Last updated: June 17, 2024This privacy policy (“Policy”) describes how the personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) you may provide on the socialincentivemarketing.com website (“Website” or “Service”) and platform (collectively, the “Properties”) and any of its related products and services (collectively, “Services”) is collected, protected and used. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your Personal Information and how you can access and update this information. This Policy is a legally binding agreement between you (“User”, “you” or “your”) and SIM Partners, LLC (“SIM”, “we”, “us” or “our”). By accessing and using the Website and Services, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by the terms of this Agreement. If you do not agree with our policies or practices, you should not use or access the Properties or provide us with any Personal Information. This Policy does not apply to the practices of companies that we do not own or control, or to individuals that we do not employ or manage.Automatic collection of informationWhen you open the Website, our servers automatically record information that your browser sends. This data may include information such as your device’s IP address, browser type and version, operating system type and version, language preferences or the webpage you were visiting before you came to the Website and Services, pages of the Website and Services that you visit, the time spent on those pages, information you search for on the Website, access times and dates, and other statistics.Information collected automatically is used only to identify potential cases of abuse and establish statistical information regarding the usage and traffic of the Website and Services. This statistical information is not otherwise aggregated in such a way that would identify any particular user of the system.Collection of personal informationYou can access and use the Website and Services without telling us who you are or revealing any information by which someone could identify you as a specific, identifiable individual. If, however, you wish to use some of the features on the Website, you may be asked to provide certain Personal Information (for example, your name and e-mail address). We receive and store any information you knowingly provide to us when you fill any online forms on the Website. Some of the information we collect is directly from you via the Website and Services. However, we may also collect Personal Information about you from other sources such as public databases and our joint marketing partners. You can choose not to provide us with your Personal Information, but then you may not be able to take advantage of some of the features on the Properties. Users who are uncertain about what information is mandatory are welcome to contact us.Use and processing of collected informationIn order to make the Properties and Services available to you, or to meet a legal obligation, we need to collect and use certain Personal Information. If you do not provide the information that we request, we may not be able to provide you with the requested products or services. Any of the information we collect from you may be used for the following purposes:
To communicate with you, which may include:
Contacting you about and providing you and our clients with our Services;
Responding to your direct inquiries, requests, issues or feedback, and providing customer service;
Adding you to our mailing lists and sending you emails from time to time;
To provide our products and services, which may include:
Operating the Properties, and providing you with any specific services that you have requested;
Creating, maintaining, and otherwise managing your account, profile, or subscription;
Delivering content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests;
Fulfilling your orders and/or completing the transactions you have requested, processing your payments, and providing you receipts and order updates;
Providing a forum for discussion, asking questions, posting photos and reviews, and sharing experiences;
For marketing and promotional purposes, which may include:
Marketing Company goods and services or goods and services of those of our affiliates, business partners, and other third parties;
Providing you advertising for products and services that may be of interest to you;
Administering sweepstakes, contests, and other similar promotions;
For analytics and personalization, which may include:
Identifying trends and making inferences about you and your interactions with us or our affiliates or our business partners;
Conducting research and analytics to improve our services and product offerings or those of our affiliates and business partners;
Understanding how you interact with our Properties, advertisements, and communications with you to determine which of our products or services are the most popular, and to improve Properties and marketing campaigns;
Personalizing your experience to save you time when you visit our Properties [or visit us in person], and to customize the marketing and advertising that we show you;
Better understanding our customers’ needs;
Providing personalized recommendations about our products and services;
For security and fraud prevention, which may include:
Helping maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Properties, databases and other technology assets, and business;
Internal research; technological development and demonstration; and improving, upgrading, or enhancing our Properties;
Detecting security incidents; protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; and prosecuting those responsible for that activity;
Investigating suspected fraud, harassment, or other violations of any law, rule, or regulation, or the policies for our Properties;
To comply with legal obligations, which may include:
Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations, establishing or exercising our rights, and to defending against a legal claim;
Responding to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, legal process, or governmental regulation;
Acting in connection with a bankruptcy proceeding or the sale, merger, or change of control of the Company or the division responsible for the services with which your information is associated;
To support core business functions, which may include:
Maintaining records related to business process management, loss and fraud prevention, and to collect amounts owing to us;
Providing and maintaining the functionality of our Properties, including identifying and repairing errors or problems; and
For any additional purposes that you specifically consent to.
