Privacy Policy (as of 05/07/2020)
The Digital Report, LLC is committed to protecting the privacy of the information you share with us when you access any of our services (“Services”) which can include but are not limited to our website(s), application(s), product(s), event(s) and other offerings. This policy describes how we collect, utilize, and share any personally identifiable information (PII) you provide to us when you access or use any of our Services.
This policy may be supplemented by additional privacy terms or notices disclosed to you in connection with your registration for or receipt of Services.
Collection of Information
We may collect PII and/or anonymous information from you when you access our Services. This includes information you provide to us via subscription or registration for any of our digital, in-person or printed services (e.g. sign up for newsletters or promotions; participate in a survey; purchase a product or service; use one of our mobile applications; post comments; and/or otherwise communicate with us or interact with our Services).
Once you have interacted with our Services, we create a profile for you. We keep your profile up to date by adding information about your various interactions with our services. This allows us to offer a consistent and personalized experience in your interactions with us. Information gathered through one Service may be combined with information obtained through other company services.
We may also receive information about you from external sources that are not affiliated with The Digital Report, LLC and may add that to the information you have provided to us. This information may be public information or data you provided to others with authorizations to share it with third parties.
Cookies and Technology
We use cookies (small data files stored on your computer by your web browser upon visiting a website) to operate our Services efficiently and as intended. Through these technologies we gather information about you, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, mobile device identification number, and navigation history. We may also use these technologies to gather information about your interactions with our Services, such as the time and date when you viewed or used a page or item of content or functionality, which advertisements you have clicked on and whether you filled out an online form. When you receive newsletters or promotional emails from The Digital Report, LLC, we use customized links or similar technologies to determine whether the email has been opened and which links you click, in order to refine future email communications or other information.
We use information gathered through these tools for our internal security audit log, for trend analysis and system administration, to gather broad information about our audiences and their geographic locations, and to otherwise improve our Services. By allowing us to understand how you use our Services, these tools can help us provide you with a more relevant, enhanced online experience. In addition, we may work with third-party advertising companies to target and serve advertising you see on the Services or on third-party sites based on preferences gathered from technologies used.
You may set your browser to block cookies, including those from The Digital Report, LLC, while using our Services (in which case some aspects of the Services may not function properly), or you may set your browser to block third-party cookies and allow first-party cookies, which would allow us to exclusively collect such information (without third party involvement). Please refer to your browser’s documentation if you wish to block some or all cookies and/or similar tools.
We reserve the right to utilize updated or new technologies, if needed, to gather additional, relevant information from our users and improve our Services and your experience of them.
How We Use Your Information
We may use information about you to: 1) provide you with Services and information that you have requested from us or that we think may be of interest to you; 2) to send account notices, manage your account, respond to requests, inquiries, comments or concerns; 3) to offer you customized content and individualized personalization of the Services to make them more relevant to your interests; 4) to ask for your input to help in research about our Services; 4) to contact you with information about, and provide invitations for, products, services, events and research opportunities directed at your interests.
Visitor Consent
By using/accessing The Digital Report, LLC Services, you consent to our collection, use and sharing of your PII as described in this policy. In some cases, particularly if you reside in a country governed by a data protection regulation, we may ask you to provide explicit consent to receive information before we are able to send it to you.
Email Opt-Out
You may opt-out of our email marketing lists by following the directions to unsubscribe at the bottom of our emails.
If you believe that the information we have about you requires an update, please contact us so we can keep your information accurate. Any data that is no longer needed for the purposes specified in Information Collection will be deleted. If at any point you wish for The Digital Report, LLC to delete information about you, you can simply contact us here.
You may receive email marketing messages from us about other companies’ offerings as part of any business partner marketing program we have in place. To opt-out of any business partner marketing program, you may follow the instructions at the bottom of any email we send you as part of the program.
You may also receive personalized ads for our products/events while browsing the internet. To opt out of receiving these personalized ads, the following third-party opt-out tools can be used for that purpose:
—DAA: http://www.aboutads.info/
—NAI: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
—EDAA (Europe only): http://www.youronlinechoices.com/
Please note that this “opt-out” function is browser-specific and relies on an “opt-out cookie”, thus, if you delete your cookies or upgrade your browser after having opted out, you will need to opt-out again.
Please note that opting-out of promotional mailings will not affect delivery of your subscription-based products.
Access to Your Information
You have the right to request access to the information we have about you. Simply contact us here. In order to comply with your request, we may ask you to verify your identity in the process. We will fulfill your request by sending your copy electronically unless the request expressly specifies a different method. For any access request outside of electric delivery, we may charge you an administrative/delivery fee.
Information Disclosure
The Digital Report, LLC contracts with other companies to provide certain services on our behalf, including customer service, credit card and billing processing, shipping, subscription fulfillment, research, analytics, list cleansing, postal mailings, email and fax deployment, telemarketing, and other information and business services. We only provide these companies with the relevant information required to perform their services and they are explicitly restricted from using any data received from us for their own marketing purposes.
We may also provide your information to third parties for marketing and/or analytical purposes as further described below:
Sponsors and Gated Resources
From time to time our sponsors wish to contact our subscribers and customers who have indicated an interest in their products, services or events. If you register for or access Services offered by these vendors, you choose to share your name and contact details directly with those vendors so that they may contact you. For example, if you register for a vendor-branded (or co-branded with us) resource, we will collect your registration information on behalf of that vendor for its own use. We may also keep a copy of that data for our own use, consistent with this privacy policy. We may provide a link to the vendor’s privacy policy (as well as to this policy) on the registration page.
Similarly, if you access third-party resources in certain registration-only, or “gated” websites, resource centers, or directory services on our websites, we may share your registration information when you access or click on a link to technical resources provided or sponsored by another company. This includes third-party resources sold through our online stores. In addition, we may share your contact information with sponsors of a e-newsletter if you click on their information or offerings. If you do not wish to have your information shared, you will be given an opportunity within the e-newsletter to opt-out.
When you register for an in-person or digital event, we will provide your registration information to the sponsor(s) of such event. We may also provide your information to sponsors of special sessions within the larger event.
Correcting and/or Updating Your Information
If you are a registered user, you can access your account information and make corrections or updates upon log-in. The accuracy of such information is solely your responsibility. You may also separately contact us to request access to other PII about you which is in our possession. If you request to deactivate your account or delete your PII, we will endeavor to fulfill your request but some PII may persist in backup copies for a certain period of time and may be retained as necessary for legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations.
Information Security
We use a variety of technical, physical, and administrative security measures to secure the confidentiality of your PII and to protect it from loss, misuse, alteration, and destruction. However, due to the design of the Internet and other factors outside our control, we cannot guarantee that communications between you and our servers will be free from unauthorized access by third parties or by government agencies. You remain responsible for protecting any username(s) and password(s) and for the security of information in transit to us via digital means.
Other Important Information
The Digital Report, LLC reserves the right to access and disclose PII to comply with applicable laws, government requests, court orders and other legal requirements, or to investigate alleged or suspected fraud or violations of the terms and conditions governing our Services.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
As new products and services are offered or as existing products and services are improved, we may need to update this policy. When we do so we will post the changes here. We encourage you to review this policy from time to time to stay informed about how we are protecting the PII you provide. Your continued use of our Services covered by this policy constitutes your consent to the practices in place at the time of your use.
Notice to California Residents
In accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), this section provides you with specific rights outlined in the legislation and includes information on how to exercise those rights.
Right of Access
You have the right to request that The Digital Report, LLC provides you with certain information pertaining to our collection and use of your PII over the past 12 months. Once we receive your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
- The categories (and specific pieces) of information The Digital Report, LLC has collected about you.
- The categories of sources for the PII that The Digital Report, LLC has collected about you.
- Our business purpose for collecting and/or selling the PII about you.
- The categories of third parties with whom we may share that information.
- If we sold or disclosed your PII for a business purpose, we will disclose to you the categories of your PII that The Digital Report, LLC has sold/disclosed.
Right to Deletion
You may also request that The Digital Report, LLC delete any PII that we have about you.
To exercise the access and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request by contacting us here.
You may only make a verifiable request for access to your PII twice within a 12-month period. For The Digital Report, LLC to respond to your request or provide you with PPI, the verifiable consumer request must:
- Provide enough information for us to reasonably verify that you are the person about who PPI was collected.
- Include sufficient detail in the description of your request so that we can properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
We will only use the PPI provided in the verifiable customer request to verify the requestor’s identity.
Right to Non-Discrimination
The Digital Report, LLC will not discriminate against you for exercising your CCPA rights. You will not be:
- Denied goods or services.
- Charged different pricing/rates for goods and services or suggest that you will be charged different pricing/rates for goods and services.
- Provided with a sub-standard quality of goods and services or suggest that you will be provided with a sub-standard quality of goods and services.
“Do Not Sell My Personal Information” Request
CCPA law requires that The Digital Report, LLC maintain a separate web page where you can choose to opt out of the sale of your PPI, which can be accessed by clicking the link below:
Opt Out of the sale of your PPI
You may also contact us to make this request here.
Categories and Sources of Personal Information Collected
The Digital Report, LLC is required by CCPA to provide details of the categories of personal information collected, and the sources of that personal information collection, within the last 12 months (refer to Information Collection and Automatic Collection Technologies above).
Use of Personal Information
The Digital Report, LLC is required by CCPA to provide details on the purposes of collecting your personal information (refer to How We Use Your Information above).
Information Sold or Disclosed for Business Purposes
The Digital Report, LLC may have sold the following categories of PII over the past 12 month period: User contact information, including name, postal address, phone number, email address; and any business classifications such as “Company Type”, “Job Title”, and “Job Function”.
We utilize trusted third parties to provide services and perform functions for us, including maintenance and hosting, database storage and management, registration processing, and direct marketing campaign processing. Your PII may be shared with these third parties to the extent necessary to provide the services and perform the functions mentioned.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments, or requests regarding this policy or our processing of your information, please contact us here.