Privacy Policy

Depending on your relationship with us, we may collect or license information about you from various sources, including:

• Directly from you, when you provide information to us
• When you interact with us or our Services, such as when we collect information automatically from the devices and browsers that you use;
• Government entities that make information publicly available;
• Entities that sell or license data;
• Third-party services; and
• Our clients.Depending on your relationship with us, we may collect the following categories of personal information, which include, in some cases, sensitive personal information: 
  • Contact Information: Identifiers such as your name, email address, telephone number, mailing address, and company name.
  • Demographic Information: Your date of birth, city, state, zip code, race, ethnicity, political affiliation, other membership information, or other similar information you provide to us on any application correspondence, or other document.
  • Professional or employment-related information and education information: We may collect the information you provide when you apply for a job with us.
  • Device Information: We collect information about your browser and the computer or mobile device you use, including the hardware model, operating system and version, type of browser you use, your IP address, unique device identifiers, and network information.
  • Internet and Other Electronic Network Activity Information: This includes information about the Services pages viewed, access times, and pages visited before navigating to our Services. We may use cookies, pixels, and various other technologies to collect this and other information, as described further in “Cookies and Other Technologies” below.
  • Correspondence or Other Information You Provide To Us: We may collect other information that you choose to provide when you communicate with us, fill out surveys, or otherwise provide us with personal information.
  • Inferences: Inferences drawn from any of the above, including the content or ads that may be of interest of you.

  
  We may also collect or create de-identified, aggregated, and anonymized information, although such information is not subject to this Privacy Policy.

   

We may use the categories of information identified above for various purposes, including to:

• Provide, maintain, improve, and deliver the products and services you and our clients request, including:
  • Process transactions and send you related information, including confirmations and invoices;
  • Provide our clients with analytics, advertising, and other services;
  • Send technical notices, updates, security alerts and support and administrative messages;
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our Services and personalize and improve the Services;
  • Help understand your needs and provide you with better service;
  • Troubleshooting, analytics, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; and
  • Respond to your comments, questions and requests, provide customer service; and
• Communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by Fortius and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
• Provide advertisements, content or features on and off our Services, including those that are tailored based on user profiles or interests;
• To keep our Services, business and users safe and secure; to comply with applicable laws and regulations; and to protect or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims; and
• Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected or that is subsequently authorized by you.
  

We may disclose the categories of personal information described above with the following categories of third parties:

• With vendors, consultants and other service providers who carry out work on our behalf such as customer service, email deployment, advertising and marketing, security and performance monitoring, verifying information, data processing, research;
• With subsidiaries and affiliates for purposes of management and analysis, decision making, and other business purposes;
• In connection with the services that we provide our clients. For example, we may share personal information with our clients when we are conducting research or providing other services to them, and we may share personal information with advertising partners as part of the services provided to our clients;
• When we believe in good faith that we are lawfully authorized or required to do so or that doing so is reasonably necessary or appropriate to comply with the law or legal processes or respond to lawful requests, claims or legal authorities, including responding to lawful subpoenas, warrants, or court orders;
• If we believe your actions are inconsistent with the spirit or language of our user agreements or policies, or to protect the rights, property and safety of Fortius or others;
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company; and
• With your consent or at your direction, including if we notify you through our Services or otherwise that the information you provide will be shared in a particular manner and you provide such information.
  

When you use our Services, we and our third party partners (including Internet service providers, data analytics providers) may also use cookies, pixel tags, local storage, and other similar technologies (collectively, “cookies”) to collect information from your browser or device. By using the Services, you consent to our use of such cookies.

This information may be used by Fortius and others to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Services and other websites and better understand your online activity.

For example, we may use Google Analytics for Display Advertising and Remarketing with Google Analytics or other remarketing tools to advertise online. This enables third-party vendors, including Google, to show our ads on Services across the Internet. Such third-party vendors, including Google, may use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Services. If you don’t want your data collected with Google Analytics, you can opt out by visiting the Google Analytics opt-out page and installing the add-on for your browser. You can also customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Preferences Manager.

