Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

busHive, Inc. is committed to protecting the privacy of its customers and users. All references to 'our', 'us', 'we' or 'company' within this policy are deemed to refer to busHive, Inc., its officers, directors, employees, agents, affiliates, licensees and associates.

We provide this Privacy Policy to help you to understand what we may do with Personal Information that we obtain from you, whether through our website, our software offerings or through any other interactions that you may have with us (collectively, the “Services”). If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Services or provide your personal details to us.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We recommend that you regularly check this page to ensure that you have read the most recent version.

2. What is Personal Information?

Personal Information is information about an identified or identifiable individual or household, as defined by applicable law.

3. Personal Information Collected

You may choose to provide us with Personal Information if, for example, you: interact with us in person or by phone; contact us with a question; login to our website; or create users in your account. You may also provide us with specific Personal Information in connection with the Services we provide.

If you apply for a job with us we may collect Personal Information in a number of circumstances. Personal Information we may collect includes: name, address, telephone number and other contact information; educational or other credentials, employment history and experience, volunteer work, and other information necessary to evaluate a candidate’s suitability for employment; together with any other information we may collect with your consent or as required by applicable law.

4. Use of cookies on our websites

Like many websites, we use "cookies" to help us gather and store information about visitors to our websites. A cookie is a small data file that our server sends to your browser when you visit the site. The use of cookies helps us to assist your use of certain aspects of the site. You can delete cookies at any time or you can set your browser to reject or disable cookies. You can obtain information about how to manage cookies at www.aboutcookies.org. We may use information from cookies for the following purposes:

1. Traffic monitoring, e.g., the IP address from which you access the site, the type of browser and operating system used to access the site, the date and time of your access to the site, the pages you visit, the internet address of the website from which you accessed the site.
2. To recognize repeat visitors for statistical / analytical purposes.
3. Anonymous tracking of interaction with online advertising, e.g. to monitor the number of times that a banner ad is displayed and the number of times it is clicked.

We may connect the information that we collect through cookies with other Personal Information that you provide to us. Such purposes include:

1. To customize or personalize your experience of the site, for example, so that we can greet you on the site by name.
2. For transactional purposes, such as credit card sales.
3. To monitor your use of our website in order to make our communications to you as relevant as possible, for example, by sending you email communications relevant to the parts of the site that you visit most often or by letting you know about features of the site that you have not accessed previously.

We may compile and report to third parties (such as advertisers) aggregate statistics about our users in terms of numbers, traffic patterns and related site information.

5. Use of Personal Information

We may use and/or disclose Personal Information, to the extent allowable under applicable law, in one or more the following ways:

Marketing communications. We may use your Personal Information in order to communicate with you about our products and services. You have the opportunity to decide whether or not to receive marketing communications from us.

Marketing analysis. We may use Personal Information for internal marketing analysis, for example, to assess trends among our consumers or to measure the amount of traffic to our website.

Transactional purposes. We or our service providers will use Personal Information collected in connection with a purchase of goods or services to process your order. We also monitor customer traffic patterns and site usage to enable us to develop the design and layout of the website and the goods offered by us to you and other site visitors.

Third Parties. It is our current policy that we do not provide your Personal Information to third parties for any promotional purposes.

Sale or Transfer. In the event of a sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, financing, reorganization or liquidation, we may transfer, sell or assign to third parties information concerning your relationship with us, including without limitation, personally identifiable information that you provide and other information concerning your relationship with us.

Legal purposes. We may collect, use and/or disclose your Personal Information if permitted by law or required to do so by law or where we believe such action is necessary in order to detect, protect or defend us and/or other third parties against error, negligence, breach of contract, theft, fraud and other illegal or harmful activity, to comply with our audit and security requirements, and to audit compliance with our corporate policies, procedures, legal and contractual obligations.

6. Disclosure of Personal Information

We do not sell, trade or rent your Personal Information to others.

In addition to disclosures identified in the purposes above, from time to time we may disclose Personal Information to:

1. our service providers and subcontractors, including our affiliates, retained to perform functions on our behalf or to provide services to us, provided such service provider does not collect, use or disclose the Personal Information for any purpose other than to perform such functions or to provide services to us or as otherwise required by law;
2. a person or entity, including our affiliates, to whom disclosure is required in order to fulfill one or more of the purposes described above;
3. a person who, in our reasonable judgment, is providing or seeking the information as the authorized or appointed legal agent of the subject individual; or
4. any third party with your consent or where disclosure is required or permitted by law.

7. Security

We use reasonable administrative, physical and technical measures to protect your information. However, no network, website or communication using the Internet is perfectly secure, no physical or electronic security measure is impenetrable and no amount or type of security can prevent all unauthorized access, use or disclosure. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security, nor can we guarantee that information you supply won’t be intercepted while being transmitted to or from us over the Internet. We make no representations or warranties regarding the security of any personal information you submit through the website, which you do at your own risk.

8. Data Rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to request and obtain information about, or copies of, your Personal Information that we process, where we obtained your information, the business or commercial purpose for collecting your information, and the third parties with whom your information is shared. You may also have the right to correct your personal information, or object to its processing. Lastly, you may ask us for information about when we typically delete stored information, or ask that information be anonymized or destroyed, depending on the situation and applicable laws. To ask about any data rights you may have, please contact us at privacy@busHive.com.

9. Children

Our Services are not intended for children under the age of 13. Children under 13 should not use our Services for any purpose, even with the permission of their parents and we do not intend to collect information from children under 13.

10. Links

This site may contain links or references to other websites outside of our control. Please be aware that we have no control over these sites, our Privacy Policy does not apply to these sites, and we are not responsible for the conduct of these sites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements and terms and conditions of linked or referenced sites you enter.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal information, please email us at privacy@busHive.com or by mail at:

busHive, Inc.
ATTN: Privacy Manager
PO Box 417
Ballston Spa, NY 12020

Effective as of July 1, 2023