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Privacy Statement
This is the Privacy Statement (the “Privacy Statement”) of KIK Consulting and Educational Services, LLC (“KIK,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this Privacy Statement, our Supplemental GDPR Privacy Notice included lower on this page, and our Terms of Use [https://kikconsulting.company.site/products/pages/terms]. Privacy protection under this Privacy Statement not only means that your personal information is safely processed but also, that you, as a visitor to KIKconsulting.com and/or https://kikconsulting.company.site (“Online “Store”) (the foregoing singularly or collectively the “Website”), a registrant of KIK seminars, webcasts or conferences (“Seminars”), and/or customer of KIK, have a clear understanding of how your personal information is collected and used.
This Privacy Statement describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide to us when you visit the Website and otherwise communicate with us and our practices for using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. We also explain how you can access, correct or delete your personal information.
When you visit the Website or otherwise communicate with us, including, without limitation, sending email messages to us or otherwise submitting queries through the Website, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Statement, our Supplemental GDPR Privacy Notice on this page and our Terms of Use [https://kikconsulting.company.site/products/pages/terms] If you do not agree with this Privacy Statement, it is your choice not to use our Website or otherwise communicate with us. This Privacy Statement may change from time to time as detailed below. Your continued use of the Website or otherwise communicating with us after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. As such, please check the Privacy Statement periodically for updates.
SCOPE
This Privacy Statement applies to information we collect:
On or through the Website;
On or through our Online Store;
When you register for one of our Seminars;
When you attend one of our Seminars (in person or through a virtual platform);
When you license and use one of our digital products;
Through online queries or forms you submit on the Website and through any of your subsequent email or electronic communications with us regarding these queries or forms;
In text, and other electronic messages between you and us, through the Website or through other means of digital communication; and
Through any other means of communication in which you send information to us using any addresses or contact information listed on the Website or in this Privacy Statement.
This Privacy Statement does not apply to any third-party websites that are linked to the Website. We have no control over how your personal information is collected, stored or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies and terms of use of any such websites before providing any personal information to them.
CHILDREN’S USE
The Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age and no one under age 16 may provide any personal information to, or through, the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, you are expressly prohibited from using and/or providing any information on the Website or through any of its features, including, but not limited to, providing any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us pursuant to rseiner@kikconsulting.com.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND PROCESS
Like other websites, we gather certain information automatically through your use and/or access to the Website. Depending on how you use the Website, however, the information we gather from you varies.
a) Information We Collect and Store Automatically When You Access the Website
If you visit the Website exclusively for informational purposes (e.g., without completing a transaction on, or otherwise actively submitting information to, the Website), we collect the personal information that your browser automatically transmits to our server log files. This information is necessary to present the Website to you and helps support its stability and security. For example, our system stores your IP address temporarily to improve the Website’s stability and functionality, as well as for troubleshooting where required. Such automatically collected information includes:
Your IP address;
Date and time of the inquiry;
Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT);
Content of the request (concrete page);
Access status/status code;
Data volume transmitted in each case;
Website from which the request comes;
Browser type;
Internet Service Provider (ISP);
Operating system and its interface; and
Language and version of the browser software.
When you visit the Website, we send one or more cookies to your computer or mobile device that uniquely identifies your browser. More information on cookies generally, and our use of cookies in connection with your use and/or access of the Website, is contained in “OUR COOKIE STATEMENT” described on this page.
b) Information We Collect and Store When You Provide it to Us
When you visit the Website, contact us through an online query or form available on the Website, visit our online store, register for a Seminar or otherwise communicate with us directly concerning information available on the Website (e.g., through phone calls, online forms or direct email communications) we store the personal information you provide to us in order to process your requests and where applicable, answer any questions you have asked. Such information includes, but is not limited to:
Your name;
Country, State (or province) and city address;
Your phone number; and/or
Your email address.
For communications concerning merchandise, products or services offered on or through our Website or our Online Store, we may collect information you provide to us including, but not limited to, the above information as well as credit card information.
We understand that in some cases, you will be submitting information (including personal information) on behalf of a colleague. By submitting a colleague’s information, you acknowledge and affirm that you have the colleague’s permission and consent to submit this information and to authorize us to process this information.
