Updated on __ May, 2022
This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) describes how Empowered Systems Intermediate, LLC (“Empowered Systems”, the “Company” or “we”, “our”, or “us”) collect, use, and share your personal data and information (collectively “Personal Information”). This Privacy Policy applies to your use of our websites including empoweredsystems.com, myrefinitive.com, our mobile applications, and all other digital and online services provided by Empowered Systems (collectively the “Sites”), as well as information collected offline (collectively, the “Services”), and details our privacy practices relating to our Sites and Services.
If you do not consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy, do not use our Sites or submit any Personal Information to us through our Services. Please contact us as indicated below in the “How to Contact Us ” section if you have any questions or would like additional information.
We value your privacy. We are committed to protecting it. Generally, we collect, process, and use your Personal Information to operate our Sites and provide you with certain Services as discussed in more detail in this Privacy Policy. Before accessing, using, or interacting with the Sites and Services you should carefully review the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Your use of our Sites and Services is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms & Conditions.
Personal Information is information that can be used to identify you (whether alone or in combination with other information). Personal Information we may collect about you includes:
The Company may collect your Personal Information through various means, including when you directly provide information to us and when we automatically collect information about you through your use of the Sites and Services. In some instances, you may be able to choose what information to provide, but sometimes we require certain information from you to use certain features of the Services.
We may collect Personal information you provide directly to us, including:
In addition to information you provide to us, the Company and our agents, vendors, and consultants (collectively “Service Providers”), as well as other third parties, may collect information automatically about our Sites and Services and how you use them. Examples of the types of Personal Information that may be collected automatically when you use our Sites include:
We, and our Service Providers, may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect and store information about your interactions with our Sites, including information about your browsing activity, request/inquiries and purchasing behavior. Cookies are small files that a website or its Service Provider transfers to a computer’s hard drive through a web browser that enable the site’s or Service Provider’s systems to recognize the user’s browser and capture and remember certain information. In general, we and our service providers use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as web beacons, tracking pixels, and HTTP referrers) to optimize the functionality of our Sites, to help us understand how the Sites are used, and to provide users with interest-based content or advertising based on their browsing activities.
If you would like to opt-out of cookies, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org for further information. These sites also provide details on how to set your browser not to accept cookies and how to remove cookies from your browser. In a few cases, some of the features of our Sites may not function if you remove or delete Cookies.
Our Sites may use Google Analytics to help us analyze user activity. Google Analytics uses cookies to generate information about visitors to our Sites for purposes of compiling activity reports, analyzing user interests, and providing other information related to usage of the Sites. Google may transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with other data held by Google. Data collected by Google Analytics is subject to the Google Privacy Policy. If you want to know more about how data is collected, used, and shared by Google, please review the Google Privacy Policy.
You may prevent Google Analytics from collecting your information by disabling cookies on your browser as noted above or you may opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out page.
Our Sites may use Google Tag Manager and AdWords. Google Tag Manager and AdWords are marketing tracking and remarketing services provided by Google. We use these services to track and deliver online ads. Google Tag Manager shares information from our Sites with another data sources (Google Analytics) to analyze your interests and deliver content that may interest you. Google AdWords uses tools, such as cookies, to enable us to display ads on sites across the Internet based upon your visits to the Sites. You can personalize the ads you receive, opt-out of ads from other advertising networks, or opt-out of ads from Google by visiting the Google Ads settings . For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit the Google Privacy Policy.
The following describes our policies with respect to the sharing of your Personal Information with others. When we share your Personal Information, we require that our contractors, business partners, and Service Providers use the information only in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.
