An Employee-Owned Data Consultancy
Privacy Policy
8Bit Insights LLC (“8Bit Insights” or “Company”) understands the importance of privacy and has established a Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to govern data collection and usage, and ensure that we communicate, collect, and treat personal information securely and appropriately. Please review this Policy carefully to ensure that you (the “user”) make informed decisions about sharing your personal information with the Company. For the purposes of this privacy policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to the Company include the company’s website, 8bitinsights.com. By using the Company website, you consent to the data practices described in this policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access our services.
Collection of your Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter or blog updates, respond to a survey, fill out a form, email us, enter information on our site, or submit your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing our services. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
We may use the personal information you provide to us in the following ways:
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties are formally obligated to Security and Confidentiality Agreements with 8Bit Insights to ensure user information is secure and not used for other purposes. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Third Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Automatically Collected Information
The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company’s website.
Security of your Personal Information
The Company secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Company uses SSL Protocol for this purpose. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the internet that are beyond our control, and the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed. Please be advised that we are not liable for the nefarious acts of any third parties.
Social Media Widgets
8Bit Insight’s blog sites may include Social Media Widgets, such as the ‘Share This’ button or interactive mini programs that run on the Company sites. These widgets may collect a user’s IP address, which page(s) visited on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the widget to function properly. Social Media Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Company sites. A user’s interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policy of the specific company providing them.
Website Cookies
Deploying cookies avoids users having to re-enter information once it’s been entered in a website form and provides the Company links and pages that have been clicked or viewed during a user’s site visit. If a user provides personal data via a website form, 8Bit Insights may associate this personal data with a new or existing record in the Company’s database to identify what is most relevant to the user and tailor any future messaging (if consent is received from user).
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Chrome or Edge) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you disable cookies, some features may be disabled that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services may not function properly.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
Children Under Thirteen
The company does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Email Communication
From time to time, the Company may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Company or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from the Company, you may opt out of such communications by contacting 8Bit Insights at info@8bitinsights.com.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
Terms and Conditions
By accessing and using 8Bit Insights websites, a user consents to the Terms & Conditions contained herein in their entirety, as well as any other law or regulation that applies to the Company websites and the internet itself. If you, as a user, do not agree to these Terms & Conditions in their entirety, please exit the site.
All content featured or displayed on or through the 8Bit Insights websites, including, but not limited to, logos, icons, trademarks, text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations, software and any other information or content is owned by 8Bit Insights, its affiliated companies, partners, and licensors.
Changes to this Statement
The Company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice via email to the primary email address specified in your account or via a prominent notice on our 8Bit Insights website. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgement of the modified Policy and agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Policy and Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or role. If any provision of this Policy shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Policy and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, this Policy shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located closest to Grand Traverse County, Michigan. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and the venue in such courts.
Contact Information
8Bit Insights welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you believe that the Company has not adhered to this Policy, please contact the Company at:
8Bit Insights LLC
PO Box 413
Traverse City, MI 49685
Email Address:
info@8bitinsights.com
Phone Number:
+1 (231) 631-1073
Effective as of December 16, 2024
Collection of your Personal Information
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter or blog updates, respond to a survey, fill out a form, email us, enter information on our site, or submit your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing our services. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
We may use the personal information you provide to us in the following ways:
- To provide you with information that you request from us
- To operate and deliver the services you have requested
- To provide you with notices about your account
- To carry out the Company’s obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including for billing
- To improve our website in order to better serve you, or notify you about changes to 8bitinsights.com
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information
- For any other purpose with your consent.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties are formally obligated to Security and Confidentiality Agreements with 8Bit Insights to ensure user information is secure and not used for other purposes. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Third Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Automatically Collected Information
The Company may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the Company’s website.
Security of your Personal Information
The Company secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Company uses SSL Protocol for this purpose. When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the internet that are beyond our control, and the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed. Please be advised that we are not liable for the nefarious acts of any third parties.
Social Media Widgets
8Bit Insight’s blog sites may include Social Media Widgets, such as the ‘Share This’ button or interactive mini programs that run on the Company sites. These widgets may collect a user’s IP address, which page(s) visited on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the widget to function properly. Social Media Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Company sites. A user’s interactions with these widgets are governed by the privacy policy of the specific company providing them.
Website Cookies
Deploying cookies avoids users having to re-enter information once it’s been entered in a website form and provides the Company links and pages that have been clicked or viewed during a user’s site visit. If a user provides personal data via a website form, 8Bit Insights may associate this personal data with a new or existing record in the Company’s database to identify what is most relevant to the user and tailor any future messaging (if consent is received from user).
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Chrome or Edge) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If you disable cookies, some features may be disabled that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services may not function properly.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
- Delete your personal information from our records, and
- Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
- Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity
- Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us
- Comply with an existing legal obligation, or
- Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Children Under Thirteen
The company does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Email Communication
From time to time, the Company may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from the Company or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from the Company, you may opt out of such communications by contacting 8Bit Insights at info@8bitinsights.com.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third-party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
- We will notify the users via email
- Within 7 business days, we will notify the users via in-site notification
- Within 7 business days, we also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law.
Terms and Conditions
By accessing and using 8Bit Insights websites, a user consents to the Terms & Conditions contained herein in their entirety, as well as any other law or regulation that applies to the Company websites and the internet itself. If you, as a user, do not agree to these Terms & Conditions in their entirety, please exit the site.
All content featured or displayed on or through the 8Bit Insights websites, including, but not limited to, logos, icons, trademarks, text, graphics, photographs, images, moving images, sound, illustrations, software and any other information or content is owned by 8Bit Insights, its affiliated companies, partners, and licensors.
Changes to this Statement
The Company reserves the right to change this Policy from time to time. For example, when there are changes in our services, changes in our data protection practices, or changes in the law. When changes to this Policy are significant, we will inform you. You may receive a notice via email to the primary email address specified in your account or via a prominent notice on our 8Bit Insights website. Your continued use of the website and/or services available after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgement of the modified Policy and agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Governing Law and Jurisdiction
This Policy and Terms shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of Michigan without giving effect to any choice or conflict of law provision or role. If any provision of this Policy shall be unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall be deemed severable from this Policy and shall not affect the validity and enforceability of any remaining provisions.
Any legal suit, action, or proceeding arising out of, or related to, this Policy shall be instituted exclusively in the federal or state courts located closest to Grand Traverse County, Michigan. You waive any and all objections to the exercise of jurisdiction over you by such courts and the venue in such courts.
Contact Information
8Bit Insights welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Policy. If you believe that the Company has not adhered to this Policy, please contact the Company at:
8Bit Insights LLC
PO Box 413
Traverse City, MI 49685
Email Address:
info@8bitinsights.com
Phone Number:
+1 (231) 631-1073
Effective as of December 16, 2024