ServiceChannel Privacy Policy
Last Updated: December 15, 2023; Effective: January 14, 2024
ServiceChannel.com, Inc. and our affiliates (“ServiceChannel,” “we,” “us,” or “our,”) respects the privacy of our users (“you” or “your”). This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs the mobile or web applications (“Apps”) and websites we and our affiliates, subsidiaries and related entities operate (collectively, the “Services”).
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and disclose personal information, and your rights in relation to that information. Please read the following to learn more about our Privacy Policy.
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I. WHAT DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVER?
II. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SERVICECHANNEL COLLECT?
III. USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION
IV. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
VI. WHAT RIGHTS AND CHOICES DO I HAVE?
VIII. MARKETING AND EMAIL COMMUNICATION
X. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy
I. WHAT DOES THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVER?
This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of Personal Information and Other Information we gather from you when you are accessing or using our Services. Personal Information may include, but is not limited to, your name, username, home and/or work address, telephone number, e-mail address, company affiliation and associated interests. We collect some of this Personal Information by requesting it directly from you, and we may also obtain information about you from third-party sources, as described below.
Please note, this Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.
II. WHAT INFORMATION DOES SERVICECHANNEL COLLECT?
1. Information You Provide to Us
We collect information you provide directly to us, such as when you create or modify your account and profile, request or provide services, contact customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. This information may include name, email, phone number, postal address, profile picture, payment method, items and services requested, delivery and service notes, and other information you choose to provide.
You can choose not to provide us with certain Personal Information, but then you may not be able to register with us or to take full advantage of our Services. We may also ask for additional information about items and services requested and delivery and service notes, and other information you may choose to provide in order to, for example, facilitate communications among users or to monitor work orders and invoices.
We may aggregate and/or anonymize your Personal Information so that you cannot be individually identified, and provide that information to our other customers, service providers, partners or other third parties, including, without limitation, to provide benchmarking data.
2. Information We Collect Through Your Use of Our Services
When you use our Services, we may collect the following information about you:
Transaction Information: We collect transaction details related to your use of our Services. This includes check-in and check-out information, dispatch information, the type of Service requested or delivered, diagnostic fees, fee changes, final fees, the date and time the service was provided, and ratings feedback.
Location Information: Where you consent to such use through the permission system on your mobile operating system, we may collect precise location data about your location. We use this location information, for example, to determine if the user is on site in a customer location. We may also approximate your current location using your IP address. Where you have allowed the App to access location services through your mobile operating system’s permission system, we may also collect the location of your device when the App is running in the foreground or background.
Contacts Information: Where you consent to such use through the permission system on your mobile operating system, we may access and store names and contact information from your address book to facilitate social interactions through our Services and for other purposes described in this Statement or at the time of consent or collection.
Device Information: We may collect information about the mobile device you use to access the Services. This information may include the hardware model, operating system and version, and other unique device identifiers.
Information Collected Automatically: Whenever you interact with our Services, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, the page you requested, App usage, App crashes, and other system activity.
Cookies and Similar Technologies: We and our service providers use technologies like “cookies,” pixels, and local storage (like on your browser or device, which is similar to a cookie but holds more information) and identifiers (including identifiers supplied by your browser or device or by app platform companies) on our website (collectively, “Collection Technologies”), in our emails, and within our apps to provide you with a range of products and services.
Our use of Collection Technologies falls into the following categories:
- Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.
- Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, we will not know when you have visited our site and will not be able to monitor its performance.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by Service Providers whose services we have added to our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, then some or all of these services may not function properly.
- Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our site by Service Providers who provide us advertising services. They may be used by these Service Providers to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store direct personal information but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will experience less targeted advertising.
You can control cookies through your browser settings and other tools. For more information, please see Section VI “What Rights and Choices do I Have?
3. Information We Receive from Third Parties
We receive and store information from third parties that interact in some way with the Services or that provide services to us in connection with the Services. In addition, you may choose to use third party services, websites or apps that share your Personal Information, activities and/or content with ServiceChannel. Please read the privacy policy of any such service so that you understand its sharing practices.
4. Personal Information from Children
Because of the nature of our business, our services are not provided to minors. We will not ask minors, specifically children under the age of 13, to provide personal information if we have knowledge of their age.
III. USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION
We neither rent nor sell, aside from the definition of the term “sale” under the CCPA as outlined in Section V1 below, your Personal Information in personally identifiable form to anyone. However, we do use and share with third parties your Personal Information and Other Information as described below:
Service Providers: We employ other companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products or services to you, such as your profile information (including your address), the location of your device and other information. Unless we tell you differently, our service providers do not have any right to use the Personal Information we share with them beyond what is necessary to assist us.
