AskElle, LLC (“Ask Elle” or “we” or “us”) has created this Privacy Policy in order to disclose its collection, use and disclosure of personal information and other data about you by Ask Elle, its employees, affiliates, and successors and assigns, in connection with its website, applications, software, services, mobile apps, social networking sites, and other Ask Elle properties or technology displaying or referencing this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Sites”). This Privacy Policy is effective as of March 27, 2024. Any questions regarding this policy should be directed by email to ellekristine@askelle.me. You may also contact Ask Elle at 201 Colorado st, Austin, TX 78701, USA.
If you use the Sites, you acknowledge this policy and the collection, use and sharing of your personal information and data as described herein, and in accordance with the applicable agreements with Ask Elle, including but not limited to any applicable terms of service and/or End-User License Agreement.
Some Ask Elle customers may choose to engage Ask Elle in part as a “processor” under GDPR and/or a “service provider” under US state privacy laws for certain services, and in such case the collection, use and sharing of personal information for the engagement may be governed by the agreement between Ask Elle and the customer, and the customer’s privacy policy, in addition to or independent of, this Privacy Policy.
Ask Elle may collect or receive information about each person who visits, utilizes or interacts with the Sites, including, but not limited to, user name, password, first and last name, email address, phone number, occupation, and employment information. Ask Elle collects information available to us as part of your interactions with the Sites, as well as other information you provide or you may volunteer. Ask Elle may also collect information about its customers and any of their employees including contact information and billing/payment information.
We may collect personal information from you at various points, including but not limited to:
When you visit a Site, we may automatically collect certain information, including information about your device such as your web browser, IP address, time zone, and other information on your device in connection with our site. Additionally, we collect information as you browse the website, including the web pages you view, the referral source (such as the page, website or search terms that brought you to the site), and other information about your interactions with our Sites. Such information may or may not be considered personal information.
We may obtain information about you from other sources, including, but not limited to, our affiliates, organizations with a relationship with Ask Elle (such as customers, prospects and suppliers), social media sites, organizations providing marketing contacts, publicly available databases, and through other third-party services and organizations to supplement information provided by you.
Ask Elle does not require you to include sensitive information (e.g., racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union memberships, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning sexual orientation). In the event that you provide such sensitive information without an express agreement authorizing it, you acknowledge that you have provided Ask Elle explicit consent concerning the collection, use and disclosure of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy or as otherwise described to you at the time of collection. If the jurisdiction where you reside requires affirmative, separate, opt-in consent, this paragraph does not apply to you and you are required to provide consent at or before the time of collection, or if not, do not provide the sensitive information to Ask Elle.
Some personal information may also be collected by a third-party such as a customer, service provider, or social networking site. If you interact with these third-parties or other third party services, such as social media companies, particularly where you have an account with the third party, they may collect additional information separate from Ask Elle.
Ask Elle may use and disclose personal information that we collect or receive about you to:
Ask Elle may use your IP address to, among other things, maintain logs of Site activity, help diagnose problems with a server and to administer the website. Your IP address may also be used to help identify you and your online profile and to gather broad demographic information.
The Ask Elle Site registration or contact form may require or permit users to give Ask Elle contact information (such as your name and email address or mobile phone number) and may include demographic information (such as company, title, location). Ask Elle may use your contact information to send you information you request, information about Ask Elle and promotional material from some of Ask Elle’s partners. Your contact information may also be used to contact you for other purposes in our discretion.
Except as described herein, we will not disclose your personal information to any third party unless (i) directed by you; (ii) we are operating on behalf of a customer and we are complying with the customer’s instructions; or (iii) we have notified you of our intent to disclose the information and given you an opportunity to prevent your information from being shared.
From time to time, we may partner with companies based on the interests of our customers, prospects, contacts and users. In such case, we will do so in a manner that respects your privacy and is consistent with the disclosures in this Privacy Policy.
Ask Elle reserves the right to disclose information when required by law or to uphold our ethical principles.
We use other companies to perform services as part of our operations. In the course of providing these services, those companies may receive, or have access to, your personal information.
We may also use and disclose statements made about Ask Elle or our Sites, such as feedback, testimonials or reviews, by our customers, users and other contacts.
Ask Elle may collect, use and share other information from your use of the Sites, or other information available to Ask Elle, provided such information does not individually identify you or otherwise qualify as personal information (or similar) under an applicable law, including but not limited to Ask Elle deidentifying personal information to create such information. Ask Elle shall have the right to retain records of such data including, but not limited to, usage, activity logs, and click-throughs. Ask Elle may disclose such data, whether in the form collected or a derivative form, to third parties provided it is presented in an aggregate and/or deidentified form.
