Privacy Policy for Prosal LLC

Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 20, 2023

We take Your privacy very seriously. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using Our Website, as it contains important information on who We are, and how and why we collect, store, use, and share Your Personal Data. It also explains Your rights in relation to your Personal Data and how to contact Us or supervisory authorities in the event You have a complaint.

We collect, use and are responsible for certain personal information about You. When we do so we are subject to various laws in the United States and the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom), and we are responsible as "controller" of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

Acknowledgment

This is the privacy policy (the "Privacy Policy" or "Agreement") containing the policies and procedures of Prosal LLC, 1421 Sopera Ave., FL 33134 (the "Prosal", "We", "Us", or "Our") on the collection, use, and disclosure of the information of the individual accessing or using http://www.prosal.io (the "Website"), or the company or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable ("You" or "Your"), when You use the Website.

Prosal is a web-based marketplace that offers an all-in-one solution to the current outdated, burdensome, and inefficient request for proposal ("RFP") process by directly connecting issuers and respondents. Prosal provides a community-driven platform for agencies to discover requests for proposals and to respond to RFPs via the Website (collectively the "Service").

By using or accessing the Website or Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If You disagree with any part of this Privacy Policy, then You may not access or use the Website or the Service.Your access to and use of the Website or the Service is also conditioned on Your acceptance of and compliance with the Terms and Conditions of Prosal. Before using Our Website or Service, please read Terms and Conditions at https://www.termsfeed.com/live/fcd135b8-1ee0-41f6-b50c-5355a88d949e.

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Business, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), refers to the Company as the legal entity that collects Consumers' personal information and determines the purposes and means of the processing of Consumers' personal information, or on behalf of which such information is collected and that alone, or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of consumers' personal information, that does business in the State of California.
  • Country refers to: Florida, United States
  • Sale, for the purpose of the CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act), means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a Consumer's personal information to another business or a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Web Site Visits

Prosal collects certain information from You when You visit the Website. This includes, but is not limited to, the home server domain name, e-mail address, type of computer and web browser, what pages visitor accessed, and limited information about search requests. This information is used to solve technical problems and to calculate overall usage statistics.

Third-Party Certification

Prosal is a member of the [name of third party certification program], an independent, nonprofit organization that promotes privacy policies of disclosure and informed consent.

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Website or Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual ("Personal Data"). Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
  • Usage Data
Usage Data

Usage data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or Service or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit) ("Usage Data").

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data. "Device" means any device that can access the Website or Service such as a computer, a cellphone, or a digital tablet.

When You access the Website or Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Information from Third-Party Social Media Services

Prosal allows You to create an Account and log in to use the Website or Service through websites or social network websites through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Website or Service ("Third-Party Social Media Service"). Prosal allows You to do so through the following Third-party Social Media Services:

  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Twitter

If You decide to register through or otherwise grant Us access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal Data that is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account, such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities, or Your contact list associated with that account.

You may also have the option of sharing additional information with Prosal through Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data, during registration or otherwise, You are giving Prosal permission to use, share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

No Tracking of Personal Information

Prosal's Website is not set up to track, collect, or distribute Personal Data not entered by visitors. Our Website logs do generate certain kinds of non-identifying Website usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to Our Website. This information is used for internal purposes by technical support staff to provide better services to the public and may also be provided to others, but, again, the statistics contain no Personal Data and cannot be used to gather such information.

Use of Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website Service. The technologies We use may include:

  • Cookies or Browser Cookies. · A "Cookie" is a small file placed on Your Device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Website or Service. Unless You have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Website and Service may use Cookies.
  • Flash Cookies. · Certain features of our Website or Service may use local stored objects (or "Flash Cookies") to collect and store information about Your preferences or Your activity on our Website or Service. Flash Cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as those used for browser Cookies. For more information on how You can delete Flash Cookies, please read "Where can I change the settings for disabling, or deleting local shared objects?" available at https://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/disable-local-shared-objects-flash.html#main_Where_can_I_change_the_settings_for_disabling__or_deleting_local_shared_objects_
  • Web Beacons. Certain sections of Our Website or Service and Our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Prosal, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related Website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be Persistent Cookies or Session Cookies. "Persistent Cookies" remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while "Session Cookies" are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies here: All About Cookies by TermsFeed.

  • Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

  • Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

  • Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

  • Tracking and Performance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Collection of Non-Identifiable Information

Prosal may collect non-identifiable information from user visits to the Website in order to provide better service to You. Examples of such collecting include: traffic analysis, such as tracking of the domains from which users visit, or tracking numbers of visitors; measuring visitor activity on the Website; Website and system administration; user analysis; and business decision making. Such information is sometimes known as "clickstream data." Prosal or its contractors may use this data to analyze trends and statistics.

