Privacy Policy
Unified Patents Global Internet Privacy Policy
Unified Patents, LLC, its subsidiaries and affiliates (collectively referred to as “Unified Patents”) respect your right to privacy. This policy summarizes what personally identifiable information and other information we may collect, how we may use this information and other important topics relating to your privacy and data protection.
It is Unified Patents’ policy to comply with all applicable privacy and data protection laws. This commitment reflects the value we place on earning and keeping the trust of our customers, business partners and others who share their personal information with us.
This Policy applies to any Internet site operated by or on behalf of Unified Patents and includes Unified Patents business units worldwide (each a “Unified Patents Internet Site”).
Web Site Privacy Statements
Although this Policy applies to all Unified Patents Internet Sites, each Unified Patents Internet Site has a different purpose and different features. If additional or different disclosures are required for a specific Unified Patents Internet Site, then we provide those disclosures on the site itself or provide a separate Web Site Privacy Statement posted on that site. Each individual disclosure or Policy Statement on the Unified Patents Web Site supplements and amends this Policy.
Your Consent
By using a Unified Patents Internet Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy. Whenever you submit information via this site, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of that information as described in this Policy and any applicable Country, State, or Web Site Privacy Statements.
Limitations on the Collection, Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
To the extent required by applicable law, whenever Unified Patents collects personal information on a Unified Patents Internet Site, Unified Patents will:
provide timely and appropriate notice to you about its data practices;
collect, use, disclose and transfer your personal information only with your consent, which may be express or implied, depending on the sensitivity of the personal information, legal requirements, and other factors;
collect your personal information only for specific, limited purposes. The information we collect will be relevant, adequate and not excessive for the purposes for which it is collected;
process your personal information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected or to which you have subsequently consented;
take commercially reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is reliable for its intended use, accurate, complete, and, where necessary, kept up-to-date;
not use your personal information for direct marketing purposes without giving you an opportunity to “opt-out”; and
take appropriate measures, by contract or otherwise, to provide adequate protection for personal information that is disclosed to a third party or transferred to another country, including transfers within Unified Patents.
Do Not Track
Unified Patents does not track its customers over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore does not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. Third parties that have content embedded on Unified’s websites such as a social feature or a stock ticker may set cookies on a user’s browser and/or obtain information about the fact that a web browser visited a specific Unified website from a certain IP address. Third parties cannot collect any other personally identifiable information from Unified’s websites unless you provide it to them directly.
Information Collected on Unified Patents Internet Sites and How It May Be Used
Information You Voluntarily Provide:
Unified Patents collects the information you knowingly and voluntarily provide in order to benefit from a feature or participate in an activity on a Unified Patents Internet Site. For example, Unified Patents may collect your information so you may receive email alerts, when you complete a survey, or when you ask for product information, ask a question or email us with feedback. In many cases this information may include collection of personal information.
Unified Patents only uses your information for the purposes for which you provide it. For example, if you provide your e-mail address when you sign up to receive e-mail alerts, we use your e-mail address to deliver the e-mail alerts you request.
The Unified Patents Internet Sites may permit you to make choices about the use of your personal information. In most cases, we ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your personal information.
We may also use the information we collect on Unified Patents Internet Sites for various business purposes such as customer service, fraud prevention, improving our products and services, or providing you and your company with information and offers we believe may be of interest to you. We may also remove all the personally identifiable information and use the rest for historical, statistical or scientific purposes.
Information Automatically Gathered:
Unified Patents may collect information sent to us automatically by your web browser. This information typically includes the IP address of your Internet service provider, the name of your operating system (such as Macintosh® or Windows®) and the name and version of your browser (such as Internet Explorer® or Safari®). The information we receive may depend on the settings on your web browser. Please check your browser if you want to learn what information your browser sends or how to change your settings.
We may use this information to help us improve our sites and make them more compatible with the technology used by our Internet visitors.
Cookies and Similar Technologies:
A “cookie” is a file of information placed on your device when you visit a website. Cookies and similar technologies can enhance your user experience by saving your preferences, personalizing your online experience, holding items in your shopping cart, and sometimes providing you with advertising which is tailored to your interests.
Our Unified Patents Internet Sites may use “session cookies.” A session cookie does not identify you personally and expires after you close your browser. We can use this information to provide you recommendations of other products that may be of interest.
