Effective Date: September 12, 2020

 

THIS WEBSITE IS OFFERED TO YOU, THE USER, CONDITIONED ON YOUR ACCEPTANCE, WITHOUT MODIFICATION, OF THE FOLLOWING TERMS, CONDITIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS. YOUR USE OF THIS WEBSITE CONSTITUTES YOUR EXPRESS AGREEMENT TO ALL SUCH TERMS, CONDITIONS AND NOTIFICATIONS. ANY OF OUR RIGHTS NOT EXPRESSLY GRANTED HEREIN ARE SPECIFICALLY RESERVED.

 

This document contains the privacy practices for MatthewCushing.com website (the "Site"). This Site is operated by Wix.com. The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you about the information that is collected about you from your viewing or use of the Site, how MatthewCushing.com may use and disclose the information that is collected, how information can be corrected or changed, and your obligations regarding information about others you may encounter in using the Site. Please note that this privacy policy only affects information gathered from you online through this Site. If MatthewCushing.com already includes your information in its databases, or if MatthewCushing.com adds your information to its databases through its other activities, such information and MatthewCushing.com's use thereof will not be affected by this policy.

 

LIMITATION ON LIABILITY

BY USING THIS SITE, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT WE SPECIFICALLY DISCLAIM ANY LIABILITY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE) FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, PUNITIVE OR SPECIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF, OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH, YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THIS SITE (EVEN IF WE HAVE BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LIABILITY ASSOCIATED WITH ANY VIRUSES WHICH MAY INFECT A USER'S COMPUTER EQUIPMENT.

 

ANY MATERIAL DOWNLOADED OR OTHERWISE OBTAINED OR PROVIDED THROUGH THE USE OF THIS SITE IS DONE AT YOUR OWN DISCRETION AND RISK AND YOU WILL BE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY DAMAGE TO YOUR COMPUTER SYSTEM, OR LOSS OF DATA, THAT RESULTS FROM THE USE, DOWNLOAD OR PROVISION OF ANY SUCH MATERIAL.

 

Except to the extent required by applicable law, we will not be liable for the unavailability or failure to operate all or any part of the service or system on which this Site is accessed, viewed or used.

 

Limitation on Your Usage

You may not modify, copy, distribute, license, transmit, reproduce, disseminate, display, transfer or sell, or offer for sale, any information, material, product, or service viewed on or obtained from this Site without express permission.

 

Information Collected and Use and Sharing of that Information

From time to time, we may ask you to provide certain information by which you may be identified, such as your name, title, address, organization name, telephone number, e-mail address, and similar information by which or with which you might be identified. This information will be referred to in this document as "Personal Information." You may decline to provide this Personal Information but you may thereby be unable to register or participate in activities or opportunities offered on the Site.

 

MatthewCushing.com may also use and disclose to others information automatically collected about you and your use of the Site, including information collected by third parties using tracking technologies on our Site, such as the type of browser you use, the files you request, the URL and geographic location from which you request information, the URL that you came from and go to, and similar information, and information compiled in the form of statistical, demographic, or aggregated information about visitors generally to the Site. This information is referred to in this document as "Usage Information." The methods that may be used on the Site to collect Usage Information include web log files and tracking technologies such as cookies, web beacons (also known as “tracking pixels”), embedded scripts, and location-identifying technologies:

 

Web log files

As provided via the Wix website platform, we use log files that record information such as Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and page navigation. We gather this information to track website visitor movement in the aggregate, and to gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. Our goal in gathering this information is to learn how our customers and the public are using our Site and services. IP addresses that are recorded by our log files are not linked to personally identifiable information.

 

"Cookies"

Our Site may use cookies. Cookies are pieces of information that some websites transfer to the computer that is browsing that website and are used for record-keeping purposes at many websites. MatthewCushing.com may use "session cookies" to properly verify a user's identity as they move from one page to the next.

 

Your browser is probably set to accept cookies. However, if you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter the configuration of your browser to refuse cookies. If you choose to have your browser refuse cookies, it is possible that some areas of our Site will not function properly when you view them.

 

Web Beacons (“Tracking Pixels”)

Web beacons are small graphic images, also known as "Internet tags" or "clear gifs," embedded in web pages and e-mail messages. Web beacons may be used to count the number of visitors to the Site, to monitor how users navigate the Site, and to count content views.

 

Use and Sharing of Information

MatthewCushing.com may use and disclose your information, including Personal Information and the information it automatically collects, in ways consistent with our statements under this Privacy Policy or as permitted as applicable law, including as follows:

 

• For the purpose for which it was provided or with your consent. If you give us information for a specific purpose, we will use it and may share it with our service providers for that purpose. We may also use and share your information with your consent or at your direction.

• To inform you about MatthewCushing.com’s information, developments, events, or services. MatthewCushing.com may contact you and send you information about its activities, products, or services in which MatthewCushing.com hopes you might be interested. We may share information about you with our service providers for this purpose.

• For analytics purposes. MatthewCushing.com may use and share information with our service providers and other third parties to monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities.

