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Privacy Policy
Last updated: December 2023
Cleverbridge GmbH, Gereonstr. 43-65, 50670 Cologne, Germany, or Cleverbridge, Inc. (for orders originating from the territory of the United States), and Cleverbridge Financial Services GmbH, Gereonstr. 43-65, 50670 Cologne, Germany (each in its role as independent controller individually referred to as "Cleverbridge", "we") take the privacy and protection of your Personal Information very seriously. When you visit the Cleverbridge online store ("Store") or the Cleverbridge corporate website ("Site"), or order products and services (collectively, "Products") from Cleverbridge, Cleverbridge is the controller of your Personal Information and will process data including your Personal Information as outlined in this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy"). Unless otherwise defined herein, capitalized terms shall have the meanings assigned to them in our General Terms and Conditions or in this Privacy Policy.
Scope of this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes Cleverbridge's use of Personal Information that we process when you visit the Site or the Store, or when you order a Product.
"Personal Information" means any information, including personal data within the meaning of Art. 4 (1) of the European Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, "GDPR"), relating to an identified or identifiable natural person like names, addresses, email addresses, or phone numbers, as well as other non-public information that is associated with the foregoing.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the processing of your Personal Information by third parties, unless such processing is controlled by Cleverbridge. In particular, it does not apply to the processing of your Personal Information by Suppliers of the Products that you order.
Role of Cleverbridge Financial Services GmbH
Cleverbridge Financial Services GmbH, Gereonstrasse 43-65, 50670 Cologne, Germany ("cbFS") may prepare and process payment transactions as an independent controller of Personal Information for the purpose of preparing, verifying and performing an e-commerce payment transaction conducted on the Store or a storefront that Cleverbridge operates for a seller. During this process, cbFS receives customer and payment information from the seller, performs fraud prevention services and passes on Personal Information (including payment data) to a specific payment provider.
Controller of Personal Information and data protection officer
Cleverbridge is the controller of the Personal Information that is being processed when you visit the Site or the Store, or when you order Products.
cbFS is the controller of the Personal Information that is being processed during an e-commerce payment transaction conducted on the Store or a storefront that Cleverbridge operates for a seller.
You can contact our data protection officer at
Cleverbridge GmbH / Cleverbridge Financial Services GmbH
Data Protection Officer
Gereonstr. 43-65
50670 Cologne
Email contact via our Help Center
Cleverbridge is committed to ensuring digital accessibility for people with disabilities. This Privacy Policy shall be accessible to blind or visually impaired users by way of a compatible screen reader. If you encounter issues with access, please contact us by clicking here to send us an email or here for our phone numbers and addresses by location.
Your rights as a data subject
As a data subject, you have different rights, including a right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability with regard to your Personal Information. Furthermore, you can withdraw your consent and object to our processing of your Personal Information based on our legitimate interests. You can also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
These are your rights as a data subject:
- You can withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Information by us at any time. In the case of a withdrawal, we may no longer process your Personal Information based on your consent in the future. The withdrawal of consent has no effect on the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- You have the right to obtain access to your Personal Information that we process. In addition, you may request information on the purposes of the processing, the categories of Personal Information, the categories of recipient to whom the Personal Information have been or will be disclosed, the envisaged period for which the Personal Information will be stored or the criteria used to determine that period, the existence of the right to request rectification or erasure of Personal Information or restriction of processing of Personal Information or to object to such processing, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, any available information as to the Personal Information's source (if the Personal Information is not collected from you), the existence of automated decision making, including profiling (defined and discussed below in the section entitled "Automated decision-making") and meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you. Please note that your right to access may be limited by national law.
- You have the right to obtain from us the correction of inaccurate Personal Information concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete Personal Information completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
- You have the right to obtain from us the deletion of Personal Information concerning you, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. Please note, that the right to deletion may be limited by law (e.g. our obligation to retain Personal Information relating to an e-commerce transaction for a certain time period).
- You have the right to obtain from us the restriction of processing of Personal Information concerning you to the extent that
- you contest the accuracy of the Personal Information,
- the processing is unlawful, but you oppose the deletion of the Personal Information,
- we no longer need the Personal Information, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or
- you have objected to the processing.
- You have the right to receive a copy of the Personal Information of you, that you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to transmit that Personal Information to another controller ("right to data portability").
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, such as the public authority, which is established in the EU member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringement. You can also lodge the complaint with the North Rhine-Westphalia Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (LDI NRW, www.ldi.nrw.de), which is the competent supervisory authority for us.
If we process your Personal Information on the basis of our legitimate interests, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. This also applies to profiling. If we process your Personal Information for purposes of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your Personal Information for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.
For more information about your rights as a data subject and/or to exercise any of them, please contact our Data Protection Officer or contact us via our Help Center. Please note that in general the exercise of these rights is free of charge. Where requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, especially because of a given repetitive character, we may charge a reasonable fee (at the most our actual costs) in accordance with the applicable statutory regulations or refuse to act on the request.
Use of Personal Information you provide
In general, we process Personal Information you submit to us in order to provide you with the Products that you order, process payments, respond to requests that you make, for the purpose of registration (if any), and to offer you additional information, opportunities, and functionality related to the Products that you order. We also use Personal Information to prevent or detect fraud or abuse of our Site or Store and to better tailor the features, performance, and support of the Site or Store to our Customers' needs, or to carry out technical, logistical, or other functions or improvements.
