Leadzod Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 25, 2024

Mediazod LLC dba Leadzod.com (“Company”, “Leadzod”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) understands that privacy is important to our users. This Privacy Policy describes our practices regarding the collection, use, sharing, and protection of your personal information for the website located at https://www.leadzod.com/ and our related lead generation and marketing services, such as collecting personal information through online ads that we serve (collectively, the “Service”).

Our lead generation and marketing services involve enabling the collection of personal information by our publisher clients for it to be transmitted to third party marketers in order for those third parties to provide you with their own products, services and offers.  In connection with those lead generation and marketing Services, Leadzod does not receive and store your personal information.  To exercise any rights regarding your personal information in those instances, you should contact the publishers with whom you directly interact.

This Privacy Policy also tells you about the rights and choices you have only with respect to your personal information that we possess, how you can assert those rights, and how you can contact us to get answers to your questions. Please note that our privacy practices are subject to the applicable laws of the regions in which we operate. Accordingly, some additional region-specific terms will only apply to individuals in those locations, or as required by applicable laws.

For more information about how users with disabilities can access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format, please contact privacy@leadzod.com or 843-879-3301.

BY USING OR ACCESSING THE PROPERTIES, YOU AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR POLICIES OR PRACTICES, YOU SHOULD NOT USE OR ACCESS THE PROPERTIES OR PROVIDE US WITH ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

• Personal identifiers and contact information, such as your real name, email address, mailing address and phone number;

• Demographic information, such as age and gender;

• Device and online identifiers and related browsing information, including internet protocol (IP) address and similar unique identifiers;

• Any other personal information that you voluntarily provide to us.

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information You Provide

We collect personal information that you provide to us directly. This includes, but may not limited to:

• Information you provide when you contact us via email or text message;

• Any other information that you voluntary provide us when interacting with our Services.

Personal Information We Collect Automatically

When you visit our Service, open or click on emails we send you, or interact with our advertisements, we or third parties we work with may automatically collect certain information using technologies such as cookies and other tracking technologies described below.

• Cookies and Similar Technology

"Cookies" are pieces of information that may be placed on your computer by a website for the purpose of collecting data to facilitate and enhance your communication and interaction with that website. Such data may include, for example, the address of the websites you visited before and after you visited our Service, the type of browser you are using, your Internet Protocol (IP) address, what pages in the Service you visited and what links you clicked on, the region where your device is located, and geographic information based on your IP data. We may store some information on your device or device hard drive as a cookie or similar type of file (such as clear gifs, web beacons, tags, and similar technologies that work on mobile devices) to collect data related to usage of the Service. We may also use cookies to customize your visit to the Service and for other purposes to make your visit more convenient or to enable us to enhance the Service.

• Analytics

We may work with third-party vendors who use the technologies described in this section to conduct website analytics to help us track and understand how visitors use our Service. One such provider is Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyze how users use the Service. The information generated by these cookies about your use (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the Service, compiling reports on activity for its staff, and providing other services relating to web page activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. By using the Service and accepting cookies, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. Please refer to the currently available opt-outs for Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

• From Other Sources

We may obtain information about you from other sources, such as data analytics providers, marketing or advertising vendors, fraud prevention vendors, vendors that provide other services on our behalf, or publicly available sources.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use your personal information primarily to provide our Service and to respond to your inquiries. We may also use your personal information to:

• Communicate with you, including responding to your inquiries or comments.

• Provide, improve, and personalize the Service and our offerings, including by better understanding our user and creating new products or services.

• Send you marketing communications and advertisements, such as newsletters and updates.

• Evaluate the success of our advertising campaigns, improve our products and services, and analyze use of the Services by employing techniques such as advance statistical analytics.

• Comply with the legal and regulatory obligations to which we are subject and cooperate with regulators and law enforcement bodies.

• Protect our rights, interests, and safety and the rights, interests, and safety of you and third parties.

• For security and fraud prevention.

• To support core business functions, including maintaining records related to our business and providing and maintaining the Service.

• For any additional purposes that you specifically consent to.

HOW WE DISCLOSE OR SHARE YOUR INFORMATION

In addition to using your personal information ourselves for the reasons stated above (and as otherwise mentioned in this Privacy Policy), we may disclose your personal information to other affiliates and entities in the following instances:

• Service Providers

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who may use your information to provide us with services including, but not limited to: telephone call tracking services, website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, information technology services, customer service, email delivery services, and anti-fraud monitoring. These service providers may have access to personal information that is necessary to perform their functions, but they are only permitted to do so in connection with performing services for us. They are not authorized by us to use the information for their own benefit.

• Corporate Affiliates

We may share personal information with our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries, who process personal information on our behalf, where necessary to provide a product or service that you have requested, or in other circumstances with your consent or as permitted or required by law.

