Privacy Policy

January 17, 2019

Sim Online Privacy Policy

Sim has established this privacy policy to explain how it protects and manages the personal information that it collects from you online.

1. Consent for Collection, Use and Disclosure

Your use of the Sim site and/or your registration for Sim products and services constitute your consent to the terms of this privacy policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this privacy policy, please do not use the Sim site.

Sim may occasionally update this privacy policy. When it does, Sim will also revise the “last update” date at the top of this privacy policy. In addition, Sim will seek a customer’s prior consent, by email, for any new uses or proposed disclosures of information collected from the customer prior to the change. Sim will notify customers by email of changes to this policy that will affect information collected from them in the future. In certain circumstances, however, Sim will not inform and obtain the consent of the customer, such as in connection with an investigation of a breach of an agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency where the life, health or security of an individual is threatened, the collection of a debt or in compliance with the request of a law enforcement agency or a court order.

1. A customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and disclosure at any time by sending an email to info[at]siminternational.com. Please note that, if you do, Sim may suspend its provision of products and services to you. When you unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for any Sim product and you request a refund, the guarantee will be honored.

2. Accountability

Sim collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on to its web site, certain “personal information” (information that personally identifies you) including but not limited to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number, and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access times, and referring web site addresses).

Sim has implemented this privacy policy to protect personal information received from its customers and to respond to any inquiries. The privacy policy also provides that Sim will use appropriate contractual means to establish a comparable level of protection for personal information which is sent for processing by third parties on Sim’s behalf.

Sim has designated responsibility for your personal information to its privacy officer, who ensures compliance with the principles in this privacy policy. Other Sim individuals may be delegated to act on behalf of the privacy officer.

3. Purposes for Collecting Personal Information

Sim collects and uses personal information for the following identified purposes:

(a) to understand customer needs regarding Sim’s services;

(b) to develop and provide the Sim website and our products and services for our customers;

(d) to communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary and to inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services available from Sim, its affiliates and third parties;

(e) to allow customers to access limited-entry areas of the Sim website;

(f) to personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver targeted advertisements and offers from Sim and third parties;

(g) to bill accounts and maintain payment records;

(h) to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government request;

(i) to respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief, that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the agreements or policies that govern your use of the Sim website or any Sim product or service;

(j) to protect the services, products or rights of Sim, including but not limited to the security or integrity of the Sim website; and

(k) to identify and resolve technical problems concerning Sim website, products and services.

Sim also uses personal information in an aggregate form (i.e., not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis, operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.

If we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal information they need for the identified purposes, and we will limit their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as appropriate in the course of their work for us.

4. Limiting the Collection of Personal Information

Sim limits its collection of personal information to only that information which is necessary for the identified purposes. Sim does not direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of thirteen.

When you visit the Sim website, a cookie may be placed on your computer or the cookie may be read if you have visited the Sim website previously. Sim uses cookies to allow Sim to determine which products and services you have already purchased so that Sim does not provide redundant information to you, and, if you are a Sim affiliate, to track Sim sales made to customers referred by you so that you can receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the Sim website, you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to experience a personalized visit, or to subscribe to certain service and product offerings on the Sim website.

5. Disclosure, Processing and Retention

Sim does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone else, except:

(a) to someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of the identified purposes (listed in section two, above);

(b) to Sim’s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries, affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers, suppliers and agents, acting on Sim’s behalf for any of the identified purposes;

(c) as necessary if Sim has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or unintentionally) with Sim’s rights or property, other users of the Sim website, products or services, or anyone else that could be harmed by such activities; and

(d) to respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.

In addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with another company. In such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred business assets. Also, in the event that Sim or substantially all of its assets are acquired, your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.

Your information may be stored and processed in the United States, or in any other country in which Sim or its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By using this website, you consent to any such transfer of information outside of your country.

After your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed from our database), Sim will keep your personal information in its archives. Your information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to prove Sim’s compliance with any applicable law.

6. Accuracy of Personal Information

Sim will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information accurate for the identified purposes, and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer decisions based on such information. Customers are responsible for informing Sim about changes to their personal information. You can do this by sending an email to info[at]siminternational.com. Sim will use new or updated personal information it receives from customers to update its own records.

7. Security Safeguards

Sim will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal information.