Privacy Policy

I. PRIVACY POLICY OVERVIEW
This NetWise Data Privacy Policy (which may be referred to as the “Privacy Policy”) is intended to help inform individuals (“you”) as to the collection, use, retention, sharing, and security policies of NetWise Data both in connection with data collected on www.netwisedata.com (the “Website”) as well as within our data products.
This Privacy Policy is dated as of September 27, 2022 and will be periodically reviewed by NetWise Data and subject to change over time in order to keep our policies current with emerging laws and business needs. This website page (www.netwisedata.com/privacy) will always contain the most up-to-date version of the Privacy Policy. In the scenario where a significant change occurs to the Privacy Policy, we will do our best, in accordance with all applicable laws, rules, and regulations, to inform known users of the website and of our products and of the changes.

II. SCOPE
This Privacy Policy covers personal information and other data collected about you on this Website as well as within NetWise Data’s data products. Within the scope of this Privacy Policy, personal information means information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. Specifics about what type of personal information is gathered by our website and within our data products can be found in Sections III and IV below.

III. DATA COLLECTED ON THIS WEBSITE
a. What we collect: You may be asked to provide the following information in connection with your use of the Website: your username and password when you sign-in to your NetWise Data Account; your name, email address, the company you work for, and your phone number when you submit “Contact Us” form to NetWise Data via the Website. This information will be used to process and fulfill transactions conducted by you through your NetWise Data Account, such as requests for customer service or technical support. We also collect and aggregate information about you and your use of the Website by using “cookies,” web beacons, local shared objects, or other types of tracking technology.
b. How the data is used internally: For security purposes, we will ask for certain information when you contact us to request technical support or contact our customer service to notify us of an issue. We track the actions you take on Your NetWise Data Account; such as your contact with our technical support or customer service. The information we collect may be used by NetWise Data as follows: (1) to administer our business purposes including internal records and tracking; (2) to contact you to respond to your questions or requests or to provide you with technical support; (3) to help improve or promote our products and services; (4) to assist NetWise Data to customize the user experience; and (5) to analyze your use such as trends, user movement and gather statistical information for business purposes.
c. Sharing of your data collected on this Website: We will not share information from your interaction with the NetWise Data website other than as described in this section below.
i. Affiliates: We may share your information with any subsidiaries, or other companies or entities which control, are controlled by, or under common control with NetWise Data. These affiliates will honor this Privacy Policy with respect to such shared information.
ii. Third-Party Service Providers: We may provide your information to third-party companies to perform services on our behalf. These services typically include marketing assistance, e-mail delivery, hosting services, customer service, payment services, and data analysis. We require all such third-party service providers to maintain the confidentiality of the information disclosed to them and to not use your information for any purpose other than to provide services to NetWise Data.
iii. Partners: We may provide non-personal information gathered from interaction with the NetWise Data website to partners for the purpose of analyzing trends, gathering statistical information, and providing reports to their customers.
iv. Safety, Security & Compliance with law: We may disclose any information we deem necessary to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request in order to enforce our rights or to protect the safety and security of our Website.

IV. DATA COLLECTED FOR OUR DATA PRODUCTS
a. What we collect and process: NetWise Data collects and processes personal and business information from publicly available sources as well as third party data providers. Some examples of data that may be collected about you includes:
i. Name, Address, Email Addresses, Phone Numbers.
ii. Demographic Data.
iii. Company related data including the size and location of the company you work for as well as your job title, function, role within the company.
iv. Derived longitude and latitude coordinates based on physical addresses within the United States.
b. What we DO NOT collect:
i. NetWise Data does not knowingly collect, manage, or process any data or personal information regarding individuals located within the scope of the GDPR, including all EU countries.
ii. NetWise Data does not knowingly collect online behavioral data.
iii. NetWise Data does not acquire or manage any information related to minors under the age of 18.
c. How the data is used internally: NetWise Data uses this data and personal information for the following:
i. Internally we process the data and personal information into company and personal profiles which have associated segments and other data that will ultimately help our customers and partners market their products and services to you or your company based on that data profile.
ii. Internal marketing efforts, including advertising our products and services.
iii. As needed to manage the security and safety of our websites, networks, and systems.
iv. As needed to comply with any and all applicable laws, rules, and regulations.
v. As needed to operate our business, however, NetWise Data employees are only authorized to access personal information and other data to the extent necessary to perform their job functions and duties and always only in accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations.
d. How the data is shared with third parties:
i. Customers and Partners: NetWise Data may share, sell, or otherwise distribute personal information and other data with our customers and partners including, but not limited to, entities such as digital marketing companies, website publishers, advertising agencies, demand side platforms, data management platforms, public and private companies, and government agencies for commercial and marketing purposes.
ii. Third Party Service Providers: NetWise Data may share information with service providers as needed for them to perform services on our behalf. These include, but are not limited to, services such as data modeling, visualization, import/export and hosting.
iii. Relevant parties in connection with a sale, merger, or other related business activity.
iv. Public and Governmental Authorities: only to the extent legally required in connection to national security or other legitimate law enforcement purposes.

V. CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY UNDER THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT (“CCPA”)
a. The CCPA requires certain businesses, including NetWise Data, to provide certain information disclosures and services specifically to California Consumers. A California Consumer as the right to request a copy of their personal information that a business has collected, used, sold or otherwise disclosed. NetWise Data is considered a Data Broker under the CCPA and the data that Netwise Data collects and manages is further described in Sections III and IV above. Disclosure requests can be made by clicking here.
b. Under the CCPA, NetWise Data has both the right and obligation to properly verify the identity of a California Consumer requesting to view, modify, delete or opt-out with respect to personal information. Prior to any information disclosure, NetWise Data will require certain information and processes be followed to verify the identity of the requestor, including at a minimum your Name, a Valid Email Address, a Valid Phone Number, and a Valid Street Address. In order to mitigate fraudulent requests and other misuse of the services provided under the CCPA, if a California Consumer cannot be reasonably verified, NetWise Data will be unable to disclose certain information to the requester.
c. Under the CCPA, a California Consumer can request that their personal information be deleted from all files that are used for commercial or business purposes. This can be achieved by following the process to opt-out in Section IX below, which will have the same effect.
d. California Consumers can contact us via any of the following methods to exercise their rights under the CCPA:
i. Email: privacy@netwisedata.com
ii. General Contact Us Form or Consumer Privacy / Opt-Out Request Form
iii. Postal:
NetWise Data, LLC
c/o: Data Protection Officer
350 Camino Gardens Blvd. Suite 202
Boca Raton, FL 33432
iv. Toll Free Number for Privacy related information only, including opt-outs and disclosure requests: 866-203-7797
e. CCPA Transparency Metrics

VI. DATA SECURITY
a. NetWise Data implements all necessary technical and organization measures needed to protect personal information and other data from accidental or unlawful loss, access, destruction, damage, or alteration.
b. Further documentation into our technical and organization security structure may be provided from time to time as we deem necessary for legitimate business or law enforcement purposes. Please Contact Us for more details.

VII. DATA RETENTION POLICIES
a. Personal information about you is retained only as needed for relevant business purposes and in accordance with all applicable laws, rules and regulations.
b. Personal information necessary to track opt-out preferences is retained only as needed for relevant business purposes, unless you delete or otherwise prevent its collection in accordance with this Privacy Policy or if you reverse the opt-out by later opting back in.

VIII. INFORMATION ABOUT COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
a. Cookies and other similar technologies such as pixel tags and device IDs are used by our customers and partners to help identify you or your device.
b. Cookies are small text files that contain a string of characters which help to uniquely identify the browser and other data on a connected device. Our customers and partners use cookies to gather information about user trends and collection data on how you use a website or interact with advertising. Most browsers accept cookies by default, but this is not always the case. You may be able to access and change your browser settings if you would like to further control which types of cookies you want to allow. Refer to your browser’s help section to learn more about your options with regard to cookies.

