Privacy Policy
Effective Date: April 2020
Last Update: July 2020
The following Privacy Policy governs the online information collection practices of
SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL ("we" or "us"). Specifically, it outlines the types of information
that we gather about you while you are using the www.megadroughtusa.com website (the "Site"),
and the ways in which we use this information.
This Privacy Policy, including our children's privacy statement, does not apply to
any information you may provide to us or that we may collect offline and/or through other means (for
example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the mail).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting and using www.megadroughtusa.com,
you agree that your use of our Site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy.
Because the Web is an evolving medium, we may need to change our Privacy Policy at some point in the future,
in which case we will post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this website. You will be able to check the
Effective Date and you can see the "Last updated" date of the policy at the beginning of this page.
By continuing to use www.megadroughtusa.com after we post any such
changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.
How We Collect and Use Information
We may collect and store personal or other information that you voluntarily supply
to us online while using www.megadroughtusa.com (e.g., while on
www.megadroughtusa.com or in responding via email to a feature provided on www.megadroughtusa.com).
www.megadroughtusa.com only contacts individuals who specifically request that we do so or in
the event that they have signed up to receive our messaging, attended one of our events, or have purchased
one of our products.
www.megadroughtusa.com collects personally identifying information
from our users during online registration and online purchasing. Generally, this information includes name
and e-mail address for registration or opt-in purposes and name, postal address, and credit card information
when registering for our events or purchasing our products. All this information is provided to us by you.
We also collect and store information that is generated automatically as you
navigate online through www.megadroughtusa.com. For example, we may collect information about
your computer's connection to the Internet, which allows us, among other things, to improve the delivery of
our web pages to you and to measure traffic on www.megadroughtusa.com. We also may use a
standard feature found in browser software called a "cookie" to enhance your experience with www.megadroughtusa.com.
Cookies
are small files that your web browser places on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes. By showing how
and when visitors use www.megadroughtusa.com, cookies help us deliver advertisements, identify
how many unique users visit us, and track user trends and patterns. They also prevent you from having to
re-enter your preferences on certain areas of www.megadroughtusa.com where you may have
entered preference information before.
www.megadroughtusa.com also may use web beacons (single-pixel graphic
files also known as "transparent GIFs") to access cookies and to count users who visit www.megadroughtusa.com
or open HTML-formatted email messages.
We use the information we collect from you while you are using www.megadroughtusa.com
in a variety of ways, including using the information to customize features; advertising that appears on
www.megadroughtusa.com; and, making other offers available to you via email, direct mail or
otherwise. We also may provide your information to third parties, such as service providers, contractors and
third-party publishers and advertisers for a variety of purposes. Unless you inform us in accordance with
the process described below, we reserve the right to use, and to disclose to third parties, all of the
information collected from and about you while you are using www.megadroughtusa.com in any way
and for any purpose, such as to enable us or a third party to provide you with information about products
and services.
If you do not wish your information to be used for these purposes, you must send a
letter to the Online Privacy Coordinator whose address is listed at the end of this Privacy Policy
requesting to be taken off any lists of information that may be used for these purposes or that may be given
or sold to third-parties.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information
available for viewing by third parties online - for example on message boards, web logs, through email, or
in chat areas - that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. We cannot be
responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.
Some of our third-party advertisers and ad servers that place and present
advertising on www.megadroughtusa.com also may collect information from you via cookies, web
beacons or similar technologies. These third-party advertisers and ad servers may use the information they
collect to help present their advertisements, to help measure and research the advertisements'
effectiveness, or for other purposes. The use and collection of your information by these third-party
advertisers and ad servers is governed by the relevant third-party's privacy policy and is not covered by
our Privacy Policy. Indeed, the privacy policies of these third-party advertisers and ad servers may be
different from ours. If you have any concerns about a third party's use of cookies or web beacons or use of
your information, you should visit that party's website and review its privacy policy.
www.megadroughtusa.com also includes links to other websites and
provides access to products and services offered by third parties, whose privacy policies we do not control.
When you access another website or purchase third-party products or services through www.megadroughtusa.com,
use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the site you are
visiting or the provider of such products or services.
