Privacy Policy

Terms of Service & Privacy Policy

Last Updated 01/10/2024

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Blue Water Thinking, LLC. We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy notice or our practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at helpdesk@bw-thinking.com. This privacy notice describes how we might use your information if you:

• Visit our website at bw-thinking.com
• Engage with us in other related ways ― Submitting resumes, sharing personal information required for employment opportunities.
• Enrolling in SMS updates

The purpose of this privacy notice is to explain to you in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it, and what rights you have in relation to it. If there are any terms in this privacy notice that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of our Services immediately.

Please read this privacy notice carefully, as it will help you understand what we do with the information that we collect.

Personal Information Provided by You:

We collect names, email addresses, job titles, contact preferences, phone numbers, mailing addresses, and other similar information.

SMS (Text Message) Services:

To enhance your experience and keep you informed, we offer SMS updates with a frequency of once per week. To opt out of receiving text messages, please reply with 'STOP'. No mobile information will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Message and data rates may apply when using our SMS services.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved. More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:
• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

How do we use your information?

In Short:  We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfillment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

We use personal information collected via our website for a variety of business purposes described below. We process your personal information for these purposes in reliance on our legitimate business interests, to enter into or fulfil a contract with you, with your consent, and/or for compliance with our legal obligations. We indicate the specific processing grounds we rely on next to each purpose listed below.

We use the information we collect or receive:

• To deliver and facilitate delivery of services to the user. We may use your information to provide you with the requested service.
• To respond to user inquiries/offer support to users. We may use your information to respond to your inquiries and solve any potential issues you might have with the use of our Services.

We may process or share your data that we hold based on the following legal basis:

• Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your personal information for a specific purpose.
• Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate business interests.
• Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your personal information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
• Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
• Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which we are involved.

More specifically, we may need to process your data or share your personal information in the following situations:

• Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

California Disclosures

California “Shine the Light” Information-Sharing Disclosure: California residents may request a list of all third parties with respect to which we have disclosed any information about you for direct marketing purposes and the categories of information disclosed. If you are a California resident and want such a list, please send us a written request by email to support@grayscaleapp.com with “California Shine The Light Rights” in the subject line.

California Do Not Track Disclosure: We do not track our customers over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising on our Sites. We use commercially reasonable efforts to respond to Do Not Track browser settings.

California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures. Under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act effective January 1, 2023 (“CCPA/CPRA”), California residents have the right to request:

The categories of personal information (including sensitive personal information if applicable) we have collected about you:

• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
• The business or commercial purpose of collecting, selling or sharing personal information;
• The categories of third parties with whom we share or sell personal information;
• The categories of personal information about you that we have disclosed;
• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

Additionally, you have the right to:

• know the length of time we retain your personal information;
• request deletion of your personal information;
• request the correction of any inaccurate data;
• opt out of the sale or sharing of your information (if applicable);
• limit the use of sensitive personal information (if applicable); and
• not be discriminated against for exercising any of your CCPA/CPRA rights.

Please see the following below regarding the categories of data we have collected or received in the 12 months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Policy in connection with providing our Services and to whom we may have disclosed the information for a business purpose.

Category Examples Collected (YES/NO):

1) Identifiers - NO

• Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name.

2) Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute - YES

• Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history and financial information.

3) Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law - NO

• Gender and date of birth

4) Commercial information - NO

• Transaction information, purchase history, financial details and payment information

5) Biometric Information - NO

• Fingerprints and voiceprints

6) Internet or other similar network activity - NO

• Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems and advertisements

7) Geolocation data - NO

• Device location

8) Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information - NO

• Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities

9) Professional or employment-related information - NO

• Business contact details in order to provide you our services at a business level, job title as well as work history and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us

10) Education Information - NO

• Student records and directory information

11) Inferences drawn from other personal information - NO

• Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics

We may also collect other personal information outside of these categories instances where you interact with us in-person, online, or by phone or mail in the context of:

• Receiving help through our customer support channels;
• Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
• Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.

Privacy Policy Media

Any sensitive data we collect is used only for a business purpose and not for the purposes of inferring characteristics of a consumer.

We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration under CCPA/CPRA and we do not share data through cross-context behavioral advertising. The provision of personal data by us to our clients is in the capacity as a service provider or under Section 1798.140(t)(2)(A) of the CCPA. Personal data may be provided to our service providers, contractors and, pursuant to Sections 1798.140(ad)(2)(A) and 1798.140(ah)(2)(A) of the CCPA/CPRA, to third parties.

You may opt out of the use of Cookies using your browser settings and opt out of the use of Google Analytics Cookies by downloading the browser add-on here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Our contact information, including a toll-free phone number, is listed at the bottom of this policy. You may also submit a request through our Data Access Request Form. We may also require that you submit your request via the Services’ standard authentication procedures (i.e., log on with username and password to submit a request) to ensure you are the person you say you are. If this information or these processes are insufficient to verify your identity and assess your privacy request, we may need to ask for additional information. You may also designate an authorized agent to make a CCPA privacy request.‍

Acceptance of Terms

By using our website, you agree to these Terms of Service and our Privacy Statement.

Use of the Website

You agree to use the website for lawful purposes only and in a way that does not infringe the rights of, restrict, or inhibit anyone else's use of this website.

User Accounts

To access certain features of our website, you may be required to register for an account. You are
responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account.

Intellectual Property

All content on this website, including but not limited to text, graphics, logos, images, audio clips, and software, is the property of Blue Water Thinking and is protected by applicable copyright and trademark laws.

Termination

We reserve the right to terminate or suspend your account and access to the website at our sole
discretion, without notice, for conduct that we believe violates these Terms of Service.

Changes to Terms

We may revise these terms at any time without notice. By using this website, you agree to be bound by the then-current version of these terms.

Disclaimer

The information on this website is provided "as is" without any warranties, expressed or implied. Blue Water Thinking, LLC. makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy, completeness, or suitability of the information.