Data Privacy Policy
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Abode Systems
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updated Sept 6 2023

Abode and our affiliates are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information and data collected by Abode when you interact with our websites, product and services, and any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy. This includes when you:

This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, receive, use, store, share, transfer, and process your Personal Data. It also describes your choices and rights with respect to your Personal Data, including your rights of access and correction of your Personal Data. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy "Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, you should not use our websites, product and services, or any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy.

1. What Information We Collect and Process

a. Information You Provide to Abode

When you interact with us via our websites or any sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy, we may collect Personal Data and other information from you, as further described below.
​When You Visit Our Websites
We collect Personal Data from you when you submit web forms or interact with our websites, for example by subscribing to one of our services or requesting customer support. We may ask for your email address, first and last name, job title, and other similar business information. You are free to explore some of our websites without providing any Personal Data about yourself.
​Account and User Information
We collect Personal Data when you sign-up for an Abode account, create or modify user information, set preferences, or provide any other related information to access or utilize our products or services.
​Payment Information
We collect payment and billing information when you register for paid products or services. For example, we may ask you to provide a billing address, or a billing contact for your Abode account. If you give us payment information, we use it solely as authorized by you in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

You may also provide payment information, such as a credit card number or bank account numbers, when purchasing products or services. We use secure third-party payment service providers to manage payment processing, which is collected through a secure payment process.

b. Information We Collect From Other Sources

Abode Partners
We may receive information about you or other users of your Abode account from our global network of partners. We may receive this data from our deal and lead registration process through our partners.
We may also collect information about you through our partner co-marketing partnerships.
​Third Parties
We may receive information from third party service providers, from related companies, and from our business and solution partners.
​Personal Data from Different Sources
We may combine the personal information we collect from you with personal information we receive from other sources, such as third party providers of business information and publicly available sources (like social media platforms). This may include physical mail addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and social media profiles. This helps us to update and improve our records, identify new customers, create more personalized advertising, suggest products and services that may interest you, deliver personalized communications and promote events. The collection of your Personal Data by these other third party providers is governed by the provider’s privacy policy.
​Log Files
Like most websites and technology services delivered over the Internet, we automatically collect and store information about your computer hardware and software when you visit our websites, use our product and services, or visit other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), and the files viewed on our websites (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), the files viewed on our, or our customer’s websites (if those websites are hosted on Abode e.g. HTML pages or, graphics etc), your operating system, access times and referring website addresses.

2. How We Use Personal Data

a. To Communicate with You About the Product and Services

We use the account information you provide to Abode to send you transactional emails or in-app notification about billing, account management, and other administrative matters. We may also send you updates regarding our Customer Terms of Service or other legal agreements, and may also communicate with you about security incidents via email or in-app notification.

We use your information to provide customer support, such as resolving technical issues you encounter and analyzing product outages or bugs.

b. To Improve and Develop Our Product and Services

We collect usage data about how you or your users interact with our product and services. We use this data to develop and improve our products and services. For example, we use usage data to assess trends and usage across the product to help us determine what new features or integrations our users may be interested in.

We use Customer Data in an anonymized manner for machine learning that supports certain product features and functionality.

We may publish data about how our product and services are being used across our customer base. When we share statistical information externally in this way, the data will be aggregated and we will not identify individual users or customers. For example, we may publish blog posts on trends or insights into how users are interacting with our product.

c. To Secure and Protect our Product and Abode Users

We use your account information to investigate and help prevent security incidents. We may also use this information to meet legal requirements. We use your information to verify user accounts, new product sign-ups, and to detect and prevent product abuse.

We use log files to provide general statistics regarding use of the websites by you, including how you use our websites, what country you are logging in from (for analytics, export control and regulatory purposes) and to help improve the navigation experience. Your IP addresses are also collected and logged for security and debugging purposes, for example to track access patterns, investigate security events and incidents. For these purposes we do link this automatically-collected data to other personal data provided by you such as name, email address, address, and phone number.

d. To Market and Promote the Products

We use the information you provide to Abode to market and promote our products, services, and other offerings. For example, we use the information, like your email or physical address, to send information or Abode content to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means and send you marketing communications relating to our business. You may opt out of receiving this promotional content by following the instructions contained in each communication that we send to you or by contacting us at privacy@goabode.com. If you unsubscribe from our marketing lists, we will continue to contact you regarding administrative matters, and to respond to your requests.

We may also reach out to you via telephone to ask about other Abode products or services you may be interested in. If you have a call scheduled with an Abode representative, we may record and transcribe the call. You will be notified prior to the call that the call is being recorded, and you will be offered an opportunity to opt-out of having the call recorded.

