Privacy policy
This policy was last updated on March 23, 2021
At Software Developers, LLC, (“Sellercloud”, “we”, “our” or “us”), we respect your privacy. We have implemented this privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) to explain our data collection and use practices with respect to all of our Applications (as defined below).
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, your use of (i) the web site located at www.Sellercloud.com, (ii) the Sellercloud account, platform and/or portal, (iii) any of our mobile applications (or “app”), or (iv) any of our products and services, shall collectively be referred to as use of our “Applications.”
Your use of any of our Applications means that you have read, understood and accepted the terms of this Privacy Policy. When we refer to Applications that we sell to you or that you purchase from us, “sell” and “purchase” shall also refer to the products or services that are licensed to you or which you otherwise subscribed to and/or are permitted access and use to in accordance with our Terms of Use.
Not all of our Applications have released, but when they are, this Privacy Policy shall continue to be your sole source of disclosure about the information that we collect, use and share with respect to those Applications.
This Privacy Policy pertains to our data collection and use practices for information that we receive from you, from our trustworthy third party partners, from your use of our Applications or for any of our subscribing clients. Any personal information that you provide to our partners, vendors, distributors or other parties is subject to the respective privacy policies of these other parties and not this Privacy Policy. Accordingly, be sure to carefully review the privacy policies of these other parties for how they collect and use your information.
What Information We Collect
Through your use of one or more of our Applications, depending upon which Application is being used, we collect one or more of the following types of personal information, either directly from you and/or from our integration partners: name, username, physical address, phone number, email address, credit card or other payment method information, order data, shipping addresses, purchase history, pricing and cost information, purchase order information, amount of product sold, inventory information, financial information, industry information, logistics information, information about your customers and various email content information.
Children’s Privacy
Our Applications and marketing are not directed to and Sellercloud does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you nevertheless believe that your child has provided us with their personal information and you need to let us know to delete it, please contact us using this contact form.
How We Use Information About You
We use the information we collect from you or about you in order to provide you with the following:
- Where it is necessary for us to enter into a contract with you and provide one or more of our Applications to you for the duration of the contract, including o To assist the transactions that you request, such as helping you purchase, sell or ship or fulfill orders for various products or to provide you with various subscription or other services. o To provide customer support and trouble-shooting services related to your interactions with us, your use of our Applications or to respond to your inquiries.
- To provide the information and results that we promised to deliver in connection with your use of our Applications, including o To communicate important information about the Applications that you purchased, either directly from us, through one of our partners, distributors or through one or more of our Applications. o To assist us in providing more and better Applications: for example, to evaluate and improve the performance of our Applications, to assess the quality of the Applications used and to help us learn how our clients, partners, vendors or end users navigate and utilize our Applications so that we may deliver a customized and better experience. o To compile statistics and analysis about our clients’ use of the Applications. These statistics are used only to enable us to provide better client service, products, features and functionality to you and other clients in the future. o To develop a profile of you and your interactions with us so that we can provide tailored offers, opportunities and services that may be of interest to you. o To protect our legal rights and manage the security of our networks and property, including to protect Applications from security incidents and abuse. o To share your information with other subscribing users of Sellercloud platform or portal so that we may better administer the underlying contracts and relationships associated with the designated transactions under which you are involved. o To share your information with third parties in order to prevent fraud, criminal or other inappropriate behavior and protect our business interests and rights, privacy, safety and property, or that of the public. o To share your information with third parties in order to permit us to pursue available remedies or limit damage that we may sustain or to enforce the terms of our Terms of Use. We may also disclose your information to third parties if the rights of another client, partner or vendor may be violated. o Although not currently in practice, to send you (perhaps sometime in the future) certain targeted marketing communications, opportunities, experience surveys and marketing promotions from us or through a third party acting on our behalf that may be of interest to you. o To send you text and/or email messages in order to provide you with time sensitive communications related to your transaction, other opportunities, customer experience surveys or promotions.