Some Unified Patents Internet sites may use “persistent cookies.” These cookies do not expire when you close your browser. Persistent cookies stay on your computer until you delete them or they expire. By assigning your computer a unique identifier, we are able to create a database of your previous choices and preferences which can be provided by us automatically, saving you time and effort on future visits. For example, after you make a purchase, if you decide to make another purchase, your shipping address may have been retained and will only need to be confirmed.
Certain countries, including members of the European Union, require your consent to the use of cookies when you visit Unified Patents Internet Sites. If you access a Unified Patents Internet Site for one of these countries, you may be presented with information regarding your options, including the option to accept or reject certain categories of cookies. You may be able to change these settings on subsequent visits. Please note that you will not be able to opt out of receiving certain cookies that are strictly necessary for the delivery of a service requested by you.
At any time when visiting a Unified Patents Internet Site for one of these countries, clicking on the “Cookie Preferences” link at the bottom of each page allows you to access information on cookies and change your settings.
Although you are not required to accept cookies when you visit a Unified Patents Internet Site, you may be unable to use all of the functionality of the site if you reject certain cookies.
In addition, your browser may allow you to adjust settings to accept or reject cookies, or to alert you when a cookie is placed on your computer.
Use and Sharing of Your Information
Unified Patents will not sell personal information collected from its Internet sites to mailing list brokers without your express consent.
Our Unified Patents Internet Sites may permit you to make choices about the disclosure or transfer of your personal information. In most cases, we ask you to indicate your choices at the time and on the page where you provide your personal information.
Unified Patents will not disclose personal information about our Internet Site visitors except as described here:
Except as specifically stated, we may use information collected from Unified Patents Internet sites to improve the content of our Site, to customize the site to your preferences, to communicate information to you (if you have requested it) for our marketing and research purposes, and for any other purposes specified in a Site.
Unified Patents may share your personal information with other Unified Patents business units. When we do so, these other Unified Patents business units will use your information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you later consented).
Unified Patents may also share your personal information with third parties we hire to perform support services for us. These third parties are required to use the personal information we share with them only to perform services on our behalf and to treat your personal information as strictly confidential in compliance with all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
In some cases, Unified Patents may share your personal information with third parties who partner with us to provide products and services to our customers, such as distributors. If so, we will require our business partners to use that information in a manner consistent with the purposes for which it was originally collected (or to which you subsequently consented) and only as permitted under this Policy, any applicable Country or Web Site Privacy Statements, and all applicable privacy and data protection laws.
In certain, limited circumstances we may share or transfer personal information to unrelated third parties. For example, we may provide personal information to a third party (i) at your request; (ii) to comply with a legal requirement or court order; (iii) to investigate a possible crime, such as identity theft; (iv) in connection with the sale, purchase, merger, reorganization, liquidation or dissolution of Unified Patents or a Unified Patents business unit; or (v) under similar circumstances. If such an event occurs, we will take appropriate steps to protect your personal information.
Security of Your Personal Information
Your personal information may generally be stored in Unified Patents databases or databases maintained by our service providers. Most of these databases are stored on servers located in the United States. To the extent required by law, if your personal information will be transferred outside your country an appropriate notice will be provided.
Unified Patents maintains reasonable safeguards to protect the confidentiality, security and integrity of your personal information. For example, we use secure socket layer (SSL) technology to transfer personal information over the Internet. Although we use security measures to help protect your personal information against unauthorized disclosure, misuse or alteration, as is the case with all computer networks linked to the Internet, we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the Internet and will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control.
Links to Third Party Internet Sites
Unified Patents Internet Sites may contain links to Internet sites that are not operated by Unified Patents. We provide these as a service and do not imply any endorsement of the activities or content of these sites, nor any association with their operators. We urge you to review the privacy policy posted on web sites you visit before using the site or providing personal information.
Access to Personal Information
You may review, correct and update personal information you provide to us at a Unified Patents Internet Site by using the feedback mechanisms provided at a particular Unified Patents Internet Site, by clicking on by writing to us at info@unifiedpatents.com.
Retention of Personal Information
How long we keep your personal information will vary and will depend on the purpose and use of information collected. There are legal requirements that we keep some types of data for specific periods. Otherwise, we will retain it for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data was collected.
