Privacy Policy

1. Our Policy

Your privacy is important, so PostalMethods.com, (“Postal Methods”) has created this Privacy Policy to let you know what information we collect when you access and use our services and all related software, applications and technologies available at and through the website https://PostalMethods.com (the “Site”) and mobile applications (such system, software, applications and the Site together, the “Services”), and your choices concerning our data practices.

The terms “Company,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Postal Methods. This Privacy Policy forms part of our Terms of Service. By using this website, you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services.

We may periodically make changes to this Privacy Policy that we will include on this page. It is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy frequently and remain informed about any changes to it, so we encourage you to visit this page often.

2.  What Information Is Collected?

When you interact with our Services, we collect information that, alone or in combination with other information, could be used to identify you (“Personal Data”).

Personal Data You Give Us. When you sign up for or use the Services, you voluntarily give us certain Personal Data, including your name, email address, phone number, payment info, and physical address. You may also have elected to give us access to your contacts.

We may also collect non-Personal Data, such as your time zone or language.

Automatically Collected Data: When you use the Service, the following information is created and automatically logged in our systems:

• Log data: Information (“log data”) that your browser automatically sends whenever you visit the Site. Log data includes your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address (so we understand which country you are connecting from when you visit the Site), browser type and settings, the date and time of your request, and how you interacted with the Services.
• Cookies: Information from cookies and other technologies stored on your device. Please see the “Cookies” section below to learn more about how we use cookies and other technologies.
• Device information: Includes type of device you are using, operating system, settings, unique device identifiers, network information and other device-specific information. Information collected may depend on the type of device you use and its settings.
• Usage information: We collect information about how you use our Services, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the other users you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities.

3.  How Is Such Information Used?

We use the Personal Data we collect, as described above:

• To authenticate users, provide the Services, process transactions and respond to your requests. If you give us access to your contacts, we’ll store those contacts on our servers for you to use. This will make it easy for you to do things like share or send emails, and invite others to use the Services. For users located within the EU, this use is necessary to perform the contract with you.
• As necessary for certain legitimate business interests, which include the following:
• To customize the user experience.
• To better understand how visitors interact with our Site and ensure that our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you, and as part of our efforts to keep our Site, network and information systems secure.
• To conduct analytics to inform our marketing strategy and enable us to enhance and personalize our communications and the experience we offer to our users.
• To provide communications by post which we think will be of interest to you.
• If you ask us to delete your data or to be removed from our marketing lists and we are required to fulfill your request, to keep basic data to identify you and prevent further unwanted processing.
• To conduct research on user demographics, interests and behavior based on your Personal Data and other information provided to us in an ongoing effort to better understand and serve our users. We compile and analyze this research on an aggregated basis, and may share this aggregated data with our partners. This data does not identify you personally.
• Marketing. We may use your Personal Data to contact you in the future to tell you about services we believe will be of interest to you. Where required by law, we will only send you marketing communications if you consent to us doing so at the time you provide us with your Personal Data. You may opt out of receiving such emails by following the instructions contained in each promotional email we send you or by updating your user settings. In addition, if at any time you wish not to receive any future marketing communications or you wish to have your name deleted from our mailing lists, please contact us as indicated below. We will continue to contact you via email regarding the provision of our Services and to respond to your requests.

If we ever intend to use any of your Personal Data in any manner that is not consistent with this Privacy Policy, we will tell you of our intended use prior to, or at the time at which, we collect such information.

For information on your rights under the applicable European Union (“EU”) law, please see the “European Union (EU) Users” section below.

4.  Is The Information Shared or Disclosed?

Postal Methods is not in the business of selling your information. We consider this information to be a vital part of our relationship with you. There are, however, certain circumstances in which we may share your Personal Data with certain third parties without further notice to you, as set forth below:

• Third Party Applications and Services: If you elect to use one or more third party applications that interoperate with Postal Methods’s services, those applications may upon your election be given access to data (which may include personal data) on Postal Methods’s systems generated in connection with your use of Postal Methods’s services. Please remember that Postal Methods is not responsible for the policies and practices of third party application providers, and Postal Methods shall have no liability arising from any action of any such provider as it concerns your data or information or otherwise. In connection with your use of any such third party applications, please review carefully the applicable privacy policies each such third party application provider to become familiar with their policies and practices as it concerns your data and information.
• Vendors and Service Providers: we use certain trusted third parties to help us meet business operational needs and provide, improve, protect, and promote our Services (for example processing payments) and to perform certain services and functions. Your Personal Data may be shared with third-party providers of hosting, email communication and customer support services, analytics, marketing, advertising. These third parties will access your Personal Data only to perform tasks on our behalf and in compliance with this Privacy Policy. These third parties may use cookies or pixels as well to collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Services. For more details on the third parties that may place cookies through the Site, please see the “Cookies”” section below. Following our instructions, these parties may access, process or store Personal Data in the course of performing their duties for us.
• Business Transfers: If we are involved in a merger, acquisition, financing due diligence, reorganization, bankruptcy, receivership, sale of all or a portion of our assets, or transition of a service to another provider, your Personal Data and other information may be transferred as part of that deal. We will notify you (for example, via a message to the email address associated with your account) of any such deal and outline your choices in that event.
• Legal Requirements and Other Circumstances: Postal Methods may disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (i) comply with a legal obligation; (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of Postal Methods; (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Postal Methods website or services or the public; or (iv) protect against legal liability.