• Business and Advertising Partners

We may share your personal information with third parties who partner with us to promote products and services, provide marketing and advertisements, conduct data analytics, or use the data for other commercial purposes. We do not control how these third parties use and share your personal information once they receive it. You will need to contact such third parties directly for information about their privacy practices or to exercise any rights you may have (including if you would like to opt-out of marketing messages).

• Legal Compliance and to Defend Our Rights

We may disclose personal information and other information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and policies; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

• Business Transfers

We may share your personal information and other information with third parties in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the assets of the Company, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which the assets transferred may include information about the users of our Service.

• Non-Personal Information

We may share non-personal information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business and advertising partners, to improve and enhance your experience using the Service, and for our own market research activities. We publicly commit to maintain and use the information in de-identified or aggregate form, and not to attempt to re-identify the information.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA SERVICES

We may create links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you, such as providers of various products and services. We do not endorse any other websites, providers, or services by providing such links, and this Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our Service. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of any websites and services we link to on our Service, and you should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what data that site may collect about you.

You should be aware that any personal information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, forum, social network, or otherwise may be viewed and used by others. By using such features, you assume the risk that the personal information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information is maintained on our servers or those of our vendors, and is accessible by authorized employees, independent contractors, representatives, and agents as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We use reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to promote the security of our systems and protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of personal information. However, no method of safeguarding information is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee that our safeguards will be effective or sufficient. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us at privacy@leadzod.com.

DATA RETENTION

We will retain your personal information for as long as your inquiry is active or as needed to provide you with the Service, and for a reasonable time thereafter in accordance with our standard procedures or as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce our agreements. Even if we delete some or all of your information, we may continue to retain and use anonymous or aggregate data, or any other data that constitutes non-personal information. Please note that we will not be liable for disclosures of your data due to errors or unauthorized acts of third parties.

YOUR CHOICES

Consistent with applicable law, you may exercise the choices described in this section regarding your personal information and communications from us. You may also have certain additional rights available depending on laws in your state or country of residence, as described further below in the Privacy Policy.

• Cookies and Tracking Technologies

If you would like to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. Further information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Service or some of its functionality may be affected.

Note that cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out. For example, if you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. Be advised that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on some mobile services.

Some browsers have a Do Not Track (“DNT”) feature that lets users signal to websites that they do not want to have their online activities tracked. Please note that we do not respond to or honor DNT signals or similar mechanisms transmitted by web browsers. However, if you are a resident of a state that has an applicable privacy law, we treat opt-out preference signals, to the extent they are actually transmitted to us, as a means of opting out of the sale or sharing of personal information, or of opting out of the processing of personal information for targeted advertising, as applicable. Please see the sections titled US State Privacy Rights below for more information.

CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS

If you submit personal information to us, that information may be processed in a jurisdiction where privacy laws may be less stringent than those in your country of residence. By submitting your personal information to us, you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of such information in foreign jurisdictions including, but not limited to, the United States. Be advised that we may be required to disclose your personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities in the United States, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Our Service are intended for users ages 18 and over, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18. When we become aware that personal information (or other information that is protected under applicable law) from a child under 18 has been collected, we will use all reasonable efforts to delete such information from our databases. If you believe we might have any personal information from or about a child under 18, please contact us by using the information the section below titled Contacting Us.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time, provided that any such modifications will only be applied prospectively. We encourage you to periodically review the Service for the latest information on our privacy practices. Your continued use of the Service following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you accept such changes.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions about our privacy or security practices, you can contact at privacy@leadzod.com.

 

U.S. STATE PRIVACY RIGHTS

If you are a resident of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, Texas, Oregon, Montana or another state with an applicable comprehensive privacy law (collectively, “Covered States”), you may have specific rights regarding your personal information under: the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act, Colorado Privacy Act, Connecticut Data Privacy Act, Utah Consumer Privacy Act, Texas Data Privacy and Security Act, Oregon Consumer Privacy Act, Montana Consumer Data Privacy Act, and similar laws in other U.S. states (collectively, "State Privacy Laws"). This section describes the rights that consumers of Covered States have and explains how to exercise those rights. To be clear, these rights are granted only to the extent that you are considered a consumer of Covered State and we are acting as a “controller” or “business” (as applicable) under State Privacy Laws with respect to your personal information.

The categories of personal data we process, our purposes for processing your personal data, the categories of personal data that we share with third parties, and the categories of third parties with whom we share it are set forth in the terms of the Privacy Policy above.

In order to provide our Services to our clients, we may process Service Data that we receive from or on behalf of our clients. If you are the resident of a Covered State, you may have certain rights pertaining to such information. Under the State Privacy Laws, when we act as a “processor” or “service provider” over such information, we only process your information through our Services as necessary to provide our services to our clients, at our clients’ direction. If you wish to exercise any of your rights under State Privacy Laws in regards to such information, please contact the relevant business that collected the information from you, who controls and determines how your information is processed.

