point.me Privacy Policy
Scope of this Policy
This privacy policy applies to:
- point.me and our affiliates ("point.me", "we", "us", "our").
- point.me's online properties (including our websites and websites or mobile applications that link to it), our social media pages or handles, our products and services (the "Services").
This Policy applies when you interact with us through our Services. It also applies anywhere it is linked. It does not apply to third-party websites, mobile applications, or services that may link to the Services or be linked to from the Services. Please review the privacy policies on those websites and applications directly to understand their privacy practices.
We may change this Policy from time to time. If we do, we will notify you by posting the updated version.
Information We Collect
We collect information from you directly, from the devices you use to interact with us, and from third parties. We may combine information from the Services together and with other information we obtain from our business records. We may use and share information that we aggregate (compile to create statistics that cannot identify a particular individual) or de-identify (strip information of all unique identifiers such that it cannot be linked to a particular individual) at our discretion.
Information you give us
You may provide the following information to us directly:
- Contact and professional information, including name, email address, telephone number, and job title.
- Payment information, including credit card information.
- Content you may include in survey responses.
- Information contained in your communications to us, including call recordings of customer service calls.
- Your use of our Services.
- Information you submit to inquire about or apply for a job with us.
- Any other information you submit to us.
Information we collect automatically
We and partners working on our behalf may use log files, cookies, or other digital tracking technologies to collect the following information from the device you use to interact with our Services. We also create records when you make purchases or otherwise interact with the Services.
- Device information, including IP address, device identifiers, and details about your web browser.
- Analytical information, including details about your interaction with our Services, website, app, and electronic newsletters.
- Diagnostic information, including web traffic logs.
- Advertising information, including special advertising and other unique identifiers that enable us or third parties working on our behalf to target advertisements to you. Please be aware that our advertising partners may collect information about you when you visit third-party websites or use third-party apps. They may use that information to better target advertisements to you on our behalf.
- Business record information, including records of your purchases of products and services and use of our Services.
To view a list of our partners who collect the information described above, you can visit our Cookie List
Information We Collect From Other Sources
We may collect the following information about you from third-party sources:
- Information about your interests, activities, and employment history from social networks and other places where you choose to share information publicly.
- Information about your interaction with advertisements on our Services from online advertising companies.
- If you decide to invite others to the Services, we will collect your and the other person’s names, email addresses, and/or phone numbers to send an email or text message and follow up with the other person. You agree that you will obtain the other person’s consent before giving us his or her contact information. You also agree that you will not send us the contact information of a minor. We will inform any other person you invite that you gave us his or her information in the invitation email.
How We Use Your Information
We may use any of the information we collect for the following purposes:
- Service functionality: To provide you with our products and services, including to take steps to enter a contract for sale or for services, create your account, bill or invoice for services, process payments, fulfill orders, send service communications (including renewal reminders), and conduct general business operations, such as accounting, recordkeeping, and audits.
- Service improvement: To improve and grow our Services, including to develop new products and services and understand how our Services are being used, our customer base and purchasing trends, and the effectiveness of our marketing.
- Personalization: To offer you recommendations and tailor the Services to your preferences.
- Advertising and marketing: To send you marketing communications, personalize the advertisements you see on our Services and third-party online properties, and measure the effectiveness of our advertising. We may share your information with business partners, online advertising partners, and social media platforms for this purpose.
- Recruitment: To assess your qualifications in relation to our employment requirements and communicate with you about the recruitment process.
- Security: To protect and secure our Services, assets, network, and business operations, and to detect, investigate, and prevent theft, unauthorized use, or abuse of the Services and other activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.
- Legal compliance: To comply with legal process, such as warrants, subpoenas, court orders, and lawful regulatory or law enforcement requests and to comply with applicable legal and regulatory requirements.
Information about SMS Messages We May Send to You: Subscribers to point.me’s text message marketing campaign can opt-in here to receive periodic text messages regarding special offers, your subscription, or your concierge requests. Text “HELP” to 1-646-718-2893 for help. Text “STOP” to 1-646-718-2893 to cancel. Messages and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider. For all questions about this text message marketing campaign, you can visit support or call 1-646-718-2893.
How We Share Your Information
We may share any of the information we collect with the following recipients:
- Affiliates: We share information with other members of our group of companies.
- Service providers: We engage vendors to perform specific business functions on our behalf, and they may receive information about you from us or collect it directly. These vendors are obligated by contract to use information that we share only for the purpose of providing these business functions, which include:
- Supporting Service functionality, such as vendors that support event registration, customer service and customer relationship management, subscription fulfillment, payment processing, freight services, application development, list cleansing, postal mailings, and communications (email, fax).
