Privacy and Policy

For Website Users and Clients

Last modified: September 10,  2020

OVERVIEW
Towerup.com ("TowerUp") is committed to respecting your privacy and the privacy of the information in your account. That is why we have established this Privacy Policy. Our intention is to treat your information with utmost care and consideration. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Policy, you should contact TowerUp as outlined below.
We want you to know that we are not in the business of selling or renting individuals' personal data to other companies for any purpose.
This Privacy Policy contains TowerUp's handling of personally identifiable information that is gathered when you are on TowerUp's site, and when you use TowerUp's services. This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to the sites with the domain of towerup.com (the "Site"). This policy does not cover or apply to the practices of organisations that use our services on their websites, that TowerUp does not own or control, information collected offline, or to non- TowerUp employees.

COLLECTION AND USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
TowerUp collects personally identifiable information when you register for a TowerUp account, when you fill out any form requesting information, support, or product and service information, and when you subscribe to our news. TowerUp may also receive personally identifiable information from its business partners.
TowerUp may collect the following personally identifiable information: your name, title, phone number, email address, mailing address, website URL, employer or company. You also have the option of supplying us with your occupation, and type of business or industry. Additionally, when you sign up for an TowerUp paid service, we collect your billing information, including your credit card number, expiration date, and billing address.
TowerUp also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser including your IP address, browser type, referrer page, domain name, access time, entry page, exit page, operating system type, and search engine keywords used.
We mainly use the information we collect to measure our business success, to identify the most effective ways to reach you, the customer, to more effectively meet your needs and requests for certain new product features and services, and to contact you about product upgrades. Additionally, when you signup for a TowerUp account you give your consent to receive email communications from us. You will then also receive our infrequent news, blog posts and announcements. You will have always the option to withdraw your consent (objecting to use of information for direct marketing) if you decide you don’t want to hear from us anymore. You will have the choice to opt-out from email marketing on an ongoing/dynamic basis at any time.

DATA STORED BY TowerUp
TowerUp hosts the sensitive data stored in your TowerUp account. The data in your account is not accessible to anyone, unless you make it accessible.

SUPPLIERS´ DATA
All the data, designs, images, drawings, calculations uploaded by the suppliers will remain their property. TowerUp will store, organise, manage, display all these data in its own database for further use and will make them available to the users of TowerUp.

SERVICE PROVIDERS, BUSINESS PARTNERS AND OTHERS
We may use certain trusted third party companies and individuals to help us provide, analyse, and improve the Service (including but not limited to data storage, maintenance services, database management, web analytics, payment processing, and improvement of the Service’s features). These third parties may have access to your information only for purposes of performing these tasks on our behalf and under obligations similar to those in this Privacy Policy. As of the date this policy went into effect, we use Dropbox and  Amazon’s S3 storage service to store some of your information (for example, your Files). You can find more information on Amazon's data security from the S3 site or, read more about how Dropbox and Amazon securely store data.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU
Certain TowerUp employees have various access levels to TowerUp systems, including databases, for the purposes of support, backups, maintenance, debugging, and other administrative and programming activities. However, TowerUp will not monitor, edit, disclose, sell, or rent neither the data stored in your TowerUp account, nor your personally identifiable information, to anyone other than what is disclosed below. It is only under the following circumstances that we may send your information to other companies or people:
  1. When we have your consent to share the information.
  2.  In the event the information disrupts the performance of TowerUp's servers or causes server-wide outages.
  3. When we need to share your information to provide you with a service or product you are requesting.
  4. When we need to send the information to companies that work on our behalf to process an order you have made, or so they can provide a product or service to you. Note that these companies are not allowed to use your information for any reason other than to support us in assisting you. We employ the services of third-party payment processors to complete the payment fulfilment process for purchases made on the Site.
  5. When we conform to edicts of the law, to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal processes.
  6.  When you have violated our Terms of Service Agreement for the service you are using or have used.
  7. When we act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of our customers or the public.
  8. When we need to protect and defend the rights or property of TowerUp.
  9. From time to time we may share aggregate data about our customers with other companies. In such cases no personally identifiable data will be made available to third parties.
  10. By using our website and our services and providing us with your personal data, you consent to this transfer of your personal data.

