We at modernsearches.net ( “we”, “us”, or “our”) respect the privacy of our users and consider it essential to our business. This policy (“Privacy Policy”) outlines our practices for gathering, processing, and storing the information we collect from our users (“you”, “your” or “users”) in order to provide services to our users through our website and any of its web pages (collectively, our “Website(s)”).
Please note that we may update this Privacy Policy at any time hence we recommend that you read this document carefully and revisit this page frequently. Do not browse or otherwise use our Website(s) if you do not accept the terms mentioned herein.
Please review this Privacy Policy carefully and keep visiting this page periodically to stay aware of our privacy practices and any updates to this Privacy Policy. By continuing to use the Website(s), you accept and agree to the terms in the Privacy Policy.
DATA COLLECTION:
When you interact with our Website(s), we may collect some personal and non-personal information about you and your use of our Website(s). They can be divided into the following categories:
- Information you share with us
- Information we automatically collect from you
Information you share with us: This is information that you provide to us voluntarily when you interact with us directly or through the Website(s). This information would change as per the method of communication but it may include personal information such as name, email address, and any other information that you elect to share with us. We ensure that, unless we have obtained your express consent, we shall not use this information for any other purposes other than to respond to your requests, queries, or otherwise communicate with you and that we shall not share this information with any third parties.
Information we automatically collect from you: This is information that we collect about your interaction with our Website(s). Such information includes, but is not limited to information about your hardware and software, such as device identifiers, IP address, geolocation, browser type and operating system version, anonymous user identifiers, device configuration, visitor ID and other technical identifiers, information about your interaction with our Website(s), or information regarding any advertisements displayed therein, access time, and the referring URL or the webpage that directed you to our Website(s). We may use cookies and other technologies, such as web beacons, web storage, and unique advertising identifiers, to collect this information.
As per the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), the information gathered by us can be categorized as follows:
(i) Identifiers – Information that can directly identify you (Full name, postal address,IP address etc.);
(ii) Geolocation Data – Information related to your location; and
(iii) Internet or other electronic network activity information – Information such as your browsing history, search history etc.
COOKIE POLICY
Cookies are small text files that are sent by web servers to web browsers, and which may then be sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. When you use our Website(s), cookies allow us to gather information about your interaction which we use to learn your preferences and deliver better services.
We use persistent cookies i.e. cookies that are stored on your device that do not get deleted once you close the browser tab. These cookies allow us to remember your preferences every time you interact with our Website(s). These cookies also help us with complying with our GDPR requirements and allow us to assign you a unique identifier for your visit. These cookies will be retained on your device until the cookies expire or are manually deleted or removed.
Third-party cookies may also be used by us or third-party service providers to analyze the performance of our Website(s). These third party service providers may also place similar tracking technologies, including web beacons, cookies, pixels etc. on your device to collect information regarding your use of our Website. The data collection practices of these third parties are governed by their respective privacy policies. For more information on this, please refer to Section ‘Third-party Service Providers’ of this Privacy Policy.
You can change your cookie settings at any time by changing the settings of your browser. Please know that we require some cookies to provide you with certain features and that if you choose to not allow us to collect these cookies then that can impact your access to the Website(s) and/or its features.
For more information on cookies, please visit http://allaboutcookies.org/.
PURPOSE OF DATA COLLECTION
- We collect and process your personal information for the following purposes:
- We may process your information in order to provide you access to our Website(s) and its features;
- We may process your information to to generate reports on the performance of our Website(s), analyze trends and monitor your interaction with our Website(s);
- We may process your information in order to detect, investigate, or prevent any suspicious activities, in order to enforce our terms and policies as required for the safety and security of the Website,in order to protect ours as well as third party rights;
- We may process your information to enhance the Website(s) and provide you with customized features and functionalities;
- We may process your information to respond to your request, if you have contacted us in any way including via an email;
- With your consent, we may process your information to send you marketing information, product recommendations, and other promotional offers about us and other third party goods and services; or
- We may process your information where such processing is required to cooperate with law enforcement agencies, or fulfill any of our legal obligations under any and all applicable laws.
SHARING OF DATA
Third-Party: We may share information about you with our third-party service providers that help us with providing certain features on our Website(s) and/or help us with analyzing the usage of our Website(s).
