THE NEXT TRAIL
PRIVACY
POLICY
Last Updated: December 30,
2019
Blabapps, LLC. and its subsidiaries and affiliates (“Blabapps,” “we,” “our,” and “us”) respect your privacy and
value our relationship with you. This The Next Trail Privacy Policy (the
“Policy”) describes how we collect, use, and share your information when you
use The Next Trail services accessible through our: The Next Trail websites
(“Sites”); The Next Trail mobile applications (“Mobile Apps”); and vehicles
equipped with The Next Trail, including The Next Trail connected services,
described below. In this Policy, we refer to these services, the Sites, and the
Mobile Apps collectively as “The Next Trail.” Please read this Policy
carefully, because by accessing and using The Next Trail you are acknowledging
that you understand and agree to the terms of this Policy.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We may collect the following
types of information in connection with The Next Trail:
·
Information you
provide to us, such as: Profile
and contact information (for example: name; address; ZIP code; country;
email address; password; telephone number; preferred dealer; and demographic
information, such as gender, age or date of birth, or household
information)
·
Other information
you choose to provide (for example, information about
waypoints, saved places, and planned or tracked rides; trail-related information;)
·
Information from
your use of The Next Trail, such as:
o Location information.
When you use The Next Trail, we may collect and process location information,
including geolocation information, speed, and direction. Location information
is necessary to provide certain The Next Trail features, such as ride tracking and
Group Ride functionality. We use various technologies to determine location,
including IP address, GPS, and other sensors that may, for example, provide The
Next Trail with information on nearby devices, facilities, and services.
o Device and usage Information. We may collect technical data about the browsers and
devices you use to access The Next Trail, such as, device type, browser type
and language, hardware model, operating system version, unique device
identifiers, IP address, mobile network information (e.g. carrier
and signal strength), device event information (e.g. crashes, system activity,
hardware settings, date and time of your request, and referral URL). We may
also collect information about how you use The Next Trail, such as features
used, content viewed, and the dates and times of your interactions. This
information is collected automatically as you use The Next Trail.
o Information from connected devices or mobile applications. We may collect information from any third-party devices or
mobile applications that you connect to The Next Trail.
o Local storage. We
may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on
your Device using mechanisms such as application data caches.
o Cookies and similar technologies. Cookies and similar technologies are pieces of information
stored directly on the device you are using. Cookies allow us to collect
information such as browser type, time spent on the Sites, pages visited,
and language preferences. We and our service providers use the information for
security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively,
and to personalize your online experience and our marketing and advertising
efforts. In addition, we use cookies to gather statistical information about
usage of the Sites in order to improve their design
and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving
questions about them.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web
browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser
settings to decline cookies if you prefer. If you would prefer not to accept
cookies, most browsers will allow you to: (i) change
your browser settings to notify you when you receive a cookie, which lets you
choose whether or not to accept it; (ii) disable
existing cookies; or (iii) set your browser to automatically reject any
cookies. If you set your browser to reject cookies, parts of the Sites may not
work for you.
2. HOW WE MAY USE INFORMATION WE
COLLECT
We may use the information we
collect in connection with The Next Trail to:
·
Maintain and
improve our products, services, websites and mobile
applications, including The Next Trail.
This may include, for example, customizing them to your preferences or
interests, making them more compatible with your technology, or otherwise
making them easier to use; analyzing how they are used; and evaluating,
maintaining, and improving their performance, effectiveness, security, and
safety.
·
Develop new
products, services, websites, and mobile applications.
·
Process payments
and transactions, where applicable.
·
Promote our
products, services, and Sites.
This may include, for example, developing and providing promotional and
advertising materials about the Blabapps family of brands that may be of interest to you; analyzing the effectiveness
of those materials; and customizing and improving them.
·
Communicate with
and manage our relationship with you.
This may include, for example, providing you information about our products,
services, websites, mobile applications, and your interactions with us;
responding to questions, inquiries, and service requests that you make;
customizing and improving our communications with you and analyzing their
effectiveness; communicating with you about and administering your
participation in sweepstakes, contests, surveys, promotions, events, and
similar activities.