Customers: We will make information available through the Services to customers to whom you provide your services or who provide services to you, such as your photograph, profile information and other information made available to customers through the Service. We have no control over the uses that such customers may make of information provided to them.
Payment Processors: We use third-party payment processors, with which we share Personal Information in order to complete transactions on the Services. We do not currently collect financial information, such as your payment method (valid credit card number, type, expiration date or other financial information); that information is collected and stored by our third-party payment processing companies use and storage of that information. This use is governed by the payment processor’s applicable terms of service and privacy policy.
Presently, we use Stripe and Adyen as our Payment Processors. Stripe’s privacy policy is found here and Adyen’s privacy policy is found here.
Background Check Information: Customers may use the Services to access third-party services, including to request and obtain certain third-party reports, analyses and information related to background checks. Submitting such a request may require the provision of personal information of the applicable individuals (whether employees or contractors), such as technicians, who are the subject of the background check, including the applicable individual’s full name, e-mail address, social security number, date of birth and phone number.
The provision and use of any such information is subject to the applicable terms, conditions and policies of such third-party service providers and applicable law. You are solely responsible for providing and transmitting any such information and for any information that you choose to provide to us or to third parties, or that you may authorize us to provide to third parties on your behalf, using the Services (including any consents or notices related thereto).
User Profiles and Submissions: User profile information, including without limitation a user’s name and photograph, username, company name, phone number, email address, and postal address that such user has uploaded to the Services, may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within the Services.
Facilitate Communications Between Users. We enable communication between users of the Service, for example, to enable and facilitate communications between a customer and a service contractor, including to initiate a service request, to provide estimated times of arrivals, or the assessment of fees to be paid in connection with the provision of a user’s request for servicing.
Facilitate Communications Between ServiceChannel and you. We may use your information to send you communications we think will be of interest to you, including information about products, services, promotions, news, and events of ServiceChannel and other companies, where permissible and according to local applicable laws; and to process contest, sweepstake, or other promotion entries and fulfill any related awards.
Services Provision, Maintenance and Upgrades. We use your information to provide, maintain, improve and personalize our Services, including, to send receipts, provide products and services you request (and send related information), develop new features, provide customer support to you, develop safety features, authenticate users, send product updates and administrative messages, to perform internal operations, including, for example, to prevent fraud and abuse of our Services; to troubleshoot software bugs and operational problems; to conduct data analysis, testing, and research; and to monitor and analyze usage and activity trends.
Business Transfers: We may choose to buy or sell assets. In these types of transactions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that would be transferred. Also, if we (or our assets) are acquired, or if we go out of business, enter bankruptcy, or go through some other change of control, Personal Information would be one of the assets transferred to or acquired by third parties.
Protection of ServiceChannel and Others: We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information that we reasonably believe is necessary to comply with law or a court order; enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; or protect the rights, property, or the safety of ServiceChannel, our employees, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
With Your Consent: Except as set forth above, you will be notified when your Personal Information may be shared with third parties in personally identifiable form, and will be offered an opportunity to prevent the sharing of this information.
Internal Operations, Analytics and Testing. We use both Personal Information and Other Information to perform internal operations, including, for example, to prevent fraud and abuse of our Services; to troubleshoot software bugs and operational problems; to conduct analysis, testing, and research; and for monitoring and analyzing usage rates. In particular, we use Google Analytics to help us to collect and analyze certain information for the purposes discussed above. To opt-out of Google Analytics, click here.
Aggregated and/or Anonymized Data. We may use any aggregated and/or anonymized data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it for any purpose, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.
Advertisers. We may use third parties to administer a limited set of ServiceChannel advertisements on third party electronic channels. No Personal Information is provided to the advertisers as part of this process, but aggregate profile information or Other Information, such as implied or inferred interests, may be used in the selection of advertising to make sure that it has relevance to the user. Some banner ads may contain embedded pixels that may write and read cookies or return session connection information that allows advertisers to better determine how many individual users have clicked on the ad banner. We may also use advertising technologies and participate in advertising technology networks that collect Other Information from ServiceChannel and non-ServiceChannel Services, as well as from other sources, to show you ServiceChannel-related advertisements on ServiceChannel’s own and third-party websites and apps. These advertisements may be tailored to your perceived interests using retargeting and behavioral advertising technologies, a set of practices collectively referred to as “Interest Based Advertising” in this Privacy Policy.
Other Information. We may use, transfer, and disclose Other Information we collect for any purpose, except where applicable law requires otherwise. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we will only use it in the same way that we are permitted to use and disclose Personal Information.
IV. LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL INFORMATION
The grounds on which we process your Personal Information include where you have given your consent, where it is necessary to provide you the Service, where it is in our legitimate interest.
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.
If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contact with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).
