PING Privacy Policy

Overview

PING (“we,” “our,” or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how your personal information is collected, used, and disclosed by PING.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website and its associated subdomains, collectively referred to as our “Service,” alongside our application, PING.

By accessing or using our Service, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to our collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service.

Definitions and Key Terms

To help explain things as clearly as possible in this Privacy Policy, the following terms are strictly defined:

Cookie means a small amount of data generated by a website and saved by your web browser. It is used to identify your browser, provide analytics, and remember information about you such as your language preference or login information.

Company, when this policy mentions “Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our,” refers to BLMRS Inc., Suite 300, 160 Quarry Park Boulevard SE, Calgary, AB, T2C 3G3, Canada, which is responsible for your information under this Privacy Policy.

Country means where PING or the owners/founders of PING are based. In this case, Canada.

Customer refers to the company, organization, or person that signs up to use the PING Service.

Device means any internet-connected device such as a phone, tablet, computer, or any other device that can be used to visit PING and use the services.

IP address means an Internet Protocol address. Every device connected to the Internet is assigned an IP address, which can often be used to identify the general location from which a device is connecting to the Internet.

Personnel refers to individuals who are employed by PING or are under contract to perform a service on behalf of one of the parties.

Personal Data means any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Service refers to the service provided by PING as described in the relative terms, if available, and on this platform.

Third-party service refers to external service providers used to operate, secure, host, maintain, or support PING.

Website refers to PING’s website.

You means a person or entity that is registered with PING to use the Services.

What Information Do We Collect?

We collect information you provide when you create and use a PING account.

This may include:

Your name.
Your email address.
Profile information you choose to provide.
Photos and other content you choose to upload or share through PING.
Information related to your connections, messages, reports, and interactions with the Service.
Authentication credentials are processed through our authentication service. PING does not have access to your password in readable form.
PING may request access to features on your device, such as your photo library or location, when those features are necessary for functionality you choose to use. You may deny or change these permissions through your device settings.

How Do We Use The Information We Collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience.
To improve our app.
To improve customer service.
To process transactions.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
To send periodic emails.

End User Information From Third Parties

PING may collect End User Data necessary to provide the PING services to our customers.

End users may voluntarily provide us with information they have made available on social media websites.

If you provide us with any such information, we may collect publicly available information from the social media websites you have indicated.

You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

Customer Information From Third Parties

We receive some information from third parties when you contact us.

For example, when you submit your email address to us to show interest in becoming a PING customer, we may receive information from a third party that provides automated fraud detection services to PING.

We may also occasionally collect information that is made publicly available on social media websites.

You can control how much of your information social media websites make public by visiting these websites and changing your privacy settings.

Sharing Information With Third Parties

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information with trusted service providers that help us operate PING, such as providers of hosting, database infrastructure, authentication, email delivery, analytics, crash reporting, and related technical services.

These providers may access information only as necessary to provide their services to us and are expected to handle that information appropriately.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law, legal process, court orders, or valid requests from government authorities, or to protect the rights, safety, security, and integrity of PING, our users, or others.

If PING or BLMRS Inc. is involved in a merger, acquisition, restructuring, financing, or sale of assets, information may be transferred as part of that transaction subject to applicable law.

Where and When Information Is Collected

PING will collect personal information that you submit to us.

We may also receive personal information about you from third parties as described in this Privacy Policy.

How We Use Your Email Address

We use your email address to create and secure your account, verify your identity, help you recover access to your account, send important service-related communications, and respond when you contact us.

We may also use your email address for other communications where permitted by law and where you have provided any consent that may be required.

We do not sell your email address to third parties.

How Long We Keep Your Information

We keep your information only as long as we need it to provide PING to you and fulfill the purposes described in this policy.

This also applies to anyone we share your information with who carries out services on our behalf.

When we no longer need to use your information and there is no need for us to keep it to comply with legal or regulatory obligations, we will either remove it from our systems or depersonalize it so that we cannot identify you.

How We Protect Your Information

We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you enter, submit, or access your personal information.

We offer the use of a secure server. Supplied sensitive information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers’ databases, accessible only by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, who are required to keep the information confidential.

After a transaction, your private financial information is not kept on file by us.

