Scope of this Privacy Policy
Elo Life Systems is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the personal information (defined below) Elo Life Systems, Inc. (“Elo Life Systems,” “us,” “we” or “our”) collects through your interactions with the Elo Life Systems website (https://elolife.com/) (the “Site”), and how we collect, use, safeguard, and disclose that information. This Privacy Policy also applies through your use of our product and services offerings (“Services”), as well as when we collect personal information in connection with recruitment and pre-employment activities. This Privacy Policy does not govern our collection of personal information through any other website or other means, other than through the Site.
By using the Site and Services, you acknowledge and agree that you have read and understand the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Elo Life Systems is a controller (i.e., responsible party) of your personal information when we administer the Site and Services directly on our own behalf.
You can access specific topics in this Privacy Policy by clicking on the relevant links below:
I. Personal Information We Collect
II. Sources of Personal Information
III. Use of Personal Information
IV. Personal Information We Disclose
V. Your Choices
VI. Information Storage and Security
VII. Data Retention
VIII. Children’s Privacy
IX. External Links
X. Updates to this Privacy Policy
XI. Contact Information
The types of personal information we collect or receive about you depend on how you interact with us. “Personal information” refers to information that identifies, relates to, describes, or can be associated with you. We collect or receive the following types of personal information about users of the Site and the Services:
- Contact Information/Identifiers, including name, email address, postal address, phone number, business contact information, or other similar identifiers.
- Demographic Information, including age and gender, some of which may include characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law.
- Device Information and Other Unique Identifiers, including device identifiers, internet protocol (IP) address, or similar unique identifiers.
- Internet or Other Network Activity, including browsing or search history, information collected through cookies (please see our Cookie Policy here) and information regarding your interactions with our websites, mobile applications, emails, or advertisements.
- Geolocation Data, including information that permits us to determine your location, such as if you manually provide location information or enable your mobile device to send us precise location information.
- Payment Information, including credit or debit card number, or other financial information.
- Job Applicant Data: Name, gender, age, date of birth, email address, mailing address, telephone number, social media profiles, and in certain instances, identification documents, residency and work permit status, social security number (which may also be considered sensitive personal information) or other taxpayer/government identification number. This data also includes any professional qualifications, prior employment history, education history, additional information included in curriculum vitae, and references, as well as notes collected by interviewers and other professional assessment information. If we offer you a job, we may collect additional background information, such as credit history and eligibility information (as permitted by law).
The provision of the personal information outlined above is generally voluntary, but in certain instances, we will not be able to process your request for our Services or, where applicable, consider you for employment without the requested information.
We collect your personal information in the following ways, pursuant to applicable law:
- Directly From You, when you use our Site or Services, contact us, sign up to receive emails, text messages, and/or postal mailings.
- Through Our Use of Cookies and Other Automatic Data Collection Technologies, when you visit our Site, open, or click on emails we send you, or interact with us. We or third parties we work with automatically collect certain information using technologies such as cookies, web beacons, clear GIF, pixels, internet tags, web server logs, and other data collection tools. For more information, please visit our Cookies Policy here.
- From Our Third Party Partners, including from third parties that we have partnered with to provide you the Services that you have requested from us.
- Other Sources, including publicly available sources.
Elo Life Systems collects and uses your personal information to operate the Site and deliver the Services you have requested.
- More specifically, we use personal information collected for the following business purposes:
- To communicate with you and respond to your questions and feedback;
- To provide the Services you select through the Site;
- To enable you to access and use our Site;
- To understand what resources you use, if any, and to connect you to additional resources at your request;
- To send marketing and promotional materials, including information relating to you Services;
- To administer surveys and generally to conduct research and analytics related to our Sites and Services;
- To manage our business operations, perform our obligations, and exercise our rights under any agreement with your organization;
- For other purposes with your consent, or as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law;
- To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim;
- To consider individuals for employment and contractor opportunities and manage onboarding procedures, as well as to administer and improve our recruitment process;
- To evaluate our progress in achieving our diversity hiring goals, to ensure equal opportunity monitoring and reporting, to meet obligations, including providing workforce accommodations and for disability and workplace safety tracking administration;
- To ensuring the technical functions of our network, including to detect, investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including fraudulent transactions, attempts to manipulate or violate our policies, procedures, and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of Elo Life Systems and our users, customers, employees, or others;
- To improve and customize the content and layout of the Site; or
- To develop new Services.
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose information in the following situations, as permitted by applicable law:
- In Connection with our Offerings. The Site involves the sharing of certain personal information collected through the Site with (i) other users of the Site, and (ii) as you otherwise provide your consent. Information which you upload, post, e-mail, submit or otherwise transmit in connection with the Site to a public message board, chat area or other public area of the Site will be made public to users of the Site, including certain metadata related to such activities (such as timestamps). You are solely responsible for any such information you choose to post on or through the Site. All information that is posted to a message board, chat area, or other public area of the Site may be disclosed by us with (i) other users of the Site, and (ii) as you otherwise provide your consent. Please be aware that anything you disclose publicly may be further disclosed by other users of the Site (for example, by emailing a screenshot of your post to non-users. We are not responsible for any such sharing of information you have disclosed publicly on the Site.