Legal Obligations: We may have to disclose your information to law enforcement agencies if it is required to comply with applicable law(s), legislation, and other regulations. We may also disclose your information to protect our rights, address any possible violations of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Service, to identify violations of any applicable law(s), and to protect our users or others from any risks.
Transactional Requirements: In the event modernsearches.net undergoes a merger, asset sale, financing, liquidation or bankruptcy, or acquisition of all or some portion of our business to another company, we may share your information with that company for the purposes of that transaction.
Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates (entities that are owned, controlled, and/or managed by us). Any processing of your information by our affiliates shall be governed by the terms of this Privacy Policy.
DATA RETENTION
We shall store your personal information for only so long as is required to provide the Website(s) and services to you, to fulfill the purposes laid out in this Privacy Policy, and where it is required or permitted by law.
DATA SECURITY
We maintain the appropriate technical, operational, and physical processes and safeguards required to store your personal information and to prevent the loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification of your information. We use information security standards, protocols, and technologies, including encryption technology to securely transmit your information via our servers.
Please note that while we take the required measures we cannot guarantee 100% security of the information sent to us through our Website(s) and that communication on th eInternet can be intercepted by others despite our best efforts.
DO NOT TRACK (DNT) SIGNALS:
Certain browsers may have a feature that allows you to set a Do Not Track (DNT) preference that ensures that websites do not collect or track your browsing data. Please note that currently our servers are not capable of responding to such DNT signals sent by any browser(s).
PUSH NOTIFICATIONS:
We may send push notifications to you to inform you about any changes made to the Website(s) or any other promotional content we think may be of interest to you. Please note that we shall only send such notifications after we have obtained your express consent for the same. You can stop receiving these notifications at any time by updating your permissions from your system settings.
FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) provides California residents with various rights regarding their personal information. As a resident of the State of California as defined in Section 17014 of Title 18 of the California Code of Regulations, you have the following legal rights that you may exercise:
Right To Know: You have the right to know and access the different types of information collected by us and to know the purpose of the collection of this information. On receiving a verifiable user request, we will share the following information with you:
- The categories of personal information collected and specific elements under such categories.
- The categories of the source(s) from where such personal information is collected.
- The business/ commercial purpose for collection and sale, if applicable, of such information.
- The categories of third parties with whom the information was shared.
- The categories of personal information shared and specific elements under such categories.
You have the right to receive this information either electronically or in an easily readable format.
Please note that we shall only be providing you with personal information collected in the 12-month period prior to the receipt of such a request.
Right To Deletion: Except in the following situations, you have the right to request us to delete your personal information from our database:
- To complete the purposes for which the personal information was collected, provide a good and/or service requested by the user, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise to fulfill a contract between the business and the user.
- To detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
- To debug, identify and repair errors and improve the functionality.
- To exercise free speech, ensure the right of another user to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
- To comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
- To engage or assist in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the businesses’ deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if the user has provided informed consent.
- To allow for internal uses only that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the user based on their relationship with the business.
- To comply with any legal obligation(s).
- To use the user’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the purpose for which the user provided the information.
If your request falls within the scope of any of these exceptions, we will inform you about the details of the exception that allows us to retain your personal information.
Right To Correction: Subject to the nature of the personal information collected from you as well as the procedure used for collecting this information, you have the right to request that we correct your personal information. Please note that we will be unable to rectify certain categories of data as these are not user submitted and are system generated.
Right To Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sharing of your personal information. You may exercise this right, by clicking on the ‘Do Not Share My Personal Information’ link. Please note that we do not knowingly share personal information of children under the age of 16 without the consent of such an individual or their parents/legal guardians. If there is information we collect about you that does not fall within the definition of sharing of your personal information as defined under section 1798.140 of CCPA, we will respond to your request confirming that we do not share any personal information belonging to you.
Right To Designate An Authorized Agent: CCPA allows you to appoint an authorized agent registered with the California Secretary of State to exercise your rights and obtain a response to requests submitted by you or on your behalf.
Right To Non-discrimination: You have the right to exercise your rights and not get discriminated against for doing so. This implies that we will provide you with consistent services and support even after you exercise your rights, such as withdrawing or prohibiting the sale of your information.
