Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of this webpage as the "Last Updated" date. When you use any Website after any updates to this Privacy Policy, you agree to and accept the updates and the included revisions and modifications. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, contact us by:
Writing to us at:
345 North Maple Drive, Suite 175
Beverly Hills, California 90210
or via email at:
[email protected]
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to any Website. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 18 and do not direct our Website for use by individuals under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features/register, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected] and we will promptly remove the information.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:
- by which you may be personally identified, such as your name, e-mail address, IP address, device identifier or any other information you provide to us through the message feature on the Website ("Personal Information");
- that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your interests; and/or
- about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.
We collect this information:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us; and
- Automatically as you navigate through a Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and pixels.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect, including Personal Information, on or through our Website may include:
- Information that you provide by sending us a message through our Website message feature. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website or ask us a question.
- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
- While it is your choice whether to provide the requested information or not, we cannot provide certain services you may request if you do not provide the requested information.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies and Do-Not-Track Signals
As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Usage Details.
Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Device Information.
We may collect information about your computer or mobile device and internet connection, including the device's unique device identifier, IP address, operating system, browser type, and mobile network information.
Location Information.
The Website does not collect real-time information about the location of your device.
Do-Not-Track is a public-private initiative, http://www.w3.org/2011/tracking-protection/, that has developed a technical "flag" or signal that an end-user may be able to activate within their browser software to notify websites that they do not wish to be "tracked" by third parties as defined by the initiative. The initiative, however, has not reached a consensus as to exactly what technical or other actions those parties receiving the signal should take. As a result, Do-Not-Track has not yet been standardized and most websites, including us and our Website, do not alter their behavior or change their services when their websites receive a "do-not-track" flag or signal.
See Section 9 below for information on how you can opt out of behavioral tracking and how we respond to web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise choice about behavioral tracking.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does may include Personal Information (such as your IP address or device identifier), or we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns; and
- Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
Cookies (or browser cookies).
A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies.
Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Section 9 below.
Web Beacons.
Pages of a Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your Personal Information or they may collect information, including Personal Information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Section 9 below.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any Personal Information:
- To present our Website and its contents to you.
- To provide you with information you request from us.
- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
- To carry out our obligations, including contractual obligations, and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection and to enforce our Terms of Use.
- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information to us.
- As set forth in a separate agreement between you and us.
- To improve the Website by solving technical problems, to calculate overall usage statistics, for internal marketing and promotional purposes, and for service development and content improvement.
- To maintain the security and integrity of the Website and our IT systems.
- For any other purpose with your consent.
- We may also use your information to contact you through email about our own services that may be of interest to you.
- We will retain your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose(s) for which it was collected and to comply with applicable laws, and your consent to such purposes(s) remains valid during such time. When Personal Information is no longer needed or legally required, it will be permanently deleted or de-identified so that it can no longer be associated with a specific individual.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated, non-personally identifiable information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose Personal Information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy:
- To our parent companies, subsidiaries, and affiliates.
- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
- As set forth in any separate agreement between you and us.
- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
- With your consent.
We may also disclose your Personal Information:
- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government, law enforcement, or regulatory request.
- To enforce or apply our terms of use [INSERT AS LINK TO WEBSITE'S TERMS OF USE] ("Terms of Use"), other agreements, and any other documents included or referenced therein (all of which are incorporated into and made a part of this Privacy Policy by this reference).
- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, other users, service providers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the Personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising.
- You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
We also use cookies provided by Google Analytics to help us measure how visitors use the Website. The information collected is used for a variety of purposes, including, but not limited to, site traffic reporting, unique visitor counts, and content optimization. Although Google Analytics logs the information coming from the Website on our behalf, we control how the data may and may not be used. If you do not want to help us learn how to improve the Website, you can opt-out of this website analysis tool by clicking: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
For more information, see Section 9 below.
Promotional Offers from us.
If you wish to stop receiving certain emails please click the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of the email or notify us by email [email protected].
We do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") on the NAI's website, available here: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1#!/.
Your California Privacy Rights
This section is required under California law. California residents are entitled to information about our practices regarding the sale of Personal Information. We do not sell your Personal Information. If at any time we begin selling Personal Information, we will update this Privacy Policy.
California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of Personal Information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected] or write us at: 345 North Maple Drive, Suite 175, Beverly Hills, California 90210.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and can potentially be intercepted or incorrectly routed. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on any Website. Please consider this before submitting any information to us or through the Website.
Social Media
Any information, communications, or material of any type or nature that you submit to us through a third party website including, but not limited to, any of our Websites or accounts contained on a social media platform or website such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, or Twitter, whether by e-mail, posting, messaging, uploading, downloading, or otherwise (collectively, a "Submission"), is done at your own risk and without any expectation of privacy. By visiting any of our social media accounts, you are representing and warranting to us that you have reviewed the applicable social media platform's or website's privacy policy and terms of use and that you will abide by all such provisions contained therein. We cannot control the actions of the providers or the other users of any social media platform and we are therefore not responsible for any content or Submissions contained on such platforms. We do not guarantee the privacy and safety of these areas. We encourage you to be wary of providing any of your personal information in such public forums. The information you submit can be collected and used by people you do not know. Again, your use of these features and your Submissions are fully at your own risk.
Monitoring and Enforcement
We have implemented various measures to monitor compliance with and enforce the elements in this Privacy Policy, however, we expressly disclaim the obligation to monitor such compliance. If you have a privacy related inquiry, complaint or dispute, please contact us at the postal address or e-mail listed in Section 3.