PRIVACY POLICY
This is our Privacy Policy, which is part of your legal agreement with us under our Terms of Use. Please read our Privacy Policy in full to ensure that you completely understand what information we collect, how we collect and use it, and in what cases we share information.
AMENDMENTS TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to modify, add, or delete provisions of this Privacy Policy at any time and in our sole discretion. We will post notification of a change and its effective date at the top of this Privacy Policy. By using our Digital Property after the effective date of any such change, you are accepting and agreeing to be bound by the Privacy Policy, as modified. We encourage you to check back to this page regularly to remain aware of our most recent terms and conditions that apply to you.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Personal Information may include material such as your name, email address, mailing address, and telephone number. We will collect this information only if you voluntarily provide it to us, for example, when you register with our Digital Property or make a request for our services or information. We will use this data solely for the purposes of responding to your requests, providing you with access to information, to effectively communicate with you, or in relation to rendering services to you. Please see the section ‘Use of Information” for additional details. We will not in any circumstances sell or rent your Personal Information to other entities unless otherwise explicitly disclosed in this policy. When necessary, our Digital Property may collect relevant payment and payment instrument information for the purposes of billing you for products, services, or event tickets that you purchase via our Digital Property. If you use our Referral System to invite someone else to use our Digital Property, we will ask you to voluntarily provide your email address and that of the individual you are referring. We will use this information only to send a one-time automatic email inviting them to visit our Digital Property and indicating that your suggestion initiated the invitation.
COLLECTION OF NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION
We make use of various third-party operational service providers and technologies that collect and transmit Non-Personal Information that is associated with devices that visit our Digital Property. See Information Sharing for additional details on operational service providers. Data gathered in this manner will not personally identify you. In this Privacy Policy cookie shall mean any technology that can collect or transmit information about users’ visits to and use of our Digital Property. Information collected by cookies usually includes referral web domain, type of operating system, browser being used, device identifiers, the date and time of the visit, data on user activity during the visit, and other technical properties of visits to and usage of our Digital Property. Using the data collected by cookies we analyze trends, track usage of our Digital Property, administer our website, and gather aggregated information about visitors for the purposes of improving the quality of our Digital Properties. We will use cookies to collect and store information that allows our Digital Property to uniquely identify the device with which you access our Digital Property. However, this information only identifies the device and not you, the user. Though these cookies we will track information on how you interact with our Digital Property as well as preferences for certain features and content. Additionally, cookies may, should you elect to do so, be used to store your log-in and other site-related information to streamline future visits. We will not use cookies to retrieve any information from your device for any purposes other than those related directly to our Digital Property and your interactions there with. At any time, you may stop or restrict the usage of cookies on your device or remove them from your browser by adjusting your settings. You should follow the instructions provided by your browser to do so and to determine the most optimal browser settings that meet your requirements. Please note that although you will still be able to access our Digital Property, should you turn off, delete, or disable cookies in any way, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Digital Property such as remembering your log-in information.
USE OF INFORMATION
Our use of the information that we collect from your usage of our Digital Property pursuant to the terms of the Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection, shall be limited to:
• Internal research
• The administration of our Digital Property
• Ensuring compliance with our Terms of Use and other legal agreements
• Responding to any of your requests for service, products, or information
• Communicating with you regarding products, services, events, promotions, and other news from Banner Edge Media
• Fulfilling any of your purchases or registrations
• Providing member services such as publishing a directory
ADVERTISEMENTS, SPONSORSHIPS, AND THIRD-PARTY LINKS
Our Digital Property may contain or display information that belongs to third parties such as sponsors, advertisers, and operational service providers, as well as any other parties that offer to make available information, products, and services, or otherwise participate in the provision of our services in a manner that links or redirects your browser to external websites, web-pages, or other online resources. We may also, from time to time, use third parties in conjunction with administering, operating, and configuring our Digital Property. We may also use third parties for the purposes of supporting our Digital Property and any related content, to display and serve advertising on our Digital Property, and for transmitting our newsletters and other information via email or the web. These third parties will be referred to as operational service providers. The content of advertisements, links and references to third party online resources, and any