This Privacy Policy sets out how we, Boris FX, collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our website, borisfx.com (our website) and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you. This Privacy Policy is effective from 24th May 2018.
Contents
- Summary
- Our details
- Information we collect when you visit our website
- Information we collect when you contact us
- Information we collect when you interact with our website
- Information we collect when you place an order
- Our use of automated decision-making and profiling
- How we collect or obtain information about you from third parties
- Disclosure and additional uses of your information
- How long we retain your information
- How we secure your information
- Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area
- Your rights in relation to your information
- Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes
- Sensitive Personal Information
- Changes to our Privacy Policy
- Children’s Privacy
- California Do Not Track Disclosures
Summary
This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.
- Data controller: Boris FX
- How we collect or obtain information about you:
- when you provide it to us (e.g. by contacting us, placing an order on our website, signing up to our newsletter, downloading a trial version of our products or visiting us at a tradeshow),
- from your use of our website, using cookies and similar technologies, and
- occasionally, from third parties.
- Information we collect: name, contact details, payment information e.g. your credit or debit card details, IP address, information from cookies, information about your computer or device (e.g. device, browser type and MAC address), information about how you use our website (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time when you view them and what you clicked on, the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address), company name or business name (if applicable), VAT number (if applicable), and academic identification if you are purchasing an academic product.
- How we use your information: for administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you and process orders you place on our website), to improve our business and website, to fulfil our contractual obligations, to advertise our goods and services, to analyse your use of our website, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations.
- Disclosure of your information to third parties: only to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, to fulfil any contracts we enter into with you, where required by law or to enforce our legal rights.
- Do we sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event): No
- How long we retain your information: for no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), and any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business). For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see the main section below entitled How long we retain your information.
- How we secure your information: using appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your information on secure servers, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Transport Layer Security and similar technologies, encrypting payments you make on or via our website using Transport Layer Security and similar technologies, only granting access to your information where necessary and anonymising personal data where possible.
- Use of cookies and similar technologies: we use cookies and similar information-gathering technologies such as web beacons on our website including essential, functional, analytical and targeting cookies. For more information, please visit our cookies policy.
- Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area: we transfer your information outside of the European Economic Area, including to the following countries: USA, Australia. Where we do so, we will ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, including that the third parties we use who transfer your information outside the European Economic Area have self-certified themselves as compliant with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield.
- Use of automated decision making and profiling: we use automated decision making and profiling. We use web analytics, cookies, web beacons and server log analysis tools (profiling) and targeting cookies to display advertisements to your people who visit our website on other websites around the (automated decision making).
- Your rights in relation to your information
- to access your information and to receive information about its use
- to have your information corrected and/or completed
- to have your information deleted
- to restrict the use of your information
- to receive your information in a portable format
- to object to the use of your information
- to withdraw your consent to the use of your information
- to complain to a supervisory authority
- Sensitive personal information: except for academic eligibility verification, we do not knowingly or intentionally collect what is commonly referred to as ‘sensitive personal information’. Please do not submit sensitive personal information about you to us. For more information, please see the main section below entitled Sensitive Personal Information.
Our details
The data controller in respect of our website is Boris FX, Inc. of 65 Franklin Street, Suite 400, Boston MA 02110, USA. You can contact the data controller by writing to this address or sending an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>The data controller’s representative in the European Union is Imagineer Systems Ltd. You can contact the data controller’s representative by writing to Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road, Guildford GU2 7YG, UK or sending an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the data controller.
Information we collect when you visit our website
We collect and use information from website visitors in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.
Web server log information
We use third party servers to host our website from Netlify, Salesforce.com and Digital Ocean, the privacy policies of which are available in the section entitled Disclosure of your information to service providers. Our website servers automatically log the IP address you use to access our website as well as other information about your visit such as the pages accessed, information requested, the date and time of the request, the source of your access to our website (e.g. the website or URL (link) which referred you to our website), and your browser version and operating system.
Our servers are located in the USA and, accordingly, your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA). For further information and information on the safeguards used, please see the section of this privacy policy entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Use of website server log information for IT security purposes
We and our third party hosting providers collect and store server logs to ensure network and IT security and so that the server and website remain uncompromised. This includes analysing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorised access to our network, the distribution of malicious code, denial of services attacks and other cyber attacks, by detecting unusual or suspicious activity.
Unless we are investigating suspicious or potential criminal activity, we do not make, nor do we allow our hosting provider to make, any attempt to identify you from the information collected via server logs.
Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legal obligation: we have a legal obligation to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of our processing of information about individuals. Recording access to our website using server log files is such a measure.
Legal basis for processing: our and a third party’s legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: we and our third party hosting provider have a legitimate interest in using your information for the purposes of ensuring network and information security.
Use of website server log information to analyse website use and improve our website
We use the information collected by our website server logs to analyse how our website users interact with our website and its features. For example, we analyse the number of visits and unique visitors we receive, the time and date of the visit, the location of the visit, and the operating system and browser used.
We use the information gathered from the analysis of this information to improve our website. For example, we use the information gathered to change the information, content and structure of our website and individual pages based according to what users are engaging most with and the duration of time spent on particular pages on our website.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: improving our website for our website users and getting to know our website users’ preferences so our website can better meet their needs and desires.
Cookies and similar technologies
Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes.
We use cookies and similar technologies on our website, including essential, functional, analytical and targeting cookies and web beacons. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy.
You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings but doing so can impair your ability to use our website or some or all of its features. For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings, please visit All About Cookies or see our cookies policy.
Information we collect when you contact us
We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.
When you send an e-mail to the e-mail address displayed on our website we collect your e-mail address and any other information you provide in that e-mail (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your e-mail).
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).
Transfer and storage of your information
We use a third party e-mail provider to store e-mails you send us. Our third party e-mail provider is Google. Please see their privacy policy for more information.
E-Mails you send us will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party e-mail provider’s servers in the USA. For further information please see the section of this privacy policy entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Contact form
When you contact us using our contact form, we collect your name and e-mail address. We also collect any other information you provide to us when you complete the contact form, including any optional information, such as your computer’s machine ID. For sales queries, we also collect your company name, city, country, state and phone number.
If you do not provide the mandatory information required by our contact form, you will not be able to submit the contact form and we will not receive your enquiry.
If you do not supply the optional information required by our contact form, we might not be able to fully respond to your query.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services or providing technical support), we will process your information in order to do so).
Transfer and storage of your information
Messages you send us via our contact form will be stored within the European Economic Area on our third party CRM provider’s servers in Germany and the UK. Our third party CRM provider is Salesforce.com. For further information see their privacy policy.
Phone
When you contact us by phone, we collect your phone number and any information provide to us during your conversation with us. As most calls are handled by our head office located in the USA, your information may be transferred outside the European Economic Area.
For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
We record some phone calls for training purposes and to monitor call quality.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation) Legitimate interests: responding to enquiries and messages we receive, keeping records of correspondence, training our staff and ensuring a consistent level of service.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).
Transfer and storage of your information
Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by our third party telephone service providers, which are located in the UK and USA.
