Privacy Policy
Posted Date: May 13, 2022
Effective Date: May 13, 2022
This Privacy Policy describes how Fire Friends, LLC, dba Frontline or Frontline Wildfire Defense and its subsidiaries (collectively “Frontline,” “we” or “us”) collect, use, disclose, transfer, store, retain or otherwise process your information when you apply or sign up for our products and services or apply for employment through our websites (https://frontlinewildfire.com, the “Website”).
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our Website, and continuing to use our products or services, you agree to this policy. If you do not agree with this policy, you should choose not to use Frontline’s Website.
Be advised that we never intend to collect personal information from children under 13 years of age. If we learn or are notified that we have collected this information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly remove the information from our system.
CALIFORNIA: If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.
WHEN THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES
Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the Services offered by Frontline and its affiliates.
Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you, or other sites linked from our Services. Our Privacy Policy does not cover the information practices of other companies and organizations who advertise our Services, and who may use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
By accessing or using the Site or Services in any manner, you also agree to be bound by our Terms of Use Agreement (the “Agreement”). Please read the Agreement carefully. If you do not accept all of the terms and conditions contained in or incorporated by reference into the Agreement, please do not use the Sites.
COLLECTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may collect and store various information about you, including information that you provide to us, information that we automatically collect through your use of our products and services or application for employment and information from publicly available sources or third parties, as follows:
INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE US DIRECTLY
We collect information directly from you in connection with our products and services. For example, we collect information about you when you check your eligibility for our products and services, apply for our products or services, discuss our products or services with us, register with our Website, provide feedback to us, or participate in our surveys, promotions and support and advocacy activities.
Examples of information we collect include, as applicable:
- Your name
- Your addresses
- Your telephone numbers
- Your email addresses
- Information related to your home improvement project
- Other U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission demographic information (in case of employment seekers only)
We may supplement this information with information we collect from publicly available sources, such as information from government records, public records, or the Internet.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU
AGGREGATE INFORMATION
We collect aggregate information, which is data we collect about your use of our or third-party websites or services, from which personal information has been removed. We collect aggregate information to help us understand consumer trends, needs, interests, and preferences so we can improve our products and services.
Frontline also collects demographic information, which is anonymous, and may include:
- Age
- Date of Birth
- Income
- Geographic Area
WEBSITE USE
We collect information about your computer or mobile device to improve and evaluate your use of our Website, our products and services and hiring or other employment opportunities. Examples of information we collect include:
- Your Internet protocol address
- Location information
- The kind of browser or computer you use
- Your browser data and bookmarks
- Number of links you click within the site
- State or country from which you accessed the site
- Date and time of your visit
- Name of your Internet service provider
- Web page you linked to our site from
- Pages you viewed on the site
COOKIES AND AUTOMATED TECHNOLOGIES
When you interact with our Website or open emails we send you, we obtain certain information using automated technologies, such as cookies, web server logs, web beacons and other technologies. A “cookie” is a text file that websites send to a visitor’s computer or other internet-connected device to uniquely identify the visitor’s browser or to store information or settings in the browser. A “web beacon,” also known as an internet tag, pixel tag, or clear GIF, is a tiny graphic image that may be used in our websites or emails.
We use these automated technologies to collect information such as the types of service used, and number of users we receive daily. Our web servers automatically log information about your computer, but we do not use this information to identify you personally.
We set some of these automated technologies ourselves, but others are set by third parties who deliver services on our behalf. For example, we may use other companies’ web analytics services (described below), which use automated technologies to help us evaluate how you use our websites.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings, then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on the Website.
THIRD-PARTY ANALYTICS SERVICES
We may use third-party analytics service providers to help us with our online services. The analytics providers that administer these services use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, and web server logs to help us analyze how you use our online services. We may disclose your site-use information (including IP address) to these analytics providers, and other service providers who use the information to help us figure out how you and others use our online services.
CONTACTING US BY TELEPHONE
If you communicate with Frontline by telephone about our products or services, we may monitor or record the telephone call. We monitor and record telephone conversations for security, quality assurance and compliance purposes. By calling Frontline telephone numbers, you consent to having the telephone call monitored and recorded.
