Privacy Policy / Notice at Collection
Last Updated: June 19, 2023
TELECLUB LLC, ., together with its wholly-owned subsidiaries
(“TELECLUB LLC”, “we” or “us”), is committed to your privacy. We provide Voice
over IP services for businesses and consumers as well as home security products
and services, luding cameras and motion sensors and related mobile
applications; and internet access and managed Wi-Fi® (together, “Equipment” and
“Services”). Except as set forth in this Privacy Policy (“Policy”), we will not
trade, sell, or disclose to any third party any form of Personal Information
without your consent. This Policy explains how we collect and use information
from visitors to our websites, customers who use Equipment and Services (luding
customers’ end users), and potential customers who have communicated, made
contact with, or otherwise interacted with TELECLUB LLC in connection with
online and offline Equipment and Services offered by TELECLUB LLC
(collectively, “Customers”).
Certain consumers may be entitled to notices and disclosures
regarding the collection and use of their Personal Information. Sections 1 and
2 of this Policy are intended to provide such notice.
1. Collection of Personal Information
In this Policy, “Personal Information” means any information
relating to an identified or identifiable individual. Personal Information
ludes, but is not limited to, your name, physical address, email address and
telephone number (which may be needed to create your account or to use our
Services such as cellular calling or providing emergency services as set forth
in our Terms and Conditions); in-app messages (to provide chat functionality);
voice calls and recordings (to provide VoIP call and call recording
functionality); image, video or other files (to provide MMS functionality); and
contact information added by you, such as phone numbers and email addresses (to
provide address book functionality). TELECLUB LLC may collect Personal
Information about you directly from you and from third parties, as well as
automatically through your use of our websites and Equipment and Services.
1.1 Personal Information Provided by You
When you purchase Equipment and Services we collect your
Personal Information, luding, but not limited to, name, physical address, email
address, telephone number, certain billing information, and other information
you provide. If you make a purchase through our Services, your payment
information, such as credit card information and billing details, will be
collected by a third-party payment processor, and not by us.
We may also collect Personal Information that you upload,
save, send, or receive on or through the Equipment or Services (luding mobile
applications) depending on how you use the Equipment and Services.
If you complete our surveys, contact us directly, or provide
information on our website, we may collect your name, email address, phone,
company, job title, physical address, Equipment and Services of your interest,
date and time of your communication and any attachments thereto, and other
content or information you may directly provide to us.
You should be aware that any Personal Information which you
voluntarily lude and transmit through publicly accessible forums may be viewed
and used by anyone with access to such forums. We are not responsible for other
users’ use of available information, so you should carefully consider whether
and what to post or how you identify yourself on such forums.
Where required by applicable law, we indicate whether and
why you must provide us with your Personal Information, as well as the
consequences of failing to do so.
1.2 Personal Information Collected via Automated Means
We or third parties on our behalf (such as advertising and
analytics providers) may collect Personal Information from Customers when
Customers use our websites or mobile applications; open or click on emails we
send; or interact with our advertisements. Such Personal Information may lude
website pages viewed, time spent using certain services, and demographic data
collected via cookies (as defined below). We collect information related to the
types of Equipment and Services you purchase and how and when you use such
Equipment and Services. If you use our Managed Wi-Fi® Service, we may also
automatically collect data regarding the devices that connect to your network
and how your network is being used. Such information may lude an end user’s
unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address,
operating system, browser type, username, location-based data, and interactions
with an Internet website, application, or advertisement. If you use our mobile
applications, we may also automatically collect device ID or diagnostic data
for analytics purposes or to troubleshoot issues.
“Cookies” are pieces of information that may be placed on
your computer by a website for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your
communication and interaction with that website. Many websites use cookies for
these purposes. We may use cookies to customize your visit to our websites and
for other purposes to improve your online user experience and to enable us to
enhance our website and Equipment and Services. The term cookie is the most
used term, but “cookies” actually describe a range of technologies, such as:
clear gifs, pixels, web beacons, software developer kits, third-party
libraries, third party cookies and other similar online tracking technologies
to improve the performance of our websites, provide certain features, such as
advertising, or to anonymously track usage of our websites and track the online
activity of users. In addition, we may use such devices in our HTML-based
emails to track the usage of such emails in much the same manner as we track
usage of our websites. References to “cookies” in this Policy, our websites,
and mobiles apps are intended to capture cookies and these other online
tracking technologies.
In addition to cookies, TELECLUB LLC (and our third-party
advertisers or vendors) may also use clear gifs, web beacons, and third party
cookies to improve the performance of our websites, provide certain features,
such as advertising, or to anonymously track usage of our websites and track
the online activity of users. In addition, we may use such devices in our
HTML-based emails to track the usage of such emails in much the same manner as
we track usage of our websites.