We may also make some content, products and services available through our Site or
by emailing messages to you through cooperative relationships with third-party providers, where the brands
of our provider partner appear on www.megadroughtusa.com in connection with such content,
products and/or services. We may share with our provider partner any information you provide, or that is
collected, while visiting any pages that are made available in cooperation with our provider partner. In
some cases, the provider partner may collect information from you directly, in which cases the privacy
policy of our provider partner may apply to the provider partner's use of your information.
The privacy policy of our provider partners may differ from ours. If you have any
questions regarding the privacy policy of one of our provider partners, you should contact the provider
partner directly for more information.
Be aware that we may occasionally release information about our visitors when
release is appropriate to comply with law or to protect the rights, property, or safety of users of www.megadroughtusa.com
or the public.
Please also note that as our business grows, we may buy or sell various assets. In
the unlikely event that we sell some or all our assets, or one or more of our websites is acquired by
another company, information about our users may be among the transferred assets.
Google Analytics
We also use Google Analytics Advertiser Features to optimize our business.
Advertiser features include:
- Remarketing with Google Analytics
- Google Display Network Impression Reporting
- DoubleClick Platform integrations
- Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting
By enabling these Google Analytics Display features, we are required to notify our
visitors by disclosing the use of these features and that we and third-party vendors use first-party cookies
(such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as the
DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to gather data about your activities on our
Site.
Among other uses, this allows us to contact you if you begin to fill out our
check-out form but abandon it before completion with an email reminding you to complete your order.
The "Remarketing" feature allows us to reach people who previously visited our Site
and match the right audience with the right advertising message.
You can opt out of Google's use of cookies by visiting Google's ad settings and/or
you may opt out of a third-party vendor's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative
opt-out page.
Facebook
As advertisers on Facebook and through our Facebook page, we, (not Facebook) may
collect content or information from a Facebook user and such information may be used in the same manner
specified in this Privacy Policy. You consent to our collection of such information.
We abide by Facebook's Data Use Restrictions.
- Any ad data collected, received, or derived from our Facebook ad ("Facebook advertising data") is only
shared with someone acting on our behalf, such as our service provider. We are responsible for ensuring
that our service providers protect any Facebook advertising data, or any other information obtained from
us, limit our use of all that information, and keep it confidential and secure.
- We do not use Facebook advertising data for any purpose (including retargeting, commingling data across
multiple advertisers' campaigns, or allowing piggybacking or redirecting with tags), except on an
aggregate and anonymous basis (unless authorized by Facebook) and only to assess the performance and
effectiveness of our Facebook advertising campaigns.
- We do not use Facebook advertising data, including the targeting criteria for a Facebook ad, to build,
append to, edit, influence, or augment user profiles, including profiles associated with any mobile
device identifier or other unique identifier that identifies any particular user, browser, computer or
device.
- We do not transfer any Facebook advertising data (including anonymous, aggregate, or derived data) to
any ad network, ad exchange, data broker or other advertising or monetization related service.
How do we store your information?
Your information is stored at the list server that delivers www.megadroughtusa.com
content and messaging. Your information can only be accessed by those who help manage those lists to deliver
email to those who would like to receive www.megadroughtusa.com material.
All the messaging or emails that are sent to you by
www.megadroughtusa.com include an unsubscribe link in them. You can remove yourself at any
time from our mailing list by clicking on the unsubscribe link that can be found in every communication that
we send you.
General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)
The GDPR took effect on May 25, 2018 and is intended to protect the data of European
Union (EU) citizens.
As a company that markets its site, content, products and/or services online we do
not specifically target our marketing to the EU or conduct business in or to the EU in any meaningful way.
If the data that you provide to us during your use of our site, content, products and/or services is
governed by GDPR, we will abide by the relevant portions of the Regulation.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), or are accessing this
site from within the EEA, you may have the right to request: access to, correction of, deletion of;
portability of; and restriction or objection to processing, of your personal data, from us. This includes
the "right to be forgotten."
To make any of these requests, please contact our GDPR contact: support@survivopedia.com.
Nevada Privacy Rights
Under Nevada law, Nevada residents may submit a request directing us not to make
certain disclosures of personal information we maintain about them.
To exercise this right, please contact us: support@survivopedia.com
Online form: here
California Privacy Rights
This section contains disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act
("CCPA") and applies only to "personal information" that is subject to the CCPA.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding
your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree 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 from time to time (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.
