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Privacy Policy

Effective Date: November 1, 2021

Table of Contents

Introduction

This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information through the websites operated NCSEA Media and its divisions and affiliates (“STRUCTURE”) at which this Privacy Policy is posted (the “Sites”), as well as other personal information we collected from and about you in other contexts. With respect to our online collection of personal information, this Policy applies only to the Sites and not to any third-party websites that may be accessible from any Site. This Policy also describes STRUCTURE’s offline personal information collection and use practices, and the practices it employs when collecting personal information online through means other than these Sites (for example, if you send us an e-mail message).

Please be sure to read this Privacy Policy before using any Site or submitting information through a Site. This Privacy Policy is current as of the Effective Date above but may change from time to time, so please check this policy periodically for updates. Once the changes have been made, your continued use of any of the Sites will constitute your acceptance of the revised Policy.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS can learn more about the personal information we collect from and about you, including personal information collected online and offline, in the Supplemental Notice for California Consumers section of this Privacy Policy by clicking here.

If you have questions or concerns regarding our Privacy Policy, or about how we or our service providers treat your personal information, please contact our Privacy Officer via email at privacy@STRUCTUREmag.org or by writing to us at STRUCTURE; ATTN: Privacy Policy; 20 N. Wacker Drive, Suite 750, Chicago, IL 60606. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference within the STRUCTURE Terms and Conditions of Use.

Information Collection and Use

Our Sites collect the following categories of information in several areas, including for membership subscriptions, magazine subscriptions, event registrations, newsletter sign up pages, webinar registrations, and online surveys. The information we request for you to participate in these features may include personal information (that is, any information, in digital, hard copy, or other forms, that can be used alone or together with other information to directly or indirectly identify a specific individual or household).

  • Contact information, such as name, address, location, email, and telephone number
  • Online identifiers, such as IP address, cookies, username, and password
  • Visual, electronic, or similar information such as images

The information we collect is used to provide you with services from STRUCTURE, respond to your specific requests, to send you periodic information and special offers from STRUCTURE and our sponsors, to provide you with updates on STRUCTURE offerings and features, to provide you with product information from vendors in our database, to provide our sponsors and business partners with data about our users to analyze Sites usage and improve the services offered, and to detect and protect against error, fraud, or other criminal activity. The information you provide is also used to understand users’ interests and behavior and may be combined and analyzed with information STRUCTURE may have from other online or offline sources for marketing or other purposes.

As you navigate through our Sites, certain information can be passively collected (that is, gathered without you actively providing the information) using various technologies and means. Like most website operators, STRUCTURE uses cookies, log files, and other electronic information collection mechanisms to track IP addresses and gather certain information from website users. IP addresses are collected for system administration purposes and for studying how people use our Sites and how we can improve them. When you use a Site, we may record information about your usage of the Site, such as which pages you visit. STRUCTURE does not support “registered users” at this time. STRUCTURE also uses cookies to estimate our audience size and usage. Finally, STRUCTURE uses Google Analytics and the information we get from Google Analytics only to improve this site. Please refer to Google’s Privacy Policy for more information. You may also choose to download the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. You can choose whether you accept cookies by changing the settings of your browser. However, certain parts of our Sites may not work if you turn off cookies on your browser.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS can learn more about how we may use the personal information we collect from and about you in the Supplemental Notice for California Consumers section here.

Sharing Your Information

STRUCTURE shares your information with its affiliates and business partners, including agents such as third-party mail processing facilities. We may employ contractors to help with our operations. These contractors are and will be subject to confidentiality agreements that restrict their use and disclosure of all information they obtain through their relationship with STRUCTURE.

In limited circumstances, STRUCTURE may also share information about its subscribers with third parties in whose products or services STRUCTURE believes you may be interested or third parties who may be interested in your products or services. Subject to applicable law, we may disclose your personal information, including but not limited to your mailing address, phone number, and other registration information, to third parties (our established affiliates and business partners) for marketing, merchandising, or other purposes, and you should presume that your personal information may thus be subject to future transactions. When sharing your information with third parties, STRUCTURE endeavors to oblige the third parties to follow practices substantially similar to those of STRUCTURE with respect to such information.

STRUCTURE will also share your information if required or permitted by law to do so, to comply with applicable laws or valid legal process such as in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry or order, or to another organization for the purposes of investigating a breach of an agreement or contravention of law or detecting, suppressing or preventing fraud, to protect the rights or property of STRUCTURE, or as otherwise may be required or permitted by applicable U.S., Canadian, or other law or legal process, which may include lawful access by U.S. or foreign courts, law enforcement or other government authorities.

If you specifically request information from a manufacturer or from one of our advertisers, your contact information will be given to that manufacturer or advertiser, to allow them to decide the best way to fulfill your request. Some of our advertisers may display ads on the Sites that solicit, or contain technology to collect, information about our users. This information is collected and used by our advertisers and is outside of our control. If you have any questions about an advertisement, you should contact the responsible advertiser directly.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS can learn more about how we may share the personal information we collect from and about you in the Supplemental Notice for California Consumers section here.

