Privacy Policy

Last modified: April 28, 2021

Introduction

Nicor Inc. (“Company” “us” or ”We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website at https://www.nicorinc.net/ (our “Website”) and when you download, install, register with, access, or use the Nicor Inc. mobile application (“App”, together with the Website, each a “Platform” and collectively, the “Platforms”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On the Website.
On the App.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Platforms.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Platforms

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Platforms. By accessing or using the Website or downloading, registering with, or using the App, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Platforms after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Platforms are not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Platforms. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Platforms or through any of the Platforms’ features, register on any Platform, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at kalilkocdemir@nicorinc.net.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Platforms, including information:

By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); or
About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Platform, and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the Platform. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, mobile cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Platforms may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Platforms. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Platforms, subscribing to our service, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Platforms.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your search queries on the Platforms.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

Website

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Usage Details: Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Device Information: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

App

When you download, install, access, and use the App, it may use technology to automatically collect:

Usage Details. When you access and use the App, we may automatically collect certain details of your access to and use of the App, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on or through the App.
Device Information. We may collect information about your mobile device and internet connection, including the device’s unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, mobile network information, and the device’s telephone number.
Stored Information and Files. The App also may access metadata and other information associated with other files stored on your device. This may include, for example, photographs, audio and video clips, personal contacts, and address book information.
Location Information. This App collects real-time information about the location of your device.

If you do not want us to collect this information do not download the App or delete it from your device.

Generally

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Contact us at kalilkocdemir@nicorinc.net for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking on this website.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information. It helps us to improve our Platforms and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Platforms according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Platforms.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies, mobile cookies, or browser cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer or on your mobile device. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser or mobile device. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Platforms. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website or access the App.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Platforms may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Platforms. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of our the Platforms and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

When you use the App or its content, certain third parties may use automatic information collection technologies to collect information about you or your device. These third parties may include:

Analytics companies.
Your mobile device manufacturer.
Your mobile service provider.

These third parties may use tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the App. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites, apps, and other online services websites. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with the App and its contents, and any other information, products or services that you request from us.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account/subscription.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
To notify you about changes to our Website, when App updates are available, or any products or services we offer or provide though our Platforms.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Platforms.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please contact us at kalilkocdemir@nicorinc.net. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Although users from all over the world may access the Platforms, keep in mind that no matter where you live or where you happen to use our services, you consent to us processing and transferring information in and to the United States and other countries whose data-protection and privacy laws may offer fewer protections than those in your home country.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual or device, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Nicor Inc.’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Nicor Inc. about our Platforms’ users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our terms of use [https://www.nicorinc.net/tos/] and other agreements.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Nicor Inc., our customers, or others.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Platforms may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website.

How do I disable cookies?

If you want to disable cookies, you can change your website browser settings to reject cookies. How you can do this will depend on the browser you use. Further details on how to disable cookies for the most popular browsers are set out below:

For Microsoft Internet Explorer:

Choose the menu “tools” then “Internet Options”
Click on the “privacy” tab
Select the setting the appropriate setting

For Google Chrome:

Choose Settings> Advanced
Under “Privacy and security,” click “Content settings”.
Click “Cookies”

For Safari:

Choose Preferences > Privacy
Click on “Remove all Website Data”

For Mozilla firefox:

Choose the menu “tools” then “Options”
Click on the icon “privacy”
Find the menu “cookie” and select the relevant options

Location Information. You can choose whether or not to allow the App to collect and use real-time information about your device’s location through the device’s privacy settings. If you block the use of location information, some parts of the App may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotion by the Company. If you do not want us to use your contact information to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out contacting us at kalilkocdemir@nicorinc.net.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California privacy rights, visit https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displayText.xhtml?division=3.&part=4.&lawCode=CIV&title=1.81.5.

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Platforms that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to kalilkocdemir@nicorinc.net.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Platforms, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Platforms. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Platforms.

Lawfulness of Processing Your Data

General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the laws in some jurisdictions require companies to tell you about the legal bases that they rely on to use or disclose your personal data.

To the extent that those laws apply, we rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal data:

Performance of a contract: In most cases, we collect and use your personal data and other information to meet our obligations under a contract to which you are a party or pursuant to which we are providing services to you.

Legitimate interests: We may use your personal data information for our legitimate interests on the grounds that it furthers our legitimate interests in commercial activities (but only to the extent that such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the affected individuals) including:
- Analyzing and improving the Platforms and our business.
- Providing the services in connection with the Platforms.

Legal compliance: We may use and disclose personal data in certain ways to comply with our legal obligations under European or Member State law or other applicable law.

Consent: To the extent required by law, and in certain other cases, we handle personal data on the basis of implied or express consent.

European Privacy Rights for EEA Residents

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your personal data) if we intend to use your personal data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your personal data to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your personal data. You can also exercise the right by contacting us directly.

If you are an EEA Resident and GDPR applies and we hold your personal data in our capacity as a controller, you may request that we:

Provide access to and/or a copy of certain personal data (including, in some cases, in portable form).
Prevent the processing of your personal data for direct-marketing purposes (including any direct marketing processing based on profiling).
Update personal data that is out of date or incorrect.
Delete certain personal data which we are holding about you; provided that the personal data is not required by us for (i) compliance with a legal obligation under European or Member State law or other applicable law or (ii) the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.
Object to our processing of personal data.
Restrict the way that we process and disclose certain of your information except to the extent that processing is required (i) to comply with a legal obligation under European Member State law or applicable law or (ii) for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
Transfer your personal data to a third party to the extent that this is technically feasible.
Honor a revocation of your consent for the processing of your personal data (without retroactive effect).

We will consider all requests and provide our response within the time period required by applicable law. Please note, however, that certain information may be exempt from such requests in some circumstances, which may include information that we need to keep processing for our legitimate interests or to comply with a legal obligation. We may request you provide us with additional information to confirm your identity before responding to your request. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the authorities applicable to your situation, though we invite you to contact us with any concern, as we would be happy to try to resolve it directly.

If you are an EEA Resident in France, you also have the right to set guidelines for the retention and communication of your personal data after your death.

In addition, where you believe that we have not complied with its obligation under this Privacy Policy or European law, you have the right to make a complaint to an EU Data Protection Authority, such as the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. You can find a list of local data protection authorities in EEA countries at the following link: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/board/members_en

You can exercise any of these rights by contacting us using the contact information provided below.

Storage of Your Personal Data

We may store any data or other information that we collect (personal or otherwise) ourselves or in databases and servers owned and maintained by us, our affiliates, agents. If you access or use the Platforms outside of the United States, information that we collect about you may be transferred to servers inside the United States and maintained indefinitely, which may involve the transfer of information out of countries located in the European Economic Area and other parts of the world unless otherwise prohibited by applicable law or agreed by us and you. By allowing us to collect information about you, you consent to such transfer and processing of such information without restriction. We may also store some information locally on your computer or other devices. For example, we may store information as local cache so that you can open the Website and view content faster.

We will only retain your personal data, in a form that permits us to identify you, for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We will retain and use your personal data as necessary to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements, to resolve disputes or to enforce our agreements and rights. To dispose of personal data, we may anonymize it, delete it or take other appropriate steps. Data may persist in copies made for backup and business continuity purposes for additional time.

Accessing and Correcting Your Personal Data

You can review and change your personal information by logging into our Platforms and visiting your account profile page. You may also change, correct or delete any personal data that you have provided to us using the contact information provided below.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Platform home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Platforms and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at kalilkocdemir@nicorinc.net