PRIVACY POLICY
Thank you for visiting The Tree Trunk Corporation (“Tree Trunk” or the “Company”) and the Company’s web site, [www.treetrunk.com], or any other site owned or operated by the Company (collectively, the “Site”) and using the services of the Company and/or any services of the Company’s affiliated entities (collectively, the “Services”) and reviewing our Privacy Policy. Your privacy is important to us and we recognize that you may have concerns regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personally identifiable and related information (“Personal Information”) that we may gather during your use of the Site and the Services. This Privacy Policy informs you of the information we collect, the way we collect it, and what is done with it. This Privacy Policy neither describes information collection practices of other entities or on other websites, including without limitation those linked to or from the Site, nor does it pertain to any other companies or persons except as specifically provided for herein, whether associated with the Services or not.
AGREEMENT TO TERMS OF PRIVACY POLICY.
By accessing the Site and/or the Services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. By accessing the site and/or the Services, you further agree to the Company’s Terms and Conditions (“T&C”), which include and incorporate this Privacy Policy. Certain capitalized terms used in this Privacy Policy and not defined herein are used as defined in the T&C. You may not use the Site or the Services if you do not agree to this Privacy Policy and the T&C. When you submit your personal data to Tree Trunk, you are giving your consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY.
The Company reserves the right to revise, amend, alter, or modify this Privacy Policy from time to time in the Company’s sole discretion. If there is a change to the Company’s usage practices that affects your Personal Information, the Company will notify you of the relevant changes by email or by posting a notice on the Site. When Tree Trunk sends, or posts a Privacy Policy change notice, you will need to review the new or amended Privacy Policy terms carefully so you understand our procedures and practices. Any changes to this Privacy Policy are effective immediately upon the posting of such changes. Please be advised that our rights to use your Personal Information will be based on the Privacy Policy in effect at the time of any such use.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION.
The Personal Information we collect is used to identify you, including without limitation your name, physical address, email address, telephone number, financial information, log-in and password details, and details of transactions made by you through the Service. Personal Information is collected when you register with the Site, upload or post Content, become a Purchaser, use the Services, or visit the Site. We also collect your communications with Tree Trunk with respect to the Site and the Services. Your Personal Information is used for Company internal purposes including without limitation to improve and personalize the Services for you and to provide partner and customer support, as well as to identify you when you sign in to your account, to enable the Company to provide you with the Services, to send you information you may find useful or which you have requested from the Company, to administer your account, to enable the Company to contact you, and for other purposes that the Company discloses to you when your Personal Information is requested. By providing Tree Trunk your email address you consent to the Company’s using the email address to send you Service-related notices, including any notices required by law, in lieu of communication by postal mail or otherwise. Company may also use your email address to send you other messages, including changes to features of the Service and special offers.
Additionally, the Company collects certain non-personal default information customarily logged by web server software. Such information may include without limitation your originating IP address, the date and time of your visit, your browser type, the previous site you visited, the Content you upload and review and Services you use, and the pages and images requested. Non-personal information is used for such purposes including, without limitation, to maintain, evaluate, and improve the Services.
SECURITY OF INFORMATION.
The Company uses commercially reasonable efforts to protect your Personal Information from disclosure or unauthorized access. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished if you are using a shared computer. Tree Trunk is not liable for disclosure of data due to errors in transmission, unauthorized access or acts by third parties, or omissions or acts beyond Tree Trunk’s reasonable control. Tree Trunk does not guarantee that your Personal Information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards, and you agree that Tree Trunk shall not be liable to you or any third party for any damages that you or such third party incur as a result of or relating to any such occurrence.
INFORMATION SHARED WITH THIRD PARTIES.