We process the following Personal Information that you provide by using the Site or the Store or by ordering the Products:
Requests and performance of the contract
In order to purchase Products through the Store, you have to provide and we will process your name, email address, zip code, address (where required to fulfill your order), and all the financial information necessary for billing and recurring billing (where applicable) or a subset of the foregoing.
The information required for billing depends on the selected payment method and may include credit card number, card verification code, account number, account name, billing zip code, or any other information required for the payment methods that you have selected.
We also collect your zip code for the purpose of identifying tax calculation, transaction processing and support, and statistical purposes. We only transfer your zip code to the Suppliers for purposes of fulfilling your order through our Store and for statistical purposes. We do not sell the zip code information you provide us with in connection with other information, do not connect it with data sets external to the transaction, and do not use it ourselves for advertising purposes.
The legal basis for processing activities required for the purpose of identifying fraudulent activities and statistical purposes is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the execution of our offers and services, the integrity of our systems, and in the analysis of the customer base.
On certain websites, we give users the option of providing us with account registration information. This information may include, among other things, your name, address, email address, and a password.
Without your prior explicit consent, we will only send you Product-related announcements that are not promotional in nature (for example, notices related to your purchase of Products or information regarding the renewal of subscriptions) and only when we believe it is necessary to do so.
When you contact us by email, fax, contact form or telephone, or if you are using any of the email addresses, fax, or telephone numbers provided on the Site or the Store, we will collect any Personal Information you choose to provide to us in connection with this communication. Unless your request pertains to the performance of a contract, the legal basis for processing of your request is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to process your request.
Unless stated otherwise above, the legal basis for all processing activities mentioned in this section is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR and – with regard to the processing for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject – Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR.
Prevention of Fraud and Anti-Money-Laundering, Payment Processing and Export Compliance Control
Cleverbridge (including cbFS) collects and processes Personal Information for the following purposes:
- Validation of the legitimacy of a transaction under applicable anti-money-laundering laws by using internal tools and external data providers (in accordance with Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR),
- Confirmation that the intended transaction is not of fraudulent nature by using internal tools and external data providers (in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR), and
- Performing the payment processing transaction (in accordance with Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR in the case of cbFS, otherwise, according to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR).
Newsletter and other promotional information
If you request promotional information via any of the forms of the Site or the Store, or sign up for a newsletter or blog updates, then we will process your Personal Information, subject to your consent, for advertising, market research and tailoring electronic services.
Your Personal Information will be processed on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can withdraw your consent at any time for the future as described under Your rights as a data subject.
Unsubscribe instructions will accompany each newsletter or promotional communication you receive from us.
No requirement to provide Personal Information
There is no requirement for you to provide Personal Information to us. However, if you do not provide the information required for the performance of a contract, we cannot enter into a contract with you.
Automatic collection of Personal Information and analytical data
In addition to the information you provide, we automatically collect Personal Information through different technologies as described below:
IP address
We collect your IP address and transfer it to the Supplier for the purpose of identifying fraudulent activities, export compliance, calculation of tax, and transaction processing and support. Your IP address will be truncated by our systems before transmission to the Supplier.
Depending on the specific purpose, the processing of your IP address is based on Art. 6 (1) (b), (c) or (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interests are the execution of our offers, contracts and services and the integrity of our systems.
Cookies, tracking and other analytics technologies
Cleverbridge and our Suppliers use cookies or similar technologies to store content information, to recognize your personal preferences or login information (if any), analyze trends, administer the website, track users' movements around the Site and Store, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. You can control the use of and disable and delete cookies at the individual browser level, but if you choose to disable cookies, it may limit your use of certain features or functions on our Site or Store, including the ability to order Products.
We partner with third parties to either display advertising on the Site and Store or to manage advertising on other websites. These third parties may use technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on the Site and Store and other websites in order to provide you advertising based upon your browsing activities and interests. If you wish to not have this information used for the purpose of serving you interestbased ads, you may opt-out by clicking here (or if located in the European Union click here). Please note this does not opt you out of being served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads. Also, the optout itself is stored in a cookie, which means that when you clear your cookies, switch to another browser, use a different device, or otherwise modify your cookies, you will have to opt out again.
Google Analytics
Our Site and Store use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
Google uses cookies to help us analyze the use of the Site and Store and to help us improve the user experience and maintain performance of the Site and Store. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site is sent to a Google server in the United States and stored there.
Please note that your IP address will be truncated by our systems before sending the data to a Google server. Therefore, you will not be identified as an individual person in Google Analytics, but only as part of the user base.
Google will use this information to evaluate the use of the Site and Store, compile reports on Site and Store activity, and provide other Site and Store activity and internet related services. More information about Google Analytics can be found here.
If you do not want Analytics to be used in your browser, you can install the Google Analytics browser add-on. As Google uses cookies you can set your browser to refuse such cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent as described under Cookies, tracking and other analytics technologies.
Our Site and Store also use the Hotjar analysis service to collect analysis and feedback. Hotjar is provided by Hotjar Limited (Level 2, St Julian's Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julian's STJ 1000, Malta), https://www.hotjar.com/.
