Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 6, 2023  

 
This privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) in intended to inform you about how RustyBrick, Inc., a New York corporation with an address at 250 West Nyack Road, Suite 200, West Nyack, NY 10994 (“RustyBrick”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), collects and uses personally identifiable information ("PII") uploaded or otherwise submitted to us through our website located at www.rustybrick.com (the "Website”).
 
How does the Website Work?
 
The Website enables clients of RustyBrick who are registered with us ("Registrants") to use all the Website's features offered to users and for anonymous browsers of the Website (“Visitors”) to learn more about us.   All references to "you", "your", and "yours" hereunder shall refer to either Registrants or Visitors or to both Registrants and Visitors collectively, as applicable; provided, however, that in the case of doubt such terms will refer collectively to both Registrants and Visitors unless the context of this Privacy Policy indicates otherwise.
 
By using the Website, each Registrant consents to the collection and use by RustyBrick (a) of such Registrant’s PII, and other information collected from such Registrant by us, as described in this Privacy Policy, and (b) as described in RustyBrick’s terms of use agreement for the Website which is located at www.rustybrick.com/terms of use (the “Terms of Use”). By using the Website, each Visitor consents to the collection and use by RustyBrick of all information collected by such Visitor by us as described in this Privacy Policy and in the Terms of Use.
 
How can the terms of this Privacy Policy be modified?
 
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time.  You agree to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be aware of such modifications.  You further agree that your continued use of the Website after any such modifications have been made shall be deemed to be your conclusive acceptance of any modified version of this Privacy Policy.   We will indicate that changes to this Privacy Policy have been made by updating the date indicated after “Last Updated” at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.  We will be happy to provide you with prior versions of this Privacy Policy upon your written request to us. If you do not agree to abide by the initial version or any modified version of this Privacy Policy, then you are not authorized to use the Website.  The current version of this Privacy Policy is accessible via the footer of the Website’s homepage. 
 
What type of PII does RustyBrick collect from you and how do we use it?
 
Registrants may submit various PII to us via the Website, including without limitation their name, address, phone number, email address and other biographical information. 
 
RustyBrick may provide your PII to individuals or entities who work with us or on our behalf. These individuals or entities may use your PII to help fulfill your requests and to help us communicate with you about different services or resources offered by us.  For example, we may transfer certain of your PII or other information to service providers and other third parties who assist us in operating the Website or who help us in executing requests made by you.
 
RustyBrick also collects and uses non-PII as is further described below. 
 
Under what other circumstances may we release PII to third parties?
 
In addition to our practices described above, we may release your PII to third parties if we believe that such release is necessary to comply with the law (e.g., a legal process or a statutory authorization or requirement) or a court order, to apply or enforce the Terms of Use or otherwise protect our interests, to protect our Registrants, to protect against the fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful use of the Website, or if we reasonably believe that a danger to any person or property requires disclosure of such PII.
 
RustyBrick may be required to disclose an individual's PII in response to a lawful request by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. 
 
Our rights under this Privacy Policy may be assigned by RustyBrick, as determined by us in our sole discretion, to a third party or parties, and such an assignment will inure to the benefit of our successors, assigns and/or licensees.  Without limitation of the foregoing, we may sell, transfer or otherwise share some or all of our assets, including without limitation your PII, with any parent entity subsidiary, joint venture, a company under our common control, as well as with a potential acquirer, including without limitation in connection with a merger, reorganization, sale of assets, sale of equity, or in the event of bankruptcy.  In each such an event, the PII we have collected from you may be one of the assets transferred.
 
What other information does RustyBrick collect and how may this be used?
 
We may also collect anonymous and aggregate information from you about your preferences in using the Website by using cookies, action tags and other methods.  Cookies are small text files that enable us and third parties (such as advertisers) to identify your computer.  We may use cookies to, among other things, monitor Website usage, customize Website features, identify your computer operating system and browser, serve and enable the serving of marketing tools, and complete transactions.  An action tag is a small, graphic image on a webpage that is designed to allow the Website owner or a third party to monitor who is visiting a website by collecting the IP address of the computer to which the tag is sent, the URL of the webpage that the tag comes from and the time at which such webpage was viewed.  Action tags may be associated with cookie information.  We may also use such anonymous and aggregate information for promotional and other business purposes.
 
Do I have the ability not to be identified by RustyBrick other than by the PII you provide us?
 
Yes. If you do not wish to be easily identified by us using your PII (other than for any PII you may provide to us), you can set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies and refuse cookies when your browser alerts you to their presence.  You can also adjust the settings in your browser to refuse all cookies.  If you do not want us to have any of your PII, do not submit any of your PII to us.  Please keep in mind that if you refuse cookies you may not be able to use certain Website functionality.
 
How do we store and safeguard information?
 
RustyBrick takes steps consistent with commercially reasonable industry standards to secure PII collected from you from loss, misuse, unauthorized access and accidental destruction while under our control.  However, please note that despite our efforts to protect information provided to us, we cannot guarantee that such information will not be lost, disclosed or accessed by accidental circumstances or unauthorized acts.

Does RustyBrick provide links to other Websites?
 
RustyBrick may provide links to items of possible interest to you.  The collection and use of your PII and other information by any such third party websites, or by any third party websites you navigate to from the Website, shall be subject to the policies and procedures of such third party websites and not those contained in this Privacy Policy.   The information collected by our service providers in executing transactions you have requested through the Website (including without limitation credit card settlement companies) is subject to the privacy policies of such third parties.
 
What are our policies regarding children?
 
The Website is intended for general use of persons who are above thirteen (13) years of age.   RustyBrick does not knowingly collect PII from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age, and we make every effort to be in full compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, as amended, and all related regulations (“COPPA”).  If we learn that PII from anyone under thirteen (13) years of age submitted PII to us in a manner that we understand does not comply with COPPA, we will promptly delete such information.
 
Do we have a mechanism to address access to and removal of PII and complaints about the handling of information that we collect?
 
You have a right to know which PII RustyBrick holds about you, and to correct or delete such data.  If you wish to access or remove PII that you have submitted to RustyBrick, please send us an email requesting such access or removal to [email protected].  If you have questions or concerns about, or wish to opt-out of any of our information collection, data sharing, onward transfer, or other information handling practices, please contact us at [email protected] or write to us at RustyBrick, Inc., 250 West Nyack Road, Suite 200, West Nyack, NY 10994.
 
YouTube & Google Policies & Terms.
 
This site using the YouTube API and thus is bound by the YouTube Terms of Service.  You can also review Google's privacy policy over here. This site uses the YouTube API to show thumbnails of the videos created on the RustyBrick YouTube channel and to have those videos playable on this site.  That data is not shared with third parties and we are not uses the API for collecting user data, behavior or other user specific metrics. It is currently used for just displaying videos created on this site. You can see the video thumbnail and video features on the sidebar of this page and on the video section of this site.

 

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