We obtain information directly from you when you provide it to us and we also obtain information about you from third-party sources, including automatically collected information (discussed below) and information we receive from publicly available sources. We collect and obtain:

• User-provided information: We collect the information you provide to us when you sign up for our newsletter or mailing lists, sign up for contests and special promotions, fill out a survey, send us an email, send us postal mail, engage in a business relationship with us, or speak with us on the telephone.

• Information from social media: When you interact with us over social media, we may collect information about you. If you post information or otherwise interact with us through social media websites, social media platform plug-ins, or other applications we use, we may collect or receive information that you provide or that is automatically collected by the social media platform. Information that you post on social media platforms may become public, depending on your account settings. Information collected by social media platforms when you interact with their services is governed by the social media platforms’ respective privacy policies.

Information collected using automated collection methods/cookies: When you use our website, read our emails, interact with our ads and other online content, interact with us on social media platforms, or otherwise engage with us through a computer or mobile device, we and our third-party partners collect automatically collected information. This information is typically collected through a variety of technologies, including cookies, web beacons, location-identifying technologies, social media widgets, and similar technologies (collectively, “automated collection methods”).

Automatically collected information and other personal information may be combined with other information that we collect directly from you or that we receive from other sources and used for the purposes described below.

• To provide services to you.

• To provide the website and its functionalities to you.

• To provide services requested by you. For example, if you sign up for our newsletter, we will use the information you give us to send you our newsletter.

• To respond to your requests. If you contact us with a question or a request, we will use your information to respond to your request. For example, if you contact us via email with a question, we will use the information in that email and the email address you used to contact us to respond to you.

• To provide you with location-specific services. If you elect to share your location information with us, we may use that information to tailor options, functionality, or offers related to your location. We also may use your IP address to determine your general location, which also may be used to tailor offers to you.
  To offer and conduct promotions and contests.

• To conduct data analytics to support our website and business

Typically, these analyses are done using aggregated or otherwise de-identified data. We use information, including automatically-collected information collected using automated collection methods, to manage and improve our website and our business. For example, we use such information to:

• Manage our business needs, such as monitoring, analyzing, and improving the services and the website’s performance and functionality. For example, we analyze website user behavior and conduct research and analysis about the way you and other users use our website.

• Manage risk and protect the website. We use data to better protect our services, our website, and you by helping to detect and prevent fraud and abuse of the website and our services.

• Tailor ads to your apparent interests. For more information about interest-based advertising, review the “Which analytics and interest-based advertising partners do we use?” section below.

• Develop new products, services, and offers.

Fimear® has implemented reasonable physical, technical, and administrative security standards to protect personal information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. Although we take reasonable steps to safeguard personal information, no practices are 100% secure, and we do not guarantee the security of information. Outages, attacks, human error, system failure, unauthorized use, or other factors may compromise the security of user information at any time. You must protect against unauthorized access to your computer and important information. We strongly recommend that you log off each time you finish using a shared computer.

This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors detailed below. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website.
Your comment and its associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either

(a) Remove the comment or (b) remove the blog post. Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email us at support@fimear.com using the email address that you commented on.

NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information into the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to Fimear employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within the company.