Privacy Policy

Last modified: November 16, 2021

Introduction

Senior Executive Media, LLC, a Delaware corporation, strictly in connection with its operation of the Website (as defined herein) (the “Company,” “We” or “us”), respects your privacy and we want to ensure you are aware of what data we intend to keep and how we will handle the data you provide to us.  

This privacy policy describes the types of information We may collect from individuals (collectively, “Users” or “you”) who visit the website seniorexecutive.com or its related mobile applications (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.  If you have any questions about this policy, please submit an inquiry to editor@seniorexecutive.com (the “Senior Executive Media Contact”) with the subject line “Privacy Policy.” 

This policy applies to information We collect from Users:

• on this Website;
• via email, text, telephonic and other electronic communications between you and the Company;
• through mobile and desktop applications you download from the Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and the Website; and
• when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party or affiliated websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to the Website.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by the Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
• any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how We will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, do not use our Website.  By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Website after We make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, and thus please check the policy periodically for updates. 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes We make to this privacy policy on this page. If We make material changes to how We treat our Users’ personal information, We will notify you through a notice on the Website’s home page that this privacy policy has been changed. The date this privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring We have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.  

Terms of Use

Proper access and use of the Website, is governed by our terms of use (the “Terms of Use”). You may access the current Terms of Use via this link: seniorexecutive.com/terms-of-use/.

Children Under the Age of 18

Our Website, in general, is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features, use any of the interactive or public comment features that may be available on the Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If We learn We have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, We will delete that information. If you believe We might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us by email at editor@seniorexecutive.com.

International Users and Individuals in the European Union

Our Website is for the use of residents of the United States and this Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures in the United States.  Regardless of where you live, by using the Websites or engaging with us while within the United States, you consent to have your personal data transferred, processed, and stored in the United States, and allow us to use and collect your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  If you live outside the United States, we may host a website or application designed for use in your jurisdiction and we encourage you to use that website or application.  

Our Website is for the use of residents of the United States and is not intended for residents of the European Union or for the monitoring of the activities of European residents’ behavior as far as that behavior takes place within the European Union.  We are not located in the European Union and do not intend to be subject to any provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (GDPR). None of the protections afforded under the GDPR apply to the Website.  If you are a resident of the European Union, and use our site, any data we collect or you provide or we independently collect, including personally identifiable information, will be collected pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the information will be processed in locations not necessarily deemed compliant with the provisions of the GDPR.  

Newsletter Subscriptions

If Senior Executive Media contacts you regarding subscribing to its newsletter or other publications that its sends to Users periodically (the “Newsletter Subscription”), you will have the right to either opt in to the Newsletter Subscription or opt-out to the Newsletter Subscription by providing certain information.  You have the right to (i) opt out of the Newsletter Subscription at any time or (ii) restrict the use of your personal information pursuant to applicable law at any time by submitting such opt out or restriction at seniorexecutive.com/first-five/ or by email to editor@seniorexecutive.com or in writing to Senior Executive Media, P.O. Box 96503, Suite 52536, Washington, DC 20090-6503.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about our Users including, but not limited to, information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, e-mail address, date of birth, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
• that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as age, country, state, zip code or city of residence, gender or race, employment history, educational history, grades, salary, job positions; and/or
• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details, such as IP address and web cookies.

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, web browsers, site navigation information, machine identifiers, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us.  The information We collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to a Website service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter or apply for a contest or special promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.  When you provide information to the Website in any other manner, you agree to provide only true, accurate, current and complete information, which you have the authority to provide and make subject to this privacy policy. 
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys or forms that We might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and the fulfillment of requests, which are made available to you, or the enrollment in any contests, promotion, or event hosted or sponsored by Senior Executive Media.
• Your search queries on the Website.
• Any information you provide to us in any application or registration allowing you to access any features of the Website, the Newsletter Subscription or any other features or services, if and as applicable.