- Where necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation, such as to respond to a request for information from a government authority or other party when we are required by law or in response to legal process, obligation or request.
Security of Your Personal Information
We make reasonable efforts to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk associated with the processing of your personal information. We maintain organizational, technical and administrative measures designed to protect your personal information within our organization against unauthorized access, distribution, loss, alteration or misuse. Whenever we share your personal information with others in connection with providing the products and services that you request from us, we also insist that they do the same. Your personal information is also only accessible to a limited number of personnel who need access to the information in order to perform their duties and when we share with or receive personal information about you from others, all data transmissions are encrypted. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised, please contact us immediately via this contact form.
Your user registration or account information is password-protected. You may edit your user registration or account information by using your email address (that also serves as your username), “team name” and password. We strongly recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone and when you register or open an account with us, we provide you with instructions on how to select a strong password. You may change your password at any time and all password resets are communicated to you using only the email address that you submitted to us. Also, remember to sign out of your registration account and close your browser whenever you have finished your browser session.
Retention (Storage) of Your Personal Information
We retain your personal information for as long as we need to fulfill our business purposes, as set out below:
- Marketing purposes: We retain for a period of time certain of your personal identification that is linked to cookies and other online identifiers. o Product and Service transactions: We retain for a period of time your personal information associated with your registered user account, including records of payment you have made from the date of the transaction. In general, however, when you terminate your relationship with us and no longer wish to use any of our Applications, we purge or delete the information that we have retained about you since there is no reason or purpose for retaining this information (but see “Disputes and law enforcement” discussion below). In other instances, where the information about you originates from a third party because you had opened up an account with that third party, the information about you that we may have received from that party may not be purged unless requested by you.
- Use of our products and services and customer service related queries: We retain and track for a period of time the information associated with your use of our Applications, including information received from our Applications while in use, your device machine name, your IP address, your WiFi and account information (but not your WiFi password or SSID) and general queries and complaints that you may make regarding our Applications. In general, however, when you terminate your relationship with us and no longer wish to use any of our Applications, we purge or delete the information that we have retained about you since there is no reason or purpose for retaining this information (but see “Disputes and law enforcement” discussion below). In other instances, where the information about you originates from a third party because you had opened up an account with that third party, the information about you that we may have received from that party may not be purged unless requested by you.
- Disputes & law enforcement: If we are involved in litigation or a governmental or regulatory investigation, then we notwithstanding the above we keep or retain information throughout the period of litigation or investigation and for a period of time after that. If a settlement means that we have to keep information longer, then we keep information for the period required to administer the settlement. If we provide information to law enforcement agencies, then we keep a record of this for a period of time beyond the end of the investigation.
Who We Share Information With
Affiliates
We may share certain information with Sellercloud Europe based in Bulgaria solely for product and service development and to provide service support to our clients.
Business Partners and Vendors
We may share all or some portion of your information with our trustworthy business partners and vendors (1) in order for us to provide you with our Applications, (2) to enhance the functionality, features and quality of our Applications, (3) to help us store and host our Applications, to make them function properly and in a secure manner, (4) to monitor our own systems and operations to maintain their performance and security for the benefit of our users and clients and the Applications that they use, (5) to help us complete a transaction with you or to fulfill an order, service or delivery request, (6) to produce the data and reports our Applications are intended to generate for our users and clients, (7) to help us send you notifications regarding our Applications or to respond to your inquiries, (8) to help us activate, monitor and analyze the data generated by our Applications and to trouble-shoot and analyze the performance of our Applications, (9) to provide you with surveys, promotional, advertising or marketing information about our Applications and to collect information about you especially if you are going to use one of our Applications, and (10) to allow you to receive other services offered by our business partners and vendors.
All of our third party business partners and vendors are restricted from sharing your information with others for any other purposes other than to provide you with the Applications that you have requested from us.