Generally, Tree Trunk will not provide your Personal Information to any third parties except as reasonably necessary in the performance of the Services or otherwise in order to operate the Company’s business. The Company may use third parties to maintain or perform certain parts of the Services, such as payment services. The Company uses commercially reasonable efforts to prevent such third parties from using or disclosing your Personal Information for any reason other than the service they are providing in connection with the Services. The Company may provide your name, mailing address and/or email address in certain limited circumstances in connection with the Services. The Company cannot and does not guarantee that such third parties will not use or disclose your Personal Information, and you agree that Tree Trunk shall not be liable to you for any damages that you incur as a result of or relating to any such disclosure. If Tree Trunk is acquired, merged with another entity, or if all or substantially all Company assets are acquired for any reason, Company may disclose your Personal Information to any successor-in-interest of Tree Trunk. Additionally, we may disclose your Personal Information in the case of an emergency or as required or permitted by law, or to protect or enforce our rights or the rights of a third party. For example, if a third party alleges that you have infringed their intellectual property rights, Company may disclose your Personal Information as it relates to such allegations. The Company may also provide your Personal Information to other companies or organizations for credit fraud protection and risk reduction.
Tree Trunk may use certain information about you without identifying you as an individual to third parties. The Company may do this for purposes such as (without limitation) analyzing how the Service is used, diagnosing service or technical problems, maintaining security, and personalizing advertisements and promotions. The Company may store Personal Information in locations outside the direct control of Tree Trunk (for instance, on servers, cloud-based storage systems, or databases co-located with hosting providers).
Any Personal Information or Content that you voluntarily disclose in public areas of the Site becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by other Users. You should exercise caution before disclosing your Personal Information through these public venues, and you do so at your own risk.
USE OF COOKIES.
Remarketing.Cookies help the Company personalize your experience with Tree Trunk. The Company uses cookies to keep track of how customers are navigating the Site and to allow the Company to provide you with personalized content. Cookies are small pieces of information which are issued to your computer when you visit a website and which store and sometimes track information about your visit to the website (including without limitation the Site) and use of the Services. When you enter the Site, the Company’s web server sends a cookie to your computer which allows the Company to recognize your computer but not specifically who is using it. By associating the identification numbers in the cookies with other customer information when, for example, you log-in to the Site or use the Services, the Company knows that the cookie information relates to you. Some of the cookies used by the Company and/or the Site are served by the Company, and some are served by third parties who are delivering services on the Company’s behalf.
Tree Trunk may use remarketing services provided by third party service-providers (such as through Google AdWords or the like). This allows Tree Trunk to reach people who previously visited the Site, and match the right people with the right message. You agree that Tree Trunk may use remarketing or similar audiences to advertise online in any manner that is allowable under applicable laws and regulations, which uses may include the Company’s use of your Personal Information as so allowed. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show Tree Trunk ads on sites across the Internet as a result of remarketing, and such vendors may use cookies to serve ads based on your past visits to the Site. You may opt out of such uses of cookies by such third-party vendors and/or service providers by visiting their respective websites (for Google’s Ads, you may do so in their Settings). Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION.
You can review, correct and update your Personal Information by email or by logging onto the Site and making the appropriate changes in your personal profile. The Company may retain certain Personal Information and other information as required by law or for reasonably necessary business purposes. Tree Trunk has no obligation to maintain correct and updated information on you; the responsibility to keep your Personal Information updated and accurate is solely yours.
WEB SITES LINKED TO TREE TRUNK.
Tree Trunk is not responsible for the information practices, policies, terms of use, terms and conditions, services, or any other procedures, policies, or practices employed by websites linked to or from the Site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from the Site to another website, Tree Trunk’s Privacy Policy is no longer in effect with respect to such other website(s). Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link on the Site, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies, for which you are responsible to review, and you proceed to such other websites at your own risk.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY ISSUES.
People under 18 years of age are not permitted to use the Site or the Services on their own, and this Privacy Policy makes no provision for their use of the Site. The Company encourages parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the Services or on the Site. If you have reason to believe that a minor under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information through the Service or on the Site, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases and take any action the Company deems fit and appropriate.
GOVERNING LAW AND JURISDICTION.
This Privacy Policy constitutes a contract made under and shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws, without giving effect to conflicts of law provisions. Any dispute, action, or proceeding brought pursuant to this Privacy Policy shall be brought in the appropriate Provincial, State or Federal Courts and you hereby consent and submit to the personal jurisdiction of such courts for the purposes of litigating any such action. You hereby irrevocably waive any right you may have to trail by jury in any dispute, action, or proceeding.