·
Address legal
issues. This may include, for example, obtaining
legal advice and establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims; complying
with laws, regulatory requirements, contractual requirements, court orders,
other legal process or obligations, or lawful requests from public and
government authorities; detecting, preventing, and responding to fraud,
intellectual property infringement, security issues, violations of our
agreements (including the The Next Trail Terms of
Service), violations of law, or other misuse of our vehicles,
products, services, websites or mobile applications; and protecting the
safety, rights, welfare, or property of Blabapps,
you, or others.
We may also use your information for
other internal Blabapps business operations as
permitted by applicable law, and other uses consistent with the context in
which the information was collected or with your consent.
We may anonymize or aggregate any of
the information we collect and use it for any purpose, including for research
and product-development purposes. Such information will not identify you
individually.
Communications. Communications with you in connection with these uses may
be via different methods, such as mail, telephone, email, text message, social
media, or other electronic messages, or via our websites and mobile
applications.
3. HOW INFORMATION WE COLLECT MAY BE
SHARED
Information You May Share
Certain The Next Trail features let
you share information with others, such as your profile name, profile photo,
phone number, location and ride information, and certain actions you take
within The Next Trail. Remember that when you share information publicly, it
may be indexable by search engines. The Next Trail provides you with different
options on sharing your information.
Information We May Share
We may share your information as
follows:
·
Vendors. We may share your information with third parties who
provide services to us, such as website and mobile application hosting, data
analysis, IT services, payment processing, fraud monitoring, services related
to product development and maintenance, and communications and marketing and
online and offline advertising services.
·
Legal reasons. We may share your information with third parties when we
have a good faith belief that disclosure is necessary to: obtain legal advice
or establish, exercise, or defend legal claims; comply with laws, regulatory
requirements, contractual obligations, court orders, other legal process or
obligations, or lawful requests from public and government authorities; detect,
prevent, or respond to fraud, intellectual property infringement, security
issues, violations of our agreements (including the The
Next Trail Terms of Service), violations of law, or other misuse of our
vehicles, products, services, websites or mobile applications; protect the
safety, rights, welfare, or property of Blabapps,
you, or others, as required or permitted by applicable law.
·
Business
transfers. We may share your information with
third parties in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture,
assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our
business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or
similar proceedings).
·
With your
consent. We may share your information with
third parties when we have your consent to do so. We may share anonymized or
aggregated information internally and with third parties for any purpose. Such
information will not identify you individually.
4. THIRD PARTY SITES AND PLUGINS
The Next Trail may contain links to
external websites, mobile applications, or third-party services that are not
operated by Blabapps, and plugins from social media
platforms and other third parties. An example of a social media plugin is the
Facebook “Like” button. We provide these links and plugins as a service and do
not imply any endorsement of the related websites, mobile applications,
third-party services, or social media platforms (“Third-Party Sites”), nor any
association with their operators, and we are not responsible for the privacy or
other policies or practices of those Third-Party Sites. To learn about the
information collected by Third-Party Sites, please visit their privacy
policies.
5. INFORMATION SECURITY
Blabapps maintains technical and organizational security measures
designed to help protect the information collected through The Next Trail from
unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Unfortunately, no
data transmission or storage system is 100% secure or error free, and we cannot
guarantee the security of the information we collect.
6. DATA RETENTION
We retain your personal information as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in
this Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. To
determine the period for which your personal information will be retained, Blabapps considers criteria such as: (i)
the nature of our relationship with you and the types of vehicles, products or
services we have provided to you, or you have requested; (ii) the sensitivity
of the information and the purposes for which it was collected; (iii) the
nature and timing of your interactions with us (including with our websites,
mobile applications, communications, etc.); (iv) any applicable legal or
contractual requirements to retain information for a certain period of time,
including any retention obligations related to actual or potential litigation
or government investigations; and (v) the impact on the vehicles, products and
services we provide if the relevant information were deleted.
7. CHOICES
You have certain choices about the
information you provide and how it is used and shared. For example, you
can:
·
Choose not to provide certain
information requested. Please note that not providing such information may
limit The Next Trail functionality.
·
Review and control certain types of
information tied to your The Next Trail Account.
·
Adjust how the Profile associated
with your The Next Trail Account appears to others.
·
Control with whom you share
information through account with The Next Trail.