We may share your Personal Information as follows:
We may work with social media sites, and with application developers who specialize in social commerce so you can connect with us through your social networks, and share information and content such as reviews, photos, text, videos, and usage data (“User Content”) with us. We provide our social media service providers with access to our Sites so we can generate interest in our Services among members of your social networks and to allow you to share your interest in our Services with friends in your network. These social media service providers may collect or register your views (including whether you liked or purchased a Service), and make those views available to us and on public portions of our Services. For example, when you use our hashtags in a social media post or respond to one of our usage requests, your post is shared with us, and may appear on our Sites. By using our hashtags or responding to one of our usage requests, you are consenting to our use of the information you post (including your likeness) for commercial purposes and without compensation. For more information, please see our Terms of Use.
If you do not agree to all of these terms related to our information sharing through social media, please do not submit User Content to us or reply to our usage requests. If you do not want a social media platform to share information about you, you must contact the social media provider and determine whether it gives you the opportunity to opt-out of sharing such information.
We reserve the right to select what content appears on our social media accounts and Sites and may choose not to display your content even if you express an opinion about our Services, use our hashtags, or affirmatively consent to a usage request. We reserve the right to remove content from our Sites and social media accounts at our sole discretion.
We offer various communities and forums across our Sites, as well as the ability to provide reviews of our Services. We offer several features that allow users to connect and communicate in public or semi-public spaces as part of our Sites. You do not have to use these features, but if you do, please use common sense and good judgment when posting in these communities or sharing your Personal Information with others.
Please be aware that any Personal Information you choose to submit in any communities, forums, or reviews can be read, collected, or used by others, or could be used to send unsolicited messages to you. We may engage our Service Providers to assist in providing community services to you. Empowered Systems generally does not control or remove user content from public forums or communities on our Sites (though we reserve the right to do so in our sole discretion at any time without notice). Your posts may remain public if you subsequently close your account(s) with us
Despite our safety and privacy controls, we cannot guarantee that you will not encounter inappropriate or illegal conduct from other users when using public forums on our Sites. You can help us to make our Sites (including public forums) welcoming for all users by reporting any offensive or unwelcome conduct to us.
Our Sites and Services are not intended for children nor targeted to children under the age of sixteen (16). We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 16. If we learn that we possess information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete such information in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and other applicable laws. If you are a parent or guardian and you believe that your child under the age of 16 has provided us with Personal Information without your consent, please contact us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com.
Our Sites may contain links to third party websites and services that are not owned or controlled by us, including links to social media platforms. This Privacy Policy applies only to Personal Information collected by our Sites. Links to other websites or social media platforms do not constitute or imply an endorsement or recommendation by us of the content on third party sites. Third-party sites may have their own cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies to collect information about you or ask you to provide Personal Information directly to them. If you post information on a third party site that references our Sites (for example, by using an @ tag or hashtag associated with Empowered Systems in a tweet or status update), your post may be used on or in connection with our Sites. In addition, both Empowered Systems and the third party may have access to certain information about you and your use of our Sites as well as the third party sites.
We are not responsible for the privacy and security practices of other websites or social media platforms or the Personal Information they collect. Please refer to the applicable third parties’ privacy policies to understand their privacy practices and your rights.
We may retain your Personal Information for the periods necessary to: (a) fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, (b) meet the timelines determined or recommended by regulators, professional bodies, or associations, (c) comply with applicable laws, legal holds, and other legal obligations (including contractual obligations), and (d) comply with your requests.
We do not currently have the technology to automatically respond to “Do Not Track” (DNT) signals sent by web browsers, mobile devices, or other mechanisms. If you are a California resident who wishes to delete your Personal Information, please see the instructions for submitting such requests, below.
Third-parties, such as Google Analytics, may collect data that relates to you on our websites, across time, and over other websites. Third-parties’ responsiveness to do-not-track signals is governed by their privacy policies. You also may limit certain tracking by disabling cookies in your web browser. For more information on Do Not Track, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com.
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to, use of, and disclosure of, your Personal Information. However, there is no perfect security. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Information collected by our Sites and Services. We accept no liability for any unintentional disclosure of your Personal Information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any credentials used to access your account with us and you should report suspected unauthorized activity to us immediately.
Empowered Systems specifically reserves the right to terminate your access to our Sites and Services and any contract you have with us in the event we learn or suspect you have disclosed your account or password information to an unauthorized third party.
