Privacy Policy

Effective: 01/01/2024 

BY USING OUR SERVICES, INCLUDING OUR WEBSITES AND APPLICATIONS, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY. YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY IN ITS ENTIRETY.

Our full details are:
Full name of legal entity: Blackhawk Coatings
Email address: blackhawkcoatings@gmail.com
Telephone number: 469-447-8644

Blackhawk Coatings (“Company,” “we,” “us,” “our”) has developed this Privacy Policy to outline how we collect, process and disclose information that we obtain when you access or use our services, including our websites and applications (our “Services”), including information about you. You should use this Privacy Policy to assess how you use our Services, the information you provide to us, and the choices you have to manage the information we collect from you in connection with your use of our Services.

By using and accessing our Services, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, you should review this Privacy Policy frequently to remain familiar with it and any changes we may make to it from time to time. You should immediately cease using our Services if you do not agree to this Privacy related to our Services, as applicable. Should you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us via our Contact page.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION SUMMARY

For your convenience, we have summarized the important aspects of our Privacy Policy below, but you should read the entire Privacy Policy to fully understand our privacy practices.

We collect both Personal Information and Non-Personal Information from you in connection with your use of our Services. When you choose to share your Personal Information with us, we only use such information, to communicate our responses to any queries or requests made by you.

We may share your Personal Information with third parties in a number of ways and for a number of reasons, including facilitating the provision of our Services to you, for our own uses and for this use by third parties. You can review our rights under this Privacy Policy to share your information in the Section below titled “How We Share Your Information” below.

You may review, modify and update your Personal Information by contacting us using our Contact page.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you access or use our Services, we may collect information regarding your interactions with our Services. Such information may include Personal and Non-Personal Information.

“Personal Information” means information, such as your first and last name, email address, physical address, that is able to personally identify you.

“Non-Personal Information” means information that is not capable of personally identifying you.

“Service Use Based Information” means information that we collect about your use of the Services, including:

“Device Information”: The type of device you are using to access our Services, as well as information regarding that device’s unique identifiers (whether computer or mobile), the device’s hardware model, operating system, device type, IP address, and information about how any of our Services were downloaded to your device.

“Geolocation Information”: Your location when you use our Services, when such information is available. Additionally, we may be required to collect information about your location to provide certain features offered by our Services. We will collect such information only with your consent. Should you choose not to provide the consent to collect such information, certain features of our Services may not be available to you.

“Log Data”: Your device activity while using our Services, the times and duration of your use of our Services, the types of queries you submit through our Services, the referring URL from which you accessed our Services, the browser you used to access our Services, and the language used to access our Services.

“Cookies, Web Beacons, & Other Tracking Technologies”: To enable our collection of information, we often use web beacons, unique identifiers, Flash

Cookies, web server log information, or other technologies. We may also collect information from and about you on behalf of third parties, who may use that information for targeting ads to you, optimizing their services and products, and general reporting. For more information on cookies, web beacons and other technologies, please read Section 6 of this Privacy Policy.

“Information Provided Directly By You”: We may collect Personal Information that you choose to share with us while communicating with us through the feedback form or any other mode of communication. Such information may include but is not limited to your name and email address. Please note that this information is only used by us to respond to any queries and request made by you.

2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Your information held by us may be used for business and commercial purposes. We may use your information to: (i) make the features on our Services available to you; (ii) monitor the use of our Services and make required modifications and/or enhancements; (iii) analyze the use of our Services (including the total number or users using our Services and generate related reports to support the research); (iv) ensure smooth and error-free functioning of our Services; (v) respond to any inquiries or support requests made by you; (vi) communicate with you about promotional offers through push notifications; (vii) ensure compliance with our contractual, legal and regulatory obligations; (viii) enforce our rights; and (ix) prevent fraud and abuse against our Services (collectively, the “Legitimate Purpose(s)”).

3. HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

We will not sell your information to anyone.

We may share your information, including your Personal Information, with our commercial partners, who assist us in providing the features offered by our Services, including our services, advertising, and content partners (collectively, “Commercial Partners”) or allow those Commercial Partners to gather information directly from you.

Your Personal Information may also be shared with third parties in other circumstances, including without limitation, as follows:

Commercial Partners: We may, with your consent, provide your Personal Information to our Commercial Partners who work with us to provide any portion of our Services, or to provide additional services unrelated to our Services. Should you choose not to permit the sharing of your information with our Commercial partners, some features of our Services may not be made available to you.

For Legal Requirements: Where it is necessary for us to address suspected fraud or illegal activities, to prevent or take action in connection with potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or to comply with any applicable law, we reserve the right to share your Personal Information, regardless of whether there is a court order, warrant or subpoena.