Hotjar's services allow us to analyze how visitors use our Site and Store by revealing online behavior related to our Site and Store and by collecting feedback from those visitors.
We use Hotjar to record – on an aggregated, non-personal basis – information such as mouse movements, mouse clicks, and scrolling activity. Information about the browser (type, version, screen size, etc.), basic information about the user (country, language, time zone), and data containing mouse movements, clicks, scroll events, and keystrokes are transferred to Hotjar. Information that you enter into form fields and your IP address are masked with unreadable content before information is transmitted to Hotjar to protect your privacy.
For more information see Hotjar's Privacy Policy at https://www.hotjar.com/privacy. You can choose to disable the Hotjar service by visiting https://www.hotjar.com/opt-out.
Automatic analytical data processing
We receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with us. This automatic exchange of data between your browser and our server upon accessing our Site or Store informs us of which browser you are using, the date and time of your visit, the name of your Internet Service Provider (ISP), device information, including device ID, the Site you are using to visit us, and which parts of our Site and Store you are visiting.
The information we collect automatically is called "Analytical Information."
We use this Analytical Information in an aggregated form for internal purposes, such as determining certain settings for the Site or Store like language or location, for maintaining our operating ability, preventing fraudulent access to our Site or Store, or for analyzing usage patterns so that we may enhance our Site and Store. We also reserve the right to use and disclose any aggregated Analytical Information at our discretion, as you will not be identified as an individual person.
The aggregation of Analytical Information for the above purposes is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
List of tracking and other analytics technologies
Detailed information regarding the tracking and other analytics technologies which may be in use on Cleverbridge's Site and Store can be found here.
Personal Information from other sources
We may collect Personal Information about you from other sources like the Suppliers of Products or third parties that provide services for us in connection with the Site or Store. We may add this information to the Personal Information we collect from you via the Site or Store for the purposes of preventing or detecting fraud or abuses of our Site or Store and to fulfill your order and to contact you regarding your order of Products. We do not process such information for marketing purposes.
The legal bases for these processing activities are Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR to the extent that the information is necessary for the performance of the contract and Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR for the prevention and detection of fraud and abuses.
In order to avoid defaults on payment, we reserve the right to obtain information on your creditworthiness (such as based on mathematic-statistical processes) from third parties for certain payment methods (such as direct debit and purchase orders) according to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Privacy of minors
The Cleverbridge Store, Site, and product purchases are for adults only. Persons under the age of eighteen (18) shall not supply any Personal Information to us. We will neither inten-tionally ask for Personal Information of persons under the age of eighteen, nor process their Personal Information.
Additional notice to United States residents: We do not intentionally collect or maintain infor-mation from visitors of the Site or Store who are under thirteen (13) years old.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we do not use or share your Personal Information with third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so. We will not sell or rent any of your Personal Information to third parties for their marketing purposes and only share your Personal Information with third parties as described below:
Cleverbridge Affiliates
Cleverbridge, Inc. (350 N Clark, Suite 700, Chicago, Illinois, 60654, USA), Cleverbridge GmbH and Cleverbridge Financial Services GmbH (Gereonstr. 43-65, 50670 Cologne, Germany), Cleverbridge KK (Wakamatsu Bldg. 7F, 3-3-6 Nihonbashi-Honcho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103-0023 Japan), and Cleverbridge Co., Ltd. (Level 4, Neihu New Century Building, 55 Zhouzi Street, Neihu District, Taipei, Taiwan) (collectively, "Affiliates") act as processors on behalf of Cleverbridge to provide global customer support, fraud prevention, order fulfillment, client management, marketing and marketing services, and sales, business and platform development.
Cleverbridge has developed global data practices to ensure your Personal Information is appropriately protected. Please note that Personal Information may be transferred, accessed, and stored globally as necessary for the purposes and disclosure stated in this Privacy Policy.
Suppliers of the Products
We will provide Personal Information to the Suppliers of the Products sold through the Store to enable them to provide you with the Products, to register you as authorized users, to provide you with support and updates, and for similar purposes. The basis for such data transfers is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the performance of a contract or precontractual measures.
We will also provide analytical data collected through cookies or similar technologies to the Suppliers of the Products sold through the Store to enable them to analyze trends, track users' movements around the Site and Store, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole as set forth in Cookies, tracking and other analytics technologies. We only transfer Analytical Information through such technologies.
Please note that Suppliers use such information as independent controllers according to their own privacy policies that may differ from our Privacy Policy. If you want to know how Suppliers process such information, please visit their websites and review their privacy policies.
Third party service providers
We may provide your Personal Information to third party service providers who work on our behalf to provide you with the Site, Store, and Products, related customer support, and to help us communicate with Customers and Suppliers and to operate the Site and Store. Insofar as we make use of the services of third parties to carry out our services, we process Personal Information according to the provisions of the GDPR, CCPA, and any other applicable laws and regulations. Categories of service providers who support us in providing our services to you include such services as communicating with you via email, processing payment transactions, performing strong customer authentication, shipping Products, screening orders for fraudulent activities, providing customer service or fulfillment services for us, and/or remaining compliant with applicable laws and regulations. Third party service providers who process data on our behalf do not have any right to use your Personal Information except as necessary to help us provide the Site, Store, related processes, and the Products. Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by the provisions in this Privacy Policy regarding notice and choice and the agreements with our third party service providers and the Supplier.