Where required by law, we will only send marketing communications with your consent. Otherwise, we will market and advertise our products and services on the basis of our legitimate business interests.

We receive information from third party service providers and other sources such as third party providers of business information and publicly available sources. We may receive and use this information from these service providers and other sources in combination with other information we collect through other means described in this Privacy Policy for the purposes of providing you with updates, like personalized communications, event promotion, and tailoring the websites or product to improve user experience.

e. Other purposes if we obtain your consent

We share your data with third parties when you give us consent to do so.

3. How We Share Personal Data

a. Service Providers

We may share Personal Data with our third party service providers to support our websites, products, and services. For example, we use service providers for data hosting, application development, marketing, sales support and customer support. We may need to share your information with service providers to provide information about products or services to you. Examples may include removing repetitive information from prospect lists, analyzing data or performing statistical analysis on your use of our products or interactions on our websites, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, supplementing the information you provide us in order to provide you with better service, developing and improving the product and services, and providing customer service or support. These service providers are prohibited from using your Personal Data except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. In all cases where we share your information in this way, we explicitly require the third party service providers to acknowledge and adhere to our privacy and data protection policies and standards.

b. Partners

We may share data with trusted Abode partners to contact you based on your request to receive such communications, help us perform statistical analysis, or provide sales support, or provide customer support. Partners are prohibited from using your Personal Data except for these purposes, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your data.

We also partner with trusted third parties to provide you with co-marketing content that we think may be relevant to you. When you engage with these co-marketing partners, we will tell you who we are sharing data with, and provide a link to the co-marketing partner’s privacy policy so you can learn more about how to opt-out of the partner’s communications. These co-marketing partners are required to adhere to our privacy and data protection policies.

4. Your Right To Access Your Personal Data

You have the right to obtain confirmation that your personal data is being processed, and to request a copy of such information unless it adversely affects the legal rights of others. You may submit a request for such information or a request to opt-out of having your personal information collected to privacy@goabode.com

5. Retention of Personal Data

How long we keep information we collect about you depends on the type of information and how we collect and store it. After a reasonable period of time, we will either delete or anonymize your information or, if this is not possible, then we will securely store your information and isolate it from any further use until deletion is possible.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Data, we securely delete the information or anonymize it or, if this is not possible, securely store your Personal Data and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We will delete this information at an earlier date if you so request.

6. California Privacy Rights

a. Applicability

This section applies only to California consumers. For purposes of this section "Personal Information" has the meaning given in the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”). It describes how we collect, use, and share California consumers' Personal Information in our role as a business, and the rights applicable to such residents. The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") requires businesses to disclose whether they sell Personal Information. Abode is a business, and does not sell Personal Information. We may share Personal Information with authorized service providers or business partners who have agreed to our contractual limitations as to their retention, use, and disclosure of such Personal Information.

If you are unable to access this Privacy Policy due to a disability or any physical or mental impairment, please contact us and we will arrange to supply you with the information you need in an alternative format that you can access.

**b. How We Collect, Use, and Share your Personal Information **

We have collected the following statutory categories of Personal Information in the past twelve (12) months:

The business and commercial purposes for which we collect this information are described in Section 2 of this Privacy Policy. The categories of third parties to whom we "disclose" this information for a business purpose are described in Section 3 of this Privacy Policy. The period of time for which we retain this information is described in Section 5 of this Privacy Policy.

c. Your California Rights

You have certain rights regarding the Personal Information we collect or maintain about you. Please note these rights are not absolute, and there may be cases when we decline your request as permitted by law.

The right of access means that you have the right to request that we disclose what Personal Information we have collected, used and disclosed about you in the past 12 months.

The right of deletion means that you have the right to request that we delete Personal Information collected or maintained by us, subject to certain exceptions.

The right of correction means that you have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.

The right to non-discrimination means that you will not receive any discriminatory treatment when you exercise one of your privacy rights.

Abode does not sell or share Personal Information to third parties (pursuant to California Civil Code §§ 1798.100–1798.199, also known as the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018).

d. How to Exercise your California Rights

You can exercise your rights yourself or you can alternatively designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on your behalf. Please note that to protect your Personal Information, we will verify your identity by a method appropriate to the type of request you are making. We may also request that your authorized agent have written permission from you to make requests on your behalf, and we may also need to verify your authorized agent's identity to protect your Personal Information.

You may submit a request hereunder to privacy@goabode.com

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