PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy (“Policy” accessed at www.thirdcoastcalcs.com/privacy) is to help you understand
what information NV Services LLC, a Texas
limited liability company with a mailing address of 14215 Chadbourne Dr,
Houston, Texas 77079, conducting business asThird Coast Calcs (“Third Coast Calcs,” “we,” “us,” “our”) and you, as a user, (“you”
or “your”) may collect, use, and share with respect to
your use of the Third Coast Calcs website located at www.thirdcoastcalcs.com, Third Coast Calcs applications
for mobile devices, and the Third Coast Calcs products and services
(collectively, the “Products and Services”).
It is important that you carefully read and understand the terms and
conditions of this Policy. By accessing our Products and Services or
downloading the applications, you are providing your consent to our
collection, use and disclosure of information about you as described in
this Policy. Additionally, our Terms of Use www.thirdcoastcalcs.com/terms are incorporated by
reference into this Policy. If you do not agree to these terms and
conditions of the Policy, you are not authorized to use our Products and
Services and we ask that you cease any use of our Products and Services.
Please note that this Policy contains disclaimers of warranties and
limitations on liability that may be applicable to you.
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Right to Change Terms. We reserve the right at any time, with or
without cause, to (a) change the terms and conditions of this Policy; (b)
change our Products and Services, including eliminating or discontinuing
any information services or other feature of our Products and Services; or
(c) deny or terminate your use of and/or access to our Products and
Services. Any changes we make will be effective immediately upon our making
such changes available on our Products and Services, with or without
additional notice to you. You agree that your continued use of our Products
and Services after such changes constitutes your acceptance of such
changes. You hereby acknowledge that you have carefully read all of the
terms and conditions of our Privacy Policy (which can be accessed at www.thirdcoastcalcs.com/terms and agree to all such terms
and conditions. Be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure
familiarity with the most current version of this Agreement. YOUR CONTINUED
USE OF OUR PRODUCTS AND SERVICES AFTER SUCH POSTING MEANS YOU ACCEPT AND
AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE MODIFIED PRIVACY POLICY.
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Collection and Use of Information. Third Coast Calcs collects
information that you provide us directly or automatically when you use our
Products and Services. This information may include data collected
device-specific information, browser information, IP address, your
location, activity, and Products and Services usage. We may use the
information for purposes such as to: provide our Products and Services
functionality, improve the quality of our Products and Services,
personalize your experience, track usage of our Products and Services,
provide feedback to businesses and professionals whose products or services
are listed on our Products and Services, display relevant advertising,
evaluate the success of our advertising, provide customer support, message
you (in ways described by this privacy policy and managed by you in your
account settings), back up Products and Services systems and allow for
disaster recovery, enhance the security of our Products and Services,
fulfill transactions authorized by you on our Products and Services, and
comply with legal obligations.
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Do Not Track. Some browsers may allow you to automatically
transmit a “Do Not Track” signal to websites and online services you visit.
There is no clear consensus among participants as to what “Do Not Track”
means in this context. Like many websites and online services, Third Coast
Calcs does not modify its practices when it receives a “Do Not Track”
signal from a visitor’s browser.
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Third-party Ad Networks. Third Coast Calcs may use third-party
advertising companies to serve advertisements on our Products and Services
and on third-party sites, as well as to assist us in evaluating the
effectiveness of our advertising, in accordance with applicable law. These
companies use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to
collect information (not including your name, address, email address or
telephone number) about your visits to our Products and Services and other
sites in order to provide targeted advertisements to you. If you would like
to learn more about behavioral advertising or to opt out of having this
information used by companies that are part of the Network Advertising
Initiative and the Digital Advertising Alliance to deliver targeted ads,
please visit
http://www.networkadvertising.org
and/or
http://www.aboutads.info/choices
(DAA) and in Europe
http://www.youronlinechoices.com
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Disclosure to Third Parties. Third Coast Calcs may share the
strictly necessary parts of your personal data, on a need-to-know basis
with the following categories of third parties:
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Third-party service providers. We share personal information with
third-parties in connection with the delivery of services to you and the
operation of our business (for example, to provide credit card processing,
customer service, business analytics, and fraud prevention and compliance
services, and to serve you with advertising tailored to your interests).
These third-party service providers are required to protect personal
information we share with them and may not use any directly identifying
personal information other than to provide services we contracted them for.
They are not allowed to use the personal information we share for purposes
of their own direct marketing (unless you have separately consented with
the third-party under the terms provided by the third-party).
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Business partners and offers. If we promote a product or offer a
service in conjunction with a third-party business partner, we will share
your information with that partner to assist in marketing or to provide the
associated product or service. In most of those cases, the program or offer
will include the name of the third-party business partner, either alone or
with ours.
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Other Third-Parties. When you access certain features like “Request a quote” button that allows you request additional
information for products or services, you will share information with the
third-party, like an equipment manufacturer company, such as the fact that
you have visited or interacted with us. The third-party provider may
combine this information with other information they have about you. The
personal information shared will be governed by the third-party provider’s
privacy policy (including any personal information we may access via the
third-party provider).
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Investigations. Third Coast Calcs may investigate and disclose
information from or about you, as permitted by applicable law, if we have a
good faith belief that such investigation or disclosure is (a) reasonably
necessary to comply with legal process and law enforcement instructions and
orders, such as a search warrant, subpoena, statute, judicial proceeding,
or other legal process served on us; (b) helpful to prevent, investigate,
or identify possible wrongdoing in connection with the Site; or (c) helpful
to protect our rights, reputation, property, or that of our users,
subsidiaries, or the public.