We provide analytical data to providers of analytics and tracking technologies as described in Cookies, tracking and other analytics technologies.
In case of non-redemption of a direct debit transaction that is not caused by a revocation through the account holder, we reserve the right to report your account information (your account number and bank routing number) to a third party that saves these facts in a lock file and sends them to other companies that are affiliated with the direct debit procedure. The entry in the lock file is deleted after the amount invoiced has been settled. The legal basis for this processing of your Personal Information is Art. (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is to avoid future defaults on payment.
Export and processing of Personal Information in countries outside of the European Economic Area
For the purposes of processing your order, your data may be transferred to our Cleverbridge Affiliates, to Suppliers of the Products and/or Third party service providers based outside the European Economic Area in countries that, to date, may not have a data privacy level that is recognized as being equivalent to that of the European Union, in particular USA.
Cleverbridge Affiliates, Suppliers, and third party service providers that receive Personal Information from us have entered into and executed agreements for the international transfer of Personal Information which allows for the processing of your Personal Information and which correspond to the European Union Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of Personal Information to third countries. A copy of the Standard Contractual Clauses is available on the website of the European Commission.
Law enforcement, governmental authorities and agencies
We may disclose your Personal Information to recipients if such disclosure is necessary to:
- comply with relevant laws or respond to subpoenas or warrants served on us (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR);
- enforce our General Terms and Conditions (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR);
- protect and defend our rights or property, or the rights or property of visitors of the Store and Site, our Customers, our Suppliers, or other third parties (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR); or
- in certain situations, abide by lawful requests by public authorities to disclosure of Personal Information, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR).
For tax-exempted orders originating in certain EU countries, your address information may be passed on to the responsible tax authorities in order to establish that your VAT identification number (VAT-ID) is correct (Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR).
In the following countries, from the EU's perspective, an adequate level of protection for the processing of personal data corresponding to EU standards exists (so-called adequacy decision): Andorra, Argentina, Canada (limited), Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Israel, Isle of Man, Japan, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland, Uruguay. The US and EU have also executed a Data Pact whereby company who certify under the Pact are considered to provide adequate protections, as well. With recipients in other countries, or US recipients who have not certified under the EU-US Data Pactwe agree to use EU standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules, or other permissible mechanisms to provide an "adequate level of protection" in accordance with legal requirements. We will be happy to provide you with information on this via the contact details provided above.
Data security and confidentiality
In order to maintain the highest level of Customer and Supplier protection, we adhere to the applicable industry rules and regulations. Thus, we maintain commercially reasonable and appropriate physical, technical, and organizational measures and procedures to safeguard and secure your Personal Information during processing, particularly collection, transmission, and storage. Your Personal Information is only accessible by authorized personnel familiar with Cleverbridge's data privacy policies.
Transport Layer Security (TLS)
All access to the Store's ordering pages is granted using Transport Layer Security (TLS) technology, which encrypts Personal Information you provide during the ordering process. This protects confidential data from being intercepted by third parties and transfers your Personal Information through a secure channel. To ensure this level of security, our systems use a certificate in keeping with common ecommerce practice. This certificate is issued by a trusted security provider. All standard web browsers support this technology and accept the certificates from trusted security providers automatically. If you have any questions about security, you can contact us via our Help Center.
Credit Card Data
Cleverbridge maintains full compliance with PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) to enhance payment card data security and provide a secure ecommerce environment for our Customers. The PCI DSS standard lays out requirements for network architecture, software development, security management, and other critical proactive measures to ensure the safety of payment card transactions. Each year a Qualified Security Assessor thoroughly examines the technical and organizational measures within Cleverbridge to make sure we adhere to the strict PCI regulations.
Thus, we disclose only the last four digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. But we transmit the entire credit card number only to the appropriate payment processor during order processing. Due to the requirements of the PCI DSS, this transfer is secured using transport-layer-security (TLS).
Profiling and Automated decision-making
1. Profiling
In certain instances, Cleverbridge automatically processes your data to analyze and/or predict your interactions with Cleverbridge – referred to as "profiling" – for the purpose of optimizing your user experience. More specifically, we use profiling to compare past purchasing behavior to current purchasing behavior to ensure a current purchase is not fraudulent, detect payment processing anomalies such technical difficulties completing card transactions, and customizing our communications with you, including marketing communications (but only where we have obtained the appropriate consents to do so).
- If you have questions about profiling, or you want us to terminate profiling, please contact via one of the methods disclosed above. Please note that some profiling is required to continue a subscription product or to make a purchase from Cleverbridge, so terminating may prohibit your access to these services.
2. Automated decision-making
Cleverbridge uses profiling in conjunction with automated decision-making. Automated decision-making means that Cleverbridge's platform makes certain decisions based on automated data processing, without the involvement of a human. Some of this automated decision-making has little-to-no impact on you, such as which marketing communication you receive. But some automated decision-making impacts your ability to complete your transaction, such as preventing the transaction if it is flagged as fraudulent. Specifically, Cleverbridge uses automated checks to prevent payment fraud and to avoid violations against governmental denied-party lists (e.g. OFAC) and to detect anomalies in payment processing.
