Updated Date: 06/28/24
This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for Consortium Networks and explains why and how we collect, use, and share information about visitors to our website, www.consortium.net, and any other websites or pages that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Site”); and individuals who inquire about and/or use our various services (the “Services”).
This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website. It will notify you of the following:
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
Information we collect
Through our website, we only collect name and contact information. WE DO NOT collect credit card information, Social Security and/or other Personally Identifiable Information (PII).
We also automatically collect statistical data when you visit our website. This may include information about your device, the time you spent on the website and the pages you visited.
Like most companies we use cookies and similar technologies to collect aggregate (non-personal) information about website usage by all of our visitors and to help us remember you and your preferences when you revisit the website. These cookies may stay on your browser into the future until they expire or you delete them. We also use technology that assists in the functioning of the website. These cookies usually are erased when you close your browser window. Further general information about cookies and how they work is available at www.allaboutcookies.org.
We may allow selected third parties to place cookies through the website to provide us with better insights into the use of the website or user demographics or to provide relevant advertising to you. These third parties may collect information about a consumer’s online activities over time and across different websites when he or she uses our website. We may also permit third party service providers to place cookies through our Site to perform analytic or marketing functions where you are notified of them and you have consented to the usage. We do not control the use of such third party cookies or the resulting information and we are not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.
We use technology that recognizes a “do-not-track” signal from your web browser except as provided in this Privacy Policy.
How we use information
We use the collected information for our general commercial purposes such as to improve our website, grow our business and to offer our own or third-party products or services that we think you may find of interest. We will use your information to facilitate response to your inquiries or to provide information on products or services to you. Disclosing information
We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as disclosed in this Privacy Policy. We may reveal information about you to unaffiliated third parties: (1) if you request or authorize it; (2) if the information is provided to help complete a transaction for you; (3) if the information is provided to comply with the law, applicable regulations, governmental and quasi-governmental requests, court orders or subpoenas, to enforce our Terms of Use or other agreements, or to protect our rights, property or safety or the rights, property or safety of our users or others (e.g., to a consumer reporting agency for fraud protection etc.); (4) if the disclosure is done as part of a purchase, transfer or sale of services or assets (e.g., in the event that substantially all of our assets are acquired by another party, customer information may be one of the transferred assets); (5) if the information is provided to our agents, outside vendors or service providers to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing customer service, processing orders, etc.); or (6) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
We do not disclose your information to third parties for their marketing purposes.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future promotional emails from us by “unsubscribing” using the instructions in any email you receive from us. This will not stop us from sending emails about your account or your transactions with us.
You can choose to delete or block cookies by setting your browser to either reject all cookies or to allow cookies only from selected sites. If you block cookies performance of the website may be impaired and certain features may not function at all. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided below:
Security
We use reasonable physical, administrative and technical safeguards to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to your information. The computers/servers in which we store sensitive information are kept in a secure environment.
Children’s Privacy
This website is not designed nor intended to be attractive to use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13. If you are under 13 please do not submit any information to us.
Data Processing and Cross-Border Data Transfers
Our website is maintained on servers located in the United States, and personal information submitted is stored on our servers in the United States. If you are visiting our website from outside the United States, please be advised that your information is transferred to our U.S. servers. Disclosing your personal information to us pursuant to this Privacy Policy is at your own risk. We strive to comply with laws of jurisdictions in which we maintain operations but we make no representations that the practices described in this Privacy Policy are compliant with laws outside those jurisdictions that apply to the collection, security, use and disclosure of personal information.
Notice to California Residents
California residents can read about their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act and how to exercise them here.
Notice to Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and Utah Residents
We are currently not subject to the Colorado Privacy Act, the Connecticut Personal Data Privacy Act, the Utah Consumer Privacy Act, or the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act. If we become subject to any of these laws in the future we will update this Privacy Policy accordingly.
Notice to Nevada Residents
We do not transfer personal information for monetary consideration. If you would like to tell us not to sell your information in the future please email us at [Email address] with your name, postal address, telephone number and email address with “Nevada do not sell” in the subject line.
Links to other sites
We may permit others to link to this website or to post a link to their site on ours. We do not endorse these sites and are not responsible for other sites or their privacy practices. Please read their privacy policies before submitting information.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. The Privacy Policy in effect at the time you use the website governs how we may use your information. If we make material changes we will post the revised Policy and the revised effective date on this website. Please check back here from time to time to review any changes.
Contacting us
This Site is owned and operated by Consortium Networks, LLC If you have questions or feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately via email at contact@consortium.net.
You can also contact us at:
Address: 100 Springdale Road, Ste A3, PMB 353 | Cherry Hill, NJ 08003
Phone: (800) 530-8350
CCPA Notice to California Residents
This CCPA Notice to California Residents is part of the Privacy Policy and applies to information that we collect from or about California residents offline as well as online.
