HAPPENING IDEAS, LLC PRIVACY POLICY

Last Updated: January 12, 2023

Happening Ideas, LLC (“Happening Ideas,” “we,” “us,” “our”) is committed to protecting both the personal as well as business information you share and/or store with us. This Privacy Policy applies to transactions and activities and data gathered through the Happening Ideas Website and interaction you may have with its related Social Media accounts. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically as we may revise it without notice.

Generally, we may collect and use personal information for many purposes, including, but not limited to: billing, product and service fulfillment, understanding customer needs, providing a better website, improving products and services, and communicating with customers and potential customers regarding our products and services with third party products and services.

PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE TO US

We do not collect personally identifiable information e.g., name, e-mail address, contact or similar information unless you choose to provide it to us. If you voluntarily provide us with personal information, for example by sending an e-mail or by filling out a form and submitting it through our Website, we may use that information only to respond to your message and to help us provide you with the information or services that you request. To the extent that we process your personal information based on your consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time as stated below.

ACCOUNT REGISTRATION INFORMATION

In some instances, use of the Happening Ideas Website and Services may require that you disclose certain personal information for identification, including a unique email address and demographic information (including, for example, ZIP code, age, sex, job industry, job title, and income) to register.

HOW THIS INFORMATION IS USED

The information we collect is used for a variety of purposes, such as:

  • to enable your use of our services and fulfill your requests for certain features, such as enabling you to participate in and renew paid services, polls, and message boards;

  • by performing statistical, demographic and marketing analyses of users of our services to improve our relationship with our customers;

  • for product development purposes and to improve our relationship with our customers;

  • to customize your experience by allowing advertising to be targeted to the users for whom such advertising is most pertinent.

DIRECT COMMUNICATION

An important aspect of our services includes direct communication with our customers. As a result, we will periodically send you communications via email regarding the products or services you may have purchased through this Website. We may also send you information about product or service updates, new features, or information we believe you may find interesting. We may send you information regarding other products and services we offer.

THIRD-PARTY PAYMENT PROCESSOR

We currently use third-party payment processors. When making payment, your personal information may be collected by such processors directly and not by us, and will be subject to the third-party’s privacy policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, third parties’ collection, use and disclosure of your personal information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third-party site or service used in connection with our products and services. The inclusion of a link does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us.

Please note that we are not responsible for the collection, usage and disclosure policies and practices (including the data security practices) of other organizations, such as Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider or device manufacturer, including any personal information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our products and services, including our social media pages.

THIRD-PARTY VENDORS

In providing our products and services, we use various third-party vendors who may either directly or indirectly collect information from you, including, but not limited to, Facebook, Twitter, Google, and Microsoft. You should review the relevant privacy policies (for further information on how each third party handles your personal information. If you would like a list of all third-party vendors who we currently use, please request the “current third-party vendor list” by emailing us at hello@happeningideas.com.

NON-PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH TECHNOLOGY AND THIRD-PARTIES

During your visit as you browse through the website, read pages, or download information, we automatically collect and store the following anonymous information about your visit:

  • the date and time you access our site;

  • the pages You visit on our site;

  • if You navigate to our site by clicking a link, the location of that link;

  • the technical capabilities of the computer you use to access our site;

  • the internet service provider You use to connect to our site (for example “companyX.com” if You have a commercial internet account, or “universityX.edu” if You connect from a university); and

  • the IP address (a number automatically assigned to Your computer whenever You are surfing the internet) from which You access our site.

We use this information, in the aggregate, to make our website more useful to visitors — to learn about the number of visitors to our site and the types of technology used, to detect operational problems, and to improve the website’s overall security.