Privacy Policy

Effective as of May 25, 2018

Pigott Values Your Privacy

This Privacy Policy of Pigott, Inc. (“Pigott” “we” “us” or “our”) outlines how your personally identifiable information and other personal data (your “user information”) will be collected, used, and shared in connection with your access to and/or use of Pigottnet.com and any content, features, services, or other offerings that Pigott may provide in connection therewith (collectively, the “Site”). This Privacy Policy also describes your choices and rights regarding the use, access and correction or deletion of your user information. By using the Site, you consent to the use of your user information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you are located in the EU, you will also be asked to provide clear and unequivocal affirmative consent to the collection, processing, and sharing of your user information via cookies and similar technologies. The Site is owned and operated by Pigott.

Notice to EU Individuals: this Privacy Policy and its enumerated policies are intended to comply with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) and provide appropriate protection and care with respect to the treatment of your user information in accordance with the GDPR.

Summary

To enhance, personalize, and support your experience on the Site, among other things, we collect, use, and share your user information. For example, we use aggregated information to develop content targeted to user interests and to generally improve the Site's user experience. As detailed below, your user information may also be used by Pigott and its partners to tailor content and ads, provide social media features (e.g., features that allow you to share content directly to your preferred social media platform), track your preferences, analyze traffic, and provide similar services and content. Pigott is committed to your privacy and will not share any user information with any third party without your consent, except as outlined in this Privacy Policy or as permitted by law. If you have any requests, comments, or questions about this Privacy Policy or your user information, please contact us in the manner provided below.

What this Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy covers the Site. While you may encounter links on the Site to other websites, such as those relating to our third party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners, please note that these websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy (unless otherwise noted on such site, which may be the case if, for example, the site is also owned and operated by Pigott).

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the activities of Pigott third party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners that may collect your user information while accessing or using such third party's services in connection with your use of our Site (e.g. social media and sharing services). The privacy and information practices of those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. To learn more about such third party policies, we encourage you to read and review the Privacy Policies of each third party service that you may choose to use in connection with the Site. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by us.

Gathering of Information

Section Overview

We collect user information when you use the Site. Sometimes you may submit it to us yourself, other times it may be collected automatically. You can manage and change your preferences as outlined below.

Information Collected

When you use the Site, your user information may be collected, used, and shared in a variety of manners. As detailed below, the type of user information collected may vary based on how it was gathered, but may include, among other things, your name, e-mail address, phone number, mailing address and other information that you voluntarily submit (e.g., when setting up a user profile on the Site, you may submit your contact information, business affiliation, and/or professional information), information automatically collected about your usage of the Site (e.g., the content that you choose to view), and information about you that our third party partners may share with us if such third party partners have previously received your consent to do so.

Voluntary Submission
Pigott may collect user information that is voluntarily provided by you or with your permission. For example, we may ask you for information, such as your e-mail address, phone number mailing address and other professional information when you register to create an account on the Site. You may also provide information to Pigott in other contexts, including, for example, on your user profile page and public profile URL, to enter into a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of the Site, but you may be unable to access certain options and services. When you register to create a user profile on the Site or provide information to Pigott in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information. We also supplement the data you provide to us with data from data append services such as public or social graph data in order to better serve you with content or promotions.

Cookies

A cookie is a small data file that is written to your computer's hard drive by your web browser. A cookie file can contain and/or automatically collect information, such as a user identification code or IP address that a website will use to track the pages and number of times you have visited. The data read from these cookies may be linked to personally identifying (PII) and non-personally identifying (non-PII) information.
We and our partners use cookies and similar technologies on the Site to personalize and optimize your browsing experience and the Site by:

  • providing you tailored content and advertisements (see below for more information),
  • keep track of your order as you order services,
  • enabling social media features,
  • safeguarding against spam and malware,
  • analyzing trends, traffic, and user behavior,
  • administering the website,
  • gathering demographic information about our user base as a whole,
  • tracking web and advertising analytics throughout the Site and its affiliate websites,
  • remembering your preferences and voluntarily-submitted information,
  • performing location-related functionalities and analytics,
  • participating in market research (e.g., website ratings), and
  • educating ourselves about how we can continue to improve the Site and its various elements.

Cookies fall into the subcategories below.

Essential Cookies. Certain cookies are used for specific purposes that are essential to your secure use and navigation of the Site. Without them, Pigott may not be able to provide core Site functions and features to you, and the Site would not operate as well as you or Pigott would like. These cookies collect and use information such as your server preferences, single-session data and corresponding identifier, web beacons and log files (detailed below), and other credential-related information. For EU individuals, essential cookies also help inform Pigott whether you require, or have already been served, an affirmative consent request in connection with the GDPR. Essential cookies include analytics cookies, which provide us data that allows Pigott to better understand its users and improve the Site based on what we have learned from that data.

