Welcome to the EncourageX Privacy Policy ("Policy"). This policy explains how we collect, store, protect, and share your information, and with whom we share it. We suggest you read this in conjunction with our Terms and Conditions. While you're enjoying the EncourageX website application ("App"), we collect some information about you. In addition, you may choose to use the App to collect information related to the people you care about and or plan to encourage. You may also plan to share this information with other EncourageX Users, including your friends and contacts ("Users"). We may also need to share your information sometimes.

By agreeing to our Terms & Conditions at sign-up or downloading our app, you agree that we can collect, transfer, store, disclose and use your information as described in this Policy. EncourageX is a global app, and your information will be sent to and used in the United States regardless of the country you reside in, and by downloading our App you consent to such transfer. So please read very carefully!

If you have any questions or comments about this Policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected].

1. COLLECTION OF INFORMATION.

Registration & Personal Profile Information for Recipients of Encouragement

When you download the App and create an account ("Account"), we may collect certain information ("Registration & Personal Profile Information for Recipients of Encouragement") about you, such as:

• Name;
• Username;
• Email address;
• Gender;
• Date of birth;
• Sexual preference;
• Nationality;
• Photographs;
• Location; and
• Login information and people listed on your dashboard, as well as all of the personal profile information.
• You will also be required to create a username and password in connection with the registration of your Account. Once you register, you will be able to review and change this information at any time!

This information helps to enhance the App and verify our Users (Robots are not welcome!!). Registration Information such as your name and username may be visible to the public on your profile page.

Additional Information

We may also collect additional information in connection with your use of EncourageX, such as comments and posts, or if you use our automated encouragement delivery system.

If you contact our Customer Support team, we will receive your email address, and may track your IP address as well as the information you send to us to help resolve your query. We will keep records of our communications with you, including any complaints that we receive from you about other Users (and from other Users about you).

We recommend and encourage you (and all our members) to think carefully about the information you disclose about yourself and members in your dashboard.

Please be careful about posting sensitive details about yourself on your profile such as your religious denomination and health details. While you may voluntarily provide this information to us when you create your profile, including your sexual preferences and ethnic background, there is no requirement to do so. Please remember that photographs that you post on EncourageX may reveal information about yourself as well.

When you post information about yourself or use the messaging function, the amount of personal information you share is at your own risk. Please see Section 4 below for more information on who can access what you post on EncourageX. If you post anything that is inconsistent with our Terms and Conditions of Use, we reserve the right to terminate your Account - we really don't want to terminate, so please observe our rules.

IF YOU PROVIDE A CELL PHONE NUMBER TO RECEIVE SMS MESSAGES FROM ENCOURAGEX, YOU EXPRESSLY CONSENT TO RECEIVING SMS MESSAGES FROM US PROMOTING OUR SERVICES AND PRODUCTS. ALTHOUGH THERE IS NO FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SERVICE, YOUR CARRIER MAY CHARGE YOU FOR EACH MESSAGE YOU RECEIVE. YOU AGREE THAT WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR SUCH CHARGES. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO CONTINUE TO RECEIVE ANY MESSAGES VIA YOUR MOBILE DEVICE, YOU MAY OPT-OUT AT ANY TIME BY TEXTING "STOP" IN RESPONSE TO A MARKETING SMS MESSAGE.

Data Storage

By using the App, you agree and acknowledge that EncourageX is a global app operating through servers located in a number of countries around the world, including the United States. If you live in a country with data protection laws, the storage of your personal data may not provide you with the same protections as you enjoy in your country of residence. By submitting your personal information, or by choosing to upgrade the services you use, or by making use of the applications available on EncourageX, you agree to the transfer of your personal information to, and storage and processing of your personal information in, any such countries and destinations.

Log and Usage Data

Our servers automatically record information ("Log and Usage Data") created by your use of the Service, which again helps us to improve our service. Log and Usage Data may include information such as your IP address, browser type, the referring domain, pages visited, access times, your mobile carrier, and search terms. Other actions, such as interactions with EncourageX and advertisements, may also be included in Log and Usage Data.

Device Information

We may collect information about your device when you use the App including the unique device identifier, device model, operating system, and MAC address. In addition, if you permit us to do so, the App may access your device's address book and contact lists in order to offer you certain features of our Services.

Links

We may keep track of how you interact with links available on EncourageX including third party services and clients by redirecting clicks or through other means. We may share aggregate click statistics such as how many times a particular link was clicked on.

Cookies

Cookies are small data files that are transferred to your computer's hard disk. Like many websites, we use "cookie" technology to collect additional website usage data and to improve EncourageX.