For the rights mentioned above, please note that we are only required to address two requests made within a period of 12 months.
Please know that we will need to verify your identity before we can honor your Access, correction or deletion requests. For this, we may require additional information that allows us to verify your identity. This information will not be disclosed to a third party.
We shall try to respond to a verifiable user request(s) within 45 days of its receipt. However, if we require additional time to process the request, we may extend the due date by another 45 days to a maximum 90-day period. If we require to extend the time taken to process your request(s), we shall provide in writing our reason(s) for the extension and also share the additional time required for processing the same.
While we don’t aim to, if we are unable to process your request due to it being of an unreasonable nature or due to it being requested more than twice, we may reject the request or charge a reasonable fee.
To exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, please click here or email us at modernsearches.net .
SHINE THE LIGHT
In compliance with the terms of California “Shine the Light” Act (Section 1798.83(a) of the California Civil Code), if we exchange the personal information of our users with third parties for direct marketing purposes, California residents have the right to receive the names and addresses of third parties to whom such personal information is disclosed along with the components of personal information shared in the previous calendar year. Please note that this right can only be exercised once every calendar year by emailing us at modernsearches.net. We aim to process your request within 30 business days of receipt of such a request.
FOR VIRGINIA RESIDENTS
If you are a resident of Virginia, the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA) provides you with certain rights with respect to your personal information. These rights are:
- The right to be informed of the processing of your personal information,
- The right to request access to your personal information,
- The right to request for rectifications in your personal information,
- The right to opt out of the sale of your personal information for profiling or targeted advertising purposes, and
- The right to request the deletion of your personal information.
To exercise any of your rights as listed above, please contact us at modernsearches.net or via the information provided in the ‘Contact Us; section of this Privacy Policy. Please note that we will need to verify your request before we are able to honor any requests. In order for us to do this we will need you to provide us with sufficient information to verify you as an individual and sufficient information regarding your request. You may make this request personally or via an agent registered with the Virginia Secretary of State. You may only make such requests twice in a 12 month period. Note that the information submitted by you to verify yourself shall not be used by us for any other purposes nor shall it be shared with any third parties. We aim to respond to all verifiable requests within 45 days, however, if we do need an extension for an additional period of 45 days we shall write to you informing you of the required extended time and the reason behind the extension.
Appeal
As per the VCDPA you also have the right to appeal our decision to not honor your request regarding your personal information. We aim to respond to all verifiable appeals within 60 days, however, we may require you to provide us with additional documentation to ensure the validity of the appeal.
Attorney General: To raise a dispute over our decision regarding your personal information request you may contact the Virginia Attorney General. The contact details are given below:
Address: 202 North Ninth Street, Richmond, Virginia 23219
Phone Number: (804)786-2071
FOR NEVADA RESIDENTS
Nevada Senate Bill No. 220 states that website operators are required to provide a way for Nevada consumers to opt out of the sale of covered information that the website operator may collect about them. We do not sell your covered information to third-parties as defined in Nevada law, and will not do so in the future without providing you with notice and a method to opt-out of such sale as required by law. Please contact us using the methods described in the “Contact Us” section of this Privacy Notice for more information.
FOR CANADIAN RESIDENTS
Please write to us at modernsearches.net or contact us using the information provided in the ‘Contact Us’ section of this Privacy Policy for the following kinds of requests:
- To access your personal information,
- To correct your personal information, or
- To update your consent choices regarding our use of your personal information.
FOR EUROPEAN/UK RESIDENTS
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)and GDPR-UK gives European Union (EU) and UK residents the following rights with regards to their personal information:
Access: You have the right to request access to your personal information which we have received, processed, and maintained.
Data Portability: You can request that we provide you with a standardized, widely used, and machine-readable format of your personal information. Additionally, if you would like us to share this information with third parties, you can submit a request for the same.
Rectification: If you think that the personal information that we hold of yours is incomplete or inaccurate, you can submit a request for correction or rectification of this information.
Objection: You have the right to object to us processing your personal information, so long as your objection is based on the following grounds:
- If we must process your personal information in order to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority delegated to the Company.
