esellas™ Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 15, 2022
Thank you for using esellas.
We are committed to protecting your privacy and, for that reason, we have adopted this Privacy Policy to explain our data collection, use, and disclosure practices for the esellas.com website and any other tools, products, or services provided by esellas (including our ella™ technology platform and mobile app) that link to or reference this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Services”). The Services are owned and operated by Esellas, LLC, a New Jersey limited liability company (“esellas”, “we”, “us” or “our”).
This Privacy Policy applies to information esellas collects through the Services, as well as other information provided to us online or offline by third parties, when we associate that information with users of the Services; however, it does not apply to information collected from our employees, contractors, or vendors. It also does not apply information that you ask us to share with third parties or is collected by Online Tool Providers (as defined in Section 4 below).
Finally, if a business or employer on whose behalf you are using the Services has entered into an agreement with esellas that governs consulting, staff augmentation or other professional services that esellas provides to you or access to our ella™ technology platform and/or mobile app (each, a “Client Agreement”), the confidentiality and privacy terms of the Client Agreement will control with respect to any information collected under the Client Agreement in the event of a conflict with this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy describes, among other things:
Personal and other information we collect about you;
How we use your information;
How we may share your information with third parties; and
Your choices regarding the personal information we collect about you.
1. CONSENT
By accessing or using the Services, you consent to this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not access or use the Services. Information gathered through the Services may be transferred, used, and stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers or we are located.
If you use the Services, you agree to the transfer, use, and storage of your Personal Information (as defined below) in those countries. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. You agree that all transactions relating to the Services or esellas are deemed to occur in the United States, where our servers are located.
2. COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL AND OTHER INFORMATION
When you register for or use our Services, we collect Personal Information. By “Personal Information”, we mean information that can identify or reasonably be linked to an individual, such as:
Names;
Personal or business addresses;
Email addresses;
Phone numbers;
Password and other login information for the ella mobile app; and
Information contained in any message, profile or image you submit to us.
Certain aspects of the Services may also access certain features of your mobile device, including its camera, location services (GPS), microphone, contacts, and media library and collect information from those features, such as photographs, videos, your precise location, audio recordings, and contact information. You consent to this access.
You may choose not to provide Personal Information or prevent the Services from accessing certain features of your mobile device, subject to the controls offered by your mobile device’s operating system, but this may prevent you from receiving certain features of the Services.
We also collect non-Personal Information relating to the Services, that is, information that does not personally identify an individual. The non-Personal Information we collect includes how you interact with the Services, information generally collected or “logged” by Internet websites or Internet services when accessed or used by users, and information about your web browser or device accessing or using the Services.
Examples of the non-Personal Information we collect are:
The pages of our website that you viewed during a visit or the features of the ella mobile app you use;
What information or content you view or interact with using the Services;
Language preferences;
The city and state in which you are located (but not your precise geographic location); and
Unique identifiers are not connected and cannot reasonably be connected to your identity.
We will not use non-Personal Information to try to identify you. If we associate any non-Personal Information with information that personally identifies you, then we will treat it as Personal Information. As discussed in more detail below, we sometimes use cookies and other automatic information gathering technologies to gather non-Personal Information.
Information collected by the Services may be collected by us or one of our Service Providers or Online Tool Providers (as defined in Section 4 below).
3. USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect to:
Assist us in providing, maintaining, and protecting the Services;
Set up, maintain, and protect accounts to use certain aspects of the Services;
Improve our online operations;
Process transactions;
Provide customer service;
Communicate with you, such as respond to messages you submit to us, provide you with account - or transaction-related communications, or other newsletters, RSS feeds, and/or other communications relating to the Services or esellas;
Send information and other content that is customized to your interests or preferences;
Perform research and analysis aimed at improving our products and services and developing new products or services; and
Manage and maintain the systems that provide the Services.
4. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties as described below.
We may disclose Personal Information to provide the Services, or when you authorize or instruct us to do so, for example, when you use the Services to submit content or profile information. We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Service Providers.
By “Service Providers”, we mean companies, agents, contractors, service providers, or others engaged in performing functions on our behalf (such as processing of payments, provision of data storage, hosting of our Services, marketing of our products and services, and conducting audits). When we use a Service Provider, we require that the Service Provider use and disclose the Personal and non-Personal Information received only to provide their services to us or as required by applicable law.
We may also disclose Personal Information and non-Personal Information to Online Tool Providers. By “Online Tool Provider”, we mean a licensor of software that we include in or use with the Services, including an API or SDK, that provides a specialized function or service to us and that requires the transmission of Personal Information and/or non-Personal Information to the Online Tool Provider. Online Tool Providers may have the right to use personal and non-Personal Information about you for their business purposes.
Its privacy policy describes the use and disclosure of Personal and non-Personal Information by an Online Tool Provider. See Section 5 below for some of our key Online Tool Providers.
We may also disclose your Personal Information to third parties when we believe, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (a) enforce or apply the terms and conditions of the Services, including investigation of potential violations thereof, (b) comply with legal or regulatory requirements or an enforceable governmental request, (c) protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users or other third parties, (d) prevent a crime or protect national security, or (e) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues.
Finally, we reserve the right to transfer information (including your Personal Information) to a third party in the event of a sale, merger, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of our company relating to the Services or in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, liquidation, or receivership of our business. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to notify you of such transfer, for example, via email or posting a notice on our website or through the Services.
