Known privacy policy
EFFECTIVE DATE: January 1, 2019
We respect your privacy and take great care to safeguard information in our possession. Your preferences for use of your information are our highest priority and Known takes seriously the protection and proper use of your personal information. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. By visiting the Known website and domain name, and any other linked pages, features, content, application, or services offered online from time to time by us (collectively, the "Website"), or using any of our services, you acknowledge that you accept the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy.
TYPES OF INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In this policy, "personal information" means any information by which you can be specifically identified, located or contacted, such as your name (first and last), address (city, state, zip), email address, or telephone number.
We collect and store certain types of non-personal information whenever you use our Website. This information includes computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from our Website, referral URL, transaction history, and other automatically collected information. Information that is aggregated or de-identified is considered non-personal information.
COOKIES, WEB BEACONS, AND OTHER SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Our website uses "cookie" and "web beacon" technology. We use cookies and web beacons to identify your device, distinguish you from other visitors, record your IP address and understand your use of our site, and identify the name of the website from which you linked to Known. This information is used to help us to improve our website design and services. Information obtained through cookies and web beacons may be shared with or obtained by service providers on our behalf. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on the hard drive of your computer when you visit a website. A "session cookie" expires immediately when you end your session (i.e., close your browser). A "persistent cookie" stores information on the hard drive so when you end your session and return to the same website at a later date, the cookie information is still available. When you visit our website, we may use both a session and a persistent cookie.
We use third-party analytics services on the Website, including Google Analytics. These analytics service providers use cookies or other tracking technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use our Website, compile reports about activity on Website, and provide us other services. The technologies may collect information such as your IP address, time of visit, whether you are a return visitor, any referring website, and other information. We do not use these analytics service providers to gather information that personally identifies you. The information generated by Google Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be subject to Google’s privacy policies. To learn more about Google’s partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by Google click here.
We work with third-party companies who also use these technologies to provide features on our Website. These third parties may use these technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. They may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may also use persistent identifiers to track your Internet usage across other websites in their networks beyond our Website. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based advertising or other targeted content. While we do not knowingly provide these entities with information that personally identifies you, such third parties may, with sufficient data from other sources, be able to personally identify you, unknown to us.
Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection, disclosure practices, and the choices that we provide, will continue to operate as described in this Privacy Policy, whether or not a Do Not Track signal is received.
YOUR RIGHTS
With respect to any of the foregoing requests, please contact us via the information provided below.
VISITING OUR WEBSITE OR USING OUR SERVICES FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES
If you are visiting our Website or using our services from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. The data protection and other laws of the United States might be different from those in your country, but please be assured that we take steps to ensure that your privacy is protected in accords with this policy. By using our services and voluntarily submitting your information to us, you consent to the general use of such information as provided in this Privacy Policy and to the transfer of that information to and storage of that information in the United States.
FOR USERS IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA OR SWITZERLAND
PURPOSES OF PROCESSING AND LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING
As explained in our Privacy Policy, we process personal data in various ways depending upon your use of our site or services. We process data on the legal base as necessary for our legitimate interests in providing the site and services where those interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedom related to data privacy.
RIGHT TO LODGE A COMPLAINT
Residents of the EEA or Switzerland have the right to lodge a complaint about our data collection and processing actions with the supervisory authority concerned. Contact details for data protection authorities are available here.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
Known may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting a revised policy on our Website. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Website after such changes have been first posted.