We make this kind of automated decision when we:
- decide to approve your purchase, completing your transaction and charging the payment method provided.
- decide not to approve your transaction because it:
- May be fraudulent. If our automated process shows that your behavior indicates possible fraudulent conduct, that your behavior is not consistent with previous use of our services, or that you have attempted to conceal your true identity, we will decline your transaction. In such cases, we use information you have provided to us, data from Maxmind, Inc. (a fraud prevention service), and Cleverbridge's internal data. In some cases, this data will be evaluated through a machine learning algorithm that assigns a risk score to your transaction as part of the risk assessment. We continuously develop our fraud models to keep your transactions secure, and closely investigate how fraud patterns change (for example which merchant categories or products are mostly subject to fraud attempts).
- May constitute money laundering. Our automated process analyzes whether your behavior may indicate money laundering.
- Comes from a person, entity, or location listed on sanction lists, as discussed in more detail above in our Export Compliance section.
Aside from the above-disclosed purposes, we do not process your Personal Information for any other automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Art. 22(1) and (4) GDPR.
Data Retention
Cleverbridge will retain Personal Information for as long as needed to facilitate the sale of Products for which the Suppliers have engaged Cleverbridge as well as to comply with legal obligations (statutory retention periods), resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
In general, we delete your Personal Information as soon as it is no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes, unless temporary storage is still necessary. We store your Per-sonal Information on the basis of legal proof and storage obligations, which result among oth-er things from the German Commercial Code and the German Tax Code, according to which the storage periods are up to ten full years. In addition, we keep your data for the peri-od during which claims can be asserted against our company.
Upon your request, we will restrict the processing of your Personal Information based on ap-plicable law. Once the statutory retention periods have expired, the data will be removed from our operative systems.
Additional Rights under the CCPA
In addition to the information disclosed above, you are entitled to instruct Cleverbridge not to sell your data, as defined in the CCPA. To do so, you may submit your request here. Cleverbridge will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your valid rights under the CCPA.
Changes in this Privacy Policy and Previous Versions
This Privacy Policy is a living document and is subject to occasional amendment. We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
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I hope that you had a good holiday break, celebrating or just spending time relaxing, hopefully without pipes and heaters freezing on you because of a blizzard. Our holiday was quiet, loud, lovely and reflective all at once. Christmas wasn't anything huge or terribly fancy this year but we are lucky to have love and health, our couple and our families here and afar. It was filled with many heart warming and unexpected moments throughout the day, making it truly a wonderful time. And in my family, it's not Christmas without a batch of Truffes Au Chocolat. Really.
Seeing my nieces via webcam on Christmas Eve preparing for the "reveillon" twirling in their pretty new dresses, their hair held tight by shimmering headbands was a moment as delicious as cracking the crust of creme brulees. Watching my brother, their dad, the one who used to hide in my closet to scare me at night, this proud and gentle with his daughters was a moment to savour.
On Christmas day, I had a very much needed webcam moment with my mom. To prevent us from getting emotional, we had the toddler caroling for us but I know exactly what we were thinking about: my late brother and grandmother, reveillons dinners lasting until 3am, my uncles practical jokes, my grandmother's marzipan stuffed dates and making chocolate truffles.
Lots of you commented how much you liked learning about other people's cultures and traditions that may be completely different or somewhat similar than your own. I'm the same way. It makes the world go round really. I visited lots of blogs these past few days and like you, enjoyed reading about others' traditions or important moments. In my family, there is no Christmas without a good dose of chocolate and chocolate truffles to be exact. Wether we make, eat or give them.
Christmas preparations were always made between my grandmother and my mother around a cup of tea and a slice of cake. When I was six or so, I complained I had nothing to do, pulled out a magazine and told them I would make chocolate truffles, like the ones in the ad for Van Houten cocoa. I was actually secretely trying to find the source for the ones my grandmother's friend, Suzanne, used to make. They were so different than ours. Creamier, sweeter, richer.
Every year we would go from Aix to Paris to spend Christmas with my grandparents, and a visit to Suzanne and her husband was always on the agenda. I loved their small apartment beside the bicycle shop. It always smelled as if beef Bourguignon was on the stove. We would enter, quickly marvel at the tree and impatiently wait for Suzanne to get the big silver tin filled with chocolate truffles. One for each and two for our parents. Except my parents never saw any of them. The truffles never made it this far.
As years went by, many truffle recipes came between Suzanne's and me. She passed away, so did my grandmother. One day, I did find a scribbled piece of paper in my grandma's recipe box reading "Les truffes de Suzanne". My heart skipped a beat. The proportions seeemed right but there were no instructions. I know chocolate, I know truffling. "Can't be that hard" I thought. I got close but there always seemed to be something missing. I made five batches the week I found the recipe. Bill was a trooper and sampled them all, each time finding the new batch as good and decadent as the last.
After he sampled the last one, I plopped next to him on the sofa and mumbled "something's missing". That's when he pointed out the obvious. They were missing: Paulette, my grandmother and her pal Suzanne. Indeed, many things had changed since that time. Life had changed us but those memories also gave us the essence of who we were now as adults. He also was quick to say that I could stop my quest for that particular truffle recipe if I wished but he hoped I didn't while rubbing his belly in a facetious way.
