FORTRESS PRIVACY POLICY
Introduction
Fortress Global, Inc and its subsidiaries.
(“Fortress”, “Us”, “We” or “Our”) provides this
Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) to inform the End User who is a resident
in the United States of America (“You” or “Your”) of Our
practices regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information We
receive when You use the Fortress Mobile Application (the “Fortress App”)
and all the Fortress Website and Portals (“Fortress Sites”) and how We
use that information. It is important
that You read the Policy along with the Fortress Terms of Service because both
apply to Your use of the Fortress App.
This Policy may be revised
to keep pace with changes in Our products and services and laws applicable to
Fortress and You. Fortress reserves the right, at its sole
discretion, to update this Policy at any time.
If We make material changes to
this Policy, then We will notify You. If
You do not wish Your information to be subject to the revised Policy, You will
need to close Your account.
This
Policy can be accessed from the settings in the Fortress App, from Our
website
, in the
Secure Portal
and
Partner
Portal
.
Your use of the Fortress Sites, Fortress App and the Services thereafter
constitutes Your agreement to and acceptance of the Policy and its revisions or
updates. You should also periodically
read the Policy to learn of any revisions or updates.
information
protection
At Fortress, We believe that great privacy
rests on great security. We use
administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect Your information,
taking into account the nature of the information and
the processing, and the threats posed.
We are constantly working to improve on these safeguards to help keep
Your information secure. For more
information, please see the Security section of this Policy and visit Our
Help Section
.
You have Privacy Rights with Fortress
At
Fortress, We respect Your ability to know, access, correct, transfer, restrict
the processing of, and delete information relating to You. We have provided these rights to Our global
customer base and if You choose to exercise these privacy rights, You have the right not to be treated in a
discriminatory way
nor to receive a lesser degree of service from Fortress.
Fortress
does not sell Your data including as “sale” is defined in Nevada and
California. To exercise Your privacy
rights and choices, please login to Your
Secure Portal
or
Partner Portal
, whichever is applicable to You. To help protect the security of Your personal
data, You must sign into Your account and Your identity will be verified. There may be situations where
We cannot grant
Your request, for example, if You ask Us to delete Your transaction data and
Fortress is legally obligated to keep a record of that transaction to comply
with law. We may also decline to grant a
request where doing so would undermine Our legitimate use of data for
anti-fraud and security purposes, such as when You request deletion of an
account that is being investigated for security concerns. Other reasons Your privacy request may be
denied are if it jeopardizes the privacy of others, is frivolous or vexatious,
or would be extremely impractical.
Further information can be found throughout this Policy including in the
section titled “Your Privacy Choices”.
If
You live in California, if You cannot access Your secure portal, You or Your
authorized agent can make a request at
help@yourfortress.com
or by calling (888) 678-9042.
For
more information on exercising Your rights, please visit the
Help Section
of the Fortress website.
Information
We Collect From You
At Fortress, We believe that You can have
great products and great privacy. This means that We strive to collect only the
information that We need. The information Fortress collects depends on how You
interact with Fortress.
A.
Fortress
Sites
Fortress may collect the
following categories of information, some of which You may voluntarily provide,
from Your use of the Fortress Sites:
·
Contact Information:
Data includes Your
phone number, address, and
email address.
·
Cookie and Device Data
: Data includes
information about Your visit of
Our website, IP address, device identifier, browser type and version, operating
system and network, location and time zone setting, and other similar tracking
technology as further explained below.
·
Event Registration
Information
:
Data including Identification Information, Contact Information, and
other information You provide to us when You access various Fortress content,
such as whitepapers, videos, or other research materials.
·
Identification
Information:
Data
includes Your name, title, job title, and company name.
·
Job Applicant Information
: Data including
Identification Information and
Contact Information, resume and other data provided by You or third parties
(e.g., recruiters) on Our website in connection with job openings.
·
Third Party Information:
We may also
collect these same categories of
information through the use of Our third-party
marketing and content syndication vendors.
B.
Fortress
App
Fortress offers multiple
tiers within the Fortress App. Each tier
offers increased access to Fortress protection, security, insurance and assist
features. Information required to
provide these services may vary and are listed in this document to help You
understand what information We collect directly from You, from Your device and
how We use this information. Details
regarding product features for the Fortress App for iOS and Android devices can
be found on Our
website
.