Where we have deidentified personal information covered by a privacy law, we will maintain and use the data only in deidentified form and not attempt to reidentify the data, unless permitted by the applicable law.
Ask Elle in the course of its business may collect, use and disclose other information, separate from information in connection with the Sites, such as information about customer prospects, employees and employment candidates, vendor employees (i.e., their business contact information), and other information as part of operating its business. Additional information about our use of this personal information and data, to the extent not already covered herein, may be obtained by utilizing the contact information below.
Certain jurisdictions require a lawful basis for processing of personal data, and we will only collect and process your personal data there where we have lawful basis. Our lawful basis include consent (where you have given it), where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, and for the purposes of our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of our third parties, provided that such interest does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. Examples of legitimate interest include but are not limited to: (i) complying with applicable law, (ii) protecting against security or other threats, (iii) administration of our business interests, including improvements and enhancements of our business, and (iv) customer relationship issues.
Ask Elle does not sell personal information to third parties for valuable consideration, as “sell” is defined under applicable US privacy laws.
We may choose to retain personal information for as long as necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes described herein, unless otherwise restricted by an applicable law.
Whenever applicable, Ask Elle identifies the purposes for which the information is being collected before or at the time of collection. The collection of your personal information will be limited to that which is needed for the purposes identified by Ask Elle. Unless you consent, or we are required or permitted by law, we will only use the personal information for the purposes for which it was collected or another purposed described to you at that time. If Ask Elle will be processing your personal information for another purpose later on, our Ask Elle will seek your further legal permission or consent; except where the other purpose is compatible with the original purpose.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation in respect to our relationship with you.
To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal, regulatory and tax, accounting or other requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your personal information (see Your Privacy Rights below).
In some circumstances we will anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research, statistical or other permitted purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to exercise additional rights available to you under applicable laws and receive additional disclosures, including:
In the European Union and the United Kingdom under GDPR:
If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us by email (see our contact details in the “Contacts” Section below). We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request.
Where our services are made available to you through another organization, that organization is the administrator of the services and is responsible for the accounts and/or service over which it has control. Please direct your data privacy questions to your administrator, as your use of the services is subject to that organization's policies. We are not responsible for the privacy or security practices of an administrator's organization, which may be different from this policy.
Ask Elle will not discriminate against a data subject for exercising any of its data protection rights.
For reconsideration of our response to your request under any applicable law that provides for an appeal, please request an appeal within the time frame for the appeal notice set forth in the applicable law (or in the event no time frame is provided, then fifteen days) by utilizing the contact information published below.
If you need further assistance regarding your rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable law. There may be exceptions to the foregoing rights and some or all of the above rights may not apply to you. Where a privacy law permits an organization to continue to maintain and/or use personal information for a particular purpose, despite receiving your request, we reserve the right to utilize your personal information for such purpose. In some cases, our ability to uphold these rights for you may depend upon our obligations to process personal data for security, safety, fraud prevention reasons, compliance with regulatory or legal requirements, or because processing is necessary to deliver the services you have requested. Where this is the case, we will inform you of specific details in response to your request.
If you are an individual in the EU / EEA, you have the right to make a complaint to the relevant Supervisory Authority. A list of EU / EEA Supervisory Authorities is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/bodies/authorities/index_en.htm. If you are in the UK, you have a right to make a complaint to the UK Information Commissioner's Office. You can visit their website at www.ico.org.uk.
If you live in a different country, state or other jurisdiction that provides for additional rights or disclosures regarding your personal information, and you wish to exercise those rights or receive those disclosures, please contact us using the contact information below.
The information collected by Ask Elle may be processed and/or stored in the United States, European Union Member Nations, Canada, or any other country in which Ask Elle or its affiliates or service providers maintain operations. Ask Elle may transfer information that we collect, including personal information, to affiliated entities, or to other third parties across borders and from your country or jurisdiction of domicile to other countries or jurisdictions. If you are located in the European Union or other regions with laws restricting transferring of data, please note that we will comply with laws applicable to us.
Any Sites may be hosted and operated in the United States and is subject to United States law. Any personal information that we collect from you may be stored and processed in the United States. If you are accessing the Sites outside of the U.S., you acknowledge the transfer of your personal information to the United States. Please be advised that United States law may not offer the same privacy protections as the law in your jurisdiction.