This recipe for Truffes Au Chocolat is so far the closest I have gotten to Suzanne's and by the look on everyone's face the other day, I'm inclined to think it could be the best so far. I am not done tweaking it so who knows what next year's batch of truffles will bring…
Chocolate Truffles:
8 1/4 oz (250gr) bittersweet dark chocolate (chopped, broken, or chips)
1 stick (115gr) unsalted butter, at room temperature
2 large egg yolks
1 cup (125gr) powdered sugar, unsifted
cocoa powder for dusting
Melt the chocolate in a large bowl set over a pot of simmering water (make sure that the bowl fits snuggly over the pot so that very little steam escapes). Stir occasionaly.
Remove from the heat and add the butter, one tablespoon at a time. Stir until completely incorporated. Add the egg yolks and powdered sugar whisking until the batter is smooth.
Refrigerate until firm, about 2 hours.
When ready to roll, scoop out balls of ganache with a spoon, roll them in between your palms fairly quickly and set them on a baking sheet. Cover loosely with a piece of plastic wrap and refrigerate overnight. The next day, roll them in the cocoa powder and keep refrigerated until ready to eat.
Yields 35 to 45 truffles, depending on size.

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New York, February 15, 2013
MetLife, Inc. (NYSE: MET) announced today that it has declared first quarter 2013 dividends of $0.2500000 per share on the company's floating rate non-cumulative preferred stock, Series A (NYSE: METPrA), and $0.4062500 per share on the company's 6.50% non-cumulative preferred stock, Series B (NYSE: METPrB), subject to the final confirmation that it has met the financial tests specified in the Series A and Series B preferred stock, which the company anticipates will be made on or about March 5, 2013, the earliest date permitted in accordance with the terms of the securities. Both dividends will be payable March 15, 2013 to shareholders of record as of February 28, 2013.
MetLife, Inc. is a leading global provider of insurance, annuities and employee benefit programs, serving 90 million customers. Through its subsidiaries and affiliates, MetLife holds leading market positions in the United States, Japan, Latin America, Asia, Europe and the Middle East. For more information, visit www.metlife.com.
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These factors include: (1) difficult conditions in the global capital markets; (2) concerns over U.S. fiscal policy and the "fiscal cliff" in the U.S., as well as rating agency downgrades of U.S. Treasury securities; (3) uncertainty about the effectiveness of governmental and regulatory actions to stabilize the financial system, the imposition of fees relating thereto, or the promulgation of additional regulations; (4) increased volatility and disruption of the capital and credit markets, which may affect our ability to seek financing or access our credit facilities; (5) impact of comprehensive financial services regulation reform on us; (6) economic, political, legal, currency and other risks relating to our international operations, including with respect to fluctuations of exchange rates; (7) exposure to financial and capital market risk, including as a result of the disruption in Europe and possible withdrawal of one or more countries from the Euro zone; (8) changes in general economic conditions, including the performance of financial markets and interest rates, which may affect our ability to raise capital, generate fee income and market-related revenue and finance statutory reserve requirements and may require us to pledge collateral or make payments related to declines in value of specified assets; (9) potential liquidity and other risks resulting from our participation in a securities lending program and other transactions; (10) investment losses and defaults, and changes to investment valuations; (11) impairments of goodwill and realized losses or market value impairments to illiquid assets; (12) defaults on our mortgage loans; (13) the defaults or deteriorating credit of other financial institutions that could adversely affect us; (14) our ability to address unforeseen liabilities, asset impairments, or rating actions arising from acquisitions or dispositions, including our acquisition of American Life Insurance Company and Delaware American Life Insurance Company (collectively, "ALICO") and to successfully integrate and manage the growth of acquired businesses with minimal disruption; (15) uncertainty with respect to the outcome of the closing agreement entered into with the United States Internal Revenue Service in connection with the acquisition of ALICO; (16) the dilutive impact on our stockholders resulting from the settlement of common equity units issued in connection with the acquisition of ALICO or otherwise; (17) regulatory and other restrictions affecting MetLife, Inc.'s ability to pay dividends and repurchase common stock; (18) MetLife, Inc.'s primary reliance, as a holding company, on dividends from its subsidiaries to meet debt payment obligations and the applicable regulatory restrictions on the ability of the subsidiaries to pay such dividends; (19) downgrades in our claims paying ability, financial strength or credit ratings; (20) ineffectiveness of risk management policies and procedures; (21) availability and effectiveness of reinsurance or indemnification arrangements, as well as default or failure of counterparties to perform; (22) discrepancies between actual claims experience and assumptions used in setting prices for our products and establishing the liabilities for our obligations for future policy benefits and claims; (23) catastrophe losses; (24) heightened competition, including with respect to pricing, entry of new competitors, consolidation of distributors, the development of new products by new and existing competitors, distribution of amounts available under U.S. government programs, and for personnel; 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OCEAN CITY — Resort business leaders this week got a first look at the nearly completed first phase of the expansion of the Roland E. Powell Convention Center along with some encouraging words from its relatively new director about the future of the facility.
