theatticfanatics is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters, and those providing contact information. In addition, theatticfanatics is opposed to unauthorized commercial email delivery, otherwise known as spam. Please read the following Privacy and Spam Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. From time to time, theatticfanatics may offer new information or services that may affect this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Spam Policy, please send an email to privacy@theatticfanatics.com. Spam abuses can be notified at abuse@theatticfanatics.com.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The following privacy policy (\u201cPrivacy Policy\u201d) sets forth theatticfanatics policy with respect to information, including personally identifiable data (\u201cPersonal Data\u201d) and other information, theatticfanatics collects from visitors to the theatticfanatics website located at https:\/\/www.theatticfanatics.com\/<\/a> (the \u201cWebsite\u201d) and relevant product subdomains. theatticfanatics, the owner and operator of the Website, is a corporation formed under the laws of California, United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This Privacy Policy does not apply to information of any kind that we collect by means (including offline means) or from sources other than those specified herein.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT & HOW IS IT USED?<\/strong> Our legal basis for processing this information is your consent, and by voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data to us, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred and stored from your current location to the offices and servers of theatticfanatics and the authorized third parties referenced below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Information We Collect from Others<\/em><\/strong>: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment. For more information about our use of third-party providers, please see below.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Automatically-Collected Information<\/em><\/strong>: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access theatticfanatics. For example, when you use theatticfanatics, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates\/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using theatticfanatics, such as links clicked.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Cookies<\/em><\/strong>: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by theatticfanatics. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website. For more information about our use of cookies, please see below.<\/em> LEGAL BASES FOR PROCESSING DATA UNDER THE GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (\u201cGDPR\u201d)<\/strong> DOES theatticfanatics SHARE MY INFORMATION?<\/strong> Parent Companies and Affiliates<\/strong>: We may share your information with a parent company, any subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under a common control (collectively, \u201cAffiliates\u201d), provided that we require our Affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Business Transfers<\/strong>: As we develop our business, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution, or similar event, Personal Data may be part of the transferred assets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Related Companies<\/strong>: We may also share your Personal Data with our Related Companies for purposes consistent with this Privacy Policy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third Parties with Permission<\/strong>: We may share your information with third parties to whom you ask us to send your information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Agents, Consultants, and Related Third Parties<\/strong>: theatticfanatics, like many businesses, sometimes hires other companies to perform certain business-related functions. Examples of such functions include mailing information, maintaining databases, and processing payments. When we employ another entity to perform a function of this nature, we only provide them with the information that they need to perform their specific function.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Legal Requirements<\/strong>: theatticfanatics may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to (i) comply with a legal obligation or to respond to requests from law enforcement or other government officials relating to investigations or alleged illegal activity or in connection with our own investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity, in which case we may (and you hereby authorize us to) disclose information without subpoenas or warrants served on us, (ii) protect and defend the rights or property of theatticfanatics, (iii) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Website or the public, (iv) protect against legal liability including to resolve disputes, investigate problems, or enforce our Customer contracts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third-Party Vendors<\/strong>: Additionally, theatticfanatics may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider\u2019s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policy. theatticfanatics currently uses the following third-party service providers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tracking<\/em><\/strong>: theatticfanatics uses various marketing tools that help us create a better user experience for people visiting our site. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns and clicks, as well as allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use the following third-party service providers for tracking:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Microsoft Clarity: <\/em>Privacy policy<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>cookie information<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Microsoft Clarity Opt-Out. Microsoft Clarity uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users\u2019 behavior and their devices (in particular device\u2019s IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Microsoft Clarity stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Microsoft nor theatticfanatics will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Microsoft\u2019s <\/em>privacy policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n You can prevent Microsoft Clarity from gathering data on your page views by utilizing the system built by the Digital Advertising Alliance to enable opt-out experiences for customers. You can opt-out of Clarity telemetry by selecting Microsoft <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>. If you install the <\/em>Protect My Choices<\/em><\/a> app for your browser, you can ensure your opt-out preference is saved.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Google Analytics: <\/em>Privacy Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Google Analytics Opt-Out. To provide website visitors the ability to prevent their data from being used by Google Analytics, Google has developed the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, dc.js). If you want to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your web browser. The Google Analytics opt-out add-on is designed to be compatible with Chrome, Internet Explorer 11, Safari, Firefox, and Opera. In order to function, the opt-out add-on must be able to load and execute properly on your browser. For Internet Explorer, 3rd-party cookies must be enabled. Learn more about the opt-out and how to properly install the browser add-on <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Convert.com: <\/em>Privacy Policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Convert.com Opt-Out: Your privacy is very important to Convert Experiences. Through our services, we do not collect personally identifiable information, install software on users\u2019 computers, or track keystrokes. Convert Experiences also does not transfer information from one client to another. To opt out Convert Experiences, simply follow the instructions below. The link will automatically replace the specified advertising cookie(s) and verify your opt-out status. You can <\/em>opt out here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Remarketing<\/em><\/strong>: theatticfanatics uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website. In addition, theatticfanatics uses custom audiences based on emails and phone numbers of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook and Google. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you with special offers from us. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Facebook: <\/em>Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Google: <\/em>Opt-out of Google remarketing here<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Newsletters<\/em><\/strong>: theatticfanatics uses Drip as its email service provider. Through Drip, we collect contact information, distribute our newsletter, and track actions you take that assist us in measuring the performance of the website and newsletters. Upon subscription, we also track the pages you visit on the website through Drip. If you become a customer, information about the products you purchase is passed into Drip.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Our newsletters contain tracking pixels. This pixel is embedded in emails and allows us to analyze the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email, which links within the email you click, and the pages you visit on our website. This behavior is not passed to third parties. All data submitted at the time of subscription to our newsletter is stored on Drip\u2019s servers. <\/em>You may access Drip\u2019s privacy policy here<\/em><\/a>. At any time, you may be removed from our newsletter list by clicking on the unsubscribe button provided in each email.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n We may also rely on a third-party service, OptinMonster, to service certain pop-up subscription boxes. Any information collected by OptinMonster is passed directly to Drip.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Purchases<\/em><\/strong>: theatticfanatics uses 1ShoppingCart, Stripe, and PayPal to service payments for our products and services. At no time is your banking information passed to the Website from any of the following third-party providers. We receive only information used for order fulfillment.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Social Media Marketing World<\/em><\/strong>: theatticfanatics hosts an annual conference, Social Media Marketing World. If you purchase tickets for Social Media Marketing World, you will enter personal data into our system for processing this transaction. Your payment will be processed by one of our payment processors, as described above. Information you provide at the time of purchase will be used for the creation of conference badges. Emails regarding your purchase may be transmitted through Amazon SES, which does not store your personal information. We communicate with conference attendees via email through Drip, which stores the product you purchased and your personal contact information on their servers. <\/em>You may access Drip\u2019s privacy policy here<\/em><\/a>. When you attend Social Media Marketing World, you will be presented with the opportunity to scan your badge with our sponsors. If you voluntarily choose to allow a third party to scan your badge, you will be transmitting your name, company, and email address.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Online Courses, Workshops, Seminars, and Summits:<\/em><\/strong> theatticfanatics hosts regular online events (\u201cSummits\u201d). If you purchase tickets for one of these Summits, you will enter personal data into our system for processing this transaction. Your payment will be processed by one of our payment processors, as described above. Emails regarding your purchase may be transmitted through Amazon SES, which does not store your personal information. We communicate with Summit attendees via email through Drip, which stores the product you purchased and your personal contact information on their servers. <\/em>You may access Drip\u2019s privacy policy here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Social Media Marketing Society<\/em><\/strong>: theatticfanatics hosts a paid membership site, the Social Media Marketing Society. If you purchase a membership in the Social Media Marketing Society, your purchase will be processed through one of our payment processors, as described above. Additionally, at the time you join the Social Media Marketing Society, you will create a profile through our system, which stores your personal information on our servers. We communicate with Social Media Marketing Society Members via email through Drip, which stores your personal contact information on their servers. <\/em>You may access Drip\u2019s privacy policy here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Surveys<\/em><\/strong>: Periodically, we may invite you to complete a voluntary survey. All surveys are completed through Survey Monkey. All survey responses may be submitted anonymously and only your IP address is stored. You may voluntarily enter your name and email address. All data submitted through Survey Monkey is stored on their servers and is subject to the <\/em>SurveyMonkey privacy policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Webinars<\/em><\/strong>: From time to time, theatticfanatics or the Social Media Marketing Society will host webinars, which may be hosted through GoToWebinar. If you elect to participate in a webinar, you will be required to submit personal information to register and log in. You may also receive email communications regarding reminders and playback availability.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n All information submitted for your participation is stored by the software hosting the webinar. Please consult their individual privacy policies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n GoToWebinar: <\/em>Privacy Policy<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Contact Information and Website Support<\/em><\/strong>: We offer multiple ways to contact theatticfanatics, including contact forms, emails, and chat. If at any time, you attempt to contact us through a contact form, the information you provide will be stored on our servers. If you submit a form or email us, we use FreshDesk to process all these inquiries and track responses. All related information is stored on the servers at FreshDesk, in accordance with the <\/em>FreshDesk privacy policy<\/em><\/a>. If you use our live chat feature, it is powered by FreshChat, and your communication will be stored on servers at FreshDesk (the company behind FreshChat), in accordance with the <\/em>FreshDesk privacy policy<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at theatticfanatics sole discretion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email address(es) or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through theatticfanatics to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n OTHER TYPES OF DATA<\/strong> Aggregated Personal Data<\/strong>: In an ongoing effort to better understand and serve the users of the Sites, theatticfanatics may conduct research on its customer demographics, interests, and behavior based on the Personal Data and other information provided to us. This research may be compiled and analyzed on an aggregate basis, and we may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents, and business partners. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. theatticfanatics may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe our services to current and prospective business partners, and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION<\/strong> COOKIES<\/strong> WHAT ARE COOKIES?