ZivaContinuum takes its commitment to the privacy and dignity of our community very seriously, and is dedicated to handling any personal information we obtain from you with the utmost care and respect.
This Privacy Policy is designed to answer any questions you may have regarding our privacy policy and principles, as well as the choices you can make about the manner in which your information is gathered and used. Please read the following to learn more about our privacy policy. You can also click here to view important information on privacy in cyberspace from the United States Federal Trade Commission.
What type of information does the Privacy Policy cover?
As used in this Privacy Policy, .ZivaContinuum. includes ZivaContinuum, LLC, and all of its subsidiary and affiliated corporate entities and companies. This policy does not apply to the practices of companies that ZivaContinuum does not own or control or to people that ZivaContinuum does not employ or manage. ZivaContinuum is referred to in this Privacy Policy as “we”, “us”, “our“ and “ourselves“.
Unless otherwise stated, this Privacy Policy applies only to personally identifiable information collected on the ZivaContinuum Websites and/or through the ZivaContinuum e-mail system. It does not apply to any other information collected by ZivaContinuum by any other means.
This Privacy Policy applies to personally identifiable information collected on and after the date that this Privacy Policy is posted. However, for any ZivaContinuum users who registered on our Websites prior to this date, we will apply this Privacy Policy to personally identifiable information associated with that account only if the user accepts the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy.
The term .personally identifiable information. means information that identifies a particular individual or enables a party to contact an individual, and includes the individual.s name, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number. Personally identifiable information is sometimes referred to in this Privacy Policy as .personal information..
The terms of this Privacy Policy are subject to all applicable laws.
How do we collect the personally identifiable information of our users?
ZivaContinuum collects certain personal identifiable information . including name, postal address, e-mail address and telephone number . through a variety of means and sources about both subscribers and non-subscribers who visit or otherwise use the ZivaContinuum Websites or e-mail system. We collect such information in the following manners:
Information You Provide to Us
Much of the personally identifiable information we receive comes directly from users who are interested in obtaining information, products and/or services from us or who sign up for such services or purchase products. We collect personal information when you register on, complete a profile on or contact us through our Websites or when you e-mail us. We may also collect other types of information (non-identifiable information), such as gender, age, personal interests and medical or health-related information that we may associate with personally identifiable information.
Information Collected Through Technology
We also collect information through technology to make our sites more useful to you and to track user Web activity and interests. Our Websites use .cookies,. which are pieces of information a Website sends to your computer while you are viewing the Website, for a variety of purposes. For example, when you return to one of our sites after logging in, cookies provide information to the site so that the site will remember who you are. We also use information collected through Web beacons, which are small pieces of data that are embedded in images on the pages of Websites, t analyze the traffic patterns on our Websites, such as the frequency with which our users visit various parts or pages of our Websites. We may also use these technical methods in HTML e-mails that we send to our users to determine whether our users have opened those e-mails and/or clicked on links in those e-mails.
You may engage in certain transactions without registering and logging on to our Websites. We refer to all of these transactions that you engage in without registering and logging on to our Websites as .Non-Registered Transactions.. When you engage in Non-Registered Transactions, we may gather personally identifiable information, such as your computer.s IP address. We may manage and place advertisements on our Websites on behalf of third parties referred to herein as “network advertisers.” We may also use cookies and other technology to collect information when you click on or move your cursor over one of these banner advertisements. Our Website advertising is served by a third-party advertising company. This company may use information (not including your name, address, e-mail address or phone number) about your visits to our site in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about the information collection practices of this third-party advertising company and to know your choices about not having this information used by this company, click here.
Please note that once you have clicked on any such advertisement and have left our Websites, our Privacy Policy no longer applies and you must read the privacy policy of the advertiser to see how your personal information will be handled on its Website. Advertisers or other third party companies do not have access to our cookies or other information-gathering technology.
Information That We Collect from Others
We may supplement personally identifiable information that we have collected directly from our users with other information that we obtain from third parties. If and when we associate any information that we obtained from third parties with personally identifiable information that we have collected under this Privacy Policy, we will treat the acquired information exactly like the information that we collected ourselves.
How is personally identifiable information used?
We will never rent, sell, disseminate or share personal information about you with non-affiliated companies or third parties, except when we have your permission or under the circumstances set forth in detail below.
Personally identifiable information collected may be shared within and used by ZivaContinuum and its affiliated companies and subsidiaries for several purposes. For example, ZivaContinuum may use your personal information to send you promotional materials about goods and services, including special offers and promotions, either offered by ZivaContinuum or offered by third parties (sent by ZivaContinuum on behalf of these third parties). These promotional materials may be sent to you by postal mail, e-mail or other means. We may also use your personal information for .Operational Uses,. such as to complete transactions requested by you (for example, your purchase of or subscription to a product or service offered on our Websites) or to send you administrative communications. Finally, ZivaContinuum may take your personally identifiable information that is associated with other information about you (i.e. demographic information including age, sex, etc.) and make it non-personally identifiable (.non-identifiable.) by removing all personally identifiable characteristics, such as your name and e-mail address.