Information about your phone call may be stored by our third party telephone service provider outside the European Economic Area. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Post
If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation) Legitimate interests: responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where your message relates to us providing you with goods or services or taking steps at your request prior to providing you with our goods and services (for example, providing you with information about such goods and services), we will process your information in order to do so).
Information we collect when you interact with our website
We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.
E-Newsletter
When you sign up for our e-newsletter on our website or opt to receive news, offers, events and training from us by entering your e-mail address and clicking subscribe or ticking a box at checkout indicating that you would like to receive our e-newsletter, we collect your e-mail address.
Legal basis for processing: your consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: you give your consent to us sending you our e-newsletter by signing up to receive it using the steps described above.
Transfer and storage of your information
We use a third party service to send out our e-newsletter and administer our mailing list, Salesforce Pardot. For further information see their privacy policy.
Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s servers in the USA. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Use of web beacons and similar technologies in e-mails
We use technologies such as web beacons (small graphic files) and similar technologies in the e-mails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our e-mails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates and click through rates which our e-mails achieve. We will only use web beacons and similar technologies in our e-mails if you have consented to us doing so.
For more information on how we use web beacons in our e-newsletter e-mails, see our cookies policy.
For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see the Salesforce.com privacy policy.
Registering on our website
When you register and create an account on our website, we collect the following information: name, e-mail address, phone number, IP address and any other information you provide to us when you complete the registration form, including any optional information, such as company name.
If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: creating an account on our website is necessary to allow you to make a purchase and to access the goods and services you have purchased from us and to request technical support.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: registering and administering accounts on our website is necessary to access evaluation versions of our products and services.
Transfer and storage of your information
Information you submit to us via the registration form on our website will be stored within the European Economic Area on our third party CRM provider’s servers in Germany and the UK. Our third party CRM provider is Salesforce.com. For further information see their privacy policy.
Information we collect when you place an order
We collect and use information from individuals who place an order on our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.
Information collected when you place an order
Mandatory information
When you place an order for goods or services on our website, we collect your name, e-mail address, billing address, company name (if applicable), phone number and payment information.
If you do not provide this information, you will not be able to purchase goods or services from us on our website or enter into a contract with us.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we need the mandatory information collected by our checkout form to establish who the contract is with and to contact you to fulfil our obligations under the contract, including sending you receipts and order confirmations.
Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legal obligation: We have a legal obligation to keep accounting records, including records of transactions
Processing your payment
After you place an order on our website you will need to make payment for the goods or services you have ordered. In order to process your payment we use third party payment processors, including Shopify, PayPal and Amazon Payments. Your payment will be processed by the third party payment processor you choose to process your payment.
The third party payment processor you choose to process your payment collects, uses and processes your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access their privacy policies via the section entitled Disclosure of your information to service providers below.
Transfer and storage of your information
Shopify, PayPal and Amazon Payments are located in the USA. Information relating to the processing of your payment is stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party payment processor’s servers in various locations globally.
For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: to fulfil your contractual obligation to pay for the goods or services you have ordered from us.
Marketing communications
At checkout you will have the option of receiving marketing communications from us.
Our similar goods and services
You can opt-out from receiving marketing communications in relation to our goods and which are similar to those which you purchase from us, by ticking a box to opt.
We will send you marketing communications in relation to similar goods and services if you do not opt out from receiving them.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: direct marketing and advertising our products and services.
Transfer and storage of your information
We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, Salesforce Pardot.
Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s servers in the USA. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Use of web beacons and similar technologies in e-mails
We use technologies such as web beacons (small graphic files) and similar technologies in the e-mails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our e-mails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates and click through rates which our e-mails achieve. We will only use web beacons and similar technologies in our e-mails if you have consented to us doing so.
For more information on how we use web beacons in our e-mails, see our cookies policy.
For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see the Salesforce.com privacy policy.
Our goods and services
You can opt in to receiving marketing communications from us in relation to our goods and services by e-mail by ticking a box indicating that you would like to receive such communications.
We will send you marketing communications in relation to our goods and services only if you opt-in to receive them.
Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: you give your consent to us sending you information about our goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.
Transfer and storage of your information
We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, Salesforce Pardot.
Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s servers in the USA. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Use of web beacons and similar technologies in e-mails
We use technologies such as web beacons (small graphic files) and similar technologies in the e-mails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our e-mails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates and click through rates which our e-mails achieve.
For more information on how we use web beacons in our e-mails, see our cookies policy.
For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see the Salesforce.com privacy policy.
Third party goods and services
In addition to receiving information about our products and services you can opt in to receiving marketing communications from us in relation third party goods and services by e-mail.
Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: you give your consent to us sending you information about third party goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.
Transfer and storage of your information
We use a third party service to administer our mailing list, Salesforce Pardot.
Information you submit to subscribe for our e-newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on our third party mailing list provider’s servers in the USA. For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Use of web beacons and similar technologies in e-mails
We use technologies such as web beacons (small graphic files) and similar technologies in the e-mails we send to allow us to assess the level of engagement our e-mails receive by measuring information such as the delivery rates, open rates and click through rates.
For more information on how we use web beacons in our e-mails, see our cookies policy.
For more information about our third party mailing list provider and they use web beacons, please see the Salesforce.com privacy policy.
Information collected or obtained from third parties
This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.
Information received from third parties
We do receive information about you from third parties. The third parties from which we receive information about you will generally include our resellers, group companies, marketing partners such as event organisers and legal compliance partners.
It is also possible that third parties with whom we have had no prior contact may provide us with information about you.
Information we obtain from third parties will generally be your name and contact details, but will include any additional information about you which they provide to us.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where a third party has passed on information about you to us (such as your name and e-mail address) in order for us to provide services to you, we will process your information in order to take steps at your request to enter into a contract with you and perform a contract with you (as the case may be).
Legal basis for processing: consent (Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: where you have asked that a third party to share information about you with us and the purpose of sharing that information is not related to the performance of a contract or services by us to you, we will process your information on the basis of your consent, which you give by asking the third party in question to pass on your information to us.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: where a third party has shared information about you with us and you have not consented to the sharing of that information, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information in certain circumstances.
For example, we would have a legitimate interest in processing your information to perform our obligations under a sub-contract with the third party, where the third party has the main contract with you. Our legitimate interest is the performance of our obligations under our sub-contract.
Similarly, third parties may pass on information about you to us if you have infringed or potentially infringed any of our legal rights. In this case, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information to investigate and pursue any such potential infringement.
Where we receive information about you in error
If we receive information about you from a third party in error and/or we do not have a legal basis for processing that information, we will delete your information.
Information obtained by us from third parties
In certain circumstances (for example, to verify the information we hold about you or obtain missing information we require to provide you with a service) we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, both EU and non-EU, such as business registration bureaus, online customer databases, business directories, media publications, social media, and websites (including your own website if you have one).
In certain circumstances will also obtain information about you from private sources, both EU and non-EU, such as data brokers.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where you have entered into a contract or requested that we enter into a contract with you, in certain circumstances, we will obtain information about you from public sources in order to enable us to understand your business and provide services to you or services to a sufficient standard.
