PRIVACY POLICY

Effective Date: April 20, 2014

Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, transfer, and store your information on MMCS Events. Please carefully read our privacy practices and let us know if you have any questions.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person. This information is collected when you register on MMCS Events and is kept until you delete your account.

You may be asked to provide your personal information anytime you contact us or a MMCS Events representative. MMCS Events and its affiliates may share this personal information with each other and use it consistent with this Privacy Policy. They may also combine it with other information to provide and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.

Here are some examples of the types of personal information MMCS Events may collect and how we may use it.

What personal information we collect

When you create a MMCS Events account or purchase a product, or participate in an online survey, we may collect a variety of information, including your name, mailing address, phone number, email address, contact preferences, and credit card information.

When you share your content with family and friends using the MMCS Events website, or invite others to join you on MMCS Events groups, forums, or blogs, we may collect the information you provide about those people such as name, mailing address, email address, and phone number.

How we use your personal information

The personal information we collect allows us to identify you and your account. It also keeps you posted on MMCS Events's latest feature announcements, software updates, upcoming events, special offers, or changes to our policies. It also helps us to improve our services, content, and advertising. If you don’t want to receive certain notices, you can opt out anytime by updating your profile preferences and changing your privacy settings.

We also use personal information to help us develop, deliver, and improve our products, services, content, and advertising.

From time to time, we may use your personal information to send important notices, such as communications about purchases and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies. Because this information is important to your interaction with MMCS Events, you may not opt out of receiving these communications.

We may also use personal information for internal purposes such as auditing, data analysis, and research to improve our products, services, and customer communications.

If you enter into a jury show, contest, or similar promotion we may use the information you provide to administer those programs.

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

We also collect non-personal information − data in a form that does not permit direct association with any specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose. The following are some examples of non-personal information that we collect and how we may use it:

We may collect information such as occupation, language, zip code, area code, unique device identifier, location, and the time zone where you are using this website so that we can better understand customer behavior and improve our products, services, and advertising.

We also may collect information regarding customer activities on our website, and from our other products and services. This information is aggregated and used to help us provide more useful information to our customers and to understand which parts of our website, products, and services are of most interest. Aggregated data is considered non-personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.

If we do combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information for as long as it remains combined.

Cookies and Other Technologies

MMCS Events's website, online services, interactive applications, email messages, and advertisements may use “cookies” and other technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons. These technologies help us better understand user behavior, tell us which parts of our website people have visited, and facilitate and measure the effectiveness of advertisements and web searches. We treat information collected by cookies and other technologies as non-personal information. However, to the extent that Internet Protocol (IP) addresses or similar identifiers are considered personal information by local law, we also treat these identifiers as personal information. Similarly, to the extent that non-personal information is combined with personal information, we treat the combined information as personal information for the purposes of this Privacy Policy.

MMCS Events and its partners use cookies and other technologies to control the number of times you see a given ad, deliver ads that relate to your interests, and measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns. There is no opt-out option for MMCS Events advertisements, although we keep them to a minimum on personal profiles.

MMCS Events and our partners also use cookies and other technologies to remember personal information when you use our website, online services, and applications. Our goal in these cases is to make your experience with MMCS Events more convenient and personal. For example, knowing your first name lets us welcome you the next time you visit our website or online store. Knowing your country helps us provide a customized and more useful social networking or shopping experience.

As is true of most websites, we gather some information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, browser type and language, Internet service provider (ISP), referring and exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data.

We use this information to understand and analyze trends, to administer the site, to learn about user behavior on the site, and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. MMCS Events may use this information in our marketing and advertising services.

Disclosure to Third Parties

At times MMCS Events may make certain personal information available to strategic partners that work with our company to provide products and services, or that help us market to customers. Personal information will only be shared by MMCS Events to provide or improve our products, services and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.

It may be necessary − by law, legal process, litigation, and/or requests from public and governmental authorities within or outside your country of residence − for MMCS Events to disclose your personal information. We may also disclose information about you if we determine that for purposes of national security, law enforcement, or other issues of public importance, disclosure is necessary or appropriate.

We may also disclose information about you if we determine that disclosure is reasonably necessary to enforce our terms and conditions or protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a reorganization, merger, or sale we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the relevant third party.

Protection of Personal Information

MMCS Events takes precautions — including administrative, technical, and physical measures — to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

When you use some of MMCS Events products, services, or applications or post on a MMCS Events forum, chat room, or social networking service, the personal information you share is visible to other users and can be read, collected, or used by them. You are responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these instances. For example, if you list your name and email address in a forum posting, that information is public. Please take care when using these features.

Integrity and Retention of Personal Information

MMCS Events makes it easy for you to keep your personal information accurate, complete, and up to date. We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

Access to Personal Information

You can help ensure that your contact information and preferences are accurate, complete, and up to date by logging in to your account. For other personal information, we make good faith efforts to provide you with access so you can request that we correct the data if it is inaccurate or delete the data if MMCS Events is not required to retain it by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, are extremely impractical, or for which access is not otherwise required by local law. Access, correction, or deletion requests can be made by contacting us.

Children

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under 16 we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Third-Party Sites and Services

MMCS Events website, applications, and services may contain links to third-party websites, products, and services. Our products and services may also use or offer products or services from third parties. Information collected by third parties, which may include such things as location data or contact details, is governed by their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy practices of those third parties.

International Users

Information you provide may be transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this Privacy Policy. MMCS Events abides by the “safe harbor” framework set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information collected by organizations in the European Economic Area and Switzerland. Learn more about the U.S. Department of Commerce Safe Harbor Program.

Our Companywide Commitment to Your Privacy

To make sure your personal information is secure, we communicate our privacy and security guidelines to MMCS Events employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within our company.

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions or concerns about MMCS Events's Privacy Policy or data processing, please contact us.

MMCS Events may update its Privacy Policy from time to time. When we change the policy in a material way, a notice will be posted on our website along with the updated Privacy Policy.


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MMCS Events, Freehold, NJ, 07728, USA. Tel: (301) 637-4934; Fax: (240) 454-8207.

Last updated: April 20, 2014