Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Effective Date: This Privacy Policy applies to Pfister Energy, Inc. (“Pfister,” “us,” “we,” or “our”), which operates the https://www.pfisterenergy.com/ website (the “Service”), applications, online services, and other interactive features or downloads that post a link to this Privacy Policy, whether accessed via computer, mobile device or otherwise (collectively, “Sites,” and individually, a “Site”). The Sites are owned or controlled by Pfister Energy, Inc. or one of its subsidiary or affiliated companies. This Privacy Policy covers information collected at the Sites. Please review it carefully.
KEY HIGHLIGHTS OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY
THIS OVERVIEW HIGHLIGHTS SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THIRD PARTY ADVERTISERS AND ANALYTICS PROVIDERS, AND OUR USE AND SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION, BUT PLEASE REVIEW OUR FULL PRIVACY POLICY BEFORE USING OUR SITE.
We primarily use the information we collect when you interact with the Sites in connection with your relationship with Pfister, your use of the Sites, and for sending you information from us or on behalf of third parties. Please review the “Information Collection” and “How We Use Your Information” sections for a full description of the information we collect and how we use that information. Note that we do not share your Personal Information (information that identifies you as a specific individual, such as your full name, email address or street address) with third parties for their marketing purposes without your consent; however, we may share your Personal Information under certain limited circumstances. We may also share information that has been de- identified, so that it no longer identifies a specific individual, with third parties. For more information, please review the section below entitled “How We May Share the Information Collected.”
The Sites may contain content served by third parties, including videos and advertisements, and we work with third party service providers to serve Pfister advertisements elsewhere online. In connection with serving content and providing analytics and advertising services, third parties may collect certain information about your visits to this or other web sites and we may receive information regarding the use of the Sites and the effectiveness of our advertisements. The advertising networks, advertisers, ad agencies, analytics service providers and other vendors may set and access their own tracking devices (including cookies and web beacons) and they may otherwise collect or have access to information about you (such as your general interest in certain book genres). For more information, please review the “Third Party Analytics Providers and Ad Servers” section below. Some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self- Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. You may want to visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, which provides information regarding targeted advertising and offers an “opt-out” by participating companies.
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE DIRECTLY TO PFISTER
Pfister may ask you to provide personally identifiable information, which is information that identifies you as a specific individual, such as your full name, email address or street address (“Personal Information”), and other information about you, such as demographic information (e.g., your age, gender, or zip code), payment information, or certain information about your preferences and interests. If we combine demographic or similar information with the Personal Information we collect, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.
The Sites are intended for general audiences and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 13 in violation of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA"). We also do not knowingly sell or share the Personal Information of consumers under 16 without affirmative authorization (opt-in consent from the consumer if 13–15, or from a parent or guardian if under 13), as required by applicable U.S. state privacy laws. If you believe we may have collected Personal Information from a child in violation of this policy, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section.
Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, capitalized terms have the meanings given in our Terms and Conditions, available at https://www.pfisterenergy.com/.
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
In addition to any Personal Information or other information that you choose to submit to the Sites, we and our third-party service providers, including any third party content providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect certain information whenever you visit or interact with the Sites (“Usage Information“). Usage Information may include your browser and operating system, the URL or advertisement that referred you to the Sites, search terms that led you to the Sites, the areas of the Sites you visit, and the times of your visits, among other information. We may use Usage Information for a variety of purposes, including enhancing or otherwise improving the Sites and our products and services. In addition, we automatically collect your IP address or other unique identifier (“Device Identifier”) for any computer, mobile phone or other device you may use to access the Site. A Device Identifier is a number that is automatically assigned to your device used to access a Site, and our servers identify your device with its Device Identifier. Some mobile service providers may also provide us, or our third-party service providers, with information regarding the physical location of the device used to access a Site. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.
The technologies that may be used to collect Usage Information include the following:
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HubSpot
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LinkedIn
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Google
HOW WE RESPOND TO DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a "Do Not Track" signal to websites and online services you visit. Because there is no industry-standard interpretation of "Do Not Track," Pfister currently does not alter its practices when it receives such a signal. However, Pfister does honor Global Privacy Control ("GPC") signals as an opt-out preference signal where required by applicable state law, including for purposes of opting out of the sale or sharing of Personal Information and targeted advertising. To learn more, visit https://globalprivacycontrol.org.
COMMUNITY FORUMS, USER CONTENT, AND POSTING CONTENT TO THIRD PARTY SITES
The Sites may provide you the opportunity to participate and post content publicly in forums, through interactive features and through other communication functionality (“Community Forums“). You may choose, through such features or otherwise, to submit or post photographs, videos, questions, comments, suggestions or other content, (collectively, “User Content“).
