Effective May 31, 2024
FastZip, LLC, doing business as ZipCodeAPI (“ZipCodeAPI”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates zipcodeapi.com (the “Site”) through which you may purchase rights of use in our Services (defined below). This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of information we receive from users of the Site and the Services. Your use of the Site and/or the Services will constitute your acknowledgement of your consent to abide and be bound by the Privacy Policy.
Our Commitment to Privacy
Thank you for using ZipCodeAPI. ZipCodeAPI is pleased to provide our application programming interface to calculate distances, radius and locations for zip codes (our “Services”). Your privacy is important to us. Because of this, we seek to take a minimalistic approach to collecting personal information from you. We do not save any credit card information on our servers, and we do not sell your personal information or share it with anyone other than as expressly described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy focuses primarily on how we collect, use and handle your personal information. We may need to collect and process personal information in order to allow access to our Services and for other purposes described herein. “Personal information” is information that identifies you or could be used to identify or contact you. Personal information includes, without limitation, information such as your name, email address, mailing address, phone number or internet protocol address.
Information We Collect
If you elect to register to use the Services, we will collect personal information about you in order to create an account. Such personal information includes, without limitation, your Name, Address, E-mail Address, and Phone Number. We may also collect similar types of personal information from you when you respond to a survey, inquire about our Services and/or if you contact us regarding your use of our Services.
We will collect credit card information from you at the time of registration in order for you to purchase a subscription to use our Services. We will not store that credit card information on our servers or otherwise in our computing environment. The credit card information is sent directly, via secure means, to a trusted third party-operated payment service to complete a registration transaction. You can request to have your credit card information stored and only then do we store your credit card information with a trusted third party-operated online credit card vault storage company and not on our servers or otherwise in our computing environment. We confirm that these third parties have been certified as meeting high-level security standards as published by the Payment Card Industry Security Standards Council.
Information We Automatically Collect
Like many SaaS providers, we collect information that your API request or browser sends whenever you visit our Site or use our Services (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your device’s Internet (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Services or Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. Your devices may also transmit information about the type of device, information regarding your location and operating system, and identifiers associated with the device, and we collect this information. We will use Log Data and the above-described device-generated information to manage, operate and improve the Site and will not share or distribute such information to any third party except as expressly described in this Privacy Policy.
In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics or develop our own tools that collect, monitor and analyze the collected information. For example, Google Analytics may be used to measure traffic, track visitor activity on our Site or the Services or to otherwise collect information regarding your usage of our Site and our Services. We use this information to analyze and improve the usage of our Services and the type of information displayed to users so that we can better serve those interested in our Services. Google Analytics and other third party analytics services do not reveal to us your name or other personally identifying information.
If you enable a “do not track” signal or similar mechanism relating to the tracking of browsing activities, we do not have practices or protocols to honor or respond to such request. However, we only collect the types of information otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amounts of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
Like many SaaS providers, we use cookies to collect information to enable us to more efficiently interact with you, and to operate and improve our Site and our Services. For example, cookies help us with things like remembering your user name for your next visit, understanding how you are using our Services, and improving our Site and Services based on that information (essential purposes). We also use cookies for non-essential purposes like analytics and marketing. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site and Services. You can turn off non-essential cookies by using the opt-out button provided beneath the privacy policy on this page.
The Way We Use Information
We use the personal information you provide to us for legitimate business purposes, including to establish and manage your account, make the Services available to you, comply with legal obligations and for purposes otherwise described herein. To the extent that we process your personal information for other purposes not covered hereby, we will ask for your consent in advance.
We use the information you provide about yourself and others when registering for a subscription to the Services only to complete the account registration process for such subscription. We do not share this information with outside parties except as described in this Privacy Policy.
We use return email addresses to answer the emails we receive. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose, and are not shared with outside parties except as described in this Privacy Policy. We will not use your email address to market other services directly to you and we will not distribute your personal information except as described in this Privacy Policy.