On Wednesday, the Ocean City Economic Development Committee (EDC) held its bi-monthly breakfast meeting in the newest ballroom of the recently completed Phase I of the expansion of the facility. The first phase of the project featured an expansion of the west deck of the facility and an expanded ballroom space complete with floor-to-ceiling windows offering breathtaking views of the bay.
"As you can see, the view is outstanding," said Convention Center Director Larry Noccolino, who was hired last spring and is overseeing the expansion. "If we can't sell this space, shame on us."
The first phase of the expansion, which will ultimately add 32,000 square feet in new exhibit and convention space, began in August 2011 and came in on budget and on time as expected in October. Noccolino told EDC members on Wednesday he had been closely monitoring the progress and was prepared to start booking groups for the new space shortly after the first phase was completed.
"I'm a convention center, hotel, restaurant guy," he said. "I would get my report card weekly. The plan called for a completion date of around Oct. 8 or 9 and we had our first group come in on Oct. 12."
Providing a backdrop for the EDC meeting on Wednesday was the set for the Silver Sizzle show, a Las Vegas-style review featuring former Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, which opened a four-day stint at the Convention Center yesterday. Even while the EDC meeting was taking place on Wednesday, construction noise could be heard from different areas of the facility.
"It's about 75 percent complete," said Noccolino. "If you look around, you can see there a few things that need to be done."
Noccolino said the intent is to maximize the renovated and expanded space with its lower level exhibit hall and new bayfront ballroom exposure. The overall goal is to book events and shows that will provide the greatest economic benefit to the town and its private sector partners.
"We certainly won't turn them down, but we're not here to book weddings," he said. "We're here to book 1,000-person events and up. That's 500 room-nights. There are a lot of groups that want to book with us. One of the first questions is how many room nights? We need to make sure the business we book is the right business for Ocean City."
Noccolino said he and his sales staff, including long-time sales director Fred Wise and his new deputy, were vigorously selling the new space to potential groups.
"With this room and with the other breakout rooms, there is no reason why we can't book this space," he said. "I'm not going to take no for an answer. I came from a company that was very aggressive."
Noccolino said the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy in New Jersey presented some opportunities for Ocean City and its convention center, from the standpoint of assisting its neighbors to the north with relief efforts and also absorbing some of the convention business that will be lost because of the storm's after effects.
"We've already talked to officials from the Atlantic City and Wildwood convention centers," he said. "We're asking them: how can we help?"
With the first phase about complete and operational, the focus now switches to the highly anticipated second phase, which includes a 1,200-seat performing arts center. The state-of-the-art auditorium will replace the convention center's existing stage, the first-floor exhibit hall and a portion of the second-floor ballroom.
It will include two-tiers of fixed seating and is expected to attract major shows, concerts, plays and other performances.
The 32,000-square-foot, first phase expansion cost an estimated $9.3 million with $5 million paid by the town of Ocean City with a half a cent on the resort's food tax rate dedicated to the project and the remaining $4.3 million paid by the state through its Maryland Stadium Authority. The second phase will cost an estimated $14 million with a similar cost-sharing formula in place. In August, the state's Board of Public Works approved the stadium authority's contribution to the second phase of the convention center expansion.
Already, the convention center expansion is being considered a potential economic windfall for Ocean City and its state partner. The estimated new tax revenue generated is expected to come in at a range of $1.1 million to $1.6 million annually and the facility is expected to provide 300 to 400 full-time jobs.


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NPR announced Tuesday that it would cease broadcast of the weekday program Tell Me More on Aug. 1 and eliminate 28 positions as part of a larger effort to end the company's persistent budget deficits.
"These times require that we organize ourselves in different ways and that we're smarter about how we address the different platforms that we reach our audiences on," NPR Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer Kinsey Wilson said. "We're trying to make the most of the resources that we have and ensure that we keep radio healthy and try to develop audience in the digital arena."
Before the departure of former CEO Gary Knell last year, NPR's board of directors voted to require its executives to go into fiscal 2015 — which starts Oct. 1 — with projections of a balanced budget. Tuesday's cuts, in combination with buyouts earlier this year, will reduce the network's costs by $7 million a year. The reductions are expected to help bring fiscal 2014's deficit in at the approved level of more than $6 million.
The earlier buyouts led to the departure of dozens of people throughout the company. Eight of the 28 positions being eliminated are already vacant, Senior Vice President for News Margaret Low Smith told staffers.
Ultimately, NPR's total head count will be 7 percent lower than where it stood last year — there will be 9 percent fewer newsgathering positions. NPR has run deficits in all but one of the past six fiscal years, including the one ending Sept. 30.
Michel Martin, the host of Tell Me More, will remain at the network, as will the program's executive producer, Carline Watson. They will be part of an initiative to incorporate the kind of coverage of issues of race, identity, faith, gender and family that appear on the show. Martin will appear on the network's primary newsmagazines, online and in public events.
Tell Me More's demise is the third for programs expressly designed to have a primary appeal for African-American listeners and other people of color. Tavis Smiley took his show to a rival public broadcaster after clashes with NPR brass over how much money the network spent to market his program, and News and Notes went off the air in 2009.
That year, at the depths of the global financial crisis, also marked the end of the midday program Day to Day; last year, NPR shut down the long-running afternoon program Talk of the Nation .
Wilson said NPR was strongly committed to serving diverse audiences.