INFORMATION WE GET FROM OTHERS
We contract with third parties to place advertisements for our products and services and employment opportunities on websites that are not our own. We place these ads where we think they are likely to be most relevant. These advertisements on third-party websites allow us to track responses to our ads. We and our affiliates use this information to track the performance of our advertising and marketing campaigns by using tools like cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. We use these tools to collect and store information about your visits, page visits and duration, and the specific ad or link that the user clicked on to visit the site.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We collect, use, and share your information for our business purposes. For example, we use your information:
- To determine your eligibility for the with products and services or employment you request;
- To provide you with products or services or employment opportunities you request;
- To make payments to you or receive payments from you;
- To improve our products and services;
- To facilitate your use of and operation of our products and services and Website;
- To communicate with you about Frontline sweepstakes, contests, promotions, surveys, and advocacy opportunities;
- To collect feedback about your experiences using our products or services;
- To market our products and services and employment opportunities to you;
- To implement collection activities;
- To protect against fraud and other unlawful conduct;
- To conduct comply with or enforce with applicable law;
- To resolve your disputes; and
- Any other reason we may tell you about from time to time.
SHARING OF YOUR INFORMATION
We do not sell or rent your personal information to anyone. Frontline only shares your personal information with unaffiliated third parties as permitted or required by law. When we share your personal information with service providers who perform functions on our behalf, we require the security and confidentiality of your information, as well as limiting their use of the information to reasonably and necessarily to carry out their work with us and comply with applicable laws and regulations. Third parties we share your information with may include, but are not limited to:
- Parties involved in our career recruitment process (e.g., companies that provide recruiting and applicant management software)
- Parties who perform services on our behalf (e.g., companies that provide property valuation services, distribute emails, process payments)
- Parties who deliver services on our behalf (e.g., companies that provide third-party analytics, online tracking, and interest-based advertising)
- Marketing and advertising partners (e.g., companies that we partner with the advertise and market our products and services)
- In connection with a sweepstakes, contest, or promotion, home improvement contractors registered with us and authorized to introduce our products and services with you
- In connection with a survey or act of support or advocacy, governmental authorities with whom we partner with to make our products and services available
- With other governmental entities as authorized by law (e.g., counties, municipalities, joint power authorities, and state agencies involved in our products and services)
- As required by law (e.g., in response to federal or state subpoenas, inquiries from regulatory bodies or law enforcement, or other processes of law)
- Our auditors
- In connection corporate transactions or changes (e.g., as part of, or during negotiations of, a merger, consolidation, sale of our assets, as well as equity financing, acquisition, strategic alliance or in any other situation where personal information may be transferred as one of the business assets of Frontline)
- Parties you have specifically authorized (e.g., your attorneys, agents, and designated representatives)
PROTECTING YOUR INFORMATION
We take the privacy and security of your personal information seriously. We maintain administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to reasonably protect your information’s security, confidentiality, and integrity.
Whenever we save your personal information, it is stored on servers and in facilities that only selected Frontline personnel and our contractors with a business “need to know” may access.
RETENTION OF YOUR INFORMATION
We keep your information as long as reasonably necessary to provide you the products or services you have requested or as long as reasonably necessary to comply with applicable law.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING YOUR INFORMATION
We will provide you with the means to access, change, or correct your personal information. If you need to change information in your profile, please contact us at support@frontlinewildfire.com.
You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from Frontline by following the instructions in those messages or by informing the call that you would not like to receive future promotional calls. You may also submit your request to the contact information provided below. If you decide to opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional communications, such as messages about the maintenance of your product or service.
You may opt out of cookies and automated technologies and third-party web analytics services as described above.
If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact us using the email above and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law. To make these requests, you may contact us using the email above, and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. For your protection, we may need to verify your identity before responding to your request, such as verifying that the email address from which you send the request matches your email address that we have on file. If we no longer need to process personal data about you in order to provide our Services or our Site, we will not maintain, acquire, or process additional information in order to identify you for the purpose of responding to your request.
DIRECT MARKETING AND “DO NOT TRACK” SIGNALS
Frontline does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. However, some third-party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, your browser may include controls to block and delete cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, to allow you to opt out of data collection through those technologies.
California residents are entitled to contact us to request information about whether we have disclosed personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. Frontline does not disclose personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. California users may request further information about our compliance with this law by emailing us at support@frontlinewildfire.com.
CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised version and updating the “Effective Date” above. The revised version will be effective on the “Effective Date” listed. We will provide you with reasonable prior notice of material changes in how we use your information. If you continue to use our Website, products and services or apply for employment with Frontline, you consent to any amendment of this policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.
CONTACTING US
You can contact our privacy team with any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy at:
Frontline Wildfire Defense
120 Taylor St.
San Rafael, CA 94901
(866) 956-1743
If you believe our Privacy Policy or applicable laws relating to the protection of your personal information have not been respected, you may file a complaint with our privacy team listed above. Please provide as many details as possible, without disclosing any private or sensitive information. We will respond to let you know when you can expect a further response.