We may retain any communications in relation to your queries in order to process corresponding inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our services.
c) How Long and Where We Store Your Personal Information
We will retain your personal information, in either instance—whether you access the Website for informational purposes only or if you fill out an online query or form—only for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Statement (e.g., to present the Website to you, to help support the Website’s stability and security, to process and respond to your inquiries, to register for a seminar or to license digital products), unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by any applicable law or regulation.
The criteria used to determine our retention periods include:
The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide our services or products to you;
Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject; and
Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position.
Some or all of your personal information may be stored outside of your country of domicile. You accept and agree to this by using and/or accessing the Website.
HOW WE PROTECT PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We have implemented technical and organizational measures to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity and availability of your personal information.
a) Technical Measures:
We have implemented and take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information and other data contained or stored on the Website.
We process personal information only for the purposes for which it was collected in accordance with this Privacy Statement and/or any other applicable policy. We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide or improve our services and take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information we process is accurate, complete, and current; however, we depend on our users to update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
b) Organizational Measures
We restrict access to personal information to our employees, external services providers, contractors and agents who need to know that information in order to deliver, operate, develop or improve our services.
However, the occurrence of a data breach can never be eliminated, despite all the measures we may implement. Therefore, if you suspect something is wrong, please contact us immediately pursuant to the procedures contained in the section of this Privacy Statement titled “DISCLAIMER AND REPORTING OF POSSIBLE DATA BREACHES”.
HOW TO CORRECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA OR HAVE IT DELETED FROM OUR FILES
You can review and change your personal information by submitting a request through our Online Form.
We reserve the right to deny any such request to change, modify, or delete any information, if we believe the change would violate any applicable law or legal requirement, including but not limited to any lawful retention period, or cause the information to become incorrect.
If you request deletion or erasure of any of your information stored by us, including on the Website, copies of such information may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by our third party vendors. We are not responsible and will not be held liable for any damages resulting from a third party’s use of such cached, archived, copied, or stored information after completing your request for erasure or deletion.
WHEN WE MAY DISCLOSE INFORMATION
The conditions under which we may disclose your information vary depending on the applicable law and/or regulations and whether such information can be used to personally identify you.
a) Non-Personally Identifiable Information
We may disclose aggregated information about users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
b) Personally Identifiable Information
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide to us:
To external service providers, contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
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 our assets, whether as a going concern, or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it (e.g., to present the Website to you, to help support the Website’s stability and security, to process and respond to your inquiries submitted via an online query or entry form available on the Website, or to facilitate any transaction you may request concerning any products or services offered on or through the Website);
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide us the information;
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use [https://kikconsulting.company.site/products/pages/terms] and any other agreements which may be executed by and between us and you;
If we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or our safety, or the safety of our employees, directors, subsidiaries, parent companies, or affiliates, and any other users of the Website, including exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection; and
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process or procedure, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
HOW WE PROCESS PAYMENTS
We may use a third party to provide credit card, bank, payment and information processing services. If you choose to make a payment through the Website, you will be asked to provide personal information such as your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card information and payment amount. We will share your personal information with our payment processing service provider: Stripe, Inc. By using Stripe, your information may be subject to the terms and conditions stated in Stripe’s Privacy Statement and/or other Legal Agreements available on https://stripe.com/. You should carefully review these policies before making a payment through the Website using Stripe.
You may grant your permission to us to gather any and all information necessary to process your event registration or your purchases from the Online Store either before, during or after you enter your information into an online form available on the Website or the Online Store, or before, during or after Stripe collects your personal information and/or your sensitive personal data or information. You may also grant permission to us to gather any and all information necessary to process your payments through other forms that you complete either online or offline.
We select and commission all third-party payment processors carefully, and they are checked as needed for compliance with this Privacy Statement. Third party payment processors and all related service providers process your personal information only on our behalf and are bound by contractual terms that are compliant with applicable data protection laws and other terms and conditions outlined in this Privacy Statement.
ONLINE STORE
Our online store located at https://kikconsulting.company.site through the Website, is hosted by Ecwid by Lightspeed, and external service providers, which provides us with the online ecommerce platform that allows us to sell or license products and services to you. Your data is stored through Ecwid’s data storage, databases and the general Ecwid application. If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, your credit card data is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS) and processed by Ecwid. For more details, refer to Ecwid’s Terms of Service https://www.lightspeedhq.com/legal/lightspeed-serv... and Privacy Statement https://www.lightspeedhq.com/legal/privacy-policy.
