Privacy Policy
Last Modified: November 12, 2024
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared by Popular Biology, Inc. (including Mañanaland LLC and our other corporate affiliates, “Glowing Oceans,” “we,” “our” or “us”) when you visit or use [www.glowingoceans.com] (the “Website”) or interact with the Services, whether as a guest or a registered user. By using the Services and/or the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms of Use.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- On this Website
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
- When you interact with our Services.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Glowing Oceans or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries).
- Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your personal information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use or provide any information on this Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time, and your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at:
Popular Biology, Inc.
2647 Gateway Road, Suite 105-415
Carlsbad, CA 92009
Residents of certain states under 13, 16, or 18 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see the section titled “Your State Privacy Rights” for more information.
Personal Information We Collect
When you visit the Website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Website, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Website, and information about how you interact with the Website. We refer to this automatically collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
- “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
- “Log files” track actions occurring on the Website, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
- “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Website.
When you sign up for an account or attempt to sign up for an account through our Website or participate in or attempt to participate in the Services, we collect certain contact information and demographic data from you, including your full name, email address and age. We refer to this information as “Contact Information” and may also collect Contact Information when you report a problem with our Website.
Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Website, we collect certain information from you, including your billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address and phone number). We refer to this information as “Order Information.”
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking about Device Information, Contact Information and Order Information.
How Do We Use Your Personal Information?
We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Website (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). We use the Contact Information that we collect to allow you to participate in or interact with the Services, including through purchasing Tickets and/or attending events. We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Website and Services (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Website and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
Additionally, we use your Personal Information to:
- Notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- Allow you to participate in the Services and use interactive features on our Website.
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
- Keep track of your Ticket and right to participate in the Services.
- Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud.
- When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.
Additionally, we may use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
Collecting and Sharing Your Personal Information
We collect Personal Information from you and our partners, including third party service providers and marketing partners. The Website may contain links to other websites that we do not have control over. Such websites are governed by their own privacy policies, and as such, we are not responsible for the protection of any Personal Information you provide to those websites while visiting them. We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
Additionally, we may share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information as set forth in the section above titled “How Do We Use Your Personal Information?”. For example, we use TixTrack as our online ticketing platform. You can read more about how TixTrack uses your Personal Information here: https://tixtrack.com/privacy-policy/.
We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect the rights, property or safety of us or our customers.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us and have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form). You can also always opt out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to legal@glowingoceans.com.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by Glowing Oceans to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form) or at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to legal@glowingoceans.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.
- Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data (the registration form) or at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to legal@glowingoceans.com.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) and find more information about how targeted advertising works on NAI’s educational page at:
http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
Additionally, you can opt out of some other services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your Personal Information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
Your State Privacy Rights
State consumer privacy laws may provide their residents with additional rights regarding our use of their Personal Information.
To learn more about California residents’ privacy rights, visit https://privacy.ca.gov/. California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to legal@glowingoceans.com.
Data Retention
We will make reasonable efforts to retain your Personal Information for only so long as necessary to fulfil the business purpose for which we collected such Personal Information, including in connection with the Services. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we may retain Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
Changes
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Us
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at legal@glowingoceans.com or by mail using the details provided below:
Popular Biology, Inc.
2647 Gateway Road, Suite 105-415
Carlsbad, California 92009