Note that anything you post to a Community Forum is public — others will have access to your User Content and may use it or share it with third parties. Information or other content you choose to post or make available in the Community Forums may be viewed, collected and used by others. If you choose to voluntarily disclose Personal Information, that information will be considered public information and the protections of this Privacy Policy will not apply. Think carefully before you post and use caution before disclosing any Personal Information.
Also, functionality on the Sites may permit interactions between the Sites and a third-party web site, such as enabling you “like” or review a product on our Sites or “share” content to other web sites. If you choose to “like,” review, or “share” content through the Sites or to otherwise post information from or via the Sites to a third party web site, feature or application, that information may be publicly displayed and the third party web site may have access to information about you and your use of our Web Site.
INFORMATION WE RECEIVE FROM THIRD PARTIES AND SOCIAL AND PLATFORM INTEGRATION
We may receive information about you from third parties. For example, if you are on another web site and you opt-in to receive information from Pfister or one of our publishing divisions, that other web site will forward your contact and other information to us so that we may contact you as requested. You may also choose to participate in a social media application or similar application, skill or feature with a third-party service (“Third Party Application”), through which you allow us to collect (or the third party to share) information about you, including personal information. The Third-Party Application may be a feature on our Sites (such as reviewing a product, logging into our Sites with your credentials with a third-party service or otherwise linking the Sites with another web site or interactive service). Or, the Third-Party Application may be a Pfister feature or Pfister content available through a third-party web site, device or service. When you choose to participate, you may be opting to link your activity on our Sites with that third party web site, device or service, which may then collect information about your visits to our Sites and may publish that activity as you request to your profile or similar feature with that third party (such as if you choose to share an article you read on one of our Sites with your connections on the third party web site). The information we collect is subject to this Privacy Policy. The information collected and stored by the third party remains subject to the third party’s privacy practices, including whether the third party continues to share information with us, the types of information shared, and your choices with regard to what is visible to others on that third party web site and service. The third party may allow you to remove the Third-Party Application, in which case we will no longer collect information about you through it, but we may retain the information previously collected. In addition, we may receive information about you if other users of a Third Party Application give us access to their profiles and you are one of their “connections” or information about you is otherwise accessible through your “connections” web page, profile page, or similar page on a social networking or other third party web site or interactive service.
We also may supplement the information we collect with outside records from third parties. If we combine the information we receive from third parties with information we collect through the Sites, we will apply this Privacy Policy to the combined information.
WHEN YOU CONSENT TO SHARING OR REQUEST THAT WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
The Sites may contain registration forms or other features that provide you the ability to opt-in or opt-out of sharing information about you with one or more third parties (for example, in order for a third party to send you special offers or coupons). If you agree at that time to have your Personal Information shared, your Personal Information will be disclosed to that third party (or parties) and will be subject to the privacy policy and practices of that third party. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of third parties, and, if you later decide that you no longer want to receive communications from a third party, you will need to contact that third party directly. You also may request, sometimes through your use of an interactive feature, a widget or third party application, that we share information about you or your use of the Sites with a third party, and we will typically do so under those circumstances
THIRD PARTIES PROVIDING SERVICES ON OUR BEHALF
We may provide third parties with access to user information, including Personal Information, in order for them to perform certain services on behalf of the Sites or Pfister, such as fulfilling and processing orders, tracking analytics, sending communications on our behalf or performing other administrative services. If you purchase any products or services, our billing partner will receive billing and financial information (e.g., credit card numbers) necessary to process your charges, including your postal and e-mail addresses, depending on your payment method. We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
ADMINISTRATIVE AND LEGAL REASONS
We may transfer and disclose user information, including Personal Information, to third parties: (i) in the event we are required to respond to subpoenas or other legal process or if in our opinion such disclosure is required by law; (ii) at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation; or (iii) to protect and/or defend the Terms of Use or other policies applicable to the Sites or to protect the personal safety, rights, property or security of Pfister or any individual. We may also use Device Identifiers, including IP addresses, to identify users, and may do so in cooperation with copyright owners, Internet service providers, wireless service providers or law enforcement agencies in our discretion.
THIRD PARTY ANALYTICS PROVIDERS, AD SERVERS AND SIMILAR THIRD PARTIES
The Sites may contain content served by third parties, including videos and advertisements, and we work with third party service providers to serve Pfister advertisements elsewhere online. In connection with serving content and providing analytics and advertising services, third parties may collect certain information about your visits to this or other web sites, and we may receive information regarding the use of the Sites and the effectiveness of our advertisements. These third parties may set and access their own tracking technologies on your device (including cookies and web beacons) and may otherwise collect or have access to information about your visits to and activity on the Service as well as other web sites or online services. Some of these parties may collect personal information from you over time when you visit the Service or other websites and services. We may also share non-personal, aggregated or de-identified or hashed information at our discretion, including to serve you with relevant advertising, and to allow others to do so.
