Privacy Policy

At 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋, we want you to be able to use our websites and online services with confidence, knowing that we have implemented fair information practices designed to protect your privacy. Our privacy policy applies to 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 and its affiliates and subsidiaries, as well as the websites, mobile applications, and other online services to which they are directly linked (the “Sites”).

The privacy policy describes the types of information we may collect during your visit to these Sites, how we use it, when we may disclose your personally identifiable information, and how you can manage it.

This privacy statement does not apply to Sites operated by other companies or organizations to which we may link or to which we may link. Third-party websites’ actions and privacy policies are not our responsibility.

By visiting our Sites, you agree to the practices outlined in our privacy statement, including the use of cookies and other online tools. Please do not use the Sites if you do not agree with the terms of this privacy statement.

We reserve the right to change or modify the terms of our privacy policy at any time and without notice. Your continued use of our Sites following the posting of changes to these terms will be interpreted as your acceptance of those changes. If we intend to apply the modifications or amendments to this privacy policy retroactively or to personally identifiable information already in our possession, we will notify you and seek your consent for such use.

What Information Is Collected?

In connection with your use of the Sites, we collect two types of information from you: non-personally identifiable information and personally identifiable information. Non-personally identifiable information does not identify you personally, but it may include tracking and usage data about your general location, demographics, and use of the Sites and the Internet. Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is any information that can be used to identify you individually, such as your name, address, phone number, and email address, as well as any non-personally identifiable information that has been linked to such personally identifiable information.

Personally Identifiable Information

In general, you can browse the Sites without providing us with any personally identifiable information. However, you may provide us with personally identifiable information in a variety of circumstances, including when you subscribe to our publications, newsletters, and other content; register for a Site or any part of it; complete a poll or participate in market research; enter a contest; upload content, or apply for employment at 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

We may collect certain information that does not personally identify you (“non-personally identifiable information” or “non-PII”) when you interact with the Sites, such as demographic data; information about your computer, mobile device, or another device that you use to access the Sites, such as IP address, general location information, unique device identifiers, browser type, browser language, and other transactional information.

We may also collect information about your use of the Sites, such as your search terms and results, as well as other “traffic data” such as time of access, date of access, software crash reports, session identification number, access times, and referring website addresses. Our servers may keep an activity log of your use of our Sites automatically. We may collect aggregate data about the use of the Sites in addition to non-identifiable individual information.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information From or Through Social Media Sites

Furthermore, when you interact with any 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 property page or account on a social media platform, such as Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, or LinkedIn, we may collect the personally identifiable information that you provide to us on that page or account, including your social media account ID. However, we will adhere to the privacy policies of the corresponding social media platform and will only collect and store personally identifiable information that those social media platforms permit us to collect. If you link or login to your 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 account with or through a social networking service, 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋, and that service may share information about you and your activities. We may also share information about your activities, including what you view on the Sites, with the users of that social network with your permission.

Collection of Your Source IP Address/Location Information

We collect and store the source IP address of your device, which may reveal your device’s general location at the time you access the Sites. As a result of this information, advertisements and certain content may be targeted to you.

Information from Other Sources

We may supplement the information we collect with data from third parties or data collected offline and add it to your account. Demographic information, additional contact information, group affiliations, occupational information, and educational background are examples of the types of information that may be collected.

How Do We Use Your Information?

We use the information we collect about you to personalize and improve your experience on the Sites, which includes:

• Deliver the content, products, and services you’ve requested.
• As you request, we will post your user-generated content to our websites.
• Communicate with you regarding your account or transactions with us, as well as send you information about new features and enhancements to our Sites.
• Changes to our policies will be communicated to you.
• Discuss your response to a story or topic with you.
• Personalize our Sites’ content and experiences, including making recommendations based on your preferences.
• By e-mail, text, or other means, send you newsletters, offers, and promotions for our products and services, third-party products and services, or special events.
• Provide you with advertisements, including advertisements based on your activities on our Sites or third-party sites and applications.
• Manage our customer loyalty programs.
• Contests, giveaways, promotions, and polls should all be administered.
• Improve or optimize our products, services, and operations.
• Perform statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of users of the Sites and their purchasing patterns in order to detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be illegal.

We may combine information gathered from multiple portions of the Sites into a single user record, and we may use information from one portion of the Sites on other portions of the Sites in our network of Sites, all of which are owned and operated by 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋. We may also use or combine information collected offline or from third-party sources for a variety of purposes, including improving, expanding, and verifying the accuracy of our records. Furthermore, data collected from one browser or device may be used on another computer or device that is linked to the browser or device that collected the data.

Who Can See Your Information?

Except as described in this privacy policy, we will not disclose any personally identifiable information collected from the Sites to any organizations that are not part of 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋, its subsidiaries, or related entities.

Third-Party Agents

We use third-party agents, subsidiaries, affiliates, and partners to help us with things like hosting, content syndication, content management tools, social media integration, marketing, analytics, billing, and customer service. If it is necessary for these entities to perform their functions, they may have access to personally identifiable information. If such access is required, the third parties will be required to keep the personally identifiable information confidential and secure. They are prohibited from using, selling, distributing, or altering this data for any purpose other than providing the Sites with the requested services. A list of third-party scripts or SDKs that can be used on 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 is provided below:

Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

Google Analytics is a Google Inc. (“Google”) web analytics service. Google uses the information gathered to track and analyze how this Application is used, to compile reports on its activities, and to share it with other Google services.

Google may use the information gathered to contextualize and personalize its own ad network’s ads.

Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

Facebook Analytics for Apps (Facebook, Inc.)

Facebook Analytics for Apps is a Facebook, Inc.-provided analytics service.

Personal Data collected: Usage Data and other types of data as described in the service’s privacy policy.

Place of processing: US – Privacy Policy

Links to Third Party Sites

Our Digital Properties may contain links to third-party websites that we do not control, and this Privacy Policy only applies to data acquired through our Digital Properties. We recommend that you review the privacy policies of these other websites.

Law Enforcement, Legal Process, and Emergency Situations

We may use or disclose your personally identifiable information to a third party if we are required to do so by law or if we believe in good faith that doing so is necessary to comply with the law or legal process; to protect and defend our rights or to prevent misuse of our Sites; or to protect the personal safety of our employees, agents, partners, Site users, or the general public.

Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information

Individual, non-personally identifiable information and aggregate information may be disclosed or shared in any way we think appropriate or necessary, other than as indicated below. We will share non-personally identifiable information with third parties, among other things, to help us understand how people use portions of the Sites and who our users are so that we may enhance our Sites. We will also share non-personally identifiable information about how our users collectively use the Sites with our partners and other third parties.

How Do the Sites Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?

Common ID Cookie

To deliver its services, this site use cookies and other tracking technologies such as the Common ID cookie. Cookies are crucial for determining the efficacy of advertising and supporting a healthy internet advertising sector. Our ad partners can access the Common ID cookie, which holds a unique user id in the first-party domain. This basic ID may be used to enhance user matching, particularly when sending advertising to browsers on iOS and macOS. By going here, users can opt-out of the Common ID monitoring cookie.

Advertising Privacy Settings

Advertisements are also displayed on our site by third-party ad serving firms and other unrelated advertisers. They may use a separate cookie or other data collection and tracking technologies as part of their service to collect information such as your IP address, browser type, the server your computer is logged onto, the area code and zip code associated with your server, and whether you responded to a specific advertisement. We have no control over the tracking technologies used by these third parties, how they are used, or the information they gather, and we are not responsible for their privacy policies or content. Please check the privacy policies of those businesses by clicking on the links above. We may update or add to the list of third-party ad servers at any moment, so please monitor this area for updates. You can learn more about online advertising at www.aboutads.info/consumers.

Many of the third-party advertisers that post tracking technologies on our Websites are members of programs that give you more control over how your information is collected and used. Visit the Network Advertising Initiative and the Digital Advertising Alliance websites, as well as Facebook’s ad choices tool and privacy policy, to learn more about the alternatives available to restrict these third parties’ collection and use of your information.

Similarly, you may use your device settings to learn about your options for opting out of mobile app monitoring by specific advertising networks. See: How to Change These Settings on Apple, Android, and Windows Devices for additional details.

Apple: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4228

Android: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

Windows: http://choice.microsoft.com/en-US/opt-out

What Are Your Choices?

We believe you should have a say in how your information is collected, used, and shared. Although you cannot opt-out of all data collecting when visiting our sites, you can limit how your personally identifiable information is collected, used, and shared. Please see the section above titled “How Do the Sites Use Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies?” for more information on your interest-based advertising options.

Collection of personally identifiable information

All personally identifying information is voluntarily submitted. You should not provide such information to the Sites if you do not want 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 to collect it. However, you will be limited in your ability to view some information and utilize some of the sites’ features if you do so.

Emails and Newsletters

You can always opt out of receiving future 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 e-mail marketing messages and newsletters by following the instructions included in the emails and newsletters, or by emailing, calling, or writing us at the addresses listed below.

Governing Law

We make every effort to secure all users’ personally identifiable information and to comply with local data protection and consumer rights regulations to the degree that they may apply to 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋’s services. You should not submit your personally identifiable information to 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 if you are unsure whether this privacy policy violates the applicable local privacy regulations where you are located.

Other Important Information

We protect your information with appropriate security measures, such as physical, technical, and administrative controls. Please keep in mind that, while we make every effort to protect your personally identifiable information after we get it, no data transmission over the Internet or any other public network can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You must contribute to the protection of your personal information’s privacy. By using encryption and other techniques to prevent unauthorized persons from intercepting or receiving any personally identifiable information that you may transmit over any home networks, wireless routers, wireless (WiFi) networks, or similar devices, you must take precautions to protect the security of any personally identifiable information that you may transmit. When accessing unencrypted, open access, or otherwise insecure networks, you are responsible for the security of your data.

The length of time we preserve information varies depending on the purpose for which it was collected. In some circumstances, it is required by law to store data for a certain amount of time. We will store information for no longer than is necessary for the reasons for which it was obtained or for which it is to be further processed unless there is a specific legal necessity for us to keep it.

Children’s Information

Children under the age of 16 are not permitted to use the Sites. Children under the age of 16 are not deliberately collect personal information by 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋. If you are under the age of 16, do not provide personal information to 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 without your parents’ permission. If 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 detects that a child under the age of 16 has provided us with personal information and we do not have parental authorization, we will remove that child’s information from the Sites immediately.

If you feel that a child under the age of 16 has been given personal information without parental authorization, please contact us immediately at press(at)𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋(dot)com.

Questions About this Policy or Access to Your Information

Logging into your account and modifying your account profile will allow you to examine and change your information if you have an 𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜 𝐌𝐍𝐋 account. If you have any queries regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at the following address: press(at)𝐈𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐜𝐌𝐍𝐋(dot)com.

You may also contact us to request access to or changes to your personally identifiable information; however, you will not be permitted to examine the personally identifiable information of any other person or entity, and you may be required to provide us with personally identifiable information to verify your identity before accessing any records containing information about you. If we feel that changing or deleting personally identifiable information would violate any law or legal obligation, or cause the information to be erroneous, we may refuse to comply.