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Foghorn Labs LLC Website Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 2024-12-03

Introduction

Foghorn Labs LLC (“Foghorn” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy and applicable privacy laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). This Privacy Policy applies globally to all users of our Website and associated services, including users in the EU, UK, and California, who may have specific rights as described under their respective privacy laws.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website foghornlabs.com, our Facebook page located at facebook.com/FoghornLabs, or any services offered by or through the website or the Facebook page (collectively the “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to the information we collect:

  • On the Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Website.
  • Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provides dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
  • When you interact with our advertising, applications, and services on third-party websites and services, if those websites or services include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Foghorn or any third party; or
  • Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you disagree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change occasionally (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

We comply with applicable laws, such as the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), regarding the collection of data from children. For children under 18, we require explicit parental consent for any necessary data collection. Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under the age of 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, use the services provided by the Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at info@foghornlabs.com.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see the Your California Privacy Rights section below for more information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

Personal Information includes any data that can directly or indirectly identify an individual, such as a name, address, email address, or online identifiers. We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“Personal Information”).
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, browser type, mobile device type and ID, browser version, the pages of our Website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
  • If you decide to use a third-party social media service such as Google, Facebook, or Twitter to register with the Website, Foghorn may collect Personal Information that is already associated with that social media service account, such as your name, your email address, your activities, or your contact list associated with that account. You may also have the option of sharing additional information with Foghorn through the third-party social media account. If you choose to provide such Personal Information during registration or otherwise, you are giving Foghorn permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, tags, and scripts.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders.
  • Your search queries on the Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

The information we collect automatically may include Personal Information, or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate settings on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Foghorn, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies, alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies, to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

Our Website does not currently respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals due to the lack of a consistent industry standard. However, we offer other tools to manage your privacy preferences, such as cookie opt-out mechanisms.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. While we take reasonable steps to ensure third-party compliance, we are not responsible for their privacy practices. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party platforms or advertisers you interact with via our Website. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:

  • To present the Website and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To provide and maintain the Website, including to monitor the usage of the Website.
  • To manage your registration as a user of the Website. The Personal Information you provide can give you access to different functionalities of the Website that are available to you as a registered user.
  • For the development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items, or services you have purchased or of any other contract with Foghorn through the Website.
  • To contact you by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products, or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • To provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information.
  • To attend and manage your requests to Foghorn.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your Personal Information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. Your Personal Information may be transferred to and processed in countries outside your own, including the United States. Such transfers will comply with applicable data protection laws, including GDPR, through mechanisms such as Standard Contractual Clauses.

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Foghorn’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Foghorn about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
  • To our business partners to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Foghorn, our customers, or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
  • Analytics

Your rights include:

  • Access and Portability: Request access to and a copy of your Personal Information.
  • Rectification and Deletion: Correct inaccuracies or delete your data.
  • Marketing Preferences: Opt-out of marketing communications or data sharing.

To exercise these rights, contact us at info@foghornlabs.com. 

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website.

  • Google Analytics
    Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
    For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
  • Email Marketing
    We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Foghorn by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us at info@foghornlabs.com.
    We may use email marketing service providers to manage and send emails to you, including:
  • Behavioral Remarketing
    Foghorn uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you visit our Website. We and our third-party vendors, including the following, use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Website.
  • Usage and Performance
    We may use third-party Service Providers to provide better improvement of our Service, including the following:
    • Invisible reCAPTCHA
      We use an invisible captcha service named reCAPTCHA. reCAPTCHA is operated by Google.
      The reCAPTCHA service may collect information from you and from your device for security purposes.
      The information gathered by reCAPTCHA is held in accordance with the Privacy Policy of Google: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
  • Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending us an email with your request to info@foghornlabs.com.
  • Promotional Offers from Foghorn. If you do not wish to have your information used by Foghorn to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or by sending us an email stating your request to info@foghornlabs.com If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to Foghorn as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties, including those above, may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

California residents may have additional Personal Information rights and choices. Please see the Your California Privacy Rights section below for more information.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to info@foghornlabs.com. However, please know we do not currently sell data triggering that statute’s opt-out requirements.

Your California Privacy Rights

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 THE CCPA PRIVACY NOTICE FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our App that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to info@foghornlabs.com or write us at Foghorn Labs LLC, 3530 N Vancouver Ave #330, Portland, OR 97227.

Our Website does not respond to Do Not Track signals. However, some third-party websites do keep track of your browsing activities. If you are visiting such websites, you can set your preferences in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of your web browser.

Your EU Privacy Rights

If you are a EU resident, EU law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your Personal Information. To learn more about your EU privacy rights, visit GDPR PRIVACY NOTICE FOR EU RESIDENTS.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting this Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

  • To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: info@foghornlabs.com
  • Foghorn Labs LLC, 3530 N Vancouver Ave #330, Portland, OR 97227
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