Preference Cookies. Other cookies are used to collect and process information about your preferences and similar choices in connection with the Site in order to optimize your browsing experience. Preference cookies include social media cookies, which collect information about your social media usage and other data you may have provided in connection with such usage (if you access the Site through a social media website or mobile application, you may have social media cookies). If you wish to modify or change your social media cookies, please visit and review the settings on your applicable social media account(s).

Advertising Cookies. To help support the Site and further tailor your experience, Pigott and its advertising partners (and/or their third party analytics providers) may also use cookies on the Site to personalize the content and advertisements you may be shown. Such advertisements use cookies to provide you targeted advertisements that may be more consistent with your interests than non-targeted advertisements. Certain Pigott advertising partners may also use cookies to monitor or track the performance of their advertising content, including native advertising content. Pigott does not provide user information to advertising partners except in connection with the Site or as required by law.

For more information about managing cookies on your device, see Choices Available to You below.

Web Beacons

We use web beacons (invisible images often referred to as pixel tags or clear GIFs) on our sites in order to recognize users, assess traffic patterns, identify preferred content and measure site engagement. We may also include web beacons in our e-mail messages, including newsletters, in order to count how many e-mail messages have been opened.

Pigott and its partners (including advertising partners) also use web beacons to collect various data provided by your browser while you are on our Site and elsewhere (i.e., outside of the Site) where we may be acting as a 3rd party. This data is collected in the aggregate, but may include or be associated with other non-PII or PII that users have voluntarily submitted.

Log Files

The Site's web and ad servers log information about a user's IP address, browser type and the current URL the user is requesting. This information is always provided by a user's browser and automatically logged by most websites. These log files are stored in a secure location and used in our internal analysis of traffic patterns within our website.

Use of Your Information

Section Overview

Our primary goal in collecting, using, and sharing user information is to enhance your experience on the Site, support the Site, and improve its features, performance, and other elements. Your user information may be used for the purposes outlined below. We will not use your user information without a valid legal basis to do so.

To Target Content and Advertising

To develop and provide content and advertising to you that is targeted to your interests, we use the analytics collected by the systems described above to determine which areas of our website you prefer based upon the frequency of your visits and engagement with those areas. We may make reasonable assumptions based on your browser provided data to target relevant content and advertising to you on our site and elsewhere where we may be acting as a 3rd party. We may also make reasonable geographic and demographic assumptions based on your presented IP address to target relevant content and advertising.

To Provide Interactive Communications from the Site

To enhance your experience we may provide you with interactive communications, such as notifications of activity by topic or contributor to the e-mail address that you provide to us. Such interactive communications are provided only to those users who have expressly provided us with their permission to receive them as part of their user profile.

From time to time we may provide e-mails highlighting new products, promotions or contests on the website to those users who have expressly provided us with their permission to send such communications as part of their user profile.

To Provide Communications from Third Parties

We respect the privacy of our users and will not disclose or distribute our user list to any third party, nor will we permit anyone else to do so. However, we do make available our list of those registrants who have expressly provided us with their permission to receive third party offers as part of their user profile. In those cases, your e-mail address will be transferred to the third party. You can remove your consent to this use or modify your related user information by contacting Pigott as indicated below.

Sharing of Information

You may be requested to voluntarily provide certain user information during your use of the Site. If you choose to do so, that user information may be shared with Pigott as well as business partners and vendors providing hosting and other services for Pigott.

We use third parties to provide credit card processing, e-mail service providers and hosting services on the Site. When you sign up for such services, we will share your user information only as necessary for the third party to provide that service. These third parties are prohibited from using your user information for any other purpose. With respect to credit card processing, we do not collect, store, or process any credit card information. If you do not want your information to be shared, you can choose not to allow the transfer of your information by not using that particular service. See Pigott Terms of Use for more information.

In addition, if you provide any personally identifiable information via an advertiser promotion, please be aware you are directly providing your personally identifiable information to that advertiser.

From time-to-time we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you, such as your name and e-mail. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. We use this personally identifiable information to notify contest winners and award prizes.

We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users' personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

The Site includes social media features, widgets and/or interactive mini-programs that run on our site. These features are small content modules that users can embed on sites and may collect your IP address, which page you are visiting on our site, or set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our website. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it. Use of the Pigottnet.com widgets is subject to Pigott Terms of Use, but downloading or embedding these widgets on other websites is not covered by this Privacy Policy.