For example, we would obtain and/or verify your e-mail address from your website or from a directory where you ask us to send you information by e-mail but we do not possess the information or we need to confirm that we have recorded your e-mail address correctly.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: in certain circumstances, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining information about you from public and private sources. For example, if you have infringed or we suspect that you have infringed any of our legal rights, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining and processing information about you from such sources in order to investigate and pursue any suspected or potential infringement.
Our use of automated decision-making and profiling
We use automated decision making and profiling on our website. We do not consider that this has any legal effect on you or similarly significantly affects you.
You have the right to object to our use of automated decision making and profiling described in this section. You can do that by opting-out of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with the method described in the relevant section below. If you do not want us to process your actual IP address (usually the IP address assigned to you by your Internet Service Provider) when you visit our website, you can use a Virtual Private Network (VPN) or a free service such as Tor.
You can find out more about our use of cookies and similar technologies (including the legal basis on which we use them) and how to opt out from them in our cookies policy.
Automated decision making
Automated decision making is decision making by technological means (i.e. by a machine) without human involvement.
Use of automated decision making for display advertising
We automate the display advertisements containing our products and services on other websites you visit, you based on the fact that you have visited our website using cookies. For further information on the cookies we use, please see our cookies policy.
Logic involved: automatically displaying advertisements to individuals who have visited our website results in increased efficiencies and costs savings for us than manually displaying advertisements or displaying advertisements by different means.
Significance and envisaged consequences: cookies will be used to recognise the fact that you have visited our website in order to display advertisements to you (unless you have blocked such cookies) and will collect information about your online behaviour.
How to object: you can block these cookies by blocking third party cookies using browser settings. For further information, please see our cookies policy.
Profiling
Profiling is any form of automated processing of your information to evaluate personal aspects about you, in particular to analyse or predict things like your performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.
Use of profiling for web analytics
Our web analytics service, Google Analytics uses collects information such as your location (based on your IP address) and your behaviour (based on cookies) when you access our website (such as the pages you visit and what you click on) and products you purchase in our store. We will only process information from cookies if you have consented to us setting cookies on your computer in accordance with our cookies policy. Information collected about you, once collected is anonymised and stored on an aggregate basis.
Logic involved: by automatically analysing and categorising information such as the location (based on IP address) as well as the behaviour and devices of visitors to our website (using cookies), we are able to gain a better understanding of what our website visitors want (in terms of the content of our website and our products), how to improve our website and how to advertise and market our services to them.
Significance and envisaged consequences: cookies will be used to track and store information about your behaviour and device on our website (unless you have opted out from receiving such cookies by blocking third party cookies using browser settings and your location will be analysed based on your IP address. We may target advertisements based on the level of interest we receive from certain visitors and their behaviour on our website.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: improving our website for our website users and getting to know our website users’ preferences so our website can better meet their needs and desires.
Use of profiling in marketing e-mails
We use web beacons and similar technologies in our marketing e-mails to analyse who opens our e-mails and what actions they take (for example, what they click on). We will only process information from web beacons and similar technologies if you have consented to their use in accordance with our cookies policy.
Logic involved: by analysing how our e-mail recipients respond to our e-mails, we are able to improve the content and effectiveness of our e-mails and gauge who is most interested.
Significance and envisaged consequences: your behaviour when you open our e-mails will be tracked using small gif files (web beacons) and other similar technologies, including open rates, and click through rates.
How to object: contact us via our contact form or by e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: analysing the level of engagement and effectiveness of our marketing e-mails and content.
Disclosure and additional uses of your information
This section sets out the circumstances in which will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.
Disclosure of your information to service providers
We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business and who process your information for us on our behalf. These include the following:
Type of service: E-mail, web analytics Location: USA Privacy Policy: Google Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield and model contract clauses
Salesforce.com
Type of service: Business automation, customer relationship management, marketing automation Location: USA Privacy Policy: Salesforce.com Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-approved binding corporate rules, and EU-US Privacy Shield
Intercom
Type of service: Website live chat Location: USA Privacy Policy: Intercom Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-approved binding corporate rules, and EU-US Privacy Shield
Revulytics
Type of service: Intellectual property compliance Location: USA Privacy Policy: Revulytics Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
Shopify
Type of service: Webshop Location: USA Privacy Policy: Shopify Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
Amazon Web Services
Type of service: IT services Location: USA Privacy Policy: AWS Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
Digital Ocean
Type of service: IT services Location: USA Privacy Policy: Digital Ocean Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
Slack
Type of service: Internal messaging Location: USA Privacy Policy: Slack Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
SendGrid
Type of service: Non-marketing e-mail delivery Location: USA Privacy Policy: SendGrid Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
SurveyMonkey
Type of service: On-line surveys Location: USA Privacy Policy: SurveyMonkey Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
PayPal
Type of service: Online payments Location: Headquarters in USA, local presence in many other countries Privacy Policy: PayPal has separate privacy policies depending on your location, they are listed on the PayPal Legal Agreements page. Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-approved Binding Corporate Rules
Amazon Payments
Type of service: Online payments Location: USA Privacy Policy: Amazon Payments Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: EU-US Privacy Shield
Netlify
Type of service: Website hosting Location: Headquarters in the USA, content delivered from local nodes in the EEA Privacy Policy: Netlify Privacy Policy Transfer out of EEA Safeguard: Personal data from EEA residents is only processed inside the EEA
Xero
Type of service: Accounting services Location: UK Privacy Policy: Xero UK Privacy Policy
Your information will be shared with these service providers where necessary to provide you with the service you have requested, whether that is accessing our website or ordering goods and services from us.
Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest relied on: where we share your information with these third parties in a context other than where is necessary to perform a contract (or take steps at your request to do so), we will share your information with such third parties in order to allow us to run and manage our business efficiently.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract and/or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we may need to share information with our service providers to enable us to perform our obligations under that contract or to take the steps you have requested before we enter into a contract with you.
Disclosure of your information to other third parties
We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below.
Providing information to third parties such as Google
Google collects information through our use of Google Analytics on our website. Google uses this information, including IP addresses and information from cookies, for a number of purposes, such as improving its Google Analytics service. Information is shared with Google on an aggregated and anonymised basis. To find out more about what information Google collects, how it uses this information and how to control the information sent to Google, please see the following page: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: meeting our contractual obligations to Google under our Google Analytics Terms of Service (https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html)
You can opt out of Google Analytics by installing the browser plugin here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Transfer and storage of your information
Information collected by Google Analytics is stored outside the European Economic Area on Google’s servers in the USA.
For further information about the safeguards used when your information is transferred outside the European Economic Area, see the section of this privacy policy below entitled Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area.
Sharing your information with other third parties
These third parties are either related to or associated with the running of our business, where it is necessary for us to do so. These third parties include our accountants, advisors, affiliates, business partners, independent contractors, and insurers. Further information on each of these third parties is set out below.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: running and managing our business efficiently.
####Accountants
We share information with our accountants for tax purposes. For example, we share invoices we issue and receive with our accountants for the purpose of completing tax returns and our end of year accounts.
Our accountants are Fenway Financial Associates (USA), Butt Miller (UK) and V Singhi and Associates (India).
Advisors
Occasionally, we obtain advice from advisors, such as accountants, financial advisors, and lawyers. We will share your information with these third parties only where it is necessary to enable these third parties to be able to provide us with the relevant advice.
