Internet Site Privacy Policy
Please note that this Privacy Statement addresses the data collection and handling practices associated with this Site only. Additionally, Company products and services may be subject to their own statements specific to the product or service.
By using this Site, you are subject to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement.
Thank you for visiting our web site and reviewing our Privacy Policy. barcodesinc.com is committed to protecting your privacy. Our business depends on the trust our customers place in us. It is our policy to protect your Personal Information (as defined below) and to use it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. In this policy, “Site” shall mean www.barcodesinc.com and “we”, “us”, and “our” shall mean BarcodesInc.
Data Collection
Data You Provide: When you submit questions, request information, or give us feedback via this Site, we may ask you for data, like your name, postal address, telephone number, and email address so we can respond or follow up. We may also ask you to provide other data relevant to your question, request, or feedback, such as your geographical location, industry, and preferred contact method.
You may also make requests through this Site to exercise your individual rights under applicable privacy laws. We will collect and maintain data related to such requests in order to respond to you and for our audit and legal compliance purposes.
We do not seek data that may be considered “special” or “sensitive” personal data (e.g., government-issued identification numbers or information related to an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, criminal background, or trade union membership) from visitors of this Site, and we ask that you do not provide such data. If you voluntarily share with us, post, or otherwise upload any “special” or “sensitive” personal data to this Site for any other reason, you consent that we may use such data in accordance with applicable law and this Privacy Statement.
Please note that any information or materials you post or disclose on this Site via message boards, chats, profile pages, blogs, and other services (including social media services) are publicly available and will be seen by other visitors to this Site. You should consider this when deciding to disclose any personal data or any other information on this Site.
Data Collected from your Use of this Site: We automatically receive certain data about the computer or device you are using when you visit this Site, including: your Internet Protocol (IP) address; information about the browser or type of device you are using; data collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies (as described below in the Cookies and Other Internet Technologies section); the date and time of your visit; and the web page you visited immediately prior to visiting this Site. We also collect data about videos or other content you view on this Site, like the type and name of the content and the time viewed.
Data Use
- Administer and manage this Site, communicate with you about this Site, process your request for information, or otherwise complete a transaction or service you request or authorize.
- Customize or personalize your user experience and the content we deliver to you, including to provide you with content that is more relevant to you.
- Contact you about Company products and services, provide you with promotional materials or offers for products/services from Company, or send you other communications about Company business and events (including communications based on your interests, personal and business characteristics, and location) (collectively, “Marketing Communications”). We may provide these communications and offers via email, postal mail, online, social media platforms, text messages, and other means.
- Carry out our internal business purposes, such as corporate transactions, audits, and data analysis; conduct research and analytics about your use of this Site and interaction with us; develop new products; improve this Site and our existing products and services; identify usage trends; assess the performance of our advertisements; optimize our advertising campaigns; and determine the effectiveness of our communications.
- Protect the rights, safety, property, or operations of Company, you, or others.
- Comply with applicable law and/or respond to requests and communications from law enforcement authorities or other government officials.
Note that you may unsubscribe from a Company mailing list at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any of our Marketing Communications to you. After you unsubscribe, we will not send you further Marketing Communications, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any services you have requested.
We will never use your personal data to advertise, promote, or market third-party goods or services to you. Additionally, we will not license or publish any of your personal data. We do not and will not sell any personal data to third parties for their own commercial use.
Basis for Processing Personal Data
Consent: We may rely on the consent that you provide us at the point of data collection or disclosure to us to process such data for the purposes outlined herein.
Legitimate interests: We may rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data, provided that our interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms. In particular, we may process your personal data in reliance on a legitimate interest in the effective and lawful operation of this Site and our businesses, as well as the effective delivery of information and services to you. We may have other legitimate interests and, if so, we will make clear what those interests are at the relevant point in time.
Compliance with legal obligations: We may process your personal data if necessary, for us to comply with a legal obligation arising under an applicable law to which we are subject.
If you have questions or concerns about the legal basis upon which we collect and use your personal data, you can contact us in accordance with the Contact Us section below.
Disclosures of Personal Data
- Third parties that provide services to us, such as system hosting, management, and support; data analysis; facilitation of advertisements; data backup; and data security and storage services.
- Relevant third parties as part of a corporate transaction, such as a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceeding).
- Competent governmental and public authorities, in each case to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests.
- Other third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; (d) to protect our operations and those of any of our affiliates; (e) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you, or others; and (f) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.
In addition, this Site may contain content and plugins from social media platforms, like Facebook (Like button), Twitter (Share to Twitter), LinkedIn, and others. These plugins allow you to share information from this Site to your timeline or account. When you connect to these services, the third parties may store and/or access data (including through the use of cookies and other similar technologies) over which we do not have control. If you are logged into one of your social media accounts while visiting a webpage on this Site that contains a social media plugin, the social media plugin may allow the relevant social media platform to receive information that you visited this Site and link it to your social media account. We do not control these third-party platforms, and information collected is governed by the privacy statement of the third party that provides the relevant platform. We encourage you to review these platforms’ privacy statements for more information.
