EPISODE Maker

Privacy Policy

 

DATA COLLECTION

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We collect or obtain data relating to you in a variety of ways, as described below. Such data may include personal data, i.e., information that alone or in combination with other information identifies you as an individual or can be reasonably linked to your identity. 

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Data You Provide: When you submit questions, request information, or give us feedback via this Site, we may ask you for data, like your name, telephone number, and email address so we can respond or follow up. We may also ask you to provide other data relevant to your question, request, or feedback, such as your geographical location, industry, and preferred contact method.

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We generally do not seek data that may be considered “special” or “sensitive” personal data (e.g., government-issued identification numbers or information related to an individual’s racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, criminal background, or trade union membership) from visitors of this Site, and we ask that you do not provide such data. If we specifically require “special” or “sensitive” personal data in connection with one or more of the uses described below, we will request your consent to use the data in accordance with this Privacy Statement and/or in the ways described at the point where you were asked to disclose the data. If you voluntarily share with us or post/upload  any “special” or “sensitive” personal data to this Site for any other reason, you consent that we may use such data in accordance with applicable law and this Privacy Statement.

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Data Collected from your Use of this Site: We automatically receive certain data about the computer or device you are using when you visit this Site, including: your Internet Protocol (IP) address; information about the browser or type of device you are using; the date and time of your visit; and the web page you visited immediately prior to visiting this Site. 

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DATA USE

 

We use data about you for the purpose(s) for which it was collected or provided to us (as stated at the point of collection) or as otherwise obvious from the context of collection. We may also use data to:

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• Administer and manage this Site, communicate with you about this Site, or process your request for information 

• Customize or personalize your user experience and the content we deliver to you, including to provide you with content that is more relevant to you;  

• Contact you about EPISODE’s products and services, provide you with promotional materials or offers for products/services from EPISODE, or send you other communications about EPISODE’s business and events (including communications based on your interests, personal and business characteristics, and location) (collectively, “marketing communications”). We may provide these communications and offers via email; 

• Protect the rights, safety, property, or operations of one or more EPISODE affiliates, you, or others; 

• Comply with applicable law and/or respond to requests and communications from law enforcement authorities or other government officials.

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Note that you may unsubscribe from a EPISODE mailing list at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any of our marketing communications to you. After you unsubscribe, we will not send you further marketing communications, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any services you have requested.

 

We will never use your personal data to advertise, promote, or market third-party goods or services to you. Additionally, we will not license or publish any of your personal data. We do not and will not sell any personal data to third parties for their own commercial use. 

 

BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA 

 

Applicable law in certain countries requires us to set out in this Privacy Statement the legal basis upon which we rely in order to process personal data. 

 

Consent: We may rely on the consent that you provide us at the point of data collection or disclosure to us to process such data for the purposes outlined herein.

 

Legitimate interests: We may rely on our legitimate interests to process your personal data, provided that our interests are not overridden by your interests, fundamental rights, or freedoms. In particular, we may process your personal data in reliance on a legitimate interest in the effective and lawful operation of this Site and our businesses, as well as the effective delivery of information and services to you. We may have other legitimate interests and, if so, we will make clear what those interests are at the relevant point in time.

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Compliance with legal obligations: We may process your personal data if necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation arising under an applicable law to which we are subject.

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To the extent that we process any “special” or “sensitive” categories of personal data relating to you, we will do so because either: (i) you have given us your explicit consent to carry out such processing; (ii) the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or (iii) you have made the data manifestly public. 

If you have questions or concerns about the legal basis upon which we collect and use your personal data, you can contact us at support@episodemaker.com.

 

DISCLOSURES OF PERSONAL DATA 

 

In connection with one or more of the purposes outlined in the “Data Use” section above, we may disclose your data to:

• Other entities within the EPISODE group of companies; 

• Third parties that provide services to us, such as system hosting, management, and support; data analysis; facilitation of advertisements; data backup; and data security and storage services; 

• Competent governmental and public authorities, in each case to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests; and

• Other third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; (d) to protect our operations and those of any of our affiliates; (e) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you, or others; and (f) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.  

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In addition, this Site may contain content and plugins from social media platforms, like Facebook (“Like” button), Twitter (“Share to Twitter”), Linkedin, and others. When you connect to these services, the third parties may store and/or access data (including through the use of cookies and other similar technologies) over which we do not have control. If you are logged into one of your social media accounts while visiting a webpage on this Site that contains a social media plugin, the social media plugin may allow the relevant social media platform to receive information that you visited this Site and link it to your social media account. We do not control these third-party platforms, and information collected is governed by the privacy statement of the third party that provides the relevant platform. We encourage you to review these  platforms’ privacy statements for more information.     

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The disclosures described in this section may result in the transfer of your data to countries or regions with data protection laws that differ from those in your country of residence. By providing us with your data and using this Site, you are acknowledging that your data may be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence.

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In cases where your data is transferred outside of your country of residence, we take steps to ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect such data. If you are based in the EU/EEA, such safeguards may include a data transfer agreement with the data recipient based on standard contractual clauses or such other mechanism as is approved by the European Commission for transfers of personal data to third countries. For further details relating to the transfers described above and the adequate safeguards used with respect to such transfers, please contact us at support@episodemaker.com.

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THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES

 

This Privacy Statement does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third parties, including those that operate websites to which this Site links. The inclusion of a link on this Site does not imply that we or our affiliates endorse the practices of the linked website. 

 

DATA SECURITY

 

We use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect data under our control. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or data storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you feel that the security of any data that we hold about you has been compromised, please immediately notify us of the problem by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

 

EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

 

You have choices about how your personal data is handled, and we are committed to providing you with reasonable access to your personal data and the ability to review and limit the use of such data in accordance with applicable law.

If you no longer want to receive electronic newsletters you signed up to receive or other marketing communications from EPISODE, you can click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of such communications.

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Depending on your country of residence, you may also have the right to:

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• request confirmation that we are processing your personal data;

• request a copy of the personal data we hold about you;

• request that we update the personal data we hold about you or correct such data that is inaccurate or incomplete;

• restrict the way in which we use your personal data (e.g., if we have no legal right to keep using it) or limit our use of your personal data (e.g., if your personal data is inaccurate or unlawfully held);

• object to our processing of your personal data;

• withdraw the consent that you have given us to process your personal data (where we process your personal data on the basis of your consent);

• request that we delete the personal data we hold about you; and

• lodge a complaint with the data protection or privacy authority in your country of residence regarding our processing of your personal data.