Last Update: June, 12, 2024
We, the owners, operate the Penpoin.com Website to provide information Services to you. We refer to the same meaning when using the terms Owner, We, Penpoin, Penpoin.com, Our Site, Our Site, or equivalent terms to refer to this Owner or this Site. We also use these terms on the Affiliate Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Comment Policy pages to refer to meanings on this page.
Through this page, we explain to you, website visitors, our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decides to use our services, the Penpoin.com website.
If you choose to use our services, you agree to our policies regarding collecting and using information as described in this Privacy Policy and this Disclaimer. We collect Personal Information to provide and improve the Service to you. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.
You may find the terms in this Privacy Policy, and we emphasize that they have the same meaning as in our Terms of Use, which you can access at Penpoin.com unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy.
Collection and Use of Information
We may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, email, username, and password, when you visit this Website. And we use this information to improve a better experience when using our services and, but not limited to, the following:
- Marketing/ Promotional
- Creating user account
- Testimonials
- Customer feedback collection
- User-to-user comments
- Manage user account
If we want to use your information for any other purpose, we will ask you for consent and will use your information only after receiving your consent and then only for the purpose(s) for which you granted consent unless we are required to do otherwise by law.
User Consent
Obtaining Your Consent
We respect your privacy and aim to be transparent about how we use your data. In most cases, we collect and use your information as described in this Privacy Policy. However, we may require your consent to use your information beyond these purposes. Here are some scenarios where we’ll seek your consent:
- Using your data for marketing purposes: In addition to service-related communication (e.g., account updates and password resets), we may seek your consent to send you promotional emails or marketing messages.
- Sharing your data with third-party providers: In addition to the third-party services mentioned in this policy (e.g.,
Google Analytics , Disqus), we may occasionally partner with other companies to offer you additional features or services. If this partnership involves sharing any of your data, we’ll ask for your explicit consent before doing so.
How We Obtain Your Consent
We will obtain your consent through clear and easily understandable methods. This may include:
- Opt-in checkboxes during data collection forms on our website.
- Prompts within the website interface for specific data uses.
Withdrawing Your Consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent for data use at any time. Here’s how you can do that:
- Manage Cookie Settings: You can manage cookie preferences through your browser settings or by following the instructions in our linked Cookie Policy.
- Contact Us: You can directly contact us through [insert contact information] to request withdrawal of consent for specific data uses.
Impact of Withdrawing Consent
While withdrawing consent won’t affect your ability to use our core services, it might limit your access to certain features or functionalities that rely on the data in question.
We will strive to accommodate your request within a reasonable timeframe. Please note that data deletion requests might be subject to legal or regulatory requirements.
By incorporating this “User Consent” section, you clearly communicate how you obtain user consent for additional data uses and how users can exercise control over their information.
Data Logs
Every time you visit our Service, we inform you that we collect information your browser sends to us, called log data. This Log Data may include information such as and may not be limited to your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, Our Services that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time you spend on those pages, and other statistics. And we collect/receive information about you when you fill-up the registration form or otherwise submit personal information
Cookies
Cookies are files with data commonly used as anonymous unique identifiers. They are sent to your browser from the Websites you visit and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Our Website uses these “cookies” to improve our services by collecting related information. You have the option to accept or reject these cookies, and you will know when cookies are sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, your access to use some of our services will become more limited.
We also use third-party advertisements on Penpoin.com to support us in operating our Site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies and web beacons when they advertise on Penpoin.com, which will also send these advertisers (such as Google through the Google AdSense program) information, including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit the Site. We. And in some cases, did you install Flash or other related advertiser technology? Such technologies are intended for geographic targeting. They may also be used to display more relevant personalized ads based on the pages you visit.
You have choices about these personalized ads. You can opt out of advertisements by visiting Ad Settings. As part of our compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we will not serve you personalized advertising if you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA).
However, we may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our advertising features (e.g., to prevent fraud or enable frequency capping). To learn more about how we use these and your choices in relation to these tracking technologies, please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Google Analytics
We use
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
- https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
We have enabled IP anonymization on Penpoin.com because we respect your privacy. Such activation means that your IP address will be shortened (i.e., anonymized) by Google in member countries of the European Union and other countries that are part of the Agreement on the EEA. The full IP address will be sent to Google servers in the US and shortened there only in exceptional cases. Google may use the information collected to analyze this Website and provide Us with reports to enable Us to improve Your experience in the future.