The disclosures described in this section may result in the transfer of your data to countries or regions with data protection laws that differ from those in your country of residence. By providing us with your data and using this Site, you are acknowledging that your data may be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence.
In cases where your data is transferred outside of your country of residence, we take steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect such data. If you are based in the EU/EEA, such safeguards may include a data transfer agreement with the data recipient based on standard contractual clauses or such other mechanism as is approved by the European Commission for transfers of personal data to third countries. For further details relating to the transfers described above and the adequate safeguards used with respect to such transfers, please contact us in accordance with the Contact Us section below.
Cookies and Other Internet Technologies
If you do not want data to be collected from your device via cookies, most browsers have a setting that allows you to decline the use of cookies. Some features of this Site may not work properly if you decline the use of cookies. To learn more about cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org/
Other third-party cookies and technologies. We also may enable third-party cookies and other similar technologies to collect or receive data from this Site and elsewhere for use in advertising, including for the purposes of serving advertisements targeted to users’ interests, retargeting visitors to this Site, conversion tracking (i.e., tracking the actions users take after viewing or engaging with our advertisements), measuring ad effectiveness, and ensuring that you do not see the same ad repeatedly. These cookies and similar technologies collect data about your browsing habits and online behavior, including across different browsers and devices used by you, in order to serve advertisements that may be of interest to you. For example, Company third-party providers may use the fact that you visited this Site to place online ads for Company on non-Company websites.
Third-parties may also use data about your use of this Site to help target non-Company advertisements based on your online behavior and/or interests in general. Data collected generally includes actions you take on this Site (e.g., URL, previous website visited), device and browser data (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type), timestamp, and events (e.g., page views). In some cases, this data is connected to your social network ID. Please note that Company is not responsible for practices by such third parties, and those practices are subject to those companies’ own policies.
You may use industry platforms to opt out of interest-based advertising. To learn more about opting out of receiving interest-based advertisements and how to exercise your options, please visit: https://optout.aboutads.info and https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. These tools use cookies to record and implement your preferences. If you disable or delete cookies on your device after using these tools, you will need to complete the opt-out process again.
Third-Party Websites
Live Webchat
We utilize a live webchat service provided by a third-party vendor, known as LiveChat, which may be updated from time to time. Barcodes, Inc. (“Barcodes”) collects, uses, stores, shares, discloses, and protects your personal information in accordance with the terms of this Privacy and Security Policy. The data Barcodes stores from our customers is strictly for our use and may potentially be visible to our third-party vendor. Personal information can include operator names and emails, visitor names and emails, visitor phone numbers, email addresses, IP addresses, and the content of the chat. We may also use cookies and local storage on Barcode’s servers to help provide site history of website visitors. Because third party software is used, personal information may also be visible to LiveChat. LiveChat collects, uses, stores, shares, discloses, and protects customer Personal Information in accordance with the LiveChat’s privacy policy, located at the following link: https://www.livechat.com/legal/privacy-policy. Customer’s use of the chat feature is consent to these uses and disclosures.
Data Security
Exercising Your Rights
If you no longer want to receive electronic newsletters you signed up to receive or other Marketing Communications from Company, you can click on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of such communications.
Depending on your country (or U.S. state) of residence, you may also have the right to do the following.
- Request confirmation that we are processing your personal data.
- Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Request that we update the personal data we hold about you or correct such data that is inaccurate or incomplete.
- Restrict the way in which we use your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or limit our use of your personal data (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held).
- Object to our processing of your personal data.
- Withdraw the consent that you have given us to process your personal data (where we process your personal data on the basis of your consent).
- Request that we delete the personal data we hold about you.
- Lodge a complaint with the data protection or privacy authority in your country of residence regarding our processing of your personal data.
If you are interested in exercising one or more of the rights described above, you can submit a request in accordance with the Contact Us section below.
Please note that we may require proof of your identity before we can give effect to these rights.
We will not discriminate against you if you decide to exercise your rights under applicable law.
Because we want to avoid taking action regarding your personal data at the direction of someone other than you, only you or an “Authorized Agent” permitted to act on your behalf may submit a request. An “Authorized Agent” means a natural person or a business entity you have authorized to act on your behalf by providing your written permission. Please note, we may deny a request from an Authorized Agent if they do not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
Your request must do the following.
- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal data or an Authorized Agent.
- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal data if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal data we maintain relates to you. To verify your identity, we will seek to match any personal data you provide when you (or an Authorized Agent) submit your request to any personal data we already maintain. If we are unable to verify your identity based on the data we maintain, we will let you know.
Additional Information for EU/EEA Residents
If you are unsatisfied with the way in which we have handled your personal data or any privacy query or request that you have raised to us, you have a right to complain to the appropriate National Data Protection Authority (“DPA”). To find the contact details of the DPA in your country of residence, please visit
https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080
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Do Not Track Signals
Data Retention
Use of This Site By Minors
Updates To This Privacy Statement
Contact Us
If you have any comments or questions regarding this Privacy Statement or our data handling practices, please contact us at [email protected]. You can also connect to other terms found on our sites by clicking any of the links below.