Fortress, or Fortress’
partners, may collect the following categories of information from You while
using the Fortress App:
·
Registration Information
:
To c
reate
an account You will need to provide Your name, address, email address and a password.
·
Device Information
:
Data such as equipment identifier (e.g., mobile phone
number, device type and manufacturer, operating system type and version,
wireless carrier/operator, network type, country of origin, Wi-Fi network SSID,
Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and the dates and times of Your requests.
·
Contact
Information:
Data such as name, email address, physical
address, phone number, or other contact information.
·
Usage
Information:
Data about Your activity on and use of
Fortress App including product interaction; crash data, performance and other
diagnostic data; and other usage data.
·
Location Information:
Some features We
offer work better for You if We can locate Your mobile device. With Your consent, which is provided
during
initial registration, Fortress may collect location information in two
ways. We may receive it directly from
Your mobile device, or, in some situations, We may infer location data from
cell tower or Wi-Fi hotspot information.
We may use third-party service providers to translate that information
into usable location information. To
prevent location data from being shared go to Your mobile device settings and
turn off location services, but in doing so may affect the features that
Fortress can provide.
·
Fraud Prevention Information:
Data used to help identify and prevent fraud
including Location Data, which is used for example, but not limited to, to
verify You are located in the correct country for the tier You have selected,
and You are located in the correct country in the event that You need to claim
·
Transaction
Information:
Data about purchases of
Fortress products and services or transactions facilitated by Fortress,
including purchases through the Fortress App.
·
Payment Information:
Data including Your credit card number,
expiration date, security code and other applicable billing information, may be
collected directly by Fortress’ billing partners if You have purchased one of
the Fortress tiers using a credit card.
We do not store Your Payment Data this is collected by PCI compliant and
highly reputable credit card processing companies, e.g., Stripe. We encourage You to read the
Stripe Privacy Policy
.
·
Application Information
:
including metadata of all
applications installed on Your mobile device (including, but not limited to, the
names of the apps and the versions of the apps), and in certain circumstances, We
may also collect a copy of part or entire copies of application files on Your
device if We encounter an application that We have not previously
analysed. This data is pseudonymized and
is maintained in aggregate to ensure an individual cannot be identified from
other customers. We may also collect
information about how applications behave on Your device (e.g., whether an
application is sending premium-rate text messages that may charge money to Your
phone bill) and the network services with which Your applications communicate.
For clarity, Fortress does not collect user
data You enter into those applications. As We do not collect any user data
You enter into the applications on Your mobile device, Fortress
does not collect, read, review, or scan Your emails, or text messages. Fortress does not collect Your
photos, or
videos, but may scan such files locally on the device to protect You from
certain threats that hide inside photo or video files.
·
Web Content Information:
To provide the Safe
Site feature, Fortress uses a reputable cybersecurity partner Bitdefender. For this feature to protect
You Bitdefender
needs to analyse data including URLs and domains for malicious content and
content that needs additional analysis to determine if those URLs are unsafe
(e.g., if the URLs contain phishing attacks or malware) may be collected
directly by Fortress’ partner Bitdefender.
We encourage You to read the
Bitdefender
Privacy Policy
.
If You do not want Our Fortress partner or Us to record the unsafe URLs You
visit, You may turn Safe Site off; all other Fortress features will continue to
function.
·
Other
Information You Provide to Us.
Details such as the content of Your
communications with Fortress, including interactions with customer support and
contacts through social media channels.
You are not
required to provide the personal data that We have requested. However, if You
choose not to do so, in many cases We will not be able to provide You with Our
products or services or respond to requests You may have.
Information About You That We Receive From Other
Sources
Fortress
may receive information about You from other individuals, from businesses or
third parties acting at Your direction, from Our partners who work with Us to
provide Our products and services and assist Us in security and fraud
prevention, and from other lawful sources.
·
Individuals:
Fortress may collect data about You from other individuals, for example,
if that individual has sent You a product, activation code or retail pack,
invited You to participate in a Fortress service, or shared content with You.
·
At
Your Direction:
You may direct other individuals or third parties to
share data with Fortress. For example,
You may direct Your Mobile Carrier to share data about Your carrier account
with Fortress for account activation, or for Your loyalty program to share
information about Your participation so that You can benefit from an offer,
reward or feature.