"We're in a different era than we were, even in five or six years ago," Wilson said. "There is in fact an opportunity to reach a larger audience across platforms ... not simply through principally a once-a-day broadcast show."
Additionally, NPR maintains two related but separate efforts: , a multiplatform effort created by host and special correspondent Michele Norris, and Code Switch, a team that looks at how an increasingly multiethnic America understands itself. Code Switch's work appears both on the air and on NPR.org. Lynette Clemetson, who has been Morning Edition's senior supervising editor, will oversee all three groups and will hire a handful of other reporters; those who have lost their jobs will be able to reapply for those jobs.
As Wilson made clear, the company will continue to make investments in digital offerings as the audience grows for text and audio on mobile devices and elsewhere, such as new teams on education and global public health matters.
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Start by making a lavender infusion: place water and lavender in a small saucepan over medium heat and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to low and boil for 2-3 minutes. Remove from heat, cover and set aside until completely cold – I made the infusion the day before and left it covered at room temperature. Strain the infusion.
Oil a marble slab or baking sheet. Have ready at least a dozen wooden sucker sticks.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) — The president of the Los Angeles chapter of the NAACP resigned Thursday, following outrage over a decision he later reversed to give Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling an award for promoting civil rights.
Leon Jenkins was to honor Sterling later this month, but rescinded that offer Monday after a recording surfaced over the weekend on which Sterling disparaged black men.
In a letter to the national leader of the nation's oldest civil rights organization, Jenkins wrote that he resigned "to separate the Los Angeles NAACP and the NAACP from the negative exposure I have caused."
A telephone message and email seeking comment after business hours from the Los Angeles chapter were not immediately returned.
Even before the recording, the decision to give Sterling a "lifetime achievement award" May 15 at the 100th anniversary celebration of the Los Angeles chapter had been questioned by some civil rights activists, who cited allegations of discrimination in Sterling's past.
The U.S. Justice Department sued Sterling in August 2006, alleging housing discrimination in the Koreatown area of Los Angeles. In November 2009, Sterling agreed to pay $2.7 million to settle allegations that he refused to rent apartments to Hispanics and blacks.
Also in 2009, the year after Jenkins was first elected president in Los Angeles, the chapter first honored Sterling with a similar achievement award.
Branches of the NAACP — there are more than 50 in California alone — operate with considerable autonomy. In a statement accompanying the resignation announcement, the national NAACP said it is "developing guidelines for its branches to help them in their award selection process."
Jenkins said that Sterling had been selected owing to his history of donating to minority charities and giving game tickets to inner-city children. The Donald T. Sterling Charitable Foundation gave $5,000 to the NAACP's Los Angeles chapter in 2010, according to tax records. There were no further NAACP contributions in subsequent years for which records were available.
After the recording of Sterling having a private conversation with a woman became public, Jenkins backtracked.
"There is a personal, economic and social price that Mr. Sterling must pay for his attempt to turn back the clock on race relations," he said Monday.
On Tuesday, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver banned Sterling from the league for life, fined the real estate magnate $2.5 million, and said he wanted the league's board of governors to make Sterling sell the team.
Sterling is the NBA's longest-tenured owner. He is also among the league's least successful, though in recent years the Clippers have surged. News of Jenkins' resignation broke an hour before the Clippers tipped off against the Golden State Warriors in a first-round playoff game.
Reacting to the announcement, local activist Earl Ofari Hutchinson said the NAACP's Los Angeles chapter needed to become "fully transparent and accountable to its members and community and not to dubious corporate donors."
Jenkins had his own legal problems, which also came into focus this week. For years, he has been banned from practicing law in California based on allegations of corruption when he was a young judge in Detroit.
In 1988, federal prosecutors charged Jenkins with extortion and racketeering conspiracy, saying he requested and received money, jewelry, a handgun and other gifts to dismiss traffic tickets and other misdemeanors. While Jenkins was acquitted after two trials, in 1991 the Michigan Supreme Court removed him as a judge.
He had "systematically and routinely sold his office and his public trust," then-Chief Justice Michael Cavanagh said at the time.
In April, three judges with California's State Bar Court denied Jenkins' most recent request to practice law again. The judges lauded Jenkins' volunteer work with the NAACP and other organizations, but they cited several instances in which they said he misrepresented his finances or other aspects of his personal life.
"Despite Jenkins' impressive good character evidence and community service, he continues to commit errors in judgment that call into question his rehabilitation and present good moral character," the judges wrote.
Associated Press writer Ed White in Detroit contributed to this report
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Glaucoma is a condition characterized by excessive pressure in the eye, or intraocular pressure. This irregularly high pressure is due to a buildup of fluid in the eye. As intraocular pressure increases, it can compress the eye's optic nerve, eventually leading to vision loss.
Around 3 million people in the United States have glaucoma; although only half are aware of it. For people over 60 years old, glaucoma is a leading cause of blindness. The loss of vision is often so gradual that by the time you notice any difference in your vision, the glaucoma is already at an advanced stage.
Symptoms of Glaucoma
Different types of glaucoma have different symptoms. The most common form of glaucoma is open-angle glaucoma. It usually has no symptoms in the early stages. Later on, though, as the optic nerve is increasingly damaged, the following symptoms appear:
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