·
Choose to receive or stop push notifications
relating to the Mobile App at any time. Push notifications are messages that
are sent to the mobile device on which you have the Mobile App installed to
alert you about.
·
Adjust the location settings of your
mobile device at any time to control whether your device communicates location
information to the Mobile App, and you may have the option to adjust the
location permissions within the Mobile App itself. Device location may be
derived from your device’s Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and other device settings. See
your device settings for more information. Please note that not providing
location information may limit certain The Next Trail functionality.
8. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR
CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS
Categories of Personal Information
We Collect
During the past twelve months, we
have collected the following “Categories” of “Personal Information,” as defined
in the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 and related regulations
(“CCPA”):
·
Identifiers
Examples: Name, postal address, online identifier, internet protocol
address, email address, social security number, driver’s license number, or
other similar identifiers
·
Categories of
Personal Information in California Civil Code Section 1798.80(e)
Examples: Name, signature, social security number, physical
characteristics or description, address, telephone number, driver’s license
number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, or
financial information
·
Characteristics
of Protected Classifications under California or Federal Law
Examples: Race, national origin, religion, age (over 40), gender,
marital status, or military and veteran status
·
Commercial
Information
Examples: Records of vehicles, products or services purchased, obtained,
or considered; or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies
·
Internet or Other
Electronic Network Activity Information
Examples: Browsing history, search history, and information regarding
your interaction with an internet website, application
or advertisement
·
Geolocation Data
Examples: Precise geolocation data from your mobile device or vehicle,
collected as described in this Policy
·
Audio,
Electronic, Visual, or Similar Information
Examples: Photos, videos, service call recordings, or facility camera
footage
·
Professional or
Employment-Related Information
Examples: Occupation, job title, or professional association membership
information
·
Inferences Drawn
from Personal Information
Examples: Information about your preferences or likelihood to purchase
our vehicles, products, or services
We may not collect all of the examples of each category of Personal Information
listed above through The Next Trail, but we may collect them in other contexts
and combine them with the Personal Information we collect through The Next Trail.
Please see the Blabapps Privacy Policy for
more information about our collection of Personal Information in other
contexts.
How We Collect Personal Information
We collect Personal Information from
the following categories of sources:
·
You or Your
Devices. We collect Personal Information
that you provide us, and we collect Personal Information directly from your
devices, products, or interactions with us, including through our websites,
mobile applications, products, services, and communications.
·
Vendors. We receive Personal Information from the third parties who
provide services to us.
·
Publicly
Available Sources. We receive Personal Information
from publicly available sources, including, for example, information that is
submitted in a public forum, such as a blog, website, social network, or
chat room; and information from government
authorities and public databases.
·
Consumer Data
Resellers
How We Use Personal Information
We collect and use the categories of
Personal Information listed above for the following categories of business and
commercial purposes:
·
Providing
Products & Services. We use Personal
Information to provide, maintain, protect, and improve our products, services,
websites, and mobile applications, including The Next Trail; and to develop new
products, services, websites, and mobile applications. This may include, for
example: customizing our, products, services, websites, and mobile applications
to your preferences or interests; making them more compatible with your
technology; or otherwise making them easier to use; analyzing how they are
used; and evaluating, maintaining, and improving their performance,
effectiveness, security, and safety.
·
Processing
Payments & Transactions. We
use Personal Information to enable or process payments and transactions you
make.
·
Communicating
& Managing Our Relationship with You: We
use Personal Information to communicate and manage our relationship with you.
This may include, for example, providing you information about our products,
services, websites and mobile applications, and your transactions with us;
responding to questions, inquiries, or service requests that you make;
customizing and improving our communications with you and analyzing their
effectiveness; communicating with you about, and administering your
participation in, sweepstakes, contests, surveys, promotions, events, and
similar activities.
·
Legal Reasons. We use Personal Information to address legal issues. This
may include, for example, obtaining legal advice or establishing, exercising,
or defending legal claims; complying with laws, regulatory requirements,
contractual obligations, court orders, other legal process or obligations, or
lawful requests from public and government authorities; detecting, preventing,
and responding to fraud, intellectual property infringement, security issues,
violations of our agreements, violations of law, or other misuse of our
vehicles, products, services, or Sites; and protecting the safety, rights,
welfare, or property of Blabapps, you, or
others.