Affiliates
Affiliates are individuals or entities we work with to promote our business by various means, including by advertising our services on their websites, for example. Our affiliates can be distributors or resellers. Affiliates will share information with us and we will share information with them where you have expressed an interest in our products or services.
Our reseller list contains all the resellers we work with in this way.
Business partners
Business partners are businesses we work with which provide goods and services which are complementary to our own or which allow us to provide goods or services which we could not provide on our own. We share information with our business partners where you have requested services which they provide whether independently from, or in connection with or own services.
Our business partners include companies such as training providers, stock footage vendors, host vendors and other software companies, located globally.
Independent contractors
We use independent contractors in our business. Your information will be shared with independent contractors only where it is necessary for them to perform the function we have hired them perform in relation to our business.
Our independent contractors include artists, marketing, sales, IT and other professionals.
Insurers
We will share your information with our insurers where it is necessary to do so, for example in relation to a claim or potential claim we receive or make or under our general disclosure obligations under our insurance contract with them.
Our insurers are located in the USA and UK.
Sharing your information within our business’ group of companies
The Boris FX group includes two legal entites, Artel Software, Inc and Imagineer Systems Ltd. We share data for internal administrative purposes, including client, customer and employee information.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: running and managing our business effectively.
Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (Article 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Reason why necessary to perform a contract: we need to share your information with other companies in order to be able to meet our contractual obligations to you or to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract, for example because of the services or information you have requested.
We do not display the identities all of the other third parties we may share information with by name for security and competitive reasons. If you would like further information about the identities of such third parties, however, please contact us directly via our contact form or by e-mail and we will provide you with such information where you have a legitimate reason for requesting it (where we have shared your information with such third parties, for example).
Sharing your information with acquirers
Sharing your information with a prospective or actual purchaser or seller in the context of a business or asset sale or acquisition by us, a merger or similar business combination event, whether actual or potential.
Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: sharing your information with a prospective purchaser, seller or similar person in order to allow such a transaction to take place.
Disclosure and use of your information for legal reasons
Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority
If we suspect that criminal or potential criminal conduct has been occurred, we will in certain circumstances need to contact an appropriate authority, such as the police. This could be the case, for instance, if we suspect that we fraud or a cyber crime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third parties.
We will generally only need to process your information for this purpose if you were involved or affected by such an incident in some way.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).
In connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement our legal rights
We will use your information in connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights, including, for example, sharing information with debt collection agencies if you do not pay amounts owed to us when you are contractually obliged to do so. Our legal rights may be contractual (where we have entered into a contract with you) or non-contractual (such as legal rights that we have under copyright law or tort law).
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.
In connection with a legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings
We may need to use your information if we are involved in a dispute with you or a third party for example, either to resolve the dispute or as part of any mediation, arbitration or court resolution or similar process.
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interests: resolving disputes and potential disputes.
For ongoing compliance with laws, regulations and other legal requirements
We will use and process your information in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject. For example, we may need to disclose your information pursuant to a court order or subpoena if we receive one.
Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation (Article 6(1)(c) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legal obligations: legal obligations to disclose information which are part of the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, United States federal law or the laws of England and Walesm, or if they have been integrated into the legal frameworks of one of those jurisdictions (for example in the form of an international agreement which the United Kingdom has signed).
Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Legitimate interest: where the legal obligations are part of the laws of another country and have not been integrated into the legal framework of our local jurisdiction, we have a legitimate interest in complying with these obligations.
How long we retain your information
This section sets out how long we retain your information. We have set out specific retention periods where possible. Where that has not been possible, we have set out the criteria we use to determine the retention period.
Retention periods
- Server log information: we retain information on our server logs for 30 days.
- Order information: when you place an order for goods and services, we retain that information indefinitely in order to provide technical support, customer service and to validate upgrade entitlement.
- Correspondence and enquiries: when you make an enquiry or correspond with us for any reason, whether by e-mail, via our contact form or by phone, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry, and indefinitely where necessary to provide consistent technical support or customer service.
- E-Newsletter: we retain the information you used to sign up for our e-newsletter for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe) or if we decide to cancel our e-newsletter service, whichever comes earlier.
- Phone call recordings: when you call one of our role-based phone numbers such as customer service, sales or technical support, you call will be recorded for training and quality monitoring purposes. These recordings will be retained for 14 days.
- Academic identification: when you request approval to purchase an academic product, we require a copy of your academic photo ID and transcript. This information is retained only for the time taken to complete the verification, and in any case no longer than 30 days.
Criteria for determining retention periods
In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:
- the purpose and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);
- whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);
- whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);
- how valuable your information is (both now and in the future);
- any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;
- the levels of risk, cost and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;
- how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and
- any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you).
How we secure your information
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including:
- only sharing and providing access to your information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymised basis wherever possible;
- using secure servers to store your information;
- verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information;
- using Transport Layer Security (TLS) software to encrypt any information you submit to us via any forms on our website and any payment transactions you make on or via our website;
- only transferring your information via closed system or encrypted data transfers;
Transmission of information to us by e-mail
Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet (whether by e-mail, via our website or any other means), you do so entirely at your own risk.
We cannot be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to transmit information to us by such means.
Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area
Your information will be transferred and stored outside the European Economic Area (EEA) in the circumstances set out below. We will also transfer your information outside the EEA or to an international organisation in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject (compliance with a court order, for example). Where we are required to do so, we will ensure appropriate safeguards and protections are in place.
Google Analytics
Information collected by Google Analytics (your IP address and actions you take in relation to our website) is transferred outside the EEA and stored on Google’s servers. You can access Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/ - Country of storage: United States of America. This country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission. - Safeguards used: Google has self-certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield which is available here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is an approved certification mechanism under Article 42 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is permitted under Article 46(2)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. You can access the European Commission decision on the adequacy of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm
Other Transfers
For other transfers outside the EEA, see the list of third party providers in the Disclosure of your information to service providers section. All non-EEA providers have self-certified compliance with the EU-US Privacy Shield or put in place EU-approved binding corporate rules. You can access the European Commission decision on the adequacy of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm.
Your rights in relation to your information
Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by writing to Boris FX’s representative in the EU, Imagineer Systems Ltd, Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road, Guildford GU2 7YG, United Kingdom or sending an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- to request access to your information and information related to our use and processing of your information;
- to request the correction or deletion of your information;
- to request that we restrict our use of your information;
- to receive information which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (e.g. a CSV file) and the right to have that information transferred to another data controller (including a third party data controller);
- to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes (for further information, see the section below entitled [Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes]{.underline}); and
- to withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that information. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent.
In accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation.
For the purposes of the UK, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the contact details of which are available here: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Further information on your rights in relation to your personal data as an individual
The above rights are provided in summary form only and certain limitations apply to many of these rights. For further information about your rights in relation to your information, including any limitations which apply, please visit the following pages on the ICO’s website:
- https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/; and
- https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/is-my-information-being-handled-correctly/
You can also find out further information about your rights, as well as information on any limitations which apply to those rights, by reading the underlying legislation contained in Articles 12 to 22 and 34 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is available here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/reform/files/regulation_oj_en.pdf
Verifying your identity where you request access to your information
Where you request access to your information, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so.
