Privacy Policy

DATED 2021-10-27 · VERSION 20221001_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20220103_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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 ### 1\. The Kinds of Information We Collect.
 We collect information to provide better services to all of users of our Service, including determining what types of editorial content and the products and services offered on our Service that are of the most interest and relevance to you.
 We collect information about you from the following two sources:
+**a. The Information you give us ("EMI Profile").** For example, many of our services require that you create an account. When you do, we'll ask for personal information, like your name, email address, telephone number, and, if you are purchasing products or services on our Service, purchase information such as the products or services purchased, the dates of purchase and the purchase price.
+. **The Information you give us ("EMI Profile").** For example, many of our services require that you create an account. When you do, we'll ask for personal information, like your name, email address, telephone number, and, if you are purchasing products or services on our Service, purchase information such as the products or services purchased, the dates of purchase and the purchase price.
+. **The information we collect from your use of our Service.** This information relates generally to what editorial and advertising content you view, and the products and services you use that we and our third-party providers offer. This information includes:
+**b. The information we collect from your use of our Service.** This information relates generally to what editorial and advertising content you view, and the products and services you use that we and our third-party providers offer. This information includes:
+. Device Information, we collect information about the devices you use to access our Service, such as hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
+. Log Information. When you use our Service, we automatically collect and store certain information in _server logs_, which automatically record certain information when you use our Service, including the following:
+(i) Device Information, we collect information about the devices you use to access our Service, such as hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL.
+. details about how you have used our Service, such as your search queries;
+. your _IP address_, which is the number assigned to an Internet connected device such as a tablet or smartphone and used to identify the geographic location of that device; and
+. _cookies_ that may uniquely identify your browser and collect information about how our visitors interact with our Service, as well as help us identify problems such as error messages from certain pages. A _cookie_ is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer or other device when you visit our Service. When you visit our Service any time thereafter, the cookie allows our Service to recognize your browser and to store information about your user preferences and other personal information.
+(ii) Log Information. When you use our Service, we automatically collect and store certain information in _server logs_, which automatically record certain information when you use our Service, including the following:
+. 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.
+. 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.
+. 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.
+(a) details about how you have used our Service, such as your search queries;
+. 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).
+(b) your _IP address_, which is the number assigned to an Internet connected device such as a tablet or smartphone and used to identify the geographic location of that device; and
+(c) _cookies_ that may uniquely identify your browser and collect information about how our visitors interact with our Service, as well as help us identify problems such as error messages from certain pages. A _cookie_ is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer or other device when you visit our Service. When you visit our Service any time thereafter, the cookie allows our Service to recognize your browser and to store information about your user preferences and other personal information.
+(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.
+(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.
+(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.
+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).
 ### 2\. How We Use Information We Collect.
 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_.
 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.
 If allowed under applicable law, we may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, require disproportionate technical effort (for example, requests which would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup systems)).
 Where we can provide information access and correction, we will do so at no cost to you, except where it would require a disproportionate effort. We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, after you delete information from our Service, we may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers and may not remove information from our backup systems.
 We do not share personal information with companies, organizations and individuals outside of EMI, unless one of the following circumstances applies:
+a. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of EMI when we have your opt-in or other consent to do so.
+. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of EMI when we have your opt-in or other consent to do so.
+. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of EMI if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of that information is reasonably necessary to:
+b. We will share personal information with companies, organizations or individuals outside of EMI if we have a good-faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of that information is reasonably necessary to:
+. comply with applicable law, regulations, legal process or enforceable governmental request;
+. enforce any of our applicable Terms of Service, including any potential violations;
+. detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or
+. protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of users of our Service or service providers, as well as the general public and EMI as required or permitted by law.
+(i)comply with applicable law, regulations, legal process or enforceable governmental request;
+. We may share personal information with a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of EMI's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by EMI about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
+. We may share your information publicly and with our partners such as third-party content providers, advertisers or connected sites, but in a manner which does _not_ reveal your personally-identifiable information and which is _aggregated with other user information_ to show usage of EMI and third-party products and services offered on our Service and trends based on such categories as age, gender, geographical origination and other demographic characteristics.
+(ii)enforce any of our applicable Terms of Service, including any potential violations;
+(iii)detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; or
+(iv)protect against harm to the rights, property or safety of users of our Service or service providers, as well as the general public and EMI as required or permitted by law.
+c. We may share personal information with a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of EMI's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by EMI about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
+d. We may share your information publicly and with our partners such as third-party content providers, advertisers or connected sites, but in a manner which does _not_ reveal your personally-identifiable information and which is _aggregated with other user information_ to show usage of EMI and third-party products and services offered on our Service and trends based on such categories as age, gender, geographical origination and other demographic characteristics.
 ### 10\. The Protection of Your Information.
 We work hard to protect the information provided by, or collected about, the users of our Service, from unauthorized access, or alteration, disclosure or destruction. In particular:
+a. We encrypt much of that information using SSL.
+. We encrypt much of that information using SSL.
+. We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to our systems and the information collected and stored therein
+. We restrict access to personal information to those of our employees, contractors and agents, who need to know that information in order to process it for us, who are subject to the obligation of strict confidentiality as relates to that information, and who will be subject to discipline, including termination, if they violate that obligation.
+b. We review our information collection, storage and processing practices, including physical security measures, to guard against unauthorized access to our systems and the information collected and stored therein
+c. We restrict access to personal information to those of our employees, contractors and agents, who need to know that information in order to process it for us, who are subject to the obligation of strict confidentiality as relates to that information, and who will be subject to discipline, including termination, if they violate that obligation.
 ### 11\. The Scope of Our Privacy Policy.
 Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered through our Service. However, our Privacy Policy does _not_ apply to the any of the following:
+a. services offered by other companies or individuals on non-EMI websites or applications, including any such websites or applications which may be referenced on or linked from our Service; and
+. services offered by other companies or individuals on non-EMI websites or applications, including any such websites or applications which may be referenced on or linked from our Service; and
+. the information collected by, and information practices of, other companies, organizations or individuals, who advertise our Service, editorial or advertising content, or any of the products or services offered on our Service, and who may use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.
+b. the information collected by, and information practices of, other companies, organizations or individuals, who advertise our Service, editorial or advertising content, or any of the products or services offered on our Service, and who may use cookies, pixel tags and other technologies to serve and offer relevant ads.
 ### 12\. Your Rights and Choices about What Personal Information We Collect and Maintain and How We Use It
 **_Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights_**
 You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to You about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
 **_Deletion Request Rights_**
 You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
 We may deny your deletion request if retaining the Personal Information you request to have deleted is necessary for us or our service providers to:
+a. Complete the transaction, for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
+. Complete the transaction, for which we collected the Personal Information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
+. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
+. Debug products, in order to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
+. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his/her free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
+. If you had previously provided informed consent, engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest, that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when deletion of the Personal Information may likely render impossible or seriously impair the purpose(s) of that research.
+. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
+. Comply with applicable law or any legal obligation(s) we may have.
+. Make other internal and lawful use of that Personal Information that is compatible with the context in which you provided that Information.
+b. Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
+c. Debug products, in order to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
+d. Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his/her free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
+e. If you had previously provided informed consent, engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest, that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when deletion of the Personal Information may likely render impossible or seriously impair the purpose(s) of that research.
+f. Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
+g. Comply with applicable law or any legal obligation(s) we may have.
+h. Make other internal and lawful use of that Personal Information that is compatible with the context in which you provided that Information.
 **_Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights_**
 To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by visiting us, and completing the information requested, at [www.entrepreneur.com/privacy-preferences](https://entrepreneur.com/privacy-preferences).
 Only You may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.