Privacy at Net Privity
OUR PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION POLICY
Net Privity, Professional Corporation ("Net Privity", "we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy, and ensuring you have a positive experience on our website and services. Net Privity is incorporated as a Professional Corporation with fiduciary governance. This means our board of directors, officers, and employees are bound as a matter of governance to place your privacy interests above shareholder returns.
Importantly, your privacy is not just a compliance feature we offer—it's one of our primary obligations to you as our valued Patron. Those obligations are spelled out by our membership in the GliaNet Fiduciaries Pledge. That Pledge includes treating you as our valued Patron, under fiduciary duties of care, fidelity, and loyalty, as spelled out in Company policies such as this.
1. OUR BASELINE
Traditional terms of service documents, such as privacy policies, are produced by online companies as ways of unilaterally defining and limiting the scope of what they provide to end users. As such, they are asymmetrical by nature, offering little opportunity for individuals to express their own preferences and promote their own terms.
Net Privity offers itself to its Patrons as a trustworthy steward of personal data. In doing so, we embrace the traditional common law role of a loyal fiduciary, but in this case for the individual's personal data. This fiduciary role is like that played by a doctor (for one's health), or lawyer (for one's legal status), or financial advisor (for one's money). These entities hold themselves out in direct and trustworthy relationships with their patients, clients, and customers, under strong duties of care and loyalty. Net Privity voluntarily takes on that same kind of trust-based relationship with its Patrons.
As noted above, we are part of the GliaNet Fiduciaries Pledgemark program. This means, among other things, that we strive with prudent practices to protect your personal data from harm, that we have no conflict of interest with any third parties, such as data brokers, and that we promote your best interests. With this set of care and loyalty duties, and its treatment of end users as Patrons, Net Privity stands out from other online companies as a data fiduciary. At present Net Privity is constrained by the limitations of technology to provide a more robust means for its Patrons to engage in symmetrical arrangements. As such, this "Terms of Engagement" document is intended as a substitute. By using our Service, you are agreeing to review and be bound by the Terms that incorporate our Privacy Policy.
2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
During the course of our commercial relationship with you as our Patron, we may collect information about you in a variety of ways. None of this data is sold, bartered, traded, shared, or otherwise used in ways that would be contrary to your interests. Instead, the information we may collect on the Site, and in subsequent interactions, includes:
- Personal Information: Name, email address, and other contact information you provide directly.
- Technical Information: IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URL, and pages visited.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: Information collected through this site, web beacons, and similar technologies.
- Communications: Any correspondence, feedback, or inquiries you send to us.
- Payment Information: When customers make a purchase payment details are processed through third-party payment processors and are not stored by Net Privity.
3. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We use the information we collect for the following purposes in support of providing our commercial services to you:
- Providing and improving our services
- Responding to your inquiries and requests
- Sending administrative notifications and updates
- Conducting research and analytics to improve user experience
- Complying with legal obligations
- Marketing communications (only with your express consent)
NET PRIVITY'S FIDUCIARY COMMITMENT TO YOUR DATA
Under the GliaNet Fiduciaries Pledge program, Net Privity operates voluntarily under strict fiduciary principles. This means we are bound by our corporate charter, and our policies and practices, to take all reasonable steps to protect your privacy and data protection above other interests, including our own profitability.
What Net Privity Does NOT Do With Your Data:
We explicitly do NOT:
- Sell or monetize your personal data (including inferences and individual profiles) without your explicit opt-in consent
- Share your data with advertisers, marketers, or data brokers for any purpose without your explicit opt-in consent
- Build advertising profiles or behavioral targeting segments from your information
- Use dark patterns, dark UX design, or manipulative practices to collect more data
- Monitor, track, or surveil your activity outside our services
- Use your data to train AI models without explicit, informed consent
- Rent or lease your information to third parties
- Sell access to your behavior, preferences, or demographics
- Use surveillance-based targeting to exploit or manipulate you
This commitment is embedded in our articles of incorporation and our policies and practices. We document all material decisions affecting your data in our Fiduciary Decisions Log, and publish an Annual Fiduciary Report on our data practices.
4. DATA SECURITY
Net Privity employs industry-standard security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. These measures include data encryption, data minimization, secure servers, and access controls. However, despite these efforts, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information.
5. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS
You have the right to:
- Access the personal information we hold about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of your information (subject to legal obligations)
- Opt-out of marketing communications
- Request a copy of your data in portable format
- Lodge a complaint with relevant data protection authorities
6. THIRD-PARTY DISCLOSURE
We do not disclose your personal information to third parties except: (a) as required by law; (b) to service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business (subject to confidentiality agreements); (c) with your explicit consent; or (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property.
7. EXPRESS CONSENT AND UNCONSENT PROVISIONS
We do make opportunities for you as our Patron to consent to certain uses of your data outside the scope of our Policy. This includes, for example, allowing you to opt into arrangements where your personal data could be shared with a third party in exchange for compensation to you. Net Privity will not pursue any such opportunities unless they are consistent with our fiduciary principles. Moreover, any such agreement on your part would be made via our express opt-in consent process. No tricks, no hidden patterns.
Should you wish to exit any such arrangements, including continuing with Net Privity in a commercial relationship, we provide a simple "Click to Cancel" feature.
8. COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. You can control cookie preferences through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect functionality of our services.
9. CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at:
- Net Privity, Professional Corporation
- Email: info@netprivity.com
- Mailing Address: 573 Upland Rd, Emerald Hills, CA
10. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be made explicit to you.