As Necessary to Provide Services to You

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of newsletter mailings, or performing statistical analysis of our services. We will only provide those companies the information they need to deliver the service. In some instances, these companies may collect information directly from you. In these cases, you will be notified of the involvement of the external service provider. In all cases, these companies are subject to agreements that require them to maintain the confidentiality of your information and they are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

In the Event of Sale or Bankruptcy

The ownership of the Site may change at some point in the future. Should that occur, we want this site to be able to maintain a relationship with you. In the event of a sale, merger, public offering, bankruptcy or other change in control of Pigott, your information may be shared with the person or business that owns or controls this site. Opting out of receiving information from third parties will not affect our right to transfer your information to a new owner, but your choices will continue to be respected regarding the use of your information. You will be notified as described below in "How will I know if the Privacy Policy is changed."

As Required By Law

Pigott may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law such as to comply with a subpoena or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order or legal process served on Pigott or to protect and defend the rights or property of Pigott.

Notice to EU Individuals: As outlined in this Privacy Policy, Pigott will not process your user information without a lawful basis to do so, as such bases are defined in Article 6 of the GDPR. In general, Pigott will process your user information on the legal bases of consent, contract (if you have entered into an agreement with us and such processing is a necessary part thereof), or legal obligation (as noted above). Pigott may also process certain user information on the basis of the following legitimate interests, provided that such interests are not overridden by your privacy rights and interests: delivering and continuing to develop and improve the Site, learning from your behavior on the Site (e.g., analyzing traffic) to better serve you and other Site users, helping us modify or enhance the Site and its content, receiving insight as to what users do (and don't) like about our Site or aspects thereof, and providing a stable, consistent, and secure user experience in connection with the Site.

Choices Available to You

Section Overview

While we endeavor to use care and discretion when handling your information, we recognize that you may want to change how your information is used through the Site. Pigott provides various choices to you for limiting or restricting the use of your personal information. If you have questions regarding these choices, please contact us as provided below.

Management of User Profile

If you use an available capability on this Site to register with us and create a user profile, we’ll hold the personal information you give us as part of your Pigott account for as long as you have an account with us. At any time after you register and create a profile, you may review and request changes to any personally identifiable information (PII) you provided through the registration form, by viewing and updating your profile within the application. You can delete your user profile at any time by following the opt-out directions provided below.

Opt-Out Options

You may request not to receive or opt-out of receiving e-mail messages from us at any time by following the link contained within any Pigott e-mail you receive. If you opt-out, your user profile will be deleted, and any personal information will immediately be deleted and the remaining information made anonymous. We might then use it to help us improve our services. Please be aware, sometimes we can delete your information, but other times it is just not possible, like if the law tells us we can't. If that's the case, we'll consider if we can limit how we use it. Bear in mind, when we get back to you, we might need some identification to check that you are who you say you are. Please be aware that we reserve the right to send e-mails to you, even if you have opted out of receiving commercial e-mail messages, to (a) facilitate, complete or confirm a commercial transaction you have entered into with Pigott or participation in a program you have selected; (b) provide warranty information, product recall information, or safety or security information with respect to a commercial product or service used or purchased by you; (c) provide notification concerning a subscription, membership, account or other ongoing commercial relationship involving your purchase or use of products or services offered by Pigott; (d) deliver goods or services that you are entitled to receive under the terms of a transaction that you entered into with Pigott, (f) communicate other non-commercial e-mail messages, and (g) communicate commercial e-mail messages that you consent to receiving.

Managing Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but generally allow users to modify their browser settings to display a warning before accepting a cookie, to accept cookies only from certain websites, and/or to refuse all cookies.

The help function of your browser should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued or to not receive cookies at any time. We encourage you to consider keeping your cookies enabled, as if you choose to disable the receipt of cookies from our Site, you may not be able to use or benefit from certain features of the Site, particularly the features that are designed to personalize your experience. To learn more about the use of cookies in online advertising including how to manage or delete them click here.

Website Analytics Services

Analytics services such as Google Analytics & Tag Manager, and Hotjar provide services that analyze information regarding visits to our websites and mobile applications. They use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking mechanisms to collect this information.

  • To learn more about Google’s privacy practices, click here. To access and use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on, click here.
  • To learn more about Hotjar’s privacy practices, click here. To access and use Hotjar’s Opt-out click here.

Security

Section Overview

We care about the protection of your user information and use industry standard safeguards to do so. Of course, it's important to keep in mind that no data transmission on the Internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure.