Lastly, we may also disclose non-Personal Information, aggregated with information about our other users, to our clients, business partners, merchants, advertisers, investors, potential buyers and other third parties if we deem such disclosure, in our sole discretion, to have sound business reasons or justifications.
5. COOKIES AND AUTOMATIC INFORMATION GATHERING TECHNOLOGIES
Every time you use the Services (e.g., access a Service webpage, navigate to a specific location within the ella mobile app), we may collect Personal and non-Personal Information (discussed above in Section 2) regarding that use. For example, we collect how, when, and which parts of the Services or their features you use to improve our Services. Also, we may use your device’s unique identifier (UDID) or other unique identifiers to assist us in collecting and analyzing this data.
To assist us in collecting and storing this non-Personal Information, we may employ a variety of technologies, including “Cookies,” local browser storage, and “web beacons,” “pixels,” or “tags.” A “Cookie” is a small amount of data a website operator or a third party whose content is embedded in that website, may store in your web browser and that the website operator or, as applicable, the third party can access when you visit the website.
A Cookie may also refer to web-browser-based storage provided by Adobe’s Flash plugin (a “Flash Cookie”). A web beacon, pixel or tag is a small, usually-transparent image placed on a web page that allows the operator of that image, which may be the operator of the website you visit or a third party, to read or write a Cookie.
Your operating system and web browser may allow you to erase the information stored in Cookies, Flash Cookies, and local browser storage. But if you do so, you may be forced to log in to certain features of the Services again, and you may lose some preferences or settings.
You may also be able to set your browser to refuse all website storage or to indicate when it is permitted, but some features of our Services may not function properly without it. We may use Cookies to keep you logged in to certain features of the Services, save your preferences for the Services, and collect information about how you use our Services.
More information about managing Cookies is available here. Cookie management tools provided by your browser may not affect Flash Cookies. More information about managing Flash Cookies is available here. Please refer to the end user documentation for your browser to learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for your local browser storage.
An Online Tool Provider may collect information automatically, in which case, Personal and non-Personal Information it receives is subject to the Online Tool Provider’s privacy policy. Some Online Tool Providers may allow you to opt out of certain collections and/or uses of your information.
You can read more here:
6. TRANSPARENCY AND CHOICE; DO NOT TRACK SIGNALS
You may request access to your Personal Information by emailing donottrack@esellas.com. We will try to locate and provide you with your Personal Information and allow you to correct this data if it is inaccurate or to delete it at your request. But, in either case, we may need to retain it for legal reasons or legitimate business purposes.
We ask individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before processing such requests. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backups), or relate to information that is not associated with your Personal Information.
Where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.
Please be aware that if you request us to delete your Personal Information, you may not be able to continue to use the Services. Also, even if you request that we delete your Personal Information, we may need to retain certain information for a limited period of time to satisfy our legal, audit and/or dispute resolution requirements.
We support the development and implementation of a standard "do not track" browser feature that gives customers control over the collection and use of information about their web-browsing activities. Once a standardized "do not track" feature is released, we intend to adhere to the browser settings accordingly.
You can opt-out of receiving marketing e-mails from us by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link in the e-mails. Please note that it may take up to ten (10) business days for your opt-out request to be processed. Also, even if you opt-out of marketing e-mails, we may continue to send you certain account-related e-mails, such as notices about your account and confirmations of transactions you have requested.
Please note that, in our mobile app, you can delete your account by clicking the “Request Account Deletion” link on your profile screen.
7. CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
You may have heard of the California Consumer Privacy Act, which provides certain rights to California (CCPA) residents concerning their Personal Information. Our Services are not currently subject to the CCPA. However, we provide notice and transparency about our collection and use of Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
8. CHILDREN
The Services are not intended for users under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from users under 18 years of age. We do not authorize users under 18 years of age to use the Services.
9. INFORMATION SECURITY
We utilize reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information against unauthorized access, modification, or destruction. For example, we utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL), Transport Layer Security (TLS), or similar encryption technology when sensitive data is transmitted over the Internet and use firewalls to help prevent external access into our network. However, no data transmission over the Internet and no method of data storage can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its security.
We restrict access to Personal Information to our employees, Service Providers, and Online Tool Providers who need to know that information to operate, develop, improve or support our Services. If we share Personal Information with Service Providers or Online Tool Providers, we require that they also use reasonable information security measures to safeguard your Personal Information and only use your Personal Information for the purposes we share it with them.
10. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITE
Please note that the Services may link or integrate with third-party sites, services or apps.
We are not responsible for the privacy or security policies or practices or the content of such third parties. Accordingly, we encourage you to review those third parties privacy and security policies and terms of service so that you understand how they collect, use, share and protect your information.
11. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may modify or update this Privacy Policy periodically with or without prior notice by posting the updated policy on this page. You can always check the “Last Updated” date at the top of this document to see when the Privacy Policy was last changed. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy from time to time.
IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU MUST STOP USING THE SERVICES AFTER THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF SUCH CHANGES (WHICH IS THE “LAST UPDATED” DATE OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY).
12. QUESTIONS
To ask questions about our Privacy Policy or to lodge a complaint, contact us at:
Esellas, LLC
3 Pollak Ct., Cranbury, NJ 08512
Email: support@esellas.com