- Auditing and accounting firms, such as firms that assist us in the creation of our financial records.
- Professional services consultants, such as firms that perform analytics, assist with improving our business, provide legal services, or supply project-based resources and assistance.
- Analytics and marketing services, including entities that analyze traffic on our online properties and assist with identifying and communicating with potential customers.
- Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response, service notifications, and fraud prevention.
- Information technology vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting and maintenance, data and software storage, and network operation.
- Marketing vendors, such as entities that support distribution of marketing emails.
- Business partners: From time to time, we may share your contact information with other organizations for marketing purposes.
- Online advertising partners: We partner with companies that assist us in advertising our Services, including partners that use cookies and online tracking technologies to collect information to personalize, retarget, and measure the effectiveness of advertising.
- Social media platforms: If you interact with us on social media platforms, the platform may be able to collect information about you and your interaction with us. If you interact with social media objects on our Services (for example, by clicking on a Facebook “like” button), both the platform and your connections on the platform may be able to view that activity. To control this sharing of information, please review the privacy policy of the relevant social media platform.
- Government entities/Law enforcement: We may share information when we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so to respond to lawful subpoenas, warrants, court orders, or other regulatory or law enforcement requests, or where necessary to protect our property or rights or the health and safety of our employees, contractors, customers, or other individuals.
- Other businesses in the context of a commercial transaction: We may change our ownership or corporate organization while providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your information as described in this policy.
Special Note Regarding Mobile Information: We will not share your mobile information with third parties or affiliates for promotional or marketing purposes.
Security
We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services. While we use these precautions to safeguard your information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks, systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are operated on our behalf.
Your Options and Rights Regarding Your Information
Your Account: Please visit your point.me account to update your account information.
Email Unsubscribe: If you do not wish to receive marketing information from us or wish to opt out of future email promotions from us, please contact us. Please note that all promotional email messages you receive from us will include an option to opt out of future email communications.
Ad Choices: You have options to limit the information that we and our partners collect for online advertising purposes.
- You may disable cookies in your browser or mobile device using their settings menus. Your mobile device may give you the option to disable advertising functionality. Because we use cookies to support Service functionality, disabling cookies may also disable some elements of our online properties.
- The following industry organizations offer opt-out choices for companies that participate in them: the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative.
- You may contact us directly.
If you exercise these options, please be aware that you may still see advertising, but it will not be personalized. Nor will exercising these options prevent other companies from displaying personalized ads to you.
If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.
Do Not Track: Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. Our information collection and disclosure practices and the choices that we provide to you will continue to operate as described in this privacy policy regardless of whether a Do Not Track signal is received.
Jurisdiction-specific rights: You may have certain rights with respect to your personal information depending on your location or residency. Please see “privacy disclosures for specific jurisdictions” below. Please contact us to exercise your rights.
Special Information for Job Applicants
When you apply for a job with us, we may collect information from you, including:
- Information you provide in connection with your application.
- Information that you make available in your social media accounts.
- Information about you that is available publicly.
- Information that you authorize us to collect via third parties, including former employers or references.
In certain circumstances, you may submit your application for employment through a third-party service that displays our job posting. We do not control the privacy practices of these third-party services. Please review their privacy policies carefully prior to submitting your application materials.
Other Important Information
Data retention
We may store information about you for as long as we have a legitimate business need for it.
Information about children
The Services are intended for users who are thirteen years old and older. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If we discover that we have inadvertently collected information from anyone younger than the age of 13, we will delete that information. Please contact us with any concerns.
Privacy Disclosures for Specific Jurisdictions
California
Your California Privacy Rights; "Shine the Light" Law
We do not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes.
California Consumer Privacy Act
The California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA") provides California residents with rights to receive certain disclosures regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of information about them, as well as rights to know/access, correct, delete, and limit disclosure of personal information. You have the right to be free from discrimination based on your exercise of your CCPA rights. To the extent that we collect personal information that is subject to the CCPA, that information, our practices, and your rights are described below.
Notice at Collection Regarding the Categories of Personal Information Collected
You have the right to receive notice of certain information about our data collection, use, and disclosure. The following table summarizes the categories of personal information we collect; the categories of sources of that information; whether we disclose, sell, or share that information to service providers or third parties, respectively; and the criteria we use to determine the retention period for such information. The categories we use to describe personal information are those enumerated in the CCPA. We collect this personal information for the purposes described above in "How We Use Your Information."
