Privacy Policy

Last Updated: February 21, 2024  

INTRODUCTION  

This page (“Privacy Policy” or “Policy”) provides our policies and procedures for collecting, using and disclosing your information and outlines the security measures we’ve put in place to protect the information that you store using The Original Surfers and/or The Original Surfers (hereinafter The Original Surfers) services, including the services made available through this web site, and any other software or services offered by The Original Surfers in connection with such services (the “Services”). By using these Services, you consent to the collection, transfer, processing, storage, disclosure and other uses of your information described in this Privacy Policy.   

When expressing an interest in obtaining additional information about the Services or registering to use the Services, The Original Surfers requires you to provide your personal contact information, such as your name, company name, address, phone number, and email address (these are referred to below as your “Personal Contact Information”). When purchasing the Services, The Original Surfers also requires you to provide financial and billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number (“Billing Information”).  

PERSONAL CONTACT INFORMATION  

We use this information primarily to administer our Services to you and provide you with updates and product announcements. Per the Privacy and Conditions, we may use some of your information for marketing purposes and/or for quality assurance purposes.   

We use the information we collect about you in order to:   -Develop and deliver our services -Process your transactions -Provide customer service and manage your account -Improve our products, services and marketing.  

BILLING INFORMATION  

The Original Surfers does not store any Billing Information on its servers. Instead, we use a payment provider, Stripe (www.stripe.com), to store and process all payment related transactions. Find information regarding Stripe’s privacy policy here. (Link to Stripe: https://stripe.com/privacy)

MARKETING AND PUBLICITY

Per our Privacy and Conditions, you agree to permit The Original Surfers to identify you as a customer and to use your name and/or logo in The Original Surfers website and marketing materials.  

SALE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION  

The Original Surfers does not sell, rent, or trade your private information to any third parties in any way.  

SERVICE PROVIDERS AND BUSINESS PARTNERS  

The Original Surfers may use certain trusted third party companies and individuals to help us provide, analyze, and improve the Services (including, but not limited to, data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, payment processing, and improvement of the Services’ features). These third parties may have access to your information strictly for the purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf and under obligations similar to those in this Privacy Policy.   We share information with companies that provide public relations and marketing services for us. Such information will only be shared by us to customize, measure and improve our products, services and advertising. It will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes. 

These third parties are contractually obligated to protect your information and are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.   As with any other business, it is possible that in the future, The Original Surfers could merge with or be acquired by another company. If such an acquisition occurs, the successor company would have access to the information maintained by The Original Surfers, including customer account information, but would continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy until it is amended.   We share your information with our parent, subsidiaries and joint ventures to help coordinate the services we provide to you, enforce our terms and conditions, and promote trust and safety.  

ABOUT THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)  

Effective on January 1, 2020, the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) allows California residents to obtain certain information collected by the business with whom they have established business relationships.   If you are a California resident, you may exercise certain rights to access, restrict, or delete your personal information by submitting a request.

WHAT DO WE WITH THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?  

In addition to what is stated herein above, The Original Surfers uses the information it collects in the following ways:  

Data, Diagnostic Information and Login Information – We use this information solely for the purpose of administering and improving our Services to you.  

Analytics Information – The Original Surfers may use your Analytics Information in conjunction with an analytics service such as Google Analytics to monitor and analyze use of the Services, for the Services’ technical administration, to increase the Services’ functionality and user-friendliness, and to verify users have the authorization required for the Services to process their requests.  

SHARING & DISCLOSURE OF PRIVATE INFORMATION  

Third Party Applications and Your Use  

The Original Surfers provides users with the ability to link to their Data on third party sites such as Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and LinkedIn. Such linking is at the complete discretion of users. Because of this, The Original Surfers cannot be held responsible or liable for the linking of user’s Data to such third party sites, nor for how these third party sites use such links.  

Compliance with Third Party Services’ Privacy Policies  

In using the Services, you may have access to or the use of third party services via API or otherwise which require you to agree to that third party’s privacy policy. This includes but is not limited to access to YouTube via the YouTube API Services (as those terms are defined in the Google Privacy Policy). You can learn more about your privacy rights for the YouTube API Services in the Google Privacy Policy. Further, in addition to the normal procedure for deleting stored data as provided in this Policy, users can revoke API Client’s access to their data via the Google security settings page at https://security.google.com/settings/security/permissions. (“API Client” means a website or software application (including a mobile application) developed that accesses or uses the YouTube API Services).  

Compliance with Google’s Limited Use Policy  

The Original Surfers use and transfer of information to any other application of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy including the Limited Use requirements.  

Non-Private or Non-Personal Information  

We may disclose your non-private, aggregated, or otherwise non-personal information, such as usage statistics of our Services, in The Original Surfers reasonable discretion.  

Our Use And Disclosure of Information  

The Original Surfers will not disclose any personally identifiable information about any individual except as set forth in this Privacy Policy. This applies to information about our customers and information our customers provide to us about their customers. We are not limited in any way in our use of non-personal information that does not permit direct association with any specific individual or non-identifiable aggregate information about our users (such as the number of customers who use our services, the geographic distribution of our users, the amount of information located and/or removed, etc.).  

Internal Uses of Your Personally Identifiable Information  

We collect, store and process your personally identifiable information on servers located in the United States. Due to the unpredictable nature of Internet routing, your information may pass through other countries while in transit to our servers. We use the information we collect about you in order to:

-Develop and deliver our services

-Process your transactions

-Provide customer service and manage your account

-Improve our products, services and marketing.  

