At Sellscale, we are committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of any personal information about our users. Your privacy is always at the top of our priorities. This Privacy Statement explains who we are and spells out how we collect, use, and disclose personal information from or about you and how to exercise your privacy rights. If you have any questions or concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact us using the details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Statement.
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Sellscale is headquartered in San Jose, CA.
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), UK or Switzerland, the controller of your personal information is Sellscale Inc.
This Privacy Statement applies to our collection, use and disclosure of personal information that we collect from you or that you provide when you engage with SellScale, our website "sellscale.com" (the “Website”) or the customer engagement platform service at sight.sellscale.com, sellscale.com ("SellScale Service") (together the “Services”). SellScale Users can access the SellScale Service via our website Sellscale.com, sight.sellscale.com, applications on Devices, APIs, and third-parties.
This Privacy Statement only applies where we are processing personal information for our own purposes. It does not cover the personal information Sellscale collects, uses and discloses on behalf of its Clients (“Client Data”) in connection with the Sellscale Service and we invite you to contact the relevant company or organization if you have any questions about their privacy practices.
The personal information we collect broadly falls within the following categories:
Information you provide voluntarily
Certain parts of our Website or Sellscale Service ask you to provide certain information voluntarily. This typically includes:
Information we collect automatically
Like most companies that offer online services, we may automatically collect certain information from your computer or device, about your use of the Sellscale Service or our Website. We use this information to provide our Services, ensure the security of our Services, help improve our Services and promote our Services to you. This typically includes:
Information we obtain from third-party sources
From time to time, we may receive personal information about you from third party sources but only when these third parties have confirmed to us that they either have your consent or are otherwise legally permitted or required to disclose this information to us. This typically includes:
Client Data
Please note that as explained above, we also receive personal information about you, in the form of Client Data from our Client. We use such personal information to provide the Sellscale Service to our Clients and only as instructed by the Clients. Under these circumstances, we process your information as a processor on our Clients' behalf and it is our Clients, as the controllers of the information, that determine what information we process about you and how we use it. If you have any privacy-related questions or concerns about one of our Client's privacy practices, or the choices a Client has made to share your information with us, you should contact that company or organization directly. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of our Clients, which may differ from those described in this Privacy Statement.
We use personal information about you for the purposes detailed below. In some regions, such as the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, we need a lawful basis to collect, use and disclose your personal information. Our lawful basis will depend on the information concerned and the context in which it is processed and this is also detailed here.
In general, we will use the personal information we collect only for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect your personal information. However, we may also use your personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you if and where this is permitted by applicable data protection laws.
We may disclose your personal information to the following categories of recipients:
Vendors, service providers and partners.We may use certain trusted third-party vendors, service providers and partners who provide data processing services to us (including but not limited to data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, payment processing, and improvement of the Service’s features). These third parties will only process your information for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement or that are notified to you when we collect your information.
Third-Party Applications. Our Website includes links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from those of Sellscale. For example, our website includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button and widgets, such as the "Share This" button for Twitter and LinkedIn. These features allow you to share information about your activities on our Services through social media networks. This Privacy Statement does not apply to your use of any such third party plug-ins and applications and we are not responsible for how those third parties use and disclose your information. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Compliance with Laws and Law Enforcement Requests; Protection of Sellscale's Rights
We may disclose to any competent law enforcement body, regulatory, government agency, court or other third party data stored in your Sellscale account and information about you that we process only when we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) comply with a law, regulation, or compulsory legal request, such as to comply with a subpoena; (b) protect the safety of any person from death or serious bodily injury; (c) prevent fraud or abuse of Sellscale or its users; or (d) to protect Sellscale's rights. If we provide any data stored in your Sellscale account to a law enforcement agency, we will remove Sellscale's encryption from the information before providing it to law enforcement. However, Sellscale will not be able to decrypt anything that you encrypted prior to uploading it to Sellscale.
Business Transfers
Your information may be transferred to potential or actual buyers (and their agents and advisers) in connection with a merger, acquisition, or sale of all or a portion of our assets, provided that we inform the buyer it must use your personal information only for the purposes disclosed in this Privacy Statement.
Consent. We may share your information with others where you have given your consent to the disclosure.
Sellscale is a US company and our service providers are located in the US and other countries.This means that your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are located. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country (and, in some cases, may not be as protective).
However, we take appropriate safeguards to ensure that your information remains protected in accordance with this Privacy Statement and applicable data protection laws. If you are located in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom or Switzerland these safeguards include transferring your information to a country that the relevant authorities have determined provide an adequate level of protection for personal information, or by implementing standard contractual clauses with our customers, third party service providers and partners.