·
Fortress
Partners:
We may also validate the information You provide,
for example, when creating a Fortress Account, via a third party for security
and for fraud-prevention purposes.
For research and
development purposes, We may use datasets such as those that contain data that
could be associated with an identifiable person. When acquiring such datasets, We do so in
accordance with applicable law, including law in the jurisdiction in which the
dataset is hosted. When using such datasets for research and development, We do
not attempt to reidentify individuals who may appear therein.
How We Use Your Information
A.
Fortress
Sites
We take Your privacy very seriously and
will only use and disclose this information for the business and commercial
purposes described in this Policy. How We
use Your information will vary depending on the type of data as described
below.
·
Addressing Customer
Inquiries:
We
use Identification Information, and Contact Information to address customer
inquiries so that You may receive a response from us when You contact us.
·
Sending Relevant Marketing
Messages and Inviting You to Events/Seminars:
We use Identification Information, Contact
Information, Cookie and Device Information, and Event Registration Information
to communicate with You by way of email alerts and mail to provide You with
information about product announcements, and special promotions from Fortress
or Our business partners, to invite You to events that may be of interest to
You, or to administer participation in surveys, contests etc. You can choose not to receive such
marketing
communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in Our emails, as further
described below.
·
Improving Our Sites
: We use Cookie and
Device Information to
improve the functionality and user-friendliness of Fortress Sites. If You fill out a survey or email
Fortress
for support, We may retain that information in order to provide You with
support and to improve the Fortress Sites.
·
Keeping the Fortress Sites
and IT systems and Processes Safe:
We use Identification Information, Contact
Information, and Cookie and Device Information to ensure the security and
confidentiality of Your data, and to prevent illegal activities, including
fraud, which could harm You and Us.
·
Recruitment
: Job Applicant
Information is collected and
processed for purposes of screening, identifying, and evaluating candidates for
positions; and record-keeping related to hiring processes. This processing is
necessary in order to take steps at the request of the
job applicant in the context of recruitment prior to entering into a contract
and may be used as necessary to comply with legal, regulatory, and corporate governance
requirements. You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from Fortress
by using the unsubscribe link within each email. Although opt-out requests are
usually processed immediately, please allow ten (10) business days for a
removal request to be processed.
B.
Fortress
App
When We collect Your information, We store
it and associate it with Your account unless otherwise noted. Please note that We need certain types of
information so that We can provide the Features and Services to You. If You do not provide Us with such
information, or ask Us to delete it, You may no longer be able to access the
Features and Services. We take Your
privacy very seriously and will only use and disclose this information for the
business and commercial purposes described in this Policy. How We use Your information will vary
depending on the type of data as described below:
·
Registration Data:
We may use Your
email address to send You
information about product announcements and special promotions from Fortress or
Our business partners. If You email
Fortress for support, We may retain that information in order to provide You
with support and to improve Our services.
We may use Your email address to communicate with Your device about the
services, including sending privacy or security related notices and notifying
You of major Fortress services changes.
·
Device Data:
Automatic scans of
Your device may occur
periodically to collect details about the applications, devices and operating
system files on Your device. Fortress
will gather the results of scans performed by Our services and the most current
security disposition of the device. In
addition, regular updates of threat definitions will be performed. These activities help to protect Your
mobile
by allowing the Fortress App to detect and address threats on Your mobile
device. Where available, Fortress may use
client device information to let You know You need to update Your operating
system. In addition to using the
information You provide to Us and the information We collect from Your mobile
device to deliver Fortress services, We also use the information collected from
Your device to perform data analytics.
These analytics provide important information which helps to improve the
features and usability of Our products.
We analyse information such as how often You use the Fortress App on Your
mobile device, the events that occur within the Fortress App on Your mobile
device and where the Fortress App was downloaded onto Your mobile endpoint
device. We also use this information in
aggregate to perform analysis on known and new mobile threats.
·
Contact Information:
Back up of your
mobile device’s address book for the Contacts feature occur periodically to
maintain an accurate back up of Contact Information so that if in an event your
mobile device goes missing the Contact Information can be transferred onto your
new device.
·
Usage Information:
We always strive to
make Fortress better therefore we need to understand how You use the Fortress
App. The Usage Information helps us
ascertain popular features, the circumstances that resulted in a performance or
crash issue and increase the features We offer You.