These measures are designed to protect your information and to reduce the risk of identity fraud, identity theft or general unauthorised access to your information.
###How we verify your identity
Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information.
If it is not possible to identity you from such information, or if we have insufficient information about you, we may require original or certified copies of certain documentation in order to be able to verify your identity before we are able to provide you with access to your information.
We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.
Your right to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes
If you are an EU resident, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise by writing to Boris FX’s representative in the EU, Imagineer Systems Ltd, Surrey Technology Centre, 40 Occam Road, Guildford GU2 7YG, United Kingdom or sending an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>- to object to us using or processing your information where we use or process it in order to for our legitimate interests, including ‘profiling’ (i.e. analysing or predicting your behaviour based on your information) based on any of these purposes; and
- to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing).
You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes by clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing e-mail we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link;
For more information on how to object to our use of information collected from cookies and similar technologies, please see the section entitled How to accept or reject cookies in our cookies policy.
Sensitive Personal Information
‘Sensitive personal information’ is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
We collect and process sensitive personal information in the form of academic photo ID, for the purposes of verifying eligibility for academic pricing. This information will be deleted as soon as eligibility has been confirmed, and access is restricted to members of staff carrying out this function.
Legal basis for processing: your explicit consent (Article 9(2)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Consent: you give us consent to verify your eligibility for academic discounted pricing using the academic ID you have provided
Aside from this we do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us. The one exception to this is academic eligibility verification which is detailed below.
If, however, you inadvertently or intentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information under Article 9(2)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation. We will use and process your sensitive personal information for the purposes of deleting it.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We update and amend our Privacy Policy from time to time.
Minor changes to our Privacy Policy
Where we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will update our Privacy Policy with a new effective date stated at the beginning of it. Our processing of your information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards.
Major changes to our Privacy Policy or the purposes for which we process your information
Where we make major changes to our Privacy Policy or intend to use your information for a new purpose or a different purpose than the purposes for which we originally collected it, we will notify you by e-mail (where possible) or by posting a notice on our website.
We will provide you with the information about the change in question and the purpose and any other relevant information before we use your information for that new purpose.
Wherever required, we will obtain your prior consent before using your information for a purpose that is different from the purposes for which we originally collected it.
Children’s Privacy
Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations protect the privacy of children using the internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 16. The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 16.
It is possible that we could receive information pertaining to persons under the age of 16 by the fraud or deception of a third party. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will, where required by law to do so, immediately obtain the appropriate parental consent to use that information or, if we are unable to obtain such parental consent, we will delete the information from our servers. If you would like to notify us of our receipt of information about persons under the age of 16, please do so by sending an e-mail to<EMAIL_ADDRESS>California Do Not Track Disclosures
“Do Not Track” is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on a Do Not Track signal in their browser, the browser sends a message to websites requesting that they do not track the user. For information about Do Not Track, please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.org
At this time, we do not respond to Do Not Track browser settings or signals. In addition, we use other technology that is standard to the internet, such as pixel tags, web beacons, and other similar technologies, to track visitors to the website. Those tools may be used by us and by third parties to collect information about you and your internet activity, even if you have turned on the Do Not Track signal. For information on how to opt out from tracking technologies used on our website, see our cookies policy.
Copyright, credit and logo
This Privacy Policy is based on a General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/769) (GDPR) compliant template provided by GDPR Privacy Policy. For further information, please visit https://gdprprivacypolicy.org.
The copyright in this Privacy Policy is either owned by, or licensed to, us and is protected by copyright laws around the world and copyright protection software. All intellectual property rights in this document are reserved.


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Bass, Doug (Self; Dallas County)
Boggus, Tom (Texas A&M Forest Service)
Carlton, John (Texas state association of fire and emergency districts)
Connealy, Chris (Texas Dept of Insurance - State Fire Marshal's Office)
Flanagan, Rick (City of houston)
Fry, Bill (Self; Association of WaterBoard Directors - Texas)
Henneberger, John (Self; Texas Low Income Housing Information Service)
Howe, Mike (Texas Section AWWA)
Kidd, Nim (Texas department of emergency management, Department of public safety)
Lyttle, Michael (Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs)
Morgan, Scott (Texas state association of fire and emergency districts)
Munoz, Ned (Texas Association of Builders)
Nuckols, Tom (Travis County)
Oconnor, Brenda (Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety)
Oney, Tom (Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA))
Peacock, Walter (Self)
Phillips, Pete (GLO)
Wells, Gordon (The University of Texas at Austin)
Wisko, Mike (Texas Fire Chiefs Association)
Registering, but not testifying:
On:
Lagrone, Heather (Texas General Land Office)
Payne, Tyler (General land office)
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SURF NINJAS A film review by James Berardinelli Copyright 1993 James Berardinelli
Rating (Linear 0 to 10): 1.7
Date Released: 8/20/93 Running Length: 1:25 Rated: PG (Violence)
Starring: Ernie Reyes, Jr., Rob Schneider, Tone Loc, Leslie Nielsen Director: Neal Israel Producer: Evzen Kolar Screenplay: Dan Gordon Music: David Kitay Released by New Line Cinema
Johnny (Ernie Reyes, Jr.) thinks he's just another Southern California "dude" who loves sand, surfing, and babes.  Never fear, though, there's someone around to explain to Johnny (and the audience) what's going on. You see, Johnny and his younger brother are actually princes from a South Pacific island that has been taken over by the evil Colonel Chi (Leslie Nielsen). Until now, they've been hidden from Chi, but the dastardly dictator has found them at last, and now he wants them dead. So, in true heroic fashion, Johnny decides to go to the island and confront Chi so that his people can be released from oppression. Of course, along the way there's plenty of time for surfing and unfunny jokes.
SURF NINJAS could just as easily be called LESLIE NIELSEN'S QUEST FOR A FAST PAYCHECK. Actually, even though Nielsen is given prominent co-billing, if you blink, you might miss him. And even for those few moments when he is on screen, he's obviously holding back his talent for a film with greater depth and profundity--like the third NAKED GUN movie.  In SUPERMAN and CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS, Marlon Brando proved that you can sleepwalk your way through a role and still get paid handsomely.
SURF NINJAS takes the summer's prize for most moronic movie. Considering the competition, which includes a sequel to WEEKEND AT BERNIE'S and yet another installment in the never-ending FRIDAY THE 13TH series, that's quite a distinction.
Dan Gordon is listed in the credits as having written the film. If I were him, I would have sued to get my name removed. The lack of creativity and originality shown in this script might forever ruin his career. Then again, if this is the best he can come up with, maybe Hollywood is better off without him.
What can you say about a movie that bills itself as an "action comedy," yet fails miserably on both counts. The one-liners, aside from attaining the expected level of juvenile predictability, aren't funny, and the physical humor never rises above the standards of a Saturday morning cartoon. Oh, it's a real riot when a guy goes tumbling and thudding down a 300-step flight of stone stairs only to climb back up and do it again. What inspired comedy!
