Privacy Policy and Privacy Statement
Welcome to DistractU.com owned by the Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Inc. (“the Foundation”). This page provides you with the Privacy Policy and Privacy Statement for DistractU.com. In order to use this Web site, you must agree to comply with any rules or conditions described on this page. Your agreement to be bound by any of these obligations is a prerequisite to your using DistractU.com.
The Foundation is the sponsor of this Web site covered by this policy. The Foundation values privacy and we want to give our Web site visitors the opportunity to know what information we collect about them and how the Foundation collects, protects, uses, discloses and otherwise manages the information gathered, in conformance with applicable law.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
Certain areas of the Web site require a visitor to register or complete an online form or provide information. The types of Personally Identifiable Information we may collect include name, address, contact information (e.g., e-mail, address, home and mobile telephone numbers) of you and/or other Personal Information (e.g., information about your interests, driver’s license number or information about your background). We may collect such Personally Identifiable Information so you can participate in Web site activities or to sign up for training offered by the Foundation. You may choose not to provide Personal Information and you will still be able to visit most of the Web site, although you may not be able to participate in certain interactive activities or certain trainings offered by the Foundation.
We may also collect limited Personal Information about others from you including, but not limited to, name and email address.
We may use this Personal Information for one of several different purposes, for example:
- to administer your participation in a contest, sweepstakes or training and for other purposes stated on the form, such as to allow us to contact you to confirm scheduled trainings or to notify you of a potential prize you may have won;
- to help improve our Web site and our services, or to customize your experience at our Web site.
We may combine this information with other generally or publicly available information to help us identify our visitors' preferences or interests.
We sometimes use the non-Personally Identifiable Information that we collect to improve the design and content of our Web site and to enable us to personalize your Internet experience. We may use this information in the aggregate (grouped with information from other users) to analyze Web site usage, as well as to offer you activities, programs, or other services.
Sharing of Personal Information
We may share Personal Information with our agents or service providers who act for or on behalf of the Foundation in connection with the activities of the Foundation, or for further processing in accordance with the purpose(s) for which the data was originally collected. We require our agents and service providers to agree to maintain the confidentiality and security of Personal Information they maintain on behalf of the Foundation and not to use it for any purpose other than the purpose for which we retained them. The Foundation may also share statistical or demographic information in aggregate form with service providers for marketing or research purposes. This aggregate data will not contain any information that personally identifies you. We may ask your permission to share information for research purposes related to distracted driving. We will not share your Personally Identifiable Information with any research entities or individuals unless you have provided your consent.
We may need to disclose Personally Identifiable Information in certain limited circumstances, such as: (1) to comply with a judicial proceeding, a court order, or subpoena, or as otherwise may be required by law or consistent with legal requirements; (2) to enforce our policies or contracts, or to collect amounts owed to us; (3) to protect users of this Web site from fraudulent or abusive use; (4) to protect the Foundations rights or property; (5) during emergencies when safety is at risk, as determined by the Foundation, or (6) otherwise where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. In addition, from time to time, server logs may be reviewed for security purposes; for example, to detect unauthorized activity on the Web site. In such cases, server log data, containing IP addresses, would be shared with law enforcement bodies in order that they may identify users in connection with their investigation of the unauthorized activities.
Cookies and Other Information Collected Using Technology
When you visit DistractU.com, we may collect some information about the software or other technology you are using. For instance, when you come to our Web site your IP address is collected so that we know where to send information you are requesting. An IP address is often associated with the place from which you enter the Internet like your ISP (Internet service provider), your company, or your school. The following information is logged by our web servers during visits to the website: IP addresses, type of operating system, time and duration of visit, web pages visited and browser type. We do not link server log information to any other information in a way that would enable the identification of visitors to the Web site. We may analyze server log information in order to improve the Web site and to customize the Web site for users.
When you visit our Web site, we may place a text file called a "cookie" in the browser directory of your computer's hard drive. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site sends to your computer while you are viewing the website. These pieces of information allow the Web site to remember important information that will make your use of that site more useful. Internet companies use cookies for a variety of purposes.
We use cookies to help improve your future visits. We may also track data such as the total number of visits to our Web site and the number of visitors to each page of our Web site. We may use this information, in aggregate form, for system maintenance and to better understand how our visitors use our Web site and its activities so that we can make them better. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you turn cookies off, you may not have access to certain features that make your experience on our Web site more efficient, educational and some of our services will not function properly.