Cookies. A cookie is a data file placed on your computer or other device when you visit the Sites or otherwise access our online content. Cookies may be used to remember you and your preferences, track your visits, and facilitate check-out and purchases, and other purposes. We use both session cookies (which expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your device until they expire or you delete them). If you choose to disable cookies, some features of the Sites may not function properly.
Cookies and web beacons used by us and on the Sites, including those set by third party network advertisers, may be used to, among other things, target advertisements, prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times and to conduct research regarding the usefulness of certain advertisements to you. We may share Usage Information about visitors with third party advertising companies, analytics providers and other third parties for similar purposes. While we may use a variety of service providers to perform advertising and analytics services, some of these companies are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) or the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising. You may want to visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, which provides information regarding targeted advertising and the “opt-out” procedures of NAI members. You may also want to visit or http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, which provides information regarding targeted advertising and offers an “opt-out” by participating companies in the DAA Self-Regulatory Program. We may use web beacons (small graphic images or other web programming code, also known as “1×1 GIFs” or “clear GIFs”) and similar technologies on our Sites and within our communications to you. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information on your computer such as cookies, the time and date a page is viewed, and a description of the page where the web beacon is placed. Web beacons and similar technologies may be used to count visitors, monitor navigation, measure how often e-mails are opened or articles viewed, and customize content to your interests. Our web beacons may collect some contact information (for example, the email address associated with an email message that contains a web beacon).
Examples of Cookies we use:
Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
For mobile apps, you may be able to limit certain advertising practices using the settings on your phone, tablet or other mobile device. Also, on most mobile devices, you can install the DAA’s App Choices app to make choices about cross-app interest-based advertisements from participating third parties. You may review additional information on opting out of mobile devices at http://www.networkadvertising.org/mobile-choice/.
Please note that opting out through these mechanisms does not opt you out of being served advertising. You will continue to receive generic advertising while online; the opt-out only stops the use of your information for interest-based or targeted advertising by participating companies.
You may set up your computer to reject cookies by the privacy settings for your web browser although, in that case, you may not be able to use some of the features on our Sites. For further information on cookies, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Embedded Scripts. An embedded script is programming code that is designed to collect information about your interactions with the Sites, such as the links you click on. The code is temporarily downloaded onto your device from our web server or a third party service provider, is active only while you are connected to the Sites and is deactivated or deleted thereafter.
CONSENT TO TRANSFER OF DATA
Pfister is a United States company and operates the Sites from the United States. The Sites are intended for users located in the United States. If you access the Sites from outside the United States, please be aware that information we collect will be transferred to and processed in the United States, where data protection laws may differ from those in your jurisdiction. By using the Sites or providing information to us, you consent to this transfer and processing.
SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Pfister takes commercially reasonable steps to help protect and secure Personal Information. However, please remember that no data storage or data transmission over the Internet, or by other means, can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Thus, while we strive to protect your personal data, Pfister cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us. Therefore, you understand, acknowledge, and agree that you transmit certain Personal Information to the Sites at your own risk.
THIRD PARTY CONTENT, LINKS TO OTHER SITES, AND PFISTER CONTENT FOUND OUTSIDE OF THE SITES
Third parties may host or serve certain content on the Sites (including content that allows you to make a purchase via a third party). The Sites may also contain links to third party web sites or features that Pfister does not control. This includes links from advertisers, sponsors and partners that may use our logo(s) as part of a co-branding agreement, Third parties whose content appears on the Sites may collect information about you through the use of their own cookies and web beacons, may independently collect or solicit Personal Information, and may have the ability to track your use of their sites and services. Likewise, Pfister widgets or other content may be included on third parties’ web pages and web sites that are not associated with Pfister and over which we have no control. Pfister may collect Usage Information through Pfister content appearing on third-party sites.
Pfister is not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third party, and our hosting of third-party content, linking to third party websites, or the appearance of Pfister content on third party websites does not constitute sponsorship or endorsement of the content or business practices of those third parties.
CHANGES TO OUR POLICY
Pfister may update this Privacy Policy at any time and any changes will be effective upon posting, unless otherwise indicated. Your continued use of the Sites after the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy (or other act as specified in the revised Privacy Policy) will constitute your consent to those changes. In the event that there are material changes to the way we treat your Personal Information, we will provide notice through the Sites. We may also notify you in other ways, such as by email, in our discretion. However, we will not make material changes to how we treat previously collected Personal Information without first giving you the chance to consent (opt-in or opt-out). Note, however, that you may need to consent to our new Privacy Policy in order to continue to use the Services.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have questions or comments about our privacy policy or practices, you may submit them by email to marketing@pfisterenergy.com. You may also submit a privacy request here. Please note that information submitted to the Sites via a “contact us” or other similar function may not receive a response. We will not use the information provided via these functions to contact you for marketing purposes unrelated to your request unless you agree otherwise.