Privacy and Policy
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WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DOES TAALK COLLECT?
Taalk uses the information it collects to improve your experience with Taalk, including personalizing and enhancing the experience we provide to you on our website. The types of information we may collect about you includes: Information You Give Us. We receive and store any information you enter on our website and contact page, through registration and other forms, or give us in any other way. This may include your name, the company you work for, postal address, email address, telephone number, marketing preferences, and other information. Information from Other Sources. We may receive information about you such as location data from other sources. If you provide information to Taalk, we may collect additional information about you, including information about you from Taalk affiliates and other sources. For more information, read about Fair Information Practices below. Automatic Information: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our websites. For example, like many websites, we use “cookies,” and we obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our websites. This may include individual and aggregate visitor preferences and session information, as well as information such as your IP address and the browser you are using. Our use of cookies is described in greater detail in the following section. If you become a customer of our service, we may send you service-related announcements on occasions when it is necessary to do so. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email. Generally, you may not opt-out of these communications, which are not promotional in nature. If you do not wish to receive them, you have the option to deactivate your account. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend's name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one–time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Taalk stores [or does not store] this information for the sole purpose of sending this one–time email and tracking the success of our referral program. Your friend may email us to request that we remove this information from our database.
DOES TAALK SHARE THE INFORMATION IT RECEIVES?
Taalk does not rent, loan, trade, or lease any personal information without prior consent. We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our website. WHAT CHOICES DO I HAVE? Taalk maintains an email marketing newsletter list to communicate with our customers and prospects. Individuals must affirmatively ask to join our mailing list by opting-in on the Taalk website. We do not rent, loan, trade, or lease the addresses on our list to anyone. All email messages sent to this list include an opportunity to unsubscribe or opt-out of receiving future Insight newsletters. Taalk maintains a postal mailing list to communicate with our customers and prospects. We do not rent, loan, trade or lease our list to anyone. You can request to be removed from our mailing list by contacting us via email. You may also request to be removed from our mailing list at the postal address below: email us If you would like to update your information please email us and submit a new form with updated contact information. To request access to the information we have about you, please send a request via email. Taalk will respond within 30 days.
HOW IS INFORMATION ABOUT ME KEPT SECURE?
We protect information we collect about you by maintaining physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards. All information is secure and may be accessed only by key staff customers of Taalk. Taalk does not request sensitive information (such as a credit card number and/or social security number). We take every precaution to protect your information both online and offline. Periodically, our employees are notified about the importance we place on privacy and security, and what they can do to ensure our customers' information is protected. The servers on which we store data are kept in a secure environment. If you have any questions about security, click here to send an email.
HOW WILL I KNOW ABOUT CHANGES TO THIS POLICY?
Taalk may revise this Policy from time to time. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this Privacy Policy and other places we deem appropriate so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, or by means of a notice on our home page. You should bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure that you are familiar with the most current version of this Policy. You can determine when this Policy was last revised by checking the “Last Revised” legend at the top of the Policy.
ADDITIONAL PRIVACY INFORMATION
Taalk works with the world's leading marketers to develop virtual persona and permission-based marketing communications to send to their customers. Taalk's role in supporting our customers may include hosting member data, compiling or procuring prospect/acquisition data for our customers, delivery of direct mail or email, tracking results of direct mail or email campaigns, analysis of data, hosting of response data collection sites, and transferring collected data back to our customers or to a Taalk hosted database. Taalk treats all member customer data as confidential. Taalk is contractually bound to keep our customers' customer data private and this data is never shared across customers or with any third party that is not authorized by a member to receive its customer data. Taalk only uses its customers' data for the specific purpose of providing services to its customers as authorized by our customers. It is our member's responsibility (as a user of our products and services) to provide proper notice to its customers/consumers with regard to any required notices as to its data collection and data use practices, including any email or internet tracking devices. Some of our customers independently use Taalk's technology platforms to design and send their marketing campaigns without the involvement of Taalk support staff. Taalk informs all of its customers in writing about its stringent Policy against sending unsolicited commercial email, or sending direct mail in a manner not consistent with Direct Marketing Association (DMA) guidelines. If Taalk determines that a member has knowingly used its systems for sending unsolicited commercial email, or direct mail in a manner inconsistent with DMA guidelines, it may revoke the member's permission to send direct mail or email using our products or our systems.
FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
Taalk, or its subsidiaries, may collect data offline directly from consumers or from other data collection sources. Our partners and affiliates share information with us such as precise and historical geographic location of your device and approximate and historical-geographical location derived from a device IP address. We use this information in order to compile acquisition lists of various consumers who may be interested in receiving marketing materials from Taalk customers. Taalk respects and promotes consumer privacy and is committed to maintaining a balance between the legitimate information needs of businesses and the concerns of individuals and the public at large about fair information practices. In its consumer data collection practices, Taalk and all businesses with whom Taalk associates, employ the following fair information practices. Fair Information practices used by Taalk and its data providers: Collection of relevant and socially legitimate information from reputable sources Taking reasonable steps to assure the accuracy of the information, including permitting individuals to correct inaccuracies or inform the source of the correct information Safeguarding information by restricting access to only those who have a legitimate need and right to access the information Taking reasonable steps to protect against the misuse of non-public information Informing customers of how information is used Maintaining systems to protect information from unauthorized access, including using industry standard secure socket layer (“SSL”) encryption when transmitting sensitive information over the public Internet Educating employees on the importance of privacy issues and requirements
FAIR INFORMATION PRACTICES
This website contains links to other sites. The inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of the external site company, its website, or the products and services it promotes and sells. Please be aware that Taalk is not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by Taalk.