SonicSole’s Privacy Policy and GDPR Information
Date of last update: November 5 2020.
Introduction
This is the Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) for the website located at www.sonicsole.com and mobile apps (hereinafter, referred to as “SonicSole” and also “our”, “us”, “we”), including its sub-domains and its mobile optimized version / mobile apps (collectively, the “Site”). This Policy shall also include our Terms of Use (the “Terms”) and any supplemental guidelines and/or policies thereof (hereby incorporated by reference). All of our registered members must click on the “I Agree” checkbox on the registration form (or similar a acknowledging box or means), thereby agreeing to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service and Use. Therefore, this Policy constitutes a legal, binding agreement SonicSole.com is firmly committed to the privacy of its members.
SonicSole.com works hard to earn and keep your trust, so it adheres to the following principles to protect your privacy:
- SonicSole does not rent or sell your personally identifiable information (“PII”).
- SonicSole does not disclose your contact information with other users or third parties without your consent.
- Any PII that you provide to SonicSole will be secured with industry standard protocols and technology.
For purposes of this Policy, the Site shall be the initial point of contact between you and SonicSole, and will serve as initial point of collection of any personal data you may provide us.
The words “collect”, “use”, “process”, “treat”, “disclose” and analogous, as used herein, are related to PII and other data that we may receive from our clients, users and/or visitors, including cookies inside a computer, along with statistical and analytical complication thereof in order to create aggregate databases and marketing strategies.
Scope of this Policy
This Policy is applicable to users and visitors who enter our Site. SonicSole provides its clients, visitors and/or users with a platform designed to help people get motivated to go running, walking and jogging, using the power of music via customized running music tracks, combined with virtual coaching. We may include other Services and functionalities from time to time. Your access to the Site is only offered for your individual, non-commercial use, and not for the use or benefit of any third party you may represent.
When you register with SonicSole you voluntarily provide us with certain PII, including but not limiting to, your name, last name, IP address, email, geo location coordinates and profile picture. This data may be combined with other information collected through wearable devices or online services that you associate with our Site, including details about your exercise activities (e.g., distance, pace, heart rate, calories burned, and location). If you do not wish to disclose any PII, then your remedy is to close this web tab, delete your account and/or exit the Site. Our Site or ads do not collect any sensitive personal data about you (i.e. gender, racial origin, financial information).
Please be aware that if you post information on a public forum or bulletin board, any PII you elect to disclose therein there may or will be read, collected, or used by other users of these forums and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. All such public information shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and we (and other third parties) shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, and distribute such information to others without limitation.
Please also note that any PII or other information you provide to be displayed in your publicly available online profile will be displayed for others to see and thus will not be subject to the terms of this Policy. We cannot and will not be responsible for what third parties do with any PII or other information that you choose to make publicly available.
Information collected, purpose and use
In order for us to perform and provide our Services to our users, clients and/or visitors, we will need to undertake the storage, use, combination, integration, disclosure, process and transfer of certain PII, either among our affiliates or other authorized third parties. We may also collect certain information automatically, such pages you visit or features you use within the Site, the date and time of your activities on the Site, the URLs from the websites you visit before and after navigating to the Site, your software and hardware attributes (including operating system type and version, version, device type and device identifiers), your browser type and version, and your general geographic location derived through your IP address (e.g., your city, state, or metropolitan region).
We generally collect, use and disclose your personal information to:
- Verify your e-mail address and identity.
- Provide news and communications regarding our Services and Site.
- Develop, research, process, safeguard and improve our communications and Services.
- Answer to queries and suggestions you submit to us.
- Analyze trends, track member user patterns and recommend you products and services that may be of interest to you.
- Undertake and manage our relationship with you and other users of our Site.
- Diagnose server problems, monitor traffic patterns.
Accordingly, we will undertake the open and transparent management of PII and will: (i) provide you with the option of transacting anonymously or using a pseudonym (if applicable in the Site); (ii) inform you about how your personal information may be used and disclosed (including overseas); (iii) maintain the safety and integrity of your personal information; and/or (iv) enforce your individual right to access and correct your personal information.
Our Site may offer you the functionality of using your social media credentials (e.g. Facebook, Google, and Twitter) to execute single-sign-off thereof and in that manner we may also collect certain PII from you as you log onto our Site. We will not collect more information from you when using your social media credentials beyond the personal information such third parties disclose to us.
