Privacy Policy / Terms of Use

INTRODUCTION

1.1. PURPOSE OF POLICY. A Better DivorceTM (“ABetterDivorce.com”) is committed to respecting the privacy rights of its customers, visitors, and other users of the website located at www.ABetterDivorce.com.com (the “Site”), our mobile application and/ or of any products, software, or services provided by ABetterDivorce.com (collectively, the “Service”). ABetterDivorce.com created this Website Privacy Policy (this “Policy”) to give you confidence as you visit and use the Site and/or Services, to demonstrate our commitment to fair information practices and the protection of privacy and to inform you about our practices relating to the collection, use and disclosure of your Personal Information (as defined below) that may be acquired or provided through your access to or use of the Site or Services. This Policy is only applicable to the Site and Services, and not to any other third party websites or services that you may be able to access from the Site, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Policy. This Policy also explains how you can contact us if you have a question about, want to make a change to or want to remove any Personal Information about you that ABetterDivorce.com may be holding.

INFORMATION COLLECTION PRACTICES

2.1. WHAT INFORMATION DOES ABETTERDIVORCE.COM COLLECT?
In operating the Site and providing the Services, ABetterDivorce.com may collect certain information, including without limitation the following:

(a) PERSONAL INFORMATION. When you sign up for an account at the Site or register for any Services, ABetterDivorce.com may ask you for personal information including, but not limited to your name, email address, phone number and credit card information (“Personal Information”).

From time to time we will provide you the opportunity to participate in email surveys on through site. If you participate, we will request certain personal information from you. Participation in these surveys is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes, contact phone number and address.

We use this information to gain insight about our product and ways to improve it.

We use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys. That company is prohibited from using our users’ personal information for any other purpose. We will not share the personal information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

If you no longer wish to participate in our surveys you may follow the unsubscribe mechanisms in the survey emails you receive.
To the extent that any non-Personal Information is combined with Personal Information, we treat the combined information as Personal Information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.

(b) AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION. Our servers automatically recognize information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website, which may include information such as the domain names and Internet Protocol (IP) addresses of visitors to the Site, as well as the browser type and the date and time of the browser’s access to the Site. No Personal Information about you is revealed in this process (but please see the following sentence) and we generally treat information collected by such process as non-Personal Information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered Personal Information by local law, we treat these identifiers as Personal Information. The Site may also gather anonymous “traffic data” that does not personally identify you, but that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer.

(c) TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES.

ABetterDivorce.com and our partners (marketing tracking), affiliates, or analytics, use technologies such as cookies, beacons, tags, and scripts, to analyze trends, administer the website, tracking users’ movements around the website, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by these companies on an individual and aggregated basis.

We use cookies for our shopping cart, to remember users’ settings (e.g. language preference), for authentication. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you reject cookies, you may still use our website, but your ability to use some features or areas of our website may be limited.
We partner with a third party to manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on this website and other sites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving your interest-based ads, you may opt-out by clicking. Please note that this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.

We use Local Storage Objects, such as HTML5, to store content information and preferences. Third parties with whom we partner to provide certain features on our website or to display advertising based upon your web browsing activity also use Flash cookies or HTML5 to collect and store information. Various browsers may offer their own management tools for removing HTML5.

(e) COMMUNICATIONS. When you send email or other communications to ABetterDivorce.com, we may retain those communications in order to process your inquiries, respond to your requests and improve our services.

USE AND SHARING OF INFORMATION

3.1. WHAT DOES ABETTERDIVORCE.COM DO WITH COLLECTED INFORMATION?

(a) PERSONAL INFORMATION. We will not share your Personal Information with any third parties without your consent, except to our affiliates or trusted business partners for the purpose of providing you with, and operating and maintaining, the Site and Services, to comply with applicable law or as otherwise specified herein. We may use your Personal Information and/or share it with certain third parties to activate and maintain your account, verify your identity, check your qualifications, send you transactional emails, process your payments for services, or follow up or resolve with transactions or queries initiated on the Site, including, but not limited to processing your credit card payment, if applicable. We use Live Chat to assist you if you have questions while using our site or regarding your order. We may also use your contact information to inform you of any changes to the Site or Services, respond to your questions, inquiries, comments and instructions, take good faith steps to enforce the terms of use and terms of service with respect to the Site and Services, maintain the security and integrity of the Site and Services or our systems, or to send you additional information about ABetterDivorce.com.