In addition to the other uses described herein, we may use the personal information we collect from you in the following ways:
We will never use or share the personal information provided to us online in ways unrelated to the ones described in this Privacy Policy without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Sharing Your Information With Third Parties
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information, except as described in this Privacy Policy. Without providing notice to you, we may disclose your personal information to hosting partners, affiliates, service providers, contractors and other parties who assist or support us in: (i) operating our Site and providing our Services (including where we “outsource” the hosting of the Site or Services to a trusted third party contractor); and (ii) conducting our business in connection with the provision of Services to you (such as payment processing and data storage), or in otherwise servicing you. Also, without providing notice to you, we may contract with trusted third parties to provide complementary products or services which are integrated or interfaced with our and such third parties may require access to your personal information in order to effectively provide the complementary products or services to you. In all cases, the parties described above will be required to agree to only use your personal information for purposes of performing the tasks described above and to keep your personal information confidential under obligations similar to those in this Privacy Policy.
In addition to the above and without providing notice to you, in the event of a sale or other change of control of our company, the terms, rights and practices described in this Privacy Policy would be transferred to the new owner. We may provide your personal information to the purchaser so that you may continue the relationship or business with our products and us.
We may also release your personal information (without notice to you) when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety, including in the event that we utilize a trusted third party to assist our investigation into the fraudulent or other improper use of our Services.
Data Security
Our goal is to protect the personal information that you provide to us in the course of your use of our Services. We have put in place appropriate physical, administrative and technical procedures that are reasonably designed to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. Security safeguards utilized at applicable stages during the collection, transmission and storage of personal information include data encryption, firewalls, data use and access limitations and physical access controls. However, despite our diligent efforts, no commercial method of information transfer over the Internet or electronic data storage is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee such absolute security.
De-personalized Data
We may aggregate certain information we maintain with information about other individuals in a manner that does not disclose personal information specific to an individual and/or we may remove characteristics that would otherwise be personally identifying. In either case, we are de-personalizing the information. We shall be free to utilize all de-personalized information in any way (including providing such information to other parties for marketing, advertising or other uses) and, unless otherwise required by law, de-personalized information shall not be bound by the terms of this Privacy Policy. As always, ZipCodeAPI will comply with all applicable laws and governing regulations in the collection, use and disclosure of personally identifiable information.
Links to Third Party Sites
In an attempt to provide you with increased value, we may include third party links on our Site or in our Services. These linked websites have separate and independent privacy policies. We do not control and, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and practices of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we welcome any feedback about these linked websites (including if a specific link does not work).
Children’s Privacy
Our Services and Site are not directed to persons under 13, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13 or knowingly allow such persons to register with the Services. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information. If you believe that we may have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@zipcodeapi.com.
How You Can Access or Correct Your Information
You may, of course, decline to submit personal information through the Service, in which case we will not be able to provide the Services to you. You may update or correct your account information at any time by logging in to your account. You may also choose to stop receiving any marketing emails from us by following the “Unsubscribe” instructions included in our emails. If you have any other requests or questions related to our handling, use or sharing of your personal information, or involving your attempts to update it or correct it, please contact us at info@zipcodeapi.com.
Rights and Obligations under Applicable Laws
You may have certain additional rights, and we may certain additional obligations, under applicable laws. We will, of course, abide by our obligations, and facilitate the exercise of your rights, to the extent required under the laws of a jurisdiction which are applicable to the collection, use or handling of your personal information in connection with the provision of our Services. Please contact us at info@zipcodeapi.com with any questions or requests.
Also, consistent with industry standards, our Services are unable to respond to Do Not Track Signals.
Location
Our Services and Site are controlled and operated from, and all data is stored in, the United States.
Change to the Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is effective as of 05/31/2024. We reserve the right to update or change our policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically for any change. Your continued use of the Site or the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.
How to Contact Us
Should you have other questions or concerns about these privacy policies or would like to submit a request for information pursuant to your rights under applicable laws, you can email us at info@zipcodeap.com. Include your name, address and phone number and make sure that you email us from the same email address that you have previously used with us. Also include the specific nature of your request for information.