Our Privacy Policy: In Simplest Form

Any data that we collect and store will be held with the utmost respect for your privacy.

We will never sell your data and we will only share your data when you request us to share this information with one of our partners. Below is the list of partners for whom we have a data sharing relationship with:

• NONE

For newsletter subscriptions, we use Squarespace forms to collect this information and we use Squarespace to store and manage this information.

Currently, we use, SquareSpace, Elfsight forms, and TypeForm directly and throughout the website to collect general information and ClickUp to transact on this information. These are some of the reasons for using these forms:

• Content contribution

• Campaign submissions

• Event listing submissions

• Press release submissions

• Company/sponsor directory submissions

• Newsletter subscriptions

• Contact us requests

Subscriptions to sponsorships and advertising campaigns where payment is required, data is collected and managed on Squarespace. Learn more about their Privacy Policy.

Other places where you may submit data outside of ITSPmagazine but where the data may be accessible by ITSPmagazine:

• Simplecast: We store and manage our podcasts on Simplecast. If you sign up for an account on Simplecast, the community at large, including ITSPmagazine, can see which tracks you listen to and like. Learn more about their Privacy Policy.

• YouTube: We may host some videos on YouTube. If you sign up for an account on YouTube, the community at large, including ITSPmagazine, can see which video you watch and like. Learn more about their Privacy Policy.

• Vimeo: We may host some videos on Vimeo. If you sign up for an account on Vimeo, the community at large, including ITSPmagazine, can see which video you watch and like. Learn more about their Privacy Policy.

Requests to remove data collected directly by ITSPmagazine can be made through our Contact Us form. Requests to remove data collected by any of the services noted above should be made through those services directly. If you have any questions about this process, of course you can contact us at any time.

We also leverage Google Analytics to help us understand how our visitors access and engage with our content. For any visitors that want to explore Google's options for opting out of those figures we recommend visiting this Google Analytics page: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Our Privacy Policy: The More Formal Version

ITSPmagazine is a property of imsmartin, LLC. This privacy policy governs the web site www.itspmagazine.com and other publication subsidiaries operated by imsmartin, LLC.  As a data controller, your privacy is very important to us. Since day one of launching the publication, we have always respected your privacy and always will.

For the entirety of this privacy policy we are referencing imsmartin, LLC, the company, and the website at www.itspmagazine.com. We may change or add to this privacy policy, so we encourage you to come back and read it periodically.

The following is the ITSPmagazine Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) and is intended to be incorporated with the Website Terms of Use that governs the relationship between you (“You” and “Your”) and ITSPmagazine (“We” or “ITSPmagazine”) in relation to Your use of a ITSPmagazine website and/or services.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information You Provide

We collect personal information when you submit this information to us through any forms we present to you and that you complete on this web site and other websites where we make our content available.

Information Collected Automatically
Like many websites, we and our service providers use cookies to receive and store certain types of information when you interact with us through your computer or mobile device. Using these technologies helps us customize your experience and support you better with our services. Here are some of the types of information we collect:

• Log & Device data. When you visit our site, we may automatically record information (“log data”), including information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site. This log data may include your web address you came from or are going to, your device model, operating system, browser type, unique device identifier, IP address, mobile network carrier, and time zone or location.

• Cookie data. We may use “cookies” (a small text file sent by your computer each time you visit our site) or similar technologies to record log data. When we use cookies, we may use “session” cookies (that last until you close your browser) or “persistent” cookies (that last until you or your browser delete them). To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such capabilities. You can opt out of receiving emails from us. Please see the Your Choices section below.

• Other Web Site Analytics Services. We use third party service providers such as Google Analytics to provide certain analytics and user interactions services to us in connection with our operation of our site, including the collection and tracking of certain data and information regarding the characteristics and activities of our visitors. You may opt-out of third party cookies at Google Analytics. We do not currently recognize or respond to browser-initiated Do Not Track signals as there is no consistent industry standard for compliance.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We may use information that we collect about you to:

• Provide our Products and Services. We will use your information to provide our products and services to you.

• Understand and improve our products. We will perform research and analysis about your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or content offered by others. We do this to help make our products better and to develop new products.

• Communicate with you.

  • Promotional. We may send you emails about new product features or other news about us or on topics we think would be relevant to you. You may opt out of these at any time. Visit the Your Choices section below.

  • Responding to your requests. We will also use your information to respond to your questions or comments.

  • Administrative. We may contact you to inform you about changes in our services, our service offering and other important service related notices such as changes to the privacy policy or about security or fraud notices.

• Advertising. We may develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our products and services on our site and on other sites;

• Other. We also may use your information to manage our business or perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of collection.

We use both personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information, and combinations of both types of information, as described above.

Sharing and Disclosure

We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated within this policy or when we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information shared.

We will share your information in the following ways.

• Members of the ITSPmagazine business family. These entities are most often operating under the parent holding company, imsmartin, LLC, to provide joint content and services, to help detect and prevent potentially illegal acts and violations of our policies, and to guide decisions about their products, services and communications. Members of our corporate family will use this information to send You marketing communications only if You have requested their services.

• With third party service providers, agents, or contractors. We use other companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our behalf or to assist us with providing services to You. For example, we may engage Service Providers to process credit card transactions or other payment methods. Or, we may engage Service Providers to provide services such as marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and IT services, to provide customer service, to collect debts, and to analyze and enhance data (including data about users’ interactions with our service). These Service Providers may have access to your personal or other information in order to provide these functions. In addition, some of the information we request may be collected by third party providers on our behalf. We do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with providing their services.

• To comply with legal process or to protect imsmartin, LLC and its subsidiaries. If we believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal or governmental request; to enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of potential violations thereof; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any person, or imsmartin, LLC as required by law; or to detect, prevent, or otherwise address, security or technical issues or illegal or suspected illegal activities (including fraud).

• Business Transfers. We may engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution, reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the information described in this Policy. In such transitions, customer information is typically one of the business assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. In the unlikely event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired or enter a court proceeding, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that your personal information can continue to be used as set forth in this privacy policy.

Your Choices

• E-mail. As described above, if you do not wish to receive promotional e-mails from us, you may opt out at any time.

• Cookies. Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at any time.

Security

• Information Protection. We believe we use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification. Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

• Web Referrals. ITSPmagazine contains links to other websites. ITSPmagazine is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these sites. If You have concerns about how other websites collect and use information about You, make sure You read that site’s own privacy policy.

• Spam, Spyware or Spoofing. We and our users do not tolerate spam. Spam is email or other forms of messaging that is both unsolicited and commercial in nature.

  (A) Unsolicited: The email or other message has been sent without the permission of the person who received it

  (B) Commercial: The email or other message discusses buying, selling or trading of goods or services

  To report ITSPmagazine-related spam or spoof emails to ITSPmagazine, please forward the email hello<at>itspmagazine.com.

European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

EU residents have a number of rights under GDPR. If you wish to change, delete, or port your information, please use our Contact Us form here.

Our policy on children’s information

Our site is not directed to children under 16. If you learn that your minor child has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us.

Changes to the Policy

We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any changes on this page. If you continue to visit our site after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy. If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or get your consent on the new policy.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please contact us by filling out the Contact Us form here.