cookies or other technology that are used by those advertisements are not under our control, even if we have a relationship with the third-party advertisers. Furthermore, this third-party content may have their own terms, conditions, policies, and practices that apply to you in connection with their websites, including those relating to collection, use, and disclosure of your personal and non-personal information. In some cases, content and services produced by Banner Edge Media, such as seminars, conferences, events, newsletters, and discussion groups, may be co-sponsored by other companies that are not under the control of Banner Edge Media. Whenever we are involved in provisioning such a service or providing such content, we will disclose the name of the co-sponsor. Co-sponsors of these services and content are not under our control. You should be aware that when you register for, use, or otherwise interact with these co-sponsored services, you may be providing personal and non-personal information to us and to these co-sponsors, and that their policies, practices, terms and conditions apply to their collection and use of your information. Should you leave our Digital Property or follow advertised offers, links, or other references to third-party content, we encourage you to make yourself aware of the owner of that third-party online resource, as well as the relevant policies, practices, terms and conditions that govern their collection and use of your information. We are not responsible for their interactions with your information, nor do our policies, practices, terms, and conditions apply to your usage of linked or referenced third-party content. When we use an operational service provider to serve advertising to you when you are interacting with our Digital Property, the operational service provider, in connection with our Digital Properties, may collect and use information about your visit to our Digital Property in order to identify and serve advertisements to you about products and services that may be of interest to you. In doing so, our operational service provider may use cookies or other technologies.
INFORMATION SHARING
In order to effectively provide you with information, content, products, and other services we may share Personal Information with our operational service providers. Additionally, the operational service provider that we use to measure our Digital Property traffic may collect information (but not Personal Information) regarding your use of our Digital Property for helping us to improve our services. We reserve the right to share Personal Information in the following circumstances:
• If we believe that you have violated any law, regulation, or our Terms of Use
• If we believe that you are or may be a threat to the safety, security, property, interests, or rights of us or anyone else
• When investigating, responding to, or resolving problems or inquiries or to protect, enforce, or defend our rights, assets, and interests
• In the event of a merger, acquisition, or other partial or total change of control, sales, or transfer of assets including a bankruptcy proceeding, joint venture, or any other business combination.
HOW TO OPT OUT
When and if you register with our Digital Property, you are agreeing to receive information, news, and other updates from us about your usage of our Digital Property, or other services for which you register. You may, at any time, opt out of receiving marketing email communication from us by sending notice to unsubscribe@BannerEdgeMedia.com or by following the unsubscribe instructions included with every email we send you.
SECURITY
The internet is a public network and, as such, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and Banner Edge Media or others to, though, or from our Digital Property will not be accessed without authorization or interfered with by any third parties. By using our Digital Properties, you agree to assume all risk, responsibility, and liability that may arise. We have put in place and will maintain reasonable procedures to help protect your information and limit access to your Personal Information to only those employees and associates who need access in the course of performing their duties.
We will provide you with necessary mechanisms that will allow you to correct or otherwise update your Personal Information in our records. You may review and change your Personal Information at any time by contacting us at (877) 560-5259 or by emailing us at privacy@BannerEdgeMedia.com. Some Personal Information may not be changed without authentication and you may in some cases be asked to provide additional information to allow us to verify your identity in order to change such restricted information. If you request that we remove any of your Personal Information, we reserve the right to retain as much of your Personal Information as required and for as long as necessary to comply with any legal, regulatory, internal audit, and record-keeping requirements.
Should you have any questions regarding this policy, you may contact us at privacy@BannerEdgeMedia.com or via telephone at (877) 560-5259 or by mail with proper postage prepaid at Banner Edge Media, 14350 N 87th Street Suite 110, Scottsdale, AZ 85260 Attn: Privacy Administrator
PRIVACY POLICY ADDENDUM
GDRP Regulation
In accordance with The General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), a European-wide law that goes into effect May 25, 2018, we have added new privacy policies below for EU individuals. Banner Edge Media is committed to the protection and privacy of your personal data.
We only collect information that we need for a specific purpose.
We seek consent to store the information we hold.
We keep it secure.
We allow access to the information on request from you.
We comply with your ‘right to be forgotten’ and erase personal data upon request.
Your data can consist of but not limited to name, an email address, bank details, or a computer IP address.
If you’d like to request access to your information, request your data be forgotten, or have any other questions or concerns, please contact compliance@banneredgemedia.com.