CHILDREN AND PRIVACY
This Site does not offer information intended to attract children. We do not knowingly solicit personal information from children under the age of 13. In fact, the Terms and Conditions expressly prohibits children under the age of 13 from using TowerUp's services.

COOKIES
The Site and TowerUp services do not use cookies tied to personally identifiable information for their operation.
Google Analytics uses a first-party cookie and JavaScript code to collect information about visitors to this Site. Google Analytics anonymously tracks how our visitors interact with this website, including where they came from, what they did on the site, and whether they completed any transactions on the site such as news registration.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website contains links to information on other websites. We do not have any control over these other websites, and therefore we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting those sites. THOSE SITES ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you should consult that site's Privacy Policy.

CHANGING OR DELETING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
At any time, TowerUp allows you to change or delete inaccuracies in the personally identifiable information you provided when signing up for the TowerUp service. You can change your stored personal data anytime, you just need to log-in and see your profile data. TowerUp keeps your data registered only as long as you are an active user. Active user means who is signed up for a TowerUp account with his/her email address and full name. In order to delete inaccuracies in your information, please Contact us

SECURITY
For both security and privacy purposes, your TowerUp account is password protected.
All communications between your account and TowerUp servers are encrypted with an industry-standard Secure Socket Layers protocol, and your own applications and data pages can be deployed securely using SSL at no extra charge.
Additionally, all systems are backed up on a monthly basis.

SURVEYS
From time to time TowerUp may invite you to participate in online surveys that TowerUp or a third party may administer. These surveys are optional, and may include personal information such as name and email address. They may also include questions about your experience with this Site and the TowerUp services and their specific features. Such surveys are meant to help us better understand the needs and requirements of our customers so we can continue improving this Site, our products and our services. The results of these surveys may be shared in aggregate format with third parties.

DEACTIVATING YOUR ACCOUNT
To deactivate your account you must Contact us

TESTIMONIALS
From time to time, we may post customer testimonials on this Site that may include their name, logo, graphic, sound or image. We obtain customer consent prior to posting their testimonials on this site. We are not responsible for the personal information a user elects to disclose in their testimonial. When users elect to register their information to communicate in our forums, please be advised we are not responsible for the personal information users elect to share over this public platform. Please be advised that any personal information disclosed can be used to send you unsolicited messages by other members of this forum.

MATERIAL CHANGES AND YOUR CONSENT
By using this Site and the TowerUp services, you consent to the collection and use of the information you provide to us as outlined in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to make changes to this Privacy Policy at our sole and absolute discretion, and we may do so from time to time and without notice. Should we make material changes to the manner in which your collected personal information is utilized, we shall post a prominent notice on the Site, notify you by email of the applicable changes and/or publish those changes on this page, and your continued use of this Site and any TowerUp services shall constitute your acceptance of such changes and the revised Privacy Policy and your agreement to be legally bound thereby.

PRIVACY POLICY FOR USERS OF WEBSITES OPERATED BY TOWERUP CLIENTS
We ask each of our clients to abide by all applicable laws, rules and regulations, as we promise our clients that we will do ourselves. We also recommend that each client obtain all necessary consents from visitors to its website(s), post an online Privacy Policy that provides each visitor with notice of its data collection and use practices (including such client's use of TowerUp's services), and provide a link to this Privacy Policy. TowerUp'S CLIENTS' WEBSITES ARE NOT GOVERNED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER DATA COLLECTION METHODS
In providing services to our clients, it is TowerUp's policy to use cookies only when necessary to maintain the identity of the user in a given session. The cookie information does not include personal data such as name, age, phone number, e-mail address or mailing address. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you would prefer, you can set your browser to reject cookies, however this may interfere with your usage of some of the services offered by TowerUp's clients. TowerUp's clients use customized JavaScript code provided by TowerUp to contact TowerUp's servers, to receive a form or application, to load an image or content, or to submit and update information.

COMMENTS AND SUGGESTIONS
To contact us regarding this Privacy Policy, please Contact us.