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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

(Last modified March 30, 2023)

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to www.bouviergrant.com (the “Website”) and Meg Bouvier Medical Writing LLC, a Massachusetts limited liability company doing business as “Bouvier Grant Group” (sometimes referred to as “we”), and governs data collection and usage on the Website and by Bouvier Grant Group. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Bouvier Grant Group includes the Website.

Changes to and Agreement with this Privacy Policy

Bouvier Grant Group reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about changes in the way we treat personal information or other changes in this Privacy Policy by either (i) sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, (ii) placing a notice on the Website, and/or (iii) by revising the information on this page. YOUR USE OF THE WEBSITE OR ANY SERVICES OF BOUVIER GRANT GROUP AVAILABLE THROUGH THE WEBSITE AT ANY TIME WILL CONSTITUTE YOUR (A) ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF THE PRIVACY POLICY THEN IN EFFECT, (B) AGREEMENT TO ABIDE BY AND THAT YOU ARE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, AND (C) ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT YOU HAVE READ AND UNDERSTOOD THE THEN EFFECTIVE PRIVACY POLICY.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on the Website, Bouvier Grant Group may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

– First and Last Name

– E-mail Address

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Website. These may include: (a) registering for an account on the Website; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; or (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on the Website. We may use all such personal information solely for communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us, providing such services or products, or enforcing our rights under agreements entered into with you however, except as described below, we will not provide such information to any third parties without your prior consent.

Use of your Personal Information

Bouvier Grant Group collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) (including the Website) and deliver the services you have requested.

Bouvier Grant Group may also use your personally identifiable information to (i) inform you of other products or services available from Bouvier Grant Group and its affiliates, and (ii) enforce its rights under agreements entered into with you.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Bouvier Grant Group does not (i) provide your personally identifiable information unless specified provided for in this Privacy Policy, or (ii) sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Bouvier Grant Group may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Bouvier Grant Group; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Bouvier Grant Group; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Bouvier Grant Group, or the public.

Business Transfer

It is possible that Bouvier Grant Group might sell its business or buy businesses or their assets, or engage in transfers, acquisitions, mergers, restructurings, changes of control or similar transactions. In such transactions, customer information generally is one of the transferred business assets, and your personal information may be subject to such a transfer. Also, in the unlikely event of a bankruptcy, personal information may be transferred to a bankruptcy trustee or debtor in possession and then to a subsequent purchaser.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Bouvier Grant Group. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for our provision of services to you, to maintain quality of the services, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Website. We also may track information about how the Website is used by you through cookies, Internet tags and navigational data collection. For example, your Internet browser automatically transmits to us information such as the URL of the website you just came from and the Internet Protocol (IP) address and the browser version your computer is currently using. We may use “cookies” information to: (a) remember some of your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the Website or otherwise use our services; (b) provide customized third-party advertisements, content, and information; and (c) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed.

Links

The Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites, and you hold Bouvier Grant Group and its members harmless and release them from any claims you may have by reason of linking to or using such other sites, including those arising by reason of security breaches which occur with respect to such websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave the Website to read the privacy statements and terms of use of any other sites.

Security of your Personal Information

Bouvier Grant Group seeks to secure your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Bouvier Grant Group uses the following methods for this purpose:

– SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through the Website cannot be guaranteed.  Accordingly, you hereby release us from any liability arising from security breaches not knowingly caused by us.

Retention of Information

We retain information for as long as required, allowed or we believe it useful, but we do not undertake retention obligations. We may delete information, including your personal information, in our discretion without notice, subject to applicable law that specifically requires the handling or retention of information.

Right to Direct Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

  • Delete your personal information from our records; and

  • Direct any service providers with whom we have shared your personal information to delete your personal information from their records (however we are not responsible should they fail to do so).

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

  • Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, comply with applicable law or fulfill the terms of a written warranty, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform or enforce our rights under a contract between you and us;

  • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

  • Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

  • Exercise a right which cannot be waived under applicable law;

  • Comply with the California Electronic Communications

  • Privacy Act or any other applicable laws;

  • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

  • Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

  • Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

Bouvier Grant Group does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use the Website.

State Specific Privacy Disclosures

 

California Privacy Rights Act Retention Disclosure

We keep your personal information to enable your continued use of our  Services for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this Privacy Policy, as permitted or as may be required by law.

 

California Privacy Rights Act  

We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights under the California Privacy Rights Act.

 

You have the right to request information about how we collect, processes, and share your personal information. There may be situations where we cannot grant a request, for example, to complete a transaction to you or comply with the law. These options do not apply to publicly available information from government records nor to deidentified or aggregated information.

  

California Shine the Light Law

If you reside in California you have the right to ask us one time each year if we have shared personal information with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To make a request please submit an inquiry to the address below.

 

Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act De-identified Data Disclosure.

We may use de-identified data in some instances.  We either maintain such data without attempting to re-identify it or treat such data as personal data subject to applicable law. As a Virginia resident, you have the right to request:

 

To know more about and to access your personal information;

That we correct your personal information that is inaccurate;

That we delete your personal information; and

To opt out of the processing of your personal information for the purposes of providing you with targeted advertising.

 

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Bouvier Grant Group may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Bouvier Grant Group or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Bouvier Grant Group, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Contact Information

Bouvier Grant Group welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that Bouvier Grant Group has not adhered to this Privacy Policy, please contact Bouvier Grant Group at:

Bouvier Grant Group

6 University Drive Suite 206 #237

Amherst, Massachusetts 01002-3820

Email Address:

[email protected]

Telephone number:

(413)200-9155

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