OTTER LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and developing our website to give you the best user experience possible. This Privacy Statement applies to the OTTER LLC website (http://www.otterapp.com) and governs all data harvesting and usage. By using any portion of the OTTER LLC website including but not limited to blogs, survey widgets, or similar you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
OTTER LLC may collect personally identifiable information, such as your e-mail address, name, home or work address or telephone number. OTTER LLC may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your gender, your personal preferences, your ZIP code, your age, interests and favorites whether they be directly, indirectly or apparently unrelated to OTTER LLC's website or products. You acknowledge that you are aware that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data via OTTER LLC public blogs, surveys or message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: OTTER LLC does not read any of your private online communications.
There may also be information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by OTTER LLC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. While this information is not currently used by OTTER LLC, we reserve the right to use it, without further notification, for general statistics and product improvement regarding use of any OTTER LLC website and associated blogs.
Each website that you may choose to link to via the OTTER LLC website may have their own privacy statements. OTTER LLC strongly suggests that you review these other privacy statements from the websites or blogs that you access via the OTTER LLC website or associated blogs to find out how those websites collect, use and share your information. OTTER LLC is not responsible for any privacy statements or other content on any part of the Internet outside of the website(s) associated directly and produced directly by OTTER LLC.
OTTER LLC may at times collect personal information to deliver a better product including but not limited to patches, upgrades, new versions, and new software. OTTER LLC may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from OTTER LLC in the future. OTTER LLC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion.
OTTER LLC does not and will not sell, rent or lease any information received from its customers to any third parties. Additionally, OTTER LLC may decide to share information with trusted partners to help us perform, for example, a statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to OTTER LLC, and they are required to maintain the same confidentiality of your personal information. OTTER LLC will not reveal or utilize sensitive personal information (e.g. religion, race, political viewpoints or affiliations) without your direct written consent. OTTER LLC keeps safe your personal information from unauthorized access and use.
OTTER LLC does not use your personal information or location information to send commercial or marketing SMS text messages or email messages to you without your express consent. OTTER LLC will only disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or if there is a good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) protect and defend the rights or property of OTTER LLC; and, (b) conform to the edicts of the law or to comply with legal process on the OTTER LLC website; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to preserve the personal safety of users of OTTER LLC products, or the public.
It is important to safe guard the privacy of minors. To this end, we do not knowingly collect or hold onto any personally identifiable information through OTTER LLC from any person under 14 years of age, and no component of OTTER LLC or any of its products is directed to any person under 14 years of age. IF YOU ARE UNDER 14 YEARS OF AGE, THEN WE ASK YOU NOT TO USE OR ACCESS OTTER LLC OR ANY OF ITS PRODUCTS AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY WAY. If we learn that personally identifiable information of any person less than 14 years of age has been harvested via OTTER LLC without written parental consent, then we will take reasonable and timely steps to delete this information. If you are a parent or guardian and you discover that your child who is under the age of 14 has downloaded or is otherwise utilizing a product from OTTER LLC, please make us aware of this by sending an e-mail to: info@otterapp.com and we will delete that child's personal information from any location within OTTER LLC that it was collected.
OTTER LLC is based in Seattle, Washington and is hosted only in the United States. If you are using the OTTER mobile device application or other products from OTTER LLC from the European Union or other regions whose laws governing data collection and use may differ from laws in the United States, then please understand that you are transferring your personal data to the United States and by making your personal data available you consent to that transfer.
In the event that OTTER LLC merges or is acquired by a third party entity or OTTER LLC is sold to a third party, we reserve the right, in any of these scenarios, to transfer or assign any or all of the data, statistics or information that we have harvested from users of any OTTER LLC product in connection with such sale, merger, acquisition, or other change of ownership control. Should OTTER LLC be forced to declare bankruptcy, insolvency, or need to initiate a reorganization, receivership, or assignment for the benefit of creditors, or the application of laws or equitable principles affecting creditors' rights, generally we may not be able to control how your personal information is treated, transferred, or used. OTTER LLC is under no obligation to notify you of any changes in ownership or control of this personal information or any other information you may have provided OTTER LLC during its existence.
The OTTER LLC website may use "cookies" to help individualize your online experience. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that can be placed on your hard drive or similar hardware by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run different programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are assigned to you uniquely, and only a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you has the ability to read it. One of the main reasons that cookies are used is to provide a convenience component that saves you time. The cookie can, for example, tell the Web server that you have returned to a certain page. A persistent cookie remains after you close down your web browser and can be used by us during your next visits to the OTTER website. Persistent cookies set by the website can be removed. You can review your web browser HELP file to learn the exact method to change your cookie settings. You can accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers available automatically accept these cookies, but in most cases you can change your browser settings to decline cookies if you choose. If you decide to decline cookies it may or may not effect performance of future OTTER products or services.
OTTER LLC will, on occasion and solely at our discretion, update this Privacy Statement to reflect any customer feedback or feedback from OTTER personnel. OTTER LLC would encourage you to, on occasion, re-read this Privacy Statement so that you can stay informed about the protection of your personal information as related to OTTER LLC.
You are welcome to contact us at: info@otterapp.com or by postal mail at OTTER LLC, 816 NW 49th Street, Seattle, WA 98107 with any comments, feedback, or questions regarding this Privacy Statement. We will respond to your inquiry within 30 days of receiving it.