We deliver marketing and event communications to you across various platforms such as email, telephone, text messaging, direct mail and online. Where required by law, we will ask you to explicitly opt-in to receive marketing communications from us. If we send you a marketing communication, it will include instructions on how to opt-out of receiving these communications in the future.
We use tools and technologies to deliver or display targeted marketing and advertising content on or through our Sites, which may involve the use of cookies and related technologies, the tracking of IP addresses and/or assigning and tracking unique identification numbers.
We also may engage in marketing and advertising activities through chat or messenger functionality available through our Sites. We use email tracking technology including, without limitation, dynamic links and image files, when we send you marketing communications to review your engagement and the effectiveness and relevance of the communications.
We use tools and technologies to distinguish known and unknown users of our Sites and to record, review, track and analyze engagement and use of our Sites (e.g., recording or tracking hovers, clicks, key word searches, Personal Information entered into forms, etc.).
We may also engage in marketing activities on third-party platforms, including, without limitation, social media platforms. However, such activities are subject to the privacy statements and terms and conditions applicable to such third-party platforms.
Honoring your marketing preferences is important to us. You have the right to opt-out of receiving direct marketing and targeted online advertising as detailed below.
You may unsubscribe from our marketing communications by clicking the “unsubscribe” link found in every commercial email we send, or (if you have an account with us) by logging into your account and changing your preferences, or by sending us a request to unsubscribe at privacy@empoweredsystems.com. If you opt-out of receiving marketing email communications, we may still send you email messages related to your account with us, including specific transactions or our Services. Unsubscribing yourself from our marketing communications will not affect our service to you.
You have the choice to opt-in to receiving text messages and alerts on the mobile phone number(s) you have shared with us. Once you have opted-in, we may send you text messages (i) regarding your account; (ii) to investigate or prevent fraud; and (iii) to alert you in the event of an emergency. We may send you text messages and alerts using autodialed technology. We will not contact you via text messages or alerts for marketing purposes without your prior, express, written consent. You do not have to opt-in to text messages and alerts to use and enjoy our Sites and Services. If you opt-in, standard text messaging charges may apply. For more information regarding our text messaging and alerts, please contact us at 1-800-xxx-xxxx or privacy@empoweredsystems.com.
You may choose to opt-out from our text messages and alerts at any time using any reasonable means. To opt-out, send us a text message from your mobile phone with the word STOP, STOP ALL, END, QUIT, CANCEL or UNSUBSCRIBE, and we will unsubscribe you from text communications. Once you opt-out, you will not receive any additional text messages via your mobile phone. Please keep in mind that if you opt-out of receiving text messages and alerts we may not be able to contact you with important messages regarding your account. However, if there is an emergency or account question, we will make every attempt to contact you in other ways, such as by email or on a landline phone.
Interest-based advertising (“IBA”) allows us to deliver targeted advertising to users of our Sites and Services. IBA works by showing you advertisements, or sending you marketing emails, that are based on the type of content you access or read. For example, as you browse our Sites, one of the cookies placed on your device will be an advertising cookie so we can better understand what sort of pages or content you are interested in. The information collected about your device enables us to group you with other devices that have shown similar interests. We can then display advertising to categories of users that is based on common interests. For more information about IBA, you can visit the Internet Advertising Bureau at www.iab.com.
If you want to opt-out of receiving interest-based advertising, it does not mean that you will no longer receive advertising when you are using our Sites. It just means that we will not use your Personal Information for IBA and that any advertising you see will not be customized to you. You can exercise your online advertising choices by clicking the AdChoices icon in an ad and following the instructions. You may also opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from many sites through the Network Advertising Initiative’s (NAI) Opt-Out Tool and in the EU. If you delete cookies, use a different device, or change web browsers, you may need to opt-out again.