You may have different choices and settings through your browser or device settings to limit the functionality of these technologies. In addition, many advertising companies that collect information for interest-based advertising are members of the Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI), both of which maintain websites where people can opt out of interest-based advertising from their members. To opt-out of website interest-based advertising provided by each organization’s respective participating companies, visit the DAA’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.aboutads.info/ or visit the NAI’s opt-out portal available at http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1.

Please see “Your Rights” below for more information about the choices you may have, depending on where you live.

Fortius takes reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. No data storage system or transmission of data over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be 100 percent secure, and we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you provide to us. Please note that information collected by third parties may not have the same security protections as information you submit to us, and we are not responsible for protecting the security of such information.

We maintain information you submit to us for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out above and in accordance with applicable laws, considering criteria such as the duration of our relationship with you, any legal requirements to retain your information, and the sensitivity of the relevant information.

This website contains links to other web Services not operated by Fortius. Fortius is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any non-Fortius web Services to which we link from the Services. We are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting other websites and Services not governed by our Privacy Policy. We cannot control the content or security of such websites. We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred by a user as a result of visiting such websites. No links are intended to be, nor should be construed as, an endorsement of any kind by us of that other website.

In accordance with applicable data protection laws, and depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, you may have a right to:

• Request access to, rectification, deletion, and portability of your personal information and/or request more information about our information practices;
• Withdraw your consent to processing or limit our processing of certain sensitive personal information;
• Opt out of the “sale” of personal information and processing for targeted advertising (i.e., serving you advertisements based on your activity across other sites and services).

These rights are not absolute, and we will respond in accordance with applicable laws. If you would like to exercise these rights, please contact us at info@fortiusglobal.com or send a request to 1300 Connecticut Avenue, N.W., Washington DC 20036. Please note that, for certain rights, we need you to prove who you are before we can provide you with any information. You may also have a right to lodge a complaint with a relevant supervisory authority. You may be entitled to submit a request through an authorized agent, or to appeal a refusal to take action on your request. To appeal, please contact us using the contact details above.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights and choices although some of the functionality and features available on the Service may change or no longer be available to you.

Fortius understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, particularly in their online interactions. This Services is not designed for and does not intentionally target or solicit to children 18 years of age and younger.

In order to receive promotional email messages from Fortius, you must opt-in and confirm your email address to be subscribed to our list. You may opt out of receiving promotional email messages from Fortius by following the instructions in those messages or by emailing info@fortiusglobal.com. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional email communications, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

If you are a California resident, please review these additional privacy disclosures, which supplement the rest of our Privacy Policy.

We collect information from you, your devices, third parties, or as otherwise described in the “Collection and Sources of Personal Information” section above. We used these categories of personal information over the prior 12 months as described in “Use of Information” above. We disclosed these categories of personal information over the prior 12 months for the business purposes described in “Sharing of Information” above. For a discussion of your rights, please review the section “Your Rights” above.

Shine the Light: You also may have the right to request that we provide you with (a) a list of certain categories of personal information we have disclosed to third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the immediately preceding calendar year and (b) the identity of those third parties. To exercise this right, please contact us at info@fortiusglobal.com.

Fortius is based in the United States and US law governs the information we collect. By accessing or using the Services or otherwise providing information to us, you consent to the processing and transfer of information in and to the US and other countries.

Fortius operates globally and may need to transfer personal information that is collected through the Services or through other means to various Fortius offices to operate our business efficiently. This could include third parties located in different countries around the world, including the United States, the European Economic Area, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. These arrangements may involve your personal information being located in various countries around the world where privacy laws differ. We only make these arrangements or transfers where we are satisfied that adequate levels of protection are in place to protect information held in that country. In addition, the Services may be viewed and accessed anywhere in the world including countries that may not have laws regulating the use and transfer of personally identifiable information. By using the Services, submitting information through this Services, or submitting personal information to Fortius through other means you voluntarily consent to such international transfer and hosting of such information to those countries and parties.