1.3 Third Parties
We may obtain information, luding Personal Information, from
sources other than the Equipment and Services (luding mobile applications),
such as our partners and advertisers. If we receive, combine or associate
information from other sources with Personal Information that we collect from
you or through the Equipment and Services (luding mobile applications), we will
treat the combined information as Personal Information in accordance with this
Policy.
If you interact with us on social media or use features,
such as plugins, widgets, or other tools made available by social media
platforms (luding Facebook, Twitter, Google, YouTube, and TikTok) in connection
with our websites or mobile applications, we collect information that you
disclose to us, or that the social media platforms disclose to us. For more
information about the privacy practices of those social media platforms, please
review the privacy policies and settings of the social media platforms that you
use.
2. How We Use Your Personal Information
2.1 Purposes of Processing Personal Information
We may process Personal Information for the following
purposes:
Providing the
Services. We process your Personal Information to provide our Equipment and
Services. We will not monitor or disclose to any third parties conversations,
voice messages, or other communications that are transmitted using our
Equipment and Services except in connection with the Services, as required to
ensure proper operation of Equipment and Services, or as otherwise authorized
by law.
Personalized
Advertising. We may process your Personal Information for promotional purposes,
such as to send advertising and promotional communications by email or postal
mail; to show you advertisements for products and/or services tailored to your
interests on social media and other websites; and to administer our
sweepstakes, contests, and other similar promotions.
Marketing. We may
process your Personal Information to send email marketing about our Equipment
and Services, as well as products and services from our partners, to Customers
that TELECLUB LLC believes have interest in. Where required under applicable
law, we will only send you promotional emails with your opt-in consent.
Customer
Relationship Management. We may process your Personal Information for customer
relationship management purposes, such as to provide you with customer support
upon your request.
Analytics and
Product Development. We process your Personal Information to understand and
analyze the usage trends and preferences of our Customers, to improve the
Equipment and Services, and to develop new products, services, features, and
functionalities.
Communications. We
may process your Personal Information to communicate with you for
administrative purposes, such as to provide necessary communications regarding
functionalities of the Equipment and Services, to provide information that you
request, and to respond to comments and questions.
Aggregation. We
may aggregate or otherwise anonymize Personal Information. We may process and
disclose information that does not identify or otherwise relate to an
individual for any lawful purpose.
Surveys. We may
process your Personal Information collected via surveys to improve the types of
Equipment and Services we offer and how we provide them to you. For example, we
may combine this information with Personal Information provided by other
Customers to understand trends in our user base, and improve our Equipment and
Services accordingly.
Administrative and
Legal Purposes. We may also process and disclose Personal Information to
investigate and help prevent potentially unlawful activities that threaten the
integrity of our Equipment, Services or network, to investigate fraud or
violations of our Terms and Conditions or other agreements with Customers, as
required by courts or administrative agencies, or in connection with a sale,
merger or reorganization of TELECLUB LLC’s business.
2.2 How We Use Cookies and Similar Technologies
We and third parties may use the following types of cookies
to collect Personal Information:
Functional
cookies. Some cookies are strictly necessary to make our websites and mobile
applications available to you. For example, to provide the chat functionality
and to remember your consent and privacy choices. We cannot provide you with
the Services without this type of cookie.
Analytical
cookies. We also use cookies for analytics purposes in order to operate,
maintain and improve our Services. We may use third party analytics providers
such as Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytics data on our
behalf. These providers may also collect information about your use of other
websites, mobile applications, and online resources.
Advertising
cookies. We work with third-party advertising companies to show you ads we
think may interest you. To do so, we and our advertising partners may place and
access cookies through our websites and otherwise collect or access Personal
Information collected over time and across different online services. These
third–party partners and service providers use their technology to provide
advertising about products and services tailored to your interests which may
appear either on our websites or on other websites.
Where required by applicable law, we obtain your consent to
use cookies. You can find more information about your rights and choices, and
how to opt out of the use of certain cookies in Section 5 (Your Rights and
Choices) below.
2.3 Our Use of European Personal Information
If you are located in the European Economic Area, we only
process your Personal Information when we have a valid “legal basis,” a list of
which can be found here.
3. How We Disclose Your Personal Information
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties
in the following circumstances:
We disclose your
Personal Information to third party service providers such as our vendors and
contractors to provide application development, hosting, maintenance, and other
services and to assist TELECLUB LLC in our provision of Equipment and Services.
Generally, we limit the information provided to these service providers to what
is reasonably necessary for them to perform their functions on our behalf, and
we require them to agree to maintain the confidentiality of such information.
In the case where
we obtain information about you from Google APIs, our use and transfer to any
other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google
API Services User Data Policy, luding its Limited Use requirements.
Any Personal
Information that you voluntarily choose to post to a publicly accessible area
of the services will be available to anyone who has access to that content,
luding other users.
