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ICOM AGENCIES PRIVACY POLICY

LAST UPDATED: September 14, 2016

This is the official privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) for The International Communications Agency Network, Inc. (“ICOM”) website located at http://www.icomagencies.com (the “Website”). This Privacy Policy, the Terms and Conditions and any additional terms provided on the Website form your agreement with us.

This Privacy Policy governs the Personal Information (as defined below) collected by the Website, but does not cover any other information, whether collected in any other manner or for any other purpose, or on any other website or service unless specifically stated. All capitalized terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meaning ascribed to such terms in the Terms and Conditions.

If for any reason, you do not agree with this Privacy Policy or our Terms and Conditions, please do not use the Website because by doing so, you will have indicated that you have accepted same.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time-to-time by posting an updated version on our Website, without advance notice to you. The changes shall be effective immediately upon our posting. We encourage you to check this Privacy Policy often so you are aware of the most current terms and conditions that apply to you.

When we use the term “Personal Information” we mean information such as your first/middle initial or name and last name, street address, town or city, state, zip code, mobile device number, telephone number, e-mail address, and any other information that would allow someone to identify you or contact you. If you make donations or other payments through our Website, in addition to your name and contact information, we will also collect your credit card or other payment instrument information.

Our Site is designed and targeted to audiences and governed by and operated in accordance with the laws, regulations, and treaties of the United States of America. We make no representation that the Website is operated in accordance with or governed by the laws of other nations or jurisdictions.

Collection and Use of Personal Information. We collect Personal Information about you when you provide us with Personal Information through the Website or simply in the course of exchanges of information, transactions and activities in connection with the Website. For example, If you provide your e-mail address to us, you may receive newsletters, alerts and other periodic communications and information we may send you. We will always disclose this to you if that is the case and you will be given the opportunity at that time and thereafter, to opt-out of receiving or continuing to receive these. In addition, we may collect your computer’s, system’s and/or network’s IP addresses and message information for system administration, record keeping, capacity planning, volume and other operational reasons as necessary in the conduct of our business.

Use of Information. We will not use any Personal Information submitted to us in connection with our Website for any purpose other than to provide communications or information to you. We may use non-personally identifiable information you provide us with for our own internal statistical and analytical purposes. We may contact you to ensure that the information we have in our records is still correct and to add additional information to complete your profile. We will not share Personal Information we obtain solely in connection with our Website with any third parties unless you give us your consent to do so. We may share information with our operational service providers that assist in delivering the Website to you.

Disclosure to Third Parties. Some of the aggregate statistical and other non-personal data we collect in connection with our Website may be shared with certain third parties with whom we have a relationship, but we do not give any Personal Information to them as part of the relationship unless specifically stated in this Privacy Policy. We do not sell, rent, lease or disclose your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes to any third parties.

We will make your Personal Information available to third parties in the following limited circumstances:

  • When we are compelled to do so by a governmental agency, court or other entity (e.g., to respond to subpoenas, court orders or legal process);
  • If we believe your actions violate any law, regulation, any term or condition of the Terms and Conditions or if you threaten the rights, property or safety of us, our Site, any of our operational service providers, suppliers, other users or any other party;
  • If in our sole discretion, we believe such disclosure to be necessary or appropriate to investigate or resolve possible problems or inquiries to protect our business and assets, to defend our interests, or to comply with any legal and regulatory obligations; or
  • In the event of a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, transfer of control, joint venture or other business combination involving us.

Cookies and Similar Technology. We may use “cookie” technology to collect data regarding your visits to our Website and your use of our Website. This data is stored in aggregate form and is not used to identify any particular user or individual. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies in a variety of ways, including:

  • Saving your user information so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our Site;
  • Keeping count of your return visits to our Site; and
  • Accumulating and reporting aggregate, statistical information in connection with our Site.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie or image tag is being sent or you can choose to turn off all such mechanisms. This is done through your browser. If you turn cookies off, you may not have access to certain features and functions of our Website.

Security. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your Personal Information is stored and maintained in a secure environment. We have implemented procedures to ensure that your information is only made available to such designated staff as necessary to carry out the stated purposes that we have communicated to you.

Retention and Storage of Information. We will retain your information for a reasonable time to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you. We may use the services of third party companies to physically collect and store your information on our behalf. Any such companies will have to comply with the terms of this policy.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. We comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”). Accordingly, we never knowingly accept Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13 without obtaining verifiable parental consent. If you are under the age of 13, you must first have your parent or legal guardian consent to your submission of personal information on the Site. If you are not able to provide such verifiable parental consent, please do not submit any Personal Information (including your e-mail address) through the Site or otherwise to us. If we somehow obtain Personal Information of children under the age of 13 without verifiable parental consent, we will promptly destroy and not maintain or use any such information. To the extent we are reasonably able, we will also notify the affected user ’s parent or legal guardian of our receipt of such Personal Information.

Review, Update or Delete Your Personal Information. If you do not understand what Personal Information may be collected or used for particular purposes, you should contact our Privacy Administrator via e-mail with a request at info@icomagencies.com.

Questions. If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, cannot find the answer to a question related to our Privacy Policy or if you do not understand the information about how we collect, maintain, store, use or share your Personal Information you may contact our Privacy Administrator by e-mail at info@icomagencies.com.

Sole Statement. The foregoing statements, terms and conditions contained in this Privacy Policy is the sole statement of our privacy policy, and no summary, restatement or other version, or other statement or policy, in any form, including, without limitation, machine-generated, is valid.

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