PRIVACY POLICY
INTRODUCTION
Love Language Brand ("LLB" or "We") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the LLB website, 5lovelanguages.com, and Love Nudge™ mobile application (collectively, this “Platform”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to the information we collect:
• On this Platform.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Platform.
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from Google Play and the Apple App Store, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Platform.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party Platforms and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
• To data collected and shared with trusted third parties, such as loveology.org, Loveology entities, and Team Parrott, LLC.
It does not apply to information collected by:
• From any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Platform.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. Where you provide us with your personal information in any of the ways described in this policy, you agree that, to the extent applicable, we may collect, store, and use it (a) in order to perform our contractual obligations to you, (b) based on our legitimate interest for processing (e.g., for our administrative purposes, Platform performance, or for the detection and/or prevention of crime), or (c) based on your consent, which you may withdraw at any time. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Platform. By accessing or using our Platform, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of our Platform after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
CHILDREN UNDER THE AGE OF 13
Our Platform is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the Platform. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not provide any information on this Platform or on or through any of its features/register on the Platform, make any purchases through the Platform, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Platform or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at [email protected]
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
We collect several types of information from and about users of this Platform, including information:
• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, or any other information the Platform collects that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under all applicable law ("personal information");
• That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as demographic information and gender; and/or
• About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access this Platform, and usage details.
We collect this information:
• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business and trusted partners.
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US.
The information we collect on or through this Platform may include:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms and taking quizzes/assessments on this Platform. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use this Platform, subscribing to receive our newsletters or other content, posting material, or requesting further services or information. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest, sweepstakes, or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with this Platform.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Your search queries on the Platform.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Platform, or transmitted to other users of the Platform or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we may limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Platform 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.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGIES.
As you navigate through and interact with this Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
• Details of your visits to this Platform, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Platform.
• 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 Platforms or other online services (behavioral tracking).
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not/may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It furthers our legitimate interest to improve this Platform 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 Platform according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to this Platform.
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 this Platform. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, this system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Platform.
• Web Beacons. Pages of this Platform and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit LLB for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Platform statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain Platform content and verifying system and server integrity).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Platform are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use this Platform. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different Platforms and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
• To present this Platform and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your registration or subscription including confirmation, expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to this Platform or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Platform.
• To send you information specific to your subscription preferences.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties' organizations, goods and/or services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us at [email protected] with your request. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers' target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we partner with.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Love Language Brand's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Love Language Brand about this Platform users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Platform, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Love Language Brand, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
We will disclose and share your personal information and necessary data:
• To loveology.org, Loveology entities and Team Parrott, LLC, a few of LLB’s trusted partners, who collaborated with Love Language Brand to develop and power The 5 Love Languages® Premium Assessment.
CHOICES ABOUT HOW WE USE AND DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Promotional Offers from LLB. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by LLB to promote our own or third parties’ products, services and/or organizations, you can opt-out by sending us an email stating your request to [email protected]. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You may send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
Your information will be held and used for as long as necessary for our legitimate business purposes to the extent permitted by applicable law or regulation.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of this Platform that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected] or write us at: Love Language Brand, ATTN: ITS Department, 820 N. LaSalle Blvd., Chicago, IL 60610.
YOUR EEA PRIVACY RIGHTS
If you are based within the European Economic Area (which means all the EU countries plus Norway, Iceland, and Liechtenstein) (“EEA”), in certain circumstances, you have the following rights:
• the right to be told how we use your information and obtain access to your information, subject to certain limitations;
• the right to have your information rectified or erased or to place certain restrictions on processing your information;
• the right to object to the processing of or to erase your information in certain circumstances, e.g., for direct marketing purposes;
• the right to have information you provided to us on an automated basis returned to you;
• where the processing of your information is based on your consent, the right to withdraw that consent subject to applicable restrictions, including legal or contractual restrictions; and
• the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for data protection matters.
The foregoing rights are subject to certain limitations. If you request a copy of your information you may be required to pay a statutory fee.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and quiz/assessment results will be encrypted using SSL technology.
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 this Platform, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Platform like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Platform.
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 this Platform. 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 Platform.
AFFILIATE PARTNERSHIPS AND LINKS TO OTHER PLATFORMS
Love Language Brand does accept monetary compensation through affiliate links, advertising, and sponsored collaborations in partnership with various brands and retailers. Posts and advertisements containing affiliate links can generate a commission on purchases made from clicking directly from this Platform to the online retailer. Please note that not all links published on this Platform are affiliate links.
Love Language Brand wants you to be aware that when you click on links and/or ad banners that take you to affiliated or third-party services, you will be subject to the privacy policies and terms of use of those services, not ours. We encourage you to read the posted privacy statement and user terms whenever using, and prior to providing any personal information to, any other service.
We may provide you with the ability to log into this Platform using a social media account. We do not control the activities of such social media services and have no control over the data they collect or their privacy practices. You should review their privacy practices before using any such social media service.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Platform home page and/or via email. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Platform and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
CONTACT INFORMATION
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, or to request any changes or exercise any other right with respect to your information, contact us at:
Via email at:
Via written communication at:
Love Language Brand
ATTN: VP, ITS
820 N. LaSalle Blvd.
Chicago, IL 60610
Last modified: February 9, 2024