Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand how Opus Logica, Inc (“OPUS”, “we”) uses personal information. By accessing or using www.OPUS.com, or any other related sites, applications, and services or any other website operated by OPUS that links to this Policy, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Policy. OPUS is committed to protecting the personal information of its users (visitors, clients) browsing the Site as well as affiliates and other collaborators interacting with OPUS. We believe that you have a right to know our practices regarding the information we collect when you visit and/or use the Site. This Policy explains our privacy practices for the Site and services provided by OPUS as well as privacy practices that apply to affiliates and other collaborators who are individuals. By accessing and/or using the Site and its related sites, applications and services, you acknowledge that you understand how we process your personal data in accordance with this Policy, including our collection, use, disclosure, processing and retention of personal information. You can also learn how to limit sharing of information in this Policy.
Information You Provide. When you register to the Site, use it, complete forms, participate in surveys, or use the Site as collaborator, and/or register to our affiliate or similar program, we ask you to provide certain personal information, including a valid email address, Facebook or Google account login details and username. We will also ask you to provide or otherwise collect additional information, such as, your name, profile details, physical address or billing information, telephone number or other contact details, transactional information, payment information (for example, in certain cases we process your payment method and credit card number), taxpayer information and forms, details about other social networks linked accounts, details about your, purchases, education, profession and expertise, information and files uploaded by you to the Site, and additional authentication information (such as copies of your government issued ID, passport, or driving license, as permitted by applicable laws). We also collect information about or contained in your communications with OPUS as well as any of your posts on our blogs or forums and your communication with other users of OPUS.
Information We Collect Automatically. We collect information while you access, browse, view or otherwise use the Site. In other words, when you access the Site we collect personal information on your usage of the Site, including transactions and communications with other users through the Site, your searches, the pages you visited, as well as other actions on Site. We also, collect, use and process the information relating to such usage, including geo-location information, IP address, device and connection information, browser information and web-log information, and the URLs of the web pages you’ve viewed or engaged with before or after using the Site. We also collect and process information relating to the use of cookies and similar technologies, as detailed below. We use that information to provide you our services, enhance user experience, personalize your browsing experience as well as monitor the Site for preventing fraud and inappropriate content or behavior. Additionally, in order to improve your online experience at OPUS, we have implemented impression reporting. While you view our ads, we gather user Global Unique Identifier, HTTP request data like, user agent, IP, host, URL, country/continent from which request made, browser info, device/operating system/operating system version.
Information We Receive from Third Parties. We receive information from third-party vendors and/or other commercially available sources, such as:
Third-party vendors who provide us data to supplement the information we collect about you, in accordance with applicable laws. For example, we receive fraud warnings from service providers for our fraud prevention and risk assessment efforts. We also receive information from advertising and marketing partners in order to manage and measure our campaigns.
If you link, connect, or login to your account with a third-party service (e.g. Google, Facebook, LinkedIn), we receive certain information, such as your registration and profile information from that service. This information varies and is controlled by that service or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service.
We combine your personal information with information we collect automatically or obtain from other companies and use it for the purposes detailed in this Policy.
Where relevant under applicable laws, all processing of your personal information will be justified by a "lawful ground" for processing. In the majority of cases, processing will be justified on the basis that: You have provided your consent for us to use your personal information for a specific purpose; or to perform a contract or take steps to enter into a contract with you (e.g. to provide you with services which you have purchased);
The processing is necessary to comply with a relevant legal obligation or regulatory obligation that we have (e.g. fraud prevention); and to support our legitimate interests as a business (e.g. to improve our services to you), subject to your interests and fundamental rights and provided it is conducted at all times in a way that is proportionate.
We will use your personal information for the following purposes:
To provide you with quality service and security, to operate the Site, to perform our obligations to you and to develop and improve our service. For example, we use personal information to verify your identity. We also use this information to establish and set up your account, verify or re-issue a password, log your activity, enable your communications with other members, provide customer support and contact you from time to time. The information helps us to develop and improve our services and to understand and analyze our performance.