At times, ZivaContinuum may hire companies to help deliver products or services that you request from ZivaContinuum. Examples of these companies may include packaging, printing, mailing or delivery companies. In these instances, there may be a need to share your information with these companies to fulfill your requests. Unless stated otherwise, these companies are allowed to gather, receive and use your information only for the purposes described in this paragraph or as required by law.
ZivaContinuum currently contracts with a third party to help manage and optimize our Internet business and communications. This Website tracking company helps us measure the effectiveness of our advertising and how visitors use our site through use of Web beacons and cookies provided by this company. The type of information we collect includes, but is not limited to, the pages visited and links clicked by users. By supplementing our records, this information helps us learn things such as what pages are most useful and attractive to our visitors; which of our products, tools and information most interest our customers; and what kinds of offers our customers like to see. Although the third party company logs the information coming from our site on our behalf, we control how that data may and may not be used. If you do not want your Web usage tracked, you can .opt-out. of this Website analysis tool by clicking here.
From time to time, we may purchase a business or sell one or more of our businesses and personally identifiable information may be transferred as a part of the purchase or sale. In the event that we sell a business, we will include provisions in the selling contract requiring the purchaser to treat your personally identifiable information in the same manner required by this Privacy Policy (including any amendments to this Privacy Policy). ZivaContinuum will disclose personal information when it believes in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required by law, such as to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) will help to enforce our Terms of Use; protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or protect the safety and security of our Websites, ZivaContinuum and/or third parties, including the safety and security of property that belongs to ZivaContinuum or third parties.
What choices do you have about the collection and use of your personally identifiable information?
With regard to personal information that you have provided under this Privacy Policy, there are various opt-out choices available to you. There are several methods by which you can exercise your opt-out choices: (a) during the registration process on our Websites and thereafter you can opt-in to receive e-mails and opt-out at any time by following the opt-out directions on the Website or in the e-mail; (b) if you do not want your Web usage tracked, you can .opt-out. of this Website analysis tool by clicking here; (c) if you do not want your Website advertisement interaction tracked, you can access an .opt-out. by clicking here; and (d) by contacting us directly as described below.
Please keep in mind that any opt-out choices you make will not apply in situations where (a) you either have made, simultaneously make or later make a specific request for information from a member of ZivaContinuum, (b) ZivaContinuum uses your personal information for .Operational Uses. (as described above), (c) you either have engaged, simultaneously engage or later engage in Non-Registered Transactions as described above or (d) ZivaContinuum collects your personally identifiable information under any of the provisions above.
Finally, if you do not exercise your opt-out choices upon registration or initial log-in at our Websites, it may take up to ninety (90) days for your opt-out choices to be fully effective. Our systems require time to update, and promotional mailings, by e-mail or otherwise, using personal information shared before your opt-out may already be in process. Thus, you might continue to receive promotional materials from ZivaContinuum based upon the personal information you have provided under this Privacy Policy for up to ninety (90) days.
What kinds of security measures do we take to safeguard your personally identifiable information?
The security and confidentiality of your information is of utmost importance to us. We have implemented technical, electronic, administrative and physical security measures to protect user information from unauthorized access and improper use. For example, we limit access to personal information about you to employees who we believe reasonably need to come into contact with that information to provide products or services to you or in order to do their jobs. From time to time, we review our security procedures in order to consider appropriate new technology and methods. Please be aware though that, despite our best efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable.
How can you ask questions or send comments to us about this Privacy Policy?
If you have any questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, you can e-mail us directly at info@zivacontinuum.com. You can also write to us at the following address:
ZivaContinuum
1111 Marcus Avenue
Suite LL08, Building A
Lake Success, NY 11042
Please be assured that any personal information that you provide in communications to the above e-mail and postal mail addresses will not be used to send you promotional materials, unless you so request.
How will you know if we amend this Privacy Policy?
We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by sending you an e-mail at the last e-mail address that you provided us, and/or by prominently posting notice of the changes on the Websites covered by this Privacy Policy. Please note that, at all times, you are responsible for updating your personal information to provide us your current e-mail address. In the event that the last e-mail address that you have provided us is not valid, or for any other reason is not capable of delivering to you the notice described above, our dispatch of the e-mail containing such notice will nonetheless constitute effective notice of the changes described in the notice. In any event, changes to this Privacy Policy may affect our use of personal information that you provided us prior to our notification to you of the changes. If you do not wish to permit changes in our use of your information, you must notify us prior to the effective date of the changes that you wish to deactivate your account with us.
Information for California residents
California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship (1) a list of the categories of personal information, such as name, address, e-mail address and the type of services provided to that 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 (2) the names and addresses of all such third parties. To request the above information, please write to us at:
ZivaContinuum
1111 Marcus Avenue
Suite LL08, Building A
Lake Success, NY 11042
We will respond to such written requests within 30 days following receipt at the mailing address above. We reserve the right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the address specified above or otherwise exempted by law. Please note that we are required to respond to each customer only once per calendar year.