We provide access to personally identifiable information about our users only to those who require it for the above purposes.

The Original Surfers will not sell or rent any of your personally identifiable information to third parties. The Original Surfers will not share any of your personally identifiable information with third parties except in the limited circumstances described below.  

We share information with service providers under contract who help with our business operations such as payment and order processing, fraud investigation, bill collection, and information management and analytics. If content generation is included in your services, we may share information with service providers under contract to create, edit and/or publish such content. These third parties are obligated to protect your information and are contractually prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. They are never permitted to share your information with any third parties. They are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to The Original Surfers.

We may disclose information that we, in good faith, believe is appropriate to cooperate in investigations of fraud or other illegal activity, to conduct investigations of violations of our Privacy of Use and/or to protect our right, protect your safety and the safety of others. For example, this means that if we conduct a fraud investigation and conclude that one side has engaged in deceptive practices, we reserve the right to provide that person or entity’s contact information (but not bank account or credit card information) to victims who request it.  

We disclose information in response to a subpoena, warrant, court order, levy, attachment, order of a court-appointed receiver or other comparable legal process, including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action. If the subpoena seeks information about an identified subscriber or limited group of subscribers, we will make reasonable business efforts to contact the subscriber(s) before providing information to the party that requests it. We cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so in all cases, whether due to a time limit, court order, inability to effectively contact a subscriber, or other circumstances.  

When a user signs up for a co-branded version of our service through links to The Original Surfers.com from our co-branded partner’s website, The Original Surfers will share with the co-branded partner that user’s name, e-mail address and physical address in order to provide enhanced integration between The Original Surfers services and the services of our co-branded partner. If you do not want your information shared with The Original Surfers co-branded partner, sign up for The Original Surfers directly through The Original Surfers.com and other sub-domains and not through a link from our partner’s website.  

We disclose information to your agent or legal representative (such as the holder of a power of attorney that you grant, or a guardian appointed for you).  

We share information with companies that provide public relations and marketing services for us. Such information will only be shared by us to customize, measure and improve our products, services and advertising. It will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes. These third parties are contractually obligated to protect your information and are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose.  

As with any other business, it is possible that in the future, The Original Surfers could merge with or be acquired by another company. If such an acquisition occurs, the successor company would have access to the information maintained by The Original Surfers, including customer account information, but would continue to be bound by this Privacy Policy until it is amended.  

We share your information with our parent, subsidiaries and joint ventures to help coordinate the services we provide to you, enforce our terms and conditions, and promote trust and safety.  

The implementation of our Services, by its very nature, may require using your personally identifiable information to locate other information about you. Such use may include, but not be limited to, using your information to search the publicly accessible Internet sites as well as searching private information databases and sites.  

The implementation of our Services, by its very nature, may require revealing your personally identifiable information in order to effect removal of Internet content about you. For example, we may have to disclose your name to a website in order to notify them to remove Internet content about you. This occurs with your express permission for a specific, given purpose.  

Internal Uses of Your Personally Identifiable Information  

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you the Services, you may delete your account (this will be done by The Original Surfers customer care team). If you delete your account, your Data will no longer be stored in our servers. While we try to delete your Data from our servers as quickly as possible, please be aware that there may be a delay from the time you delete your account to the time that your Data is removed, and that some of your Data may continue to exist for a period in backup copies.  

Changes To Privacy Policy  

You are also responsible for regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy and related documents. We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. No amendment to or modification of this Policy will be binding unless in writing and signed by a duly authorized representative of The Original Surfers or posted to the Site by a duly authorized representative of The Original Surfers.  

In the event that The Original Surfers goes through a business transition, such as a merger, an acquisition by another company, or a sale of a portion of its assets, users’ personally identifiable information will, in most instances, be part of the assets transferred. Users will be notified via prominent notice on the site for 30 days after a change of ownership or control of their personally identifiable information. If, as a result of the business transition, a user’s personally identifiable information will be used in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection, users will be given a choice consistent with our notification of changes section.  

Internal Uses of Your Personally Identifiable Information  

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you the Services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you the Services, you may delete your account (this will be done by The Original Surfers customer care team). If you delete your account, your Data will no longer be stored in our servers. While we try to delete your Data from our servers as quickly as possible, please be aware that there may be a delay from the time you delete your account to the time that your Data is removed, and that some of your Data may continue to exist for a period in backup copies.  

In addition to the principles, practices and policies set forth above in this Privacy Policy, The Original Surfers has adopted the following principles to govern its collection and processing of Personal Data:  

Personal Data shall be processed lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner. The Personal Data collected will only be those specifically required to fulfill The Original Surfers obligations to deliver the The Original Surfers service.  

Personal Data shall only be retained for as long as it is required to fulfill contractual requirements.  

Personal Data shall be adequate, relevant, and limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are collected and/or processed. Personal Data shall be accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.  

Data subject has the right to request from The Original Surfers access to and rectification or erasure of their Personal Data, to object to or request restriction of processing concerning the data, or to the right to data portability. In each case such a request must be put in writing to The Original Surfers.    

Community

Our Services may include publicly accessible community services such as blogs, forums, and wikis. Please be aware that any information you provide in these areas may be read, collected, and used by others who access them. Your posts on these communities may remain even after you cancel your account.  

Questions, Complaints and Contacts

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at

Kaila@theoriginalsurfers.com

The Original Surfers