Privacy Policy

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Revised Date: January 1, 2023

 

Your privacy is important to us at THE ICONIC MEDIA GROUP  (“ICONIC” or “ICONIC+” or “we”, or “us,” or “our”). This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) applies to any websites or mobile applications owned or operated by us, including, without limitation, this website currently located at www.watchICONICplus.com (collectively, the “Websites”), any newsletters subscribed to via the Websites, digital subscriptions to watchICONICplus.com, ICONIC+, and any other service or product of ICONIC, including without limitation mobile applications, or other digital properties, as expressly indicated by ICONIC such as through a link or other display of this Privacy Policy (collectively with the Websites, the “Services”). This Privacy Policy explains what information, including Personal Information, we collect from or about you on our Services, how we use or share such information, how to exercise any rights you may have with respect to your Personal Information, and the safeguards we have in place to reduce the risk of unauthorized access and use. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, Personal Information means any information, alone or in combination, from which a natural person can be identified. It does not include data where identifiers have been removed (e.g., anonymous or aggregate data).

Contents

• Scope of this Privacy Policy
• Collection of Your Information
• How We Use the Information We Collect
• How Vendors Use the Information We Collect
• Cookies and Online Tracking Technologies
• Online Advertising
• Selling and Sharing Your Information
• Do Not Track Disclosure
• Retention of Information
• Preference Management
• Your Legal Rights
• Your California Privacy Rights
• Your Nevada Privacy Rights
• Your Virginia Privacy Rights
• Your EU Privacy Rights
• Information Security
• Transfer of Information to the United States
• Children’s Privacy
• Links to Third Party Materials
• Changes to Our Privacy Policy

 

1. Contact Information

 

The ICONIC MEDIA GROUP, LLC is the controller.

For customers in the EU or UK, if you believe that your Personal Information has been processed in a way that does not comply with the EU or UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you have the right to lodge a complaint with your national regulator for data protection.

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2. Scope of this Privacy Policy

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This policy applies to information we collect:

 

• On our Websites (including www.watchiconicplus.com), mobile applications and Services that display this Privacy Policy.
• Via email, text and other electronic messages between you and us.

It does not apply to information collected by:
• Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party (including, if applicable, our affiliates and subsidiaries).
• Any third party (including, if applicable, our affiliates and subsidiaries), through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Websites or the Services.
• Us as a result of an application for employment with ICONIC, during the prospective hiring process, or relating to an individual’s actual employment with ICONIC. Our privacy policies regarding applicants and employees are separately disclosed during the application process and employment onboarding.

 

3. Collection of Your Information

 

a. Collection of Your Personal Information. ICONIC, or where relevant, a designated service provider, collects information that you choose to provide or we receive from other sources. This may include Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information that you provide through the Services, on third-party websites and applications when subscribing to watchICONICplus.com, through registering for our services and products, through requesting certain ICONIC services or products, when downloading our podcasts, or by submitting the information to enter a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion.

 

In addition, we may collect, use, and disclose your Personal Information as required or permitted by applicable law. We do not treat deidentified data or aggregate consumer information as Personal Information and we reserve the right to convert, or permit others to convert, your Personal Information into deidentified data or aggregate consumer information. We do not attempt to re-identify such information.

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b. Collection of Your Sensitive Personal Information

 

Sensitive Personal Information shall be understood to mean any information that reveals: (a) consumer’s Social Security or other state identification number; (b) a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; (c) consumer’s geolocation; (d) consumer’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; (e) the contents of a consumer’s mail, email, or text messages, unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication; and (f) consumer’s genetic data.

Although it is our preference to minimize the collection of Sensitive Personal Information, it is possible that we may collect or may have collected, within the past 12 months, the categories of Sensitive Personal Information about consumers that are indicated in the chart below. The Sensitive Personal Information we collect may vary depending on the nature of your interactions with us and may not include all of the examples listed below.

 

Category of Sensitive Personal Information

Information Source(s)

Purpose(s)

Personal Information that reveals a consumer’s account log-in and financial account

 

• You
• Your devices

• Delivering products and services
• Marketing

 

We do collect other “special categories” of Personal Information about you including information required to make inferences about your political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, and we do not collect other “special categories” such as details about your sex life, sexual orientation, or other information about your health, including biometric data.