Your information is stored on Pigott servers located in the United States. We use industry standard physical, electronic, and organizational safeguards to protect your user information against loss or theft as well as unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy. This Site is protected with a variety of security measures such as change control procedures and physical access controls (and passwords, as applicable). We also implement other control mechanisms in an effort to help protect personally identifiable information (PII) that you provide through this Site from being lost, misused or altered inappropriately. This Site supports 128 bit Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to transmit allcertain information (e.g., credit card information provided by the user and social security numbers provided by the user). SSL is a transport level technology for authentication and data encryption between a web server and a web browser. SSL sends data over the “socket”, which is a secure channel at the connection layer.

We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, "perfect security" does not exist on the Internet. You are also responsible for taking reasonable steps to protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure or misuse. If you are concerned that your privacy may have been breached, please contact us as provided below.

Privacy of Children

Section Overview

The Site is intended for people who are at least 16 years of age.

If you are less than 16 years old, please do not send any user information to us--including information such as your name, address, or e-mail address. We do not knowingly collect (nor do we wish to collect) any personally identifiable information or other user information from children under the age of 16. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 16, we will delete that information from our database and terminate the corresponding account, if any. We cannot always determine the age of persons who access the Site. If a child under the age of 13 has provided us with personal information online, we ask that a parent or guardian contact us as provided below. This Website, may contain content provided by advertisers or other third parties that may not be suitable for children immediately. Pigott asks parents or legal guardians to assist Pigott by supervising any activities of their children on this Site.

Cross-border Transfers

Section Overview

Your user information may be transferred to other countries in connection with your use of the Site. If you access or use the Site outside of the United States, your user information will be transferred to our servers in the United States.

In certain situations, Pigott may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact us.

California Residents

If you are a California resident and have an established business relationship with us, you can request a notice disclosing the categories of personal information we have shared with third parties, for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes, during the preceding calendar year. To request a notice, please submit your request to Pigott, Inc., Attn: California Shine the Light Inquiry, 3815 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50312. Please allow 30 days for a response.

If you are a California resident under 18 years old and a registered user, you can request that we remove content or information that you have posted to our website or other online services. Note that fulfilment of the request may not ensure complete or comprehensive removal (e.g., if the content or information has been reposted by another user). To request removal of content or information, please contact us as provided below.

Scope of Privacy Policy

Section Overview

This Privacy Policy covers this Site. While you may encounter links on this Site to other websites, such as those relating to our third party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners, please note that these websites are not covered by this Privacy Policy.

This privacy policy applies to all current or former customer personal information, except for information collected by or provided in connection with:

  • Web-based transactions facilitated through a third-party payment system, and
  • Completing an application for employment with Pigott.

Pigott may host (or contract with third parties to host) website advertising linked to this Site. These links to other websites may, among other things, allow you to bid on and/or purchase products that you initially viewed on this Site. These other websites may contain or be “co-branded” or “private-labeled” with the Pigott name and logo, trademarks or other trademarks or branding of Pigott. Other companies that own or operate these websites may track and/or collect information about you. Pigott does not have control over the privacy practices (including, without limitation, those relating to tracking user activity, collection of user data, use of user data, and security) of these companies. If you provide personally identifiable information (PII) while visiting any Pigott-Hosted Website Ad, you will also be providing the personally identifiable information to the advertiser (and advertiser and/or Pigott may be automatically collecting information while you visit any Pigott-Hosted Website Ad).

In addition, Pigott may share information which is automatically collected while you visit any Pigott-Hosted Website Ad with Third Party companies in order to complete a transaction that you initiated or to assess and report the results of the ad. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices (including, without limitation, those related to tracking, collection, use and security) employed by other companies (or in connection with sites of other companies), and we are not responsible for the content on, or operation of, websites of other companies (including, without limitation, any transactions conducted through such sites). We are committed to safeguarding customer privacy on this Site. If you are visiting a website via a link on this Site, you are advised to read the privacy policy of such other website for its policies regarding information tracking, collection, usage and security.

In addition, you may have visited our website through a link or a banner advertisement on another site. In such cases, the website you linked from may collect information from people who click on the banner or link. You may want to refer to the privacy policies on those sites to see how they collect and use this information.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to the activities of Pigott third party sponsors, advertisers, and other partners that may collect your user information while accessing or using such third party's services in connection with your use of our Site (e.g. social media and sharing services). The privacy and information practices of those third parties are not covered by this Privacy Policy. To learn more about such third party policies, we encourage you to read and review the privacy policies of each third party service that you may choose to use in connection with the Site. This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by us.

How to Contact Us

Section Overview

Please contact us if you have any questions or requests.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or how to remove or modify your user information or related consents, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@Pigottnet.com or by mail at Pigott, Inc., Privacy Team -- Customer Service, 3815 Ingersoll Ave., Des Moines, Iowa 50312.

How Will I Know if the Privacy Policy Is Changed?

If we make any material changes we will notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.