Under California Civil Code Section 1789.3, users of the Website from California are
entitled to the following specific consumer rights notice: The Complaint Assistance Unit of the Division of
Consumer Services of the California Department of Consumer Affairs may be contacted in writing at 1625 North
Market Blvd., Suite N 112, Sacramento, CA 95834, or by telephone at (916) 445-1254 or (800) 952-5210.
Personal information we collect, disclose for a business purpose, and sell
We collect the categories of personal information about California consumers
identified in the chart below. In the past 12 months we have collected and disclosed California consumers'
personal information to third parties for business or commercial purposes - details are set out in the chart
below.
We did not sell any information collected in the past 12 months.
Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business or Commercial Purpose
Categories of Personal Information |
Examples |
Collected in the last 12 months: |
Categories of sources from which information is collected: |
Business or commercial purposes for collection, use, and sharing: |
Disclosed for business purposes to the following categories of third parties: |
Sold to the following categories of third parties: |
Personal and online identifiers |
(such as first and last name, email address, or unique online identifiers, Internet Protocol
Address)
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Personal Information Categories – as listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ.
Code § 1798.80(e))
|
(A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address,
telephone number, passport number, driver's license or state identification card number, insurance
policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number,
debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance
information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other
categories.)
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law. |
Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed,
marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender
identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual
orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic
information).
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Commercial or transactions information |
Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other
purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Internet or other electronic network activity information |
(such as browsing history, search history, interactions with a website, email, application, or
advertisement)
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Biometric information. |
Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to
extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints,
faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and
sleep, health, or exercise data.
|
No |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
NO |
Geolocation data. |
IP |
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Sensory data. |
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. |
NO |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
No |
Professional or employment-related information |
Current or past job history or performance evaluations. |
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C.
Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)).
|
Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party
acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student
identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Equipment information. |
Information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage
details.
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Inferences drawn from the above information about your predicted characteristics and preferences
|
Profile reflecting a person's preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions,
behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
|
Yes |
All categories listed below. |
All purposes listed below. |
All categories listed below. |
No |
Categories of sources
SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL obtains the categories of Personal
Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
- Directly from you - Personal Information that you input into our websites. For example, from:
- forms you complete, responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research or
marketing purposes.
- products and services, you purchase through our partners Clickbank or Digistore24.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us in
relation to our products or services.
- Indirectly from you. For example, from observing User actions in the Google Analytics or other
platforms
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us in relation to
our products or services.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research or marketing purposes.
- Your search queries on the Website
- Details of transactions you carry out through our partners (ClickBank, Digistore24 etc) and of the
fulfilment of your orders.
- Affiliates in our group companies
- Consumer data resellers
- Comments or reviews you left on our website
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter,
"Posted") on public areas of the Website, including product reviews ("User
Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own
risk. 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.
How and Why We Use, collect and share Your Personal Information
We use the Personal Information to satisfy your requests, improve the quality of the
SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL products, engage in research and analysis relating to the SC
DIRECT RESPONSE SRL offers, personalize your experience, track usage of our products, market
our products, provide customer support, message you, and comply with legal obligations. Even when we do not
retain such Personal Information, it still must be transmitted to our servers initially and stored long
enough to process.
We also use Personal Information that we collect about you or that you
provide to us, including any Personal Information used to fulfil our contractual obligations to
you:
- To present our offers and the contents to you.
- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
- To satisfy any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To provide you with notices about your product or account, including expiration and renewal notices,
shipping delivery notes and product updates.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and
us, including for billing and collection.
- To notify you about changes of the products or services we offer or provide.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
We may use and disclose the personal information we collect from you for our
commercial and business purposes as set out in this privacy policy for one or more of the following business
purposes:
- To complete or meet the reason you provided the Personal Information, including integrated third-party
products. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or submit
a query about other transactions, we will use that Personal Information to respond to your inquiry
(automated or otherwise). If you provide your Personal Information to purchase a product or service, we
will use that Personal Information to facilitate delivery of the product. We may also save your Personal
Information to facilitate orders of additional users or SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL or
process decommissions.
- To provide, support, personalize, develop, and enhance our products and the customer experience.
- To present our partners offers or products
For commercial purposes, including marketing, advertising, and enabling commercial
transactions
- To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.