Category | Information type | Source | We disclose to: | We sell to/share with: |
---|---|---|---|---|
Identifiers |
| You; our social media pages; third party subscription service providers | Service Providers | Business partners |
Financial Information |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Commercial Information |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Geolocation Information |
| You; our analytics and advertising partners | Service Providers | Advertising partners (coarse location only) |
Internet or Electronic Network Activity Information |
| You; our analytics and advertising partners | Service Providers | Advertising partners |
Audio, Electronic, Visual, Thermal, Olfactory, or Similar Information |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Professional or Employment-Related Information |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Education Information |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Inferences Drawn About You |
| You; our analytics and advertising partners | Service Providers | Advertising partners |
Content of Communications |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Communications Metadata |
| You; Service Providers | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
Contacts |
| You | Service Providers | Not sold/shared |
We determine the retention period for each of the categories of personal information listed above based on (1) the length of time we need to retain the information to achieve the business or commercial purpose for which it was obtained, (2) any legal or regulatory requirements applicable to such information, (3) internal operational needs, and (4) any need for the information based on any actual or anticipated investigation or litigation.
Entities to whom we disclose information for business purposes are service providers, which are companies that we engage to conduct activities on our behalf. We restrict service providers from using personal information for any purpose that is not related to our engagement.
Entities to whom we "sell" or with whom we "share" information are third parties. Under the CCPA, a business "sells" personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for monetary or other benefit. A company may be considered a third party either because we disclose personal information to the company for something other than an enumerated business purpose under California law, or because its contract does not restrict it from using personal information for purposes unrelated to the service it provides to us. A business "shares" personal information when it discloses personal information to a company for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.
Your rights under the CCPA
- Opt out of sale or sharing of personal information: You have the right to opt out of our sale or sharing of your personal information to third parties. To exercise this right, please click the link in our website footer titled 'Your privacy choices' or contact us. Your right to opt out does not apply to our disclosure of personal information to service providers.
- Know and request access to and correction or deletion of personal information: You have the right to request access to personal information collected about you and information regarding the source of that personal information, the purposes for which we collect it, and the third parties and service providers to whom we sell, share, or disclose it. You also have the right to request in certain circumstances that we correct personal information that we have collected about you and to delete personal information that we have collected directly from you. Please contact us to exercise these rights.
Financial Incentives
We may offer you the opportunity to participate in special promotions and programs from time to time. Your participation is voluntary. If we provide this offer, we will obtain your consent to collect your Personal Information in connection with your participation. The category of Personal Information we collect is identifiers, including contact information, which we use to facilitate your participation in the program and to market to you. If we run the program jointly with a business partner, we may disclose the information to that business partner.
You may opt in to the program using the means we present to you, such as an online registration page, at the time we make the offer. You may opt out of the program at any time by following the instructions in the 'Contact' section.
The program we offer may qualify as a financial incentive program (FIP) under California law. We are required to explain how the value you receive from FIPs is reasonably related to the value that we receive from the Personal Information you provide to us. We use the Personal Information you provide to market to you, including by sending you direct marketing emails. Our good faith estimate of the value of your Personal Information is $.15. We calculated that value using the aggregate value to the business of your Personal Information divided by the total number of consumers. We believe this value is reasonable because it takes into consideration the average revenue generated from each point.me user.
Residents of Other States
Residents of other states may have the following rights:
- Opt out of "sales" of personal information and use of their personal information for "targeted advertising," as those terms are defined under applicable law.
- Opt out of "profiling" under certain circumstances, as defined under applicable law.
- Confirm processing of and access to personal information under certain circumstances.
- Correct personal information under certain circumstances.
- Delete personal information under certain circumstances.
You may exercise any rights you have by contacting us by using one of the methods listed below.
Contact information, submitting requests, and our response procedures
Contact
Please contact us if you have questions or wish to take any action with respect to information to which this privacy policy applies.
Email: support@point.me
Mail: 201 Varick Street, Unit 493, New York, NY 10014
Making a request to exercise your rights
Submitting requests: You may request to exercise your rights by submitting the form found by clicking the link in our website footer titled 'Your privacy options' or making a request using the contact information above.
Residents of certain states may, under certain circumstances, authorize another individual or a business, called an authorized agent, to make requests on their behalf.
We may have a reason under the law why we do not have to comply with your request, or why we may comply with it in a more limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.
Verification: We must verify your identity before responding to your request. We verify your identity by asking you to provide personal identifiers that we can match against information we may have collected from you previously. We may need to follow up with you to request more information to verify identity.
We will not use personal information we collect in connection with verifying or responding to your request for any purpose other than responding to your request.
Appeals
You may appeal a denial of your request by contacting us as described in the notice of denial.