Should you subscribe to Sellercloud, all of your credit card payment information is handled, stored and processed by our payment processor in accordance with the payment card industry data security standards. We do not store, process or transmit any cardholder or payment processing data on our systems and we rely entirely on the payment service provider to handle these functions. We will also share your information with third parties when you have requested us to do. Should you decide to use a third party to pay for the use of one or more of our products or services, we will share that information with such party.
If you are using one of our products or services that is interfaced, integrated with or connected with another one of our products, services and/or with other third party products or services from one of our integration partners, our products and services are designed to automatically share with these other products, services or partners certain information, such as configuration data and data about a designated transaction. If you choose to open an account with one of our integration partners so that they may connect their products or services with any of our Applications, you may not be required to provide your permission in order to enable the exchange of data between these products and services.
Government Authorities
Your personal information may also be shared as needed with government authorities for law enforcement, to respond to a request for information from a government authority or other party when we are required by law or in response to legal process, obligation or request.
Aggregated Information
We may also use for our internal decision-making purposes and for internal research and outside publication, information that we have aggregated or anonymized so that the information no longer reveals personal identity. We may use and share this aggregated or anonymized data with our users and clients so that they can gauge their transaction performance against that of a larger community or within their respective industry, to raise awareness about generic business issues important to our clients, to improve the performance and quality of our existing and future Applications, to spot and comment on various industry trends or for other analytical purposes that you have requested be administered by your request to use one or more of our Applications that is designed to provide you with such analytical data. We may also share this aggregated and anonymized information with our partners and/or other subscribing clients in order to assist them with their transactions. Whenever we share aggregated or anonymized data with others, we also take steps to prevent the recipient of the data from being able seek to determine personal identity.
Sale, Merger or Change in Control
Your information may also be transferred to another company in the event of a transfer, change of ownership, reorganization or assignment of all or part of our business or assets. This will occur if the parties have entered into an agreement under which the collection, use and disclosure of the information is limited to those purposes of the business transaction, including a determination whether or not to proceed with the business transaction. We will post a prominent notice on our website for thirty (30) days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information or as otherwise may be required or permitted by law
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident consumer, effective January 1, 2020, you are now afforded additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). Under the CCPA, California resident consumers are afforded the right to contact us and submit to us a request to know any or all of the following:
- Specific pieces of personal information that we have about you.
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you
- The categories of sources from which personal information about you was collected
- The categories of personal information about you that we sold or disclosed for a business purpose
- The categories of third parties to whom the personal information about you were sold or disclosed for a business purpose; and
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information about you.
As a California resident consumer, you are also afforded
- the right to have your personal information deleted or transferred to a designated third party;
- the right to opt-out of any sale of your personal information to a third party; and
- the right not to be discriminated against should you exercise any of your CCPA rights.
Please note that under California law, as applicable to California resident consumers, your personal information includes any information that can be reasonably linked directly or indirectly to a particular consumer or particular household.
If you are a California resident consumer, you or your legally authorized agent acting on your behalf may submit your personal information requests via this contact form or by calling us at the following toll free number: 888-315-6652. Please note that when receiving your requests we have the obligation and right to use reasonable means to verify your identity when processing your request. We perform this verification procedure at no cost to you or your legally authorized agent. Upon receiving your verified request, we will confirm receipt of the request within 10 business days and we will provide a substantive response within 45 calendar days.
Selling Your Personal Information
We do not sell any of your personal information to a third party, i.e. for monetary compensation or in consideration for something of value to be received from the recipient of your information. The information sharing that we do is so that our platform can provide you with the transaction support that you have requested our Applications provide you.