Your Options

If you no longer wish for us to share your mailing address or other contact information with our sponsors or other third parties, please send us an e-mail at privacy@STRUCTUREmag.org. For us to be able to locate your record, your e-mail must include your name, mailing address, e-mail address, and must identify the STRUCTURE product, event, or service for which you are registered. We will endeavor to process your request within 10 days, and thereafter we will no longer share your contact information with third parties. Please note that we will not be able to stop third parties from sending you information about their products or services if your information was shared with them before we received your request. Regarding e-mail specifically, you may elect to stop receiving advertising messages from STRUCTURE about our products or services, or broadcast e-mail messages that we may send about third-party vendors in whose products or services we believe you may be interested. To unsubscribe from such advertising e-mail messages, please follow the “unsubscribe” directions included in that e-mail message. We will endeavor to process your request within 10 days. Please note that during that time, you may continue to receive e-mail messages from STRUCTURE. If you have further questions regarding your options with respect to your account information, please contact us at the e-mail or mailing address included at the beginning of this Privacy Policy.

‘Do Not Track’ Signals

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. We do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals

STRUCTURE’s Security Measures

We have put in place reasonable and appropriate administrative, physical, technical, and managerial procedures to attempt to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access, maintain data security, and correctly use the information we collect online. No transmission of data over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us or from us, and you do so at your own risk. STRUCTURE will have no liability for disclosure of information obtained due to errors in transmissions or the unauthorized intervention of third parties.

In addition, any personal information or sensitive data that you disclose through any discussion public online forums hosted on the Sites (e.g., comments on STRUCTURE articles, etc.) may be collected and used by others. We recommend caution when giving out personal information to others in these public online forums. When you provide information on these forums, you do so at your own risk.

Age Restrictions

These Sites are not intended for children under the age of 16. We will not knowingly collect personal information from Site visitors in this age group. If a child has provided us with personal information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us via e-mail at the above e-mail address if they would like this information deleted from our records. We will use reasonable efforts to delete the child’s information from our databases.

Many of our Sites contain links to websites owned and operated by third parties. These links are provided as a service to you, and do not constitute STRUCTURE’s endorsement or support of the third-party websites. The third parties who operate these sites have their own information collection and use practices, and STRUCTURE is not responsible for either the privacy practices or the content of these sites. When you follow a link and leave a Site, you do so at your own risk.

Social Media Sites

A Site may contain links to third-party social media sites, such as Facebook, Twitter, or YouTube. The operators of such social media sites may collect personal information and use and disclose such information in accordance with their own privacy policies. For each such site, you should check with the site operator regarding its policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of personal information.

International Users

The Sites are hosted in the United States. If you use the Sites from any region with laws governing data collection, use, and disclosure that may differ from U.S. law, please note that you are transferring your personal information to the United States. By providing personal information under this Privacy Policy, you consent to the use of personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the transfer of your personal information to the United States.

Privacy Rights in Other Jurisdictions

We have listed the privacy rights for several jurisdictions below, but we understand you may have additional rights in your jurisdiction. You may contact us directly at any time about exercising your data protection rights. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.

Canadian Residents

Access to Information. Subject to limited exceptions under applicable law, you have the right to access, update, and correct inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody and control. You may request access, updating, and corrections of inaccuracies in your personal information in our custody or control by contacting us at the e-mail or mailing address included at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. We may request certain personal information for the purpose of verifying your identity when you request access to your personal information records.

California Residents

California residents can learn more about the personal information we collect from or about you through both your online and offline interactions with our products or services as follows.

Privacy Policy Supplemental Notice for California Consumers

The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) gives California residents the right to know what personal information STRUCTURE collects about them (online and offline) and whether this information is shared with third parties, as well as certain rights regarding STRUCTURE’s collection and use of their personal information. This Supplemental Notice provides the information required under the CCPA. Any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Supplemental Notice.

If you are a California resident, you have the following rights under the CCPA with respect to your personal information:

Right to Notice. Before or at the time we collect personal information from you, you have the right to receive notice of the personal information to be collected and the purposes for which we use it. This Privacy Policy and Supplemental Notice are intended to satisfy this requirement. You also have the right to request that we disclose to you the categories of personal information we have collected about you in the preceding 12 months, along with the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, the purpose for collecting or selling the personal information, the categories of third parties with whom we shared the personal information, and the categories of third parties with whom we sold the personal information.

Right of Access. You have the right to request that we disclose or provide you with access to the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the preceding 12 months.

Right to Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete the personal information we collect from you. However, in certain situations we are not required to delete your personal information, such as when the information is necessary in order to complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, to provide a good or service requested by you, to comply with a legal obligation, to engage in research, to secure our websites or other online services, or to otherwise use your personal information internally in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Right to Opt-Out of the Sale of Personal Information. If STRUCTURE sells your personal information to third parties, you have the right, at any time, to direct us not to sell your personal information. To exercise this right, please click Do Not Sell My Personal Information here or on any STRUCTURE webpage where the Do Not Sell My Personal Information button is present. STRUCTURE does not sell the personal information of minors under 16 years of age without affirmative authorization.

Right Not to Be Subject to Discrimination. You have the right to be free from discrimination or retaliation for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA as described above.

Exercising Your Privacy Rights. You can exercise your rights by sending an email to us at privacyCA@STRUCTUREmag.org.

We value the security and confidentiality of your personal information. Therefore, if you exercise your right to notice, right of access, or right to deletion, we must first verify your identity to make sure that you are the person about whom we have collected personal information. We verify every request carefully. Along with your request, we ask that you provide you first and last name, company name (if applicable), physical postal address, email address, and IP address (if you interact with our websites or other online services). You may also authorize someone else to submit these requests on your behalf. California residents who are unable to review or access this Supplemental Notice due to a disability may call us at 1-312-649-4600 to access this Supplemental Notice in an alternative format.

Third-Party Marketing. California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits you to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us using the contact details provided above.

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