Effective Date: January 1, 2023
Novus Ag LLC and Members of the Novus Ag Network (collectively, “Novus Ag”, “we”, “our”) respect our customers’ privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. This Privacy Policy describes the categories of personal information that we collect about you, how we use your personal information, and how and when we may disclose your personal information to third parties.
By sharing your personal information with us, including by accessing or using https://www.novusag.com (this “Site”), you agree to this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy may change from time to time. Please check this Privacy Policy periodically for updates.
What This Policy Covers
This Privacy Policy covers data collection and use of information we may collect from you when you purchase or use our products or services, as well as when you visit the Site. This policy does not cover information collected by third parties on other sites, such as third parties who provide you with financing options for our products.
Collection of Personal Information
For purposes of this Privacy Policy, personal information is information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. Personal information does not include:
- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.
- Other information excluded from the scope of state privacy laws.
We collect personal information from you in several ways in order to provide and market our products and services. We collect information that (i) you provide to us directly, including on forms we may provide, and (ii) automatically, through cookies and other tools when you visit the Site:
- Directly from You: For example, applicants for credit may be asked to provide their Social Security number, their income and source of income, and their citizenship or residency status. Visitors to the Site may be asked to provide personally identifiable information such as name, e-mail address, postal address, and phone number. This information will be used for the purpose for which it was supplied, such as to communicate with you about our products and services.
- Information We Collect Automatically: As you navigate through the Site, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing activity, traffic data and patterns including details on your visits to the Site and information about your internet connection including your operating system, browser, and the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to learn more about traffic from specific geographic regions. In addition, we may also collect information about your precise location in order to serve you the appropriate content, such as retailers in your area.
- The information that we collect automatically includes cookies. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to help us improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to our site. Types of cookies we may use include session cookies (cookies that are used only during a specific browser session) and persistent cookies (cookies with a fixed expiration date that store data and that are retained by the browser until the expiration date is reached).
Through these methods, we have collected the following categories of personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
- Contact information such as name, title, addresses, telephone numbers, and personal e-mail addresses;
- Income, sources of income, and employment status;
- Bank account or other financial account numbers; and
- Citizenship/residency and marital status.
Through these methods, we have also collected the following categories of sensitive personal information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
- Government identifiers such as your Social Security number, driver’s license number, state identification card, or passport number.
If you are an employee or job applicant, we also collect additional categories of information from you. These are specifically identified in your Employee Notice at Collection.
Use and Disclosure of Information
We do not sell your personal information or share it with third parties for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.
We may use or disclose your personal information we collect for one or more of the following business purposes:
- To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information, including to provide our products or services to you. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.
- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.
- To provide, support, personalize, and develop the Site, our products, and our services.
- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights under our agreements with you.
- To notify you about changes to the Site or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
We may also disclose your personal information to respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations, if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, security or safety of Novus Ag, our customers, or others, for any other purpose with your consent.
We disclose your personal information to the following categories of third parties with whom we have entered into contractual agreements governing the information’s use:
- With our vendors, retailers, consultants, and other service providers or contractors who need access to such information to carry out work on our behalf; and
- With our partners to evaluate your credit worthiness, if you apply for credit with us.
Data Retention
Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, or as necessary to resolve disputes. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider our statutory obligations, the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your information, the purposes we process your information for, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means. We specify the retention periods for your information in our data retention policy.
Under some circumstances, we may anonymize your information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.
Right of Residents of Certain States
If you are a resident of California, you have certain rights over your personal information under applicable state law. These include:
1) Right to Collect Inaccurate Personal Information
You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate personal information we maintain about you, taking into account the nature of the personal information and the purposes of the processing of the personal information. Once we receive your verifiable consumer request and confirm your identity, we will review your request and use commercially reasonable efforts to correct the inaccurate personal information as directed by you.
2) Right to Know
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive your verifiable consumer request and confirm your identity, we will disclose to you:
- The categories of personal information we collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.
- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information.
- The categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.
- If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing:
- sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and
- disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.
- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).
3) Right to Delete
You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive your verifiable consumer request and confirm your identity, we will review your request to see if an exception allowing us to retain the information applies. We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:
- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
- Comply with a legal obligation.
- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.
We will delete or deidentify personal information not subject to one of these exceptions from our records and will direct our service providers to take similar action.
Exercising Your Rights
To exercise any of your above-listed rights regarding the personal information we collect, please send a written request to Novus Ag, 3420 E. Harmony Rd., Suite 122, Fort Collins, CO 80528, or call (833) 613-6910.
Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a request. You may designate an authorized agent by sending a written and signed authorization to Novus Ag, 3420 E. Harmony Rd., Suite 122, Fort Collins, CO 80528.
You may also make a request to know or delete on behalf of your child by sending us a request on behalf of your child with the appropriate documentation.
We will confirm receipt of your request within ten (10) business days, and will endeavor to substantively respond within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to another 45 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your above-listed rights.
Policy Towards Minors
The Site is not intended for children under 16 years old and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Site or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at info@novusag.com.
Links to Other Sites
The Site contains links to other sites, including your account login site. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of any other sites. We encourage users to be aware when they leave the Site and to review the privacy statements of any other site.
Security
We work very hard to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our website for potential vulnerabilities and attacks. But no site is 100% secured, and, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to the Site.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at our discretion and at any time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. We encourage you to frequently check this page for any changes to this Privacy Policy.
The effective date of this policy is listed at the top of the page. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, please contact us at info@novusag.com.
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