Mobile devices have an identifier that gives companies the ability to serve targeted ads to a specific mobile device. In many cases, you can turn off mobile device ad tracking or you can reset the advertising identifier at any time within your mobile device privacy settings. Another tool you can use to control advertising on your mobile device is the AppChoices App. You may also choose to turn off location tracking on your mobile device. If you turn off ad tracking or location tracking, we will no longer use information collected from your device’s advertising identifier for the purposes of advertising. You may still see the same number of ads but they may be less relevant because they will not be based on your interests. Where we need your consent to gather information about your location, we will obtain this from you.
The following describes the categories of Personal Information that we may collect about data subjects in the United Kingdom, the EU and the EEA, the purposes for which we may process the Personal Information, and the legal bases for such proces
You can inquire about your Personal Information and how we process it, submit a data subject request and/or obtain further information on the above data subject rights by:
Empowered Systems is a global business based in the United States. We have offices and facilities in the United States, and we transact business in Canada, the United Kingdom, the EU, Asia (including Australia and India), as well as other jurisdictions throughout the world.
We may transfer your Personal Information to recipients in countries whose laws may not provide the same level of data protection as your country. When we do so, we will ensure that there are adequate safeguards in place, such as contractual safeguards, to protect your Personal Information and to comply with our legal obligations.
Empowered Systems has established processes and procedures to allow appropriate data subjects to exercise their rights under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act. If you wish to exercise your rights, please email PAIAComplaints@inforegulator.org.za.
For information and disclosures applicable to data subjects covered under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, please visit www.gov.br/mec/pt-br/acesso-a-informacao/lgpd.
If you are a resident of California, your right to submit certain requests relating to your Personal Information is described below. Please note that when submitting a request, you will be asked to provide information to verify your identity before action is taken. You may designate an authorized agent to make the requests below on your behalf. An authorized agent must submit proof to us that he or she has been authorized by you to act on your behalf, and you will need to verify your identity directly with us through the process described below.
California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their Personal Information. To exercise this right, please submit a request through our Do Not Sell My Personal Information form found on our home page or email us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com.
You can opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information by using the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. The GPC is a browser and plug-in setting that tells websites not to sell your Personal Information. For more information regarding the GPC visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request more information regarding the following, to the extent applicable:
You may submit a request for the information above by emailing us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com, or submitting a request at www.empoweredsystems.com/contact-us. Please note that due to the different requirements of the applicable laws, our response times may vary depending on the specific type(s) of information sought. We respond to all verifiable requests for information as soon as we reasonably can and no later than legally required.
California residents also have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information collected or maintained by us. Once we receive your request, we will let you know what, if any, Personal Information we can delete from our records, and we will direct any service providers (such as Google Analytics) that may have collected Personal Information about you to delete your Personal Information from their records. There may be circumstances where we cannot delete your Personal Information or direct service providers to do so also. For example, if we need to: (1) retain your Personal Information to complete a transaction or provide Services to you; (2) detect security incidents; (3) protect against unlawful activities; (4) identify, debug or repair errors; (5) comply with legal obligations, etc. You may submit a request to delete your Personal Information by emailing us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com, or submitting a request at www.empoweredsystems.com/contact-us. In connection with submission of your request, we will take steps to verify your identity as outlined below, and you will need to verify your identity before action is taken.
Upon submission of a request for information or a request to delete Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps to confirm that the person submitting the request to know or request to delete is the person to whom the Personal Information relates, and to prevent unauthorized access or deletion of Personal Information. The specific steps taken to verify the identity of the requesting person may vary based on the nature of the request, including the type, sensitivity and value of the information requested, the risk of harm posed by unauthorized access or deletion, the likelihood that fraudulent or malicious actors may seek the information, the trustworthiness of Personal Information provided to verify your identity, the nature of our business relationship with you, and available technology for verification.
We will generally try to avoid requesting additional Personal Information from you for the purpose of verification, but we may need to do so if we cannot verify your identity based on the information already maintained by us. If we request additional Personal Information to verify your identity, it will be for that purpose only, and will be deleted as soon as practical after processing the request, except as otherwise provided by law.