Collection of Personal Data

Prosal collects Personal Data from You during a transaction. Prosal may extract some personally identifying information about that transaction in a non-identifiable format and combine it with other non-identifiable information, such as clickstream data. This information is used and analyzed only at an aggregate level (not at an individual level) to help Prosal understand trends and patterns. This information is not reviewed at an individual level.

Information from Children

Prosal does not collect or maintain information from users actually known to be under the age of 18, and no part of Prosal's Website is structured to attract anyone under the age of 18.

Lost or Stolen Information

If Your credit card and/or password is lost or stolen, You should promptly notify Us in order to enable Us to cancel the lost or stolen information and to update Our records with a changed credit card and/or password.

Forums

If You participate in a Prosal discussion forum, You should be aware that the information disclosed and shared will be broadly available to other persons, both inside of and/or outside Prosal, who have access to that forum. Also, Your expressed opinion is Your own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Prosal.

Forums

If You participate in a Prosal discussion forum, You should be aware that the information disclosed and shared will be broadly available to other persons, both inside of and/or outside Prosal, who have access to that forum. Also, Your expressed opinion is Your own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Prosal.

Use of Your Personal Data

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Website Service, including to monitor the usage of our Website or Service, and to support Your interaction with the Website or Service.
  • To manage Your Account: · to manage Your registration as a user of the Service, meaning a unique account created for you via Our Website to access our Service or parts of our Service ("Account"). The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Website or Service that are available to You as a registered user.
  • For the performance of a contract: The development, compliance, and undertaking of the purchase contract for the Services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Website.
  • To contact You: · To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities or contracted Services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
  • For marketing: To provide You with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events which We offer that are similar to those that You have already purchased or enquired about, unless You have opted not to receive such information.
  • To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
  • For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Website or Service users is among the assets transferred.
  • For other purposes:  We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Website, Service, products, services, and Your experience.

Retention of Your Personal Data

Prosal will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with Our legal obligations (for example, if We are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce Our legal agreements and policies.

Prosal will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this Usage Data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Website or Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this Usage Data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at Prosal's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.

Prosal will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your Personal Data and other personal information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

  • With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of Prosal, meaning third-party companies or individuals employed by Prosal to facilitate the Website or Service, to provide the Website or Service on behalf of Prosal, to perform services related to the Website or Service, or to assist Prosal in analyzing how the Website or Service is used ("Service Provider"), to monitor and analyze the use of our Website or Service, for payment processing, or to contact You.
  • For marketing analysis by third parties: Prosal reserves the right to disclose to third parties Personal Data for marketing analysis; however, any information disclosed will be in the form of aggregate data that does not describe or identify an individual customer.
  • For business transactions: Circumstances may arise where, for business reasons, Prosal decides to sell, buy, merge, or otherwise reorganize Our business(es) in the United States or other country. We may share or transfer Your Personal Data in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Prosal assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
  • With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. "Affiliates" includes Our parent company, if any, and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
  • With agents: Prosal employs or engages other companies and individuals to perform business functions on behalf of Prosal. These persons are provided with Personal Data required to perform their functions but are prohibited by contract from using the information for other purposes. These persons engage in a variety of functions which include, but are not limited to, fulfilling orders, delivering packages, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, and providing customer services.
  • With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services, or promotions.
  • With other users: When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas of the Website with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside the Website. If You interact with other users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name, profile, pictures, and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You and view Your profile.
  • With law enforcement: Under certain circumstances, Prosal may disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
  • For other legal requirements: Prosal may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation; protect and defend the rights or property of Prosal; prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Website or Service; protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public; or protect against legal liability.
  • With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Commitment to Online Security

Prosal works to protect the security of Personal Data during transmission by employing software which encrypts the information that You input. Prosal's practice is to reveal only the last five digits of Your credit card number(s) when confirming an order. During order processing the entire credit card number is revealed to the credit card company selected by You.

No Liability for Acts of Third Parties

Prosal will exercise all commercially reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of Personal Data. However, transmissions protected by industry standard security technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, Prosal shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of Personal Data due to no fault of Prosal including, but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of Prosal staff and/or third parties.

Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal Data

The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process, and transfer information about Your activity on Our Website in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made Your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Email Marketing

We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.

Mailchimp

Mailchimp is an email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC.

For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we may use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).

We will not store or collect Your payment card details. That information is provided directly to Our third-party payment processors whose use of Your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.

Stripe

Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy

Access Rights to Personal Data

Information Maintained by Prosal

Upon Your request, Prosal will provide a reasonable description of Your personally Personal Data that Prosal maintains in its data bank. Prosal can be contacted by e-mail at support@prosal.io.

Corrections and Changes to Personal Information

Help Prosal to keep Your Personal Data accurate. If Your Personal Data changes, or if You note an error upon review of Your information that Prosal has on file, please promptly e-mail Prosal at support@prosal.io and provide the new or correct information.

Links to Other Websites

Our Website or Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party sites or services.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.