How’d It Happen LLC respects and is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy and Cookies Policy (“Policy”) explains the types of personal data we may collect and how we use, share, store, and secure your personal data.

For purposes of this Policy, “personal data” means the information either on its own or in combination with other information that identifies you or allows you to be identified, such as your name, physical address, email address or other contact details, online identifiers, details of your use of our website navigational information, and any information that becomes personally associated with you.

Personal Data Collection
We collect personal data in a number of different ways:

You are not required to provide personal data to us; however, if you do not, we may not be able to provide certain services or information you may request.

We collect a number of different types of personal data:

For the avoidance of doubt, there are certain types of personal data we typically do not collect:

Our Sites are for persons aged 18 years or older.

Our Use of Your Personal Data

This Policy provides you with information as to how we may use your personal data. For certain specific applications, we may inform you with additional information about how we will use your personal data when you apply for or enter such applications. We hope this will help you make an informed decision about sharing your personal data with us.

We may use personal data that you provide to us for the following marketing purposes:

The legal basis for using and processing your personal data are, as the case may be, your consent; necessity for responding to inquiries and our legitimate business interests.

Information Sharing with Third Parties
Within Howd It Happen, we restrict access to your personal data to employees who need to know the information for the above use purposes. We do not rent or sell your personal data to other companies or individuals. However, we may share your personal data with third parties outside of Howd It Happen for the following purposes:

We take commercially reasonable steps to implement contractual safeguards and to promote that the third party companies mentioned above:

Our Use of Cookies to Collect Information from You

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a small text file that is downloaded to your computer’s hard drive or stored in your web browser’s memory when you visit our Sites. Cookies help us understand which information and interests you may have. Cookies help us improve the performance of our Sites and your experience using them. Cookies also allow us to remember your preference settings and to track trends and patterns in how visitors navigate our Sites.

What Cookies or Similar Technologies Do We Use?

Our Sites use several types of cookies: “first party” cookies (used by our website only); “third party” cookies (cookies originating from a third party website); “session” cookies (expire at the end of your browser session); and “persistent” cookies (stored on your device between browser sessions allowing us to remember your preferences or actions).

Our use of cookies generally falls into four categories:

Strictly Necessary Cookies: these cookies enable you to move around our Site and use its features. These cookies do not gather information about you or remember where you have been when you are browsing our Site;
Analytical Cookies: these cookies collect information about how you and other visitors use our Site such as how they get to our Site, how often they visit, and which parts of the Site they use. We use this information to improve the capabilities of our Site and ensure that it meets your needs;
Targeting Cookies: these cookies collect information about you that is used to deliver advertisements that are more relevant to you and your interests.

Our Sites and emails may also contain small, clear graphic images known as web beacons. Web beacons help us identify user behavior such as the number of users that visit specific pages of our Site or whether the email messages we send have been opened or acted upon.

Setting Your Cookies Preferences

The “help” feature on most browsers will tell you how to stop your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether. You can also disable or delete similar data used by browser add-ons, such as Flash cookies, by changing the add-on settings or visiting the website of its manufacturer. For more information about cookies, please visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

You may deactivate cookies in commonly used browsers.

We utilize Google Analytics to understand how visitors are using our Site. You may opt out of Google Analytics here: Google Analytics Opt-out Link.

Direct Marketing

As noted above, we may wish to provide you with information about existing and new products, services, podcasts webinars, seminars, and about promotions and offers, which may be of interest to you. We may also request feedback on our podcast or sponsorships. This communication may occur by email or telephone (telemarketing).

We will obtain your consent for direct marketing through opt-in, where we are required to do so in accordance with applicable laws, and will keep track of the consent(s) provided by you.

We will ensure that any direct marketing or market research that you receive or are contacted about by e-mail will provide a simple means for you to withdraw from such further e-mail communication. For example, we may provide you with an ‘unsubscribe’ link in emails, or an email address where you can send an opt-out request.

In such cases, we would not necessarily remove all your personal data from our database(s) but would note and respect your changed direct marketing preferences.

Obtaining Your Consent — Communication Preferences
You may gain a lot of information about our podcasts without having to provide any personal data. However, for certain services, podcast shows, information and events we may require and request certain personal data. This information will enable us to provide you with additional relevant information or service and to use it for the other purposes described in this Policy or described specifically for the requested service, information or event.

We will request, where required by applicable laws, that you grant your explicit consent for our online, electronic direct marketing activities, and for the use of our cookies. Where required, we will request that you grant your explicit consent for us to collect and use your personal data as explained in this Policy.

Such consent will be requested within the web form or hardcopy form used to collect your personal data and/or provided to you to confirm your registrations(for example, for offline activities, such as in person podcast shows, and other events).

In certain cases, we may also request you to confirm your consent through a link in a follow-up email (double opt-in).

Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the security of any transmission of personal data over the Internet, via email or other electronic communication. We also cannot guarantee the security of different methods of electronic storage. Electronic communications such as via email are not secure unless they have been appropriately encrypted. While we strive to protect such information, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information transmitted or exchanged between us. You therefore accept the inherent security implications of dealing online and through email and will not hold us responsible, unless a security breach incident has been caused by the specific gross negligence of Howd It Happen LLC, its subsidiaries or its agents.

Retention
We retain your personal data in our active systems as long as you have accessed or used our site.

Links to Other Websites
Our Sites may contain links to other websites. We are not responsible for the content, terms of service, security, and privacy practices of these other websites. Your access and use of such links or websites remains solely at your own risk. You should be aware of this when you leave our Sites and we encourage you to read the privacy statements on other websites you visit.

How to Access, Correct, or Delete Your Personal Data
Under applicable privacy laws, you have certain rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you, such as rights of information about and access to your personal data, rights to rectify your personal data, rights to reject or restrict certain processing, rights to delete your personal data and rights to be forgotten.

You may request for the exercise of those rights by contacting us using the Contact page.

Contact Us
If you have questions regarding this Policy or our handling of your personal data, please contact our us here https://mikemalatesta.com/contact/

Changes to this Policy
Please note that we may update or change this Policy from time to time. When we do, we will revise the last updated notice at the bottom of the Policy. If the changes are material, we will also provide a more prominent notice on our corporate website. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

This Policy was last updated on November 19, 2020.