California-Specific Provisions
California residents who provide personal information in obtaining products or services for personal, family, or household use are entitled to request and obtain from us information about the customer information we shared, if any, with other businesses for their own direct marketing use, once a calendar year. If applicable, this information would include the categories of customer information and the names and addresses of those businesses with which we shared customer information for the immediately prior calendar year (e.g., requests made in 2020 will receive information regarding 2016 sharing activities).
If you are a California resident, you may ask us to refrain from sharing your personal information with certain affiliates and other third parties for their marketing purposes. Please contact us by e-mail at jonathan@unifiedpatents.com.
You also may write to us at:
Unified Patents, LLC
1875 Connecticut Ave. NW, Floor 10
Washington, DC, 20016
Personal Information We Collect about California Consumers
We describe the personal information we have collected from consumers in the twelve (12) months preceding the effective date of our Privacy Notice above.
Disclosures of Personal Information for Monetary or Other Valuable Consideration or for Business Purposes
We have not disclosed email addresses of certain customers of Unified Patents to other businesses or third parties for monetary or other valuable consideration within the twelve (12) months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Notice. As is common practice among businesses that operate Internet Web sites, we may disclose certain anonymized identifiers, information about the use of our websites and apps, and inferences drawn about you to our social media, advertising, and analytics partners for monetary or other valuable consideration. We have not done so within the twelve (12) months preceding the effective date of this Privacy Notice.
We have disclosed personal information in all or substantially all of the categories identified in this Additional Notice for California Resident Consumers for various business purposes as outlined above. For more information about the categories of personal information we have disclosed, the categories of entities with which we have disclosed this information and the purposes for which we have disclosed the information, please see rest of our Privacy Notice.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights. We will honor requests received to the extent required by applicable law and within the time provided by law.
Right to Access and Information regarding Personal Information. You have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. Specifically, you have the right to request that we disclose the following to you, in each case in the twelve-month period preceding your request:
the categories of personal information we have collected about you;
the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected;
our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information;
the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information;
the specific pieces of information we have collected about you;
the categories of personal information about you, if any, that we have disclosed for monetary or other valuable consideration and the categories of third parties to which we have disclosed the information, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to which we disclosed the personal information; and
the categories of personal information about you that we disclosed for a business purpose.
We will deliver personal information that we are required by law to disclose to you in the manner required by law within 45 days after receipt of a verifiable request, unless we notify you that we require additional time to respond, in which case we will respond within such additional period of time required by law. We may deliver the personal information to you through your account, if you maintain an account with Unified Patents, or electronically or by mail at your option. If electronically, then we will deliver the information in a portable and, to the extent technically feasible, in a readily useable format that allows you to transmit the information from one entity to another without hindrance.
Right to Deletion of Personal Information. You have the right to request that we delete Personal Information about you that we have collected from you.
Right to Opt Out.
You have the right to opt out of the disclosure of personal information about you for monetary or other valuable consideration. To opt-out, please e-mail a request to jonathan@unifiedpatents.com.
We may not discriminate against you because of your exercise of any of the foregoing rights, or any other rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including by:
Denying you goods or services;
Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
Providing you a different level or quality of goods or services; or
Suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.
We may, however, charge different prices or rates, or provide a different level or quality of goods or services, if that difference is reasonably related to the value provided to UPS by your personal information.
Requests to Exercise Your Rights
You may request to exercise the foregoing rights by e-mailing jonathan@unifiedpatents.com.
Please note that we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access to information or acting on your request to exercise your rights, as required or permitted by law. We may limit our response to your exercise of the above rights as permitted by law.
Children
Most Unified Patents Internet Sites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. Unified Patents will not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from or about children on its Internet Sites except as permitted under applicable law.
Questions about this Policy or our Privacy Statements
If you have any questions about this Policy or a Country or Web Site Privacy Statement or our use of your personal information, please contact us by writing to us at info@unifiedpatents.com or jonathan@unifiedpatents.com.
Changes to this Policy and our Privacy Statements
Changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this site. Unified Patents reserves the right to update or modify this Policy and any Website Privacy Statements at any time and without prior notice. Any modifications will apply only to the personal information we collect after the posting.
This Policy was last revised in January 2020.