The California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CCPA”) provides certain verified California residents with the rights described below. For details on how to exercise these rights, please see below. We will not discriminate against you as a result of your exercise of any of these rights. For purposes of the CCPA personal information means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular California resident or household. CCPA Rights
The CCPA provides California residents with the following rights regarding their personal information.
A. Information Access and Portability Rights
As a California resident you have the right to request that we disclose certain information upon request about our information collection and disclosure practices. You also have the right to request a copy of the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you. You may make Information Access Requests up to twice during a 12-month period. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will disclose to you:
B. Information Deletion Rights
California residents have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from them and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. You may make deletion requests at any time. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
C. Information Correction Rights
California residents have the right to request that we correct information that we hold which is inaccurate. We will require that you provide information about yourself so that we can verify your identity before we can make any change in the information we hold about you and we will use commercially reasonable efforts to make the requested corrections. In some cases, for instance if you have an account with us, you can update your information by logging into your account. You can make information correction requests at any time.
D. Opt-Out Rights
We do not sell your personal information.
We do not share your personal information with third parties for cross-context or behavioral advertising purposes.
We only process Sensitive Personal Information for the purposes permitted by the CCPA.
Information Collected, Sources, and Business Purpose for Collection
The following table lists the categories of personal information defined in the CPRA, whether we have collected information in the category during the past 12 months, the sources of the information, and the business purposes for which we collect and use the information. The categories of information include information we collect from our website visitors, registered users, employees, vendors, suppliers and any other person that interacts with us either online or offline. Not all information is collected about all individuals. For instance, we may collect different information from applicants for employment or from vendors or from customers.
Category | Examples | Collected from employee/applicants |
A. Identifiers. | A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers. | YES |
B. Personal information categories Protected under the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)). | A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information. Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories. | YES |
C. Protected anti-discrimination classification characteristics under California or federal law. | Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information). | YES |
D. Commercial information. | Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. | NO |
E. Biometric information. | Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data. | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity. | Browsing history, search history, information on your interaction with company systems, websites, applications, etc. | YES |
G. Geolocation data. | Physical location or movements. Address only. | YES |
H. Sensory data. | Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information. | NO |
I. Professional or employment-related information. | Current or past job history or performance evaluations. | YES |
J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)). | Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records. | NO |
K. Sensitive Personal Information | Social Security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number, account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account. | YES |
L. Inferences drawn from other personal information. | Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes. | NO |
*More specifically, the business purposes include:
1. Performing services for you:
2. Advertising customization:
3. Auditing relating to transactions, internal research and development:
4. Security detection, protection and enforcement; functionality debugging, error repair:
5. Quality control:
Processing Sensitive Personal Information
We collect, process and disclose Sensitive Personal Information for the purposes disclosed at the time we collect this information and for the purposes permitted by the CCPA. We only process Sensitive Personal Information for permitted purposes. The following are permitted purposes under the CCPA:
Disclosing Personal Information
From time to time we disclose your information as described below. This includes disclosing information to our service providers such as professional advisers, lawyers, bankers, staffing partners, auditors and accountants, and, when required by law, to regulators or law enforcement.
A. Disclosure of Personal Information for a Business Purpose.
We may disclose your personal information to service providers and others for a business purpose. The business purposes are listed above. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter into a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have disclosed the following categories of personal information to service providers (such as payment processors, mail houses, marketing partners, employee benefits partners; professional advisors);affiliated companies; or government regulators or law enforcement: Identifiers, Protected personal information, Protected anti-discrimination classification information, Commercial Information, Electronic network activity information, Geolocation, Professional or employment-related information, Sensitive personal information.
B. Disclosing Personal Information in Sale Arrangements
We do not sell personal information for monetary or any other valuable consideration.
C. Sharing Personal Information for Cross-Context Behavioral Marketing
Sharing your personal information means making it available to a third party so that they can use it to display targeted or cross-context behavioral advertisement to you. Cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising means that we display an advertisement to you that is selected based on personal information about you that we obtained or inferred over time from your activities across other companies’ websites, applications or online services that we use to predict your preferences or interests. Targeted advertising does not include using your interactions with us or information that you provide to us to select advertisements to show you.
We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral marketing purposes.
Making CCPA Requests
Retention of Personal Information
We will store personal information in a form which permits us to identify consumers, for as long as necessary for the purpose for which the personal information is processed. We may retain and use such personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements and rights, or if it is not technically reasonably feasible to remove it. We retain information consumers provide in connection with requests made under the CPCA for a period of five years.
We reserve the right to amend this Notice at our discretion at any time. When we make changes to this Notice, we will post the updated notice on our website and update the Notice’s effective date.
California residents have the right to request to opt out of Consortium Networks “selling” or “sharing” (as defined under the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA)) their Personal Information. Under the CCPA, a “sale” includes disclosing or making available Personal Information to a third party (other than a service provider or contractor) in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration, and “sharing” includes disclosing or making available Personal Information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising. You may opt out of the “sale” and/or “sharing” of Personal Information through the use of an opt-out preference signal or by completing and submitting the webform below.