To ensure integrity, prevent fraud and maintain safe and secure services. For example, we use personal information to monitor, track and prevent fraud and other inappropriate activities, monitor content integrity, conduct security investigations and risk assessments, verify or authenticate information provided by you, enforce our Terms of Service and comply with applicable laws. We conduct certain behavioral analytics to achieve the above objectives and in limited cases, if we detect activity that we think poses a risk to the OPUS marketplace, other users, our community, or third parties, automated processes may restrict or limit your ability to use OPUS. If you would like to challenge any such decision, please contact us at Opus Logica, Inc., 901 Olive St., Santa Barbara, CA., 93101, USA.
To promote and advertise the Site and our services. For example, we use the information collected from you for the purpose of sending direct marketing messages (as detailed below), to show you information that may be of interest to you, to organize and facilitate referral programs or other promotional activities or events.
To maintain appropriate business records, to comply with lawful requests by public authorities and to comply with applicable laws and regulations or as otherwise required by law. We will ask for your consent before using information for a purpose other than those set out in this Policy.
We use your personal information to send you direct marketing communications about our products, services or promotions from OPUS that may be of interest to you or our related services. This may be via email, post, SMS, telephone or targeted online advertisements.
Our processing of your personal information for marketing purposes is based on our legitimate interest, or on your consent, or as otherwise permitted according to applicable laws. You have a right to prevent direct marketing of any form at any time - this can be exercised by following the opt-out link attached to each communication or by sending an email to Opus Logica, Inc., 901 Olive St., Santa Barbara, CA., 93101, USA. We take steps to limit direct marketing to a reasonable and proportionate level, and to send you communications which we believe may be of interest or relevance to you, based on the information we have about you.
We apply a general rule of keeping personal information only for as long as is required to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. However, in some circumstances, we will retain your personal information for longer periods of time. We will retain personal information for the following purposes:
As long as it is necessary and relevant for our operations, e.g. so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenge; and in relation to personal information from closed accounts to comply with applicable laws, prevent fraud, collect any fees owed, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigation, enforce our Site terms and take other actions as permitted by law.
This Site is offered and available to users who are at least 18 years of age or older and of legal age to form a binding contract. Minors under 18 and at least 13 years of age, are only permitted to use the Site through an account owned by a parent or legal guardian with their appropriate permission. Minors under 13 are not permitted to use the Site or the OPUS services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. Parents and guardians should at all times supervise their children's activities. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13, we will delete that personal information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at Opus Logica, Inc., 901 Olive St., Santa Barbara, CA., 93101, USA.
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties for their marketing purposes without your explicit consent. We share your personal information with third parties as detailed below:
When you publish your information and/or share your data with other OPUS users, you do so at your own risk. If you choose to share personal information with other users, including Sellers providing you a service via OPUS, such personal information is shared with other users as separate controllers. While OPUS our Terms of Service require Sellers to keep the information shared with them confidential, OPUS cannot ensure that all users will do so and it is your responsibility to ensure that other users will comply with your standards.
With Service Providers. We share personal information for business purposes with service providers that provide us with services for the purpose of operating the Site, opening and operating your account as well as providing ancillary services and solutions. These include, among others, hosting services, billing and payment processors and vendors, community management services, data and cybersecurity services, web analytics and performance tools, translation tools, IT SaaS services, session recording, communication systems, mailing systems, data optimization and marketing services, data enrichment services, legal and financial advisors or technical consultants. Consistent with applicable legal requirements, we take appropriate technical and organizational measures to require third parties to adequately safeguard your personal information and only process it in accordance with our instructions;
For legal reasons. We share personal information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other parties in order to respond to a subpoena or court order, judicial process or to regulatory authorities, if we believe we are required to do so by law, or that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes; when we believe it necessary or appropriate to disclose personal information to law enforcement authorities, such as to investigate actual or suspected fraud or violations of law, breaches of security, or breaches of this Policy; to respond to claims against us; and to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of OPUS, our customers, or the public;
For payments and fraud detection. We share personal information with payment processors, fraud detection agencies and similar third parties for the purpose of facilitating payments done via the Site and securing the Site and protecting it against fraud, unauthorized transactions (such as money laundering), claims or other liabilities;
With social media partners. Our Site includes certain social media features. We also share limited personal information with such social media platforms and marketing partners, such as Facebook and Google, to promote our services or the OPUS marketplace. Such features and third-party services collect certain information about you and may set a cookie to enable their functionality. Such third parties’ features are governed by their policies.