 

c. Sources of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information

Information You Provide. Personal Information and Special Personal Information may be obtained directly from you, for example, when you subscribe to our newsfeed, participate in a live chat, respond to surveys or petitions, or apply for or obtain a position or internship. If you submit Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information to us about others, then you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you are providing the information and that person has consented to have all information used, disclosed, and transferred in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information Collected Automatically. We may use various tools and technologies like cookies and web server logs to collect information automatically on the Services. This information may include IP addresses, device identifiers, browser characteristics, operating system details, internet service provider details, language preferences, referring URLs, time and length of visits, and pages viewed. Please see the “Cookies and Online Tracking Technologies” section below for more information.

Information Collected from Other Parties. Personal information and Sensitive Personal Information may also be obtained from others authorized to provide the information, from activity on the Services, and from other parties with whom we work, such as service providers, business partners, advertisers, advertising technology providers, advertising servers, data analytics providers, and social networks. For example, if you choose to link your social media or other third-party accounts to our Services, we may obtain your Personal Information and

 

Sensitive Personal Information from these sources.

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Social Features. Certain features of the Services may permit you to initiate interactions between the Website and other platforms like social networks (for example, to share the Website with your friends or comment on ICONIC content). Using these features may allow both ICONIC and the operator of the other platform to access certain information about your use of our Services and theirs, including Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information. You should review the terms, policies, and settings of these other platforms to learn more about their data practices and/or adjust your settings.

 

d. Usage Data and Websites Activity

We automatically collect and analyze information in connection with the actions you take on the Websites and in connection with using the Services (“Usage Data”) to improve the Websites, Services and user experience. This data includes, but is not limited to, the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, your IP address, mobile device ID, aggregate data about the number of visits to the Websites, and aggregate data about the pages visited. This usage information may be associated with your username and profile. The lawful bases for processing your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information in this manner include ICONIC’s legitimate interest, compliance with legal obligations, and the performance of a contractual relationship with you.

 

4. How We Use the Information We Collect

 

We may use your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information in the following circumstances:

 

• Where we need to perform a contract we have entered into with you or to fulfill your request.
• Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interest and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where it is needed in the public interest or for official purposes.
• With your consent.

In addition to the uses identified in the chart above, our use of Personal Information is designed to comply with the requirements of GDPR.

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5. Disclosure of Personal Information 

 

The chart below shows the categories of Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information we have disclosed to our service providers and contractors for a business or commercial purpose during the last 12 months that may have been used by those parties.

Category of Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information

Recipients of Information

Purpose(s)

Identifiers

 

• Business partners
• Financial institutions
• Delivery service providers
• Marketing partners

• Delivering products or services (to perform services on behalf of ICONIC)
• Marketing
• Analytics

 

Personal information described in Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)

 

• Business partners
• Financial institutions
• Delivery service providers
• Marketing partners

• Delivering products or services (to perform services on behalf of ICONIC)
• Marketing
• Analytics

Characteristics of protected classifications

• Marketing partners

• Marketing
• Analytics

Commercial Information

• Business partners
• Financial institutions
• Delivery service providers
• Marketing partners

• Delivering products or services (to perform services on behalf of ICONIC)
• Marketing
• Analytics

Internet or other electronic network activity information

• Marketing partners

• Marketing
• Analytics

Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory or similar information

• Business partners

• Security and fraud prevention

Inferences from PI Collected

• Marketing partners

• Marketing
• Analytics

Sensitive Personal Information

Account log-in and financial account

• Business partners
• Financial institutions
• Delivery service providers

• Delivering products or services (to perform services on behalf of ICONIC)
• Analytics

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6. Text Messages

 

If you provide your mobile phone number to us, we may ask for your consent to receive text message alerts from us containing product, event, or promotional information in a text or SMS message (“Text Messages”). The Text Message program allows users to receive SMS/MMS mobile messages by users affirmatively opting into the program, such as through online enrollment forms or by texting a keyword to 83400 or any successor short code to opt into the program. Your consent to receive Text Messages is not required to purchase goods or services from us. Additional terms regarding Text Messages will apply—please review the applicable terms carefully when you provide your mobile phone number.