The following generally describes the verification processes we use:
If there is no reasonable method by which we can verify your identity, we will state so in response to a request to know or delete Personal Information, including an explanation of why we have no reasonable method to verify your identity.
If you choose to exercise any of the privacy rights conferred by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, you also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us. This means that, consistent with California law, we will not deny providing our services to you, charge you different prices or provide a different level or quality of services to you unless those differences are related to the value of your Personal Information.
If you are a resident of California, your right to submit certain requests relating to your Personal Information is described below. Please note that when submitting a request, you will be asked to provide information to verify your identity before action is taken. You may designate an authorized agent to make the requests below on your behalf. An authorized agent must submit proof to us that he or she has been authorized by you to act on your behalf, and you will need to verify your identity directly with us through the process described below.
California residents have the right to opt-out of the sale of their Personal Information. To exercise this right, please submit a request through our Do Not Sell My Personal Information form found on our home page or email us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com.
You can opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information by using the Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) signal. The GPC is a browser and plug-in setting that tells websites not to sell your Personal Information. For more information regarding the GPC visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org.
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request more information regarding the following, to the extent applicable:
You may submit a request for the information above by emailing us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com, or submitting a request at www.empoweredsystems.com/contact-us. Please note that due to the different requirements of the applicable laws, our response times may vary depending on the specific type(s) of information sought. We respond to all verifiable requests for information as soon as we reasonably can and no later than legally required.
California residents also have the right to request that we delete your Personal Information collected or maintained by us. Once we receive your request, we will let you know what, if any, Personal Information we can delete from our records, and we will direct any service providers (such as Google Analytics) that may have collected Personal Information about you to delete your Personal Information from their records. There may be circumstances where we cannot delete your Personal Information or direct service providers to do so also. For example, if we need to: (1) retain your Personal Information to complete a transaction or provide Services to you; (2) detect security incidents; (3) protect against unlawful activities; (4) identify, debug or repair errors; (5) comply with legal obligations, etc. You may submit a request to delete your Personal Information by emailing us at privacy@empoweredsystems.com, or submitting a request at www.empoweredsystems.com/contact-us. In connection with submission of your request, we will take steps to verify your identity as outlined below, and you will need to verify your identity before action is taken.
Upon submission of a request for information or a request to delete Personal Information, we will take reasonable steps to confirm that the person submitting the request to know or request to delete is the person to whom the Personal Information relates, and to prevent unauthorized access or deletion of Personal Information. The specific steps taken to verify the identity of the requesting person may vary based on the nature of the request, including the type, sensitivity and value of the information requested, the risk of harm posed by unauthorized access or deletion, the likelihood that fraudulent or malicious actors may seek the information, the trustworthiness of Personal Information provided to verify your identity, the nature of our business relationship with you, and available technology for verification.
We will generally try to avoid requesting additional Personal Information from you for the purpose of verification, but we may need to do so if we cannot verify your identity based on the information already maintained by us. If we request additional Personal Information to verify your identity, it will be for that purpose only, and will be deleted as soon as practical after processing the request, except as otherwise provided by law.
The following generally describes the verification processes we use:
If there is no reasonable method by which we can verify your identity, we will state so in response to a request to know or delete Personal Information, including an explanation of why we have no reasonable method to verify your identity.
If you choose to exercise any of the privacy rights conferred by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, you also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us. This means that, consistent with California law, we will not deny providing our services to you, charge you different prices or provide a different level or quality of services to you unless those differences are related to the value of your Personal Information.
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion at any time. It is your responsibility to review our Privacy Policy each time you use our Sites and Services or provide Personal Information to us as our Privacy Policy may have changed.
If you have any comments or questions about how we collect and use your Personal Information, communications can be submitted via email to privacy@empoweredsystems.com, or to our postal address:
Empowered Systems
3209 W Smith Valley Road,
Suite 223, Greenwood, IN 46142
Attention: Privacy