At Owner Center, we like to keep things simple. So we offer you this abbreviation of our Privacy Policy.
We do not reveal, sell, give, or otherwise share your personal information, or the information you enter into our Service, with anyone - unless a judge asks us to hand it over in which case we give it to them. We take measures to secure yours' and your customers' data, and give you additional tools to allow you to secure your data.
Any now the more lengthy, legal version....
Owner Center collects information about people who use our Service and visit our websites. Such information may contain personal data about you including your address, phone numbers, credit card numbers etc. We are not allowed to disclose such personal information without your written permission.
Some information collected from you and about you is used within the context of providing the Service. The information we collect is not shared with or sold to others except within the context of providing you the Service, and which your use of the Service is deemed to provide to us a valid consent to disclose the following:
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In order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Owner Center's terms of use, or as otherwise required by law.
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Owner Center does not rent, sell, or share personal information about you with other companies except to provide products or services you've requested or when we have your permission.
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We will transfer information about you if the Company or Owner Center is acquired by or merged with another company. In this event, Owner Center will notify you by email or by putting a prominent notice on the Owner Center web site before information about you is transferred and becomes subject to a different privacy policy.
What we do with your Information
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When you register for Owner Center we ask for your name, company name, email address. If you want to keep your account after the trial period you will need to provide your credit card information.
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Owner Center uses the information we collect for the following general purposes: products and services provision, billing, identification and authentication, services improvement, contact, and research.
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As part of the Service provided by Owner Center, you will obtain the email address and/or address of your customers (guests). By entering into our User Agreement, you agree that, with respect to other users' personal data that you obtain through Owner Center or through a Owner Center-related communication or Owner Center-facilitated transaction, Owner Center hereby grants to you a license to use such information only for Owner Center-related communications that are not unsolicited commercial messages. Owner Center does not tolerate spam. Therefore, without limiting the foregoing, you are not licensed to add the name of someone who has purchased an item from you, to your mail list (email or physical mail) without their express consent.
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Personal data contained in your data, and in data of your customers (guests), is subject to Data Protection Legislation: (a) the GDPR; and/or (b) the Federal Data Protection Act of 19 June 1992 (Switzerland).
Processing of Data
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Owner Center is a processor of your and your customers' Personal Data under the Data Protection Legislation, with the exception of Owner Center website builder and widgets, where Owner Center is a controller.
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You are a controller or processor, as applicable, of your and your customers' Personal Data under Data Protection Legislation.
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Both Owner Center and you acknowledge and agree to comply with the obligations applicable under the Data Protection Legislation with respect to the processing of your and your customers' Personal Data.
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You instruct Owner Center to process Personal Data only in accordance with applicable law: (a) to provide the Service defined in the Owner Center Terms of Service; (b) as further specified via your use of the Service.
Data Security
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Owner Center's Security Measures. Owner Center will implement and maintain technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access. The Security Measures include measures to encrypt personal data; to help ensure ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of Owner Center's systems and services; to help restore timely access to personal data following an incident; and for regular testing of effectiveness. Owner Center may update or modify the Security Measures from time to time provided that such updates and modifications do not result in the degradation of the overall security of the Service.
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Security Compliance by Owner Center Staff. Owner Center will take appropriate steps to ensure compliance with the Security Measures by its employees, contractors and subprocessors to the extent applicable to their scope of performance, including ensuring that all persons authorized to process your Personal Data have committed themselves to confidentiality or are under an appropriate statutory obligation of confidentiality.
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Additional Security Controls. In addition to the Security Measures, Owner Center will make the Additional Security Controls available to: (a) allow You to take steps to secure your Personal Data; and (b) provide You with information about securing, accessing and using your Personal Data.
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Data Incidents. Data incidents means a breach of Owner Center's security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, your Personal Data on systems managed by or otherwise controlled by Owner Center. Data Incidents will not include unsuccessful attempts or activities that do not compromise the security of your Personal Data, including unsuccessful log-in attempts, pings, port scans, denial of service attacks, and other network attacks on firewalls or networked systems.
4.1 If Owner Center becomes aware of a Data Incident, Owner Center will: (a) notify You of the Data Incident promptly and without undue delay after becoming aware of the Data Incident; and (b) promptly take reasonable steps to minimize harm and secure your Personal Data.
4.2 Notification(s) of any Data Incident(s) will be delivered to the Account Info Email Address. You are solely responsible for ensuring that the Account Info Email Address is current and valid.
4.3 Owner Center will not assess the contents of your Personal Data to identify information subject to any specific legal requirements. You are solely responsible for complying with incident notification laws applicable to You and fulfilling any third party notification obligations related to any Data Incident(s).
4.4 Owner Center's notification of or response to a Data Incident under this Section 4 (Data Incidents) will not be construed as an acknowledgement by Owner Center of any fault or liability with respect to the Data Incident.
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Owner Center's Security Assistance. You agree that Owner Center will (taking into account the nature of the processing of your Personal Data and the information available to Owner Center) assist You in ensuring compliance with any of Your obligations in respect of security of personal data and personal data breaches, including if applicable Your obligations pursuant to Articles 32 to 34 (inclusive) of the GDPR, by:
(a) implementing and maintaining Owner Center's Security Measures;
(b) making the Additional Security Controls available to You;
(c) notifying You of Data Incidents promptly and without undue delay.
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Your Security Responsibilities. You agree that, without prejudice to Owner Center's obligations:
(a) You are solely responsible for its use of the Service, including:
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(i) making appropriate use of the Service and the Additional Security Controls to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk in respect of the your Personal Data;
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(ii) securing the account authentication credentials, systems and devices You use to access the Service;
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(iii) backing up its your Personal Data; and
(b) Owner Center has no obligation to protect your Personal Data that You elect to store or transfer outside of Owner Center's systems, or to protect your Personal Data by implementing or maintaining Additional Security Controls except to the extent You opted to use them.
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Your Security Assessment.
(a) You are solely responsible for evaluating for yourself whether the Service, the Security Measures, the Additional Security Controls and Owner Center's commitments under this Section (Data Security) will meet Your needs, including with respect to any security obligations of You under the Data Protection Legislation.
(b) You acknowledge and agree that (taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing of your Personal Data as well as the risks to individuals) the Security Measures implemented and maintained by Owner Center provide a level of security appropriate to the risk in respect of the your Personal Data.
Disclosure
Owner Center may disclose your data under special circumstances, such as to comply with court orders requiring us to do so.
Client Data Storage
Owner Center owns the data storage, databases and all rights to the Owner Center application however we make no claim to the rights of your data. You retain all rights to your data and we will never contact your clients directly, or use your data for our own business advantage or to compete with you or market to your clients.
Cookies
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A cookie is a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site's computers and stored on your computer's hard drive.
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Owner Center uses cookies to record current session information, our cookies generally last two weeks. You are required to log-in to your Owner Center site after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing the content of your account.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, Owner Center will inform You at least 30 days (or such shorter period as may be required to comply with applicable law, applicable regulation, a court order or guidance issued by a governmental regulator or agency) before the change will take effect by either: (a) sending an email to the Account Info Email Address; or (b) alerting You of the changes at https://changes.ownercenter.net.