The cookies we collect enable us to learn how people interact with EncourageX, which in turn helps us make a better product for you! Cookies store information about your website visits and can recognize you and your preferences each time you visit EncourageX. They help us to provide a better service to you!

If for any reason you decide that you do not want all of your EncourageX activities to be stored you may set your browser and mobile settings to block cookies and local storage devices, but please remember that if you do so, you may not be able to access all of the features EncourageX offers!

We use the following types of cookies:

Performance

Our use of cookies and local storage devices, including the specific cookie names, may change over time, but will generally fall into the above categories. Please visit this page regularly so that you are aware of any changes.

If you would like to know more about these clever and calorie free cookies, including flash cookies/local storage devices, the following websites provide useful information:

• www.allaboutcookies.org
• www.youronlinechoices.eu
• http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html

2. USE OF INFORMATION.

Our main goal is to ensure your experience on EncourageX is an enjoyable one and that you continue to encourage the people you care about. In order to deliver an enjoyable experience to you, we may use your Registration and other information to:

• offer you our services and features;
• contact you with information about the App (e.g., updates and new offerings);
• personalize the App and the content we deliver to you;
• conduct research and analytics about how you use and interact with the App;
• investigate fraud, protect our legal rights, and to enforce our Terms & Conditions.

3. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION.

Our policy is to not disclose your Registration Information, except in the limited circumstances described here:

Your Consent: If you consent, we may share or disclose your Registration Information, such as when you use a third party web client or application to access your Account.

Service Providers: We engage certain trusted third parties to perform functions and provide services to us. We may share your Registration Information with these third parties, but only for the purposes of performing these functions and providing such services.

Law and Harm: As we mentioned in the Terms and Conditions we think it is very important that all Encouragers behave while using the App. We will cooperate with all third parties to enforce their intellectual property or other rights. We will also cooperate with law enforcement enquiries from within or outside your country of residence. This may include preserving or disclosing any of your information, including your Registration Information, if we believe in good faith that it is necessary to comply with a law or regulation, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal request; to protect the safety of any person; to address fraud, security or technical issues; or to protect our rights or property or those of third parties. In such cases we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.

Business Transfers: In the event that EncourageX or any of our affiliates are involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction.

Non-Private or Non-Personal Information: We may share or disclose your non-private, aggregated or otherwise non-personal information with third parties for industry analysis and demographic profiling and to deliver targeted advertising about other products and services and for marketing purposes. You may opt-out of receiving marketing messages by using the opt-out mechanisms and links provided in each email.

Professional and Medical Advice and Recommendations: Information presented on EncourageX is intended for informational and entertainment purposes only and is not meant to be taken as financial advice. The views expressed on this website are personal opinions only and should not be construed as professional, medical or spiritual advice for your given situation. While all attempts are made to present accurate information, it may not be appropriate for your specific circumstances and information may become outdated over time.

Affiliate Marketing Commissions:Please note that EncourageX (and EncourageX LLC) has financial relationships with some of the merchants mentioned on this blog. EncourageX (and EncourageX LLC) may be compensated if consumers choose to utilize the links located throughout the content on this site and generate sales for the said merchant. EncourageX (and EncourageX LLC) is compensated for certain paid links and advertisements on this blog. You are not obligated to click on any link or buy any products that are advertised.

Per FTC guidelines, this website may be compensated by companies mentioned through advertising, affiliate programs, or otherwise. Any references to third party products, rates, or websites are subject to change without notice. Please do the appropriate research before participating in any third party offers.

4. WHAT OTHERS MAY SEE ABOUT YOU.

When using EncourageX, we make a point to keep your personal profile information private. Any information included in your profiles is intended solely for your personal use to better curate personal, authentic and consistent expressions of encouragement for someone you care about. None of the information provided in your respective profiles has been sourced by EncourageX.com or from any private documents or information outside of EncourageX.com. All information included in the profiles is "subjective" in nature.

5. MODIFYING YOUR REGISTRATION INFORMATION.

You may access or modify the Registration Information you provided at anytime or permanently delete your Account (although we really hope you don't).

When your Account is deactivated, we take reasonable efforts to make sure it is no longer viewable on the App. For up to 30 days it is still possible to restore your Account if it was accidentally or wrongfully deactivated. After 30 days, we begin the process of deleting your Account from our systems. We are not responsible for any information, pictures, comments, or other content that is deleted from our systems resulting from the deactivation of your Account.

To prevent abuse and/or misuse of EncourageX by a User following termination or deletion of a profile/Account we shall retain such information as we deem in our sole discretion may be necessary to ensure that User does not open a new Account and profile in breach of our Terms and Conditions and to ensure compliance with all laws and regulations.

