Privacy policy

Last updated: December 1, 2023

Five Star Life, INC. Privacy Policy

Last modified July 19, 2022

Chapter 1 - Introduction

Five Star Life, Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the Five Star Life application or website (collectively, our “App”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this App.
  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this App.

It does not apply to information collected by:

  • Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
  • Any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the App.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our App. By accessing or using this App, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see “Changes to Our Privacy Policy”). Your continued use of this App after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Chapter 2 - Children Under the Age of 13

Our App is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any personal information to or on the App. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this App or through any of its features, register on the App, make any purchases through the App, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this App, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at (574) 266-4038, mshaffer@fivestarlife.org or 2204 California Rd., Elkhart, IN 46514.

California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see “Your California Privacy Rights” for more information.

Chapter 3 - Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our App, including information:

  • By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, social security number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
  • That is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or
  • About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our App, and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Chapter 4 - Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our App may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our App. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our App, subscribing to our service(s), posting material, making a purchase, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our App.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
  • Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our App and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through ourApp.
  • Your search queries on the App.

IMAGE COLLECTION AND USAGE

1. Image Collection
Our application collects images when users utilize certain features. The collection of images is designed to provide a better user experience and to enable the specific functionalities offered by our application. We understand the sensitive nature of photos and are committed to ensuring the confidentiality and security of the images provided.

2. How We Use Collected ImagesImages collected are primarily used to:Enhance the user experience and functionality of our application.Provide specific services or features that require image processing or analysis.Images are not used for advertising purposes, sold to third parties, or used outside the context of the specific functionalities of our application unless explicitly authorized by the user.

3. Storage and SecurityImages are stored on secure servers with the highest level of encryption available. We employ strict security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your images. Images are stored only for the duration necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined above, after which they are deleted or anonymized unless otherwise specified.

4. User’s Rights and ChoicesUsers have the right to access, rectify, or delete their images stored with us. Furthermore, if a user does not wish to have their images collected, they can opt out or refrain from using the specific features of the application that require image collection.

5. Changes to this Image Collection and Usage PolicyWe may update our Image Collection and Usage policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will revise the "last updated" date at the bottom of this section. We encourage users to frequently check this section for any changes and to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the App, or transmitted to other users of the App or third parties (collectively, “UserContributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the App with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Chapter 5 - Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our App, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our App, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the App.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). This website does not respond to web browser signals and other similar mechanisms and “do not track” requests.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.It helps us to improve our App and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our App according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our App.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our App. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our App.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our App may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies)to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on ourApp. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see “Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information”.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of the App and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
  • To present our App and its contents to you.
  • To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
  • To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices, if applicable.
  • To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
  • To notify you about changes to our App or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
  • To allow you to participate in interactive features on our App.
  • In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
  • For any other purpose with your consent.

We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile or contact us at the contact information listed below. For more information, see “Choices About How We Use and Disclose YourInformation”.

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Chapter 8 - Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

  • To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
  • To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
  • To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets, 6whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about our App users is among the assets transferred.
  • To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. For clarity, this includes the sale of your personal information. For more information, see “Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information”.
  • To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
  • For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
  • With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

  • To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
  • To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
  • If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Chapter 9 - Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

  • Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly
  • Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out logging into the App and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile, checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to mshaffer@fivestarlife.org.
  • Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address and/or contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by logging into the App and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to mshaffer@fivestarlife.org. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transaction.
  • Targeted Advertising. All users and visitors to our website have the option to discontinue receiving communications from us by way of email, newsletter or text. To discontinue or unsubscribe from our website please send an email stating that you wish to unsubscribe tomshaffer@fivestarlife.org. If you wish to unsubscribe or opt-out from any third-party websites, you must go to that specific website to unsubscribe or opt-out. Five Star Life, Inc.will continue to adhere to this Policy with respect to any personal information previously collected.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see “Your California Privacy Rights” for more information.

Nevada residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised StatutesChapter 603A may submit a request to this designated address: mshaffer@fivestarlife.org or 2204California Rd., Elkhart, IN 46514. Please indicate you are a Nevada resident making a “NevadaOpt-Out” request, and include your name, telephone number and the email address you used to access our Platform.

Chapter 10 - Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the App and visiting your account profile page.

You may also send us an email at mshaffer@fivestarlife.org to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the App, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other App users.Proper access and use of information provided on the App, including User Contributions, is governed by our terms of use.

California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see “Your California Privacy Rights” for more information.

Chapter 11 - Your California Privacy Rights

California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our App that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to mshaffer@fivestarlife.org or write us at: 2204 California Rd., Elkhart, IN 46514.Please indicate you are a California resident making a “Shine the Light” request, and include your name, telephone number and the email address you used to access our Platform.

Chapter 12 - Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted usingSSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our App, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of the App like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the App.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our App. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the App.

Chapter 13 - Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the App home page or a message to your App account. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our App and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Chapter 14 - Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, or to register a concern/complaint, please contact us at:

mshaffer@fivestarlife.org or 2204 California Rd., Elkhart, IN 46514

or via telephone number: (574) 266-4038

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