Rights to Your Information

In addition to the rights set forth in our Privacy Policy, State Privacy Laws may, depending on your state of residence, provide you with the following rights:

• Right to know. You may have the right to know whether we process your personal data and to access such personal data. You may also have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information.

• Right to data portability. You may have the right to obtain a copy of your personal data that you previously provided to us in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, readily usable format that allows you to transmit the data to another business without hindrance, where the processing is carried out by automated means.

• Right to delete. You may have the right to delete personal data that you have provided by or that we have obtained about you. Please note that we may deny such request if the requested deletion falls under an exception as set forth in the State Privacy Laws.

• Right to correct. You may have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data, taking into account the nature of the personal data and the purposes for which we process it.

• Right to opt out. You have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for purposes of: (i) targeted advertising; (ii) the sale of personal data; or (iii) profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you. As of the latest date of the Privacy Policy:

  • We DO process personal data or share it with third parties for the purposes of targeted advertising;

  • We DO sell your personal data in exchange for monetary or other valuable consideration; and

  • We DO NOT engage in profiling decision based on your personal data that produce legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

If you wish to opt out of the processing of your personal data for any of the above purposes, or opt back in, please visit the web page Your Privacy Choices.  We do not sell or share the personal information of consumers we actually know are less than 16 years of age, unless we receive affirmative authorization (the "right to opt-in") from either the consumer who is less than 16 (but greater than 13) years of age, or the parent or guardian of a consumer less than 13 years of age. To our knowledge, we do not sell or share the personal information of minors under 16 years of age.

• Right to nondiscrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for the exercise of your privacy rights.

How to Exercise Your Rights; Verifying Your Identity

To exercise any of your privacy rights, or if you have any questions about your privacy rights, you may contact us by:

• Emailing us at [ privacy@leadzod.com

• Visiting the Your Privacy Choices web page

After submitting a request, we will take steps to verify your identity in order for us to properly respond and confirm that it is not a fraudulent request. In order to verify your identity, we will ask, at a minimum, that you provide your name, email address, and relationship to us, so that we can seek to match this information with the information existing in our systems. When providing us this information, you represent and affirm that all information provided is true and accurate. If we are unable to verify that the consumer submitting the request is the same individual about whom we have collected personal information, we may contact you for more information, or we may not be able to meet your request.

Only you (or an agent legally authorized to act on your behalf) may make a verifiable request related to your personal information. If you are making a request as the authorized agent, we will ask you also submit reliable proof that you have been authorized in writing by the consumer to act on such consumer’s behalf. If you are making a request as the parent or legal guardian of a known child regarding the processing of that child’s personal data, we may ask you to submit reliable proof of your identity.

Response Time; Your Right to Appeal

We will make every effort to respond to your request within 45 days from when you contacted us. If you have a complex request, State Privacy Laws allow us up to 90 days to respond. We will contact you within 45 days from when you contacted us to inform you of the need for additional time and the reason for such extension. We may charge you a reasonable fee to cover administrative costs if your requests are manifestly unfounded, excessive, or repetitive.

If we decline to take action on a request that you have submitted, we will inform you of our reasons for doing so, and provide instructions for how to appeal the decision. Depending on your state of residence you may have the right to appeal within a reasonable period of time after you have received our decision. If you have this appeal right, within 60 days (45 days for residents of Colorado) of our receipt of your appeal, we will inform you in writing of any action taken or not taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the decisions. If we deny your appeal, we will provide you with a method for contacting your state attorney general’s office to submit a complaint.

Notice of Financial Incentive

We do not offer financial incentives for sharing personal information.

California “Shine the Light”

In addition to the above rights, under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 (“Shine the Light”), California residents may have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (a) a list of the categories of personal information, as defined under Shine the Light, such as name, email address, and mailing address, and the type of services provided to the customer that a business has disclosed to third parties (including affiliates that are separate legal entities) during the immediately preceding calendar year for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes; and (b) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please contact us by email at  privacy@leadzod.com. If you do not want your personal information shared with any third party who may use such information for direct marketing purposes, then you may opt out of such disclosures by sending an email to us at  privacy@leadzod.com.

 

DATA BROKER

LeadZod is registered as a data broker where required by applicable law, including under Texas law. To conduct business in Texas, a data broker must register with the Texas Secretary of State (Texas SOS). Information about data broker registrants is available on the Texas SOS website

California Data Broker - Annual Request Statistics:

During 2023, we received the following number of requests from individuals in California:

• Requests to know from individuals in the United States: [15] requests. No personal information was available to process these requests. We complied with these requests within [1] days upon being aware they existed.

• Requests to delete from individuals in the United States: [15] requests. No personal information was available to process these requests. We complied with these requests within [1] days upon being aware they existed.

• Requests to opt out from individuals, globally: We received [6] requests to opt-out. No personal information was available to process these requests, and these requests were completed in [1 days] upon being aware they existed.