(b) LEGAL DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION. Without limitation to the foregoing, we may disclose Personal Information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on ABetterDivorce.com or its parent company, subsidiaries or affiliates, (2) protect and defend the rights or property of ABetterDivorce.com or the users of the Site, or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of the Site (such as in response to an authorized subpoena, governmental request or investigation, or as otherwise permitted or required by law). You understand that such disclosure may be made without notice to you and without your consent.

(c) ACCESS TO INFORMATION. Unfortunately, we do not maintain any procedures for you to review changes to some of the information that we collect about you. If you have administrative privileges to your account. You may be able to modify the account information that is modifiable in the Administration Portal. If you believe that any Personal Information is incorrect or if you would like any Personal Information deleted, we will make good faith efforts to provide you with access so you can request that we correct such Personal Information if it is inaccurate or delete such Personal Information if ABetterDivorce.com is not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made by contacting us in accordance with Section 6.1 below. In addition, you may request that we deactivate your account by contacting us in accordance with Section 6.1 below. We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe.

(d) RETENTION OF INFORMATION. ABetterDivorce.com will retain Your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and to comply with applicable laws, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements and your consent to such purposes(s) remains valid after termination of ABetterDivorce.com’s relationship with you.

(e) TESTIMONIALS. We post customer testimonials on our web site which may contain personally identifiable information. We do obtain the customer’s consent via email prior to posting the testimonial to post their name along with their testimonial.

If you would like to request to have your testimonial removed you may contact us for removal.

SECURITY

ABetterDivorce.com has implemented and maintains administrative, technical and physical security measures (including data encryption measures) to help prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, theft, misuse, destruction and alteration of your Personal Information, but we cannot guarantee that such measures will prevent any unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, theft, misuse, destruction or alteration of your Personal Information. ABetterDivorce.com will notify you of any suspected or confirmed unauthorized access, disclosure, loss, theft, misuse, destruction or alteration of your Personal Information to the extent required by and in accordance with applicable state and federal law. We may attempt to notify you so that you can take appropriate protective steps, or we may post a notice on the Site if a security breach occurs. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing in which case we will notify you in writing of such security breach.

WEBSITE AREAS BEYOND ABETTERDIVORCE.COM’S CONTROL

5.1. PUBLIC FORUMS. This Site may include interactive forums such as blogs, message boards, discussion forums and chat rooms. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your Personal Information. ABetterDivorce.com will not be liable for any disclosure of your Personal Information or other information as a result of your use of any such public forums, that you display publicly or that becomes publicly known as a result of your actions. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

5.2. THIRD PARTY WEBSITES. This Site may contain links to other websites. If you choose to visit any other websites other than the Site, we will not be responsible for the privacy practices or content of those other Websites, and you shall bear all risk of access to such websites. It is solely your responsibility to review the privacy and usage policies at those websites and confirm that you understand and agree with their policies.

5.3. SOCIAL MEDIA WIDGETS. Our website includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook Like button, and Widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on our website. These Features may collect your Internet protocol address, which page you are visiting on our website, and may set a cookie to enable the Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.

CONTACT INFORMATION AND POLICY UPDATES

6.1. CONTACTING US If you have any questions about this Policy, our practices related to this Site please feel contact us at info@ABetterDivorce.com.com or A Better Divorce, 2447 Pacific Coast Highway, Suite 100, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.

6.2. UPDATES AND CHANGES We may update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Platform Scope

ABetterDivorce.com collects information under the direction of its Clients, and has no direct relationship with the individuals whose personal data it processes. If you are a customer of one of our Clients and would no longer like to be contacted by one of our Clients that user our service, please contact the Client that you interact with directly. If you are a Client and would like to update your account please contact us. ABetterDivorce.com may transfer personal information to companies that help us provide our service. Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by the service agreements with our Clients.

ABetterDivorce.com has no direct relationship with the individuals whose personal data it processes. An individual who seeks access, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccurate data should direct his query to ABetterDivorce.com’s Client (the data controller). If requested to remove data we will respond within a reasonable timeframe.

We will retain personal data we process on behalf of our Clients for as long as needed to provide services to our Client. ABetterDivorce.com will retain this personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

Updated 6/10/2020

Original EFFECTIVE DATE: January 26, 2016