As director, Neal Israel (who really should have taken on the Alan Smithee pseudonym for this project) has to take the blame for the poor quality of the action scenes. Even the worst shoot-'em-ups are generally competent in this regard, but SURF NINJAS has a problem. The stunt work is poorly-coordinated and it's easy to predict where an explosion is going to occur before it actually goes off. Why, you ask yourself, are all those people running away from that apparently-barren patch of ground?
SURF NINJAS gives family films a bad name. It's curious how unpleasant every movie with "ninja" in the title has been. Then again, hearing that something is called SURF NINJAS doesn't exactly conjure up images of solid entertainment.  Time to save the world." Oh, well. At least seeing this movie wasn't a complete waste. Now I have another worthy contender for a spot on the Worst 10 list of 1993.
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Sendmail Port 25 open
• Fingerprint server- • telnet ip_address 25 (banner grab)
• Mail Server Testing- • Enumerate users
- • VRFY username (verifies if username exists - enumeration of accounts)
- • EXPN username (verifies if username is valid - enumeration of accounts)
- • Mail Spoof Test
- • HELO anything MAIL FROM: spoofed_address RCPT TO:valid_mail_account DATA . QUIT
- • Identical to/from - mail from: <nobody@domain> rcpt to: <nobody@domain>
- • Unknown domain - mail from: <user@unknown_domain>
- • Domain not present - mail from: <user@localhost>
• Domain not supplied - mail from: <user>
- • Source address omission - mail from: <> rcpt to: <nobody@recipient_domain>
- • Use IP address of target server - mail from: <user@IP_Address> rcpt to: <nobody@recipient_domain>
- • Use double quotes - mail from: <user@domain> rcpt to: <"user@recipent-domain">
- • User IP address of the target server - mail from: <user@domain> rcpt to: <nobody@recipient_domain@[IP Address]>
- • Disparate formatting - mail from: <user@[IP Address]> rcpt to: <@domain:nobody@recipient-domain>
- • Disparate formatting2 - mail from: <user@[IP Address]> rcpt to: <recipient_domain!nobody@[IP Address]>
• Examine Configuration Files- • sendmail.cf
- • submit.cf
smtp-user-enum is a tool for enumerating OS-level user accounts on Solaris via the SMTP service (sendmail). Enumeration is performed by inspecting the responses to VRFY, EXPN and RCPT TO commands.
iSMTP is the kali Linux toolw which is use for testing SMTP user enumeration (RCPT TO and VRFY), internal spoofing, and relay.


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The 2019 American Music Awards Served Up Some Major Looks — See Them All
by Lauren HaranoThe red carpet at the 2019 American Music Awards is buzzing with high-fashion looks that are taking over the show. The red carpet's stars are proudly flaunting sexy gowns, stylish accessories, and glam looks (like Sofia Carson's sequins). From Selena Gomez's lime-green minidress to Lizzo's iconic little purse, there's no shortage of standout style and fashion-forward outfits. Take a peek at the best dressed celebs on the AMAs red carpet now.
Taylor Swift at the 2019 American Music Awards
Taylor Swift wore a green sparkly Julien MacDonald dress with over-the-knee Casadei boots.
Taylor Swift at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer showed off her thigh-high boots from every angle on the red carpet.
Taylor Swift at the 2019 American Music Awards
Taylor's dress was bright with diamond details.
Kelsea Ballerini at the 2019 American Music Awards
Country singer Kelsea Ballerini wore a sexy sequined two-piece suit to the 2019 American Music Awards.
Kelsea Ballerini at the 2019 American Music Awards
With no shirt underneath her blazer, the singer brought the heat to the red carpet.
Katherine Langford at the 2019 American Music Awards
A red-hot Katherine Langford wore a Rodarte dress with Stuart Weitzman heels.
Katherine Langford at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actress twirled in her glamorous gown on the red carpet.
Katherine Langford at the 2019 American Music Awards
Complete with makeup to match, Katherine Langford's outfit was a work of art.
Carrie Underwood at the 2019 American Music Awards
Country singer Carrie Underwood wore a deep purple dress with shiny Giuseppe Zanotti heels.
Carrie Underwood at the 2019 American Music Awards
With a high slit, the singer's dress was all kinds of sexy.
Christina Aguilera at the 2019 American Music Awards
The AMAs were in for a treat when Christina Aguilera arrived in a stunning Jean Paul Gaultier dress.
Christina Aguilera at the 2019 American Music Awards
With pronounced shoulders and a big white belt, the singer's dress was so fashion-forward.
Christina Aguilera at the 2019 American Music Awards
Christina Aguilera paired her white dress with a chunky necklace and rings.
Camila Cabello at the 2019 American Music Awards
Camila Cabello stunned the show in an elegant Oscar de la Renta gown and long braid.
Camila Cabello at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer showed off her high heels on the red carpet.
Lil Nas X at the 2019 American Music Awards
"Old Town Road" singer Lil Nas X was hard to miss in his bright green suit and zebra-print shirt.
Lil Nas X at the 2019 American Music Awards
Lil Nas X worked his look at the 2019 American Music Awards.
Constance Wu at the 2019 American Music Awards
Constance Wu looked like a dream in her light pink lace-up dress and white pointed-toe heels.
Constance Wu at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actress's dress looked just as good from the back as it did from the front.

Billy Porter at the 2019 American Music Awards
The star always brings high fashion to the red carpet, but this time he really outdid himself.
Billie Eilish at the 2019 American Music Awards
Billie Eilish wore a Burberry shirt and pant set with a glimmering chain mask and sneakers to the AMAs.
Billie Eilish at the 2019 American Music Awards
The 17-year-old served looks on the red carpet yet again.
Chadwick Boseman at the 2019 American Music Awards
Chadwick Boseman looked dashing in his Versace 'fit.
Chadwick Boseman at the 2019 American Music Awards
His gold shirt featured a cool croc finish.
Misty Copeland at the 2019 American Music Awards
Misty Copeland wore a beautiful white gown with silver Stuart Weitzman heels.
Misty Copeland at the 2019 American Music Awards
The ballet dancer's dress plunged low and was detailed with gold clasps.
Misty Copeland at the 2019 American Music Awards
Misty's dress was just as playful as it was elegant.
Diplo at the 2019 American Music Awards
Diplo wowed the crowd in an MCM suit and black cowboy hat.
Diplo at the 2019 American Music Awards
He completed his look with a large silver chain necklace and sunglasses.
Selena Gomez at the 2019 American Music Awards
Selena Gomez looked better than ever in a strapless green dress with matching shoes.
Selena Gomez at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer and actress wore a dazzling diamond necklace to complete her look.
Ciara at the 2019 American Music Awards
Ciara's Balmain suit stood out on the red carpet due to its gorgeous shade of blue.
Ciara at the 2019 American Music Awards
Ciara accessorized her look with the coolest turquoise jewelry.
Alyson Stoner at the 2019 American Music Awards
Singer and actress Alyson Stoner wore a dazzling suit with a silver shirt at the 2019 AMAs.
Alyson Stoner at the 2019 American Music Awards
Her outfit was eye-catching from every angle.
Lizzo at the 2019 American Music Awards
Lizzo was full glam for the 2019 show, wearing a gorgeous orange one-shoulder gown.
