Privacy Policy

Bluon, Inc

1. Introduction

Bluon developed this Privacy Policy to show you how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, and make use of your personal information. This policy applies to all users of Bluon's Services, including those accessing our services through third-party platforms or integrations. We are committed to ensuring the confidentiality of personal information. Bluon may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, at its sole discretion.

Definitions

  • "Bluon," "we," "us," or "our": Refers to Bluon, Inc., including its subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • "Bluon's Services": Encompasses all products, services, websites, applications, platforms, integrations, and other offerings provided by Bluon, Inc., whether accessed directly or through third-party platforms, including any future developments or additions.

The following outlines our privacy policy:

  • You may provide us certain personal identifying information when you sign up for Bluon’s services directly or through third party platforms, including but not limited to your name, email, phone number, and postal code, which should be and remain accurate, complete, and up to date;
  • You grant us permission to use this information to provide you services, updates, marketing materials, and otherwise communicate with you;
  • We will collect and use personal information pursuant to these Terms and for the purposes described herein; and,
  • We will protect personal information by reasonable security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and any type of Bluon subscription; and,
  • When you interact with our advertising, tech support, services, and applications on third-party websites and services.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any Mobile App or website operated by us or any third party.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use Bluon’s services. By accessing or using Bluon’s services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time at Bluon’s sole discretion. Your continued use of Bluon’s services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. By using Bluon’s services, you accept that Bluon may collect data according to this Privacy Policy.

2. Children Under the Age of 18

Bluon is not intended for children under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on Registration Process or any affiliated products or applications. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at [email protected]. California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Section 9, below, for more information.

3. Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of Bluon, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other unique identifier proved by a 3rd party integration by which you may be identified or contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you; and,
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access Bluon’s services, and your usage of Bluon’s services.
We collect this information:
  • Directly from you when you provide it to us;
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site or applications or integrations, such as usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through Bluon’s services may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in our Registration Process. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use Bluon’s services, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information if you report a problem with Bluon’s services.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses and phone calls), if you contact us
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research or to improve our product.
  • Details of User and Device activity you carry out through Bluon’s services.
  • Your search queries on Bluon’s services.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with Bluon’s services, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to Bluon’s services, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on Bluon’s services; and,
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party mobile apps or other online services (behavioral tracking).

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve Bluon’s services and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize Bluon’s services according to your individual preferences
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to Bluon’s services.

We may use technologies to automatically collect data including, but not limited to:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of Bluon’s services. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to Bluon’s services.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Mobile App may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on Bluon’s services. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of Bluon’s services may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, tracking pixels, advertising pixels, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related Bluon statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain content and verifying system and server integrity).

4. Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on Bluon’s services may be served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies to collect information about you when you use Bluon’s services. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different mobile apps and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

5. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

  • To make Bluon’s services and its contents available to Users;
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us;
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide information;
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection;
  • To notify you about changes to Bluon’s services or any products or services we offer or provide though Bluon or third party platforms;
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on Bluon’s services and third party platforms.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide information to us; and
  • For any other purpose with your consent, which includes your prior expressed written consent.

We may use the anonymized, aggregated information we collect from you for any purpose including to create industry reports. Even though we do not disclose your personal information without your consent, if you search for specific models or parts, or place an order, click on, or otherwise interact with an advertisement, we may use that data in an anonymized manner to produce and/or provide various type of analysis and market trends.

6. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual or company, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:

  • To our partners, subsidiaries and affiliates;
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Bluon’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Bluon about Bluon’s users is among the assets transferred;
  • To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures;
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it;
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; and
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
  • To enforce or apply our Terms and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and,
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Bluon, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk.

7. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's Mobile App Website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of Bluon’s services may then be inaccessible or not function
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out via the email feature or by sending an email stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
  • Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected].

We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest- based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's Mobile App Website. California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see "Your California Privacy Rights" for more information.

8. Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into your account within directed Bluon products and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

9. Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our app that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected].

10. Data Security

We have implemented reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to Bluon’s services. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on Bluon’s services or any third party services.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of Bluon’s services or third party platforms, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. You must not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of Bluon like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of Bluon’s services.

11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to notify you if any material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information via the preferred contact method that you select. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.