We cannot, however, ensure or warrant the absolute security of any information you transmit to PING or guarantee that your information on the Service may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

International Transfers

PING is incorporated in Canada.

Information collected via our website, through direct interactions with you, or from use of our help services may be transferred from time to time to our offices, personnel, or third parties located throughout the world.

Your information may be viewed and hosted anywhere in the world, including countries that may not have laws of general applicability regulating the use and transfer of such data.

To the fullest extent allowed by applicable law, by using the Service, you voluntarily consent to the trans-border transfer and hosting of such information.

Service Security

We take precautions to protect the security of your information.

We have physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to help safeguard, prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use your information.

However, neither people nor security systems are foolproof, including encryption systems.

While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Updating or Correcting Your Information

The rights you have to request updates or corrections to the information PING collects depend on your relationship with PING.

Customers have the right to request the restriction of certain uses and disclosures of personally identifiable information.

You can update certain account information within PING. You may permanently delete your PING account directly from the Account settings within the app. Account deletion removes your account and associated personal data and user-generated content, except where retention is required by applicable law.

Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain, or information that we provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change, or deletion.

To protect your privacy and security, we may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting profile access or making corrections.

You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your password and account information at all times.

You should be aware that it may not be technologically possible to remove every record of the information you have provided to us from our systems, including backups.

Promptly after receiving your request, personal information stored in databases we actively use and other readily searchable media will be updated, corrected, changed, or deleted as appropriate, as soon as and to the extent reasonably and technically practicable.

Personnel

If you are a PING worker or applicant, we collect information you voluntarily provide to us.

We use the information collected for Human Resources purposes in order to administer benefits to workers and screen applicants.

You may contact us to update or correct your information, change your preferences with respect to communications and other information you receive from us, or receive a record of the information we have relating to you.

Such updates, corrections, changes, and deletions will have no effect on other information that we maintain or information that we provided to third parties in accordance with this Privacy Policy prior to such update, correction, change, or deletion.

Sale of Business

We reserve the right to transfer information to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of PING or any of its Corporate Affiliates.

This also applies in the event that we discontinue our business or file, or have filed against us, a petition in bankruptcy, reorganization, or similar proceeding, provided that the third party agrees to adhere to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Affiliates

We may disclose information, including personal information, about you to our Corporate Affiliates.

For purposes of this Privacy Policy, Corporate Affiliate means any person or entity which directly or indirectly controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with PING, whether by ownership or otherwise.

Any information relating to you that we provide to our Corporate Affiliates will be treated by those Corporate Affiliates in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of Canada without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.

You consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts in connection with any action or dispute arising between the parties under or in connection with this Privacy Policy, except for individuals who may have rights to make claims under Privacy Shield or the Swiss-US framework.

Your use of the app may also be subject to other local, provincial, state, national, or international laws.

By using PING or contacting us directly, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you should not engage with our website or use our services.

Continued use of the website, direct engagement with us, or use of the Service after changes are posted means that you accept those changes.

Your Consent

We’ve updated our Privacy Policy to provide transparency into what is being set when you visit our site and how it’s being used.

By using our app, registering an account, or making a purchase, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Links to Other Websites

This Privacy Policy applies only to the Services.

The Services may contain links to other websites not operated or controlled by PING.

We are not responsible for the content, accuracy, or opinions expressed in such websites, and such websites are not investigated, monitored, or checked for accuracy or completeness by us.

When you use a link to go from the Services to another website, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.

Your browsing and interaction on any other website, including those that have a link on our platform, is subject to that website’s own rules and policies.

Such third parties may use their own cookies or other methods to collect information about you.

Cookies and Website Technologies

PING’s website may use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies to support website functionality, security, preferences, and performance.

Cookies are small pieces of information stored by your web browser. You can control cookies through your browser settings, although disabling certain technologies may affect website functionality.

The PING iOS app does not rely on browser cookies in the same way as our website.

Kids’ Privacy

We do not address anyone under the age of 13.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.

If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.

If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may change our Service and policies, and we may need to make changes to this Privacy Policy so that it accurately reflects our Service and policies.

