At The Marketing Collective, LLC., your privacy is very important to us. As such, we provide this Privacy Policy explaining our online information practices. The Marketing Collective, LLC. is committed to protecting your privacy online. Please read the information below to learn the following regarding your use of our website.

You acknowledge that this Privacy Policy is part of our site’s Terms of Use, and by accessing or using our site, you agree to be bound by all of its terms and conditions. If you do not agree to these terms do not access or use this site. We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy at any time. Such changes, modifications, additions or deletions shall be effective immediately upon notice thereof, which may be given by means of posting a notification on this site. It is your responsibility to review this site and this Privacy Policy periodically and to be aware of any modifications. Your continued use of the site after such modifications will constitute your acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy and you agree to be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

1. The Information We Collect

In order to best provide you with our numerous services, we may collect two types of information about our users: personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information. Our goal when collecting this information from you is to provide you with the most efficient and customized experience while using our site.

Personally identifiable information refers to information that lets us know the specifics of who you are. When you engage in the numerous activities on this site, we may ask you to provide certain information about yourself. A list of the types of personally identifiable information that may be collected are your name, mailing address, email address, employer, job title and department, telephone and facsimile numbers, and other personal identifiable information, which may include information obtained your answers to questions that you may answer concerning services you may be interested in or content that you may submit via the site or for site promotions.

Non-personally identifiable information refers to information that does not by itself identify a specific individual. We gather information about you based upon where you visit on our site in several ways. This information is compiled and analyzed on both a personal and aggregated basis. A list of the types of non-personally identifiable information that we may collect include: current internet protocol address and type of browser you are using (e.g. Firefox, Google Chrome), the type of operating system you are using (e.g. Windows or Mac OS), sites visited before and after you visit our site, the type of handheld or mobile device used to view the site (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry), location information, and the content and the advertisements you have accessed, seen, forwarded and/or clicked on.

We reserve the right to work with third parties to provide us with analyses of the usage and browsing patterns of visitors to our site by tracking non-personally identifiable information about our visitors. These third parties may include, but are not limited to Google Analytics, HotJar, and HubSpot. These services are cookie-based and do not collect personal information. Each third party is subject to its own privacy policy.

2. How We Use Information

We may use the information you provide about yourself to operate our sites and to deliver their services. Additionally we may use this information to communicate with you, such as to notify you about our promotions and services or solicit information from you. We will also use your information to enhance the operation of our site, such as improve our marketing and promotional efforts, statistically analyze site use, and improve our service offerings. We may also use your information to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our agreements with you, including our site Terms of Use, sales terms and conditions, and this Privacy Policy.

3. Information Sharing and Disclosure to Others

We may transfer personally identifiable information about you if we, or one of our business units, are acquired by, sold to, merged with or otherwise transferred to another entity. We do not sell, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information to others.

We also may disclose personally identifiable information in response to legal process, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law enforcement agency’s request, or where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of our terms of use, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our sites and applicable laws or as otherwise required or permitted by law or consistent with legal requirements.

Your information may be shared through our business arrangements with third parties, such as Twitter, through services, such as conversion tracking and serving ads targeted to users’ interests. Please refer to the section below on “Cookies” for more information on how you can opt-out of internet based advertising through the “Do Not Track” functionality in your web browser or through such other methods that Twitter may specify from time to time.

When you access certain social media features through our site, you will be sharing information with that social media provider. The information you provide to that social media provider will be governed by their privacy policy.

4. Consent

If you have voluntarily provided or published personally identifiable information, including but not limited to, your name, title, phone number, or email address, you have assumed that there is an implied business relationship with The Marketing Collective, LLC. and therefore consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information as described in this privacy policy. Further consent for the collection, use and disclosure of your personally identifiable information may be obtained orally, or in writing and may be expressly given or implied. The Marketing Collective, LLC. will not use personally identifiable information for any purpose outside of the implied relationship.