·
Location Information:
Fortress’ Locate, Yell!, Battery Beacon and Location Tracking features
helps
You remotely find Your missing device from Your secure portal and Fortress uses
the Location Information to facilitate these features. If You have activated Battery Beacon, it
collects location information and sends it back to Fortress when Your battery
is running low. We save the phone's
location to Your secure portal at the time We receive the low battery
alert. Features using the Location
Information can be turned on or off via the Fortress App.
·
Fraud Prevention
Information:
This
is used to protect You, individuals, employees, and Fortress from loss
prevention and to prevent fraud. We use
Fraud Prevention Information for example to reduce the risk of individuals attempting
to access the features from an unapproved country. make fraudulent claims,
abusing the service and putting You, our employees, and Fortress at risk,
·
Transaction
Information:
This
is used to process, manage and understand the
purchases
of Fortress products and services or activities facilitated by Fortress to
deliver the required features to You, improvements to the service and maintain
the integrity of the offering either directly or through a partner of Fortress.
·
Payment Information:
This is used to
enable You to make purchases for Fortress products and services that you
purchase using a credit card. We do not
store any Payment Information such as credit card data as we use globally
reputable, PCI complaint billing partners such as Stripe who directly handle
the billing activity. The use of the
Payment Information enables You, for example to purchase a protection tier from
within the Fortress App and receive the features contained within that tier.
·
Application Data:
We use this data to
provide the Anti-Virus feature services by conducting scans of application
files to determine if any applications are behaving maliciously. This information is sent to Our
cybersecurity
partner Bitdefender to analyse and prevent Your identity and device integrity
being threatened. Data is pseudonymized
and aggregated to ensure data privacy.
We use the record of unsafe applications You try to access to provide
You with notice that the app You attempted to access/download is unsafe.
·
Web Content Data:
Safe Surfing is a
feature designed to identify and warn You of unsafe URLs so that You can choose
to avoid loading them. URLs visited are pseudonymized and sent to Our
cybersecurity partner Bitdefender to perform security scans. We use the record of unsafe URLs You visit
to
provide You with notice that the URL You attempted to reach is unsafe.
How We share Your information
This section describes how
Fortress may share and disclose Your information from the Fortress Sites and
Fortress App. Fortress may disclose Your information with other members of Our
corporate family, or with third parties to provide or improve Our services. For
example:
A.
Fortress
Sites
·
Third Party Service
Providers and Partners:
We
may share Your information with third party service providers of products and
services integrated with Our Site that need to know Your information for Site
improvement purposes. We may share Your information with Our affiliates,
resellers or other third-party service providers that are working with Fortress
to perform business-related functions. We may also disclose Your information to
Our third-party partners so they may contact You on Our behalf with relevant
marketing messages, which You can choose not to receive by clicking on the
unsubscribe link in Our emails.
·
Internet-Based Ads:
We may provide
Your data including the data
about Your interests in Our products to third parties for the purposes of
serving You more relevant ads about Our products. Where You are provided with
interest-based ads on a site other than Our own, We do not track Your other
activities on that site. For more information, please see the “Cookies and
other Technologies” section below.
·
Cookies:
To collect and
analyse information regarding Your usage of Our Site as described in “Cookies
and other Technologies” section below.
·
To Comply with Law:
We may disclose Your
information consistent with the law to, for example: (i)
comply with a law, regulation, or legal process (including to meet national
security or law enforcement requirements); (ii) protect the safety or security
of any person, entity or facility; (iii) address potential Privacy Policy
violations of Our Policy; (iv) investigate fraud, security, or technical
issues; or (v) protect Fortress’ or a third party's rights or property, Our
employees, users and the public. We strongly believe that You have a right to
know if We are required by law to disclose Your information. As such, before We disclose Your information
in response to a law enforcement request (for example, a subpoena or court
order), We will notify You at the email listed in Your account, unless (a) We
are prohibited from doing so or (b) in emergency cases where notice could
create a risk of injury or death, or the case involves potential harm to
minors. Furthermore, nothing in this Policy is meant to limit any legal
defences or objections that You may have to a third party, including the
government’s, request to disclose Your information.
·
During a Change to
Fortress’ Business:
We
may also disclose Your information to an actual or potential buyer (and its
agents and advisers) in connection with any actual or proposed purchase,
merger, or acquisition of any part of Our business,
provided
that
We inform the buyer it must use Your personal information only for
the purposes disclosed in this Policy.
