Privacy Policy
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| 3 | 3 | Maintaining the privacy of our website visitors and mobile application users is very important to us. Because we gather information about you, you need to know: |
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| 5 | 5 | - The kinds of information we collect and why we collect it; |
| 6 | 6 | - How we use that information; and |
| 7 | 7 | - How you can update that information or limit or control how it is used. |
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| 9 | This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how Entrepreneur Media, Inc. ("EMI") with registered address at 18061 Fitch, Irvine CA, 92614 may collect, use and share information you provide when using our Service, including your personal information. The term "Service" includes the websites [www.entrepreneur.com](http://www.entrepreneur.com/) and [www.greenentrepreneur.com](http://www.greenentrepreneur.com/) together with any related subsites, sub-domains, mobile and software applications, services, features and/or content associated therewith (collectively, "our Websites"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms "we," "us" and "our" refer to EMI and "you" refers to you, as a user of our Service. | |
| 9 | This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") describes how Entrepreneur Media, Inc. ("EMI") with registered address at 18061 Fitch, Irvine CA, 92614 may collect, use and share information you provide when using our Service, including your personal information. The term "Service" includes the websites [www.entrepreneur.com](https://www.entrepreneur.com/) and [www.greenentrepreneur.com](https://www.greenentrepreneur.com/) together with any related subsites, sub-domains, mobile and software applications, services, features and/or content associated therewith (collectively, "our Websites"). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms "we," "us" and "our" refer to EMI and "you" refers to you, as a user of our Service. | |
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| 11 | 11 | We've tried to keep this Privacy Policy simple, but if you're not familiar with any of the terms used or have any questions, contact us at _[legal@entrepreneur.com](mailto:legal@entrepreneur.com)_. Your privacy matters to us at EMI, so whether you are new to our Service or are a regular or longtime user, it is important that you take the time to carefully read our Privacy Policy, so you can understand our practices as relates to your information. |
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| 13 | 13 | We will ask for your consent before using your information in any manner and for any purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy. |
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| 15 | 15 | ## TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| 53 | 53 | (iii) Location information. When you visit our Service, we may collect and process information about your actual location. We use various technologies to determine location, including IP address. |
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| 55 | 55 | (iv) Local storage. We may collect and store information (including personal information) locally on your device, using mechanisms such as _browser web storage_ (including HTML 5), which allows for data to be stored on a browser even after the browser has been closed and the reopened, and _application data caches_, which allow for data to be stored on your device, enabling an application to run without an Internet connection and to load content faster. |
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| 57 | 57 | (v) Collection and Storage technologies. We and our partners use various technologies to collect and store information when you access the EMI Service, and this may include using cookies or other technologies to identify your browser or device. We also use these technologies to collect and store information when you access our Service and interact with the content and products and services we offer, such as advertising services. |
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| 59 | c. Our properties may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, such as Nielsen TV Ratings. To learn more about the information that Nielsen software may collect and your choices with regard to it, please see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy at [http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy](http://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy). | |
| 59 | c. Our properties may feature Nielsen proprietary measurement software, which will allow you to contribute to market research, such as Nielsen TV Ratings. To learn more about the information that Nielsen software may collect and your choices with regard to it, please see the Nielsen Digital Measurement Privacy Policy at [https://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy](https://www.nielsen.com/digitalprivacy). | |
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| 61 | 61 | ### 2\. How We Use Information We Collect. |
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| 63 | 63 | We use the information we collect from users of our Service in order to provide you with more meaningful editorial and advertising content and to offer you relevant products and services, as well as to maintain, protect and improve your overall experience. In particular, you may choose (i) to subscribe to any of our electronic newsletters, (ii) to receive "special offers" by EMI and its various service providers, (iii) to receive franchise and business opportunity information from selected advertisers, and we will use your information for these purposes provided you have given us your consent. You may also choose (iv) to submit questions or comments in response to editorial content on our Service, or (v) to purchase books and related publications offered on our affiliated website at bookstore.entrepreneur.com (the "Bookstore Website") in which case, we will process your information to perform our agreement or comply with your request. In each of those instances you will be asked to provide, and we will collect and store, certain personal information such as email address, zip code, telephone number, and in some instances information about your business. In the case of purchases made through the Bookstore Website, we will also collect and store additional information about those purchases, including titles purchased, quantity and dates of purchases, the method of payment, and other information provided such as billing and shipping addresses (if different). By providing that information and provided you have consented thereto, you acknowledge that it can be used by EMI and its various advertisers and other service providers to send you promotions and other communications concerning business opportunities, products or services. You can remove yourself from any such electronic newsletters and otherwise stop receiving any further promotions and other commercial communications by following the "unsubscribe" directions included with each newsletter or, in all of the above instances, by sending an email with the word "unsubscribe" in the subject line to _unsubscribe@entrepreneur.com_. |
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| 65 | 65 | We may use the name you provide for your EMI Profile across all of the services we offer that require an EMI Account, which is where the information you provide is maintained. In addition, we may replace past names associated with your EMI Account, so that you are represented consistently across all our services. |
| 75 | 75 | Cookies are used to make that advertising as relevant as possible to the needs and interests of users of our Service, and more valuable to our advertisers in being able to show our visitors more relevant ads. Cookies are also used to avoid you seeing the same ad multiple times and to detect and prevent click fraud. We use AdSense, Google Analytics and other DoubleClick services (collectively, "Google® Services"), which help us manage and improve our Service and help our advertisers better understand and track user interaction with their ads. When you visit a location on our Service that includes one or more of these ads, various cookies may be sent to your browser. |
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| 77 | 77 | We may use other technologies, including Flash and HTML5, which provide the functionality for such displays as interactive advertising. We may also use your IP address to select and provide advertising targeted to that address, in order to improve the relevance of the ads you see and to measure and report to advertisers non-personal statistical information about geographical location of those website visitors who are viewing their ads. |
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| 79 | 79 | The advertising you see on our Service is determined by a number of factors relating to relevance, including (i) your approximate geographical location base on you IP address and (ii) the subject matter you may be viewing on our Service. For example, if you are viewing an article about physical health, you may see ads concerning exercise equipment. |
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| 81 | If you wish to know more about the information collected from website users and used to tailor those advertisements for products and services which might be of the most interest and relevance to those users, or would like to know more about the user's options in connection with the collection and use of that information, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") website at [http://www.networkadvertising.org](http://www.networkadvertising.org/). The NAI is a cooperative of online advertising companies who are committed to responsible practices and consumer protection. | |
| 81 | If you wish to know more about the information collected from website users and used to tailor those advertisements for products and services which might be of the most interest and relevance to those users, or would like to know more about the user's options in connection with the collection and use of that information, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative ("NAI") website at [https://www.networkadvertising.org](https://www.networkadvertising.org/). The NAI is a cooperative of online advertising companies who are committed to responsible practices and consumer protection. | |
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| 83 | 83 | Click here to revoke your Ad Personalization choice. |
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| 85 | 85 | ### 4\. Privacy and Choice. |
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| 87 | 87 | People have different concerns about privacy. Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect, so that you can make meaningful choices about how that information is used. You may set your browser in its "options" or "preferences" feature in order to warn you before accepting cookies or to disable all cookies entirely. However, it is important to understand that many of the services we provide on our Service and to our Service users may not function properly if your cookies are disabled. |