Privacy Policy
Last updated [June
26th, 2020]
Our Privacy Policy forms
part of and must be read in conjunction with, website Terms and Conditions. We
reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time.
We respect the privacy of
our users and every person who visits our site https://www.patcrusher.com. Here, PATCrusher LLC (“company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed
to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy under the
General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR). If you have any questions or
concerns about our policy or our practices with regards to your personal
information, please contact us at [email protected].
When you visit our
website https://www.patcrusher.com (“Site”)
and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your
privacy very seriously. In this privacy notice, we describe our privacy
policy. We seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what
information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have concerning
it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it is
important. If there are any terms in this privacy policy that you do not agree
with, please discontinue the use of our site and our services.
This privacy policy applies
to all information collected through our website and/or any related services,
sales, marketing, or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy
policy as the “Site“).
ABOUT US
Here at www.patcrusher.com,
we offer you a meticulously designed website for PAT Exam preparation. Our
website focus on building the base of candidates appearing for this exam from
basic to ensure guaranteed result. We offer you unlimited practice tests with
questions, a detailed explanation of your right and wrong answers, tell you
about your strengths and weaknesses with our graphs and charts, and advised you
to keep your focus on getting a high score to crack this exam.
The practice tests intend to help candidates to
understand the types of questions that will be asked in PAT. The most important
part is that you can avail all these facilities at very reasonable prices.
Our office is in the United
States.
Please read this privacy
policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your
personal information with us.
- WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
The
personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal
information that you voluntarily provide to us when registering with us, expressing
an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when
participating in activities on the or otherwise contacting us.
The personal information
that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the
Site, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal
information we collect can include the following:
Name and Contact Data. We
collect your first and last name, email address, phone number, and other
similar contact data.
Credentials. We
collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for
authentication and account access.
Information
automatically collected
We automatically collect
certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Site. This information
does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information)
but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser,
and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring
URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use
our Site and other technical information. If you access our site with
your mobile device, we may automatically collect device information (such as
your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer), operating system, version
information, and IP address. This information is primarily needed to maintain
the security and operation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and
reporting purposes.
Like many businesses, we
also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can find
out more about this in our Cookie Policy.
Information
collected from other Sources
We may obtain information
about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing
partners, social media platforms (such as Facebook), as well as from other
third parties.
- HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?
We use your personal
information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests
(“Business Purposes”), to enter into or perform a contract with you
(“Contractual”), with your consent (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our
legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”). We indicate the specific processing
grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.
We use the information we
collect or receive:
- To send administrative information to you for related to your
account, our business purposes, and/or for legal reasons. We may use your
personal information to send you a product, service, and new feature
information and/or information about changes to our terms, conditions, and
policies.
- To protect our Site for Business Purposes and/or
Legal Reasons. We may use your information as part of our efforts to
keep our Site safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and
prevention).
- To enable user-to-user communications with your consent. We may use
your information to enable user-to-user communications with each user’s
consent.
- To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies for our business purposes
and as legally required.
- To respond to legal requests and prevent harm as legally required. If we
receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data
we hold to determine how to respond.
- For other Business Purposes. We may use your information
for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage
trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to
evaluate and improve our Site, products, services, marketing, and your
experience.
- WILL YOUR INFORMATION BE SHARED WITH ANYONE?
We only share and disclose
your information in the following situations:
- Compliance with Laws. We may disclose your
information where we are legally required to do so to comply with
applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order,
or legal processes, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena
(including in response to public authorities to meet national security or
law enforcement requirements).
- Vital Interests and Legal Rights. We may disclose your
information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or
take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected
fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person
and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are
involved.
- Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third-Party Service
Providers.
We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers,
contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and
require access to such information to do that work.
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your
information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger,
sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of
our business to another company.
- Third-Party Advertisers. We may use third-party
advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the Site. These
companies may use information about your visits to our Site and other
websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies
to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.
- Affiliates. We may share your information
with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to
honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any
subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control
or that are under common control with us.
- Business Partners. We may share your information
with our business partners to offer you certain products, services, or
promotions.
- With your Consent. We may disclose your personal
information for any other purpose with your consent.
- Other Users. When you share personal
information (for example, by posting comments, contributions, or other
content to the Site) or otherwise interact with public areas of the Site,
such personal information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly
distributed outside the Site in perpetuity.
- DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING
TECHNOLOGIES?
We may use cookies and
similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store
information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how
you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.
- IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED
INTERNATIONALLY?
Our website is hosted by Google Cloud. We will not transfer your personal
information to an overseas recipient.
- WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES?
The Site may contain advertisements
from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to other
websites, online services, or mobile applications. We cannot guarantee the
safety and privacy of data you provide to any third parties. Any data collected
by third parties is not covered by this privacy policy. We are not responsible
for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third
parties, including other websites, services, or applications that may be linked
to or from the Site. You should review the policies of such third parties and
contact them directly to respond to your questions.
- HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
We will only keep your
personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in
this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted
by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements). No purpose in
this policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than
90 days past the termination of your account.
When we have no ongoing
legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either
delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your
personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely
store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing
until deletion is possible.
- HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
We have implemented
appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect
the security of any personal information we process. However, please also
remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure.
Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission
of personal information to and from our Site is at your own risk. You should
only access the services within a secure environment.
- DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
We do not knowingly solicit
data from or market to children under 16 years of age. By using the Site,
you represent that you are at least 16 or that you are the parent or guardian
of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Site. If
we learn that personal information from users less than 16 years of age has
been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to
promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any
data we have collected from children under age 16, please contact us at [email protected]
- GDPR ENTITLEMENT
EU
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) has provided the below rights to the
EU residents:
Right to information - The
purposes for processing Personal Information and the rights of the individual.
Right to access the
Personal Information that is processed.
Right to erasure (”Right to
be forgotten”).
Right to rectification.
Right to restriction of the
processing.
Right to object (opt-out)
to processing.
EU residents can exercise
these rights by raising a request directly at [email protected]
- WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?
.Account
Information
You may at any time review
or change the information in your account or terminate your account by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your
account
- Contacting us using the contact information provided
below
Upon your request to
terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and
information from our active databases. However, some information may be
retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any
investigations, enforce our Terms of Use, and/or comply with legal
requirements.
Cookies and similar
technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies
by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove
cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject
cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Site.
Opting out of email
marketing: You can unsubscribe from our marketing
email list at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that
we send or by contacting us using the details provided below. You will then be
removed from the marketing email list – however, we will still need to send you
service-related emails that are necessary for the administration and use of
your account. You can also opt-out by:
- Logging into your account settings and updating your
preferences.
- Contacting us using the contact information provided
below
- DATA PROTECTION OFFICER
We have appointed a Data
Protection Officer (“DPO”) who is responsible for overseeing questions concerning
this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice,
including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact Data Protection
Officer, at our e-mail [email protected]
- DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS POLICY?
We may update this privacy
policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated
“Revised” date and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is
accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify
you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly
sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy
frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.
- HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS POLICY?
If you have questions or
comments about this policy, email us at [email protected].