We share Personal
Information with third parties whom we partner with to offer co-branded
TELECLUB LLC Equipment and Services or whom we work with to jointly create
and/or offer products, services, or joint promotions.
We may disclose
your Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to comply with applicable laws, in
response to a court order, judicial or other government subpoena or warrant, or
to otherwise cooperate with law enforcement or other governmental agencies.
We also reserve
the right to disclose your Personal Information that we believe, in good faith,
is appropriate or necessary to (i) take precautions against liability; (ii)
protect ourselves or others from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses or
activity;(iii) investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims
or allegations; (iv) protect the security or integrity of our Services and any
facilities or equipment used to make our Services available; or (v) protect our
property or other legal rights luding, but not limited to, enforcement of our
agreements, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
We may disclose
and otherwise transfer Personal Information to an acquirer, successor or
assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or
similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or
receivership in which information is transferred to one or more third parties
as one of our business assets.
We may share
Personal Information with our affiliates, subsidiaries, and branch offices to
which it is reasonably necessary or desirable for us to disclose Personal
Information for the above-mentioned purposes and in order to market our
co-branded Equipment and Services more effectively to Customers.
Some of our
websites have features such as, plugins, widgets, and/or other tools made
available by social media platforms and networks that may result in information
being collected or disclosed between us and such parties. Their use of your
information is not governed by this Policy.
4. Customer Specific Network Information
In the course of providing Equipment and Services to you,
TELECLUB LLC will collect and maintain certain customer-specific network
information, as such term is defined under 47 U.S.C. § 222(h) (“Customer
Specific Network Information”). Customer Specific Network Information ludes the
types of products and services you currently purchase, related usage, and
billing information for those products and services. Your telephone number,
name, and address are not Customer Specific Network Information.
We value our relationships with our Customers and are
committed to respecting and protecting your Customer Specific Network
Information. Accordingly, we will not sell, trade, or share your Customer
Specific Network Information outside of TELECLUB LLC or with anyone not
authorized to offer or provide our Equipment and Services, or to perform
functions on our behalf, except as authorized by you or as provided below.
Generally, we can use your Customer Specific Network Information to offer
additional services to you, and for billing and collections purposes. We can
also disclose your Customer Specific Network Information for legal or
regulatory reasons or in the event of emergencies, luding in response to
subpoenas and court orders. We can also use Customer Specific Network
Information to investigate fraud and to prevent violation of our agreements or
Terms and Conditions and monitor potentially unlawful use of our network,
Equipment and Services, and abuse of other Customers.
5. Your Rights and Choices
You may decline to share certain Personal Information with
us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some or all of the
features and functionalities of our Equipment and Services. You also have the
right to access your Personal Information you have provided to us.
If you receive commercial email from us, you may unsubscribe
at any time by following the instructions contained within the email. You may
also opt out from receiving commercial email from us by contacting us using the
contact details at the end of this Policy.
Please be aware that if you opt out of receiving commercial
email from us or otherwise modify the nature or frequency of promotional
communications you receive from us, it may take up to ten business days for us
to process your request and you may receive promotional communications from us
during that period. Additionally, even after you opt out from receiving
commercial messages from us, you will continue to receive administrative
messages from us regarding our Services.
5.1. Your Cookie Choices
You have the following choices with regard to the use of
cookies and similar technologies.
Many web browsers
allow you to manage your preferences relating to cookies. You can set your
browser to refuse cookies or delete certain cookies. You may be able to manage
other technologies in the same way that you manage cookies using your browser’s
preferences. Please note that if you choose to block cookies, doing so may
impair the use of our Equipment and Services.
You can opt-out of
interest-based advertising provided by certain third parties by following the
instructions they provide. For instance, our website uses Google Analytics to
serve ads to you on other websites after you’ve visited our website. This
practice is known as remarketing and is a tool that Google offers to
businesses. You can learn about Google’s practices here and opt out by
downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, or via Google’s Ads Settings
or Ad Settings for mobile applications.
We may also allow
other third-party service providers to use cookies and other technologies to
collect information and to track browsing activity across third-party websites
such as web browsers used to read our websites, which websites are referring
traffic or linking to our websites, and to deliver targeted advertisements to
you. We do not control these third-party technologies and their use is governed
by the privacy policies of third parties using such technologies. For more
information about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that
use these technologies you may go here and to opt out of such ad networks’ and
services’ advertising practices, go toYour Ad Choices and Network Advertising
Initiative Choices. Once you click the link, you may choose to opt out of such
advertising from all participating advertising companies or only advertising
provided by specific advertising companies. Please note that even if you choose
to opt out from tailored / interest-based advertising, you may see advertising
that is not relevant to you. Also, we do not control any of the above opt-out
links and are not responsible for any choices you make using these mechanisms
or the continued availability or accuracy of these mechanisms.
