Purple Star is committed to protecting your privacy.  This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) governs your access and use of https://www.purplestarmd.com and affiliated web sites (including mobile sites), mobile applications, interactive features, and/or other online services.  By accessing or using the Service, as defined in the Terms and Conditions, you expressly accept and agree to this privacy policy and enter into a legally binding contract with Purple Star.  Do not access or use the Service if you are unwilling or unable to be bound by the terms and this Policy.

Your access to and use of our Services are subject to our TERMS AND CONDITIONS.  By using our Services, you consent to our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions and our collection, use and sharing of your information and data, and other activities, as described below.  If you do not agree to abide by all Terms and Conditions of Service, you must not use the purplestarmd.com website.

1. Collection of Your Information

When you use the Services, we may collect certain personal and other information about you to provide our Services through various forms and places, including information you provide directly, such as when you register an account, contact us, or otherwise interact with the Service.

We may collect personal information through the website, such as name, address, telephone number, email address, age, and gender.  We also may collect other information that does not reveal your identity or directly relate to an individual, including browsing information, demographic information, and information collected through cookies or other technologies.

1. Use of Your Information

We may use your personal and other information for various purposes, including to provide you with services, process transactions, provide marketing information, to allow you to participate in features of the services, to maintain and/or personalize the services, to communicate with you, to provide customer support, to identify your preferences so that you may be notified of new or updated services, for internal purposes, for account and security purposes, in connection with legal and regulatory compliance, in connection with our Terms of Services, and for other purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.

1. Sharing Your Information

We may share your information with our third-party service providers and for certain business purposes, including but not limited to payment processing, marketing, customer support, and other services.  We may also share your information as required by law or in the event of a sale, transfer, merger, or other corporate transaction.

We may receive information about you from our affiliates, other users, or other parties that we may deem relevant to our services.

1. Use of Cookies and Tracking Technology

We may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information and personalize your experience with our services.

We may use these technologies for a variety of purposes, including to allow you to use and access our services, to prevent fraudulent activity, improve security, to assess and improve and offer enhanced functionality.  You further consent to potentially encountering third-party tracking technologies when using our services and accept that our statements under this Privacy Policy do not apply to those technologies.

Cookies are small web files that a site or its provider transfers to your device’s hard drive through your web browser that enables the site’s or provider’s system to recognize your browser and remember certain information.  Cookies allow us to recognize your device and understand how our site is used, letting you navigate between pages efficiently, remembering your preferences, and generally improving your browsing experience.  You can find out more about the cookies we use and how you manage their use in our cookie policy.

If you do not want information to be collected through the use of cookies, you may disable the use of cookies by modifying your browser settings.  If you choose to disable cookies you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of our Services.  For more information on cookies and how to disable cookies visit www.ftc.gov/ftc/cookies.shtm or https://www.usa.gov/optout_instructions.shtml.

1. Location-Based Information

Our Service may use location-based services in order to locate you so that we may verify your location, deliver you relevant content based on your location, and share your location with the pre-registered delivery and dispensary service providers as part of the location-based services we offer.  Please note that we will only directly provide third parties we work with access to your exact location information if you first give us permission to do so.  You should consider the risks involved in disclosing your location information to other people.

1. Third-Party Sites

The Service may include functionality that allows certain kinds of interactions between the Service and your account on a third-party web site or application.  The use of this functionality may involve the third-party operator providing certain information to us.

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site to which this Sites contains a link.  Please read the terms, conditions and policies of such third-party sites before accessing or using such sites.  The inclusion of a link on the Sites does not imply any endorsement of the linked site by us or by our affiliates.

1. Security

We incorporate commercially reasonable safeguards to help protect and secure your personal information.  Unfortunately, no data storage system or method of data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  Please note that we cannot ensure the security of any information you transmit to us, and you use our service and provide us with your information at your own risk.

1. Opting Out

If you no longer wish to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these marketing-related emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in any such message.  We aim to comply with such request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that if you do opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you administrative messages.

You may request to review, correct, update, suppress or otherwise modify any information that you have previously provided to us, or object to the use of such information by us.

Please submit any such request privacy@purplestarmd.com In your request, please make clear what information you would like to have changed, and whether you would like to have your information suppressed from our database.  For your protection, we will only implement requests with respect to the information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.  We aim to comply with requests as soon as reasonably practicable.

1. California Users

As noted above, we may disclose your personal information to Purple Star affiliates who may use this information for all purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy.  Because separate legal entities are considered “third parties” for purposes of California Civil Code Section 1798.83, and certain communications from our affiliates might be viewed as promoting their legal services, we are providing the following information for California residents who have provided their personal information during the creation of or during the course of an established legal services relationship that is primarily for personal, family or household purposes (“Individual California Users”).  Individual California Users may request information about our disclosures of certain categories of personal information to third parties (i.e., our affiliates) for such third parties’ direct marketing purposes.  Such requests must be submitted to us either by email at privacy@purplestarmd.com.

You may make such a request no more than once per calendar year.  We reserve our right not to respond to requests submitted other than to the email or mailing addresses specified in this section.

1. Retention

We will retain your personal and other information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

1. Changes to the Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy may change at any time without notice to you, however, not in manner that materially alters the use of the user’s personal information as promised at the time it was collected unless required by law.