IX. OPT-OUT Options
a. Directly with NetWise Data: If you would like to opt-out of NetWise Data’s use of your personal information and other data please FILL OUT THIS FORM. If you opt-out directly with NetWise Data we will no longer provide your data to Customers and Partners as described in Section IV(d)(i) of this Privacy Policy. This opt-out process directly with NetWise Data will not opt you out of our customer’s and partner’s databases. While we will no longer provide your information to customers and partners they may still receive your information from other sources. After opt-out, NetWise Data may retain your information for the purpose of enforcing the opt-out request as well as other compliance and anti-fraud measures as made permissible by law, but it will be not used for commercial purposes within our data products.
b. Other General Opt-out Information
i) Trade Organization Opt-Outs: Users can also exercise choice via any one of the methods operated by certain advertising trade associations listed below. Please note that NetWise is not a member of these linked organizations, and this information is provided solely to inform the website visitor of other industry opt-out mechanisms.
• for users in the USA, the Network Advertising Initiative’s site here or the Digital Advertising Alliance’s site here ;
• for users in Canada, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada’s site here;
• for users in Europe, the European Digital Advertising Alliance’s site here;
• for users in Australia, the YourOnlineChoices Australia site here ; and
• for all other countries, please visit the YourAdChoices site here .
ii) How to Opt-out on Mobile: To exercise this opt-out, please visit the privacy settings of your Android or iOS device and select “limit ad tracking” (Apple iOS) or “opt-out of interest based ads” (Android). Please note that you will still see ads online, however, these ads may be less relevant because they won’t be based on your interests. The NAI provides a helpfulguide [link:https://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice/] that outlines opt-out processes for most of the major mobile operating systems.

X. ACCESS, MODIFY, OR DELETE INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
NetWise Data will provide access to view, modify and/or delete personal information about you that was gathered by this website or within our data products. While the majority of these access requests can be processed in a timely manner, complex requests may require more time and additional verification to proceed. In no case will NetWise Data disclose personal information without a Verifiable Consumer Request, meaning where NetWise Data can reasonably verify that the Consumer making the request is the Consumer about whom NetWise Data has collected personal information on, or is a person duly authorized by the Consumer to act on the Consumer’s behalf.
Please FILL OUT THIS FORM if you would like to request access to view, modify, or delete your personal information with NetWise Data.

XI. OUR POLICIES CONCERNING PERSONAL INFORMATION ON CHILDREN
NetWise Data does not intentionally collect personal information from children under the age of eighteen (18), nor do we offer them products or services. If you are under the age of eighteen (18) please do not attempt to use our Website or provide personal information about yourself to us. If we discover that we have collected personal information from a child under the age of eighteen (18) we will delete that information as quickly as possible.

XII. OUR POLICIES REGARDING EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS’ DATA
NetWise Data does not knowingly process any data concerning individuals located within the European Union. We request our third-party data providers purge EU citizen data prior to providing any data to us. If we discover personal data on any European Union citizen in our production database(s) for which we have no permission to use, we will delete it.

Notwithstanding the above, as part of its commitment to the protection of personal information, Netwise Data participates in and has certified compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss U.S. Privacy Shield Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and/or Switzerland (as applicable) to the United States.
Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact our U.S.-based third party dispute resolution provider (free of charge) at https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request.External Website.
To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s continued administration of the Privacy Shield program please visit the Privacy Shield website. To view our certification please go to the Privacy Shield List.

If you are a citizen of the European Union and believe we have any of your personal data in our databases, pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), you have the right to access, review correct and delete any of your personal data within our databases. You also have the right to revoke the consent you have already given to collect and process your personal data. If you wish to take any of these actions, please contact us at privacy@NetWiseData.com.
NetWise Data, LLC
350 Camino Gardens Boulevard. Suite 202
Boca Raton, FL 33432.

XIII. CONTACTING NETWISE DATA FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS OR COMPLAINTS
Even though NetWise Data’s business practices do not fall under the purview of the GDPR, we are committed to your privacy and have appointed a Data Protection Officer with many of the same duties as required under the GDPR.
If you believe your personal information has been used in a way that violates this Privacy Policy, or if you have any other comments, questions, or concerns, please contact the Data Protection Officer via one of these methods:
a. Email: privacy@netwisedata.com
b. General Contact Us Form or Consumer Privacy / Opt-Out Request Form
c. Postal:
NetWise Data, LLC
c/o: Data Protection Officer
350 Camino Gardens Blvd. Suite 202
Boca Raton, FL 33432
d. Toll Free Number for Privacy related information only, including opt-outs and disclosure requests: 866-203-779.