your account to edit your profile or organization record. To make a request to have Account Data returned to you, removed, or to make additional corrections, please email our privacy team. Requests to access, correct, or remove your information will be handled within thirty (30) days and may be subject to a fee as permitted by applicable law.
Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to exercise additional rights available to you under applicable laws with regards to the personal information PracticeMarketer holds about you as a data controller, including:
Right of erasure: In certain circumstances, you may have a broader right to erasure of personal information that we hold about you – for example, if it is no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which it was originally collected. Please note, however, that we may need to retain certain information for as long as you maintain an account for our Services, or as needed to provide you with our Services, for record keeping purposes, to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce the Terms.
Right to object to processing: You may have the right to request that PracticeMarketer stops processing your personal information and/or to stop sending you marketing communications.
Right to restrict processing: You may have the right to request that we restrict processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (for example, where you believe that the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
Right to data portability: In certain circumstances, you may have the right to be provided with your personal information in a structured, machine readable and commonly used format and to request that we transfer the personal information to another data controller without hindrance.
If you would like to exercise such rights, please contact us. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
Content – PracticeMarketer as a Data Processor
You, as a PracticeMarketer user, control how Content is generated, requested, submitted or published and processed on our Services. When you use our Services, you may view, create, and analyze Content which will ultimately be published on the various Social Networks. The Content that flows through our Services may include personal information of all types, including but not limited to the following categories:
user generated content (such as messages, posts, comments, pages, profiles, images, feeds or communications exchanged on the Social Networks)
contact details (such as name, email address, telephone number)
additional individual information (such as age, gender, employer, profession, geographic location, education information, financial status, habits and preferences)
information relating to an individual’s real time location
As the user, you are the data controller of your Content and we are the data processor for such Content. Where we process Content, we do so at your direction and on your behalf in accordance with the instructions you give us through the Services. When you connect your social media accounts through our Services, we only access, process, and use the Content to provide our Services subject to the Terms and the various terms and conditions imposed by the Social Networks. We may, in limited circumstances process Content for the purposes of improving the Services and functionalities users ask for as part of their PracticeMarketer experience.
If you are using the Services by invitation of a PracticeMarketer customer, whether that customer is your employer, another organization, or an individual, that customer determines its own policies regarding storage, access, modification, deletion, sharing, and retention of Content, which may apply to your use of the Services. Please check with the customer about the policies and settings it has in place.
Social Networks
PracticeMarketer enables you to connect your PracticeMarketer account with Social Networks, and to Third-Party Apps. If you choose to send your Content to a Social Network, PracticeMarketer is no longer responsible for that Content from the point in time that it leavesPracticeMarketer’s Services. Instead, the Content will be in the control of the third party, and the relevant third party’s terms and privacy policy will apply. For example, if you usePracticeMarketer to post a message on Twitter, Twitter’s privacy policy and terms of service will apply to that message on Twitter’s server. While we attempt to facilitate access only to those Social Networks that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the Content or privacy policies of any Social Networks. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any Social Networks you access via the Services.
Access, correction, and deletion of Content
You should be aware that PracticeMarketer acts as a conduit between you and the various Social Networks. In several instances, the Content published via PracticeMarketer will not be inPracticeMarketer’s custody, and any Content that has been shared by you through any Social Networks via the Services may continue to be available to third parties and the public at large, as this Content is now under the control of the operators of the Social Networks and/or the Third-Party Apps.
An individual who seeks access to, or who seeks to correct or, amend inaccuracies in, or delete Content stored or processed by us on behalf of a user should direct his/her query to thePracticeMarketer user (the data controller) or to the Social Networks or Third-Party App developer. Upon receipt of a request from one of our users for us to remove the data, we will respond to their request within thirty (30) days. Please note however that we may need to retain certain information on our systems for as long as you maintain an account for our Services, for record keeping purposes, to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, enforce our Terms, or as required or authorized by applicable law.
For our users with a principal location in the EEA or otherwise subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Under EU law, PracticeMarketer is a data processor of Content generated, requested or published via Social Networks. We process this Content in accordance with the instructions of our users. Because our users control how their Content is collected and used by them, our users are, in legal terms, the controllers of the Content that they process through our Services and are responsible for complying with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR.