- Elo Life Systems Affiliates. We may disclose personal information with our affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies or subsidiaries, and other companies under common control) for the purposes for which you provided the information or as reasonably necessary for our internal administrative and business purposes.
- Service Providers. We work with third parties that provide services on our behalf. Such services may include website hosting, marketing, and website usage analytics. We may disclose personal information and non-personal information with these third parties for the purpose of enabling them to provide these services.
- Consent. We may disclose personal information in accordance with any consent you provide.
- Government agencies, regulators, and professional advisors. We may disclose personal information, or any information collected through this Site or Services if we are required to do so by law or pursuant to legal process, in response to a request from government officials or law enforcement authorities, as necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of illegal activity, to comply with our legal obligations, and defend our legal interests.
- Certain Transactions. We may disclose or transfer personal information, or any information collected through the Site or Services to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, whether such acquisition is by way of merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
- Social Media Platforms and Networks: Our Site may have features such as plugins, widgets, or other tools made available by third parties that may result in information being collected or disclosed between us and the third party. The third party’s use of your information is not governed by this Privacy Policy.
- De-identified or Aggregate Information. We may aggregate and anonymize information you provide to us in such a way as to ensure it will no longer be identifiable to you. This data may be used for statistical, analytic, and administrative purposes, including analyzing our website traffic and trends, tailoring our Services, or conducting product analysis. We may disclose anonymized or aggregated data at our discretion, in accordance with applicable laws.
V. Your Choices
You may be able to make the following choices regarding your personal information:
- Emails. You may choose to provide us with your email address for the purpose of allowing us to send free newsletters and bulletins, surveys, and other news and information materials to you. You can stop receiving emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive. If you decide not to receive emails, we may still send you service-related communications.
- Mailings. If at any time you do not want to receive updates, newsletters, bulletins, or information from us, you can remove yourself from our mailing lists by emailing us (our contact information is below) with “NO SNAIL MAIL” in the subject line, along with your name, address, and zip code. Please note that our mailings are prepared in advance of their being sent. Although we will remove your name from our mailing list after receiving your request, you may still receive mailings from us that had been initiated prior to your name being removed.
- Text Messages. If you receive a text message from us that contains promotional information you can opt-out of receiving future text messages by replying “STOP.”
Please address requests and questions about your choices to the information detailed in the “Contact Information” section of this Privacy Policy. We have not disclosed your personal information for direct marketing purposes in the preceding twelve (12) months.
We employ reasonable security precautions to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information provided on or through the Site. These security measures include monitoring systems to actively screen for unwanted behaviors such as password brute-forcing attempts (both software screens (i.e. Flywheel) and daily manual checks). However, no method of transmitting or storing data is completely secure. As a result, although we strive to protect personal information about you, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us through or in connection with the Site. If you have reason to believe that personal information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately by contacting us in accordance with the last section below. In the event of a breach that we are required by law to inform you of, we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
VII. Data Retention
We retain information about you and your use of our Sites for as long as is needed to fulfill our legitimate business purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy. The specific periods for which we keep information about you vary depending on the nature of the information, why we need it, and whether the personal information is de-identified. We also consider the minimum necessary retention period prescribed by applicable laws, recommended by industry standards, and stated in contracts and other legal obligations.
VIII. Children’s Privacy
Our Site and Services are not intended for persons under 13 years of age. If we learn that we have collected personal information from persons under 13 through our Site or Services, we will take appropriate steps to delete this information.
IX. External Links
The Site may contain links to various websites that we do not control. When you click on one of these links, you will no longer be transacting business through the Site. Third party websites maintain their own privacy policies, and we do not exercise any control over any of the third-party websites that may be linked to the Site. If you visit a website that is linked to the Site, you should consult that website’s privacy policy before providing any personal information. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other websites, and we are not liable for their misuse of personal information about you.
X. Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, technology, legal requirements, and other factors. When changes are made to this Privacy Policy, they will become effective immediately upon posting. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for the latest information on our information processing practices. To the extent that our Privacy Policy changes in a material way, the Privacy Policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent (express or implied) to the new Privacy Policy where and as required by applicable law.
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, please use the below information to contact us:
ADDRESS:
3054 East Cornwallis Road
Durham, NC 27709 USA
EMAIL: EloAdmin@EloLife.com
PHONE: (919) 514-1107
This Privacy Policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date. The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified.
Effective Date. February 10, 2023
Last Updated Date. February 10, 2023