Introduction

Blocks is a no-code email builder and editor. Blocks team respects our users’ privacy rights and protects your personal data. 

This policy describes the types of data we collect from you when you visit https://useblocks.io/ (including any successor URLs, related domains and subdomains) (“Website”) and when you use our Service, how we use the information, with whom we share it and the choices available to users of our Website and Service regarding our use of the information. We also describe our practices for protecting that information and how you can contact us about our privacy practices.

If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Service. By accessing or using this Website, or any of the Service it provides, 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 Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

1. Data we collect
   • Data related to your interactions with our service
     • Registration, company and contact information
       We collect information related to you when you register to use our service. This information you provide may include your first and last name, email, photo, preferred language, phone number, company name, website, logo, industry type, contacts, geolocation, preferred currency, social media links. 
     • Payment data
       We do not receive or store your full credit card information, however, when you purchase our Service we will collect transaction information, which may include your credit card information, billing address, and other payment-related information like PayPal account details, transaction ID, invoices. When you use your banking card any credit card information you provide is collected and processed directly by our payment processor Stripe through their Stripe Checkout service. Stripe commits to complying with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and using industry standard security. Stripe may use your Payment Information in accordance with their own Privacy Policy here: https://stripe.com/legal/link-account-terms.
     • Technical, usage and location data
       We use cookies and similar technologies to collect some of this data. We automatically collect the data on how you interact with Blocks, such as the IP address, which you use to access your account, date and time, information about your browser, operating system and computer or device, pages viewed and items clicked. We may also collect geolocation, including location information automatically provided by your computer or device.
     • Third party platforms
       We may collect data when you interact with our advertisements and other content on third-party platforms, e.g. social media. It may include your reactions to the posts, your profile data or the fact you viewed or interacted with this content.
   • Customer data
     While using Blocks, you may submit various types of data for hosting and processing (“Customer Data”) Customer Data may include:
     – HTML source code of imported and/or created emails and email templates within Blocks editor for further editing, exports and usage;
     – data contained in the created emails and email templates until their deletion;
     – images uploaded to the hosting server for further usage in email templates and emails created within Blocks.
2. How we use your data that we collect
   We use the data we collect about you or you provide to use, including any personal information, to:

• provide the requested data, products, or services;
• process your payments and to create and manage your account;
• send our updates via email, unless you opt out;
• respond to your inquiries;
• analyze data;
• provide, improve and maintain the Blocks editor, including enhancing and improving the editor, managing our communications, analyzing our customer base, their behavior, our service, and data gathered and performing accounting and other internal functions;
• protect against, identify and prevent fraud and other unlawful activities, claims or liabilities;
• comply with and enforce applicable legal requirements, relevant industry standards and our policies.

3. How we share/disclose the data we collect with 3rd parties

We never use or share Personal Information in ways unrelated to the ones described in this Privacy Policy, and we will not do so in the future without providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

We do not collect any unnecessary volume of information, or any unnecessary information, or any information that is unsuitable for achieving the purpose described above. However, the Information you have provided to us may be transferred to another party in connection with an acquisition of our company.

We do not sell or otherwise disclose personal information we collect about you, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We never use or share personal information in ways unrelated to the ones described in this Privacy Policy, and we will not do so in the future without providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

We do not collect any unnecessary volume of information, or any unnecessary information, or any information that is unsuitable for achieving the purpose described above.

4. Third Parties Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our Website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Website and welcome any feedback about these sites.

5. Email or newsletter policy/Your controls and choices

We comply with the federal CAN-SPAM Act of 2003. We will not send you marketing messages if you have opted out. You can choose not to receive messages in the future by following the “unsubscribe” instructions located near the bottom of each email. We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address for commercial purposes without your permission. If you feel you have received an email from us in error, please contact support@useblocks.io.

DNT (Do Not Track)

We may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Certain web browsers allow you to instruct your browser to send Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals to websites you visit, informing those sites that you do not want your online activities to be tracked. We do not currently respond to those signals. If you block cookies, certain features on our sites may not work. If you block or reject cookies, not all of the tracking described here will stop.

6. Security measures

We use security measures – such as storing your Information in an encrypted format and aggregate form – to avoid the misuse of such Information. In particular, we use Asymmetric Public Key Encryption RSA technology and our database is accessible only by authorized people with special access rights, who are required to keep the information confidential.

However, 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 Website, you are responsible for keeping said 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 Website like message boards. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.

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 Website. 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 Website.

7. Accessing and updating your personal information

When you use Blocks, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access to your personal information upon your request and either provide you the means to correct this information if it is inaccurate or to delete such information at your request if it is not otherwise required to be retained by law or for legitimate business purposes. You may access, review, correct, update, change or delete your information at any time. To do so, please contact us at support@useblocks.io with your name and the information requested to be accessed, corrected or removed, or if you are using the Service, sign in to your account, go to your profile, and make the desired changes. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic, require disproportionate technical effort (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup servers), jeopardize the privacy of others, would be extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required. In any caseш where we provide information access and correction, we perform this service free of charge, except if doing so would require a disproportionate effort.

8. Legal basis for processing personal information (for European Economic Area persons only)

If you are from the European Economic Area, our legal basis for collecting and using the Information described above will depend on the Information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect and use Information from you where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data-protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. Typically, our legitimate interests include improving, maintaining, providing, and enhancing our technology, products, and services; ensuring the security of our services and our Websites; for our marketing activities; and to perform a contract with you. In some limited cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Information from you. If we ask you to provide Information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contact with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your Information is mandatory or not, as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your Information.

Where required by law, we will collect Personal Information only where we have your consent to do so.

9. Changes

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the Privacy Policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by posting a prominent notice on our Website indicating at the top of the Notice when it was most recently updated. 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 Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

This policy was last modified on July 14, 2022. It was substantially modified to be compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA). The GDPR also addresses the export of personal data outside the EU and EEA areas. Please read the new policy in its entirety.