IMC Licensing Privacy Policy

Last modified: July 2, 2020

Introduction

International Marketing Concepts, LLC d/b/a IMC Licensing (“IMC,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website www.imclicensing.com (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Our Website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website; and
In email, forms, applications, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by IMC or any third party; or
Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on our Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using our Website, you agree to our Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy 0). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

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 name, email address, and telephone number (“personal information”);
That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your company name and title; 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;
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies; and
From third parties, including our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms or applications on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our Blog, commenting on our Blog, contacting us, and any applications available on our Website, including but not limited to job applications or licensing applications. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us or comment on our Blog posts.
Records and copies of your responses to any applications on our Website.
Your search queries on our Website.

You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of our Website, or transmitted to other users of our Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of our Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

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:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information, and 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.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
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 Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your 0.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit IMC, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or 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 our 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 Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your 0.

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, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
To process any applications you complete on our Website.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

For users in the European Union, we have the following legal grounds for processing your personal information:

To present our Website to you, including your ability to access our Website, our ability to provide you with support, and to protect the safety and security of the services we provide;
For a legitimate interest, such as for research and development; to provide, update, market, and promote our services; and to protect our legal rights and interests;
To comply with a legal obligation; or
You have given us your consent to do so for a specific purpose.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated 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 our Privacy Policy:

To our 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 IMC’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by IMC about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your 0.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
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 or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of IMC, our customers, or others.

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 site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

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.

Data Retention

We will only retain your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting, or reporting requirements. We may retain your personal information for a longer period in the event of a complaint or if we reasonably believe there is a prospect of litigation with respect to our relationship with you.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of your personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal information, the purpose for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and applicable legal, regulatory, and other requirements.

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

If you delete your User Contributions from our Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on our Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, California law may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.

Your GDPR Rights

If you are a member of the European Union, you have the following rights:

The right to be informed, which means anyone processing your personal information must make clear what they are processing, why, and who else the personal information may be passed to.
The right of access, which is your right to see what personal information is held about you by us.
The right to rectification, which is your right to have your personal information corrected or amended if what is held is incorrect in some way.
The right to erasure, which means under certain circumstances you can ask for your personal information to be deleted. This would apply if the personal information is no longer required for the purposes it was collected for, or your consent for the processing of the personal information has been withdrawn, or the personal information has been unlawfully processed.
The right to restrict processing, which gives you the right to ask for a temporary halt to processing of personal information, such as in the case where a dispute or legal case has to be concluded, or the personal information is being corrected.
The right to data portability, which is your right to object to further processing of your personal information that is inconsistent with the primary purpose for which it was collected, including profiling, automation, and direct marketing.
Rights related to automated decision making and profiling means you have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing.

Data Security

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored securely via complaint methods that ensure data privacy laws and regulations are met. If you have any questions on how your data is stored, please contact us at info@imclicensing.com.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a username or password for access to certain parts of our Website, such as any applications available on our Website, including but not limited to job applications or licensing applications, you are responsible for keeping it confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out information in public areas of our Website like Blog comments. The information you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of our Website.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. 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 our Website.

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 our Website home page. The date our Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and our Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

If you have questions, concerns, or comments about our Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or the way IMC is handling your personal information, please let us know immediately. You may email us directly at info@imclicensing.com with the subject line “Privacy Concerns.” We will respond promptly, and within thirty (30) days at the latest.