Privacy Policy
We self-certify compliance with:
Adopted: April 24th, 2012
At APX, Inc and its affiliated entities. (collectively or individually referred to as “APX” or “we”), we recognize that privacy is important to you. This Privacy Policy applies to all of the products, services, and websites offered by APX
APX complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. APX has certified that it adheres to the Safe Harbor Privacy Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity, access, and enforcement. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, and to view APX’s certification, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor.
Notice: Information we collect and how we use it
APX collects and uses personal and other
information in a number of ways.
Registration with APX
When you sign up for a particular service that may require registration, we ask
you to provide personal contact information such as your name, address,
telephone number and email address. This information may also include
basic account information for billing or other purposes.
Information for Processing from Other Business
Organizations
APX may receive information from other business organizations such as our
clients for the purpose of providing services to these organizations.
Some of this information may be non-public personal information or confidential
account information. Generally, we process this information on their
instructions and subject to confidentiality provisions.
Information Automatically Logged
A number of APX applications use web server logs and similar tools to
help diagnose problems with the server, to administer the website, and to
enhance security or authenticate users. Server logs are analyzed by a
commercial tool to provide simple access demographics, including “New vs.
Returning Visitors,” “Top Visitors,” “Top Geographic Regions,”, and other
statistical reports.
User Communications
When you send email or other communications to APX, we may retain and use
those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your
requests, and improve our services.
Cookies
Our systems may use cookies to keep track of the state of your session and may
also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests. No personal
information is stored in cookies. If cookies are disabled, certain applications
in the protected portion of our systems may not work properly.
Other Purposes and Sharing
It is APX’s policy not to use or disclose confidential or non-public
information received from clients or end-user customers except in connection
with the provision and improvement of APX services. Such uses or
disclosures may include, for example, those that are usual, appropriate, or
acceptable to carry out the APX service for which the information was
given or a transaction related thereto, to maintain accounts, to provide
confirmations and statements, to provide access to data services, and for
record keeping purposes. In addition to the uses and disclosures set
forth above, APX may use information you provide or it otherwise receives
for:
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auditing, research, and analysis in order to maintain, protect,
and improve our services;
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ensuring the technical functioning of our network;
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satisfying any applicable law, regulation, legal process, or
enforceable governmental request;
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enforcing applicable Terms of Use, including investigation of
potential violations thereof;
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detecting, preventing, or otherwise addressing fraud, security
or technical issues; or
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protecting against harm to the rights, property, or safety of
APX, its users or the public as required or permitted by law.
Sharing of Aggregated and Non-Personal
Information
We may share with third parties certain pieces of aggregated, non-personal
information. Such information does not identify you individually or compromise
any aspect of confidential information or transactions.
International Users and Location of Data
Processing
APX processes personal, confidential, and non-public information on our servers in the United States of America and in other countries where data protections may differ and in some cases be less adequate than those found, for example, in the European Union or Switzerland. In some cases, we may process such information on a server outside your own country. Individuals outside the United States who submit personally identifiable information via this website acknowledge and agree that the information submitted will be forwarded to the United States or other jurisdictions for processing in connection with the purposes for which it has been supplied.
Links to Other Websites
Our websites may contain (resource) links to other websites. APX is not
responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. Users
linking to other websites are encouraged to verify the privacy practices of the
other websites.
Choice: Options Concerning Information
We Collect
APX will not collect or use information
for purposes other than those described in this Privacy Policy without your
consent. You can decline to submit personal information to any of our
services, in which case APX may not be able to provide those services to
you.
Administrative and Marketing
Communications: We Do Not Share with Third Parties for Their Marketing
Purposes
It is the policy of APX not to disclose confidential or non-public
information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
APX does not endorse or promote offers
from third party advertisers and will not share your information with them.
APX may from time to time, in accordance
with this Privacy Policy, use personal, confidential, or non-public data to
inform a customer or accountholder about products and services that APX
expects may be of interest to them. Individuals may object to any such
data being used for such marketing purposes by contacting us in writing at the
address indicated below.
Clients and end-user consumers consent to
receiving administrative and related electronic communications related to our
relationship.
Onward Transfer: Vendor and Supplier
Information Sharing
APX may disclose information to third
parties such as vendors and suppliers who may act as our agent and with third
parties on whose behalf we are collecting such information where such sharing
is required by our business relationship. Such sharing occurs subject to
appropriate confidentiality obligations. We require our vendors and
suppliers to agree to process such information based on our instructions and
any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Access: Your Right to Know and Correct
the Information We Hold
APX strives to ensure that personal
information is kept accurate and up to date. APX kindly requests its
clients and end user customers to assist APX in complying with this obligation
by informing APX of any changes to their personal information.
Clients and end-user customers have the reasonable right to request details of
the personal information that APX holds and to request the deletion or
modification of any inaccurate personal information held by APX.
Requests to access, modify, or delete such personal information should be sent
in writing to the address indicated below.
Security: Our Efforts to Protect
Information
APX takes reasonable precautions to
protect personal, confidential, and non-public information. APX has
established an information security program setting forth standards for
maintaining administrative, technical and physical safeguards to govern
information in our care, custody, or control.
It is APX’s policy to restrict access to
confidential, non-public, and personal information to those employees who need
to know such information in order to provide APX services or as otherwise
appropriate and consistent with this Privacy Policy.
No data transmissions over the Internet can be
guaranteed to be 100% secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant the
security of any information you transmit to us and you do so at your own risk.
Despite our efforts, we cannot guarantee that information we process may not be
accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of our security
measures. In the event of a security incident, we will notify our clients
or end-user customers in accordance with applicable law.
Questions and Enforcement
APX regularly reviews its compliance
with this Privacy Policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns
regarding this Privacy Policy or APX’s treatment of personal,
confidential, or non-public information by contacting us through this website
or by writing to us at the address indicated below.
When we receive formal written complaints at
this address, it is APX’s policy to contact the complaining user
regarding his or her concerns.
APX will cooperate with relevant data
protection authorities in the investigation and resolution of complaints
brought under the Safe Harbor Principles where applicable.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
If in the future we change this Privacy
Policy, we will post the new policy on this website. If this policy is somehow
materially less restrictive or protective of your privacy than the current
policy, we will not apply the less protective aspects of the revised policy to
information you have previously provided to us without first obtaining your
consent. If we have a way of contacting you electronically, we will do so in
the way you have instructed us to obtain your consent. We reserve the right to
change this Privacy Policy in the future. Your continued use of this website
following a change in the Privacy Policy represents consent to the new policy
to the fullest extent permitted by law.
We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy.
Contacting APX
You can contact APX through our website or as follows:
by telephone at (201) 748-7900
or in writing at:
APX
Attn: General Counsel
31 W 34th Street, Suite 8005
New York, NY 10001
USA