Imperium
Privacy Policy
INTRODUCTION
Imperium,
Inc. (“Imperium”, “Company”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to
protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes
the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when
you visit the website [https://thisisimperium.com/] (our “Website”) or connect through a
third-party website and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining,
protecting, and disclosing that information.
This
policy applies to information Imperium collects:
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On
this Website and your interactions with this Website.
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In
email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
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Through
mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide
dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
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When
you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and
services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
It does
not apply to information collected by:
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Us
offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by
Company or any third party; or
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Any
third party, including through any application or content (including advertising)
that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website
Please
read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding
your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our
policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By using this
Website and submitting your personal data to its database, you agree to be
bound by this Privacy Policy, and that Imperium may process your data for the
purposes described in this Privacy Policy and consistent with the Website’s
Terms of Service [https://thisisimperium.com/terms] This policy may change from time to time
(see Changes
to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website
after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please
check the policy periodically for updates.
CONTENTS
1. Children Under the Age of 13
2. Information We Collect and How We Collect It
3. Information You Provide to Us
4. Information We Collect Using Automatic Data Tracking Technologies
5. Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Data Tracking Technologies
6. How We Use Your Information
7. Transferring Personal Information from the EU to the US
9. Disclosure of Your Information
10. Your Rights With Respect to Your Personal Information
11. How Imperium Uses and Discloses Your Information
12. Accessing and Correcting Your Information
13. Your California Privacy Rights
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
1.
Children Under the Age of 13
Our Website is not intended for
children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information
to or on the Website. Imperium does not knowingly collect personal information
from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide
any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the
Website, make purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or
public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number,
email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have
collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without
verification of parental consent, Imperium will delete that
information. If you believe Imperium might have any information from or about a
child under 13, please contact us a support@thisisimperium.com
California
residents under 16 years of age may have additional rights regarding the collection and sale of their personal information. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information.
2.
Information We Collect and How We Collect It
Personal
data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from
which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the
identity has been removed (anonymous data).
We
collect a variety of information about our customers and visitors when you
provide it to us, when you use our services, or when other sources provide it
to us. This personal data falls into these categories:
● Personal identifying data including first name, last name, username or similar online identifier, other social medial identifiers or any other such identifier by which you may be contacted online;
● Contact Information including postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, any other identifier by which you may be contacted offline;
● Financial Data including information relating to purchases (name, email address, and credit card information)
● Transaction Data including details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us;
● Technical Data and Usage Data including internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website and how you interact on the Website including but not limited to what you are viewing on the Website, how you view it, what links or webpages you click to, what parts or pages you spend the most time on, and your preferences on the Website; and
● Tracking Data including how you access the Website, your internet connection, IP address, the equipment you use to access our Website, usage details and other information we or others collect about you from cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as web beacons, pixels, and mobile identifiers.
We
also collect, use, and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic
data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data
but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or
indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data
to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature.
However,
if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can
directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal
data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.
We
do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes
details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex
life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership,
information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we
collect any information about criminal convictions and offenses.
Remember,
if you choose not to share personal data with us, we might not be able to
provide the products and services you’ve asked for.
3.
How we Collect this Information
We may use different methods to
collect data from and about you including through:
● Information that you provide through direct interaction with the Website including filling in forms on our Website, email, chats, or social media. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. Imperium may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.
● Information you grant through a third-party service to Imperium (such as Google, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, etc.).
● Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
● Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
● Sign up for Website newsletter.
● Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
● Your search queries on the Website.
4.
Information We Collect Using Automatic Data
Tracking Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with
our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and
patterns, including:
● Details of your visits to this Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, session recordings, pages and tabs you visited and viewed, links you have clicked, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
● Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
[We also may use these technologies to collect
information about your online activities over time and across third-party
websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). Please see Do Not Track Requests for information on how you can opt
out of behavioral tracking on this website and how we respond to
web browser signals and other mechanisms that enable consumers to exercise
choice about behavioral tracking.]
The information we collect automatically
may include personal information, or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from
third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and
more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
● Estimate our audience size, usage patterns, Website likeability and use, and page views.
● Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
● Prepare relevant information on our Website based on your and other consumers use and navigation of it.
● Speed up your searches.
● Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
● Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may Imperium to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will Imperium cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
● Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see How Imperium Uses and Discloses Your Information.
● Web Beacons. Pages on the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Imperium, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
5.
Third Party Use of Cookies and Other Data
Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including
advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including
advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application
providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web
beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when
you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information,
including personal information, about your online activities over time and
across different websites and other online services. They may use this
information to provide you with interest-based
(behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they
may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted
content, you should contact the responsible provider
directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted
advertising from many providers, see How Imperium Uses and Discloses
Your Information.
6.
How We Use Your Information
Imperium uses information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal
information:
● To present our Website and its contents to you.
● To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us or based on your interactions from our Website.
● To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
● To provide you with notices about your account, including expiration and renewal notices.
● To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
● To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services Imperium offers or provides though it.
● To better update our Website based on your and other consumers interaction with it.
● To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
● In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
● For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to
contact you about our own and third-parties’
goods and services
that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information
in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For
more information, see How Imperium Uses and Discloses Your Information.