Privacy Information that applies to both Account Data and Content
When we may share personal information
Except as provided in this privacy notice,PracticeMarketer does not share any personal information gathered via the Services with third parties. We may however share Account Data or Content under the following circumstances:
with your consent or at your direction, such as when you connect a Social Network to our Services or authorize a Third-Party App to access your account
with service providers (including payment processors) we engage to perform functions or provide services to us, where those service providers are subject to obligations that are consistent with this privacy notice and to appropriate confidentiality and security measures
where we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation or if we are otherwise legally required to do so, such as in response to court orders or legal process, or to establish, protect, or exercise our legal rights or to defend against legal claims or demands
if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action against illegal activities, fraud, situations involving potential threats to our rights or property (or to the rights or property of those who use our Services), or to protect the personal safety of any person
if we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding situations that involve the security of our Services, abuse of the Services infrastructure, or the Internet in general (such as voluminous spamming, denial of service attacks, or attempts to compromise the security of the Services)
to a parent company, subsidiaries, joint venture, or other companies under common control with PracticeMarketer
if we are acquired by or merged with another entity (in which case we will require such entity to assume our obligations under this privacy notice), if we are involved in a bankruptcy, or if the ownership or control of all or part of our Services or their assets changes
How long we keep personal information
We retain your Account Data for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, or enforcing our Terms.
We retain Content for as long as needed to provide the Services, or until you ask us to delete it pursuant to the Terms. We retain and use this Content as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce the Terms.
Please note that certain personal information may need to be retained by PracticeMarketer for a period of time following the cancellation of your account where this is necessary for our legitimate business purposes or required or authorized by applicable law. Our specific retention periods for personal information are documented in our internal retention policies and any applicable retention schedules that we maintain as required by applicable law.
After it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner, according to our data retention and deletion policies.
Data Storage
PracticeMarketer uses third party partners to host, network, maintain and store the data collected by our systems. Although PracticeMarketer owns the code, database and applications needed to run the PracticeMarketer app, you retain all rights to your own data.
How we protect personal information
PracticeMarketer follows industry best practices to protect personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access or disclosure. These steps take into account the sensitivity of the Account Data and Content we collect, use, process and store, and the current state of technology.
International transfers
Retriever Network LLC., the entity which provides the Services, is an American corporation with its head-office located in Burbank, CA. For the purposes of EU data protection law, US is considered a country which provides adequate protections for personal information, as confirmed by the European Commission in Commission Decision 2002/2/EC.
The Services are mainly provided from our offices in the United States. PracticeMarketer uses third-party service providers (such as managed hosting providers, card processors, CRM systems, sub-processors of Content and technology partners) to provide the necessary software, networking, infrastructure and other services that we use to operate the Services. These third party providers may process, or store, personal information on servers outside of the EEA, including in Canada or the US.
Also, by the very nature of the Services provided, the data that is viewed, collected, stored or posted on or through the Services also needs to flow from wherever you are located in the world, to where our Social Networks are storing the same data (i.e. in most cases, in the United States).
Whenever we transfer personal information from data subjects located in the EEA to a third-party service provider located in a country that has been deemed inadequate, whether that personal information is contained in Account Data or in Content, we do so with and approved legal adequacy mechanisms in place. For any transfers of personal information to the US, we rely on either the third-party’s registration in the EU-US Privacy Shield or on the implementation of the EU’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
By using any of the Services, or submitting or collecting any personal information via the Services, you authorize PracticeMarketer to utilize third party processes to provide your services.
Use of Cookies
PracticeMarketer uses cookies which are a small piece of code which is sent to your browser which includes an anonymous unique identifier which is stored on your computer
Cookies do not damage your hard drive or read data off of it. Cookies simply allow us to recognize you as a user. This allows us to identify you and the pages that you have used in the past. This makes it easy for you to find what you are looking for.
You must have cookies in place in order for our site to work. We do not use permanent cookies.
Content
Processing of Content
When we receive or access data from our various Social Networks, we do so at your request and within each Social Network’s terms and conditions. As our user, you ultimately decide which Social Networks or Third-Party Apps you want our Services to connect with and which Social Networks and/or Third-Party Apps you want to share your data with. We process your Content, at your instruction, acting as a conduit between you and the Social Networks that you connect to our Services.
Marketing Emails
You may opt out of marketing communications sent by PracticeMarketer by managing your email preferences or by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each marketing email.
Customize Advertising
We may use Account Data to customize advertising that we direct to you, utilizing third parties. The Network Advertising Initiative has developed a tool that may help you understand which third parties have currently enabled cookies for your browser and opt-out of those cookies. For more information and to opt-out of customized advertising, you can go to http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/
Children
Our Services are not intended for use by children and should only be accessed by individuals of at least 18 years old.
Changes to this Privacy Notice
PracticeMarketer reserves the right to make changes to its privacy notice at any time. Innovation in software happens quickly and laws, regulations and industry standards evolve, which may make those changes necessary, or we may make changes to our business. If we do make changes to the privacy notice, we will post them to this page, so we encourage you to stay informed by checking back here periodically.
Contacting us
PracticeMarketer is headquartered in Burbank, CA in the United States. You can contact our Privacy Team via email
Or via mail:
PracticeMarketer
221 w Alameda Ave
ste 204
Burbank, CA 91502