- If the processing of your personal information is vital for the purposes of the legitimate interests practiced by us or by a third party, other than conditions in which your fundamental rights, freedom, or interests that necessitate the security of personal information override those interests.
- Your personal information is processed for direct marketing purposes, including profiling to the extent it is related to such marketing strategies.
However, please note that we may not be able to comply with these requests where (i) we require your information to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (ii) we have substantial valid reasons for processing your information that supersede your interests and rights.
Restriction: You have the right to restrict the processing of your information in the following cases:
- Where the information is stored for illegal reasons and instead of erasing your data, you can request us to stop processing your information for the time being.
- Where you have a rectification request on your personal information we collect and are still awaiting verification of the information
- Where we want to validate that our reasons for the processing of your personal information outweigh your opposition
- Where you require the information to exercise, create or defend a legal claim(s) and such information is no longer required by us
Consent Withdrawal: For those pieces of personal information we have collected from you after obtaining your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time for the same. Please note that this shall not affect the personal information processed prior to such withdrawal request.
Erasure: You have the right to request that your personal information be deleted, subject to the following situations:
- The personal information is no longer used for the purposes for which it had been collected
- Your personal information was processed for illegitimate purposes
- You have filed a request to withdraw your consent to our processing of your personal information and we have no valid grounds for continuing the processing of your data.
- We are required to delete your personal information to fulfill our legal obligations
Please contact us via email at modernsearches.net to exercise your rights and we shall make every effort to respond to your request within 30 business days from the date of receipt of request.
UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
We may change or update this Privacy Policy from time to time. These changes may be made to accommodate legislative changes, technological updates or other market considerations. If this Privacy Policy changes, we shall post the updated version on the Website(s). You shall be informed of significant changes to the Privacy Policy via alerts on our Website(s). If you continue to use our Website(s) after the changes in the Privacy Policy are in effect then such continued use shall be taken as your consent to the revisions. Hence please ensure that you cease to use this Website(s) if you do not consent to the revised terms.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Website is directed towards users above the age of 18 only. We do not knowingly collect any information from children below 13 years of age. Please reach out to us at modernsearches.net if you believe that we may have information about an individual below the age of 13.
CROSS BORDER TRANSFER OF DATA
Your personal information shall be stored and processed in the countries where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain our data servers. By sharing your information with us, you agree to disclose your details to our partners, affiliates and third parties overseas. If we transmit your information outside of your country of residence, you understand and accept that the data protection laws of the country in which your information is transmitted may differ from the data protection laws of the country you reside in.
THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS
We use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the performance of our Website(s), generate relevant reports to analyze trends and understand the usage of our Website(s), and display advertisements on our Website(s). These third party service providers may also place similar tracking technologies, including without limitation, web beacons, cookies, and pixels on your device to collect information regarding your use of our Website. The data collection practices of these third parties are governed by their respective privacy policies. You acknowledge and agree that we shall not be held responsible for the privacy practices of any third-party service provider(s). Please read the Privacy Policies of all third-party service providers to know about their privacy practices.
Following are our third party service providers:
- Google Analytics – www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
- Google Tag Manager – https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
- Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
- Google – https://policies.google.com/privacy
- Outbrain – https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#privacy-policy
- Taboola – https://policies.taboola.com/en/privacy-policy/
- Yahoo Gemini – https://www.verizonmedia.com/policies/us/en/verizonmedia/privacy/index.html
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES & SERVICES
Our Website may contain links to third party websites and/or provide access to products or services owned and operated by third parties. The data collection practices and business practices of these third parties are governed by their respective privacy policies and terms of service. We do not review or endorse any site, its content, of the third-party websites and/or the products and services promoted on such site(s) that may be linked to our Website. We shall not be held responsible or liable for the content displayed on such third-party websites and their privacy practices.
Please note that any engagement with such third parties and/or their products and services shall be done completely at your own risk. We recommend that you read the Privacy Policies and Terms of Service of all third-party websites before sharing any information or otherwise engaging with them in any way. You agree and acknowledge that we shall not be responsible for any conflict arising due to your interaction or engagement with such sites.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions or queries regarding this Privacy Policy you may contact us by sending your query to us via email at modernsearches.net or write to us at
