Effective Date: 3/22/23
Welcome to Emporia, a platform connecting Respondents to Clients seeking their insight. The Emporia website and interactive properties through which the service is delivered (collectively, the “Service”) are owned, operated, and distributed by Emporia Learning Inc., a Delaware corporation (referred to in this Privacy Policy as “Emporia” or in possessive use, such as through “we,” “us,” “our,” etc.). At Emporia, we respect and value the privacy of our others. This Privacy Policy describes how personal information is collected, used, shared and safeguarded when you access the Service. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of your information by us as set out in this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE OR ACCESS THE SERVICE.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you create an account or make a purchase on or through the Service, we may ask you for certain personal information about you, which may include your name, telephone number, postal address and email address. When you visit the Service, we may automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Service, we may collect information about the individual pages or features that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Service, and information about how you interact with the Service. We refer to this automatically-collected information as "Device Information."
We may collect Device Information using the following technologies:
You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Service. You may not send us any sensitive personal information (e.g., social security number, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background or trade union membership) on or through the Service or otherwise.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We and our service providers use personal information for our legitimate business purposes, including those specifically described below. We engage in these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you (including providing products and services to you), to comply with a legal obligation and/or because we have a legitimate business interest. We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize the Service (for example, by generating analytics about how our visitors browse and interact with the Service).
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share your personal information with third parties to help us use your personal information, as described above. With your consent, we may share your personal information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law. We may share your personal information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates may include a parent company and any subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us. We may share your personal information with advertisers and actual and potential investors for the purpose of conducting general business analysis. If we reorganize or sell all or a portion of our assets, undergo a merger or are acquired by another entity, we may transfer your personal information to the successor entity. If we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, your personal information would be an asset transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that the transferee may decline to honor commitments we made in this Privacy Policy. Finally, we may also share your personal information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
DO NOT TRACK
Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future, we will revise this Privacy Policy accordingly.
JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER
Your personal information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and by using the Service you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your personal information.
OPTIONS REGARDING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
If you have an account on the Service, you may at any time review or change the information in your account or terminate your account by emailing us at [email protected] or by updating your account information directly in the Service. Upon your request to terminate your account, we will deactivate or delete your account and personal information from our active databases. However, some information may be retained in our files to prevent fraud, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Service and/or comply with legal requirements.