Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy –

Last updated: October 17,2024

Who we are

Marketing Services USA (Company) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with applicable law and this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you, or that you may provide when you visit our website: https://mktgservicesusa.com, , or use applications we provide to you that are hosted on the Website, data, services, information, tools, functionality, updates and similar materials (collectively, the “Service”).

This policy applies to information we collect:

On the Website;
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website;
When our applications or Web Beacons are installed or used on our clients’ websites;
That we otherwise collect from you

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Service. By accessing or using the Service, you agree to the terms of this privacy policy, and hereby consent to allow us to process your information in accordance with these terms. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of these Websites after we make changes, or other form of legal acceptance, is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Territoriality

Regardless of where our servers are located, your personal data may be processed by us in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may or may not be to the same level of protection as in other parts of the world. BY VISITING THE WEBSITE AND USING THE SERVICE, YOU UNEQUIVOCALLY AND UNAMBIGUOUSLY CONSENT TO THE COLLECTION AND PROCESSING IN THE UNITED STATES OF ANY INFORMATION COLLECTED OR OBTAINED BY US THROUGH VOLUNTARY SUBMISSIONS, AND, TO THE EXTENT POSSIBLE, THAT U.S. LAW GOVERNS ANY SUCH COLLECTION AND PROCESSING.

This Privacy Policy may be subject to the provisions of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“EU GDPR”), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (“UK-GDPR”, and together with the EU GDPR, the “GDPR”), and other applicable privacy laws. Under the GDPR, Agital is a data “Controller”. If you are an individual who resides in the United Kingdom, the European Union, or Switzerland (collectively, and for the purposes of this Privacy Policy, the “EEA”), you are a “Data Subject” with certain protected privacy rights concerning your “Personal Data.” We will take commercially reasonable steps to maintain compliance with GDPR. Your Personal Data, combined with any other information that may identify you as a person, may be referred to in this Privacy Policy as Personally Identifiable Information (collectively, “PII”).

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Websites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to the Websites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and we comply with all applicable United States privacy laws including the GDPR, the USA’s Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”), and associated Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) rules for collecting personal information from minors. Please see the FTC’s website (www.ftc.gov) for more information. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information the Service or on or through any of its features/register for the Service, make any purchases through the Service, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Service or provide any information about yourself to us, including, but not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at: teresa@mktgservicesusa.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Service (which may include our customers users), including their:

Contact information such as their name, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone number;
Technical information collected in our logs, such information may include standard web log entries that contain your IP address, browser history, first-party cookies (session and persistent), third-party cookies, web beacons, page URL, and timestamp;
Non-personal information that is about you but individually does not identify you, including but not limited to browser information, opt-in/opt-out preferences, the pages accessed most frequently, how pages and features are used, the amount of money spent, the time spent on a page, when and how you use the Service, applications downloaded, search terms entered, and similar non-personal data; and/or

Anonymous, non-identifying and aggregate information, the date and time of any request you make, your language preference, pages you visit, the referring website(s), the website you go to immediately after visiting our Website(s), and the domain name of your Internet service provider.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the Website, or customers’ websites. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses (and the approximate geo-location(s) of such IP addresses), and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies;
From you when you interact with the Websites, including and/or
From third parties, for example, our clients and business partners who use and/or supply our technology.

To the extent that we link non-personal information or anonymized information about you to your PII, we will treat such non-personal information and/or anonymized information as if it were PII under this policy.

Information Users Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Service may include, your (whether you are a direct user of our Service, or a user of our customers website or services):

Information that is provided to us directly. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Websites or applications, registering for a marketing offer such as a webinar, ebook, case study, or website analysis, subscribing to our service, or requesting information on other services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Websites.
Records and copies of correspondence (including email addresses), if you or your users contact us.
Responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Websites or share materials with other users collectively, “User Contributions”).
Details related to your website(s), or the users who access your website(s).

This personally and non-personally identifying information is used to help personalize the experience of users on our customers’ website(s), and to provide relevant offers, product recommendations, and promotions on our customers’ behalves through channels like email, search marketing, and social marketing. This information is also used to enhance the effectiveness of our customers’ websites to generate more traffic, convert more customers, and to generate more sales from existing downstream customers. We may also anonymize this data and use it freely, including, but not limited to, improve our general know-how and offerings. Our use of this information may change from time to time.

Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Websites with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

This information is not sold or transfered internationally unless a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, recapitalization, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Marketing Services USA assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Marketing Services USA about our Websites users is among the assets transferred.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Mobile Phone Information and Text Messaging Consent

Marketing Services USA, Inc. (“Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy of our users’ mobile phone information. We hereby declare that no mobile phone information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. However, the Company reserves the right to share such information with subcontractors who provide support services, such as customer service, to facilitate and enhance the user experience.

Furthermore, all other use case categories, as described in this Privacy Policy, expressly exclude the sharing of text messaging originator opt-in data and consent. The Company affirms that this information will not be shared with any third parties under any circumstances.

By using our services, you acknowledge and agree to the terms outlined in this section regarding the handling of your mobile phone information and text messaging consent.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Our Websites use Google Analytics, provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends. Google Analytics may collect information regarding the use of other websites, apps and online resources. For more information on how Google uses data when you use our Websites, please follow this link: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. You may be able to opt-out of some or all of Google Analytics features by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at, https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For more information about interest-based ads, or to opt-out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info. Do Not Track. At present, none of our Websites specifically respond to browser do-not-track signals.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Service and its contents to you.
To personalize user experiences and understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Websites.
To improve our Websites and improve our Service based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To improve customer service and more effectively respond to customer service requests and support needs.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To send you emails to: (a) confirm your account information and your other PII; (b) process your requests to purchase our Service; (c) provide you with information regarding the Service; (d) inform you of changes to this Privacy Policy, our Terms of Service, or our other terms, conditions, or policies; or (e) provide you with information on our other services and products, or promotions related to the Service or our other services and products.
To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Service or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Websites.
To provide you with marketing and sales-related offers.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

Additional information

How we protect your data

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Service, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the Websites like blog commenting sections. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Websites.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Websites, or the Service. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Websites.

If you are visiting the one or more of our Websites from outside of the USA, you understand that your connection will be through and to servers located in the USA, and the information you provide will be securely stored in our servers and internal systems located within the USA.

We retain and store your PII until you request us to remove it from our servers unless we are required by law to keep it for a longer period of time. We store our logs and other technical records indefinitely.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated and/or information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep PII confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, recapitalization, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Marketing Services USA assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Marketing Services USA about our Websites users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Marketing Services USA, or our customers.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

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 users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The Effective Date of the most recent revision to this privacy policy can be found at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Websites and this privacy policy to check for any changes. Your continued use of the Service following our notice of changes to this privacy policy (or other form of legal acceptance) means you accept such changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

Marketing Services USA

3411 Prairie Smoke Rd

Bozeman, MT 59715