Responding to California Consumer Privacy Requests
We also reserve the right not to respond to or to deny a request to know or a request to allow access to or deletion of your information or to limit your rights under certain circumstances (e.g. if the request poses an unreasonable risk, we are lawfully entitled to do so, we are lawfully entitled to maintain an archive copy of your information despite a request to delete, if it is necessary to detect security incidents or if the rights of another individual might be violated, or if the request requires that we or our vendor, user or partner undertake a search or provide an accessible format when the information that is the subject of the request does not lend itself to a search or does not lend itself to the format being requested by the individual making the request). In some instances, this may mean that we and our vendor(s), other(s) and business partners are able to retain your personal information even if you withdraw your consent or if a California resident consumer, we and our vendor(s), other user(s) and business partner(s) can maintain an archive copy of your personal information on a backup system notwithstanding a request to delete your personal information. Moreover, we have the legal obligation not to transmit to you or others certain information deemed highly sensitive (assuming that we even have such information) but we should always be able to provide you with information about whether we have such highly sensitive information about you.
Please also do not submit personal information requests to any of our vendors, users or business partners as they may not necessarily be required to respond to personal information requests that they may receive directly from our clients.
Requesting Information About Third Parties
California Civil Code section 1798.83 entitles residents of California to request information about the third parties with whom Sellercloud has shared personal information in the immediately preceding calendar year and if those third parties ever used such information for direct marketing purposes. California residents may submit one request per calendar year in the form of a report that details (a) the categories of information Sellercloud shared and (b) the name and address of the third parties with whom Sellercloud shared such information. California residents may submit their request via this contact form.
Your GDPR Privacy Rights
If you are an individual located in any one of the European Union (EU) member countries, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland and you provide us with your personal data, you are afforded widespread privacy rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) effective May 25, 2018. Under the GDPR, higher standards on what is considered the lawful processing of your data are imposed; there are more explicit privacy rights afforded to you; and there are accountability standards imposed on organizations that collect, handle, store and/or process your data.
We have been working diligently along with our trustworthy partners, vendors and other subscribing users to implement an organizational, technical and cooperative framework so that all of your rights are respected and honored by us and our partners with respect to the collection, handling, storing and processing of your data.
Under the GDPR, the moment that we first collect your data, you are afforded various privacy rights, including but not necessarily limited to:
- The right to know who decided what personal data is being collected from you and the purpose behind doing so
- The right to know each purpose and legal justification why your personal data is being collected and processed and why collecting and processing it is needed to accomplish the disclosed purpose(s)
- The identity or categories of all third party recipients who are to receive your personal data o The right to know if your personal data is to be transferred out of your EU member country or other GDPR compliant country
- The right to know how long your personal data will be stored and not to have it stored longer than needed to accomplish the stated purpose
- The right to access, receive or correct your personal data at any time
- The right to have your personal data erased (where there is no longer legal or necessary grounds to process or store your personal data)
- The right to have your personal data transferred to another at any time o The right to restrict or otherwise object to, the processing of your personal data at any time where your personal data is not accurate, where the processing is unlawful, where your personal data is no longer needed or where there is no longer good legitimate grounds to process your personal data
- The right to easily and conveniently withdraw your consent to the collection, handling, storage and/or processing of your personal data at any time and to complain to us and/or the appropriate GDPR “supervisory authorities” if you believe any of your rights are being violated o The right to know if you are being “profiled” or “monitored” or if certain decisions are being made automatically based on your personal data o The right to know and to have your personal data processed only for the purpose that you had provided explicit affirmative informed consent and not for any other purpose from which was either never disclosed to you or for a purpose which you never provided explicit affirmative informed consent o The right to know that all of the personal data that was collected, handled, stored and processed was needed in order to accomplish the purpose that you have affirmatively and explicitly consented
- The right to know of the consequences should you fail to provide all of the requested data that is being asked of you
While the lawful collection and processing of your personal data is necessary for us to accomplish a stated purpose, enter into a contract for providing our products and services to you, deliver on our contractual promise to provide you with our products and services, perform a task in the public interest, carry out our official authority and/or to perform a legitimate interest, we may also (in certain instances where necessary) to always provide you with affirmative options so that you may decide based on informed express consent if you want to have your data processed for a particular purpose. When we share your data with third parties, whenever possible, we always inform you of the name of or the categories of the recipients of such data. Further, whenever possible, we strive to make sure (when necessary) that all of the opt-in consents that are presented to you are intended to fully inform you whether you want us to process your data, the purpose behind processing your data and who or the categories of who we will be sharing your data with in order to accomplish that purpose. Also, when you purchase our products and/or services all of the information that is collected from you and the transactions upon which you are involved is transferred out of your country to the United States so that we may deliver on our contractual promise to provide you with the products and services that you want to receive. See “What Information We Collect” to know about all of the information that we collect from you. This data is stored and processed primarily, if not exclusively, in the United States.
Note that no data about you will be retained by us for a non-legitimate purpose if you are unable to complete the registration or account creation process or if you decide at any time that you are terminating your desire to use our Applications or otherwise withdrawing your consent (if applicable). If applicable, if you withdraw a previously submitted consent, we shall also inform all of our relevant partners and users that your consent has been withdrawn.
We do not collect more personal data than is necessary to deliver the Applications that you have purchased from us nor do we use your personal data for any purpose other than to provide you with delivery of the Applications that you have requested. If there is another purpose, we will seek to present an express consent for your acceptance.
Note also that we have put into place with each of our trustworthy partners and users certain mechanisms of cooperation, communication and agreement so that your GDPR privacy rights are also honored by our partners and other users. Accordingly, should you decide to access, rectify, erase, object to or otherwise transfer any of your data that you submitted to us or if you wish to withdraw any one or all of your consents (if applicable), please send your instruction via this contact form and we will act on it promptly.
Please note that if you are an individual located in an EU member country, the United Kingdom, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway or Switzerland and you have sent to us your personal data unsolicited and not in connection with your use of our Applications, after we have completed our review of your communication, we will appropriately delete your communication, including any personal data that may be contained therein.
If you have any questions or concerns about your rights under the GDPR or the steps that we have taken to comply with the GDPR, please contact us using this contact form.
Our Use of Cookies
When you visit or use one or more of our Applications, our Application(s) may store or retrieve information about your browser and device, usually in the form of cookies. Cookies allow our Applications to remember your preferences and improve your user experience. The information that is stored and retrieved using cookies could be about you, your preferences or the device you’re using and is often used to make the site work as you expect or want it to. The information does not usually directly identify you, and our Applications give you a more personalized online experience.
Because we rely on cookies to provide the best possible online experience for you and a smooth, often custom browsing experience, you must accept our use of cookies in order to use our Applications.
Here are more details about the types of Cookies we use:
Essential Cookies
These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information and are necessary for our Applications to properly function, for you to navigate our Applications and to use their various features. These cookies expire at the end of your browsing session.
Functional Cookies
These cookies allow our Applications to remember the choices you make and to provide enhanced and more personal features such as storing your login account information, your setting of certain preferences or to assist you in completing certain forms
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about how you interact with our Applications and are used to improve your experience. They don’t contain personal information that can be used to identify you and we use these cookies to measure and improve our Applications’ performance, to determine the number of visitors to our Applications, which pages or sections of our Applications are the most frequented, how visitors move around our Applications and where our web traffic is coming from. All information that these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.
Some newer web browsers may also incorporate various “Do Not Track” features.” Our Applications currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” requests or headers from these browsers.
How Can You Manage Cookies?
Session cookies are used for your current browser session and will expire after you close your browser. Persistent cookies are used to enhance your experience between Application visits and will remain on your computer or device until you delete or block them or until they reach their set expiration date.
You always have the ability to set your browser to disable all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being set, although doing so will mean that our Applications and the various products and services including content and reports provided to you may not function properly or in ways that you want or expect. To learn more about how to control or disable cookies within most browsers, consult the “Help” section of your browser or device or visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
As necessary, we will update our Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our privacy practices. If we make any material changes, we will post a notice on our web site and our apps (if applicable) or as otherwise may be required or permitted by law, prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy displayed on our website and our apps (if applicable) for the latest information on our privacy practices.
How You Can Contact Us
If you have any questions or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us via this contact form.