 

If you consented to receiving promotions or advertising via Text Message, you can unsubscribe from receiving Text Messages at any time by replying “STOP” to one of our Text Messages or to 83400. For help, text HELP to 83400 or contact us at support.ICONICplus.com.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Policy, ICONIC+ does not share Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information obtained through its short code texting program with unaffiliated third-party companies for marketing purposes.

 

7. Cookies and Online Tracking Technologies 

 

ICONIC may use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and browser) and other third-party tracking technologies such as web beacons (an electronic file placed on a website that monitors usage) to collect general and personally identifiable information, including Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information about visitors to the Websites. The information collected is used to improve the experience of the Websites and Services, such as allowing us to recognize you when you revisit the Websites to provide you with customized information and/or to remember your preferences. We use cookies and other third-party tracking technologies such as web beacons to collect Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information. Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies.

If you use our mobile application on a desktop, a mobile device, tablet, or streaming media device, we may collect a Resettable Device Identifier from your device. Resettable Device Identifiers (also known as mobile advertising identifiers) are similar to cookies and are found on many mobile devices and tablets (for example, the “Identifier for Advertisers” (or IDFA) on Apple iOS devices and the “Google Advertising ID” on Android devices), and certain streaming media devices.

For more information on how to manage cookies and the categories of cookies used on the Websites, please see below (“Preference Management”).

 

8. Online Advertising

 

We may partner with third parties (Third Party Providers and Advertisers, collectively known as “Advertisers”) that collect information across various channels, including offline and online, for purposes of delivering more relevant online advertising to you. Our partners may place or recognize a cookie on your computer, device or directly in our emails/communications, and we may share Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information with them, as permitted by law and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Our partners may link the Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information we share with them to the cookie stored on your browser or device, and they may collect information such as your IP address, browser or operating system type and version, and demographic or inferred-interest information. Our partners use this information to recognize you across different channels and platforms over time for advertising, analytics, attribution, and reporting purposes. For example, our partners may deliver an ad to you in your web browser based on a purchase you made in a physical retail store, or they may send a personalized marketing email to you based on the fact that you visited a particular website. We may use automated decision-making to customize your experience based on your Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information.

Our Privacy Policy does not cover any use of information that an ad network may collect from you. Advertisements may be shown on the Websites, the Services or on third-party websites.

To opt out of receiving online targeted or behavioral advertising, please see below (“Preference Management”).

 

9. Selling and Sharing Your Information

 

We may sell or share the following categories of personal information with third parties for the purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising and analytics:
• Identifiers
• Commercial information
• Internet or other electronic network activity
• Inferences

We sell and/or share this personal information with third parties for advertising and analytics purposes.  The third parties to whom this personal information was sold and/or shared are advertisers and analytics vendors.  When we use the terms sell, sold, or sale, we mean for valuable consideration and not monetary value.

We offer you the ability to opt out of sales and sharing of your personal information as set forth in the “Right to Opt Out of Sales and Sharing of Personal Information” section below.

We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of consumers under sixteen (16) years of age.

If you provide content to the Services, such as submitting comments or content as a part of a ICONIC subscription, any information that you submit will become public. It may become accessible through search engines or, if you sign in using credentials from a third-party social networking service, to users on that service.

This Section 10 does not apply to information obtained by ICONIC+ through the text messaging short code. ICONIC+ does not sell, rent, loan, trade, lease or otherwise transfer for profit any phone numbers or personal information collected through the ICONIC+ short code texting program to any third party. Nonetheless, ICONIC+ reserve the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any law, regulation or governmental request, to avoid liability, or to protect ICONIC+’s rights or property.

 

10. Retention of Information

 

We will store your Personal Information for no longer than is necessary for the performance of our obligations or to achieve the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected, or as may be required or permitted under applicable law. To determine the appropriate retention period, we will consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data; the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the data; the purposes for which we process the data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means; and the applicable legal requirements. Unless otherwise required by applicable law, at the end of the retention period we will remove Personal Information from our systems and records or take appropriate steps to properly anonymize, deidentify, or aggregate it, where legally applicable.

Preference Management

We strive to provide you with appropriate choices regarding the Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information you provide to us. We have created the following mechanisms to provide you choices and control over your information.

 

a. Other Uses — We will not collect, use, or disclose your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information in any ways or for any purposes that are materially different from those set forth herein. However, if we wish to do so in the future, we will provide notice and an opportunity to opt-out of such proposed collection, use, or disclosure.

