Privacy Policy

PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE TO US

IN SHORT: WE COLLECT PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US SUCH AS NAME, ADDRESS, CONTACT INFORMATION, PASSWORDS AND SECURITY DATA, AND PAYMENT INFORMATION.

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when expressing an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and services when participating in activities on the Sites or otherwise contacting us.

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Sites, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect can include the following:

Name and Contact Data. We collect your first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data.

Credentials. We collect passwords, password hints, and similar security information used for authentication and account access.

Payment Data. We collect data necessary to process your payment if you make purchases, such as your payment instrument number (such as a credit card number), and the security code associated with your payment instrument. All payment data is stored by our payment processor and you should review its privacy policies and contact the payment processor directly to respond to your questions.

All personal information that you provide to us must be true, complete, and accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.

INFORMATION AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED

IN SHORT: SOME INFORMATION – SUCH AS IP ADDRESS AND/OR BROWSER AND DEVICE CHARACTERISTICS – IS COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY WHEN YOU VISIT OUR SITES.

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Sites. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser, and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Sites and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Sites, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies.

INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OTHER SOURCES

IN SHORT: WE MAY COLLECT LIMITED DATA FROM PUBLIC DATABASES, MARKETING PARTNERS, AND OTHER OUTSIDE SOURCES.

We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as public databases, joint marketing partners, as well as from other third parties. Examples of the information we receive from other sources include social media profile information; marketing leads and search results and links, including paid listings (such as sponsored links).

IN SHORT: WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION FOR PURPOSES BASED ON LEGITIMATE BUSINESS INTERESTS, THE FULFILLMENT OF OUR CONTRACT WITH YOU, COMPLIANCE WITH OUR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS, AND/OR YOUR CONSENT.

We use personal information collected via our Sites for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests (“Business Purposes”), in order to enter into or perform a contract with you (“Contractual”), with your consent (“Consent”), and/or for compliance with our legal obligations (“Legal Reasons”). We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

To facilitate account creation and logon process with your Consent. If you choose to link your account with us to a third party account *(such as your Google or Facebook account), we use the information you allowed us to collect from those third parties to facilitate account creation and logon process.

To send you marketing and promotional communications for Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We and/or our third-party marketing partners may use the personal information you send to us for our marketing purposes if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences. You can opt­out of our marketing emails at any time (see the “WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS” below).

Fulfill and manage your orders for Contractual reasons. We may use your information to fulfill and manage your orders, payments, returns, and exchanges made through the Sites.

To post testimonials with your Consent. We post testimonials on our Sites that may contain personal information. Prior to posting a testimonial, we will obtain your consent to use your name and testimonial. If you wish to update or delete your testimonial, please contact us at info@apisproductions.com and be sure to include your name, testimonial location, and contact information.

Deliver targeted advertising to you for our Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We may use your information to develop and display content and advertising (and work with third parties who do so) tailored to your interests and/or location and to measure its effectiveness.

Request Feedback for our Business Purposes and/or with your Consent. We may use your information to request feedback and to contact you about your use of our Sites.

To protect our Sites for Business Purposes and/or for Legal Reasons. We may use your information as part of our efforts to keep our Sites safe and secure (for example, for fraud monitoring and prevention).

To enable user­-to­-user communications with your Consent. We may use your information in order to enable user­-to-­user communications with each user’s consent.

To enforce our terms, conditions, and policies for Business Purposes, Legal Reasons, and/or possibly Contractual.

To respond to legal requests and prevent harm for Legal Reasons. If we receive a subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

For other Business Purposes. We may use your information for other Business Purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our Sites, products, services, marketing, and user experience.

IN SHORT: WE ONLY SHARE INFORMATION WITH YOUR CONSENT, TO COMPLY WITH LAWS, TO PROTECT YOUR RIGHTS, OR TO FULFILL BUSINESS OBLIGATIONS.

We only share and disclose your information in the following situations:

Compliance with Laws. We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal processes, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

Vital Interests and Legal Rights. We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

Vendors, Consultants, and Other Third­Party Service Providers. We may share your data with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing efforts. We may allow selected third parties to use tracking technology on the Sites, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with the Sites over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand online activity. Unless described in this Policy, we do not share, sell, rent, or trade any of your information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

Our Sites includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and Twitter buttons and widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our Sites, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Sites. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

Affiliates. We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this privacy policy. Affiliates include our parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.

With your Consent. We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.

IN SHORT: WE MAY USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES TO COLLECT AND STORE YOUR INFORMATION.

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to access or store information. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Policy.

IN SHORT: YES, WE USE GOOGLE MAPS FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROVIDING BETTER SERVICE.

This website, mobile application, or Facebook application uses Google Maps APIs. You may find the Google Maps APIs Terms of Service here. To better understand Google’s Privacy Policy, please refer to this link.

By using our Maps API Implementation, you agree to be bound by Google’s Terms of Service. You agree to allow us to obtain or cache your location. You may revoke your consent at any time.

IN SHORT: WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION FOR AS LONG AS NECESSARY TO FULFILL THE PURPOSES OUTLINED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW.

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). No purpose in this policy will require us to keep your personal information for longer than 2 years.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

IN SHORT: WE AIM TO PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION THROUGH A SYSTEM OF ORGANIZATIONAL AND TECHNICAL SECURITY MEASURES.

We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, the transmission of personal information to and from our Sites is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.

IN SHORT: WE DO NOT KNOWINGLY COLLECT DATA FROM OR MARKET TO CHILDREN UNDER 18 YEARS OF AGE.

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Sites, you represent that you are at least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Sites. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age has been collected, we will deactivate the account and take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at info@apisproductions.com.

IN SHORT: YOU MAY REVIEW, CHANGE, OR TERMINATE YOUR ACCOUNT AT ANY TIME.

If you are resident in the European Economic Area and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your local data protection supervisory authority.

You can find their contact details here: European Commission.

Cookies and similar technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of our Sites. To opt­out of interest-­based advertising by advertisers on our Sites visit the Digital Advertising Alliance.

If you click on a link to a third-party site, you will leave the apisproductions.com site and go to the site you selected. If you elect to use a third-party product or service in conjunction with apisproductions.com, you yourself enter into a license agreement with the third party for use of their product or service and their use of your data. Because we cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for any use of your personal information by such third parties, and we cannot guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as apisproductions.com. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any other service provider from whom you request services. If you visit a third-party website that is linked to an apisproductions.com site, you should read that site’s privacy policy before providing any personal information.

IN SHORT: YES, IF YOU ARE A RESIDENT OF CALIFORNIA, YOU ARE GRANTED SPECIFIC RIGHTS REGARDING ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request in writing to us using the contact information provided below.

If you are under 18 years of age, reside in California, and have a registered account with the Sites, you have the right to request the removal of unwanted data that you publicly post on the Sites. To request the removal of such data, please contact us using the contact information provided below, and include the email address associated with your account and a statement that you reside in California. We will make sure the data is not publicly displayed on the Sites, but please be aware that the data may not be completely or comprehensively removed from our systems.

IN SHORT: YES, WE WILL UPDATE THIS POLICY AS NECESSARY TO STAY COMPLIANT WITH RELEVANT LAWS.

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date” and the updated version will be effective as soon as it is accessible. If we make material changes to this privacy policy, we may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending you a notification. We encourage you to review this privacy policy frequently to be informed of how we are protecting your information.

If you have questions or comments about this policy, you may email us at info@apisproductions.com or by mail to:

Apis Productions LLC
P.O. Box 1683
Annapolis, MD 21404
United States