Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes our policies on the collection, use, and disclosure of information about you in connection with your use of our services, including those offered through our website. The terms “we”, “us”, and “BeAssured” refer to BeAssured Co., a Delaware corporation.

When you use the Service, you consent to our collection, use, and disclosure of information about you as described in this Privacy Policy.

We may collect, transmit, and store information about you in connection with your use of the Service, including any information you send to or through the Service. We use that information to provide the Service's functionality, improve the Service's quality, engage in research and analysis relating to the Service, personalize your experience, track usage of the Service, provide feedback to third party businesses that are listed on the Service, market the Service, provide customer support, message you, back up our systems, allow for disaster recovery, enhance the security of the Service, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not retain such information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long enough to process.

Public Content: Your contributions to the Service are intended for public consumption and are therefore viewable by the public. Your account profile is also intended for public consumption, as is some of your other activity through the Service, such as which businesses you follow.

Communications: When you sign up for an account or use certain features, you are opting to receive messages from BeAssured. We may not deliver messages that we believe are objectionable, such as spam messages or fraudulent solicitations. We may store information that you provide through communications with us, including from phone calls, letters, emails and other electronic messages, or in person. Any of our communications with you, including any phone calls, may be monitored and recorded for quality purposes.

Activity: We store information about your use of the Service, such as your search activity, the pages you view, or the date and time of your visits. We also store information that your computer or mobile device may provide to us in connection with your use of the Service, such as your browser type, type of computer or mobile device, browser language, IP address, WiFi information such as SSID, mobile carrier, phone number, unique device identifier, advertising identifier, location (including geolocation, beacon based location, and GPS location), and requested and referring URLs and mobile applications.

Professional Information: If you represent a business on BeAssured, we may collect and display information about you related to your business activities, such as a business name that may incorporate your individual name, or a publicly available business address that is also used as a home address. We will also collect and display information about your professional background that you choose to share with us through the Service, such as information about your professional licenses or certifications, or your professional history or specialties.

We, and our third-party service providers may use cookies, web beacons, tags, scripts, local shared objects such as HTML5 or Google's Advertising ID (“GAID”)) and similar technology (“Cookies”) in connection with your use of the Service. Cookies may contain unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our web pages. Cookies may transmit information about you and your use of the Service, such as your browser type, search preferences, IP address, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to you or that you have interacted with, and the date and time of your use. Cookies may be persistent or stored only during an individual session

Third parties may share, receive or process information about you as follows:

1. Investigations and Legal Disclosures: We may investigate and disclose information from or about you if we have a good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure: (a) is reasonably necessary to comply with legal or law enforcement processes, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding, or other legal process or law enforcement request; (b) is helpful to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service; or (c) protects our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users, affiliates, or the public.. If you flag or otherwise complain to us about content through the Service, we may share the substance of your complaint with the contributor of that content in order to provide an opportunity for the contributor to respond.
2. Links: The Service may link to third party-controlled websites, like a business’s URL. Except as set forth herein, we do not share your personal information with them, and are not responsible for their privacy practices.
3. Interaction With Third-Party Platforms: If you sign up for, or log into, BeAssured using a third-party platform like Facebook or Google we may receive information about you from such third-party platform.

Other users may be able to identify you, or associate you with your account, if you include personal information in the content you post publicly. You can reduce the risk of being personally identified by using the Service pseudonymously, though doing so could detract from the credibility of your contributions to the Service.

If requested, we will remove certain public posts from view and/or dissociate them from your account profile, but we may retain information about you for the purposes authorized under this Privacy Policy unless prohibited by law. For example, we may retain information to prevent, investigate, or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service or to comply with legal obligations. We may also maintain residual copies of your personal information in our backup systems. Please note that businesses cannot remove their business pages, ratings, or reviews by closing their accounts. Any of the actions above will be addressed in accordance with our Terms and Conditions

The Service is intended for general audiences and is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Although use of BeAssured by children is unlikely, if you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without parental consent, please contact us at hello@beassured.io. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we take steps to remove such information and terminate the child's account.

We use various safeguards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and after we receive it. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or via mobile device, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

You may contact us at hello@beassured.io concerning our Privacy Policy.

Certain users may have additional personal information rights and choices based on where they live. The laws in certain jurisdictions provide users, to the extent those laws apply to such users, with certain rights and information. This means that certain users may have additional personal information rights and choices based on where they live, and with respect to those users, to the extent this portion of the Privacy Law conflicts with any other portion of this Privacy Policy, this portion of the Privacy Policy shall supersede and control. We have tried to provide links to websites that provide more information below. If you feel that this list does not cover your rights, please send an email to hello@beassured.io.

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the Privacy Policy will govern our collection and use of information. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by email and/or by posting a notice on the Service prior to or on the effective date of the changes. By continuing to access or use the Service after those changes become effective, you acknowledge the revised Privacy Policy.

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://oag.ca.gov/privacy.

If you are a Canada resident, Canadian law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your Canada privacy rights, visit https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/.

If you are a resident of the European Union or European Economic Area, the General Data Protection Law (“GDPR”) may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your GDPR privacy rights, visit https://eugdpr.org/the-regulation/. A list of European Union data protection authorities is available at: http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.

For example, certain users (such as users in California or the EU) may have the following rights with respect to their personal information.

• The right to know what information BeAssured collects from you, why it is collected, and how it is shared.
• The right to have access to your personal information in a portable format, to the extent technically feasible.
• The right to have your personal information deleted by BeAssured and its service providers (see below) and to be notified when such deletion has been completed, colloquially known as the “right to be forgotten”.
• The right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal information rectified and to be notified upon rectification.
• Withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal information.
• The right to request information about the categories of information that are sold and/or to opt out of the sale of personal information. (Note: what is covered as a “sale” under California law is not yet clear, but we currently do not “sell” your information, as we understand it.)

The rights and options described above are subject to limitations and exceptions under applicable law. In situations in which BeAssured processes personal data on behalf of a user, BeAssured may refer the request to the relevant user and cooperate with their handling of the request, subject to any special contractual arrangement with that user.

If you are using the Services outside of the United States, your data and information is collected in the country in which you are located and is transferred to the United States or another country where our servers are located.

If you would like to request to review, correct, restrict or delete personal information that you have previously provided to us, object to the processing of personal information, or if you would like to request to receive an electronic copy of your personal information for purposes of transmitting it to another company (to the extent this right to data portability is provided to you by applicable law), please contact us at hello@beassured.io. We will respond to your request in accordance with the applicable law that governs the collection, use and deletion of your data and information. The requested deletion will be as comprehensive as possible but is always subject to issues outside of our control, including applicable regulations and laws, your actions and the actions of third parties. It is important to note that we may retain a copy of the information for archival purposes and to avoid identity theft or fraud.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of your habitual residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes applicable law. However, we encourages any such user to contact us first at hello@beassured.io, and we will do our very best to promptly address such user’s issue(s) and resolve the concern(s).