If you are a California resident, California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us by sending an e-mail to ellekristine@askelle.me.
Our website and/or application are not intended to appeal to minors. However, if you are a California resident under the age of 18, and a registered user of our website and/or application, California Business and Professions Code Section 22581 permits you to request and obtain removal of content or information you have publicly posted. To make such a request, please send an e-mail with a detailed description of the specific content or information to ellekristine@askelle.me. Please be aware that such a request does not ensure complete or comprehensive removal of the content or information you have posted and that there may be circumstances in which the law does not require or allow removal even if requested.
Under California law, California residents who have an established business relationship with us may opt-out of our disclosing personal information about them to third parties for their marketing purposes.
We do not knowingly collect any information from anyone who we know to be under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 18, you should use this website only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. If we discover that a person under the age of 13 has provided us with any personal information, we will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete such person's personal information from all systems.
Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking technology may need to be enabled in connection with Ask Elle products and services in order to determine the location (latitude and longitude) of users. We will request your permission prior to precise geolocation tracking. Where authorized, this information is transmitted as necessary for the products and services, which may include transmission to Ask Elle, its service providers (including hosting provider), and Ask Elle’s users or clients if necessary as part of the services. This information is only used by Ask Elle in conjunction with Ask Elle’s services or otherwise in connection with the reason for its collection or as permitted this Privacy Policy.
Ask Elle uses industry-standard technologies when transferring and receiving consumer data exchanged between Ask Elle and other companies to help ensure its security. However, there is no guarantee that your personal information in any system is completely secure.
Ask Elle may create links to other web sites. Many other sites that are not associated or authorized by Ask Elle may have links leading to our Sites. Ask Elle cannot control these links and Ask Elle is not responsible for any content appearing on these sites.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer's hard drive. The Ask Elle site uses cookies to keep track of your session or for other functions. Ask Elle may also use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests.
We may use standard Internet technology, such as web beacons and other similar technologies, to track your use of our sites, services and software. We also may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon. The information we obtain in this manner enables us to customize the services we offer our users to deliver targeted advertisements and to measure the overall effectiveness of our online advertising, content, programming or other activities.
Ask Elle may use an outside ad or marketing company in connection with the Sites, including, but not limited to, display of ads or ad technology or marketing technology. These ads may also contain cookies or other tracking technology.
Ask Elle and these companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with these advertisements and connect to the Ask Elle website and/or services. This information allows Ask Elle and these companies to deliver targeted advertisements and gauge their effectiveness.
Your browsing activity may be tracked across different websites and different devices or apps. For example, we may attempt to match your browsing activity on your mobile device with your browsing activity on your laptop. To do this our technology partners may share data, such as your browsing patterns, geo-location and device identifiers, and will match the information of the browser and devices that appear to be used by the same person.
Your browsing activity may be tracked across different websites and different devices or apps. For example, we may attempt to match your browsing activity on your mobile device with your browsing activity on your laptop. To do this our technology partners may share data, such as your browsing patterns, geo-location and device identifiers, and will match the information of the browser and devices that appear to be used by the same person.
We may use third-party APIs and software development kits (“SDKs”) as part of the functionality of our Sites. APIs and SDKs may allow third parties including analytics companies and advertising partners to collect your personal data for various purposes including to provide analytics services and content that is more relevant to you.
As described above, we may use your Personal Information to provide you targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by doing so at:
FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE -
https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING -
https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
Ask Elle provides users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from Ask Elle, except transactional correspondence. To opt-out of receiving our communications, you can send an email to ellekristine@askelle.me.
We use Google Analytics, a service for the marketing analysis of the site provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to allow us to see how you use our site, so we can improve your experience. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to the site is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use available at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and the Google Privacy Policy available at http://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to the site by disabling cookies in your browser. If you prefer to not have data reported by Google Analytics, you can install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Please note that we do not alter our data collection and use practices as a result of a Do Not Track signal from your browser, unless required by an applicable law.
Ask Elle may amend this policy at any time. If Ask Elle is going to use personal information collected in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, Ask Elle will notify users via email and/or by posting a notice on the Ask Elle site for thirty (30) days prior to such use. This Privacy Policy may not be otherwise amended except in a writing that specifically refers to this Privacy Policy and is physically signed by both parties.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of a Site or Ask Elle or your dealings with us, you can contact ellekristine@askelle.me or write to us at Ask Elle, 201 Colorado st, Austin, TX 78701, USA.