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Owner and Data Controller

Surf City Apps LLC – Covina, CA – 91723 USA

Owner contact email: [email protected]

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that Surf City Apps Mobile Applications collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Cookies, Usage Data and email address.

Complete details on each type of Personal Data collected are provided in the dedicated sections of this privacy policy or by specific explanation texts displayed prior to the Data collection.
The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or, in case of Usage Data, collected automatically when using Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.
All Data requested by Surf City Apps Mobile Applications is mandatory and failure to provide this Data may make it impossible for Surf City Apps Mobile Applications to provide its services. In cases where Surf City Apps Mobile Applications specifically states that some Data is not mandatory, Users are free not to communicate this Data without any consequences on the availability or the functioning of the service.
Users who are uncertain about which Personal Data is mandatory are welcome to contact the Owner.
Any use of Cookies – or of other tracking tools – by Surf City Apps Mobile Applications or by the owners of third-party services used by Surf City Apps Mobile Applications serves the purpose of providing the service required by the User, in addition to any other purposes described in the present document and in the Cookie Policy, if available.

Users are responsible for any third-party Personal Data obtained, published or shared through Surf City Apps Mobile Applications and confirm that they have the third party's consent to provide the Data to the Owner.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third-party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Data Controller's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time

The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Owner to provide its Service, comply with its legal obligations, respond to enforcement requests, protect its rights and interests (or those of its Users or third parties), detect any malicious or fraudulent activity, as well as the following: Interaction with external social networks and platforms, Analytics, Interaction with support and feedback platforms, Managing contacts and sending messages, Remarketing and behavioral targeting and Commercial affiliation.

The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

  • Analytics

    The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

    Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel) (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel) is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on Surf City Apps Mobile Applications. The Facebook pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

    Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
    Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

  • Commercial affiliation

    This type of services allows Surf City Apps Mobile Applications to display advertisements for third party products or services. Ads can be displayed either as advertising links or as banners using various kinds of graphics.
    Clicks on the icon or banner posted on the Application are tracked by the third-party services listed below, and are shared with Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.
    For details of which data are collected, please refer to the privacy policy of each service.

    iTunes affiliation (Apple Inc.)

    iTunes affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Apple Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Amazon Affiliation (Amazon)

    Amazon Affiliation is a commercial affiliation service provided by Amazon.com Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • Interaction with external social networks and platforms

    This type of service allows interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.
    The interaction and information obtained through Surf City Apps Mobile Applications are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.
    This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
    It is recommended to log out from the respective services in order to make sure that the processed data on Surf City Apps Mobile Applications isn’t being connected back to the User’s profile.

    Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter)

    The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

    Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)

    The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • Interaction with support and feedback platforms

    This type of services allows Users to interact with third party support and feedback platforms directly from the pages of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.
    If one of these services is installed, it may collect browsing and Usage Data in the pages where it is installed, even if the Users do not actively use the service.

    Uservoice Widget (Uservoice Inc.)

    The Uservoice Widget is a service for interacting with the Uservoice support and feedback platform provided by Uservoice Inc.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • Managing contacts and sending messages

    This type of services makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User.
    These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.

    Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon)

    Amazon Simple Email Service is an email address management and message sending service provided by Amazon.com Inc.

    Personal Data processed: email address.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy.

  • Remarketing and behavioral targeting

    This type of service allows Surf City Apps Mobile Applications and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications by the User.
    This activity is facilitated by tracking Usage Data and by using Trackers to collect information which is then transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
    Some services offer a remarketing option based on email address lists.
    In addition to any opt-out feature provided by any of the services below, Users may opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

    Users may also opt-out of certain advertising features through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or ads settings in general.

    Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Remarketing is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications with the Facebook advertising network.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

    Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Custom Audience is a Remarketing and Behavioral Targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications with the Facebook advertising network.

    Personal Data processed: Cookies and email address.

    Place of processing: US – Privacy PolicyOpt Out.

Further information about the processing of Personal Data

  • The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13

    Users declare themselves to be adult according to their applicable legislation. Minors may use Surf City Apps Mobile Applications only with the assistance of a parent or guardian. Under no circumstance persons under the age of 13 may use Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications or the related services.
The User declares to be aware that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, Surf City Apps Mobile Applications may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System logs and maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, Surf City Apps Mobile Applications and any third-party services may collect files that record interaction with Surf City Apps Mobile Applications (System logs) or use other Personal Data (such as the IP Address) for this purpose.

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

The rights of Users

Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.

Surf City Apps Mobile Applications does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third-party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using Surf City Apps Mobile Applications and can request that the Data Controller remove the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.

Information about this privacy policy

The Data Controller is responsible for this privacy policy, prepared starting from the modules provided by iubenda and hosted on iubenda's servers.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through Surf City Apps Mobile Applications (or third-party services employed in Surf City Apps Mobile Applications), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use Surf City Apps Mobile Applications, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User

The individual using Surf City Apps Mobile Applications, which must coincide with or be authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Subject

The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.

Surf City Apps Mobile Applications

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Cookies

Small sets of data stored in the User's device.


Legal information

Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n. 95/46/EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies.

This privacy policy relates solely to Surf City Apps Mobile Applications.