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Business Transfers. If Third Coast Calcs is acquired by or merged
with another entity, if substantially all of our assets are transferred to
another company, or as part of a bankruptcy proceeding, Third Coast Calcs
may transfer the information we have collected about you to the other
company.
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Registration. Access to certain functionalities of our Products
and Services will require you to register with and/or provide certain
information to Third Coast Calcs. We reserve the right to decline to
provide access to our Products and Services or Information to any person
for any or no reason. If and when you register with or provide information
to Third Coast Calcs, you agree to (a) provide accurate, current and
complete information about yourself, or your business or service as part of
a Provider account, as prompted (including your email address) and (b)
maintain and update your information (including your email address) to keep
it accurate, current and complete. You acknowledge that, if any information
provided by you is untrue, inaccurate, not current or incomplete, we
reserve the right to terminate this Agreement and your use of our Products
and Services, Provider account, and/or Information. You are responsible for
maintaining the confidentiality of any password or other account
information not generally available to others and are fully responsible for
all activities that occur under your username and password.
Conversely, access to certain functionalities of our Products and
Services do not require registration and may be provided by simply
providing a link to certain information to Third Coast Calcs. For example,
the Library in Third Coast Calcs allows for a library file link that can be
shared externally and doesn’t require an account for access or any other
authorization.
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Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. Third Coast Calcs, and
third parties we interact with, including our third-party service
providers, use cookies, web beacons, local shared objects (sometimes called
flash cookies), and similar technology in connection with your use of our
Products and Services and third-party websites (collectively referred to in
this policy as “Cookies”). Cookies are small data files
that may have unique identifiers, and reside, among other places, on your
computer or mobile device, in emails we send to you, and on our Products
and Services. We may use Cookies to transmit information about you and your
use of our Products and Services, such as your browser type, search
preferences, data relating to advertisements that have been displayed to
you or that you have clicked on, and the date and time of your use. When we
use Cookies, we do so in order to further Products and Services features
and processes, provide authentication and security for your transactions on
our Products and Services, store your preferences, facilitate relevant
advertising, and help Third Coast Calcs learn more about how users engage
with our Products and Services. Our Cookies may be persistent or stored
only during an individual session.
For example, cookies help us with things like remembering your username
for your next visit, understanding how you are interacting with our
Services, and improving them based on that information. You can set your
browser to not accept cookies, but this may limit your ability to use the
Services.
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Account Termination and Data Retention. You can close your Third
Coast Calcs account at any time by going to account settings. When you
close your account, you will cease to provide ongoing or future data to
Products and Services.
Your private contact details, such as your full name, email, &
password will not be maintained.
However, your data collected about your location, activity, and usage may
be maintained and kept in an anonymized and deidentified format to improve
the Products and Services functionality. Unless prohibited by applicable
law, public postings or comments you provided to the forum associated with
your public profile prior to closing your account, will remain public. We
may retain information about you for the purposes authorized under this
Policy unless prohibited by law.
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Security. Third Coast Calcs follows generally accepted industry
standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during
transmission and once we receive it. All data is transmitted over secure
communication lines using HTTPS for communication between your devices and
Third Coast Calcs servers.
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Data Storage. Any information you provide through our Products
and Services may be transferred over secure communication lines using HTTPS
to, stored in, or processed in the United States. Data isn’t encrypted in
our database (since it needs to be ready to send to you when you need it).
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External Sharing. You have certain choices about how to control
your data, including what to make externally available. For example the
Library in Third Coast Calcs allows sharing a library file via link that
can be shared externally and doesn’t require an account for access or any
other authorization. You have the ability to revoke the access granted to a
Library in Third Coast Calcs through the library file settings on your Third
Coast Calcs account. These choices are described throughout our Products
and Services in the relevant sections.
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Links to Other Sites. Our Products and Services contain links to
other sites that are not controlled by Third Coast Calcs. Please be aware
that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites.
We encourage you to be aware when you leave our Products and Services and
read the privacy policies of each and every site you visit. This privacy
policy applies only to information collected by our Products and Services.
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No Use by Children. You hereby affirm that you are over the age
of 12, as these Products and Services are not intended for children under
13. If you are under 13 years of age, then you may not use our Products and
Services. You further affirm that you are fully able and competent to enter
into the terms, conditions, obligations, affirmations, representations, and
warranties set forth in this Agreement, and to abide by and comply with
this Policy.
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Notice. By use of our Products and Services, you consent to
receive electronic communications from Third Coast Calcs. You also agree
that any such communications satisfy any legal requirement to make such
communications in writing under this Policy or under any applicable laws or
regulations. Specifically, we may provide notice to you by sending an email
to the address that you provided as part of your registration for our
Products and Services. Any notice to Third Coast Calcs will be provided by
both (a) sending an email to legal@thirdcoastcalcs.com;
and (b) providing a copy by certified mail, return receipt requested to:
NV Services LLC
14215 Chadbourne Dr
Houston, Texas 77079
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Governing Law & Venue. This Policy shall be governed in all
respects by the laws of the United States of America and by the laws of the
State of Texas. The courts of Houston, Texas shall be the exclusive forum
for any mediation, arbitration, litigation or dispute resolution.
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Enforceability. If any provision of this Policy is found to be
unlawful, void, or for any reason unenforceable, then that provision shall
be deemed severable from this Policy and shall not affect the validity and
enforceability of any remaining provisions.
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Entire Agreement. This Policy, along with the Terms of Use,
constitute the entire terms with respect to the relationship between Third
Coast Calcs and you and supersedes all prior agreements, whether written or
oral, concerning such relationship. This Policy may not be changed, waived
or modified except by Third Coast Calcs as provided herein or otherwise by
written instrument signed by Third Coast Calcs.
Effective July 23, 2019.