·
Pseudonymized and
Aggregated Data:
For
data analysis We pseudonymize, aggregate and summarize data that may include
some of Your data.
·
With Consent:
We may also
disclose Your information to third parties when We have Your consent to do so.
B.
Fortress
App
·
Third
Party Service Providers and Partners
. We may share Your
information with third party service providers of products and services
integrated with Our software that need to know Your information to fulfil Your
product or service requests, support Our products and services, analyse data
for product performance, and product improvement purposes. For example:
o
When using the Anti-Virus
and Safe Site feature, Your information is collected by Our cybersecurity
partner Bitdefender to provide the service to You. Bitdefender may in turn provide Your data to
third parties. We require that
Bitdefender and its service providers use data collected from You only for
purposes of providing services through the Fortress App.
o
We may share Your
information with Our resellers or other mobile operators to ensure proper
delivery of Your purchase and related support services and perform
business-related functions.
o
We may use Your
information to conduct market research and engage in joint promotional
activities with companies that have products that can add value to Fortress
products or services (for example, with mobile operators).
·
Third
Party Payment Partners
. We may allow services
providers to collect information directly from You to perform accounting,
auditing, billing reconciliation, and collection activities.
·
To
Comply with Law
.
We may disclose Your information consistent with the law to, for
example: (i) comply with a law, regulation, or legal
process (including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements);
(ii) protect the safety or security of any person, entity or facility; (iii)
address potential violations of Our Policy; (iv) investigate fraud, security,
or technical issues; or (v) protect Fortress’ or a third party's rights or
property, Our employees, users and the public.
We strongly believe that You have a right to know if We are required by
law to disclose Your information. As
such, before We disclose Your information in response to a law enforcement
request (for example, a subpoena or court order), We will notify You at the
email listed in Your account, unless (a) We are prohibited from doing so or (b)
in emergency cases where notice could create a risk of injury or death, or the
case involves potential harm to minors. Furthermore, nothing in this Policy is
meant to limit any legal defences or objections that You may have to a third
party, including the government’s, request to disclose Your information.
·
During
a Change to Fortress’ Business
. We may also disclose Your
information to an actual or potential buyer (and its agents and advisers) in
connection with any actual or proposed purchase, merger, or acquisition of any
part of Our business, provided that We inform the
buyer it must use Your information only for the purposes disclosed in this
Policy.
·
Pseudonymized
and Aggregated Data
. For data analysis We
pseudonymize, aggregate and summarize data that may include some of Your data.
We may share reports resulting from this data analysis publicly, in order to
help others, understand mobile threats and gain insights into mobile
application behaviour.
·
With
Consent
.
We may also disclose Your information to third parties when We have Your
consent to do so.
Cookies and
Other Technologies
Like most providers of
online services, the Fortress Sites, online services, interactive applications,
email messages, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies
such as pixel tags and web beacons.
These technologies help us
to better understand user behaviour including for security and fraud prevention
purposes, tell us which parts of Our websites people have visited, and
facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches.
·
Essential:
These are cookies
that enable basic functions
and are necessary for the proper function of the Fortress Sites.
·
Statistics:
These are cookies
that collect information
anonymously. This information helps us
to understand how visitors use the Fortress Sites.
·
Marketing:
These are cookies
that are used by
third-party advertisers or publishers to display personalized ads. They do this
by tracking visitors across the Fortress Sites.
·
External Media (Optional):
These cookies are
blocked by default. They provide content from video platforms and
social media platforms. If External
Media cookies are accepted, access to those contents no longer need manual
consent.
If You prefer that
Fortress does not use cookies, We provide You with the means to disable their
use. Certain features of the Fortress Sites
may not be available if all cookies are disabled.
In addition to cookies,
Fortress uses other technologies that help us achieve similar objectives. In
some email messages Fortress sends to You, We provide a “click-through URL”
that links You to content on the Fortress website. When You click one of these URLs, they pass
through a separate server before arriving at the destination page on Our
website. We track this click-through to
help us determine interest in particular topics and measure whether We are
communicating with You effectively. If You
prefer not to be tracked in this way, You should not click graphic or text
links in email messages.
Pixel tags enable us to
send email messages in a format that You can read, and they tell us whether
mail has been opened. We may use this
data to reduce or eliminate messages sent to customers.