You can access and control the personal information that we process about you as follows:
Account information. If you are a Client Representative and are registered with us, you may review, update, correct, or delete certain personal information provided in your registration or account profile by changing your account settings.
Account closure. If you no longer desire to use our Sellscale Service, you may delete your account by making the change in your account settings, although (in some cases) we may retain copies of your information if required by law, to protect our rights, or if it is not technically reasonably feasible to remove it.
Direct marketing. You can opt-out from marketing communications that we send. including our newsletter, at any time. You can do this by clicking on the "unsubscribe" or "opt-out" link in the marketing communications we send, by accessing the email preferences in your account settings page, or by contacting us at [email protected] or by using the details provided below.
Privacy rights. Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws, you may also have certain rights with regard to the personal information we control about you.
We respond to all requests we receive from individuals wishing to exercise their privacy rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. If you would like to exercise any of the rights which are available to you under applicable data protection laws, please contact us at [email protected] or by using the details provided below. Please note that we may need to verify your identity before we can respond to your request.
Under European laws (including the GDPR) you may have the following rights:
If you are a California resident and the processing of personal information about you is subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), the following information also applies to you and supplements the information contained in this Privacy Statement.
Information We Collect and Sources of Information
Our Privacy Statement already describes the information we collect and the sources of information – see the above sections "The Information We Collect” and “How We Use Personal Information". This section organizes that information around the personal information categories set out in the CCPA.
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following information for the following purposes:
How We Share your Personal Information:
We do not share your personal information except as approved by you or as otherwise described in this Privacy Statement. In the preceding 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information described above for the business purposes described in this Privacy Statement:
Under the CCPA, a "sale" is defined very broadly and includes a wide array of data sharing. As the term is defined by the CCPA, we “sold” the following categories of personal information in the last 12 months: identifiers/contact information, Internet or other electronic network activity information, and inferences drawn from the above. We “sold” such information to advertising networks and data analytics providers. The business purposes of “selling” personal information is for third-party companies to perform services on our behalf, such as marketing, advertising, and audience measurement. We do not have any actual knowledge that we "sell" personal information of consumers under 16 years of age.
Most modern web browsers give you the option to send a Do Not Track signal to the sites you visit, indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. However, there is no accepted standard for how a site should respond to this signal, and we do not take any action in response to this signal.
If you are a California resident our default cookie settings may constitute a sale of personal information. You can change your cookie settings using our cookie consent management tool.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you may have the following consumer privacy rights:
You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights under the CCPA. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require the agent to provide proof you have authorized it to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us.
Further, to provide or delete specific pieces of personal information we will need to verify your identity to the degree of certainty required by law.
For more information regarding data rights requests, refer to the Contacting Us section below.
Sellscale will retain personal data we process about Sellscale Users for as long as we have a legitimate business purpose to do so. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you Services, you may delete your account. Please note that Sellscale may retain your personal data for longer where there is a legal, tax or accounting obligation, contractual, or legitimate interest, including resolving disputes and enforcing our agreements and rights. When we no longer have an 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 information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.
Please note that Sellscale will retain Client Data that we process on behalf of our Clients for as long as needed to provide services to our Clients and in accordance with our agreements with our Clients.
If the personal information we process about you is subject to EU data protection law, we rely on one or more of the following EU lawful legal bases:
Personal information is or may be used for the following purposes:
If you no longer wish to receive communications from us that are not required for the Service, please follow the "unsubscribe" instructions provided in any of those communications or update your account settings information.
Sellscale stresses its privacy and security standards. Although no one can guarantee absolute security, we regularly re-evaluate our privacy and security policies in order to adapt to new challenges. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it.
We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time. If we make a material change to this Privacy Statement, we will provide you with notice (for example, by email, a sign-in notification, or some other means) and obtain your consent if and where this is required by applicable data protection law prior to the change becoming effective. You can see when this Privacy Statement was last updated by checking the "last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Statement.
If you have any questions about our use of personal data, please contact us at [email protected].
Although the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Frameworks have been ruled invalid for transfer of data from the EU and Switzerland to the U.S., while government discussions regarding possible replacement mechanisms proceed, we will continue to protect European data according to the standards of the Privacy Shield and applicable European law and will implement other methods for transferring data to the extent those are available (as explained under the “International Data Transfers” above). To learn more about the Privacy Shield Frameworks, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield program site.
Sellscale is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under the Privacy Shield Frameworks, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. Sellscale complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EEA, UK or Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.
With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Framework, Sellscale is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, Sellscale may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website, you may be entitled to invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.