Lizzo at the 2019 American Music Awards
The "Truth Hurts" singer showed off her fabulous Valentino purse.
Lizzo at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer completed her outfit with tasteful white heels.
Lizzo at the 2019 American Music Awards
Lizzo's long earrings and large rings made her outfit both bold and cute.
Dua Lipa at the 2019 American Music Awards
In a gorgeous pink dress with eye-catching heels, Dua Lipa brought effortless elegance to the AMAs red carpet.
Dua Lipa at the 2019 American Music Awards
Singer Dua Lipa heated up the red carpet in a bright pink silk dress complete with a high slit.
Halsey at the 2019 American Music Awards
In a Marc Jacobs gown and Sophia Webster shoes, Halsey made a splash at the award show.
Halsey at the 2019 American Music Awards
The dress featured ruffles, flowers, and all kinds of wow-worthy details.
Agnez Mo at the 2019 American Music Awards
Singer-songwriter Agnez Mo wore a yellow lace dress with high slit details.
Agnez Mo at the 2019 American Music Awards
Her jeweled purse and long earrings made her outfit perfectly put together.
Tessa Brooks at the 2019 American Music Awards
Musical artist Tessa Brooks wore a daring purple dress with intricate silver accents and feathered details.
Tessa Brooks at the 2019 American Music Awards
She paired her dress with teardrop earrings and diamond heels.
Sofia Carson at the 2019 American Music Awards
As one of this year's hosts, Sofia Carson dressed to impress at the AMAs in a Francesco Scognamiglio Couture dress.
Sofia Carson at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actress's shimmery silver dress looked striking from every angle.
Meg Donnelly at the 2019 American Music Awards
Actress Meg Donnelly's dress was all kinds of stylish.
Meg Donnelly at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actress worked her angles on the red carpet.
Lauren Jauregui at the 2019 American Music Awards
Lauren Jauregui flaunted a strapless snakeskin gown on the red carpet.
Lauren Jauregui at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer's dress had a belt detail that complemented her waist.
Nick Viall at the 2019 American Music Awards
Former Bachelor star Nick Viall rocked the red carpet in a suit with a green blazer.
Nick Viall at the 2019 American Music Awards
Complete with a bow tie, the reality TV actor cleaned up nicely.
Kesha at the 2019 American Music Awards
Kesha wowed the red carpet in her gold and white ensemble.
Kesha at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer paired her look with a gold and black diamond purse.
Shawn Mendes at the 2019 American Music Awards
Shawn Mendes wore a sexy suit with no shirt underneath to the 2019 AMAs.
Shawn Mendes at the 2019 American Music Awards
The "Señorita" singer rocked a puka shell necklace along with a silver chain necklace.
Julissa Bermudez at the 2019 American Music Awards
TV host Julissa Bermudez stunned the crowd in a sexy silver dress with a high slit and open front.
Julissa Bermudez at the 2019 American Music Awards
Bermudez blew kisses in her high-shine ensemble.
Maya Hawke at the 2019 American Music Awards
Actress Maya Hawke wore a dreamy black dress with a gorgeous gold headband.
Maya Hawke at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actress's dress was adorned with small white accents and fishnet details.
Sarah Levy at the 2019 American Music Awards
Actress Sarah Levy looked angelic in a floor-length white gown.
Sarah Levy at the 2019 American Music Awards
With a slit in the back and a low dipping back, the actress's dress was so dreamy.
Ella Mai at the 2019 American Music Awards
Singer Ella Mai wore a tight black dress that highlighted all of her curves.
Ella Mai at the 2019 American Music Awards
The dress was complete with shimmering diamond-like details.
Dan Levy at the 2019 American Music Awards
Dan Levy wowed the show in his long coat with red details.
Dan Levy at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actor paired his outfit with causal shoes and his staple glasses.
Tyra Banks at the 2019 American Music Awards
Tyra Banks looked extra stylish in a tan suit with black bra underneath.
Tyra Banks at the 2019 American Music Awards
The fashion icon completed her look with a white hat and black gloves.
Post Malone at the 2019 American Music Awards
Post Malone rocked the AMAs in a checkered suit paired with a silver bolo tie and a matching cowboy hat.
Post Malone at the 2019 American Music Awards
He had some fun on the red carpet posing for the cameras and showing off his style.
Jenna Dewan at the 2019 American Music Awards
Jenna Dewan wore a pink Emporio Armani dress with Stuart Weitzman heels to the 2019 show.
Jenna Dewan at the 2019 American Music Awards
The dancer showed off her cute baby bump on the red carpet.
Regina King at the 2019 American Music Awards
In a sultry black dress, Regina King was nothing but sexy on the red carpet.
Regina King at the 2019 American Music Awards
Her shimmering dress perfectly complemented her diamond accessories.
Heidi Klum at the 2019 American Music Awards
Heidi Klum sported a small dress with a diamond bra at the top and fluffy blue feathers on the bottom.
Heidi Klum at the 2019 American Music Awards
Notice Heidi Klum's huge dazzling rings.
Jameela Jamil at the 2019 American Music Awards
Actress Jameela Jamil wore a sultry Pamella Roland dress with Alexis Bittar jewelry.
Jameela Jamil at the 2019 American Music Awards
The actress's dress featured a sheer low-cut front and shimmering accents.
Thomas Rhett at the 2019 American Music Awards
Country star Thomas Rhett wore an Etro suit with black Frye shoes to the show.
Thomas Rhett at the 2019 American Music Awards
The singer's suit was budding with flower details.
Pia Mia at the 2019 American Music Awards
Singer Pia Mia shone bright in a rose gold jumpsuit.
Pia Mia at the 2019 American Music Awards
Pia Mia finished her look with a silver necklace.


2 Kings 14:16
And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.


Adds a file to the running remote context.
Adds a file to the running remote context.
Note that the URL should be reachable by the Spark driver process. If running the driver in cluster mode, it may reside on a different host, meaning "file:" URLs have to exist on that node (and not on the client machine).
If the provided URI has no scheme, it's considered to be relative to the default file system configured in the Livy server.
The location of the file.
A future that can be used to monitor the operation.
Adds a jar file to the running remote context.
Adds a jar file to the running remote context.
Note that the URL should be reachable by the Spark driver process. If running the driver in cluster mode, it may reside on a different host, meaning "file:" URLs have to exist on that node (and not on the client machine).
If the provided URI has no scheme, it's considered to be relative to the default file system configured in the Livy server.
The location of the jar file.
A future that can be used to monitor the operation.
Asks the remote context to run a job immediately.
Asks the remote context to run a job immediately.
Normally, the remote context will queue jobs and execute them based on how many worker threads have been configured. This method will run the submitted job in the same thread processing the RPC message, so that queueing does not apply.
It's recommended that this method only be used to run code that finishes quickly. This avoids interfering with the normal operation of the context.
The job to be executed. It is a function that takes in a ScalaJobContext and returns the result of the execution of the job with that context.
A handle that can be used to monitor the job.
Stops the remote context.
Stops the remote context.
Any pending jobs will be cancelled, and the remote context will be torn down.
Whether to shutdown the underlying Spark context. If false, the context will keep running and it's still possible to send commands to it, if the backend being used supports it.
