This online privacy policy ("Policy"), effective May 15, 2018, applies to information collected through Catholic Chemistry and its websites, social media outlets, and online services, but only to the extent that Catholic Chemistry has control over the information. Some, but not necessarily all, of the information we collect may be "personal information"—information that identifies you personally.
As legally defined, "personally identifiable information" refers to details collected on the Internet about an individual consumer, including an individual's first and last name, a physical street address, an email address, a telephone number, a Social Security number, or any other information that permits a specific individual to be contacted physically or online. The term extends to details such as a person's birthday, height, weight or hair color that are collected online and stored by an operator in a personally identifiable form.
This Policy may be supplemented, amended, or even replaced by additional privacy notices ("Privacy Notices"), typically provided at the time we collect your information. We reserve the right to update or modify the Policy or any Privacy Notice at any time without prior notice.
By using this site, social media outlet, or online service you are consenting to the collection, use, disclosure, and transfer of your information as described in this Policy (and any applicable Privacy Notices). If you don't consent to such use you may not use this site, feed or service.
This Policy is part of our Terms of Service that govern the use of our site, social media feed, or online service.
By using our site, social media outlets, or online services, you agree not to use the site in order to discriminate on the basis of race, ethnicity, gender, age, creed, religion, or any other legally protected class. The choices and selections you make are for personal reasons only and not under the direction of any government, organization, or group (unless required by law).
This Policy describes some of your choices and we may ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your information.
California law requires us to explain how our system responds to any "Do-Not-Track ('DNT') signal" delivered by your browser. We currently cannot and do not make any guarantee that we will honor DNT signals. Third parties, such as Google and others, may be able to track information through our site, social media outlets, and/or online services.
You may change your preferences regarding the use of information by notifying us in writing. If at any time you wish to be taken off our mailing lists, please contact us using the information provided or simply use the "unsubscribe" handle at the bottom of each electronic advertising or news related communication.
We collect and use the information, including any personal information, you provide when you use this site, social media outlet, or online services. We may obtain your information (e.g. Facebook or Twitter), including personal information, you previously provided to a third-party social media platform. We may also collect information that is sent to us automatically by your web browser or mobile device. This information depends on your device and service settings, but typically includes your IP address, the name of your operating system, the name and version of your browser, the date and time of your visit, and the pages you visit.
This personal information typically includes:
From time to time additional information may be acquired by the user's consent e.g. credit card information, alternate contacts, or place of work.
Information obtained under this provision, other than your first name, is NOT made public. Some third party vendors, including those necessary for credit card transactions, spam filtering, and other services necessary to keep you information secure, will have limited access to your information. Your information is never sold or transferred to any other party, except those mentioned above, without your express consent or where legally required.
For the purpose of your public profile additional information will be collected. This information may include gender, hair color, eye color, ethnicity, height, weight, age, creed, background, opinions, and other personal information you voluntarily contribute to your public profile. This information may be visible to all other users and we strongly suggest you use the utmost caution in contributing information, especially information that will enable others to steal your identity, information, property, or finances.
We use "cookies" and other technologies to collect information and support certain features. Typically, if you don't wish to receive cookies, you may set your browser to reject them or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer (this may or may not affect your use of the site).
Other third parties may deliver cookies to your computer or mobile device for the purpose of tracking your online behaviors over time and across nonaffiliated websites and/or delivering targeted advertisements either on this site or on other websites.
We use the information we collect to meet your service and information requests as well as to provide you with the best possible customer service. We do not sell, rent or lease this information without your express written permission.
We may transfer necessary customer information to service providers, vendors and other companies who support our business, delivery services, technical infrastructure services including those analyzing how our services are used and measuring the effectiveness of ads and services, providing customer service, facilitating payments, or conducting surveys.
Any personal information contained in user generated content (UGC) on our site, social media outlets, or online services can be read, collected, or used by others and is outside our control. We also may use, with or without your consent, limited information for advertising or promotional purposes, including your name, comments, and general location. Therefore, you should have no expectation of privacy with respect to UGC you submit on or through our site, social media outlets, or online services.
We may provide functionality that encourages you to automatically post information to a third-party social media platform (such as Facebook or Twitter) and such information may include your location, name, purchases, and /or social media identity. You should have no expectation of privacy in those actions. If you choose to link your profile to our site(s), social media outlets, or online services with an account on a third-party social media platform, we may share the information in your profile with that third-party platform. We may also use third-party social media platforms to offer you interest-based ads based on your personal information.
Your information may be transferred to successor organization.
We may disclose your information when we, in good faith, believe disclosure is appropriate to comply with the law, a court order or a subpoena. We may also disclose your information to prevent or investigate a possible crime, such as fraud or identity theft; to protect the security of this Site; to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or other agreements; or to protect our own rights or property or the rights, property or safety of our users or others.
We offer a selfie verification feature to help maintain the safety and authenticity of our community. When you choose to complete verification—or when verification is required for account integrity, suspected fraud, or safety review—we may collect and process a short selfie video that you voluntarily provide.
When you participate in verification, we may collect:
We do not create or store biometric identifiers such as a "scan of face geometry" unless required or generated by our verification provider. If biometric information is generated, it is used solely to complete the verification process and is deleted according to this policy.
Selfie verification data is used only for:
Verification does not confirm or validate your real-world identity, name, age, or any other personal details. It confirms only that the person in the selfie visually matches the photos displayed on the profile.
We do not use verification data for advertising, automated profile analysis, facial recognition for identification, or matching you to other databases.
While verification is optional for most users, we may require verification if we detect suspicious activity, potential fraud, or violations of our Terms of Service. If verification is required and you decline to participate, your access to the platform may be restricted or your account may be suspended.
We use trusted service providers to assist with verification, including providers that use automated tools to analyze your selfie video for liveness. These providers process your data solely for verification and are contractually prohibited from using it for any other purpose.
Selfie videos and any biometric information used for verification are retained only as long as necessary to complete the verification process. We permanently delete this information within 30 days after the review is completed, unless a shorter period is required by applicable law. Derived biometric identifiers (if any) are deleted immediately after verification.
We do not sell, lease, trade, profit from, or commercially use biometric information or verification data.
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the information provided in this Policy.
If you reside in the European Union, United Kingdom, or another region with similar laws:
We protect your non-public information in order to help protect your identity and information with the following measures:
While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We encourage users to exercise good security hygiene, such as using strong passwords and enabling device-level protections.
We retain your information collected on this site, for each and every category listed above, for as long as we deem necessary to provide the services, products and information you request, or as long as permitted by applicable law. You have the right to:
If at any time you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us.
We may share information with reputable service providers such as payment processors, email delivery platforms, hosting providers, and fraud-prevention vendors. These providers are contractually required to use your information only to perform services on our behalf.
Catholic Chemistry is a U.S. corporation and its sites, social media outlets, and online services are designed and intended for a U.S. audience. The servers that support our digital presence and on which we store the information you provide to us electronically may be located in a country other than where you reside. U.S. data protection laws may provide more or less as much protection as the data protection laws in force in some other countries. If you are located in a country other than the United States, by using this site, social media outlet, or online service you consent to the transfer of your information to the United States and to be subject to the laws and regulation thereof.
This Policy shall be governed under the laws of the State of California, United States of America without regard to its conflicts of law provisions.