Unless otherwise required by law, we will notify you, for example through our Service, before we make changes to this Privacy Policy and give you an opportunity to review them before they go into effect.

If you continue to use the Service, you will be bound by the updated Privacy Policy.

If you do not want to agree to this or any updated Privacy Policy, you can delete your account.

Third-Party Services

We may display, include, or make available third-party content, including data, information, applications, and other products or services, or provide links to third-party websites or services.

You acknowledge and agree that PING shall not be responsible for any Third-Party Services, including their accuracy, completeness, timeliness, validity, copyright compliance, legality, decency, quality, or any other aspect thereof.

PING does not assume and shall not have any liability or responsibility to you or any other person or entity for any Third-Party Services.

Third-Party Services and links thereto are provided solely as a convenience to you, and you access and use them entirely at your own risk and subject to such third parties’ terms and conditions.

Tracking Technologies

Local Storage, sometimes known as DOM storage, provides web apps with methods and protocols for storing client-side data.

Web storage supports persistent data storage, similar to cookies, but with a greatly enhanced capacity and no information stored in the HTTP request header.

PING also uses sessions to identify the areas of our website that you have visited.

A session is a small piece of data stored on your computer or mobile device by your web browser.

General Data Protection Regulation

We may be collecting and using information from you if you are from the European Economic Area.

In this section of our Privacy Policy, we explain how and why this data is collected and how we maintain this data under protection from being replicated or used in the wrong way.

GDPR is an EU-wide privacy and data protection law that regulates how EU residents’ data is protected by companies and enhances the control EU residents have over their personal data.

The GDPR is relevant to any globally operating company and not just EU-based businesses or EU residents.

Our customers’ data is important irrespective of where they are located, which is why we have implemented GDPR controls as our baseline standard for all our operations worldwide.

Personal Data Under GDPR

Personal data is any data that relates to an identifiable or identified individual.

GDPR covers a broad spectrum of information that could be used on its own, or in combination with other pieces of information, to identify a person.

Personal data extends beyond a person’s name or email address.

Examples include financial information, political opinions, genetic data, biometric data, IP addresses, physical address, sexual orientation, and ethnicity.

Data Protection Principles

The Data Protection Principles include requirements such as:

Personal data collected must be processed in a fair, legal, and transparent way and should only be used in a way that a person would reasonably expect.

Personal data should only be collected to fulfill a specific purpose and should only be used for that purpose.

Organizations must specify why they need the personal data when they collect it.

Personal data should be held no longer than necessary to fulfill its purpose.

People covered by GDPR have the right to access their own personal data.

They can also request a copy of their data, and request that their data be updated, deleted, restricted, or moved to another organization.

Why GDPR Is Important

GDPR adds requirements regarding how companies should protect individuals’ personal data that they collect and process.

It also raises the stakes for compliance by increasing enforcement and imposing greater fines for breach.

Beyond these facts, it is simply the right thing to do.

At PING, we believe your data privacy is important and we work to maintain security and privacy practices that support these principles.

Data Access, Portability, and Deletion

You may access and update certain personal information through PING.

You may permanently delete your PING account from the Account settings within the app. When your account is deleted, PING deletes the account and associated personal data and user-generated content from active systems, except where information must be retained to comply with applicable law or legitimate legal obligations.

Some information may remain temporarily in encrypted backups or system logs until those backups or logs are overwritten or expire through normal retention processes.

Our customer support team is available at support@blmrs.com if you have questions regarding your personal information or account deletion.

California Residents

The California Consumer Privacy Act requires us to disclose categories of Personal Information we collect and how we use it, the categories of sources from whom we collect Personal Information, and the third parties with whom we share it.

California residents may exercise the following rights:

Right to Know and Access. You may submit a verifiable request for information regarding the categories of Personal Information we collect, use, or share; the purposes for which categories of Personal Information are collected or used by us; the categories of sources from which we collect Personal Information; and the specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected about you.

Right to Equal Service. We will not discriminate against you if you exercise your privacy rights.

Right to Delete. You may submit a verifiable request to close your account and we will delete Personal Information about you that we have collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

We do not sell the Personal Information of our users.

For more information about these rights, please contact us.

Contact Us

Don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions: support@blmrs.com