Privacy Policy

Updated: January 2021
PRIVACY POLICY FOR SAFETY DRIVING SITE AND SERVICES

Introduction

This privacy policy explains how Safety Driving, LLC (“Safety Driving,” “our,” “we” or “us”) handles and treats personal data when you use our website located at www.safety.com (“Site” or “Website”), Safety Driving App (“ App”) and all its derivatives, ® by Safety Driving portal (“ Portal”), or our portal for Virtual Risk Manager® (“VRM”) (collectively, “Services”). It describes the nature of the personal information that is processed by us, how we use or share that information, the choices available to you regarding our use of your information, how you can access and update your information, and the measures Safety Driving takes to keep your information safe.

Personal Information That We Collect

Throughout this policy, we use the term “personal information” to describe information that identifies or makes you identifiable. Information that has been anonymized so that it does not identify a specific individual is not “personal information.” When you use our Services, we collect information that you choose to send to us and certain other information relating to your use of our Services that is collected automatically. By using our Services, you consent to the terms of this privacy policy. We also may provide in-time notice or obtain consent for certain practices. For example, we may obtain consent using standard permissions available on your device that apply to the App.

Safety Driving App only collects your personal information if you have provided your consent in your capacity as a private individual using one or more of Safety Driving's Services, or in your capacity as an employee of a company who is providing you access to one or more of Safety Driving's Services:

1. Personal Information You Provide Voluntarily:

When you register for an account using one or more of our Services, we collect your first name, last name, and email address.

2. Personal Information That We Automatically Collect:

Cookies; Log Files and Similar Technologies: We use cookies, log files, web beacons and other similar technologies to automatically collect information, display information more effectively and improve Services, and for security purposes. The information that we collect using these technologies includes user preference, computer or device settings, page views, Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type, operating system, Internet service provider (ISP) name, referring, entry and exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, whether you have viewed certain communications, and so forth. Please see our Cookie Notice for more information about these technologies and how to manage and delete cookies. Currently, we do not respond to “Do Not Track” requests or change our services or information practices in any way as a result of receiving “Do Not Track” requests from your browser.

Other Automatically Collected Device Information: When you install and activate the by Safety Driving application (the “App”) on your mobile device, it collects the following information.

  1. Your driving behavior: The App uses your mobile device’s internal sensors (e.g., its gyroscope and motion tracker) to collect information regarding your driving behavior data, including acceleration, hard braking, cornering, and speeding.
  2. Location, travel and route information: When you are on a driving trip, the App gathers location and route information in the form of GPS signals.
  3. Phone usage and activity: The App measures general phone activity, including when the screen is on, texting, phone calls and phone movement. The App does NOT record any individually identifying usage or activity information, such as key strokes, content of phone calls, contacts, photographs (unless uploaded by the driver) or which other applications are running.
  4. Information about the device: The App collects Safety Driving Apps specific webpage views, IP address, browser type, and operating system information.

Our Use of Personal Information

Your personal information that you provide, whether it be voluntarily or automatically collected, may be used in one or more of the following ways:

To Provide Features of Our Apps and Website and Improve Our Business, Products and Services: We use data that we collect to deliver existing features and functions of our Services. For example, we use your location and driving behavior data to perform and provide analytics, including calculating and providing you with your personalized driving score; information regarding positive and negative driving events; daily, weekly and monthly driving trends; and targeted coaching modules based on your driving analytics. We also may use this information to perform testing, conduct research and deliver or offer new Services or new features or improve the overall user experience.

To Process Payments: Credit card numbers are used only for processing payments and are not used for any other purposes. Personal information collected during the payment process, such as your email address and phone number, is used to get in touch with you if we have trouble processing an order. We share information as necessary with a third-party service credit card processing service provider with which we maintain a written agreement to ensure appropriate security and confidentiality measures are in place to safeguard your personal and financial data. We will not authorize the release of your personal or financial information to anyone not directly involved in processing the transaction of your order.

To Communicate about Products and Services: Safety Driving Apps and its subsidiaries or affiliates offer additional products and services. We may provide relevant offers to you as well as from Safety Driving Apps subsidiary or affiliate brands and service providers, unless you have opted out of receiving such communications.

To Comply with Legal Obligations and Protect Your and Others’ Rights, Property and Safety: The personal information we collect online or via the App is also used for verification of your identity while using any of our products and services or used to prevent fraudulent use and, when applicable, for accurate processing.

General Analytic Purposes: We use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our Services, track customers’ usage of our website, and gather broad demographic information for our exclusive use. IP addresses are not linked to other personal information and we do not store IP addresses in our database. Occasionally, we may disclose aggregate statistics from our logs that do not contain personal information when dealing with service providers, affiliates, or business partners.

Sharing and Disclosure of Personal Information

We do NOT share any personal information, location or driving behavior data, other than as specified below.