With our corporate affiliates. We share personal information with OPUS’s corporate affiliates that are related by common control for the purpose of operating the Site, providing our services to you and for other purposes listed herein; and in the context of a corporate transaction. Personal information will also be disclosed if we go through a business transition such as a merger, sale, transfer of all or a portion of OPUS's assets, acquisition, bankruptcy or similar event. In the event that we sell any business or assets, we will disclose your data to the prospective buyer. If we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third-party, information held by us about our users will be one of the transferred assets.
Some of the personal information you provide to us will be stored or processed on our behalf by third-party suppliers and data processors and may be located in other jurisdictions, such as the United States and Israel, whose laws may differ from the jurisdiction in which you live. Whether to third parties or internally, there are also transfers of personal information from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) to countries outside of the EEA not deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection from a European data protection perspective, such as the United States. With regard to data transfers to such recipients outside of the EEA we provide appropriate safeguards, in particular, by way of entering into European Union (EU) standard contractual clauses as amended from time to time, and/or equivalent data transfer safeguards. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy.
We use cookies and similar technologies (such as web beacons, pixels, tags, and scripts) to improve and personalize your experience, provide our services, analyze website performance and for marketing purposes. To learn more about how we and our third-party service providers use cookies and your control over these Cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set in some web browsers, allowing users to opt out of tracking by websites and online services. We do not honor browser requests not to be tracked online (known as “Do Not Track”), but our Cookie Policy describes how you can opt out of receiving cookies.
Please note that the Site contains links to third-party sites and if you navigate to a third-party site from the Site, any data you provide to that site and any use of that data by the third-party are not under the control of OPUS and are not subject to this Policy. You should consult the privacy policies of each site you visit. This Policy applies solely to personal information collected by our Site. If you upload content, including personal information, to a social network and then tag the Site, your submission will be subject to that social network's terms of use and privacy policy, even where you post on an official OPUS page on the social network. We do not have control over these terms of use and privacy policies and have not reviewed their adequacy. You should therefore review these before submitting any personal information.
We implement technical and organizational measures to maintain the security of the Site, our services and personal information and in preventing unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, destruction or damage to it through industry standard technologies and internal procedures. Among other things, we regularly maintain a certification (with respect to payment by credit cards), as required. In addition, we contractually ensure that any third-party processing your personal information equally provides for confidentiality and integrity of your data in a secure way. However, the transmission of data via the internet is not completely secure, and although we will do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to the Site. Once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorized access.
Users who have registered to the Site agree to keep their password in strict confidence and not disclose such password to any third-party.
Further information about our data security practices can be provided on request.
We take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date, and we provide you with the opportunity to update your information through your account profile settings. In the event that you believe your information is in any way incorrect or inaccurate, please let us know immediately. We will make sure we investigate the matter and correct any inaccuracies as quickly as possible where necessary or give you ways to update it quickly or to delete it - unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes. When updating your personal information, we will ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request. If for any reason you have a problem with deleting your personal information, please contact Opus Logica, Inc., 901 Olive St., Santa Barbara, CA., 93101, USA. and we will make reasonable efforts to delete any such information pursuant to any applicable privacy laws.
This Policy may change from time to time; any changes we make to this Policy will be posted on this Site, we will also take any other steps, to the extent required by applicable law, including notifying you about material changes. Changes to this Policy are effective as of the stated "Last Updated" date. We recommend that you check the Policy periodically for any updates or changes. If you continue to use OPUS after those changes are in effect, you agree to the new policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide a more prominent notice or get your consent, as required by law.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please do not hesitate to contact us at Opus Logica, Inc., 901 Olive St., Santa Barbara, CA., 93101, USA.