- To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional
fraud.
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of
SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL, its customers, or others. This includes exchanging Personal
Information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk
reduction
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your
concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of the SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL
products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.
- For debugging, testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve
existing products or create new products.
- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental
regulations.
SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL will not collect additional categories
of Personal Information or use the Personal Information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or
incompatible purposes without providing you notice.
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.
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 setting 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.
Our Do Not Track Policy
Some browsers have a "do not track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do
not want to have your online activities tracked. Currently, we do not respond to browser "do not
track" signals.
Recipients of California Personal Information
We may disclose the categories of personal information listed above to the
categories of third parties listed below for business purposes:
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are
bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the
purposes for which we disclose it to them. We may disclose Personal Information to a third-party
manufacturer if the fulfillment of your order requires that your order be shipped directly from said
third-party manufacturer to you.
- To our subsidiaries or affiliates in our group companies
- Advertising networks and consumer data resellers
- Internet service providers
- Data analytics providers
- Operating systems and platforms
- Social networks
- Government entities, if required to do so
We may share aggregated information about our users without restriction.
Your Rights Regarding Personal Information
California residents have certain rights with respect to the personal information
collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding
your personal information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:
- The right to know the categories and specific pieces of personal information we
collect, use, disclose, and sell about you; the categories of sources from which we collected your
personal information; our purposes for collecting or selling your personal information; the categories
of your personal information that we have either sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and the
categories of third parties with which we have shared personal information.
- The right to request that we delete the personal information we have collected from you
or maintain about you.
- The right to opt out of our sale(s) of your personal information. Please note that if
you opt out of certain types of sales, we will be unable to provide you with the services that rely on
such sales.
- The right not to receive discriminatory treatment for the exercise of the privacy
rights conferred by the CCPA.
SC DIRECT RESPONSE SRL
will not sell your personal information. California law requires that we maintain a separate
webpage that allows you to opt out of the sale of your personal information. Please read below for more
details.
To exercise any of the above rights,
please contact us as follows:
Verification Process and Authorized Agents
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data
portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we
collected personal information or an authorized representative.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and
respond to it.
We may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or
understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to
submit a request or have it fulfilled. At a minimum you will need to provide your name and email
address.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we
cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to
you. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the
requestor's identity or authority to make the request.
Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you
authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal
information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA request on your behalf by
informing our customer service team support@survivopedia.com.
You will need to provide your name and address, your agent's name and address, and a copy of the document by
which you appointed the agent.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days
of its receipt. If we require more time, we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing
using email.
We will deliver our written response by email.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the
verifiable consumer request's receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot
comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your
personal information that is readily usable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity
to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request
unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a
fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your
request.
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 depends 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.
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.
Non-Discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any Personal Information rights.
Unless permitted by applicable regulations, we will not:
- Deny you goods or services.
- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or
other benefits, or imposing penalties.
- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or
quality of goods or services.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this Statement at our discretion and at any time. It
is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page and update the effective date.
Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such
changes.
This children's privacy statement explains our practices with respect to the online
collection and use of personal information from children under the age of thirteen and provides important
information regarding their rights under federal law with respect to such information.
- This Site is not directed to children under the age of thirteen and we do NOT knowingly collect
personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen as part of www.megadroughtusa.com.
We screen users who wish to provide personal information in order to prevent users under the age of
thirteen from providing such information.
If we become aware that we have inadvertently received
personally identifiable information from a user under the age of thirteen as part of www.megadroughtusa.com,
we will delete such information from our records.
If we change our practices in the future, we will
obtain prior, verifiable parental consent before collecting any personally identifiable information from
children under the age of thirteen as part of www.megadroughtusa.com.
- Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of
thirteen as part of www.megadroughtusa.com, we also do NOT knowingly distribute such
information to third parties.
- We do NOT knowingly allow children under the age of thirteen to publicly post or otherwise distribute
personally identifiable contact information through www.megadroughtusa.com.
- Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of
thirteen as part of www.megadroughtusa.com, we do NOT condition the participation of a
child under thirteen in www.megadroughtusa.com online activities on providing personally
identifiable information.
Disclaimer
This policy may be changed at any time at our discretion. If we should update this
policy, we will post the updates to this page on our Website.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices,
contact us at: support@survivopedia.com