Third-Party Service Providers: Your personal information will only be shared with your Consent, for example: your name, email address, location or driving behavior may be shared with one or more third-party service providers as set forth below:

Certain Services or product features may be delivered by third parties. By using our App or other Services, you hereby acknowledge and consent that Safety Driving Apps may share such information and data with any third party with whom Safety Driving Apps has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of users and customers of the Services. This sharing may include, for example, third party verification partners such as licensing authorities, fleet management companies, insurance companies, to whom data is passed for means of authenticating users and third party hosted call center solutions, for telecommunication (including chats and emails) and call monitoring services. As another example, your personal information may be shared with various course providers we contract with to provide course delivery and certificate fulfillment. These agents access our database to offer customer support to students in their respective states, print certificates of completion, and/or report course completions results to regulatory bodies.

Your personal information may be anonymously aggregated into our scoring and other models of safe driving to improve our ability to assess driving behavior and these models may be shared with our customers or other third parties, as permitted by applicable laws.

In addition, Safety Driving Apps may sell or buy other businesses or entities. In such transactions, your personal information may be one of the transferred business assets.

Employers: If you are driving as part of your employment and are using by Safety Driving Apps as part of your company or organization’s contracted relationship with Safety Driving Apps, your FICO® Safe Driving Score, driving behavior and derivative scores (including but not limited to acceleration, braking, cornering, speed, and distraction), areas of improvement, and general trending on your driving behavior will be shared with your company or organization per the terms of the agreement with your company or organization in accordance with your company or organization’s policies. Your GPS or location information will NOT be shared with your employer.

Parent/Guardian: If you are under the age of 18 your driving behavior data and/or location will be shared with your parent/guardian

Family: If you have provided consent or opted in to providing your driving behavior data and/or location to family members who are also using the for Families service.

Insurance Carrier: If you have provided consent or opted in to providing your driving behavior data to your insurance carrier to receive discounts, rewards, etc.

Compliance with Legally Required Disclosures or Enforcement of Rights: Though we make every effort to preserve user privacy, we may need to disclose personal information when required by law when we have a good-faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with an appropriate law enforcement investigation, current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process, or is otherwise required by law.

Business Transfer: We reserve the right to transfer your personal information in the event of a potential or actual sale or transfer of all or a portion of our business or assets. Following such sale or transfer, you may contact the entity to which we transferred your personal information with any inquiries concerning the processing of your personal information.

Protection and Management of Your Personal Information

Security: If you have a user name and password for any of our Services, you have the responsibility of keeping your password secret. You should not reveal your password to anyone. Safety Driving Apps will not ask you in an unsolicited telephone call or e-mail for your password. In addition, you should take reasonable precautions when using a computer that is not yours in a public setting. We are committed to keeping the personal information provided to us secure and we have implemented appropriate information security policies, processes and technical measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from unauthorized access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorized modification and unlawful destruction or accidental loss, including the following:

  • All personal information is encrypted and secured during Hyper Text Transfer Protocol Secured (HTTPS) transmission and at rest (minimum 256 bit encryption);
  • Access online to VRM and ® services is via HTTPS only;
  • Multiple levels of security, including CCTV, restricted access, and locked cabinets;
  • 24/7 monitoring and intrusion protection;
  • Regularly scheduled security testing;
  • ISO27001 certification for Information Security and regularly audited (both internally and by third parties);
  • Strict employee procedures regarding data protection, including staff vetting and training; and
  • All of our partners, employees, contractors, and service providers who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal information, are contractually obligated to respect the confidentiality of your personal information.

Retention: We keep your account information for as long as your account is in existence. For visitors to our Website, we retain personal information for at least [three (3)] years from the date of our last interaction or such longer period as required by applicable law. For users of Services, we retain information regarding your use of the Services, such as your driving behavior, for at least [seven (7))] years from the date of our last interaction or such period agreed with your employer or as required by applicable law.

Access and Management of Your Personal Data: Your account settings allow you to access your personal information, as well as change and delete your personal information. For example, you can edit or delete personal information such as your name, email, and password. In addition, if you are a parent or guardian of a minor using one or more of the Services, you may review and request that we update or delete your minor’s information by sending a signed request, including your email address, the minor’s email address, birth date, and first name to contact email.

Links to Other Sites

For your convenience, Safety Driving Apps Services may contain links to other websites. Some of these websites are administered by or on behalf of Safety Driving Apps, while others are unrelated. Safety Driving Apps is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of linked websites not administered by Safety Driving Apps, and this privacy policy does not apply to those linked websites. Each linked website should be checked for its own privacy statement.

Revisions to Our Privacy Policy

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will post those changes so you are made aware of those changes. Any new policy will not apply retroactively. We will use information in accordance with the privacy policy under which the information was collected.

Processing is based on our contract obligations or to take steps at the request of the individual prior to entering into a contract.

  • To Provide the Services
  • To Respond to Your Inquiries
  • To Enforce our Terms and Agreements
  • To Provide Customer Support
  • To Ensure the Security of the Service.
  • Share with Safety Driving Apps affiliated entities
  • Share with Our Service Providers, Business Partners and Others

Processing is based on our legitimate interest to better understand you, to maintain and improve the accuracy of the information we store about you, and to better promote or optimize our Services.

  • To Personalize Your Experience on the Services
  • For Research and Development Purposes
  • Sharing Due to Corporate Reorganization

Processing is necessary for compliance with our legal obligations, the public interest, or in your vital interests.

  • To Ensure the Security of the Service.
  • Share Due to Law Enforcement Requests
  • To Enforce our Terms and Agreements