By using Kanvz – which includes Kanvz.com (the "Site") and any other websites, products, applications, mobile apps, services, or content (all of those collectively with the Site, the "Services") provided by Kanvz Inc. (a Delaware corporation together with its affiliates, subsidiaries and their respective representatives, “Kanvz”, "we," or "us"), you agree to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, you may not access nor use the Services. We may share information among our subsidiaries or sites that they own or control, but it is always protected under the terms of this Privacy Policy. The Services site contains links to other sites and services. Once you enter another Web site (whether through an advertisement, service, or content link), be aware that Kanvz does not actively monitor and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to look for and review the privacy statements of each and every Web site that you visit through a link or advertisement on Kanvz. We hope that reading our Privacy Policy helps you understand how we manage your information. While you may use some of the Services and functionality of Kanvz without registration, but many of the specific tools and Services on our Web site require registration. If you use the Services without registering, the only information we collect will be Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies, Web Beacons or similar web technologies. If you choose to register to use our Services for certain Interactive Tools or other functionalities, we require you to submit Personally Identifiable Information. Inaccurate information will affect the information you receive when using our site and tools, and our ability to contact you as described in this Privacy Policy.
Even if you do not register with Kanvz, we collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the Services, special promotions and newsletters. The Services does not support Do Not Track. Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that you can set in your web browser to indicate that you do not want certain information about your webpage visits collected across websites when you have not interacted with that service on the page. For all the details, including how to turn on Do Not Track, visits donottrack.us. When you use the Services third parties can collect personally identifiable information about your online activities.
We collect Non-Personal Information about your use of the Services and your use of the Web sites of selected sponsors and advertisers through the use of Cookies. Every device that accesses a Kanvz Web site is assigned a different Cookie by Kanvz. Kanvz cookies store tracking codes to enable our system to locate information from past visits and use of the Services, but do not contain information that identifies you personally. The information collected by Cookies (i) helps us dynamically generate advertising and/or content on Web pages or in newsletters, (ii) allows us to statistically monitor how people are using our Web site and/or selected sponsors’ and advertisers’ sites, (iii) how many people open our emails, and (iv) for what purposes these actions are being taken. We may use Cookie information to target certain advertisements to your browser or to determine the popularity of certain content or advertisements. Cookies are also used to facilitate a member’s log-in, as navigation aids and as session timers.
We collect Personally Identifiable Information, like your email address, date of birth, and/or zip code that you provide to us when you register as a member of Kanvz and/or when you update your member profile. We use the Personally Identifiable Information that you provide to respond to your questions, provide you the services you select, to send you emails about the Services, and to inform you of material changes to this Privacy Policy.
For security purposes, we might also request that you choose a Secret Question and submit a Secret Answer during registration or at various times when you try to access features that contain sensitive Personally Identifiable Information. If you forget your password, an email will be sent to the email address you provided during registration to help you reset or update your password. If you have not provided a current and active email address or if you do not know the answer to your Secret Question, you might be locked out of your account.
At registration, you will automatically be signed up to receive periodic informational newsletters via email from Kanvz. These emails inform our members of updates, new or upcoming features, updates on Content posted in Kanvz and other pertinent information. When enabled, you can unsubscribe from the newsletters by following the instructions provided in the email. When you participate in certain services and activities, you will have the option of signing up to receive emails from Kanvz as reminders or notifications. Once enabled, you can change these notification and reminder settings in your Settings in Kanvz or within a particular service offered through the Kanvz site. At registration and at various times as you use Kanvz, you may be given the option of receiving recurring informational/promotional newsletters via email on specific topics from Kanvz and/or directly from third parties. When you sign up for our email newsletters or at any time, you can choose to opt-in to receiving additional promotional emails from Kanvz or our Sponsors. In order to subscribe to Kanvz newsletters via email, we need your contact information, including email address. When enabled, you can unsubscribe from the newsletters by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email newsletter, or you may contact us via email to request Kanvz Customer Service to manually unsubscribe you from the newsletter. In some cases, when you click on a link or an advertisement on our site, in an e-mail or newsletter, your browser may be momentarily directed to the Web site of a third party which, acting on behalf of Kanvz (see Disclosure to Third Party Contractor Web sites, below), notes or “counts” your response to the e-mail or newsletter before re-directing your browser to your selected destination; this re-direction process may not be apparent to you. There are certain emails that you cannot opt-out of, such as an update to this Privacy Policy. These emails will be sent to you as long as you are a member of the Services. If you wish to no longer be a member of Kanvz, please send a request to us via email – to support@kanvzinc.com.