If we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests (or those of any third party), this interest will normally be to operate our platform and communicating with you as necessary to provide our services to you and for our legitimate commercial interest, for instance, when responding to your queries, improving our platform, undertaking marketing, or for the purposes of detecting or preventing illegal activities. We may have other legitimate interests and if appropriate we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
ServiceChannel is headquartered in the United States and as such we process and store Personal Information and Other Information in the United States. As a result, United States federal and state governments, courts, or law enforcement or regulatory agencies may be able to obtain disclosure of your information through laws applicable in the United States.
However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These include implementing Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information between our group companies, which require all group companies to protect personal information they process from the EEA and United Kingdom in accordance with European Union and United Kingdom data protection law.
Our Standard Contractual Clauses can be provided on request by emailing privacy@servicechannel.com
VI. WHAT RIGHTS AND CHOICES DO I HAVE?
1. User Account Information
You may correct your account information at any time by updating your account through the Services.
If you wish to cancel your account, please email us at support@servicechannel.com. Please note that some information may remain in our records after your deletion of such information from your account. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally.
ServiceChannel will comply with individual’s requests regarding access, correction, and/or deletion of the personal data it stores in accordance with applicable law.
2. Collection Technology Choices
Most web browsers have an option for turning off the cookie feature, which will prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, as well as (depending on the sophistication of your browser software) allowing you to decide on acceptance of each new cookie in a variety of ways. For more information about cookies and how to refuse them, click here. You can find information on how to manage cookie settings on certain browsers via the following links:
- Cookie settings in Chrome
- Cookie settings in Firefox
- Cookie settings in Internet Explorer
- Cookie settings in Safari
Mobile Devices
Certain versions of the iOS operating system permit you to “Limit Ad Tracking” in the system settings and certain versions of the Android operating system allow you to “Opt out of Interest-Based Ads” in the system settings. At this time, we do not honor Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. Please be aware that limiting the ability of websites to set cookies, however, may worsen your overall user experience, and in some cases the Services will not work properly without the use of cookies, local storage, and similar technologies.
Manage Your Preferences on Our Website
You can manage your preferences for each cookie category (except strictly necessary cookies) by clicking “Your Privacy Choices” in the footer of our website and adjusting your preferences. If you would like to manually reset your cookie consent choices with our website or revoke your consent for us to process your cookie data, you can do so by clearing the cache of cookies within your browser or mobile device settings. Doing so will virtually reset your cookie preferences, prompting our cookie banner to present you with cookie settings if and when you visit our site(s) again.
Please note that your request to opt-out of all cookies except strictly necessary cookies will be linked to your browser identifier only. If you use a different computer or browser to access our website, you will need to adjust your preferences on those sites. Additionally, you may also exercise this right by broadcasting an opt-out preference signal, such as by enabling Global Privacy Control (GPC) where supported by your browsers. To download and use a browser supporting GPC signals, visit https://global privacycontrol.org/orgs. You will need to implement this for each supported browser or browser extension you use.
3. Your European Privacy Rights
European Union and United Kingdom data subjects have the following rights, subject to certain exemptions, with respect to the personal information we hold:
1. The right to request access to the personal data we hold;
2. The right to request rectification of any inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
3. The right to request the deletion or erasure of the personal data;
4. The right to request that we restrict our processing of your personal data;
5. The right to object to the processing of your personal data; and
6. The right to request that your data be ported to another controller.
Additionally, when our processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw this consent at any time. You have the right to opt-out of marketing communications we send you at any time. You can exercise this right by clicking on the “unsubscribe” or “opt-out” link in the marketing e-mails we send you.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights above, please contact us by emailing privacy@servicechannel.com. Our privacy team will review your request respond as quickly as possible. If you are not satisfied with our answers to your questions, you also have the right to file a complaint with your supervisory authority.
4. Your Nevada Privacy Rights
We do not sell your personal information. Nevertheless, if you are a resident of the state of Nevada and would like to opt-out of the sale of your personal information, please e-mail us at privacy@servicechannel.com or send a written request to the following address:
ServiceChannel.com, Inc.,
6200 Stoneridge Mall Road, Suite 450
Pleasanton, CA 94588
You must write “Your Nevada Privacy Rights” at the top of your request. We will maintain this request and honor it should we begin selling personal information in the future.
5. Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, the information below also applies to you. Certain terms used in this section have the meanings given to them in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”).