YOUR PRIVACY CHOICES
A.
You Can Access and Update Your
Settings
You
may update the settings of Your Fortress account via the Fortress App or by
logging into Your
Secure Portal
or
Partner Portal
, whichever is applicable to You,
to modify certain settings that affect what data is shared with us. To protect Your privacy and security,
We
require Your username and password in order to verify Your identity before
granting You access or making changes to Your account.
B.
Email Opt-Outs
You may opt out of receiving
promotional communications from Fortress by using the unsubscribe link within
each email. Although opt-out requests
are usually processed immediately, please allow ten (10) business days for a
removal request to be processed. Even
after You opt out from receiving promotional messages from us, You will
continue to receive transactional and product-related messages from us
regarding Fortress Services. You can
optout of some of these notification messages in Your account settings.
DATA RETENTION
Fortress will retain Your information,
including Your Personal Data (as that term is defined by the GDPR), only as long as reasonably necessary to provide Our
products and
services to You or as otherwise required for legal compliance purposes.
SECURITY
A.
Fortress Responsibilities
Fortress is a mobile protection
and
security company, and securing Your data is important to us. Fortress uses
commercially reasonable physical, managerial, and technical safeguards to
ensure appropriate technical and organizational measures appropriate to the
risk of processing Your information. For
example, We use a combination of firewalls, authentication, physical security,
and other safeguards to protect Your account and Your data. When You enter sensitive information (such as
Location Data) within the Fortress App We encrypt that information while in
transit and at rest using secure socket layer technology (SSL). We also perform third-party penetration
tests
to harden Our systems from attack. Fortress takes every reasonable effort to
implement controls to protect against complex technological threats and other
criminal threats, as well as to guard against negligent employees.
No
method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is
100% secure, therefore We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any
information, data or content that Fortress receives on Your behalf to operate
the Fortress services, or that You transmit to Fortress. All such receipt or transmission of Your
information is provided under Your own free will and at Your own risk. We cannot guarantee that such
information will
not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of Our
physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.
If
Fortress learns of a security breach that may affect You, We will attempt to
notify You electronically so that You can take appropriate protective
steps. Fortress will also post a notice
on the Fortress services if a security breach occurs. Depending on where You
live, You may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in
writing.
B.
We Are Not Responsible for Content on
Third-Party Websites or Services
The
Fortress Sites contains links to other websites and Our Fortress App utilises
third party services. Fortress does not
accept liability for misuse of any information by a third-party provider. We encourage You to read the
privacy
statements of these linked sites and services, which may differ from ours. In addition, if You take
advantage of an offer
from one of Our partners, You may be providing information directly to that
partner. We encourage You to review the
privacy statements of these partners, as We are not responsible for the privacy
practices of any partners, linked sites or third-party service provider.
C.
Your
Responsibilities.
You are responsible for always
maintaining the secrecy of Your password. We recommend a strong password that You do not
use with other services. If You believe Your
password has been compromised, please change Your password immediately via the Fortress
website, or contact us at
help@yourfortress.com
for
assistance. You are responsible for
ensuring that the email address associated with Your account is accurate. We use that email to contact
You about service
updates, changes to Our policies, and account activities such as requests for Your
information or locate attempts on Your device. Fortress is not responsible for information
transmitted to a third party as a result of a user’s providing an incorrect
email address.
USERS UNDER 16
As
Fortress provides services to an international customer base, in order to
comply with both U.S. and E.U legal requirements pertaining to both Chapter 91
of Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and Article 8 Conditions Applicable
to Child's Consent in relation to information society services of the GDPR Fortress
does not knowingly collect or store any Personal Data about children under the
age of 16 unless they are part of a Family Plan purchased by a parent who
consents to such collection and storage as described in the Fortress Terms of
Service. If You believe a child is using
this service without parental consent, please contact us at
help@yourfortress.com
.
INTERNATIONAL DATA
TRANSFERS
If
You are a USA resident, then Your Fortress App will connect to the servers in
the USA and therefore Your Personal Data will be stored in the USA.
The
Fortress App and Fortress Sites form part of global protection, security and
insurance product. To make that
possible, Your personal data may be transferred to or accessed by entities/employees
around the world, for example in the United Kingdom. Fortress complies with laws on the transfer of
personal data between countries to help ensure Your data is protected, wherever
it may be.