If you choose to use our Invite a Friend, Email This, or Share This or other similar services to tell a friend, contact or follower (“Friend”) about our site, we might ask you for your name, your email address, your Friend’s email address and/or your social network information that we would need in order to share the pertinent information with your Friend. We might automatically send your Friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site using your name and/or email address as the from email address. Alternately, we might share an invitation to one or more of your Friends in your designated page on your designated social network. Kanvz does not use your name, your email address or your Friend’s email information and the information you provide using this service for any other purpose. We will only use the information you provide to send an email or share an invitation per your request. If you choose to automatically send email updates to your friends through any of the available services, Kanvz will automatically send additional emails to the email addresses you specified when you update the page.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to any content, business information, ideas, concepts or inventions that you may elect to send to Kanvz by email or post anywhere on the Kanvz site, including, without limitation, in any Kanvz, post, blogs, journals, communities and forums on the Kanvz site. If you want to keep content or business information, ideas, concepts or inventions private or proprietary, do not send them in an email to Kanvz or post them on the Kanvz site.
As a service to our members, Kanvz might feature journals, pages, message boards and/or other public Forums where members with similar interests can share information and support one another or where members can post questions for experts to answer. Any information shared (including Personally Identifiable and Personal Health Information) that you reveal in a public journal, page, message board, or online discussion is by design open to the public and is not a private, secure service. You can set the privacy setting of any of your own Kanvz content that you share to Private, Public or Unlisted – with additional options (e.g., Followers Only) available only to Restricted accounts. Public content can be seen by everybody without limitation. Unlisted information can be seen by anybody who has a specific link to your content. Viewers do not have to be members of Kanvz in order to view Public or Unlisted content. Followers Only content can be viewed by other Kanvz members that you have elected to accept as a follower. Private content can only be seen when logged in under your member name, or by other users you invite as contributors to your private canvas or by Kanvz Administrators. You should think carefully before disclosing any Personally Identifiable, Personal Health or any other Personal Information in any public forum. What you have written may be seen, disclosed to or collected by third parties and may be used by others in ways we are unable to control or predict, including to contact you for unauthorized purposes. As with any public forum on any site, this information may also appear in third-party search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc. Kanvz does not control the information indexed and cached by search engines. At your request, Kanvz can remove Personally Identifiable Information from the Kanvz site, but cannot remove this information from search engines. Once the data has been indexed by a search engine, that information cannot be retrieved, deleted or modified by Kanvz.
You agree not to advertise products, solicit customers, provide medical or legal advice, engage in any unethical or illegal conduct, etc. in any Kanvz Forums. If you engage in such conduct, we reserve the right to suspend your account or restrict your access to Kanvz.
After you have registered as a member of Kanvz, you may choose to use certain Kanvz interactive content, tools and services that may ask you to voluntarily provide other types of information about yourself.
Neither Kanvz nor any of its services are designed or intended for children under the age of 13. We do not collect Personally Identifiable Information from any person we actually know is under the age of 13.
Sponsors or advertisers on Kanvz may use their own Cookies or other online tracking technologies in the content embedded and displayed on Kanvz, advertisements served on Kanvz and in emails, special promotions or newsletters we send you. Some advertisers use companies other than Kanvz to serve their ads and to monitor members’ responses to ads, and these companies (“Ad Servers”) may also collect Non-Personal Information through the use of Cookies or Web Beacons on our Web site. In certain situations, information collection may be facilitated by momentarily directing your browser to the Web site of an Ad Server or other third party acting on behalf of the sponsor, partner, or advertiser before re-directing your browser to its selected destination (e.g., back to Kanvz to show the ad, or to the advertiser’s Web site); this re-direction process may not be apparent to you. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or how they manage the non-personal information they gather through them. For example, in connection with “Ad links” furnished by Google, non-personal information sent by your browser to Google when you click on a sponsored link or submit a query may be used by Google as described in its privacy policy. You should review the privacy policy of other sites you visit or link to from our site to understand how these other sites use cookies and how they use the information they collect through the use of cookies on their own sites. Certain Ad Servers allow you to prevent them from collecting data through the use of cookies. In order to do so, you must Opt-out of such data collection with each individual site.
In addition to disclosures that you specifically authorize, we may disclose personal information as follows: We may release Personally Identifiable to third parties: (1) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; (2) in response to a physical threat to you or others, to protect property or to defend or assert legal rights, or (3) in connection with a transaction or proceeding involving the transfer of all of part of our business relating to the information, or involving the transfer of control of those assets involved in such business. In the event that we are legally compelled to disclose your Personally Identifiable to a third party, we will attempt to notify you unless doing so would violate the law or court order. In addition, we may disclose Personal Information as described below.
Kanvz staff, moderators and customer evangelists (including other Kanvz Members who have volunteered or been selected by Kanvz Inc. to be moderators and customer evangelists) sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information (such as your email address) in the course of providing products, services or support to you and other members, to troubleshoot problems or resolve complaints. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the person designated by Kanvz to perform the function needed to resolve the issue or to improve the service.
Kanvz operations and maintenance contractors sometimes have limited access to your Personally Identifiable Information in the course of providing products, services or support to Kanvz. These contractors include vendors and suppliers that provide us with technology, services, and/or content for the operation and maintenance of our Services. Access to your Personally Identifiable Information by these contractors is limited to the information reasonably necessary for the contractor to perform its limited function for Kanvz.