Our Web site may also use small pieces of software code called "web beacons" or "clear gifs" to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising matrix, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. A web beacon is an electronic image called a single-pixel or clear GIF. Web beacons can recognize certain types of information, such as a user's cookie number, time and date of a page view, and description of the page where the web beacon is placed. You may render some web beacons unusable if you choose to reject their associated cookies. These web beacons may be used to deliver cookies that conform with our cookie policy above.
Banner Advertisements, Links to Other Sites, and Collection of Information by Third Party Sites
This Privacy Policy and Statement applies only to the DistractU.com site and does not include third-party Web sites. Our site may include banner advertisements or contain links to other sites operated by third parties whose information practices may be different than those at this Web site. Other Internet sites you visit may have their own privacy policies or no policy at all. Other Web sites might use Personal Information differently than our policy permits. The Foundation does not guarantee the standards of any Web site not related to this site. The Foundation is not responsible for the content, practices, or password information practices of the Web sites operated by these third parties. In addition, these banner advertisements and links do not constitute sponsorship, endorsements, or approval by the Foundation of the content, policies, or practices of these Web sites.
Please note that the privacy policies of third party Web sites, including but not limited to, an insurance agent sponsoring a particular educational training may differ from those of the Foundation. You should carefully review the relevant third party Web site's privacy policy and terms of use in order to understand its policies and practices regarding the collection and use of Personally Identifiable Information before providing any Personal Information.
On this Web site, we sometimes offer content that is sponsored by or co-branded with identified third parties (e.g., competitions, sweepstakes, or promotions). These third parties may obtain Personal Information that you voluntarily submit to them. We are not responsible for the collection and use of your personal information by these third parties. However, you will be informed, at the point of collection of such Personal Information, if these third parties will obtain such information.
A Note to Parents/Guardians—Additional Information About Children’s Privacy
At the Foundation, children’s privacy is important to us. Therefore, we take additional measures to help children protect their privacy while online including not asking them to disclose more personally identifiable information than is necessary for them to participate in an activity.
Children can participate in many of our features without providing personally identifiable information. However, to enable their participation in certain of our interactive features or to sign up for training sponsored by the Foundation, we may ask children to provide us with personally identifiable information. The types of information we may request include name as well as child’s and parent’s e-mail addresses and/or their license number to verify they are eligible for the trainings sponsored by the Foundation. We use a child’s e-mail address to respond to a specific request to participate in an activity.
We also may collect additional information such as computer information, gender, state/province, zip/postal code, and country, and we may ask additional questions regarding preferences on various topics through surveys.
We do not share children's personally identifiable information with outside third parties not bound by this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we use agents or contractors to help us conduct a contest or sweepstakes, send prizes to winners, host trainings funded by the Foundation or provide customer service related to activities offered by the Foundation. In these cases, we require the agent or contractor to keep the information confidential and to use it only for the specific services they are performing.
If you would like to review any personally identifiable information that we have collected online from your child, have this information deleted, and/or request that there be no further collection or use of your child's information, or if you have questions about these information practices, you may e-mail, write or phone us at:
Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Officer
1100 Crown Colony Drive, P.O. Box 699103,
Quincy, MA 02269-9103
800.972.5348
privacy.officer@arbella.com
Data Integrity and Security
We strive to keep the personally identifiable information you provide secure, and we also require our agents and service providers to do so. We have implemented technical and organizational measures designed to help secure your Personally Identifiable Information from theft, accidental loss, and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, disclosure or destruction.
Changes
The Foundation will maintain Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and Statement. In the future, we may modify this Privacy Policy and Statement. If we decide to materially change these, we will post those changes to this Web Site. We will use information in accordance with the Privacy Policy under which the information was collected. However, if we are going to use Personally Identifiable Information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users by email. Users will have a choice as to whether or not we use their information in this different manner.
How You Can Access, Control and Update Information About You
We want to be sure that we keep accurate and up-to-date Personal Information in our records. Therefore, whenever you believe that your Personal Information needs to be updated, you can email us at privacyofficer@arbella.com to update your contact information.
To protect your privacy, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making changes.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints, please email, phone or write to:
Arbella Insurance Group Charitable Foundation, Inc.
Attn: Privacy Officer
1100 Crown Colony Drive, P.O. Box 699103,
Quincy, MA 02269-9103
800.972.5348
privacy.officer@arbella.com