Privacy Policy
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Last Revised: May 27th, 2021
Your Privacy is Serious Business to Us!
Maintaining the privacy of our website visitors and mobile application users is very important to us. Because we gather information about you, you need to know:
- The kinds of information we collect and why we collect it;
- How we use that information; and
- How you can update that information or limit or control how it is used.
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Entrepreneur Media, Inc. (“EMI”) with registered address at 18061 Fitch, Irvine CA, 92614 may collect, use and share information you provide when using our Service, including your personal information. The term “Service” includes the websites www.entrepreneur.com and www.greenentrepreneur.com together with any related subsites, sub-domains, mobile and software applications, services, features and/or content associated therewith (collectively, “our Websites”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms “we,” “us” and “our” refer to EMI and “you” refers to you, as a user of our Service.
We’ve tried to keep this Privacy Policy simple, but if you’re not familiar with any of the terms used or have any questions, contact us at legal@entrepreneur.com. Your privacy matters to us at EMI, so whether you are new to our Service or are a regular or longtime user, it is important that you take the time to carefully read our Privacy Policy, so you can understand our practices as relates to your information.
We will ask for your consent before using your information in any manner and for any purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- The Kinds of Information We Collect
- How We Use Information We Collect
- The Advertising on Our Service
- Privacy and Choice
- Minors and Children Under Age 16
- Where We Store the Information
- The Information You Share
- Updating Your Personal Information
- The Information We Share
- The Protection of Your Information
- The Scope of Our Privacy Policy
- Handling Complaints from Our Service Users and Regulatory Authorities
- California Residents
- Privacy Policy Revisions and Updates
- Contacting Us
1. The Kinds of Information We Collect.
We collect information to provide better services to all of users of our Service, including determining what types of editorial content and the products and services offered on our Service that are of the most interest and relevance to you.
We collect information about you from the following two sources:
a. The Information you give us (“EMI Profile”). For example, many of our services require that you create an account. When you do, we’ll ask for personal information, like your name, email address, telephone number, and, if you are purchasing products or services on our Service, purchase information such as the products or services purchased, the dates of purchase and the purchase price.
b. The information we collect from your use of our Service. This information relates generally to what editorial and advertising content you view, and the products and services you use that we and our third-party providers offer. This information includes:
(i) Device Information, we collect information about the devices you use to access our Service, such as hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
(ii) Log Information. When you use our Service, we automatically collect and store certain information in server logs, which automatically record certain information when you use our Service, including the following:
(a) details about how you have used our Service, such as your search queries;
(b) your IP address, which is the number assigned to an Internet connected device such as a tablet or smartphone and used to identify the geographic location of that device; and
(c) cookies that may uniquely identify your browser and collect information about how our visitors interact with our Service, as well as help us identify problems such as error messages from certain pages. A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer or other device when you visit our Service. When you visit our Service any time thereafter, the cookie allows our Service to recognize your browser and to store information about your user preferences and other personal information.
(iii) Location information. When you visit our Service, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address.
(iv) Local storage. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device, using mechanisms such as browser web storage (including HTML 5), which allows for data to be stored on a browser even after the browser has been closed and the reopened, and application data caches, which allow for data to be stored on your device, enabling an application to run without an Internet connection and to load content faster.
(v) Collection and Storage technologies. We and our partners use various technologies to collect and store information when you access the EMI Service, and this may include using cookies or other technologies to identify your browser or device. We also use these technologies to collect and store information when you access our Service and interact with the content and products and services we offer, such as advertising services.
c. Our properties may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, such as Nielsen TV Ratings. To learn more about the information that Nielsen software may collect and your choices with regard to it, please see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy at https://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy.