Last updated September 2, 2020
Boxbe is a service by Email Data Source, Inc. (“Boxbe”, “we”, “us”, “our”) designed to help you manage your email inbox (the “Service”). Boxbe takes the privacy of our users seriously and recognizes that doing so is critical to the success of our service. Boxbe has made and will continue to make significant efforts to protect the identity and personal information of our users.
This Privacy Policy describes:
This Privacy Policy also provides you with information about:
As part of the Service, we collect the following information:
We collect information from you in the following ways:
Information you provide us: When you register for the Service, you provide us with basic contact information, such as name and email address. You may also provide us with information when you interact with us, such as:
From time to time we will request additional information from you so that we can provide you with a specific offer, function, or feature.
Information you authorize us to collect: When you register for the Service, we ask you to provide us with access to your email inbox. You authorize this access by providing any consent required by your email provider and agreeing to this Privacy Policy.
Information that we automatically collect. We may automatically collect information about the way that you use or interact with the Service. Here are some of the types of automated data collection that occur when you use our sites:
Please note that if there are features of the Service that are provided by third parties, those parties also may use automated means of data collection that are subject to those third parties’ privacy notices and policies.
Information you provide us: We use the information that you provide us to:
Information you authorize us to collect: When we access your email account, we use this access to:
Additionally, we use this access to support our research business.
Research Products and Datasets: Boxbe collects and uses some or all of the email messages in your enrolled email inboxes. We use this information to conduct market research, produce and maintain aggregate statistics, and provide market data services. We access information from commercial emails that you receive to develop and prepare research products and datasets with the assistance of, and in combination with, data that is available to our parent company, our affiliated companies, and other trusted business partners. Examples of the commercial emails that we or our trusted business partners process include newsletters, marketing offers, and purchase receipts. Read more about our data usage here: https://www.boxbe.com/data-usage/. By agreeing to this Privacy Policy, you authorize Boxbe to collect, analyze, aggregate, and/or retain data derived from such email messages you receive.
The research products and datasets that we prepare are provided to the world’s most trusted brand names, investment companies, and other businesses for purposes such as:
Information we automatically collect: We use the information that we automatically collect (through web browsers, cookies, web beacons and pixels) so that we can:
We share the information we collect with our parent company and service providers, who help us with the processing and storage of your data and otherwise operate and improve the Service.
Additionally, unless otherwise restricted by your email provider, we share the information that we collect with:
We may also disclose information about you:
Additionally, we reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our business or assets.
We maintain industry standard administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal information from accidental, unlawful or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure or use and other unlawful forms of processing. However, no data transmissions through the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. Therefore, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk.
We will provide you with the ability to access certain information we have about you in the Boxbe Dashboard after you have logged into our application. If you wish to access or request deletion of your personal information, you can do so by editing your information in the Boxbe Dashboard. We are unable to delete all your information without also deleting your account. Should you wish to delete your account, you can do so through your Boxbe Dashboard.
In some cases, you can also choose not to give us the information we request. In these cases, we may not be able to provide you with access to the site you requested, or we may not be able to provide you with the service, feature or information you requested.
In some cases, you can stop or limit the information we collect by automated means. Please review the sections of this policy titled “Information Collected by Automated Means” to learn more about how you may be able to stop or limit our receipt of that information.
You can opt-out of the sale of your information by going here: https://www.boxbe.com/opt-out/.
As an alternative to exercising your choices through automated means, you may also exercise and amend your choices (including access, delete, and opt-out) by sending an email to us as specified in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
As part of our international operations, we may transfer information about you to a jurisdiction where we do business. Those jurisdictions may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. However, we will take measures to ensure that any such transfers comply with applicable data protection laws and that your information remains protected to the standards described in this Privacy Policy.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), the UK or Switzerland, we comply with applicable laws to provide an adequate level of data protection for the transfer of your personal data to the US. Boxbe is certified under the EU-U.S. and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles in connection with personal data transfers from the EEA, the UK and Switzerland. For more information on this, see Boxbe’s Privacy Shield Policy here: https://www.boxbe.com/privacy-shield. Where applicable law requires us to ensure that an international data transfer is governed by a data transfer mechanism, we use one or more of the following mechanisms: EU Standard Contractual Clauses, Binding Corporate Rules, or other European Commission adequacy decision.