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we have collected the following categories of personal information about you for the purposes outlined in Section III above.
| Category | Example(s) | Source(s) |
| Identifiers | Name, email address, phone number, postal address, payment information, etc. | From the consumer |
| Customer Records | Name, Signature, address, phone number, payment information, etc. | From the consumer |
| Commercial Information | Products purchased, purchase histories, etc. | From the consumer |
| Internet/ Network Activity | Information regarding a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement, cookie identifiers, IP address | From the consumer’s device, from our service providers |
| Geolocation Data | IP Address location | From the consumer’s device, from our service providers |
We have also collected the following categories of sensitive personal information for the purposes outlined in Section III above:
| Category | Example(s) | Source(s) |
| Precise Geolocation Data | Precise geolocation data when using our mobile application | From the consumer’s device, from our service providers |
Within the preceding twelve (12) months, ServiceChannel has disclosed the following categories of personal information to its service providers for the business purpose of performing services on behalf of ServiceChannel
· Identifiers;
· Customer Records
· Commercial Information;
· Internet/Network Activity;
· Geolocation Data.
We may also disclose your personal information as described in Section III above.
While ServiceChannel does not currently sell personal information as traditionally defined, ServiceChannel may sell and/or share the following categories of personal information as these terms are defined under the CCPA to our cookie and tracker providers:
· Internet/Network activity; and
· Geolocation data.
ServiceChannel does not knowingly sell personal information of California consumers under the age of sixteen (16) years.
Your Rights and Choices
The CCPA provides California consumers with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.
Right to Opt-Out of Sale and Sharing: You have the right to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information. See Section 2 above for instructions to opt out of the sale and sharing of your personal information via the Your Privacy Choices link in the footer of our website or by enabling GPCs.
Right to Know: You have the right to request that ServiceChannel disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, disclosure, and any sales of your personal information over the past twelve (12) months. You may also request a copy of the personal information we have collected on you over the past twelve (12) months. See the “Exercising Your California Privacy Rights” section for instructions on submitting a right to access request.
Right to Deletion: You have the right to request that ServiceChannel delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable request, we will delete and direct our service providers to delete your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies. See the “Exercising Your California Privacy Rights” section for instructions on submitting a right to deletion request.
Right to Correction: You have the right to request that ServiceChannel correct any inaccurate personal information that we have collected from you and retain. Once we have received the personal information from you to be updated, we will update the information where necessary within our systems. See the “Exercising Your California Privacy Rights” section for instructions on submitting a right to correction request.
Exercising Your California Privacy Rights
To exercise your right to know, deletion, or correction as described above, please e-mail us at privacy@servicechannel.com. We may require you to provide certain personal information to allow us to verify your identity, such as your email address, phone number, etc. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.
Use of an Authorized Agent
You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney, an authorized agent to make these privacy requests on your behalf to exercise these rights. We will require the agent to provide proof that you have authorized it to act on your behalf and may require you to verify your own identity with us directly before we accept a request.
California’s “Shine the Light” Law
Under California Civil Code sections 1798.83-1798.84, California residents are entitled to ask us once a year for a notice identifying the categories of personal customer information which we share with our affiliates and/or third parties for their own direct marketing purposes and providing contact information for such affiliates and/or third parties. If you are a California resident and would like a copy of this notice, please submit a written request to the following address:
ServiceChannel.com, Inc.,
6200 Stoneridge Mall Road, Suite 450
Pleasanton, CA 94588
6. Interest Based Advertising
As discussed above, we may partner with third parties to provide Interest Based Advertising. For information about how to opt out of receiving interest-based advertisements, or to learn more about interest-based advertising in general and to access the opt-outs of other online advertising companies, please visit:
· Your Online Choices (European Data Subjects only)
· Network Advertising Initiative
· Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or for interest-based advertising in apps, by using the DAA’s “AppChoices” application available here.
Please note that by opting out, you may still see ads from ServiceChannel, but you still stop receiving targeted ads from ServiceChannel based on your visits and browsing activity across websites over time.
7. Do Not Track
At this time, we do not honor web browser Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals or similar mechanisms.
We retain personal information we collect from you where we have an ongoing legitimate business need to do so (for example, to provide you with a service you have requested or to comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements).
We will hold Personal Information about you after you cancel your account for no more than two (2) years after the applicable account is deleted.
VIII. MARKETING AND EMAIL COMMUNICATION
We may use email to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or to send information about other products or services developed or provided by us or our partners. If you do not want to receive commercial email or other mail from us, you may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of an email you receive.
Please note that if you do not want to receive legal notices from us, such as notices regarding this Privacy Policy, those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are responsible for reviewing such legal notices for changes. We may receive a confirmation when you open an email from ServiceChannel if your computer supports this type of program. ServiceChannel uses this confirmation to help us make emails more interesting and helpful and to improve our service.
ServiceChannel uses commercially reasonable physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect your Personal Information against loss or unauthorized access, use, modification, or deletion. However, no security program is foolproof, and thus we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your Personal Information or Other Information.
X. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used. If we make changes in the way we use Personal Information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on our Website or sending you a message. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Policy when you use the Services after such changes have been first posted.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, please send us a message to support@servicechannel.com, and we will try to resolve your concerns.