<\/em> In addition to Cookies, the Website may use web beacons. Web beacons allow us to count the number of users who have visited or accessed the Website and to recognize users by accessing our cookies. We may employ web beacons to facilitate Website administration and navigation, track the actions of users of the Website, compile aggregate statistics about Website usage and response rates, and provide an enhanced online experience for visitors to the Website. We may also include web beacons in HTML-formatted email messages that we send to determine which email messages were opened. A web beacon is often invisible because it is only 1 x 1 pixel in size with no color. A web beacon can also be known as a web bug, 1 by 1 GIF, invisible GIF, and tracker GIF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF COOKIES AND HOW DO WE USE THEM?<\/em> Examples of how we may use essential Cookies include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Functional<\/em>: These Cookies are used to remember your preferences on our Website and to provide enhanced, more personal features. The information collected by these Cookies is usually anonymized, so we cannot identify you personally. Functional Cookies do not track your internet usage or gather information that could be used for selling advertising.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of how we may use functional Cookies include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Analytical Performance<\/em>: Analytical performance Cookies are used to monitor the performance of our Sites, for example, to determine the number of page views and the number of unique users our Website has. We use this information to improve the user experience or identify areas of the Website which may require maintenance. The information is anonymous (i.e. it cannot be used to identify you and does not contain personal information such as your name and email address) and it is only used for statistical purposes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of how we may use analytical Cookies include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Advertising<\/em>: Behavioral advertising Cookies, which may be placed on your device by us or our trusted third-party service providers, remember that you have visited a website and use that information to provide you with advertising which is tailored to your interests. This is often called online behavioral advertising and is done by grouping together shared interests based on web browsing history. Your web browsing history can be used to infer things about you (e.g. your age, gender, etc.), and this information may also be used to make advertising on websites more relevant to you. Although behavioral advertising Cookies can track your activity around the internet, these Cookies cannot identify you personally, even if you are signed in to our Website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Examples of how we may use advertising Cookies include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Third-Party Cookies<\/em>: You may notice on some pages of our Website that Cookies have been set that are not related to us. When you visit a page with content embedded from, for example, YouTube or Facebook, these third-party service providers may set their own Cookies on your device. We do not control the use of these third-party Cookies and cannot access them due to the way that Cookies work, as Cookies can only be accessed by the party who originally set them. Please check the third-party websites for more information about these Cookies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n HOW CAN YOU MANAGE OR OPT OUT OF COOKIES?<\/em> Opting out of Analytical Performance Cookies<\/p>\n\n\n\n If you would like to opt out of Analytics Cookies, please do so by clicking on the links below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Google Analytics: Opt-out Browser Add-on<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website<\/em><\/strong>: We collect Personal Data from you when you voluntarily provide such information, such as when you contact us with inquiries, register for access to the Website, or purchase products or services from the Website. Personal Data may include, but is not limited to, the below:<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/strong>theatticfanatics will not share, rent, or sell your personally identifiable information with third parties. We may, however, share your information with third parties when we are authorized to share such information.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>Non-Identifiable Data<\/strong>: When you interact with us through the Website, we receive and store certain personally non-identifiable information. Such information, which is collected passively using various technologies, cannot presently be used to specifically identify you. We may store such information or such information may be included in databases owned and maintained by our affiliates, agents, or service providers. The Website may use such information and pool it with other information to track, for example, the total number of visitors to our Website, the number of visitors to each page of our Website, and the domain names of our visitors\u2019 Internet service providers. It is important to note that no Personal Data is available or used in this process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>If you create a user profile on theatticfanatics or the Social Media Marketing Society or leave a comment on theatticfanatics, certain information may be publicly visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/strong>theatticfanatics uses cookies to: store visitors\u2019 preferences; record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit; ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads; or customize our content based on visitors\u2019 browser type or other information that the visitor sends. We also share information about your use of our Website with our social media, advertising, and analytics partners. This section explains what cookies are, how we use Cookies and similar technologies on our Website, and what you can do to manage how Cookies are used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>A cookie is a small text file that is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a \u201cdevice\u201d) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website. The Cookie will collect information relating to your use of the Website, information about your device such as the device\u2019s IP address and browser type, demographic data, and if you arrived at our Website via a link from a third-party site, the URL of the linking page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/em>Essential<\/em>: These are Cookies that are essential for the running of our Website. Without these Cookies, parts of our Website would not function. These Cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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<\/em>Cookies, including those which have already been set, can be deleted from your hard drive. You can also change the preferences\/settings in your web browser to control Cookies. In some cases, you can choose to accept Cookies from the primary site, but block them from third parties. In others, you can block Cookies from specific advertisers, or clear out all Cookies. Deleting or blocking Cookies may reduce the functionality of the Website. To learn more about how to reject Cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org<\/a> or go to the help menu within your internet browser. If you experience any problems having deleted Cookies, you should contact the supplier of your web browser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n