Light Monster Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Welcome to the https://www.lightmonster.com (“Light Monster") website (“Site”) or, if applicable, thank you for choosing to use the Light Monster Service (“Service”). We try to make our Privacy Policy easy to understand so that you are informed as to how we use your information. This Privacy Policy, like our Terms of Service, is an integral part of using our Service; therefore you must completely agree to our Privacy Policy in order to use our Site or Service. You must be over the age of 18 to use our Site or Service.

2. Information Collected

Personally Identifiable Information Submitted by You

You will not be required to provide us any information when you visit our Site. However, in order to use some portions of our Service or Software you will be required to register and we will collect your name, email, personal information, image or photo, business information and address. If you wish to use any of our paid Services we may also require you to submit payment information. Please be aware that any payment information will be stored, processed, and secured by our third party payment processor Stripe.

Non-Identifying Information

Whenever you use our Site or Service, we may collect non-identifying information from you, such as your IP address, interactions with the Site and Service, query information, location, referring URL, browser, operating system, cookie information, usage, data transferred, and Internet Service Provider. Additionally, we may collect information regarding your usage and interaction with our Site. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party such as your wireless provider, this information alone cannot usually be used to identify you.

3. Use of Your Information

We will never sell or transfer any personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent. However, you agree that we may use your information:

  • To enhance or improve our users’ experiences.
  • To provide you access to our Software and Service.
  • To email you newsletters and correspondence.
  • To contact you and to respond to inquiries.
  • To understand how you use our Site, Software, and Service

Additionally, we may give your information to law enforcement if we are compelled to by a court order, if there has been a violation of any Northern Ireland or UK laws or if a violation of the Terms of Service or Privacy Policy has occurred.

4. Accessing, Editing, and Removing Your Information

If you have any questions or wish to review, change, or access any of your information collected by us contact us at sales@lightmonster.com. Additionally, if you wish to opt out of our data collection practices or would like us to remove any of your information, please contact us at sales@lightmonster.com. Please be aware that removal of your information may cause your account to become inaccessible. Also you agree that we may keep inaccessible copies of your information in our internal systems after removal for legal and internal purposes for a commercially reasonable period of time.

5. Cookies and Tracking

We use cookies to remember your ads and preferences, for this reason, you must have cookies enabled in your browser to use our Site and Services. Additionally, some or all of our cookies may be accessible by third parties. We may also use tracking javascript to track and improve our user experience.

6. Third Party Access to Your Information

Although you are entering into an Agreement with Light Monster to disclose your information to us, we do use third party individuals and organizations to assist us, including contractors, web hosts, like Google AdSense.

Throughout the course of our provision of our Services to you, we may delegate our authority to collect, access, use, and disseminate your information. It is therefore necessary that you grant the third parties we may use in the course of our business the same rights that you afford us under this Privacy Policy. For this reason, you hereby agree that for every authorization which you grant to us in this Privacy Policy, you also grant to any third party that we may hire, contract, or otherwise retain the services of for the purpose of operating, maintaining, repairing, or otherwise improving or preserving our website or its underlying files or systems. You agree not to hold us liable for the actions of any of these third parties, even if we would normally be held vicariously liable for their actions, and that you must take legal action against them directly should they commit any tort or other actionable wrong against you. A non-exhaustive list of parties who may have access to your information include:

  • Google AdSense
  • Stripe
  • Google Analytics

7. Law Enforcement

You agree that we may disclose your information to authorities if compelled to by a court order. Additionally, you agree that we may disclose your information if we reasonably believe that you have violated Northern Ireland law, UK law, the Terms of Service, or Privacy Policy or if we believe that a third party is at risk of bodily harm. In the event that we receive a subpoena affecting your privacy, we may elect to notify you to give you an opportunity to file a motion to quash the subpoena, or we may attempt to quash it ourselves, but we are not obligated to do either. We may also proactively report you and release your information without receiving any request to third parties where we believe that it is proper to do so for legal reasons, such as instances where we believe your publications violate any law of Northern Ireland or any other country having jurisdiction over us, our Site, Services, or our Terms of Service. You release us from any damages that may arise from or relate to the release of your information to a request from law enforcement agencies or private litigants. We may release your information under the conditions listed in this paragraph whether it is to individuals or entities and to any state or national authorities, as required.

8. Commercial and Non-Commercial Communications

If you decide to provide us with your contact information, you waive all rights to file complaints concerning unsolicited emails from us, since you have agreed to such communication. However, you may unsubscribe from certain communications by notifying Light Monster that you no longer wish to receive these solicitations, we will endeavour to remove you from our database where you have the right to request this under the Terms of Service, the Privacy Policy, or applicable law. If you wish to opt out of certain communications, please contact us.

9. Third Parties

9. Third Parties

Light Monster may post links to third party websites on our Site or Service, which may include information that we have no control over. When accessing a third party site through our Site or Service, you acknowledge that you are aware that these third party websites are not screened for privacy or security issues by us, and you release us from any liability for the conduct of these third party websites.

Please be aware that this Privacy Policy, and any other policies in place, in addition to any amendments, does not create rights enforceable by third parties. Light Monster bears no responsibility for the information collected or used by any advertiser or third party website. You must review their Terms of Service and Privacy to understand how their information collection practices work.

10. Security Measures

We take reasonable attempts to protect your information by using SSL Certificates and PCI/DSS compliant hosting. However, as this is the Internet, we can make no guarantees as to the security or privacy of your information through our Site. For this reason, we recommend that you use anti-virus software, routine credit checks, firewalls, and other precautions to protect yourself from security and privacy threats.

11. Age Compliance

We intend to fully comply with UK and foreign laws respecting children’s privacy. Therefore, we do not collect or process any information for any persons under the age of 18. If you are under 18 and using our Site or Service, please stop immediately and do not submit any information to us.

12. International Transfer

Your information may be transferred to - and maintained on - computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your jurisdiction. We may transfer personal information to the United Kingdom or elsewhere and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

13. Your UK Privacy Rights

As a UK company LightingEnterprises.com Ltd, trading as Light Monster plans on complying with the Data Protection Act of 1998 and respecting our users’ privacy. If you have any questions regarding our compliance with the Data Protection Act, please contact us at sales@lightmonster.com.

14. Amendments

Like our Terms of Service, we may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we amend this Privacy Policy, we will place a note on our Site or we may contact you. You must agree to the amendments as a condition of your continued use of our Site and Service. If you do not agree, you must immediately cease using our Site and Service and notify us of your refusal to agree by e-mailing us at the address listed on our website.

Last Modified: November 11, 2016