To further improve the quality of these reports, we use
Service provider
We may employ third-party companies and individuals for the following purposes:
- To provide Services on Our behalf;
- To facilitate Our Services;
- To perform services related to the Service; or
- To help us analyze how our services are used.
We want to inform you, our service users, that these third parties have access to your personal information because they perform tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated to keep confidential, not disclose and not use the information for any other purpose.
How we share your information
We will not transfer your personal information to any third party without seeking your consent, except in limited circumstances as described below:
- Ad service
- Sponsors
- Marketing agencies
- Analytics
- Data collection & process
We require such third parties to use the personal information we transfer to them only for the purpose for which it was transferred and not to retain it for longer than is required for fulfilling the said purpose.
We may also disclose your personal information for the following: (1) to comply with applicable law, regulation, court order, or other legal process; (2) to enforce your agreements with us, including this Privacy Policy; or (3) to respond to claims that your use of the Service violates any third-party rights. If the Service or our company is merged or acquired with another company, your information will be one of the assets that is transferred to the new owner.
Retention of your information
We will retain your personal information with us for 90 days to 2 years after user accounts remain idle or for as long as we need it to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, as detailed in this Privacy Policy. We may need to retain certain information for longer periods such as record-keeping / reporting in accordance with applicable law or for other legitimate reasons like enforcement of legal rights, fraud prevention, etc. Residual anonymous information and aggregate information, neither of which identifies you (directly or indirectly), may be stored indefinitely.
Security
We value your trust in providing us with your personal information when visiting our Site. Therefore, We strive to use commercially acceptable means of protecting Your Personal Information. But remember that no electronic transmission or storage method is 100% secure and reliable online. Therefore, We cannot guarantee complete security.
Your rights
Depending on the law that applies, you may have a right to access and rectify or erase your personal data or receive a copy of your personal data, restrict or object to the active processing of your data, ask us to share (port) your personal information to another entity, withdraw any consent you provided to us to process your data, a right to lodge a complaint with statutory authority and such other rights as may be relevant under applicable laws. To exercise these rights, you can write to us at wong@penpoin.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
You may opt-out of
Please note that if you do not allow us to collect or process the required personal information or withdraw your consent to process it for the required purposes, you may not be able to access or use the services for which your information was sought.
Links to Other Sites
Our Services may contain links to other sites to improve the quality of Our Services or for other purposes such as, but not limited to, Affiliates. You will be redirected to the associated Site if you click on a third-party link. Note that we do not operate these external sites. Therefore, We strongly encourage you to review the Privacy Policy of this Website. We have no control over and, therefore, have no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services linked to this Site.
Contact and Comment Form
We integrated a contact form to enable you to easily contact Us or leave comments on pages of our Website. If you use this form, we will collect information such as your name, email address, requests, or comments. We only use this data for several things, including processing requests, replying to you (by email) when necessary, and filtering spam comments and requests. We will not use this data for marketing purposes or sell it to third parties except for services provided by Disqus.com (“Disqus”).
We may use services from Disqus.com or the like to make it easier for you to discuss with us or other visitors. Meanwhile, the information you send to Disqus is your responsibility, not Ours, including the email address and comments you leave on the Service. Likewise, we are not responsible for any actions these services take concerning you, including (but not limited to) advertisements displayed by Disqus.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. Therefore, We advise you to review this page for any changes periodically. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes take effect immediately after they are posted on this page.
Contact us
If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Disclaimer
Penpoin.com strives to provide accurate, credible, professional, insightful, and up-to-date materials for you, our visitors. However, our material is for reference and general information only, not legal advice, professional advice, or suggestions to encourage you to take related actions.
We do not warrant and accept no legal responsibility for the accuracy, reliability, misinformation, or completeness of any material on Penpoin.com or any site linked to Penpoin.com. You should seek appropriate professional advice in making decisions based on the material we present on our website. You may not fully or partially rely on the material we provide to make a decision.
Although We use one-to-one communication (using the words “I” and “you”), it is only limited to the ease of communication. This is not professional, legal, or advice on taking action. We do not guarantee that our communication materials are accurate, complete, and up-to-date.