We may share certain anonymized, de-identified data with our affiliates, agents and business partners. This anonymized may be aggregated from our user statistics (which also do not identify you) in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
Location Data
Our platform includes various location-based features, used to provide our services, and will be used by SonicSole to collect, use and share precise location data of yours, including the real-time geographic location of your mobile device. For some third-party partners, such as Google, this information will be shared automatically. For others, such as and Facebook, this information will only be shared with your explicit permission or if you choose to share it via your mobile device’s settings.
Control of your information
Our users, visitors and registered members will generally be able to edit, select or delete the amount and type of PII they may disclose to us when using our Site. We continuously try to improve our user experience, and strive to provide you the best choices for the disclosure, edition or removal of your PII being processed by us, as well as to respect and enforce your right to privacy.
Safeguard of your information
We use industry standard protocols and technology to protect you registered user information and PII, such as VeriSign and Secure Socket Layer (SSL) sessions. Our Secure Socket Layer encrypts all transaction data for transmittal in a format that prevents data theft by unauthorized third parties. Additionally we may undertake internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard against unauthorized access to systems where we store PII. However, please take into account that the Internet and e-mail transmissions are not a secure or error free communication means. . We also review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the PII needed to provide or improve our services, and to keep the PII under our safeguard accurate, complete, and current.
Information release and disclosure
We will undertake any and all commercial and technical measures to maintain the integrity of your PII and to protect it from unauthorized access (including secure hardware and software).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, we must reserve our right to disclose your PII when we or our affiliates, licensors, officers, agents and(or representatives reasonably believe it necessary to protect our interests or where you result to be in breach of our Terms and/or Policy. Accordingly, we will have the right to disclose any and all collected PII and/or personal data, under the following circumstances:
- If required under applicable law, rules or regulations;
- In response to a valid request or subpoena from a government or law enforcement agency;
- To defend ourselves and our affiliates, licensors, officers, agents and representatives from legal claims and processes brought to us by third parties (including takedown notices);
- To defend the property, rights and integrity of any of our users, advertisers or licensors;
- To stop or cause to cease any actions that we may consider to cause –whether allegedly or factually– a contingency or liability.
From time to time, we may temporarily share our users’ PII only to our authorized third party service providers, which perform certain services on our behalf, and only after your express consent. The purposes of this temporary transfer may include, but are not limited to: customer support service, community management, web analytics, advertising, marketing, surveys, contests, promotions and other features offered through our Site.
Parental Notice
SonicSole does not knowingly collect any kind of information from persons under the age of sixteen (16). Through the simple use of our Services and/or browse of the Site, you hereby represent and warrant that you are of legal age as of the date of first access to the Site, and, if you are still a minor (which may depend on the jurisdiction where you reside), are using the Site under the direct supervision of your parent or legal guardian.
Commercial Electronic Messages
From time to time, we will ask you for express permission and consent to receive Commercial Electronic Messages (‘CEM’), which we will sometimes send from or to computers to our users. A CEM is a message in an electronic format (e.g. emails, newsletters, SMS, social media messages, push notifications and other form of communications) which is then sent to an electronic address (e.g. email, instant message accounts, smart phone, social media profile) that contains a message asking recipients to participate in commercial activities (e.g. purchase of products and services).
Express consent for CEMs does not apply for those CEMs that we may send and that are made for security, refunds or guarantees of products and material services of our Site.
Our optional email newsletters are also considered CEMs, and therefore you may subscribe or unsubscribe from them at will, usually on your account settings, or by following the unsubscribe links contained therein.
Personal data owners’ rights
user of our Site shall have the option to access and edit his PII via its account options or can request to have his PII information deleted contacting us by email at: support@sonicsole.com. Upon receipt of your request, and after due review, we may then delete your PII from our Site. Please take into account that we may not be able to delete all of your data from some our databases and that, if so is the case, we will then mark such data as permanently inaccessible.
