PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated July 1, 2023

Black Dog Forensics, LLC operates the www.bdforensics.com website, (the "Site") which provides information related to services provided by the company. We do not sell, lease, or license your personal information to third parties. We do not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Your privacy is important to us. This notice explains our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is used at our site.

In addition to reading this privacy policy, please review our Terms of Use, which governs your use of the Site and our services. If you do not agree to our Terms of Use and the collection, use and sharing of your information as detailed in this privacy policy, please do not access or otherwise use the Site.

THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We collect personal information we receive from you. We collect your personal information in connection with the services we provide to you. This includes your name, telephone number, e-mail address, and any other information that you choose to fill out when using the "Contact Us" form, found on many pages of the Site or if you email us directly.

We may automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit, use and interact with the Site, we may receive certain information about your visit, use or interactions. For example, we may record the type of device, operating system, number of people that visit the Site, peak hours of visits, which page(s) are visited, the domains our visitors come from (e.g., google.com, yahoo.com, etc.), and which browsers people use to access the Service (e.g., Chrome, Firefox, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), broad geographical information, and navigation pattern. We may use any number of tools to collect this type of information about you, your computer access points, mobile devices, and the web browser that you use to connect to our Sites or digital applications. For example, "cookies" which are tiny text files that we place on your computer or mobile device when you visit our Site. We may use cookies to personalize your interactions with our Site.

USE OF COOKIES

You do not have to accept our cookies and you may set your browser to restrict their use and you may delete them after they have been placed on your computer or mobile devices. If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Site may take more time to work, or may not function properly. Under the laws of certain countries, cookies may be served, as long as individuals have provided their consent, having been given clear and comprehensive information, in particular about the purpose for which their personal data will be processes. Effective consent may be provided by using your browser settings, as long as you take positive action. Before using Black Dog Forensics Site, you are advised to check your current browser settings to ensure that the settings reflect your consent for us to place cookies on your devices.

You may be able to set your browser settings to use our Site without cookie functionality. Your web-browser may provide you with some options regarding cookies. For more detailed information about how to disable or administer your cookie settings in your web browser, please refer to the applicable page for the web-browser you are using:

You can withdraw your consent to allow for cookies, change your browser settings, and delete the cookies already stored on your computer at any time.

TURNING OFF THIRD-PARTY COOKIES

You can turn off certain third-party targeting/advertising cookies by visiting the ‎Network ‎Advertising Initiative: https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1 and by ‎visiting Google:‎ ‎https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout‎.‎

We may also collect additional information from your web browser each time you visit our Site. We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), to help us analyze use of the Site. For more information on how Google uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.

USE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We use non-personally identifiable information to analyze site usage (such as aggregated information on the pages visited by our users). We may also use non-personal aggregate information to improve our Site and our products and services offerings. For example, our Internet Service providers may report to us that there were a particular number of visitors to a certain area of our Sites, or that a certain number of businesses or a certain number of individuals completed our registration forms in particular areas of our Site. Such information may also be used to analyze the effectiveness of our business and advertising models.

In the ordinary course of business, we use the personally identifiable information you provide to respond to your inquiry and to provide you services. We may use your personal information to contact you via mail, e-mail, telephone or mobile device in order to give you updates about special events, services, payment confirmations, or other promotions that may be of interest to you. We also use return e-mail addresses to answer any e-mail we receive from you.

If you submit a resume or seek to fulfill other staffing requirements, we will use that information solely in connection with your application for current or future staffing requirements.

Additional uses of your non-personal and personal information will allow us to tailor services specific to your needs, to help organize and manage our relationship with you or your business, to conduct business, to provide you with customer and guest support, to perform functions that are described to you at the time of collection, and to enforce our Site’s Terms of Use.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do not sell, lease, or license your personal information to third parties. We may share your personal information with service providers that provide certain services to us, including, without limitation, website hosting services, credit card processing, product promotions, and service processing and shipping services.

Black Dog Forensics, LLC may also disclose your personal information as is necessary to: (a) comply with a subpoena or court order; (b) cooperate with law enforcement or other government agencies; (c) establish or exercise our legal rights; (d) protect the property or safety of our company and employees, contractors, vendors, suppliers, and customers; (e) defend against legal claims; (f) help with internal and external investigations; or (g) as otherwise required by law or permitted by law.

We may disclose your information to others in connection with the sale, merger, acquisition or financing of Black Dog Forensics, or in connection with any transaction that involves the sale or assignment of some or all of our assets.

We reserve the right to provide non-personal information, such as aggregated data, to third parties.

DATA RETENTION

We keep personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, while we have a business need to do so, or as required by law (e.g. for tax, legal, accounting or other purposes), whichever is the longer.

DATA STORAGE AND SECURITY

You use the Site at your own risk. We implement commercially reasonable technical, administrative, and organizational measures to protect personal information both online and offline from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no Internet or e-mail transmission is fully secure or error free.

In particular, e-mail sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via the Site or e-mail. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on third party websites.

CHILDREN AND DATA COLLECTION

Black Dog Forensics is a general audience Site. Our services do not address and is not directed toward anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information without parental consent, we will endeavor to delete that information from our records. If you have questions about personal information that may have been submitted by a child under the age of 13 without parental consent, please email us at privacy@bdforensics.com.

INFORMATION SUBMITTED FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES

If you are from a non-U.S. country, please be aware that the personal information you submit, including information provided through our Site, is being sent to a location in the United States. The data protection laws in the United States are likely different from those of the country in which you are located, and your personal information may be subject to access requests from governments, courts, or law enforcement in the United States according to laws of the United States. By providing such personal information through the Site, you are consenting to (and represent that you have authority to consent to), the transfer of such information to the United States for the uses and purposes described in this privacy policy.

LINKED SITES

Black Dog Forensics, LLC has no control over or responsibility for material on other web sites accessed by hypertext links from this site. Hypertext links are only provided as a convenience to users of this site. We do not verify the information on linked sites and does not endorse these sites or sources.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Black Dog Forensics, LLC may update this privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by changing the “Last Updated” date at the beginning of this privacy policy, unless other notice is required by applicable law. You should take the time to review this privacy policy each time that you visit our Site.

CONTACT US

If you have questions or comments about the privacy policy for Black Dog Forensics, LLC, it's implementation, or if you require additional information about Black Dog Forensics, LLC's privacy commitment, please contact us at our designated request address: privacy@bdforensics.com.