Certain content and services offered to you through our Services are served on Web sites, products and applications hosted and operated by a company other than Kanvz ("Third Party Sites"). Kanvz does not disclose your Personally Identifiable Information to these Third Party Sites without your consent, but you should be aware that any information you disclose once you access these other sites is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Kanvz does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these Third Party Sites. You should review the privacy policy posted on the other site to understand how that Third Party Site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information. If possible, Kanvz might make an effort to make it obvious to you when you leave our Web site and enter a Third Party Site, either by requiring you to click on a link or by notifying you on the site before you visit the third party site. In addition, if you see a phrase such as "Powered by" or "in association with" or "View on" followed by the name of a company other than Kanvz, then you are either on a site hosted by a company other than Kanvz or will be taken to such a site upon clicking.
Kanvz.com might use technology provided by a third-party advertising company to serve ads when you use our Services. This technology may use information about your visit to Kanvz in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. In the course of serving advertisements to Kanvz, such third-party advertising technology may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. We may also use a third party ad network provider to help present advertisements on Kanvz. Third-party ad serving enables Kanvz to target advertisements to you for products and services you might be interested in. These third party network advertisers, along with other advertisers and sponsors on Kanvz, may use cookies, web beacons (also called single pixel gifs or action tags) or similar technologies (and, in the case of cookies, access them on your device if you choose to have cookies enabled in your browser) to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicated advertisements. In doing so, the provider collects non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed and other clickstream data. The use of third party cookies, web beacons and similar technologies by these ad network providers is governed by each third party’s specific privacy policy, not this one. You can learn more about the information collection practices and “opt-out” procedures of third party ad networks we may use on their respective websites. Kanvz may also provide links to content provided by Third Party Sites that have business arrangements with Kanvz to pay commissions based on sales of products or services generated through Kanvz. An example of this could be “Ad links” from Google on our Search pages.
Kanvz might in the future be a contractor and provide co-branded content and services to Channel Partner Web sites hosted and operated by companies other than Kanvz. You can access these co-branded content and services only through the Channel Partner Web site. The co-branded Kanvz pages that you may access through a Channel Partner Web site may have different registration processes and opportunities for information collection, and Personally Identifiable Information that you provide on these pages may be shared with the Channel Partners.
In addition to the Third Party Sites that you may access as described above, for your convenience there might be links to Third Party Sites operated by companies that are not affiliated with Kanvz and that do not have contracts to provide content or services through Kanvz. These links may be found in advertisements, referenced within content, or placed beside the names or logos of sponsors. Kanvz does not disclose your Personal Information to these Third Party Sites without obtaining your consent. Kanvz does not endorse and is not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. If you choose to link to one of these Third Party Sites, you should review the privacy policy posted on their site to understand how that Third Party Site collects and uses your Personally Identifiable Information.
Kanvz may provide Aggregate Information to third parties. For example, we might inform third parties regarding the number of members registered with Kanvz and/or using Kanvz and the activities they conduct while on our site. We might also provide information to third party entities seeking demographic information (that may or may not be an advertiser on our site) – for example, information like "30% of our members live east of the Mississippi" or that "75% of our members have a college education." Depending on the circumstances, we may or may not charge third parties for this Aggregate Information. We require parties with whom we share Aggregate Information to agree that they will not attempt to make this information personally identifiable, such as by combining it with other databases.
Here are some of the security procedures that Kanvz uses to protect your privacy:
We deploy industry standard security safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to or misuse of your information. Despite Kanvz’s efforts to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, there is always some risk that an unauthorized third party may find a way around our security systems or that transmissions of your information over the Internet may be intercepted. If you provide your username and password to other people or if you submit your username or password over wireless networks that do not require passwords, or use a public computer that does not log you off Kanvz, your data might no longer protected. Please do not share your Kanvz credentials and always log off public computers. To protect your privacy and security, Kanvz encourages social networks based login to help verify your identity before granting access.
Kanvz tools that collect and store self-reported data allow you to correct, update or review information you have submitted by going back to the specific tool, logging-in and making the desired changes.
If you have a complaint or problem, please use the designated means to contact us. Our customer service team will forward your complaint to the appropriate internal Kanvz department for a response or resolution and notify you within 30 days of receipt to confirm your personal identifiers have been removed.
Upon your request, we will delete your Personally Identifiable Information in your Settings from our active databases and where feasible, from our back-up media and any other locations over which we have control.
Personally Identifiable Information - Kanvz reserves the right, in our discretion, to change, modify, add or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to you. All revisions will be posted to the Kanvz website. We urge you to review this Privacy Policy frequently for changes. Your continued use of Kanvz means that you accept those changes. You may of course choose to Opt-out of continuing to use Kanvz. Please exit Kanvz immediately if you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or any revised policy. Kanvz reserves the right to discontinue or limit functionality in all its products and services. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and potentially other places on the Kanvz website so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.
Under CA Civil Code Section 1798, 83 and California Law SB 27, California residents have the right to request, once a year, information about third parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send an email to support@kanvzinc.com and please include the phrase “California Privacy Request” in the subject line, and provide us with your name, address and email address. We will respond to you within thirty days of receiving such a request.