• Necessary disclosure of this Personal Information. MatthewCushing.com may disclose information, including Personal Information, to third parties as required by law, as we deem necessary or appropriate (such as pursuant to subpoena or court order). MatthewCushing.com may need to disclose Personal Information when required by law wherein we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary or reasonable to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order or legal process served on our organization. We may also disclose Personal Information to third parties in our discretion if we determine such disclosure is advisable to help avoid harm to persons or property. We may disclose your information to third parties to protect the rights, property, life, health, security and safety of us, the Site or any third party.

 

Security of Account Information

MatthewCushing.com makes significant efforts to protect from unauthorized access the data it collects. Nevertheless, transmission via the Internet is not completely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of your information collected through our Site.

 

Correction or Deletion of Your Information

• Requesting information. You can request details of Personal Information compiled about you by contacting MatthewCushing.com using the form at: https://MatthewCushing.com/contact.

• Correcting Information. You may correct information by informing MatthewCushing.com (using the form at: https://MatthewCushing.com/contact) of the corrections that need to be made.

• Deleting your Personal Information from our Database. You may ask MatthewCushing.com to delete your Personal Information from MatthewCushing.com databases of this Site by contacting MatthewCushing.com using the form at: https://MatthewCushing.com/contact. If you delete your Personal Information from these databases, you may be unable to further benefit from use of certain portions of the Site.

 

Sweepstakes, Contests, and Promotions

We may offer sweepstakes, contests, surveys, and other promotions (each, a “Promotion”) jointly sponsored or offered by third parties that may require submitting Personal Information. If you voluntarily choose to enter a Promotion, your Personal Information may be disclosed to third parties for administrative purposes and as required by law (e.g., on a winners list). By entering, you agree to the official rules that govern that Promotion, and may, except where prohibited by applicable law, allow the sponsor and/or other parties to use your name, voice and/or likeness in advertising or marketing materials.

 

Children and Minors

MatthewCushing.com encourages parents and guardians to monitor and participate in their children's online activities.

 

No Personal Information about or from children (13 years old or under) should be provided on the Site. This Site is not designed for children. If you are a minor, please secure the permission and guidance of your parents or guardian before using this Site.

 

Links to Other Sites

We may have or add links to third party sites. Such linked sites are not under the control of MatthewCushing.com and MatthewCushing.com is not responsible for the accuracy, completeness or reliability of any information, data, opinions, advice or statements contained on any such linked sites. Access to any other Internet site linked to this website is at your own risk. MatthewCushing.com has not reviewed all of the sites linked to this Site.

 

Please be aware that once you leave the Site and enter another website, you may be subject to different privacy practices and policies over which we have no control and for which MatthewCushing.com is not responsible. Please use prudence in utilizing such links and in disclosing any personal information on those sites. Any information you share with these websites is subject to their policies and practices and is independent of MatthewCushing.com.

 

Analytics and Advertising Tracking Technologies

We may use service providers for analytics services. These analytics services may use tracking technologies to help us analyze Site users and how they use the Site. Information generated by these services may be transmitted to and stored by these service providers on servers in the U.S. (or elsewhere) and these service providers may use this information for purposes such as evaluating your use of the Site, compiling statistic reports on the Site’s activity, and providing other services relating to Site activity and other internet usage.

 

We may also engage and work with third parties to serve advertisements on the Site and/or on third party sites. These third parties may use tracking technologies to tailor ads to your interests based on your browsing of the Site and elsewhere on the internet, sometimes referred to as “interest-based advertising” or “online behavioral advertising”, which may include sending you an ad on a third party site after you have left the Site (i.e., “retargeting”).

 

“Do Not Track”

Your browser settings may allow you to automatically transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to online services you visit. Note, however, there is no industry consensus as to what site and app operators should do with regard to these signals. Accordingly, we do not monitor or take action with respect to “Do Not Track” signals or other mechanisms.

 

Your California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law permits customers in California to request certain details about how certain types of their information are shared with third parties and, in some cases, affiliates, for those third parties’ and affiliates’ own direct marketing purposes. To request how MatthewCushing.com shares information, complete the form at: https://MatthewCushing.com/contact.

 

Ownership of Information

All opinions, ideas, suggestions, and other feedback submitted to this Site may be used by MatthewCushing.com without any restriction and free of charge, and nothing contained in this policy shall limit or otherwise affect this.

 

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy at any time and at our discretion without notice to any party. Any such change is posted on this Site. If you wish to monitor changes in this Site, please check this Site periodically for updates.

 

Applicable Law and Venue

Regardless of where you live, work or access this Site, this policy and disclaimer agreement, or any information on this Site, and your relationship with us, will be governed by the laws of the State of Connecticut. By using this Site, you consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of courts in the State of Connecticut, New London County in any matter related to the use or contents of this Site.

 

Contacting the Website

If you have any questions about this privacy policy and disclaimer, please contact MatthewCushing.com using the online form at: https://MatthewCushing.com/contact.