 

b. Promotional or Marketing Messages — You can opt-out of receiving marketing or promotional communications from us or third parties by using the “Unsubscribe” feature at the bottom of each email or “STOP” in text messages or by requesting to opt out by emailing us at optout@ICONICplus.com.

 

c. Cookies — You have the ability to disable or opt-out of certain cookies by going to the Cookie Preferences of your browser. Also, you can find out more information about how to change your browser cookie settings at www.allaboutcookies.org. You can reset your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, certain features of the Website or Services may not work if you delete or disable cookies.

 

d. Interest-Based Advertising — In some instances, you can opt-out of receiving interest-based online ads from us, third party advertisers and ad networks. We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. Advertisers and ad networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) or who follow the Digital Advertising Alliance’s Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising provide opt-out choices at the following websites:

• NAI Website (US): https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1
• DAA Website (US): https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN

Users in the EEA/US can opt out on the European Digital Advertising Alliance can opt out at: EDAA Website (EEA/EU): https://www.youronlinechoices.com/

Be advised that these opt-out tools are provided by third parties and may not be available with respect to all interest-based advertising that is presented to you. We do not control or operate these tools or the choices that advertisers and others provide through these tools. Even if you opt out of receiving interest-based advertising, you may still receive generic ads.

 

e. Analytics Providers — We may use third party web analytics services such as, without limitation, the ones identified below to measure the effectiveness of our advertising and determine how visitors use the website. These service providers’ tools, including cookies and web beacons, allow us to collect information such as the state and zip code from which our visitors come and the IP addresses of our visitors’ computers. Some of these providers have their own opt-out mechanisms.

• Google Analytics – We use Google Analytics to help us manage and improve the Website and Services. Google provides a Browser Add-On that allows you to opt-out by downloading and installing the add-on for your web browser, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Be advised, however, that we may continue to send you transactional communications (e.g., emails regarding account notifications, customer support questions and similar information) regarding your use of the Websites and Services. You cannot opt out of receiving these types of communications.

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12. Your Legal Rights

 

You have the right to:

 

• Request a copy of the Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information we hold about you.
• Request that inaccurate information about you be corrected or deleted.
• Object to having your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information processed.
• Request that we delete any and all Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information we hold about you.
• Request that we restrict processing your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal.
• Request that you not be subject to automated decision-making including profiling.
• Receive your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information in a structured, prevailing, and machine-readable form and/or have your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information transferred to another controller, where technically feasible.
• Withdraw consent provided for processing Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information.

To exercise these rights or for any other questions related to this Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the request form at  info@watchICONICplus.com. Users in California, Nevada, Colorado, Virginia, Connecticut, Utah, and the EEA may have additional rights as described below.

ICONIC email subscribers and subscribers of paid content may access and correct their contact information on file by accessing their account online. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

 

13. Your California Privacy Rights

 

a. “Shine The Light” Law — California residents with whom ICONIC has an established relationship have the right to request certain information with respect to any Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information ICONIC may have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes. Alternatively, ICONIC may provide a cost-free means to opt out of such sharing. ICONIC has opted to provide you with a cost-free means to opt out of such sharing. If you do not want ICONIC to disclose your Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information to other companies for their marketing purposes, please contact us using the request form at info@watchICONICplus.com.

For California residents under the age of 18 and registered users of the Websites or Services, California law (Business and Professionals Code § 22581) provides that you can request the removal of content or information you posted on Websites. Any such request should be sent to us using the request form at info@watchICONICplus.com along with a description of the posted content or other information to be removed. Be advised, however, that applicable law may not permit us to completely or comprehensively remove your deleted content or for other reasons as set forth in this California law.

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14. Children’s Privacy 

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Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information from children under 13 on the Websites. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Websites or through any of its features, register on the Websites, make any purchases through the Websites, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Websites, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. 

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You must be 18 years of age or older to purchase any content, product, or service offered by us through the Service. If you are less than 18 years of age and want to make any such purchase, please ask your parent or guardian to complete the purchase on your behalf. We do not otherwise knowingly collect Personal Information and Sensitive Personal Information from anyone under the age of 18 without permission. California residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their Personal Information or Sensitive Personal Information. 

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15. Update History

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• February 1, 2023 Updates relating to California law.