Sharing with our Affiliates: We may share your Personal Information may with our Affiliates. Our Affiliates may use and distribute your information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy. For purposes hereof, “Affiliates” means any entity controlled by, controlling, or under common control with Company.

For Transactional Requirements: If the Company undergoes a change in control, reorganization or liquidation, or a sale of all or substantially all of our assets or a portion of our business or Services to which your information relates, we may transfer such information to our successor or buyer, subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

We disclaim and shall have no liability or obligation in connection with any third-party actions or omissions concerning your information, regardless of whether or not such access is a result of our sharing and disclosure of your information pursuant to this Privacy Policy. If you have any issues concerning a third party’s use of your information, please contact such third party. Any transfer of your information will comply with applicable law in all cases. For more information on third-party use of your information, please see Third-Party Practices herein. Any Non-Personal Information we collect may be shared by us publicly and with others.

4. INFORMATION RETENTION

Unless otherwise required by law, we will retain your Personal Information only for such period as may be necessary to fulfil the purposes for which such

information has been collected, enforce our agreements and resolve disputes, if any.

5. SECURITY OF INFORMATION

We place appropriate restrictions on access to personal information stored by us and employ reasonable technical, physical and operational security measures intended to protect your personal information from alteration, loss, unauthorized use or misuse, or destruction.

To safeguard any information in transit, we use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) technology to ensure encryption of all information transmissions from and to our servers.

Please note that no transmission of information over the internet is 100% secure. While we review our measures periodically and ensure that we implement safeguards and controls to store and transfer your information securely, we cannot warrant the security of any information transmitted from or to our servers.

6. COOKIES AND WEB BEACONS

In connection with your use of our Services, we may send your computer or mobile device a cookie that uniquely identifies your browser. A “cookie” is a small file containing your preferences that is sent to your browser and sent back by your browser each time your browser accesses our servers. Our use of cookies is primarily focused on improving the quality of our Services and your use of those Services.

We use session cookies (a type of cookie that is stored temporarily and gets deleted when a browser is closed) and persistent cookies (a type of cookie that is stored on the device till it expires or till the user deletes it) to deliver our Services in your language of choice, to filter results and fulfil other preferences you may have, and to analyze how our users interact with our Services by tracking user trends and patterns of how people search. Many browsers are set up to accept cookies unless the user changes the settings for cookies, and you can control these settings within your browser preferences or refuse cookies altogether.

7. DO NOT TRACK

Some browsers may allow you to enable a do-not-track feature that notifies the websites you visit that you do not want your online activities to be tracked. At present, our Services do not recognize or respond to ‘do-not-track’ signals from browsers.

8. THIRD-PARTY PRACTICES

We are not responsible for the information collection and processing practices of any search provider, including Yahoo and such practices are not governed by this privacy policy.

Our Commercial Partners may request or require you to provide information, including Personal Information, to them or to download certain software in connection with the provision of our Services. We have no responsibility for the privacy practices of our Commercial Partners or the contents of any software downloaded from such Commercial Partners. To the extent any portion of our Services may also link to third-party websites and offerings over which we exercise no control, Company shall have no responsibility for the privacy practices or the content of such third-party websites and offerings, including their information collection, storage, usage and sharing practices. Please contact such third parties in connection with any issues you may have with respect to those third-party websites and offerings.

If you believe that any party who claims association with Company, including our Commercial Partners, is improperly collecting or using information about you, you should contact them directly. Applicable law obligates our Commercial Partners to protect the privacy of certain types of data. We are not responsible for their actions or omissions in any way, including with respect to any information they receive directly or indirectly from us. While we assume no responsibility with respect to a third party’s practices, you may notify us using our Contact page if you believe a third party is collecting or using information about you and such information was sourced from us. We are under no obligation to respond to or pursue any action in connection with such correspondence.

9. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code (the “CCPA”) grants users that reside in California certain additional rights. Those rights are described below alongside instructions about how to assert them. Opt-OutYou have the right to opt-out from the sale of your Personal Information, though that may impact your ability to use the Site and/or obtain products or services from us.
AccessYou have the right to request that we disclose to you (1) the categories of Personal Information we have collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which your Personal Information is collected; (3) the Legitimate Purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share your Personal Information; and (5) the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you. If we sell your Personal Information, or disclose it for a Legitimate Purpose, you also have the right to request that we disclose to you (1) the categories of your Personal Information that we sold; (2) the categories of third parties to whom your Personal Information was sold; and (3) the categories of your Personal Information that we disclosed for a Legitimate Purpose.
DeletionYou have a limited right to request that we delete your Personal Information. Once we receive and confirm a verifiable request, we will delete (and direct third parties to delete) your Personal information, unless we need to maintain your Personal Information in order to: Complete the transaction for which the Personal Information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably