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Privacy Policy
Last Updated: June 2, 2022
By accepting the Privacy Policy in registration or by visiting and using the Site,
you expressly consent to our collection, use and disclosure of your personal
information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is
incorporated into and subject to our Terms of Service.
In this Privacy Policy, we use the following terms to describe different types of
visitors to our Site. Our customers are called “Subscribers” and our
Subscribers’ customers are called “Customers”. We use the word “staff” to
describe persons to whom Subscribers give “staff” access on the Site.
Together with registered users of our forum or other interactive areas of the
Site, these people are collectively described in this Privacy Policy as “Users”
of our Site.
FreshBooks may also provide other web sites and software, including without
limitation freeinvoicecreator.com, and the services provided by or through
such web sites and software. These Terms also govern your use of such web
sites, software and services which, for purposes of these Terms (and the
FreshBooks’ Privacy Policy referred to in Section 1 below) are included in the
definitions of “Site”, “Application” and “Services”.
In general, you can browse the Site without telling us who you are or revealing
personal information about yourself. Once you become a User, we may
require you to provide various contact and identity information, billing
information, and other personal information as indicated on the relevant forms
on the Site (which vary, depending on what kind of User you are). Where
possible, on these forms we indicate which fields are required and which fields
are optional.
In addition, as you use the Site, you can from time to time enter or send to us
personal information. For example, if you are a Subscriber, you can enter your
own timesheet and other billing information, and if you are a Customer you
can enter information about payment of any invoice submitted by a
Subscriber. As you use the Site you can also from time to time enter personal
information about third parties relevant to the services we provide. For
example, if you are a Subscriber, you can (within the context of the services)
enter personal information about your Customers or your staff.
You always have the option to not provide information by choosing not to
become a User or by not using the particular feature of the Site for which the
information is being collected.
If you are a Subscriber, we collect your credit card information for billing
purposes. And if you are a Customer who wishes to pay amounts to a
Subscriber on a recurring basis, we collect and store your credit card
information for payment purposes.
Some of our pages where personal data is collected utilize framing techniques
to serve content to you from our partners while preserving the look and feel of
our site. Please be aware that you are providing your personal information to
these third parties and not to www.freshbooks.com (in each case the relevant
third party will be identified to you via that section of the website).
We partner with a third party to either display advertising on our Web site or to
manage our advertising on other sites. Our third party partner may use
technologies such as cookies to gather information about your activities on
this site and other sites 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 interest-based ads, you may set your
preferences by clicking here. Please note this does not opt you out of being
served ads. You will continue to receive generic ads.
We, or our designated third party service provider, may from time to time
contact you by telephone. Such calls may as indicated by us, and with your
consent, be monitored, recorded, stored and used for the purposes specified
in such calls.
We use your personal information to provide to you the services offered by the
Site; resolve service and billing disputes; troubleshoot problems; bill any
amounts due from you; measure consumer interest in our products and
services, inform you about online and offline offers, products, services, events
and updates; deliver information to you that, in some cases, is relevant to your
interests, such as product news; customize your experience; detect and
protect us against error, fraud and other criminal activity; enforce our Terms of
Service; provide you with system or administrative messages, and as
otherwise described to you at the time of collection. On occasion we use email
address or other contact information to contact our Users to ask them for their
input on our services, to forward to them media opportunities, and even to
invite them to dinner.
We may also use personal information about you to improve our marketing
and promotional efforts, to analyze Site usage, to improve our content and
product offerings, and to customize the Site’s content, layout, and services.
These processes include automated decision-making and profiling
information. The intention of the usage is to improve the Site and the
FreshBooks application and better tailor it to meet your needs, so as to
provide you with a smooth, efficient, safe and customized experience while
using the Site.
We will share or disclose your personal information with third parties only in
the ways that are described in this privacy policy, including as follows:
In order to facilitate the services provided by the Site, the Site allows you in
certain circumstances to give other Users limited access to the personal
information of other persons. For example, if you are a Subscriber, you may
use the Site to give access to a staff member to the personal information of
your Customers. By entering into our Terms of Service, you agree that, with
respect to the personal information of other persons that you collect, use and
disclose on the Site, you have all necessary consents and rights to collect,
use and disclose that information as described in this Privacy Policy from time
to time, and you agree that the indemnity you give to us in the Terms of
Service applies to any non-compliance by you with the foregoing.If you
choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask
you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your
friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. FreshBooks stores
this information for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email, tracking
the success of our referral program, and compliance with laws. Your friend
may contact us at privacy@freshbooks.com to request that we remove this
information from our database.
We provide you a way for you to withdraw your information being processed
for individuals within the European Economic Area (EEA) and the State of
California.
If you are not a resident of the EEA or the State of California but wish to no
longer be subscribed to emails or direct mail campaigns, please reach out to
our support team at help@freshbooks.com
Upon written request FreshBooks will provide you with information about what
personal information we have about you. To review, delete, and update your
personal information to ensure it is accurate, you may login into your account
to make the changes, or you may contact us at privacy@freshbooks.com. We
will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe, and typically
within one month of the request being made. We may ask you for further
information from you to help us respond to your request, including asking for
government-issued identification to verify your identity before we provide the
personal data. If you are a EEA resident requesting the porting or an export of
your information, you may reach out to us at privacy@freshbooks.com and we
will proceed with the steps necessary.
Account Deletion
Data Retention
Our goal is to retain your information as necessary to comply with our legal
obligations and accepted accounting principles, resolve disputes, and enforce
our agreements; this retention period may extend past the point at which you
close your account.
The criteria that will be for determining periods of retention will be based on
the type of data. For example, data relevant to accounting information will be
retained for at least 7 years, whereas temporary cookie data of a web visitor
may not be retained at all.
In this event, we will ensure that the recipient of your personal information
offers an adequate level of protection, for instance by entering into standard
contractual clauses for the transfer of data as approved by the European
Commission (Art. 46 GDPR), or we will ask you for your prior and explicit
consent to such international data transfers.We have implemented safeguards
to ensure an adequate level of data protection where your personal
information is transferred to countries outside the EEA. For further details on
the transfer of your personal information, including a list of the organizations
with whom said information may be shared, please reach out to our team
at privacy@freshbooks.com.
Security Safeguards
Invitations:
You have the opportunity to invite others to work with you through your
FreshBooks account. To do that, FreshBooks asks you to import or to
manually enter your contacts’ email addresses. As you direct, we then send
them an invitation on your behalf or other notices reflecting changes you make
to their status in your account.
If you click on a link to a third party site, you will leave the FreshBooks site
and go to the site you selected. If you elect to use a third party product or
service in conjunction with FreshBooks, you yourself enter into a license
agreement with the third party for use of their product or service and their use
of your data. This will be notified to you at the relevant time. Because we
cannot control the activities of third parties, we cannot accept responsibility for
any use of your personal information by such third parties, and we cannot
guarantee that they will adhere to the same privacy practices as FreshBooks.
We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any other service provider
from whom you request services. If you visit a third party website that is linked
to a FreshBooks site, you should read that site’s privacy policy before
providing any personal information.
With your consent we may post your testimonial along with your name. If you
want your testimonial removed please contact us at privacy@freshbooks.com.
Our Web site includes Social Media Features, such as the Facebook and
Twitter buttons and Widgets, such as the Share this button or interactive mini-
programs that run on our site. These Features may collect your IP address,
which page you are visiting on our site, and may set a cookie to enable the
Feature to function properly. Social Media Features and Widgets are either
hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our Site. Your interactions with
these Features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing it.
Residents of Canada
California Residents
If you are a visitor from the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or the United
Kingdom (“UK), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal
information described above will depend on the personal information
concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.
However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where
we need the personal information to perform a contract with you (e.g. to
provide you with our Services), where the processing is in our legitimate
interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental
rights and freedoms, or where we have your consent. In some cases, we may
also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you.