DATE LAST UPDATED: AUGUST 28, 2023
1. Introduction
This Privacy Notice identifies how Martin Docks, LLC (“Martin Docks, ”“we,” “us,” or “our”) uses, shares, and protects your personal information you share with us through our Website(the “Website”). Personal information is generally used for internal business purposes, to make our Website available to you, and to respond to your inquiries. Martin Docks neither sells personal information nor do we intend to sell personal information collected through our Website.
2. Information Collection
We may modify this Privacy Notice from time to time to comply with our legal requirements and to account for changes to our services and/or Website. The Last Updated date on the top left of the Privacy Notice will identify the date it was last updated.
3. Purpose for Processing
In order to meet our contractual obligations under the Agreement with you, we have a legitimate business interest and legal basis to collect, process and share your personal information as set forth herein.
4. Personal Information and Categories of Personal Information That We May Collect
Personal information is generally considered to be information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be directly or indirectly linked to an individual and/or household. Depending on your jurisdiction, personal information may be called “personal data”; therefore, for purposes of this Privacy Notice personal data shall be considered personal information and have the meaning established by applicable law. We may collect the following categories of personal information from you (in the last 12 months):
a. Personal Identifiers/Contact Information. Information such as name, postal address, e-mail address, company name, and telephone number.
b. Device attributes. Information such as the operating system, hardware and software versions, battery level, signal strength, available storage space, browser type, app and file names, device IDs, and other unique device identifiers.
c. Network Information. Information about the network used when you access and use the applicable Website.
d. Financial Information. Credit card number, debit card number, and other financial information.
5. Sources of Personal Information
Sources of personal information are as follows:
a. When You contact us or use our Website. We receive your personal information when you contact us through any of Website, share User Content, or acquire products and services.
b. Network Data. We also collect your IP address when you access and use our Website. We may use your IP address in order to authenticate a user and/or to prevent fraudulent activity.
c. Device Information. We collect information from and about the computers, mobile devices, and other web-connected devices that you use in connection with our Website.
d. Social Media Platforms. If you access our Website through a Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, or another similar service (“Social Media Platform”), we may have access to the profile information associated with your Social Media Platform account. We may also be able to access information contained in cookies placed on the device used to access and use the applicable Social Media Platform. “Cookies” are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Cookies allow our Website to remember important information that will make your use of the same more convenient. You can learn more about Cookies in Section 4 below.
2. How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use personal information as follows:
a. To make our Website available to you and to provide you with customer support and to respond to your inquiries.
b. To create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our Website.
c. To protect our Website and to enforce our rights under the Agreement (specifically for anti-fraud purposes and to prevent illegal or unauthorized activity).
d. To verify your identity and/or to authenticate an individual.
e. For internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research.
f. To generate aggregated data which is created after removing personal information that identifies you. We may combine that information with information we collect from other users to improve the quality and value of our Website.
g. To keep you informed about our products and services, to promote our products and to provide you with other news that you may find interesting.
3. How Do We Share Your Personal Information?
a. Service Providers. We share your personal information with vendors who assist us with: (i) making our Websites available to you, (ii) providing you with customer support; (iii) fulfilling your Product orders; and (iv) fulfilling your requests (“Service Providers”). Service Providers are only permitted to use your personal information in a manner consistent with this Privacy Notice.
b. Affiliates. We may share some or all of your personal information with one or more Cascade-affiliated corporate entities that are directly related to your business relationship with us.
c. Legal Compliance. We cooperate with government and law enforcement officials and private parties to enforce and comply with applicable law. We may disclose your personal information to government or law enforcement officials or private parties in response to lawful requests when we believe disclosure or sharing is necessary to comply with any legal obligation, enforce the Agreement, respond to claims and legal process, protect our property and rights or a third party, protect the safety of the public or any person, or prevent or stop any illegal, unethical, or legally actionable activity.
d. Legitimate Business Purposes. We may also disclose your personal information as necessary to support our legitimate business interests as reasonably determined by us.
4. Automatic information collection and use
a. Cookies. We and our service providers may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect certain information automatically as you navigate around the Website. “Cookies” are text-only pieces of information that a website transfers to an individual’s hard drive or other website-browsing equipment for record-keeping purposes. Except where allowed by applicable law, we place Cookies after having received your consent through the cookie banner or preference center. Cookies allow our Website to remember important information that will make your use of the Website more convenient. Cookies and other tracking technologies are used in order to store content information and preferences, analyze trends, and administer and maintain our Website. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies from service providers on an individual or aggregated basis. You can control the use of Cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject Cookies, you may still access and use our Website, but your ability to use some features may be functionally diminished. These technologies help us better understand user behavior. We treat information collected by Cookies and other tracking technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that IP addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we accordingly treat these identifiers as personal information.
We and our service providers may also automatically collect and use information in the following ways:
i. Browser. Certain information is collected by most browsers, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, and internet browser type and version. We may collect similar information, such as your device type and identifier, if you access our Website through a mobile device. We use this information to ensure that our Website is functioning properly.
ii. IP address. Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to your computer by your internet service provider. An IP address is identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user visits our Website, along with the time of the visit and the pages visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many online services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating Website usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering our Website. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address; however, we do not use this information to personally identify you.
5. Choices
We give you choices regarding our use and disclosure of your personal information for marketing purposes. If you do not want third parties to collect and use your information in this manner you may opt-out at the Digital Advertising Alliance in the United States. Can also contact us via the contact information set forth in the Contacting Us Section below.
6. Security
We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures designed to protect personal information under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or data storage system can be 100% secure.
7. Retention Period
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained. The criteria used to determine our retention periods include: (i) the length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the services to you; (ii) whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject; and (iii) whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
8. Third Party Sites
This Privacy Notice does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or online service (including, without limitation, any application) that is available through our Website or to which our Website contains a link. The availability of, or inclusion of a link to, any such site or property on our Website does not imply endorsement of it by us or by our affiliates.
9. Contacting Us.
Please contact us at sales@martindocks.com or at (770) 536-0189 with any questions you may have.