OUR COOKIE STATEMENT
a) What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. For this section, we use “cookies” as an umbrella term for techniques such as Cookies, Web Beacons, Clear GIFs, etc., which do not take up much space and are removed automatically when expired. Some cookies expire at the end of your session, while others will be saved for a certain amount of time.
b) What are the different types of cookies we use?
Different types of cookies have different uses. Some cookies allow you to browse the Website and see certain features, while others provide information about your browsing experience – namely, when you have trouble finding what you are looking for – so that we can improve and make your future visit as pleasant as possible.
Cookies set by us are called “first party cookies.” Cookies set by other parties are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third party features or functionality to be provided on, or through, the Website (e.g., Google Analytics). The parties that set third-party cookies can recognize your computer or mobile device both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites. We use first party and third-party cookies on the Website.
Additionally, there are required and functionality /analytics cookies. Required cookies are essential to help you to navigate the Website and to access and use certain features. We use functionality/analytics cookies to improve the Website. Below is a brief overview of each:
Required cookies- essential for website navigation and movement, and for the access and use of certain features. These cookies are required to enable core site functionality and are stored for the duration of your browsing session.
Functionality/analytics cookies- provide an improved user experience. These cookies allow us to analyze Website usage so we can measure and improve performance. Functionality/analytics cookies may be placed by us or a third party on our behalf and are also stored for the duration of your browsing session.
c) Why do we use cookies?
We use both first party and third-party cookies primarily to ensure that your visit to the Website is as pleasant as possible. Such reasons for using cookies also include, but are not limited to:
Understanding the activities and behaviors of visitors to the Website;
Recognizing new or past visitors to the Website;
Improving the Website;
Understanding the interests of visitors to the Website; and
Facilitating the functionality, stability, and security of the Website and its features.
d) What if you don’t like cookies?
You can change your browser settings to delete or prevent certain cookies from being stored on your computer or mobile device without your explicit consent. The ‘help’ section in your browser should provide information on how to manage your cookie settings.
OTHER IMPORTANT PRIVACY INFORMATION
We only process personal information for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement, the Supplemental GDPR Privacy Notice provided on this page and/or any other accompanying privacy notices for specific jurisdictions and/or services. In addition to the above, such purposes include, but are not limited to, providing our products and services to users, auditing, research and analysis in order to maintain, protect and improve our services, ensuring the technical functioning of our network, and developing new services.
a) Links
We may present links in a format that enables us to keep track of whether these links have been followed. We use this information to improve the quality of the Website.
b) Other Sites
This Privacy Statement applies only to the Website and services that are owned and operated by us. This Privacy Statement does not apply to, nor do we exercise control over, other sites or links from other sites. These other sites may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or solicit personal information from you.
c) GDPR Notice
People who are residents of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) may have additional rights under the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”). All residents of the EEA should review our Supplemental GDPR Privacy Notice provided on this page before using the Website.
d) CCPA
Residents of California may have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, Cal. Civ. Code §§ 1798.100 – 1798.199 as amended from time to time (“CCPA”). For additional information, please go to the following: https://www.oag.ca.gov/privacy/ccpa
DISCLAIMER AND REPORTING OF POSSIBLE DATA BREACHES
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information transmitted to the Website, we cannot guarantee the security of that personal information. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk, and we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website or within this Privacy Statement.
If you suspect a possible data breach, please report it by sending an email to rseiner@kikconsulting.com.
WHERE TO SEND QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, OR COMPLAINTS ABOUT THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
We regularly review our compliance with this Privacy Statement and strive to comply with all valid and applicable legal processes. We also continually update our Privacy Statement in an effort to remain consistent with domestic and international privacy laws and regulations.
If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding this Privacy Statement or our management, treatment, or use of your personal information, you may contact us at rseiner@kikconsulting.com.
If we receive a formal written complaint sent through the mail to rseiner@kikconsulting.com, it is our policy to contact the user regarding their concerns. We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between us and the complaining user.
