PRIVACY POLICY    

Last updated December 19, 2022 

Thank you for choosing to be part of our Exploration Solo community at Exploration Alison LLC (“Company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about our policy, or our practices with regards to your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

When you visit our website explorationsolo.com, and use our services, you trust us with your personal information. We take your privacy very seriously. In this privacy policy, we seek to explain to you what information we collect, how we use it and what rights you have in relation to it. Please read through our privacy policy carefully, as it is important. By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound this privacy policy. If there are any terms in this privacy policy you not want to agree with, you must not access or use the website.

This privacy policy applies to all information collected through our website (such as explorationsolo.com), and/or any related services, sales, marketing or events (we refer to them collectively in this privacy policy as the “Services“).

To see our Cookie Policy including a list of cookies used by us please visit our Cookie Policy page.

To see a full list of data that may be captured while visiting our site, please see a list here.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age and the information on explorationsolo.com is not structured to attract anyone under the age of 18. Children under the age of 18 are prohibited from using this website. By using the Services, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services.

If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at [email protected].

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you provide to us such as name, email, and information provided in comments.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us in a number of ways including:

  1. Signing up for our Newsletter and Opt Ins: Your name and email address
  2. Comments: Your name, email address and comment.  Please note that by posting a comment on this Site, you consent to the posting of any Personal Information that you provide.  You should be aware that such Personal Information can be read, collected, or used by other visitors to these public areas.  We have no control over how these visitors use your Personal Information.
  3. Information provided using features on the website to communicate with us.

Information automatically collected

Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected automatically when you visit our Services.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services and other technical information.

This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Cookies

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.  Cookies are small files which include a unique identifier.  When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies.  Each website can send its own cookie to your browser, assuming your browser preferences allow for this. Your browser will only permit a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

The Company reserves the right to use other technologies similar to cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels are used in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.   Pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages to user while visiting that social media website.

You can find a list of cookies captures here.

Third Party Links and Use

We may include, offer or advertise third party links, products or services on the website.  Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Articles on this website may include embedded content such as videos or images.  Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

We have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties.  You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION IS USED

We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our Services for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, in order to enter into or perform a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

  • To send you marketing and promotional communications.We and/or our third party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt-out of our marketing emails at any time (see the ” WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS  ” below).
  • To protect our Services.We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Services safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).
  • To enforce our terms, conditions and policies for Business Purposes, Legal Reasons and Contractual.
  • To respond to legal requests and prevent harm. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.
  • For other Business Purposes.We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Services, products, marketing and your experience. We may use and store this information in aggregated and anonymized form so that it is not associated with individual end users and does not include personal information. We will not use identifiable personal information without your consent.

WHO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH

We only share information with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services, to protect your rights, or to fulfill business obligations. 

We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:

  • Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information in a specific purpose.
  • Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
  • Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
  • Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
  • Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

  • Vendors, Consultants and Other Third-Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include: payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Services, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Services over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.
  • Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
  • Business Partners. We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.

HOW LONG WE STORE YOUR INFORMATION

We keep your information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy unless otherwise required by law. 

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

DATA SECURITY

We aim to protect your personal information through commercial industry standards.

We strive to employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of information submitted to us voluntarily and automatically. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security of your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

By using this website, you agree to hold the Company harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties.  You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge and consent.

DATA BREACH

A privacy breach occurs when there is unauthorized access to or collection, use, disclosure or disposal of personal information. You will be notified about data breaches when Exploration Alison LLC believes you are likely to be at risk or serious harm. For example, a data breach may be likely to result in serious financial harm or harm to your mental or physical well-being. In the event that Exploration Alison LLC becomes aware of a security breach which has resulted or may result in unauthorized access, use or disclosure of personal information Exploration Alison LLC will promptly investigate the matter and notify the applicable Supervisory Authority not later than 72 hours after having become aware of it, unless the personal data breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.


CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES 

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this privacy policy.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS PRIVACY RIGHTS 

If you are a resident of California, you are granted specific rights regarding access to your personal information. 

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

To request removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Services, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.

VISITOR GDPR RIGHTS

Under the GDPR, if you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights and information including:

We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of:

  1. You ask us to delete the information by sending a request to [email protected]. Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to access paid or free content previously provided to you.
  2. Our decision to cease using our existing data providers
  3. The Company decides to no longer be in business or continue to offer the services
  4. The data is no longer needed to provide you service, or the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.

You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

If you have provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you.  We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

Should you with to have your information deleted, please email us at [email protected] and submit a request.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

We will update this policy as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

This privacy policy is effective as of 12/19/2022 and will be updated and modified as needed.   We will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy.  If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will provide you with additional notice.  You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy.  Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms.  Your continued use of our website after Privacy Policy changes go into effect constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.

CONTACT US FOR QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS PRIVACY POLICY

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at [email protected] or by post to:

Exploration Alison LLC
2920 Forestville Road
Ste 100 PMB 1296
Raleigh, NC 27616

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