Privacy Policy of eMerges.com

Last Updated: [20240628]

eMerges.com, Inc., as the sole entity owning and maintaining this website, may be considered to be a small business data broker under Texas law. To conduct business in Texas, a data broker must register with the Texas Secretary of State. Information about data broker registrants is available on the Texas Secretary of State Website.

This Privacy Policy describes how eMerges.com, Inc. (“eMerges,” “we,” or “us”) collects, uses, and discloses information about you. This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect about you in connection with our websites, products, and other services.

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of this policy. We may also provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to our website or sending you a notification), such as in connection with making material changes to this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy regularly to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.

Please keep in mind that our business collects and distributes information lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records about U.S. citizens. While this type of information is not deemed “personal information” under comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws (like the CCPA), we do still honor requests to opt out of the sale or license of that information to our customers. If you would like to opt out of those disclosures, please see Your Choices below for more details.

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information directly from you when you sign-up for our mailing list, fill out our contact form or otherwise provide information directly to us. The types of information about you that we collect include your name, email address, postal address, phone number, and any other information you choose to provide.

Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect certain information about your interactions with us or our website, including:

Device and Usage Information: We collect information about how you access our website, including data about the device and network you use, such as your operating system version, IP address, and browser type. We also collect information about your activity on our website, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our website.

Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We (and those who perform work with us) use tracking technologies, such as cookies and web beacons, to collect information about your interactions with our website. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our website and your experience, see which areas and features of our website are popular, and count visits. Web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that we use on our website and in our emails to help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. For information about how to disable cookies, see the Your Choices section below.

Information We Derive

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your approximate location based on your IP address.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We may also collect information about you from other sources. For example, we obtain government records and lists lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government. These records may relate to licenses, registrations, permits, political campaign contributions, and the like. The records we receive can contain name, address, registration date, birth date and specific to each source file; license type, registration, or similar permit data points such as boat manufacturer type, game hunted, planes permitted to pilot, political party, propensity to vote, and so forth.

USE OF INFORMATION on the state, federal or local source and and the type of government record such as hunting o on we may publish the government record information that we compile to:

We may use the information we collect to:

·         Provide, maintain, improve, and develop new products and services;

·         Personalize your website experience;

·         Send you support messages and other transactional or relationship messages;

·         Communicate with you about products, services, and events offered by Company and others and provide news and information that we think will interest you (see the Your Choices section below for information about how to opt out of these communications at any time);

·         Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our products and services;

·         Detect, investigate, and help prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity and help protect the rights and property of Company and others;

·         Comply with our legal and financial obligations;

·         Create de-identified, anonymized or aggregated information; and

·         Carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected.

See the Your Choices section below for information about how to opt out of eMerges government records at any time.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

As part of our business, we disclose records and lists lawfully made available from federal, state, or local government records to our customers. These customers may use this data for their legitimate business purposes, which may, depending on the state, federal or local government record source and the type of government record, include the following:

Enable communication with you about political issues, jury, academic and promotional services, and events offered by others and provide news and information that may interest you.

Promote issues pertaining or relating to public policy or the administration of government. This includes all election, campaign, voter fraud detection, voter registration, legislative, journalistic, public opinion, selective service, law enforcement, identity validation, age authentication to keep kids off lists, secure adult web sites, prevent under age access to alcohol and weed and other governmental uses.

Provide for the location of individuals to serve on juries, pay tax bills and child support, locate heirs to unclaimed estates, law enforcement or judgments and for finding witnesses in criminal or personal injury cases or custody disputes.

Enable locating abducted children, organ and bone marrow research, epidemiological research, and other charitable uses

We may also disclose information about you for the following reasons:

We disclose personal information with vendors, service providers, contractors and consultants that access personal information to perform work for us, such as web hosting or email promotional services.

We may disclose personal information if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

We may disclose personal information if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of eMerges, our users, the public, or others.

We will disclose personal information in connection with, or during negotiations concerning, any merger, sale of eMerges assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.

See the Your Choices section below for information about how to opt out of eMerges government records at any time.

ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS

We engage others to provide analytics services and serve advertisements across the web and in mobile apps. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our website and other websites and online services, including your IP address, web browser, mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages or in mobile apps, links clicked, and conversion information. This information may be used by eMerges and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our website and other websites, and better understand your online activity. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.

YOUR CHOICES

Government Record Disclosure Opt-Out

You can opt out of our sale or license of government record information that we compile about you by accurately filling out this opt-out form - https://www.emerges.com/Government-Record-Opt-Out_ep_51-1.html

Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our website.

Communications Preferences

You may opt out of receiving promotional emails from eMerges by following the instructions in those communications. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or if we may be of additional assistance, please contact us at [email protected] or:

eMerges.com, Inc.

212 Prince George Street, Suite B,

Annapolis, MD 21401

phone 410-268-1960.

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