Disclosure of informationDepending on the requested Services or as necessary to complete any transaction or provide any service you have requested, we may share your information in accordance with this privacy policy with our trusted third parties that work with us, any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to assist in the operation of the Website and Services available to you. We do not share Personal Information with unaffiliated third parties. These service providers are not authorized to use or disclose your information except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or comply with legal requirements. In addition to using your personal information ourselves for the reasons stated above (and as otherwise mentioned in this Privacy Policy), we may disclose your personal information to other affiliates and entities in the following instances:
Service Providers
We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who may use your information to provide us with services including, but not limited to: website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, information technology services, customer service, email delivery services, payment processing, auditing, and anti-fraud monitoring. These service providers may have access to personal information that is necessary to perform their functions, but they are only permitted to do so in connection with performing services for us. They are not authorized by us to use the information for their own benefit.
Corporate Affiliates
We may share personal information with our corporate affiliates and subsidiaries, who process personal information on our behalf, where necessary to provide a product or service that you have requested, or in other circumstances with your consent or as permitted or required by law.
Business and Advertising Partners
We may share your personal information with third parties who partner with us to promote products and services, provide marketing and advertisements, conduct data analytics, or use the data for other commercial purposes. We do not control how these third parties use and share your personal information once they receive it. You will need to contact such third parties directly for information about their privacy practices or to exercise any rights you may have (including if you would like to opt-out of marketing messages).
Legal Compliance and to Defend Our Rights
We may disclose personal information and other information as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our Terms and Conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
Business Transfers
We may share your personal information and other information with third parties in connection with a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the assets of the Company, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which the assets transferred may include information about the users of our Properties.
Non-Personal Information
We may share non-personal information with unaffiliated third parties, such as business and advertising partners, manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, to improve and enhance your experience using the Properties, and for our own market research activities. We publicly commit to maintain and use the information in de-identified or aggregate form, and not to attempt to re-identify the information. Please note that if you specifically consent to additional uses of your personal information, we may use your personal information in a manner consistent with that consent.Retention of informationIf we have received your Personal Information from you as a customer or potential customer, we will retain and use your Personal Information for the duration of the commercial relationship or for the duration of any active campaigns, and for a reasonable time thereafter. If you are not a customer or potential customer, and you share your Personal Information with us, we will retain it for the period necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. We may use any aggregated data derived from or incorporating your Personal Information after you update or delete it, but not in a manner that would identify you personally. Once the retention period expires, Personal Information shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after the expiration of the retention period.Transfer of informationIf you submit Personal Information to us, , that information may be processed in a jurisdiction where privacy laws may be less stringent than those in your country of residence. By submitting your Personal Information to us, you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of such information in foreign jurisdictions including, but not limited to, the United States. Be advised that we may be required to disclose your Personal Information in to in response to lawful requests by public authorities in the United States is subject to access by, including to meet national security or law enforcement. requirements. Where applicable, we may use model clauses approved by the laws of your jurisdiction (such as Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission) for cross-border data transfers. your consent, on a contract which you are part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.NEVADA PRIVACY RIGHTSIf you are a resident of Nevada, you have the right to opt out of the sale of certain personal information that we have collected (or may collect) from you to data brokers or other third parties. You can exercise this right by emailing us at support@socialincentivemarketing.com with the subject line “Nevada Do Not Sell Request.” Privacy of childrenWe do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from children under the age of 18. If you are under the age of 18, please do not submit any Personal Information through the Website and Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the Website and Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 18 has provided Personal Information to us through the Website and Services, please contact us. You must also be at least 16 years of age to consent to the processing of your Personal Information in your country (in some countries we may allow your parent or guardian to do so on your behalf).CookiesThe Website and Services use “cookies” to help personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.We may use cookies to collect, store, and track information for statistical purposes to operate the Website and Services. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, visit internetcookies.org.If you would like to stop or restrict the placement of cookies or flush any cookies that may already be on your computer or device, please refer to and adjust your web browser preferences. Further information on cookies is available at www.allaboutcookies.org. By deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our Properties or some of its functionality may be affected. Note that cookie-based opt-outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out. For example, if you have opted out on your device browser, that opt-out will not be effective on your mobile device. Additionally, if you opt out on one of your devices, that opt out may not be effective on all of your devices. However, please be advised that cookie-based opt-outs are not effective on some mobile services.Do Not Track signalsSome browsers incorporate a Do Not Track feature that signals to websites you visit that you do not want to have your online activity tracked. Tracking is not the same as using or collecting information in connection with a website. For these purposes, tracking refers to collecting personally identifiable information from consumers who use or visit a website or online service as they move across different websites over time. The Website and Services do not track its visitors over time and across third party websites. However, some third party sites may keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you.AdvertisementsWe may permit certain third party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on the Website. These companies may deliver ads that might place cookies and otherwise track user behavior.Links to other resources and social media servicesWe may create links to other websites that we think may be of interest to you, such as providers of various products and services. We may also provide links that allow you to send or forward a post from our Properties through or to third-party social media sites, or other means of electronic communication, such as an email or text messaging service. We do not endorse any other websites, providers, or services by providing such links, and this Privacy Policy applies only to your use of our Properties. We are not responsible for the privacy policies of any websites and services we link to on our Properties, and you should read the privacy policies of each site you visit to determine what data that site may collect about you.The Properties may also integrate with social media services. Specifically, our Services integrate with X (formerly Twitter). We do not control such services and are not liable for the manner in which they operate. While we may provide you with the ability to use such services in connection with our Properties, we are doing so merely as an accommodation and, like you, are relying upon those third-party services to operate properly and fairly.You should be aware that any Personal Information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly accessible blog, forum, social network, or otherwise may be viewed and used by others. By using such features, you assume the risk that the Personal Information provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties.Information securityWe secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We maintain reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards in an effort to protect against unauthorized access, use, modification, and disclosure of Personal Information in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed. Therefore, while we strive to protect your Personal Information, you acknowledge that (i) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (ii) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and the Website and Services cannot be guaranteed; and (iii) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party, despite best efforts. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us at support@socialincentivemarketing.com Data breachIn the event we become aware that the security of the Website and Services has been compromised or users Personal Information has been disclosed to unrelated third parties as a result of external activity, including, but not limited to, security attacks or fraud, we reserve the right to take reasonably appropriate measures, including, but not limited to, investigation and reporting, as well as notification to and cooperation with law enforcement authorities. In the event of a data breach, we will make reasonable efforts to notify affected individuals if we believe that there is a reasonable risk of harm to the user as a result of the breach or if notice is otherwise required by law. When we do, we will post a notice on the Website.Changes and amendmentsWe reserve the right to modify this Policy or its terms relating to the Website and Services from time to time in our discretion and will notify you of any material changes to the way in which we treat Personal Information. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We may also provide notice to you in other ways in our discretion, such as through contact information you have provided. Any updated version of this Policy will be effective immediately upon the posting of the revised Policy unless otherwise specified. Your continued use of the Website and Services after the effective date of the revised Policy (or such other act specified at that time) will constitute your consent to those changes. However, we will not, without your consent, use your Personal Information in a manner materially different than what was stated at the time your Personal Information was collected.Acceptance of this policyYou acknowledge that you have read this Policy and agree to all its terms and conditions. By accessing and using the Website and Services you agree to be bound by this Policy. If you do not agree to abide by the terms of this Policy, you are not authorized to access or use the Website and Services.Contacting usIf you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal Information, you may do so via the contact form or via the following email: support@socialincentivemarketing.com