Cookies and beacons
We may place the so-called ‘cookies’ in your computer or mobile device in order to track and collect data regarding your use of our Site and Services. Cookies are small text files that our Site transfers to you and that allow us permit us to recognize you and obtain data such as how, when and how long you browse pages in our Site. We also use the so-called ‘beacons’, which are small files, sometimes only a pixel in size, and then embedded onto the pages of our Site. Beacons are used to identify each of our pages in order to be analyzed by our system tools. You can always configure your browser to refuse cookies and beacons. For more information, please visit www.allaboutcookies.com.
In addition to our own tools, we may also use third party tools (such as Google Analytics) to collect and process certain data obtained from your usage of our Site and Services. These tools may use cookies, codes and other technologies to help us analyze our users’ patterns.
Third party sites and services
Our Site and Services may also implement hyperlinks to the websites of our commercial partners and other third parties. If you click on such links, you are choosing to visit such websites, and will be redirected thereto. Please take into consideration that we are not responsible for the privacy and personal data practices undertook by such third parties (including any tools, cookies, information or content contained thereinto), and that we do not have control over the manner in which such third-parties may collect, process, treat or use your PII.
Please be advised that when you use a link to go from our Site or Services to another website, our Policy and Terms are no longer into effect and that your browsing thereof is at your own and final risk. In addition, any banner or ad that we may have on our Site does not constitute any endorsement of any third party thereof.
Advertising, opt-out
From time to time, we may use Google Analytics, AdWords and AdSense tracking codes, along with other third party software tools (such as remarketing codes) in order to collect marketing analytics about the pages you browse on our Site or when you undertake specific actions through our Services. This is to provide you a customized, targeted advertising experience. For example, third party vendors may show you SonicSole’ ads on certain websites across the Internet, even after you leave our Site. The collected information is depersonalized and is displayed as numbers, meaning it cannot be tracked back to individuals. Using Google and other analytics tools, we learn how to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on a user’s past visits, thereby giving you a better visitor experience.
Our third party vendors may also use cookies and beacons to track your Internet browsing in order to serve you ads based on what they or us believe to be of your interest. Such information will be processed for purposes of evaluating your browsing activities and consumer preferences. Henceforth, by using this Site, you consent to such disclosure, treatment and storage of data and/or PII about you, either by us or by such third parties.
In order to enforce and uphold your right to privacy, you have the option to elect not to receive this type of advertising from us or third parties, now or in the future; and you learn how to opt-out by browsing Google’s opt-out and privacy pages located at www.google.com, or the Network Advertising Initiative website located at www.networkadvertising.org. In addition, you may set browser and system preferences for how Google and other third parties serve ads to you and even permanently block some or all browsing ads, by using tools such as ad-blockers and browser plug-ins.
International Residents Notice
SonicSole has its headquarters in the United States of America (‘USA’). Henceforth, your PII may be accessed by us or our affiliates, agents, partners, advertisers or third party service providers elsewhere, and you hereby consent to such access and transfer by providing us such information. If you are accessing our Site from other regions, you ought to know that you are thereby transferring your PII to the USA and, thus, you hereby consent to such transfer to the USA or to any other country in which we operate.
Amendments, Updates
We reserve the right to amend, change and update our Site, Service, Policy and/or Terms from time to time, at our sole and final discretion, and therefore we strongly suggest that you revisit our Policy and Terms frequently for any updates. We will conspicuously post the update on the Site and/or send you an email and/or notification of any material changes to the Policy. Your continued use of the Service after the effective date of modifications to the Policy, either by registration or simple use, thereby indicates your acknowledgement of any modifications thereof.
GDPR Compliance
We are committed to our users’ rights to privacy and provide total transparency as to what and where data is stored.
Access, Portability, Deletion
A user can request access to a copy of the personal data that we have collected. Users who wish that we delete all of their personal data or to request portability can reach out to us at any time at support@sonicsole.com.
Third party solutions
In order to deliver our services we are working with the following providers:
Email solutions: Mailchimp / Google / Microsoft
Hosting: Hostgator
Statistics: Google Analytics
Mobile app platforms: Google Play Store / iTunes
File and data storage: AWS Amazon Web Servers
Social Media: Instagram / Facebook / Twitter / YouTube
Data security
We make every effort to protect and secure your data.
In order to encrypt the data exchanged between your browser and our website, we use an SSL certificate.
Contact
For inquires or comments regarding this Policy or our Terms, please communicate with us via our contact form or by email to: support@sonicsole.com.