Warning: Even after you remove information from your profile or delete your Account, copies of that information may still be viewable and/or accessed to the extent such information has been previously shared with others, or copied or stored by other Users or to the extent such information has been shared with search engines. We cannot control this, nor do we accept any liability for this. If you have given third party applications or websites access to your personal information they may retain such information to the extent permitted under their terms of service or privacy policies.

Removed and deleted information may persist in backup copies for up to 30 days to enable restoration, but will not be available to others in the meantime.

6. OUR POLICY TOWARDS AGE.

Although we want as many people as possible to enjoy our creation, you have to be at least 18 years old to use the App - sorry kids, we know EncourageX is cool, but you'll have to come back when you're old enough!

Our policy is to not market to children, minors or anyone under the age of 18. If you are less than 18 years old, we request that you do not submit information to us. If we become aware that a child, minor or anyone under the age of 18 has registered with us and provided us with personal information, we will take steps to terminate that person's registration and delete their Registration Information from EncourageX. If we do delete a profile because you violated our no children rules, we may retain your email and IP address to ensure that you do not try to get around our rules by creating a new profile.

7. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY.

As EncourageX evolves, we may revise this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most current version of the policy will govern our use of your information and will always be at EncourageX.com/privacy/. If we make a change to this policy that, in our sole discretion, is material, we will notify you, for example, via an email to the email associated with your Account or by posting a notice within EncourageX. By continuing to access or use the App after those changes become effective, you agree to be bound by the revised Privacy Policy.

8. SECURITY.

Here at EncourageX we pride ourselves on taking commercially reasonable security measures to help protect your information against loss, misuse and unauthorized access, or disclosure. We use reasonable security measures to safeguard the confidentiality of your personal information such as secured servers using firewalls.

Unfortunately no website or Internet transmission is ever completely 100% secure and even we cannot guarantee that unauthorised access, hacking, data loss or other breaches will never occur, but here are some handy tips to help keep your data secure:

• Please make sure you log out of your Account after use as you never know who may stumble onto your Account!
• Please don't share your social media password with anyone else!
• Change your social media password periodically.

If you ever think someone has had access to your social media password, please report it to the relevant social media platform and change your password immediately. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data while it is being transmitted to our site and any transmission is at your own risk.

WE EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM ANY REPRESENTATION OR WARRANTY, WHETHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, WITH RESPECT TO ANY BREACHES OF SECURITY, DAMAGE TO YOUR DEVICE, OR ANY LOSS OR UNAUTHORIZED USE OF YOUR REGISTRATION INFORMATION OR OTHER DATA.

9. THIRD PARTY ACCOUNTS.

We only use the APIs, OAuth Tokens, Widgets, or other means provided by the applicable Social Media Account to integrate your Social Media Account with our App. As such, we only receive the limited information that each Social Media Account permits to be transferred.

10. YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS.

California's "Shine the Light" law, Civil Code section 1798.83, requires certain businesses to respond to requests from California customers asking about the businesses' practices related to disclosing personal information to third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes. If you wish to find out about any rights you may have under California Civil Code section 1798.83, you can write to us at [email protected].

From time to time we may disclose your contact information to third parties to allow them to market their products or services to you or for other marketing purposes. This may be information we received from you offline and online. If you want us to stop further sharing your email contact information with third parties (if we have your email contact information), you may notify us at [email protected]. Please follow the instructions provided to you by third parties to unsubscribe from their messages. If you have opted-out as described above, and thereafter you chose to use a service or promotion that requires us to contact you or share your information with a third party, then your previous opt-out preferences will not apply to such service.

In addition, under California law, operators of online services are required to disclose how they respond to "do not track" signals or other similar mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personal information of a consumer over time and across third party online services, to the extent the operator engages in that collection. At this time, we do not track our Users' personal information over time and across third-party online services. This law also requires operators of online services to disclose whether third parties may collect personal information about their users' online activities over time and across different online services when the users use the operator's service. We do not knowingly permit third parties to collect personal information about an individual User's online activities over time and across different online services when using the App.

11. ABOUT US.

Your access to the App, as well as this Privacy Policy are governed and interpreted by the laws of the State of Texas, other than such laws, rules. regulations and case law that would result in the application of the laws of a jurisdiction other than the State of Texas. By using this App, you are consenting to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of the United States and the State of Texas. You agree that such courts shall have in personam jurisdiction and venu and waive any objection based on inconvenient forum. You agree that you will not file or participate in a class action against us. In the event there is discrepancy between this English language version and any translated copies of the Policy, the English version shall prevail.

EncourageX, is a division of EncourageX registered in the United States. Our registered address is 13914 Majestic Spring Lane, Humble, TX 77396.

Effective date

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 09/04/2018