Privacy Policy

At The Perfect Spec, your privacy is paramount. We’ve crafted this Privacy Policy to be transparent about how we handle your personal information. By using our services, you agree to the practices and policies outlined below, and you consent to our collection, use, and sharing of your information as described here.

Your use of The Perfect Spec is always subject to our Terms of Use, which incorporates this Privacy Policy. Any terms used in this Policy without definition are defined in the Terms of Use.

What This Privacy Policy Covers

This Privacy Policy explains how we handle Personal Data when you access or use The Perfect Spec’s services. “Personal Data” encompasses any information that identifies or relates to a specific individual, including information defined as “personally identifiable information” or “personal information” under applicable data privacy laws. This policy doesn’t cover the practices of companies we don’t own or control, or people we don’t manage.

Categories of Personal Data We Collect

The following table details the categories of Personal Data we collect and have collected over the past 12 months:

Sources of Personal Data

We collect your Personal Data from these sources:

• “You”: Directly provided by you, or automatically collected during your use of our services (see “Information Collected Automatically”).
• “Third Parties”: Third parties providing us with your Personal Data, such as analytics providers, customer support services, or payment processors.

Information Collected Automatically

The Perfect Spec uses cookies and similar technologies (pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, JavaScript – collectively, “Cookies”) to recognize your browser, understand how and when you use our services, analyze trends, learn about our users, and operate and improve The Perfect Spec. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We may also supplement your information with data from third parties, including those placing their own Cookies on your device. Currently, The Perfect Spec does not support “Do Not Track” requests due to our use of Cookies.

How We Use Your Personal Data

We process your Personal Data to operate, improve, understand, and personalize The Perfect Spec. We use it to:

• Fulfill the purpose for which you provided the information.
• Communicate with you about The Perfect Spec, including announcements, updates, or offers.
• Provide support and assistance.
• Create and manage your account or user profiles.
• Personalize website content and communications.
• Process transactions.
• Respond to inquiries and requests.
• Improve and develop The Perfect Spec, including testing, research, analysis, and product development.
• Protect against fraudulent, illegal, or harmful actions and maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our services.
• Comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our Terms of Use.
• Respond to law enforcement requests.
• For other business purposes stated when collecting your Personal Data or as otherwise set forth in applicable data privacy laws.

We will notify you before collecting additional Personal Data or using your existing data for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes.

We may contact you if you’ve provided contact information. For example, we might send promotional emails or updates about your use of The Perfect Spec. We may also receive confirmation when you open our emails, helping us improve our services. To opt out of communications, please contact us at [insert email address].

How We Share Your Personal Data

We share your Personal Data with these categories of third parties:

• “Service Providers”: Entities that help us provide The Perfect Spec, like payment processors, security and fraud prevention services, hosting providers, analytics providers, and staffing agencies.
• “Acquirers”: Parties who acquire your Personal Data through a merger, acquisition, or other change of control.
• “Selected Recipients”: Third parties with whom we share your data at your direction, including other users (where you post information publicly or as necessary for transactions), business partners accessed through The Perfect Spec, and other parties you authorize.

Disclosures of Personal Data for a Business Purpose

We disclose your Personal Data to service providers and other parties for these business purposes:

• Auditing related to current interactions and transactions.
• Detecting security incidents and protecting against malicious activity.
• Debugging to repair errors.
• Short-term, transient use of Personal Data.
• Performing services on our behalf, like account maintenance, customer service, transaction processing, and payment processing.

Data Security and Retention

We protect your Personal Data with appropriate physical, technical, organizational, and administrative security measures. For example, we use SSL technology to encrypt your data. You can also help protect your data by choosing a strong password, limiting access to your devices, and signing off after accessing your account. While we strive to protect your data, no method of transmission or storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee complete security and, except as legally required, are not responsible for the theft, destruction, loss, or inadvertent disclosure of your information.

We retain your Personal Data as long as your account is open or as needed to provide our services. We may retain it longer to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, collect fees, or as otherwise permitted or required by law. We may retain anonymized or aggregated information that doesn’t identify you personally.

Personal Data of Children

As stated in our Terms of Use, we don’t knowingly collect Personal Data from children under 13. If you are under 13, please do not use The Perfect Spec or send us any Personal Data. If we learn we’ve collected data from a child under 13, we will delete it as quickly as possible. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us at [insert email address].

California Resident Rights

California residents have specific rights regarding their Personal Data. See the “Exercising Your Rights” section for instructions. If we process Personal Data as a service provider, contact the entity that collected your data initially. In case of conflict between this section and other parts of this Privacy Policy, the more protective portion for Personal Data will govern for California residents. Contact us at [insert email address] with any questions.

• Access: You can request information about our collection and use of your Personal Data over the past 12 months, including categories of data, sources, business purpose, categories of third parties shared with, and specific pieces of Personal Data collected.
• Deletion: You can request deletion of your Personal Data, subject to certain exceptions (e.g., providing services or completing transactions).

Exercising Your Rights

To exercise these rights, send us a request with sufficient information to verify your identity and describe your request in detail. We will respond within 45 days. We won’t charge a fee unless your requests are excessive, repetitive, or unfounded.

You can submit a request by:

1. Emailing us at: [email protected]
2. You can also authorize an agent to exercise your rights with written permission.

We Will Not Discriminate Against You for Exercising Your Rights Under the CCPA

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights. We will not deny you goods or services, charge different prices, or provide lower quality goods or services. However, we may offer different tiers of services as allowed by applicable data privacy laws with varying prices related to the value of Personal Data we receive.

Other State Law Privacy Rights

• California: Contact us at [insert email address] to prevent disclosure of Personal Data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Our services do not currently support “Do Not Track” requests.
• Nevada: Nevada residents can opt-out of the sale of certain Personal Data by contacting us at [insert email address] with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request.” We do not currently sell your Personal Data as defined in Nevada law.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. We will notify you of changes by posting a notice on The Perfect Spec website, sending an email, or other means. If you’ve opted out of legal notice emails, those notices still govern your use of The Perfect Spec.