You agree that We may from time-to-time call, email or otherwise communicate with you (using the email address and phone numbers you provide) about your use of the Website or any of its features, and to provide offers of products and services, and that, for the purposes of any and all such communications, you do not have any reasonable expectation of privacy during those calls; indeed you hereby consent to allow us, in our sole discretion, to record the entirety of such calls or communications regardless of whether We ask or separately advise you on such particular call or communication for consent to record such call or communication, including to the extent that you provide personal information in such call or communication. You further acknowledge and agree that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, any such recording(s) or communication(s) may be submitted in evidence in any legal proceeding in which We are a party.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.  As you navigate through and interact with our Website, We may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). The Website may not follow settings limiting or preventing tracking even if selected in your browser settings.

The information We collect automatically may include personal information, or We may maintain it or associate it with personal information We collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies We use for this automatic data collection may include:

• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Web Beacons. Certain pages within the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count Users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website may be served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content. 

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt-out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Additionally We may use third-party service providers to monitor and analyze the use of the Website including Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager or Hubspot.  Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js,analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy 

For more information on Google Tag Manager their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en 

For more information on Hubspot, their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://legal.hubspot.com/product-privacy-policy 

How We Use Your Information

We use information that We collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To notify you about changes to our Website, memberships or any products or services We offer or provide though the Website.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• To enhance your experience and the available offerings on our Website.
• For direct marketing purposes.
• In connection with online behavioral advertising.
• In any other way We may describe when you provide the information.
• To comply with our legal obligations.
• To comply with our legal obligations.

We may use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please provide an email notice to the Senior Executive Media Contact via editor@seniorexecutive.com. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

We may use the information We have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though We do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our Users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction unless prohibited by applicable law. 

We may disclose personal information that We collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy, and you consent to such disclosure:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties We use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, change of control, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of The Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by the Company about Users is among the assets transferred.
• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which We disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. 
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our policies (as described in the Terms of Use) and any other agreements to which Users agree in connection with their use of the Website, or in the event of a potential dispute.
• If We believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Senior Executive Media, LLC, our partners, customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. The following are some of the mechanisms available to you to control your information: 

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You may set your browser’s settings to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of the Website may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by sending an email to the Senior Executive Media Contact stating your request with the subject line “Opt Out – Third Party Advertising.” In the event that you opt-out of such advertising, you may become ineligible to take advantage of some of the benefits generally available to Users. 
• Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by sending an email stating your request to the Senior Executive Media Contact with the subject line “Opt Out – Promotional Offers” or by utilizing the “unsubscribe” feature at the end of such promotional emails. Alternatively, if We send you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt-out will not apply to personal information provided to or promotional offers sent by third party vendor network providers for the benefit of Users.  Please be aware that by opting out of promotional you may be limiting your ability to receive updates about certain member benefits updates and changes.
• Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use information that We collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending an email to the Senior Executive Media Contact. 

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt-out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

While you may have the ability to opt-out of some communications from us, We reserve the right to contact you with important information, which may include, but is not limited to, changes in our Terms of Use, data breaches, and other notifications required by law. 

Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change portions of your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.  It is your responsibility to keep your personal information updated and provide us with any changes to your personal information. 

You may also send an email to the Senior Executive Media Contact with the subject line “Change Personal Information” to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your User account and membership. We may not accommodate a request to change information if We believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or, in our opinion, cause the information to be incorrect.  We also may not be able to delete any information that may be stored on backup tapes as it may not be possible to delete a portion of a backup tape without destroying the entire backup.

Your California Privacy Rights

If you are a California resident, you may have certain additional privacy rights.  Please note Users of our Website that are California Residents are subject to the Senior Executive Media Privacy Policy For California Residents available at seniorexecutive.com/california-consumer-privacy-act-policy/.

Data Security

We have implemented reasonable measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions and passwords will be encrypted using SSL or equivalent security technology. If you would like to know about the third-party platforms We use, please contact the Senior Executive Media Contact by email with the subject line “Third Party Security Platforms”. 

The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where We have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.  We also suggest that you select a password that is unique to our Website and that it is not used with any other internet site.

Unfortunately, information accessible to the internet is not completely secure. Although We do our best to protect your personal information, We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. Any personal information you provide is done so at your own risk including theft. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or its associated information systems.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at: 

Senior Executive Media
P.O. Box 96503
Suite 52536
Washington, DC 20090-6503

Attn: Privacy Policy

Email: editor@seniorexecutive.com