If you are under the jurisdiction of Canada’s Anti-Spam Legislation (“CASL”), The Marketing Collective, LLC. will ensure to act in compliance with CASL by providing all email marketing through an “opt-in” approach. The Marketing Collective, LLC. will gain consent for commercial electronic messages prior to sending commercial electronic messages, unless we have implied consent, as defined under CASL. You may “opt-out” from receiving emails from our company, and/or are partners and associates upon your unsubscribe request. 

5. EU Data Subject Rights

In certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Information:

Request access to your Personal Information (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information The Marketing Collective, LLC. holds about you and to check that The Marketing Collective, LLC. is lawfully processing it.

Request correction of the Personal Information. This enables The Marketing Collective, LLC. to have any incomplete or inaccurate data held about you corrected, though The Marketing Collective, LLC. may need to verify the accuracy of the new data provided.

Request erasure of Personal Information. This enables you to ask The Marketing Collective, LLC. to delete or remove Personal Information where there is no good reason for The Marketing Collective, LLC. continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask The Marketing Collective, LLC. to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where The Marketing Collective, LLC. may have processed your information unlawfully or where The Marketing Collective, LLC. is required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that The Marketing Collective, LLC. may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

Object to gathering of your Personal Information where The Marketing Collective, LLC. is relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to gathering on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where The Marketing Collective, LLC. is gathering your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, The Marketing Collective, LLC. may demonstrate that it has compelling legitimate grounds to gather your information which override your rights and freedoms.

Request restriction of gathering of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask The Marketing Collective, LLC. to suspend the gathering of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want The Marketing Collective, LLC. to establish the data’s accuracy; (b) where The Marketing Collective, LLC. use of the data is unlawful but you do not want The Marketing Collective, LLC. to erase it; (c) where you need The Marketing Collective, LLC. to hold the data even if The Marketing Collective, LLC. no longer requires it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected toThe Marketing Collective, LLC.’s use of your data but The Marketing Collective, LLC. needs to verify whether it has overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or to a third party. The Marketing Collective, LLC. will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for The Marketing Collective, LLC. to use or where The Marketing Collective, LLC. used the information to perform a contract with you.

Withdraw consent at any time where The Marketing Collective, LLC. is relying on consent to gather your Personal Information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any gathering carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, The Marketing Collective, LLC. may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. The Marketing Collective, LLC. will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

6. Cookies

To give you the best online experience possible we may at times use cookies or similar technologies. A cookie is a small data text file, which a website stores on your computer’s hard drive (if your browser permits) that can later be retrieved to identify you to us. Cookies do not contain personally identifiable information; however, once you choose to enter our site with personally identifiable information that information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. In addition, you expressly consent to the installation of cookies under CASL.

Cookies make your use of the site easier, make the site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure site. At this time The Marketing Collective, LLC. does recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking mechanisms, which may include “Do Not Track” instructions. However, you can change your privacy preferences regarding the use of cookies and similar technologies through your browser. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but some parts of our site may not work properly in that case. For any questions dealing with the disabling of cookies please consult the “Help” section of your web browser.

7. Security of Your Information

We have put in place appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, to maintain data security, and to use correctly the information we collect online, such as dedicated virtual private servers, a web application firewall, an encrypted database, and no third party access to the server.

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that a 100% of the data transmissions are secure. Therefore, while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are limitations to security and privacy of the Internet that are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity and privacy of your personally identifiable information exchanged between you and us cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party.

8. Privacy of Minors

We will not knowingly collect, use or disclose personally identifiable information about visitors that are under 18 years of age.

9. Privacy Policies of Third Party Sites

Except as otherwise discussed in this Agreement, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. Other sites accessible through our site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each site’s privacy policy and terms of use. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties. 

10. Miscellaneous Privacy Issues

You should be aware that any information that you publicly disclose on any public areas of this site can be collected and used by third parties and this may result in unsolicited messages from those parties. This is beyond our control. Please be careful and responsible whenever you are online.