Where required by
law, we process opt-out preference signals in a frictionless manner. If your
browser supports it, you can turn on the Global Privacy Control (GPC) settings
on your browser to opt-out of the sharing of your Personal Information.
5.2 Your European Privacy Rights
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA“),
you have additional rights as described here.
TELECLUB LLC, . and its wholly-owned subsidiary Talkatone,
LLC (the “Certified Parties“) comply with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework
as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use,
and retention of Personal Information transferred from the European Union to
the United States. The Certified Parties have certified to the Department of
Commerce that they adhere to the Privacy Shield Priples. If there is any
conflict between the terms in this Policy and the Privacy Shield Priples, the
Privacy Shield Priples shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield
program, and to view the Certified Parties’ certification, please
visithttps://www.privacyshield.gov/.
The Certified Parties comply with the Privacy Shield’s
Priple regarding accountability for onward transfers. The Certified Parties
remain liable under the Privacy Shield Priples if their onward transfer
recipients process Personal Information in a manner onsistent with the Privacy
Shield Priples, unless they prove that they were not responsible for the event
giving rise to the damage.
In compliance with the Privacy Shield Priples, the Certified
Parties commit to resolve complaints about their collection or use of your
Personal Information. The Certified Parties have further committed to cooperate
with the panel established by the EU data protection authorities (DPAs) with
regard to unresolved Privacy Shield complaints concerning data transferred from
the EU.
We are aware of the July 16, 2020 decision from the European
Union Court of Justice which invalidated the EU-U.E. Privacy Shield.
Nonetheless, we will continue to abide by the Privacy Shield Priples with
respect to the protection of personal information. We are closely monitoring
developments and guidance from both European and US regulatory authorities,
luding the agreement in priple between the European Commission and the United
States announced in March 2022 outlining a new Data Privacy Framework to replace
the EU-U.E Privacy Shield (subject to certain approvals in the European Union),
and will update this Policy as needed.
EU individuals with inquiries or complaints regarding our
Privacy Shield policy should first contact the Certified Parties at:
privacy@TELECLUB LLC.com. Under certain circumstances, you may be able to
invoke binding arbitration to address complaints about their compliance with
the Privacy Shield Priples. In addition, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission has
Privacy Shield investigatory and enforcement powers over the Certified Parties.
5.3 Your Canadian Privacy Rights
If you are located in Canada, you have additional rights as
described here.
5.4 Your California Privacy Rights
If you are located in California, you have additional rights
as described here.
6. International Customers
Our Services are currently hosted in the United States,
Canada, United Kingdom, Japan, Spain, Poland and Australia, and we may host our
Services in other countries and territories in the future. If you choose to use
our Equipment and Services from regions of the world with laws governing data
collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are
transferring your Personal Information outside of those regions to the U.S. for
storage and processing. We take steps to comply with applicable data protection
law, in particular legal requirements regarding adequate protection for data
transfers. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or
regions in connection with storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests,
and providing our Equipment and Services. By providing any information, luding
Personal Information, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.
We may transfer your Personal Information to countries which
have been found to provide adequate protection by the EU Commission, to
recipients bound by the EU Standard Contractual Clauses, or to recipients who
have certified to the Privacy Shield or adopted Binding Corporate Rules.
7. How Long Do We Store Your Data?
When determining the retention period of your Personal
Information, we take into account various criteria, luding but not limited to
the type of Equipment and Services provided to you, the nature and length of
our relationship with you, and mandatory retention periods provided by law.
8. Security
TELECLUB LLC makes reasonable efforts to protect your
information by using physical and electronic safeguards designed to improve the
security of the information we maintain. However, no system or service can
offer a 100% guaranty of security, especially a service that relies upon the
public Internet and public phone system.
9. Third Party Websites and Services
Our Services may contain links to other websites and
services not maintained by TELECLUB LLC, which are outside our control. We are
not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these third-party
websites and services. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before
providing any information to them.
10. Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal
Information from children under 16 years of age, and no part of our Equipment
and Services is directed to children. If you learn that a child has provided us
with Personal Information, then you may alert us at privacy@TELECLUB LLC.com.
11. Changes to This Policy
We will post any changes to this Policy on this page, and
the revised version will be effective when it is posted. You should review this
Policy regularly for changes, which will be indicated by the “Last Updated”
date at the top of this page. Your continued use of our Equipment and Services
following the posting of any changes to this Policy means you accept such
changes.
12. Contact Details
Unless otherwise indicated, TELECLUB LLC, . is the entity
responsible or “data controller” for the processing of your Personal
Information as described in this Policy. Please contact us with any questions
or comments about this Policy, your Personal Information, our use and
disclosure practices, or your consent choices by email at privacy@TELECLUB
LLC.com or by postal mail at:
TELECLUB LLC
1948 TOWNE CENTER BLVD
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