5.  Access

In the event that you have volunteered Personal Data, you may correct or amend that information by editing your account profile or emailing us at privacy@postalmethods.com

6.  The Security of Your Information

We will take reasonable precautions to protect Personal Data in our possession from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the Personal Data submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is, however, 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

7.  Children

Postal Methods does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. Postal Methods is not intended for or directed to persons under the age of 13. Any person who provides their information to Postal Methods represents to us that they are 13 years of age or older. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Data to Postal Methods through this website, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

8.  Data Retention

We will keep your Personal Data for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a legitimate business need to do so in connection with your account, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer.

9.  California Privacy Disclosures

We may use cookies or other technologies on our Services that collect information about your browsing activities over time and across different websites following your use of the Service. We may allow third party service providers and other third parties to do the same.

If you would like to request information about third parties that collect Personal Data on our site for direct marketing purposes please contact us at privacy@postalmethods.com

10.  European Union (EU) Users

Scope. This section provides information on your rights under EU law (for these purposes, reference to the EU also includes the European Economic Area countries of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway).

Data Controller. Postal Methods is the data controller for your Personal Data. To find out our contact details, please see the “Contact Us” section below.

Your Rights. Subject to EU law, you have the following rights in relation to your Personal Data:

• Right of access: If you ask us, we will confirm whether we are processing your Personal Data and, if so, provide you with a copy of that Personal Data along with certain other details. If you require additional copies, we may need to charge a reasonable fee.
• Right to rectification: If your Personal Data is inaccurate or incomplete, you are entitled to ask that we correct or complete it. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the correction where possible. If you ask us, and where possible and lawful to do so, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly.
• Right to erasure: You may ask us to erase your Personal Data in some circumstances, such as where we no longer need it or you withdraw your consent (where applicable). If we shared your data with others, we will alert them to the need for erasure where possible. If you ask us, and where possible and lawful to do so, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data with so you can contact them directly.
• Right to restrict processing: You may ask us to restrict or ‘block’ the processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances, such as where you contest the accuracy of the data or object to us processing it (please read below for information on your right to object). We will tell you before we lift any restriction on processing. If we shared your Personal Data with others, we will tell them about the restriction where possible. If you ask us, and where possible and lawful to do so, we will also tell you with whom we shared your Personal Data so you can contact them directly.
• Right to data portability: You have the right to obtain your Personal Data from us that you consented to give us or that was provided to us as necessary in connection with our contract with you where we process that Personal Data in an automated way. We will give you your Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You may reuse it elsewhere.
• Right to object: You may ask us at any time to stop processing your Personal Data, and we will do so:
• If we are relying on a legitimate interest (described under the “How is such information used” section above) to process your Personal Data—unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing; or
• If we are processing your Personal Data for direct marketing.
• Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling: You have the right to be free from decisions based solely on automated processing of your Personal Data, including profiling, unless this is necessary in relation to a contract between you and us or you provide your explicit consent to this use.
• Right to withdraw consent: If we rely on your consent to process your Personal Data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, but this will not affect any processing of your data that has already taken place.
• Right to lodge a complaint with the data protection authority: If you have a concern about our privacy practices, including the way we handled your Personal Data, you can report it to the data protection authority that is authorized to hear those concerns.

You may contact us at privacy@postalmethods.com to exercise your rights.

Legitimate Interest. “Legitimate interests” means our interests in conducting our business, managing and delivering the best Services to you. This Privacy Policy describes when we process your Personal Data for our legitimate interests, what these interests are and your rights. We will not use your Personal Data for activities where the impact on you overrides our interests, unless we have your consent or those activities are otherwise required or permitted by law.

11.  International Data Transfers

Personal Data you submit through the Services is sent to the United States and will be processed by us in the United States, on our servers or on our hosted service providers’ cloud servers on our behalf. We will always protect your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy wherever it is processed.

12.  Forums and Comments

If you post comments on this website, you should be aware that any Personal Data you submit can be read, collected and used by other users of this website, and could be used to send you unsolicited messages. Postal Methods is not responsible for any Personal Data you choose to submit in that context or anything arising from such submissions.

13.  Links to Other Sites

This website may contain links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that Postal Methods is not responsible for the privacy policies of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects Personal Data. This privacy policy applies only to information collected by this website.

14.  Cookies

We use cookies to provide, improve, protect and promote our Services. Cookies are small data files sent to your browser when you visit a site. We use cookies to do things like remembering your username preferences and settings for your next visit, keeping your account secure, understanding how you are interacting with our Service, and improving them based on that information. You can set your browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the Service.

We may allow service providers and other third parties to use cookies and other tracking technologies to track your browsing activity over time and across our Site and third party websites. We may also partner with a third party ad network to either display advertising on our Site, to manage our advertising on other sites, or to provide you targeted advertisements based upon your interests on our Site or on third party sites. You may opt out of having your personal information used for targeted ads by clicking here (or if you are in the European Union, here), but you may still receive generic ads. Other companies’ use of their tracking technologies is subject to their own privacy policies. Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to do not track or similar signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit https://allaboutdnt.com.

15.  Your Consent To This Privacy Policy

By using Postal Methods, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supersedes any earlier version. Our Terms of Service take precedence over any conflicting Privacy Policy provision. We may change this Privacy Policy by posting a new version of this Privacy Policy on this page which it is your responsibility to review, unless another type of notice is required by the applicable law. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we are protecting the Personal Data we collect. Your continued use of this website or Postal Methods’s Services after we have posted an updated Privacy Policy or notified you if applicable, constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

16.  Contacting Postal Methods

If you believe that Postal Methods has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email at privacy@postalmethods.com or by postal mail at PO Box 23007 Waco, TX 76702, and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to remedy the problem.