You are not permitted to register for or use Boxbe if you are either (a) under the age of 13, or (b) under the age of 18 and your parent or legal guardian has not reviewed and agreed to this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Service on your behalf. Protecting the privacy of young children is a priority. Boxbe does not solicit or knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allows them to register. If you are under 13, please do not send any information about yourself to us. If we learn that we have collected information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you have reason to believe that Boxbe might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us immediately.
This section contains disclosures required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and applies only to “personal information” that is subject to the CCPA.
Personal Information We Collect, Disclose for a Business Purpose, and Sell: We collect the categories of personal information about California consumers identified in the chart below. As further set forth in the chart below, in the past 12 months, we have collected, disclosed and sold California consumers’ personal information to third parties for business or commercial purposes.
| Category | Collected | Disclosed | Sold |
|---|---|---|---|
| A. Identifiers such as a real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address and account name. | |||
| B. Personal information as defined in the California customer records law, such as name, contact information, education, employment, employment history and financial information. | |||
| C. Characteristics of protected classifications under California or federal law, such as gender and date of birth. | |||
| D. Commercial information, such as transaction information, purchase history, financial details and payment information. | |||
| E. Biometric information, such as fingerprints and voiceprints. | |||
| F. Internet or other electronic network activity information, such as browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems and advertisements. | |||
| G. Geolocation data, such as device location. | |||
| H. Audio, electronic, visual and similar information, such as images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities. | |||
| I. Professional or employment-related information, such as job title as well as work history and experience. | |||
| J. Education information subject to the federal Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, such as student records. | |||
| K. Inferences drawn from any of the personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics. |
| Categories of Personal Information | Collected in the last 12 months | Categories of sources from which information is collected | Business or commercial purposes for collection, use, and sharing | Disclosed for business purposes to the following categories of third parties | Sold to the following categories of third parties |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Personal and online identifiers (such as first and last name, email address, or unique online identifiers) | Yes | Consumers | Authenticating users Performing email management services Internal research and operations Developing and improving services Develop and improving research products Advertising Legal compliance | Service Providers Research Product Customers | Research Product Customers |
| Email information (such as marketing offers, business newsletters, or transactional emails) | Yes | Consumers | Performing email management services Internal research and operations Developing and improving services Develop and improving research products Advertising Legal compliance | Service Providers Research Product Customers Affiliates | Research Product Customers Affiliates |
| Other information about you that is linked to the personal information above | Yes | Consumers | Performing email management services Internal research and operations Developing and improving services Develop and improving research products Advertising Legal compliance | Service Providers Research Product Customers Affiliates | Research Product Customers Affiliates |
Your Rights Regarding Personal Information. California residents have certain rights with respect to the personal information collected by businesses. If you are a California resident, you may exercise the following rights regarding your personal information, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:
Note that we may need to request additional information from you to verify your identity or understand the scope of your request, although you will not be required to create an account with us to submit a request or have it fulfilled. We will require you to provide, at a minimum your email address. We do not knowingly sell personal information of minors under 16 years of age.
When you send email, Boxbe does not change, alter the content or delete information from your email messages in any way. As with other email services, we may annotate the routing information to ensure proper delivery. In some situations, Boxbe adds information to the top of emails you receive. This added information alerts you so you can decide and indicate to Boxbe how you want similar messages to be handled in the future, and whether to add the sender to your priority guest list.
We may provide links to other sites for your convenience and information. These sites may be operated by organizations not affiliated with Boxbe, so we cannot control and are not responsible for their content, operation, or privacy practices. Those organizations may have their own privacy policies, which we strongly suggest you review if you use other sites. This Notice does not apply to those sites, even if we link to them or they link to us.
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to you to reflect changes in our information practices or relevant laws. The updated Privacy Policy will go into effect 30 days after being posted. Your continued use of Boxbe after such time will be deemed your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy. Boxbe and you are both subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy as part of the Terms of Service.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or if you would like us to update information we have about you or your preferences, please contact us by email at privacy@boxbe.com or by mail at Boxbe, 9160 Guilford Road, Columbia MD 21046.