If your complaint is not resolved to your satisfaction, you can contact the competent privacy authority and/or lodge a complaint with a data protection authority for your country or region, or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection laws occur.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY STATEMENT
It is our policy to post any changes we make to the Privacy Statement on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page that the Privacy Statement has been updated. The date the Privacy Statement was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring that you are aware of, and consent to, the most recent changes to the Privacy Statement.
GDPR
Supplemental General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) Privacy Notice
This Supplemental GDPR Privacy Notice (“GDPR Notice”) applies only to those people who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or are otherwise subject to the General Data Protection Regulations (“GDPR”) and supplements our general Privacy Statement. Pursuant to the GDPR, we are required to provide you with certain information regarding your personal information. Unless otherwise defined in this GDPR Notice, capitalized terms used herein are defined in our general Privacy Statement on this page.
Data Controller
The data controller for this Website is KIK. For our contact information, see the section in our general Privacy Statement headed “Where to Send Questions, Concerns, or Complaints about this Privacy Statement" section of this page.
Purpose of processing and legal basis for processing
We process personal information you provide to us voluntarily in order to provide you with information regarding our merchandise, products, services, events, and other programming; to respond to your inquiries and transaction requests and to otherwise communicate with you; to register you for our events and programming; and as otherwise described in our general Privacy Statement and Terms of Use [https://kikconsulting.company.site/products/pages/...]. Personal information gathered through cookies is used for the purposes described in the section of our general Privacy Statement headed “Our Cookie Statement”.
We process personal information you provide to us on or through our Website or by other means when you contact us concerning the merchandise, products or services available on or through our Website on the basis of consent. When you specifically request a transaction concerning our merchandise, products or services or sign-up to attend or otherwise participate in our events or programming, we may process your personal information pursuant to a contract. We may also process your personal information for our own legitimate interests, including those interests contained in our general Privacy Statement and Terms of Use, promoting our services and customizing our Website, or for any other purpose permitted by GDPR or applicable laws, such as when the processing is necessary for us to comply with any legal obligations.
You are under no statutory or contractual requirement or other obligation to provide personal information to us via our Website or by other means concerning merchandise, products or services available on or through our Website.
Categories of personal information we collect
Please see the section of our general Privacy Statement entitled “What Information We Collect and Process” for a description of the categories of personal information we collect and process on or through our Website or by other means when you contact us concerning the merchandise, products or services available on or through our Website.
Categories of recipients that receive personal information
Please see the sections of our general Privacy Statement entitled “How We Share Personal Information We Collect” and “When We May Disclose Information” for a description of the categories of recipients to whom we disclose your personal information.
Information regarding the transfer of personal information outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)
Our main administrative offices are based in North America, and that is where we process personal information collected on or through our Website or by other means when you contact us concerning the merchandise, products or services available on or through our Website. When you provide your personal information to us, you are consenting to the transfer of your personal data outside of the EEA, including to countries that do not have an adequacy decision from the European Commission, which means that the Commission has not determined that the laws of those countries provide legal protection equivalent to European Union data protection laws.
We safeguard your personal information by treating it in accordance with this GDPR Notice and our general Privacy Statement. When we transfer personal information outside of the EEA, we enter into contracts with our data processors that require them to treat personal information in a manner that is consistent with this GDPR Notice and our general Privacy Statement.
Retention period for personal information
How long we retain your personal information varies according to the type of information in question and the purposes for which it is used. We delete personal information within a reasonable period after we no longer need to use it for the purpose for which it was collected (or for any subsequent purpose that is compatible with the original purpose). We may archive personal information for a certain period prior to its final deletion, as part of our ordinary business continuity procedures.
Your right to access, correct, restrict or delete your personal information and to data portability
Subject to certain limitations under GDPR, you have the right to request access to and correction or deletion of your personal information, restrict processing concerning your personal information and/or object to such processing. You also have the right to data portability, which means that you can request that we provide you (or a third party you designate) with a transferable copy of the personal information you have provided to us.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any questions or concerns regarding our processing of your personal information, please contact us as described in the section of our general Privacy Statement entitled “Where to Send Questions, Concerns, or Complaints about this Privacy Statement”.
If you have a concern regarding our processing of your personal information, you have the right to file a complaint with your national data protection authority (also known as a supervisory authority). You can find your supervisory authority here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/article-29/structure/data-protection-authorities/index_en.htm.
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