Privacy

Last updated: January 2019

Introduction

Paw Protect, administered by Embrace Pet Insurance Agency, LLC (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy.
This privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit any websites of Company, including www.pawprotect.com (collectively, our “Websites”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information.

This privacy policy applies to information we collect:

On our Website and pages listed within the sitemap.
In e-mail, text and other electronic messages between you and our Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this privacy policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our Websites.

Please read this privacy 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 our Websites. By accessing or using our Websites, you agree to this privacy policy. This privacy policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of our Websites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the privacy policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Websites are not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any personal information to or on our Websites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on our Websites or on or through any of their features or register on any of our Websites, make any purchases through our Websites, use any of the interactive or public comment features of our Websites or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or any screen name or user name you may use. 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 info@pawprotect.com. California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights section for more information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We may obtain information about you when you choose to provide it to us and when we collect it from third parties. We may also collect certain information about your device or usage by automated means, including through technologies such as cookies, flash cookies, web server logs, and web beacons.

Information That You or Others Provide to Us. The information we collect on or through our Websites may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Websites. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Websites, subscribing to our services or purchasing products or services on our Websites, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Websites. Examples of data elements may include: name, address, city, state, ZIP code, email address, telephone number, other contact information, birth date and household information.
Information about your transactions and relationships with us, our affiliated companies, and others (such as products or services purchased, survey responses, account balances, your policy coverage, premiums, and payment history).
Financial and payment information (such as payment card number, expiration date, account number, and billing address).
Product preferences, advertisement preferences, search queries, and other information about how you use our Websites.
Content you submit or post (such as photographs, videos, reviews, articles, comments, or any other information you provide to us or post).
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted “) on public areas of our Websites, or transmitted to other users of our Websites or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions “). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Websites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies. As you navigate through and interact with our Websites, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Websites, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Websites.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.

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.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

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 our Websites. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Websites.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Websites may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from and on our Websites. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Websites and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs. pixel tags and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an e- mail and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Web server logs: In conjunction with obtaining information through cookies, our web servers may log details regarding your device, operating system, or information about your usage of our Websites.

Note that we do not currently honor “Do Not Track” signals from website browsers.

Third-party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies.

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. 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 websites 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. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, please note we partner with Google Analytics. For information on how Google Analytics uses data please visit “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ sites or apps”.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us for the following purposes:

offering you products and services, deciding if you qualify for our products and services, and servicing your account;
establishing and verifying the identity and eligibility of users;
to give you notices about your subscription or account, including expiration and renewal notices;
opening, maintaining, administering, managing, and servicing users profiles, accounts or memberships;
processing, servicing or enforcing transactions (including credit or debit card transactions), including payment and settlement of insurance claims;
providing products, content, content suggestions, services, and support;
conducting special events, sweepstakes, surveys, programs, contests, and other offers (and communicating with you about such events);
analyzing and improving our products, services, or Websites (including developing new products and services; improving safety; managing our communications; analyzing our products; performing market research; performing data analytics; and performing accounting, auditing and other internal functions);
providing users with product, service, or company updates;
marketing and advertising our products or services as well as products and services of third parties (such as affiliates, subsidiaries, and business partners);
responding to your inquiries or comments, or contacting you as necessary;
operating and communicating with you about or through external social networking platforms
maintaining the security and integrity of our systems, including maintaining internal records;
conforming to legal requirements or industry standards, complying with legal process, detecting and preventing fraud or misuse, defending our legal rights, or protecting others;
to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it;
in any other way we may describe when you provide the information;
as part of a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, transfer, sale, corporate change, or any other transaction involving all or a portion of Company’s assets.
We may from time to time contract with third party vendors to provide ads to our customers on our behalf via the Internet or to send direct mail to customers whom we think may be interested in our products or services. In order to do so, such vendor may collect anonymous information about your visits to our website using a “cookie”. A cookie is a small piece of data that is sent to your browser or mobile device by websites, mobile apps, and advertisements that you access or use. This data is stored on your browser or mobile device and helps websites and mobile apps to remember things about you to improve your experience with the website. Third-party vendors may then pool the anonymous information that they collect from our website with other sources of information, which may include your name and mailing address, for purposes of determining whether you might be interested in receiving direct mail. If you do not wish for cookies to be placed on your computer, most web browsers permit you to prevent that from taking place. Additionally, information about opting out of cookie-based Internet advertising can be found via the following links – NAI Consumer Opt Out and/or Neustar Opt Out. However, please keep in mind that these technologies are an important part of how the website works; removing, rejecting or limiting the use of cookies or other similar technologies might affect the availability and functionality of the website. To opt-out of receiving our direct mail, you may send us an email at info@pawprotect.com or call us at 800-511-9172.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users (including you), and information that does not identify any individual (including you specifically), without restriction. We do not share your personal information with third parties for the third parties’ own direct marketing purposes. However, we may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential 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 Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
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 of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers or others. This includes exchanging information with companies other and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

If you do not want your information collected, used and disclosed as described in the Privacy Policy, then do not submit your information.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights section for more information.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You may send us an e-mail at info@pawprotect.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We will make reasonable efforts to honor your request where feasible. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account (if one exists). 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.

If you delete your User Contributions from our Websites, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights section for more information.

Data Security

Your privacy and the security of your information is important to us. We have implemented measures that are reasonably designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we utilize standard industry practices to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Websites. 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 our Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on this page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.