·
Deidentification. We de-identify and aggregate Personal Information and use
it for any lawful purpose.
·
Other Purposes
with Notice. We may use Personal Information for
other purposes for which we provide specific notice when the information is
collected.
How We Share Personal Information
During the past twelve months, we
have shared for a business purpose, as described in this Policy, each of the
categories of Personal Information listed above. We have shared Personal
Information with the following categories of third parties:
·
Blabapps Brands & Companies. We
share Personal Information among the Blabapps family of brands and companies, including Blabapps
Inc. subsidiaries and affiliates.
·
Vendors. We share Personal Information with the third parties who
provide services to us.
·
Third Parties for
Legal Reasons. We share Personal Information with
third parties, including government entities, for the Legal Reasons described
above, including in connection with a merger, sale, or asset transfer.
·
Third Parties for
Business Transfers. We share Personal Information with
third parties in connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, joint
venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of
our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or
similar proceedings).
·
Third Parties
with Consent. We share Personal Information with
third parties for whom you have given us permission to share your Personal
Information. This includes third parties and members of the public who can see
content that you choose to post or share through The Next Trail.
Sale of Personal Information
During the past twelve months, we
have not sold Personal Information as we understand the definition of a “Sale”
under the CCPA. We share Personal Information as described in this Policy,
including when we allow select third parties to place cookies and similar
technologies on our Sites to provide us analytics and advertising services.
California Privacy Rights
California residents have the right
to make certain requests about their Personal Information under the CCPA.
Specifically, if you are a California resident, you may request that we:
·
Provide access to and/or a copy of
certain Personal Information we have about you;
·
Provide you information about: the categories of Personal Information we
collect, disclose, or sell about you; the categories of sources of such
information; the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your
Personal Information; and the categories of third parties with whom we have
shared Personal Information during the past twelve months; or
·
Delete certain Personal Information
we have about you, subject to the exceptions set out in the CCPA.
You may exercise these rights by
submitting a request to us using this request form. You may also submit a request to exercise these rights by
contacting us Blabapps LLC. PO Box 205, Summit Lake
WI 54485.
Please note that most of these
rights are not absolute, and our response may be limited as permitted by the
CCPA. For example:
·
Requests to exercise these rights
are subject to our ability to reasonably verify your identity and request in light of the Personal Information relevant to the request
and the requirements in the CCPA. Please note that we may ask for additional
information to verify your request before responding to it.
·
The right to have Personal
Information deleted is subject to a number of
exceptions set out in the CCPA, such as when we need to maintain
the information to provide vehicles, products, or services you requested,
or to comply with our legal obligations.
California residents also have the
right, as set out in the CCPA, to not be discriminated against for exercising
their rights under the CCPA.
California Shine the Light Law
Under California’s “Shine the Light
Law,” California residents who provide Personal Information in obtaining
products, or services for personal, family, or household use, may request
information once per calendar year about our disclosures of certain categories
of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes.
To request this information from Blabapps, please mail
a “Request for California Privacy Information” to Blabapp,
LLC. PO Box 205 Summit Lake, WI 54485. Please be aware that not all information
is covered by the “Shine the Light” requirements, and only information on
covered sharing will be included in our response
9. WHERE WE PROCESS INFORMATION
We may process your information in
the United States and other locations around the world. Those countries may not
have the same level of protection for your personal information as your
country. By using The Next Trail or providing us your information, you
acknowledge and understand that your information will be transferred to and
processed in the United States and these other countries.
10. MINORS
We do not intentionally collect
information from individuals under the age of 13. The Next Trail is not
directed to individuals under the age of 13, and we request that these
individuals not provide personal information through The Next Trail.
11. UPDATES TO THIS POLICY
We may change this Policy. Please
review the “Last Updated” legend at the top of this page to see when this
Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Policy will become effective when
we post the revised Policy on this Site. Your use of The Next Trail following
these changes means that you accept the revised Policy.
12. CONTACTING US
If you have any questions about this
Policy, please contact us using the contact information below:
For all others, our contact
information is:
By mail: Blabapps,
LLC, PO Box 205 Summit Lake, WI 54485,