ADDITIONAL TERMS FOR CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
A.
Personal Information
In accordance with the California
Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), below is a list of the categories of Personal
Information (as that term is defined by the CCPA) that We collect (whether
through the Fortress App or elsewhere), the categories of sources We collect
them from, the commercial purpose for which the information was collected, and
the categories of third parties with which We share the Personal Information.
|
Categories
of Personal Information |
Categories
of Sources |
Commercial
Purpose |
Categories
of Third Parties that We share the Personal Information |
|
Identifiers,
including email address, IP address, Wi-Fi SSID and other device identifiers
|
Consumer
|
Provide
Service, Improve Service, Customer Service, Analytics
|
Data
analytics providers
|
|
Geolocation
data
|
Consumer
|
Provide
Service
|
Third
party service providers
|
|
Information
regarding a consumer’s interaction with websites or applications
|
Consumer
|
Provide
Service
|
Third
party service providers
|
B.
Sale of Personal Information
Fortress does not sell (as We
understand that term to be defined by the CCPA) any Personal Information of its
users.
C.
Your Rights
In accordance with the CCPA, and
subject to exceptions, California Consumers (as that term is defined in the
CCPA) have the following rights:
·
Access:
You have the right to request that Fortress
disclose and deliver the categories of Personal Information that Fortress has
collected about You, or the specific pieces of Personal Information the
business has collected about You;
·
Deletion:
You have the right to request the deletion of Your
Personal Information in certain situations, except where the law allows a
business to maintain a Consumer’s Personal Information, including where the
Personal Information is necessary to perform a contract between the business
and the consumer;
·
Opt-Out:
You have the right to opt-out of the sale of Your
Personal Information, but as stated above, Fortress does not sell Your Personal
Information.
·
Non-Discrimination:
You have the right to not be discriminated
against, including but not limited to the right not to be charged a different
price for the services or denying You access to the services, on the basis of Your decision to exercise any of Your
rights
in this Section.
You may
exercise Your rights to access Your information or to delete Your information
through three methods: (1) access the
Secure Portal
or
Partner Portal
, whichever is applicable to You, (2) send a request to
help@yourfortress.com
or (3) by calling (888) 678-9042.
As
stated above, to protect Your privacy and
security, We require You to verify Your identity by logging into Your account
with Your username and password before granting Your request to access or
delete Your Personal Information. If We
cannot verify Your identity, then We shall not disclose any specific pieces of
Personal Information in response to an access request, and We shall deny Your
request to delete Personal Information in response to a deletion request. For requests to delete Your
information, Fortress
shall use a two-step process where You must first, clearly submit the request
to delete and then second, separately confirm that You want Your Personal
Information deleted. As a California Consumer, You may have an authorized agent
make an access or deletion request on Your behalf, provided that the authorized
agent has Your written permission, and You are able to verify Your own identity
directly with Fortress.
Privacy Questions
If You have questions about the Policy or
privacy practices, would like to contact Our Data Protection Officer, or would
like to submit a complaint, You can contact Us at
help@yourfortress.com
or call the
Fortress Assist Number as
outlined in Your
Secure Portal
or
Partner Portal
whichever is applicable to You.
You can also ask Us
questions about how to submit a privacy complaint and We will endeavour to
help.
Fortress takes Your privacy questions
seriously. Our team will review Your
inquiry to determine how best to respond to Your question or concern, including
those inquiries received in response to an access or download request. In most cases, all substantive
contacts
receive a response within seven (7) business days. In other cases, We may require additional
information or let You know that We need more time to respond.
Where Your complaint indicates an
improvement could be made in Our handling of privacy issues, We will take steps
to make such an update at the next reasonable opportunity. If a privacy issue
has resulted in a negative impact on You or another person, We will take steps
to address that with You or that other person.
If You are not satisfied with Fortress’
response, You may refer Your complaint to the applicable regulator. If You ask Us,
We will endeavour to provide You with information about relevant complaint
avenues which may be applicable to Your circumstances.
When there is a material change to this
Privacy Policy, We will post a notice on this website at least a week in
advance of doing so and contact You directly about the change if We have Your
data on file.
Fortress Global, Inc. 312 Arizona Avenue,
Floor 2, Santa Monica, California, 90401, USA.