Privacy policy

Commitment To Your Privacy

This website is owned and operated by Califonria Ocean Sports LLC: DBA Exos Dive, a for-profit corporation. We understand that you value your privacy. This policy is governed by the information you provide or that we learn from your use of this website and other contacts with Exos Dive. It explains how we may collect, use, and, in some instances, share this information. 

Personal Information is defined as

Exos Dive considers “Personal Information” to include information that alone or when in combination with other information may be used to readily identify, contact, or locate you, such as name, address, email address, phone number, or birthdate. 

Information Exos Dive Collects And How We Use It

Information You Provide

Exos Dive may ask you to give us personal information if you want to participate in activities on this website or benefit from the services offered. We may collect this information to help you with Exos Dive services and respond to your requests. 

Suppose you choose to donate or do another activity requiring payment. In that case, we may also ask for information you need for billing and shipment, such as your credit card number, card verification value code, billing address, phone number, and email address. Exos Dive will not share or sell customers' personal information with anyone else nor send customer mailings on behalf of other organizations. This policy applies to both online and offline customers.

Exos Dive may collect Personal Information through your communications with our supporter relations and donor relations teams.

Exos Dive will limit our requests for Personal Information to information we believe is minimally necessary to achieve our stated collection purposes. 

Usage Tracking

We track website usage data to improve our website. We collect user traffic patterns throughout our website using web logs, cookies, and similar technologies. This information helps improve website flow and usability. In addition, when we send emails to our members and supporters, we track clicks to our website, including IP addresses. This is done to gauge the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and discourage fraudulent use. 

Cookies

We may place a " cookie " text file in your computer's browser files. A cookie cannot read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other websites. Exos Dive may use cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). In addition, Exos Dive uses encrypted cookies to authenticate the user on each page after the user logs onto the website. You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you have set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. Some Exos Dive website features and other services may malfunction if your cookies are disabled. 

Our Usage of Personal Information

We process Personal Information as described above and also for such internal and service-related purposes as:

To alert you to news updates, related developments, special offers, and other Exos Dive offerings, please let me know when you get a chance. We provide you with controls so that you can determine whether or not you would like to continue to receive such communications if you so choose (as described below);

I will contact you in response to requests for information, such as requests made through our website's “Contact Us” page.

We only keep personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the above purposes or as applicable law requires.

Children

Exos Dive does not knowingly collect, maintain, or use Personal Information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from children under 13, we will promptly delete such information from our databases. If you are a parent or guardian and discover that your child under 13 has used the website, you may alert us as soon as possible at info@exosdive.com and request that we delete that child’s Personal Information from our systems.

User Access

We're trying to give you access to your Personal Information to correct data that may be inaccurate or delete data at your request. If you would like to review the information in our files, update it, or ask Exos Dive to refrain from sending you information in the future, please get in touch with us by e-mail at info@exosdive.com. We may decline to process requests in limited circumstances, including where the demand is excessive, may jeopardize the privacy of others, or where information must be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes.

Exos Dive Transfer And Information Sharing Policy

We do not rent, sell, or share Personal Information collected on this website with third parties for their direct marketing purposes without your permission. We may provide Personal Information to or permit access to Personal Information by vendors and service providers who are contracted to help us administer this website. These service providers may process Personal Information on our behalf or use Personal Information to assist the Exos Dive in administering our website. Exos Dive does not otherwise share Personal Information about website users with third parties unless doing so is appropriate to carry out a user’s request or Exos Dive reasonably believes that doing so is legally required or is in Exos Dive's interest to protect its property or other legal rights or the rights or property of others. 

Reorganization of Exos Dive

If Exos Dive should ever file for bankruptcy or have its assets sold to or merged with another entity, information the Exos Dive receives from you shall be treated as an Exos Dive asset and may be transferred as part of any such transactions.

Affiliated Websites, Other Websites, and Advertisements

This Privacy Policy applies to websites and services owned and operated by the Exos Dive. We do not exercise control over the websites of third parties that you may link to or view as part of a frame on a page. These other sites may place their cookies or other files on your computer, collect data, or solicit Personal Information from you. We are not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. Please check the privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

International Visitors And Customers

This website is hosted in the United States. If you are visiting from the European Union or other regions with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your data to the United States, where a statutory level of data protection applies that is not comparable to the level of data protection within the EEA. Whenever such transfer occurs, it is based on the standard contractual clauses (according to EU Commission Decision 87/2010/EC or any future replacement) to contractually provide that your Personal Data is subject to a level of data protection that applies within the EEA. You may obtain a redacted copy (from which commercial information and information that is not relevant has been removed) of such standard contractual clauses by sending a request to info@exosdive.com

Security

We ensure that your information is treated securely by this Privacy Policy, including encrypting data, using a secure HTTPS protocol for transmission, and ensuring that all access to data by the Exos Dive staff is limited. No data transmissions over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Consequently, we cannot ensure or warrant that the information you transmit to us will never be accessed. If and when Exos Dive learns of a security systems breach, we may need to notify you electronically so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using this website or providing Personal Information, you agree that we can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your website use. Exos Dive may post a notice on our website if a security breach occurs. Exos Dive may also need to email you using the email address you provided in these circumstances. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing. To receive free written notice of a security breach (or to withdraw your consent from receiving electronic information), you should notify us at info@exosdive.com

Changes and Updates

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy. When we do, we will also revise the “effective date” on the Privacy Policy. For changes to this Privacy Policy that may be less restrictive on our use or disclosure of the Personal Information you have provided, we will attempt to obtain your consent before implementing the change. We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy to stay informed about how we protect the Personal Information we collect. Your continued use of this website constitutes your agreement to this Privacy Policy and any updates.

Contacting Exos Dive

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns about Exos Dive or this Privacy Policy, please don’t hesitate to email us at info@exosdive.com