Submits a job for asynchronous execution.
Submits a job for asynchronous execution.
The job to be executed. It is a function that takes in a ScalaJobContext and returns the result of the execution of the job with that context.
A handle that can be used to monitor the job.
Upload a file to be passed to the Spark application.
Upload a file to be passed to the Spark application.
The local file to be uploaded.
A future that can be used to monitor this operation.
Upload a jar to be added to the Spark application classpath.
Upload a jar to be added to the Spark application classpath.
The local file to be uploaded.
A future that can be used to monitor this operation.
A client for submitting Spark-based jobs to a Livy backend.


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Introduction
This repo is both a pip-installable library, and it generates this essay of the same name, which is meant as a reading companion to, and implementation of, the papers.
Install and experiment with
pip install git+git://github.com/colcarroll/couplings.git
Table of Contents
- Maximal Couplings: What is a coupling? What are some properties of couplings?
- (Biased) MCMC: What is statistical bias? How does that manifest in MCMC?
- Unbiased Metropolis-Hastings with Couplings (TODO)
- Unbiased Estimator (TODO)
- Unbiased Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Couplings (IN PROGRESS)
References, Thanks
Many thanks of course to the authors below for interesting papers, and to the authors of the open source libraries used here for the useful code. Some ideas in the implementation are due to conversations and code from both the PyMC developers, and the TensorFlow Probability team. Thanks especially to Pierre Jacob for helpful conversations and encouragement
Primary References
- Unbiased Markov Chain Monte Carlo with Couplings. Pierre E. Jacob, John O’Leary, and Yves F. Atchadé. ArXiv:1708.03625 [Stat], August 11, 2017.
- Unbiased Hamiltonian Monte Carlo with Couplings. Jeremy Heng and Pierre E. Jacob. ArXiv:1709.00404 [Stat], September 1, 2017.
Secondary References
- Estimating Convergence of Markov Chains with L-Lag Couplings. Niloy Biswas and Pierre E. Jacob. ArXiv:1905.09971 [Stat], May 23, 2019.
- Geometric Integrators and the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo Method. Nawaf Bou-Rabee and Jesús María Sanz-Serna. ArXiv:1711.05337 [Math, Stat], November 14, 2017.
Code References
- Eric Jones, Travis Oliphant, Pearu Peterson, et al. SciPy: Open Source Scientific Tools for Python, 2001-
- Stéfan van der Walt, S. Chris Colbert and Gaël Varoquaux. The NumPy Array: A Structure for Efficient Numerical Computation, Computing in Science & Engineering, 13, 22-30 (2011)
- John D. Hunter. Matplotlib: A 2D Graphics Environment, Computing in Science & Engineering, 9, 90-95 (2007).


THE PLEDGE RATING: 5/10 --> Not a good movie
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PLOT: A life-long cop retires but not before a case about a murdered little girl falls into his lap. After promising the little girl's mom that he will find the killer, the man sets out to solve the mystery just as his retirement comes to fruition.
CRITIQUE: Other than re-iterating the well-known fact that "life sucks", I didn't really get much out of this movie. Was it a mystery, was it an existential drama about what life is like after an all-consuming career or was it simply about giving Mickey Rourke a job? Who knows. One thing that I do know is that it was definitely NOT an action movie, or your typical police thriller. In fact, there was no action or thrills in this entire movie (don't let the trailer fool ya!). This movie is more in the realm of "cinema" and the art-house crowd. Not for your "everyman", that's fer sure. It's another depressing, slow-paced cinematic effort with death as its major underlying theme, by director Sean Penn, who seems to get off on films featuring a protagonist who smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and looks real cool in slo-mo shots. But I'm getting ahead of myself here. The movie actually started off on a pretty nice footing. The whole "cop-retiring-but-not-until-he-solves-that-one-last-case" thing was cool, but unfortunately, the film takes a huge turn at about the one-third mark. It almost seems to change into another movie altogether. It's too bad because either one of the stories in this film might've been interesting on their own, given their own scripts and direction, but the mix of the two just doesn't click here.
The first story is a pretty standard murder mystery, while the other delves deep inside the psyche of a man faced with his own futility at the dawn of his retirement. Interesting enough on paper, but despite the film's engaging set-up, the whole midsection of the movie is simply overloaded with redundant scenes featuring bit parts by various actors, birds flying and a whole lot of scenery, which ultimately all add up to very little in the end. In fact, I remember turning to my friend at one point and remarking how "nothing" had basically happened in the past 45 minutes. And when I say "nothing", yeah sure, there is definitely stuff happening on the screen, but the film simply wasn't progressing. At that point, I was hoping that the film's conclusion would salvage some of its own misdirection, and add to the solid outing by Jack Nicholson, perfectly underplaying his role, the picturesque scenery and Penn's able, if not somewhat over-directed style, but alas, t'was not to be. The ending did nothing to help me complete the circle that was prepared by its lead character, and frankly left me quite frustrated and unsatisfied. I think I understand what Penn and the writers were trying to say with this ending, but God knows the film and its anti-climactic conclusion, did very little to either entertain or enlighten me either way. Montage after montage after montage after montage, all laced in a pile of sad songs, a very thin mystery and plenty of useless one scene cameos by "name" actors, mark this film as my first real disappointment of the new year. Note my previous scores to related films below and see if you and I are close in movie mindset.
Where's JoBlo coming from? 8MM (6/10) - As Good as it Gets (8/10) - Bone Collector (7.5/10) - Crossing Guard (5/10) - Seven (10/10)
Review Date: January 16, 2001 Director: Sean Penn Writers: Jerzy Kromolowski and Mary Olson-Kromolowski Producers: Sean Penn, Elie Samaha and Michael Fitzgerald Actors: Jack Nicholson as Jerry Black Robin Wright as Lori Aaron Eckhart as Stan Krolak Genre: Mystery Year of Release: 2001 ------------------------------------- JoBlo's Movie Emporium http://www.joblo.com/ ------------------------------------- (c) 2001 Berge Garabedian
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oddjob_request
Section: User Commands (1)Updated: 25 April 2005
Index Return to Main Contents
NAME
oddjob_requestSYNOPSIS
oddjob_request [-s service] [-o object] [-i interface] [-S] [ [request [arg1 ...]] | -I ]DESCRIPTION
The oddjob_request application is a simple oddjob client application which can be used to invoke a particular method provided by the oddjobd server.If no request is given as a command-line argument, oddjob_request will attempt to invoke the list method, which should list all methods for which the invoking user is authorized.
ARGUMENTS
- -S
- Connect to the session bus instead of the system bus. This option is primarily intended for use in testing. com.redhat.oddjob.
- -s service
- The object is provided by the named service instead of com.redhat.oddjob.
- -o object
- Invoke a method on the named object instead of /com/redhat/oddjob.
- -i interface
- The method is part of the named interface instead of com.redhat.oddjob.
- -I
- Default to the method and interface names used for D-Bus introspection (Introspect and org.freedesktop.DBus.Introspectable, respectively).
SEE ALSO
oddjob.conf(5) oddjobd.conf(5) oddjobd(8)
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