We may use the information we have
collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’
target audiences. Even though we do not
disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if
you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement,
the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
7.
Transferring Personal Information from the EU to
the US
Imperium
is headquartered in the United States. Information you provide to us or we
collect from you will be processed in the United
States. For personal data subject to the European
Union General Data Processing Regulations (“GDPR”), we
rely on several legal bases to process the data. These legal bases include
where:
● The processing is necessary to perform our contractual obligations in our Terms of Service or other contracts with you (such as to provide you the Service as described in our Terms of Service);
● You have given your prior consent, which you may withdraw at any time (such as for marketing purposes or other purposes we obtain your consent for from time to time);
● The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, a court order or to exercise or defend legal claims;
● The processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests, such as in improving, personalizing, and developing the Service, marketing the Service, such as new features or products that may be of interest, and promoting safety and security as described above.
Imperium strives to apply suitable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of your personal
information and to use it only as described in this Policy. We also enter into
data processing agreements and standing contractual clauses with our vendors,
whenever feasible and appropriate. For more information regarding the
GDPR and data transfers, click here.
Imperium
uses a number of third party analytics (such as Google Analytics) and service
providers to help us evaluate your use of the Website; compile statistical
reports on activity and improve the content on the Website, as well as the
Website’s performance. We only use these third-party analytics providers on
certain areas of the Website. We currently do not respond to your browser’s Do
Not Track signal, and we do not permit third parties other than our analytics
and service providers to track Imperium users’ activities over time on the
Website. We do not track your online browsing activity on other online services
over time.
9.
Disclosure of Your Information
Imperium
may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does
not identify any individual, without restriction. Imperium may disclose
personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this
privacy policy:
● To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
● To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
● To 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 Imperium’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Imperium about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
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To third parties to market their products or services to you. For more
information, see How Imperium Uses
and Discloses Your Information.
● To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
● For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
● With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
● To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
● To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
● If Imperium believes disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Imperium, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
10.
Your Rights With Respect to Your Personal
Information
Depending on the location
from where you access the Website, you may have the right to access, correct,
delete, or restrict use of certain personal information covered by this Policy
and exercise all other rights set forth in Articles 15-22 of the General Data
Protection Regulation (“GDPR”). You may also have the
right to request that we refrain from processing your personal information.
Please bear in mind that if you exercise such rights this may affect Imperium’s
ability to provide our services. For inquiries about your personal information,
please contact us. Although we will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your
request, we reserve the right to impose certain restrictions and requirements
on such requests, if allowed or required by applicable laws. Please note that
it may take some time to process your request.
11.
How Imperium Uses and Discloses Your
Information
We
strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide
you with the following control over your information
●
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser
to Imperium all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being
sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash
player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable
or Imperium cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be
inaccessible or not function properly.
●
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your
personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third
parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box
logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account
profile, or by sending us an email with your request to support@thisisimperium.com.
●
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your
contact information used by Imperium to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can
opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your
account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by
sending us an email stating your request to support@thisisimperium.com. If we have sent you a promotional email,
you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email
distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to
Imperium as a result of a product purchase, product service experience, or
other transactions.
●
Targeted Advertising. If you do not want us to use
information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements
according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences, you can
opt-out by emailing
support@thisisimperium.com.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to
serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you
with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.
You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members
of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.
We may share your information with:
● If you decide to register through or otherwise grant access to a third-party social networking or integrated service (what we call an “Integrated Service”), such as Facebook, Google, or similar single sign-on service, Imperium may also collect Personal Information that is already associated with your Integrated Service account. You may also have the option of sharing additional information with Imperium through an Integrated Service, as controlled through your settings on that Integrated Service. If you choose to provide such information, during registration or otherwise, Imperium will treat the information as Personal Information and will use it in the ways described in this Privacy Policy.
California residents may have additional
personal information rights and choices. Please see Your California Privacy Rights for more information. Nevada
residents who wish to exercise their sale opt-out rights under Nevada Revised
Statutes Chapter 603A may submit a request to support@thisisimperium.com.
12.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your
personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account
profile page. You may also send us an email support@thisisimperium.com to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that
you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by
also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change
information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal
requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
13.
Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident,
California law may provide you with additional rights regarding
our use of your personal information. To learn more about your California
privacy rights, visit CCPA Privacy Notice to California Residents.
California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section §
1798.83) permits users of our App that
are California residents to request certain
information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties
for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an
email to support@thisisimperium.com.
14.
Data Security
We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from
accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.
All information you provide to us is stored on secure servers behind firewalls.
Any payment transactions and Imperium user’s personally identifiable information will be encrypted.
The safety and security of your
information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have
chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share
your password with anyone. We urge you to be careful about giving out
information in public areas of the Website like message boards. The information
you share in public areas may be viewed by any user of the Website.
Unfortunately, the transmission of
information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best
to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your
personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission
of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for
circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the
Website.
15.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material
changes to how we treat our users’
personal information, we will notify you
through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last
revised is identified at the top of the page. You are
responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email
address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy
policy to check for any changes.
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Contact Information
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To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy
practices, contact us at: support@thisisimperium.com
Last Modified: March 2021