This Privacy Statement explains how Chesapeake Environmental Management Inc. (CEM), doing business as America’s Commerce Corps (ACC), collects, uses and discloses information about you when you access or use our websites, mobile application, and other online products and services (collectively, the “Services“), and when you contact our customer service team, engage with us on social media, or otherwise interact with us. It also describes your choices regarding use, access and correction of your personal information. This statement does not apply to subscription eligibility information we receive and process on behalf of our Partners and Sponsors, but it does apply to your use of the Services regardless of your subscription or account type.

Please be aware that Partner and Sponsor data that are uploaded and displayed in Community Connection^TM is subject to the Privacy Statement and the Products & Services Privacy Statement Supplement by Esri®, our Hosting Partner.

By using our websites or the Services, you authorize CEM to collect, use, store, share, and disclose your personal information as described in this Privacy Statement. Please read the entire Privacy Statement before providing any personal information to us.

INFORMATION COLLECTION

Personal Information You Provide to Us

Personal information is information that can potentially identify you as a specific individual. We collect personal information when you register for any account, fill out a form, make a purchase, communicate with us via social media site, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.

The personal information you may provide includes your name, company name, mailing address, telephone number, email address, password, IP address, location, billing information, and other information you provided via the Services. Personal information may be required for authorization codes, license keys or other features to authenticate users, provide support and deliver the Services.

Personal Information We Collect From Others

We may obtain personal information about your from other sources, including transaction information from a third party when you purchase a subscription. We may obtain personal information about you from publicly available sources, marketing partners, consumer research platforms and/or business contact databases.

We, and our partners, use cookies and similar technologies to analyze trends, administer our websites, track users’ movements on our websites, and gather demographic data about our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the personal information we collect to perform the following activities.

• Complete transactions, fulfill orders, and ensure appropriate legal use of the Services.
• Send you transactional or relationship messages, such as receipts, account notifications, customer service responses, and other administrative messages.
• Communicate with you about new products and services, request feedback, and send news or other information that we think will be of interest to you (see the “Information Choices” section below for information about how to opt out of marketing messages).
• Provide, maintain and improve the Services.
• Respond to customer service requests and provide technical and product support.
• Detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect our rights and property, and that of our partners, including to enforce agreements and policies.
• Comply with the law, such as processing transactional records for tax filings and other compliance activities.

SHARING OF INFORMATION

We share information about you as follows.

• With partners and vendors that perform services for use, including sending email, processing payments, detecting fraud, and providing technical support.
• In response to a request for information when required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to legal requirements or (2) to protect and defend our rights or property.
• In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
• Between and among CEM and our current and future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
• With your consent or at your direction. For instance, you may choose to share actions you take on the Services with third-party social media services through the social media features we provide via the Services.
• The Services include links to other websites with privacy practices that may differ from those contained in this Privacy Statement. If you submit personal information to any of those websites, your information will be governed by their privacy policies.

INFORMATION CHOICES

If you submit personal information, we may contact you or send you marketing information, newsletters or promotions about services and products. If you do not wish to receive this information, you may notify us by following the unsubscribe instructions contained in the emails you receive.

You may update certain account information you provide to us (such as your password, name and email address) by logging into your account or contacting us at info@americascommercecorps.org.  Please be aware that will retain the personal information we process on behalf of our customers for as long as needed to provide the Services, comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

CALIFORNIA AND VIRGINIA RESIDENTS

This section provides additional information required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (or “CCPA”) and the Virginia Data Protection Act (or “CDPA”).

The “Information Collection” section of this Privacy Statement lists the personal information we collect, along with our business and commercial purposes of collecting this information, and the third parties with whom this information may be shared.

We do not collect the following information: (1) personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute; (2) protected classification characteristics under California or federal law; (3) biometric information; (4) internet or other similar network activity; (5) professional employment-related information; (6) education information; (7) inferences drawn from other personal information; (8) sensitive personal information.

Subject to certain limitations and exceptions, the CCPA provides California consumers, and the CPDA provides Virginia consumers, the right to request to know more details about the categories and specific pieces of personal information, to delete their personal information, to opt out of any “sales” that might occur, and to not be discriminated against for exercising these rights.

We do not sell any personal information we collect and will not sell it in the future.

PRIVACY STATEMENT MODIFICATIONS

We may modify this Privacy Statement from time to time. When we make modifications to this Privacy Statement, the updated version will be posted in place of this statement.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, you can contact us by phone at (410) 893-9016, by email at info@americascommercecorps.org, or by mail to 42 N. Main Street, Bel Air, MD 21014, United States.