Privacy Policy  

Pacific Northwest Shredding, LLC ("us", "we", or "our") operates the www.pacificnwshredding.com website (hereinafter referred to as "website").

We also provide secure information, media and product destruction (hereinafter referred to as “services”).

This page informs you of our information management policies and the choices you have regarding the collection, use, and retention of Personal Data when you use our website, when you voluntarily share it with us, and/or when you utilize our services, all of which shall be considered as the establishment by you of a business relationship with us.

Personal Data is collected through a number of channels. At no time will we collect more Personal Data for purposes other than those outlined herein, share it with third parties unless legally compelled, or retain it for longer than necessary.

The legal basis for our collection and use of Personal Data includes consent, contractual obligations, legal obligations, and legitimate interests.

While using our website, we may ask you to voluntarily provide us with certain Personal Data. Where such Personal Data is requested by us and voluntarily supplied by you, you are agreeing to the terms of this policy. Such Personal Data may include:

• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, City, ZIP/Postal code
• Depending on your cookie preferences, we may collect your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic information.

We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications by emailing a request to be unsubscribed to us at rj@privatavox.com, by use of the unsubscribe link provided in our communications, or by other easy to follow instructions provided in any communications we send. 

Personal Data may be collected, used, and retained in the course of a Data Controller or Data Subject using our services. Such Personal Data may include name, address, account numbers, non-public personal financial information, transactional information and activity.

The Personal Data of employees, contractors and agents will be collected, used, and retained to fulfill our legal and contractual obligations. 

Personal Data collected from our website and cookies will be used to:

• To assess website performance
• Allow you to participate in interactive features of the website when you choose to do so
• Provide customer support
• Gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the website
• Monitor the usage of the website
• Detect, prevent, and address technical issues
• Provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted to not receive such information.

Personal Data collected from clients using our services may be used to

• Fulfill our financial obligations
• Facilitate transactions and regulatory reporting
• Identify authorized agents
• Provide customer support
• Validate and fulfill Data Subject Requests
• Communicate confidentially

Personal Data collected for secure destruction is not accessed, stored, used or retained for longer than it takes to render it inaccessible and unretrievable at which point such Personal Data no longer exists.

Personal Data collected from employees, contractors, and agents may be used to:

• Fulfill our financial obligations
• Facilitate transactions and regulatory reporting
• Identify authorized agents
• Validate and fulfill Data Subject Requests

Communicate confidentially

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer Personal Data to and within the United States and process it there.

We reserve the right to transfer your Personal Data to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

We will take reasonable steps to ensure that Personal Data collected, used, and retained is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and that your Personal Data will not be transferred to a custodian with inadequate data protection and privacy controls in place.

Additionally, we strive to adhere to relevant specifications of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework which have been determined to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data transferred from the European Union to the United States.

In recognition of the fact that citizens of jurisdictions outside the United States are afforded the data protection and privacy rights of their home countries and regional jurisdictions, we strive to comply with all data protection and privacy laws, including but not limited to those in the United Kingdom, European Union, Japan, and Australia. 

We may disclose your Personal Data if given reasonable cause in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

• To comply with a legal obligation
• To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing
• To protect the personal safety of users or the public

To protect against legal or civil liability

We strive at all times and under all circumstances to use reasonable, commercially acceptable methods and processes to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access. Though the security of your Personal Data is very important to us, no method of transmission over the Internet, no method of electronic storage, or no other processing methodology is 100% secure.

Additionally, we will not share or sell Personal Data to any third party without prior affirmative, revokable consent from a Data Subject.

You have the right to access, rectify, prohibit automated processing or request the deletion of any Personal Data you provide to us, or that we may possess in our role as a data processor to a data controller. You also have rights to actively consent to the sharing or sale of your Personal Data, use of your Personal Data for purposes other than those specifically defined and necessary, or retention of Personal Data beyond what is necessary to accomplish the defined and necessary purposes.

Upon receipt of a verified and valid written request from you, we will provide access to any of the Personal Data we possess about you and correct or amend such personal Data as may be legitimately warranted upon being provided written notification from you, delete your Personal Data from our records provided there are no open transactions, including but not limited to outstanding Fees owed to us. Your Personal Data will be retained for 5 years from you last interaction with us or the resolution of any outstanding transaction whichever is longer. 

Access to historical information, and all warrantees relevant to the use of our website and Service are forfeited upon deletion. We reserve the right to retain whatever information is required to satisfy its legal or regulatory retention obligations.

You may access your Data Subject Rights by submission of our Data Subject Request form. 

We will respond to valid DSR submissions within 30 days of receipt.

It may be necessary for us to retain subcontractors to perform services. When this occurs, we will perform and demonstrate reasonable due diligence in their selection and use. Such subcontractor due diligence will include an executed, commensurate, written contract.

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our website ("Service Providers"), provide the service on our behalf, perform website-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our website is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website.

• Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Behavioral Marketing

We use marketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our website. Depending upon your selected cookie settings, we and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our website. You are full control of our use of Behavioral Marketing via your selected cookie preferences.

• Google Ads (AdWords)

Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on - https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout - for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

• Facebook

Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.

You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950

To opt-out from Facebook's interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook's Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation

Links to Other Sites

Our website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children's Privacy

Our website, organization and/or services DO NOT address anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect Personal Data from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We review and update this Privacy Policy on an annual basis or as made necessary by global regulatory developments.

Should this Privacy Policy be materially amended in the course of such review, you will be notified via an email to the email address of record. The current effective date and reference to the prior effective date of the policy are listed at the top of this document

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