Effective Date: August 30, 2024
Who We Are Our website address is: http://splitsmart.xyz.
SplitSmart by Pelican Pointe LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”) operates the SplitSmart website and the SplitSmart mobile application available on the Apple Store. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you interact with our website and app, ensuring transparency and your data’s security.
1. Personal Information When you visit our website or use our app, you may provide us with certain personal information, including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, and any other details necessary for account creation or service use.
2. Automatically Collected Information We may automatically collect certain information when you interact with our website or app, such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, and the dates and times of your visits. This information helps us understand how users engage with our platform and allows us to enhance the user experience.
3. Comments When visitors leave comments on our site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. This data helps us detect and prevent spam. Additionally, an anonymized string (hash) created from your email address may be shared with the Gravatar service to verify if you are using it. The Gravatar service’s privacy policy can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile picture becomes visible to the public in connection with your comment.
4. Media If you upload images to our website, we advise against including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to our site can download and extract location data from images posted on our website.
1. To Provide Services We use your personal information to create and manage your account, process transactions, and provide customer support.
2. To Improve Our Services We analyze the automatically collected data to understand user behavior and preferences, allowing us to improve the functionality and user experience of our website and app.
3. Communication We may use your contact information to send you updates, promotional materials, and other information that may be of interest to you. You can opt-out of these communications at any time.
4. Comments and Interaction If you leave a comment on our site, the information you provide, including your profile picture, will be publicly visible. This encourages interaction within our community while helping us maintain a safe and respectful environment.
1. Cookies Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We use cookies for various purposes, including:
2. Types of Cookies We Use
You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. However, disabling cookies may affect your ability to use certain features of our website.
Articles or other content on our site may include embedded elements (e.g., videos, images, articles) from other websites. Embedded content behaves in the same way as if you had visited the other website directly. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and employ third-party tracking technologies to monitor your interactions with the embedded content, especially if you are logged into their services.
We do not control the data collection practices of these external sites and encourage you to review their privacy policies.
1. Third-Party Service Providers We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and use it only for the purposes for which it was shared.
2. Legal Compliance We may disclose your information if required by law, regulation, or legal process, or if we believe such action is necessary to comply with legal obligations, protect our rights, or investigate fraud or other illegal activities.
3. Business Transfers In the event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your data may be transferred to the new ownership as part of the transaction. We will notify you of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.
We retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy or as required by law. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to allow us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also view and edit that information as necessary to provide support and ensure compliance with our terms and policies.
1. Access and Portability You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you. This includes any data you have provided to us. You can request that we provide this information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
2. Rectification If any of the information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you have the right to request that we correct or update it.
3. Erasure You can request that we delete your personal data under certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or if you withdraw your consent.
4. Objection and Restriction You have the right to object to or request the restriction of the processing of your data in certain situations. This includes objecting to the processing of your data for direct marketing purposes.
5. Withdraw Consent If we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawing consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, to provide you with a secure and efficient experience, we may store and process your data on servers located in various jurisdictions, including the United States. By using our services, you consent to the transfer of your information to countries outside of your residence, which may have different data protection laws.
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy or how we handle your data, please contact us at: