Effective Date: April 10th, 2025
This privacy notice applies to the information that we collect from you when you use our websites; Floatgroup.us, Floatlegal.com, Floatcare.com, our mobile applications, our web applications, and our software as a service, collectively and hereinafter called “website.”
Our privacy notice tells you what personal data and nonpersonal data we collect from you, how we collect them, how we protect them, how we disclose them, how you can access and change them, and how you can limit our disclosing of them. Our privacy notice also explains certain legal rights that you have about your personal data. Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.
Definitions - These definitions may vary slightly from country to country.
‘NONPERSONAL DATA’ (NPD) means any information that is in no way personally identifiable.
‘PERSONAL DATA’ (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. PD is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, PD is broader in scope and covers more data.
‘SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA’ (SPD) means a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security, access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; a consumer’s exact geolocation; a consumer’s ethnic or racial origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, text messages, and email unless the business is the intended receiver of the communication; a consumer’s genetic data; the processing of biometric data to uniquely identify a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed about a consumer’s health; sex life or sexual orientation.
Topics Covered in Our Privacy Notice
YOUR RIGHTS
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
HOW YOUR PD IS USED AND DISCLOSED
DATA RETENTION POLICY
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES
DO NOT TRACK SETTINGS
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
OUR EMAIL POLICY
OUR SECURITY POLICY
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY NOTICE & DATA
TRANSFERRING PD FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
Contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice to exercise any of your legal rights contained within this privacy notice. We will respond to your request within 30 days of receiving it. Occasionally it may take longer for multiple requests or complex circumstances.
Our current policy is not to collect personal data from countries other than the United States. Should that change, and we start collecting personal data from other countries, you may have privacy rights provided by those countries.
When using our website and submitting PD to us, you have certain rights under privacy laws in the United States including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CaCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and other U.S. state laws. You also have rights under privacy laws of other countries including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the EU GDPR), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (the UK GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act of 2018, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and other global privacy laws. Even if not listed here, we will make reasonable efforts to honor data subject access requests even though we may be under no legal obligation to do so. However, we reserve the right to decline any data subject access request that we are not legally obligated to comply with. Your rights may include but are not limited to the following:
1. The right to equal service, and price, and not be discriminated against even if you exercise your privacy rights.
2. The right to one or more means where you can submit requests under this privacy notice including (at minimum) a toll-free telephone number and an email address if the business operates a storefront and a website. If the business operates only an Internet website, then it must have a dedicated email address where you can submit requests for information required to be disclosed by law.
3. The right to know whether your PD is sold or disclosed and to whom.
4. The right to request that we do not sell any of your PD.
5. The right to be informed about the PD that we collect from you and how we process them.
6. The right to get confirmation that your PD are being processed and you can access your PD.
7. The right to have your PD corrected if they are inaccurate or incomplete.
8. The right to request the removal or deletion of your PD if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing them. However, the right to deletion is not absolute and can be overridden to continue data processing in some cases where we still have a legal ground or overriding legitimate interest to process your data.
9. The right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your PD. When your PD are restricted, we are permitted to store your PD, but not to process them further.
10. The right to object to us processing your PD for the following reasons:
a) processing was based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling);
b) direct marketing and targeted advertising (including profiling);
c) processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.
11. The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects regarding you or similarly significantly affects you.
12. The right that we limit the collection of your PD to that which is "adequate, relevant and reasonably necessary with the purposes for which the data is processed.
13. The right that we do not process your PD for purposes that are neither reasonably necessary nor compatible with the disclosed purposes for which such personal data is processed, as disclosed to you unless the controller obtains your consent.
14. The right to designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. When designating an authorized agent, you must provide a valid power of attorney, the requester’s valid government-issued identification, and the authorized agent’s valid government-issued identification.
15. The right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with your rights under privacy laws.
Based on our current data collection methods, and including our practices over the last 12 months, we collect the following categories of PD, SPD, and other information about you:
Automatic Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information may include the IP address of your computer or the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use this type of information to help improve our website and marketing.
When Entering and Using Our Website
When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.
By agreeing to accept our use of cookies you are giving us and the third parties with which we partner permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer and or mobile device.
Strictly Necessary Cookies - These cookies are necessary for the proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, confirming your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions.
Performance Cookies - These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.
Functional Cookies - These cookies enable the website to remember users’ choices, such as their language, usernames, and other choices while using the website.
Media Cookies - These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by us or third parties who provide services to us.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies - These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests.
Session Cookies - These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for remembering what a user puts in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session.
Persistent Cookies - These cookies are stored on a user’s device between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a website or across different websites to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or target advertising to them.
We may also use cookies for:
identifying the areas of our website that you have visited;
personalizing the content that you see on our website;
our website analytics;
remarketing our products or services to you;
remembering your preferences, settings, and log-in details;
targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests;
allowing you to disclose content with social networks.
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Web Beacons
We may use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically watch the number of people who open our emails.
At User Registration or When Buying Products or Services
Based on our current practices when you provide information to us (including our practices over the last 12 months), we collect some or all of the following categories of information about you when you register as a user or when buying our products or services: First Name, Last Name, Gender, Date of Birth, Work Phone Extension, Work Email, Personal Phone Number, Personal Email, Language, Ethnicity, Address 1, Address 2, City, State, ZIP Code, Driver's License Number, Social Security Number, Passport Details, Emergency Contact First & Last Name, Emergency Contact Phone Number, Emergency Contact Relationship, Hired Date, Personal Photo, and other information listed or that you willingly provide to us.
During Utilization of the Products or Services
Based on our current practices (including our practices over the last 12 months), we collect information from you and third-parties during utilization of the products or services. These third-parties include but are not limited to healthcare providers, legal representatives, insurance companies, government agencies, & business partners. Some or all of the following categories of information collected during utilization include: information related to your treatment history, diagnoses, prescriptions, ongoing medical conditions, physician or healthcare provider notes, data received from healthcare institutions or professionals involved in your care, policy numbers, coverage details, any other payment or reimbursement-related information, information about ongoing or past legal matters, including case details, legal contracts, agreements, court filings, testimonies, depositions, data from attorneys, law firms, government bodies, or any entity representing or advising you in legal matters.
Collecting Information About Your Physical Location
When you use our services, we may collect and process information about your actual physical location. We use several technologies such as GPS and IP tracking to determine your location. These technologies may also give us information about nearby cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other devices.
Google API
By using our website, you are subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.
When collecting and processing user data, including PD from Google APIs, we will follow Google API Services User Data Policy. We also require that our employees, contractors, and agents comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy.
User Experience Analytics
We may use user experience analytics tools to better understand how visitors interact with our website. These tools help us analyze user behavior—such as time spent on pages, interactions with site elements, and navigation patterns—so we can continuously improve the functionality and usability of our services. To collect this information, these tools may use cookies and similar tracking technologies. The types of data collected can include:
Anonymized IP addresses
Device type, screen size, and unique device identifiers
Browser type and version
Geographic location (limited to country)
Preferred language settings
This data is stored in pseudonymized user profiles and is not used to identify individual users. We do not combine this information with any other personal data that could be used to directly identify you. If you prefer not to be tracked, you can opt out of this data collection by enabling “Do Not Track” settings in your browser or by using any opt-out mechanisms provided by your browser or device.
Commenting System and User Activity Tracking
Our website may use a third-party commenting system that may track user activity across websites that implement the same service. This tracking may occur unless the “Do Not Track” setting is enabled in your browser. The commenting service may collect and share certain data with third parties. This may include pseudonymized analytics data, browser version, installed add-ons, referring pages, and links clicked when exiting the site. Please note that any content you choose to share publicly through the commenting system may be visible to other users, and can be searched for, viewed, shared, or reposted by others. If you are concerned about tracking or data sharing, you may choose to use a privacy-enhancing browser extension or settings that limit or block the functionality of third-party commenting services.
Chat Software or Contact Forms
Our website contains chat software or contact forms that enable visitors to communicate with us online or offline by email. Sometimes, visitors can communicate with us without buying our products and services. When you use our chat software or contact forms, we may collect some or all the following information: your email address, first name, last name, location, and any other information you willingly choose to give us. You should limit the information you give to us to one that is necessary to answer your questions.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic and improve our marketing, advertising, and website. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with PD. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Analytics
Our website uses analytics services from companies other than Google to collect information about the use of our website. Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our website, what pages they visit when they do so, what other websites they use before coming to our website, and their IP addresses. We use the information we get from analytics to improve our services.
Google Ad and Content Network
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies, pixels, and other technologies to serve ads based on a user's past visits to our website. These technologies are also used to track your activities on our website and other websites, including the web pages that you visited, the ads or content that you clicked on, any items you may have purchased, and the search terms you used to deliver tailored advertising to you. Users may opt-out of the use of Google’s cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
For European users visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu
Remarketing
Our website and applications use remarketing advertising services. These remarketing services are provided by companies that show our ads on websites and devices across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells computers, but you do not buy a computer on your first visit to that website. The website’s owner might like to encourage you to revisit their site and buy a computer by showing you their ads on other websites that you visit. We use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen remarketing companies will read a cookie in your browser. This can only happen if your browser is set to let it happen. You can opt out of these types of advertising cookies by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
Disclosing Your PD for Lookalike or Similar Audience Marketing
We may disclose your PD with third parties for similar audience marketing purposes. Similar audience marketing is also called lookalike audience marketing. The third parties we disclose your PD with for this type of marketing include Facebook, Google, and Pinterest. Using your PD for similar audience marketing or lookalike audience marketing helps us find new audiences (users and customers) based on similar interests to yours. This helps us improve our marketing services. Your PD is only disclosed with Facebook, Google, and Pinterest for this marketing. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice you are giving consent for your PD to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.
Third Party Service Providers
In addition to those listed above, we partner with trusted third-party service providers to perform services on our behalf, such as cloud hosting, data analytics, payment processing, and customer support. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your data and are only permitted to use it for purposes specified by us.
Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing PD
Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you buy our products or services or fill in any of the contact forms on our website is based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract. In some jurisdictions, consent may be the only legal basis to process PD. In those jurisdictions, we will use consent as the legal basis for processing PD. Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you use free versions of our products or services is based on consent.
What Happens If You Don’t Give Us Your PD
If you do not provide us with enough PD, we may not be able to provide you with all our products and services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your PD.
We use the information we receive from you to:
respond to any requests from you regarding sales and support;
contact you about any agreements or terms that you may have with us;
collect payment and bill you for our services;
let you use and access our applications;
interact with other users if applicable in your company;
diagnose and resolve problems and prevent fraud;
provide the products and services you have requested or purchased from us;
personalize and customize our content;
contact you with updates to our website, products, and services;
resolve problems and disputes;
respect and apply customer decisions to opt-out of any data sharing such as a ‘data sale’ or similar concept under applicable laws or regulations;
marketing purposes such as sending newsletters, promotional content, or updates about new services
We may share your PD with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Notice. Affiliates include our parent company and any other subsidiaries or joint venture partners;
Make privacy and data protection agreements with our merchants and contractors.
Communications and Emails
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a user or customer. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your contact preferences at any time through your account or by contacting us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
Text Messaging, SMS, Push Notifications, and Telephone Calls
If you provide a mobile telephone number, or landline telephone number to us, you are giving your express consent and authorize us or a third party to contact you by using any of these communication methods. You are not required to give us your consent to contact you through these communication methods. However, withholding your consent may interfere with or prevent us from providing some or all our services to you. You can stop receiving text messages, push notifications, and telephone calls by contacting us or using one of our opt-out methods.
Disclosing Your PD to Service Providers and or Contractors
At times we disclose your PD to service providers and or contractors whom we hire to provide services to us. These service providers and or contractors may include but are not limited to payment processors, web analytics companies, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, medical providers, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.
Legally Required Releases of Information
We may disclose your PD if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal processes; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and or other users; or (d) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal and or real property, or the personal safety of our company, users, employees, and business partners.
Disclosures to Successors
If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or company.
Support Tickets
You can also communicate with us by using our support tickets. If you choose to use our support tickets you should provide us only enough information to assist you.
We retain your PD and or SPD if it is necessary to provide our services and or products to you and to fulfill the purposes outlined in our privacy notice, subject to any legal obligations that may require a longer retention period. PD associated with your account will be kept until it is no longer necessary to provide our services and or products at which point we will destroy, delete, or erase it, or until you ask us to delete it.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
The length of time we have a continuing relationship with you and provide the services and or products to you that you requested;
Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them);
Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as, for statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).
If you make any postings on our website that contain information about third parties, you agree that you have permission to include that information. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings about which we are notified if such postings violate the privacy rights of others.
Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. We have no responsibility for these websites, and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You accept that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk.
You can always opt out of receiving email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our company, or if our company files for bankruptcy as described in the section Disclosures to Successors.
We have built our website and services using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your PD. We and the third parties who provide services to us also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your PD. SPD is protected at a higher level than most PD. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the prevention of loss or misuse of your PD or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not disclose it to anyone.
You may have to provide a credit or debit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over them. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
This privacy notice governs our privacy practices when children are using our website and associated applications, collectively and hereinafter called “website.”
We do not collect personal data from anyone under the age of 17 unless the age of consent in their country/state/province/territory, etc., provides for 13, 14, 15, and 16-year-old children to give us consent to collect their personal data. If they are under the age of consent, we require consent from their parents, legal guardians, or an authorized school official before we can collect personal data from them.
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) in the United States requires us to tell parents or legal guardians about how we collect, use, and disclose personal data from children under the age of 13. COPPA also requires that we get consent from parents, legal guardians, or an authorized school official before we allow children under the age of 13 to use and interact with our website.
If you are a parent or legal guardian and believe that your child is using our website without your consent, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent the malicious removal of account information. If we discover that an unauthorized child is using our website, we will delete his or her information within a reasonable period of time. You accept that we do not verify the age of our users nor have any liability to do so.
Verifiable Parental Consent
Before collecting personal data from a child under the age of consent, COPPA and other global privacy laws require that we first get a parent or legal guardian’s consent in an email or other approved method sent to them. We will describe what information we would like to collect, how we propose to use it, and how the parent or legal guardian can offer and cancel consent. If we do not get consent from the parent or legal guardian within a reasonable time frame, we will remove the child and parent information collected with the request.
Teacher and School Administrator Consent in Replace of a Parent
In most jurisdictions, for school-based activities, school administrators and teachers are allowed under children’s privacy laws to act for the parents or legal guardians to give consent when collecting personal data from children. Teachers and school administrators should always tell parents when collecting personal data from children on their behalf.
A Medical Professional Consent in Replace of a Parent
A medical professional can collect personal data about a child without parental consent in situations where the child is considered "medically emancipated" by state or other laws, meaning they can consent to certain medical treatments themselves, usually related to reproductive health, sexually transmitted infections, or mental health care, depending on the specific laws or regulations; or in emergencies where immediate medical intervention is necessary to protect the child's health and parental consent cannot be obtained in time.
Personal Data We Collect From Children & How We Use It
The information collected on children is the same as a general user unless prohibited by law. These practices are detailed in “Information We Collect and How We Collect It”.
Disclosing Children’s Personal Data
We will not disclose a child’s personal data with other individuals or companies except in limited situations, including:
when other companies perform services for us, like customer support, email services, delivery services, data management services, help desk providers, law firms, certified medical professionals, payment processors, accountants, and shopping cart providers; however, these companies are prohibited from using a child’s personal data for purposes other than those requested by us or required by law;
disclosing a child’s personal data if required or permitted by law, for example, in response to a subpoena, law enforcement, court order, or a public agency’s request;
to protect the safety of a child;
to safeguard the security of our website and the companies that provide services for us;
and to enable the child to participate in our website activities.
Retention of Children’s Data
We will not retain children’s personal data longer than needed to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. We will also delete their personal data upon a valid request.
Parental Rights
As a parent or legal guardian, you have the following rights regarding your child’s use of our website and the personal data we hold about them, these rights include:
to review the personal data we collected from your child;
to revoke the consent to use or further collect your child’s personal data;
to request that your child’s personal data be changed or deleted;
to allow the collection and use of your child’s personal data, but not allow disclosure to third parties unless it is part of our service or legally required;
to send you a new notice and get your consent if we make changes to the collection, use, or disclosure practices to which you previously agreed.
You may have to provide a credit or debit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over them. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy notice, we will post those changes on our website so our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your PD in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email sent to the email address on file in your account. Otherwise, we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. Your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you have questions about our privacy notice, please contact us through the information at the top of this privacy notice.
FloatCare, Inc.
10500 Richmond Avenue, Suite 225
Houston, TX, 77042
1-888-993-5628
privacy@floatteam.com
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