This Privacy Policy explains how NCE Counsel collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes your personal data collected on our website, membership portal, and in connection with our blogs, member alerts, recruiting and hiring, and other communication services (the “Services”). The processing of personal data in connection with member relationships is addressed in membership agreements between NCE Counsel and our members.
We may provide supplemental privacy notices on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you. Those supplemental notices should be read together with this Privacy Policy.
Information We Collect About You
You may choose to provide information directly to us through various sections of our Services, including, but not limited to:
- Contact information, including name, email address, physical address, and other similar identifiers.
- Professional information, including job title, employment history, and education information.
- Correspondence you send to us, such as when you contact us via email, mail, or phone, or comment on our social media content.
Our systems may also collect information about your browser or mobile device automatically. We may use cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies to help us understand your activity on our Services, as well as for email communications. Data we collect automatically includes the type of web browser or mobile device you use to access our Services, your operating system, your IP address, and general geographical location. For more information on how to manage your cookie preferences, please see our Cookie Policy.
How and Why We Use Your Information
We will use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide you information about our Services, new legal and policy developments, news and other relevant information in the radio and television broadcast industries, and our marketing events. Please note that you may unsubscribe from any commercial email communications you may receive from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included in the email.
- To evaluate you as a candidate for employment with our firm.
- For analysis to improve this website, our Services, and for market research.
- To enforce this policy and respond to verifiable requests.
- For other purposes, with your consent.
Please note that we may use or disclose personal data if we are required by applicable law, regulations, or other legal requirements to do so or if we reasonably believe that use or disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with judicial or regulatory proceedings, a court order or other legal process.
Sharing your Information
We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- Authorized Third Parties and Service Providers: We may share your information with entities that provide services to us, including companies that provide web analytics, advertising, email distribution, and other services. These entities are limited in their ability to use your information for purposes other than providing services for us.
- Other Parties When Required by Law or as Necessary to Protect Our Services: There may be instances when we disclose your information to legal advisors and public authorities, such as court and law enforcement agencies.
- Other Parties in Connection With a Transfer of Assets: If we make a sale or transfer of assets, or are otherwise involved in a merger or transfer, we may transfer your information to one or more third parties as part of that transaction.
- Other Parties With Your Consent: In addition to the sharing described in this privacy policy, we may share information about you with other third parties when you consent to such sharing.
Third-Party Content, Functionality, and Services
Some of the content, functionality, and amenities of the Services may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with NCE Counsel. For example, as part of our membership application process, we enable you to share certain materials on the Website with others through services such as Calendly and Docusign. These third parties may collect or receive certain information about your use of the Services, including through the use of cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. These entities may collect this information over time, combined with information collected from different websites and online services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these entities, and this Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our Website. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information.
Children’s Information
We do not knowingly collect or store personally identifiable information about children under the age of 18, unless permitted by law. If we learn that we have collected personally identifiable information from a child under age 18, we will delete that information from our database.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you live, you may have the following rights subject to the exceptions allowed by law:
- To access your personal information or other information about our data processing practices
- To rectify or update your personal information
- To erase your personal information
- To receive a copy of your personal information
- To object to or restrict the processing of your personal information.
- To lodge a complaint to the supervisory authority for data protection in your country.
To exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at [email protected] or at the address listed at the very bottom of this Privacy Policy. In order to protect your personal information from unauthorized access or deletion, we may ask you to provide additional information so that we can verify your identity. You may also designate an authorized agent to exercise these rights on your behalf in which case we will require documentation attesting that the person acting as your agent is authorized to act on your behalf.
We will not discriminate against you for exercising these rights.
Additional Privacy Rights of California Residents
In the past 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information enumerated in the California Consumer Privacy Act:
- Identifiers, such as name, email address, phone number account name, IP address, and an ID or number assigned to your account.
- Customer records, such as billing and shipping address, and credit or debit card data.
- Inferences, such as information about your interests, preferences, and favorites.
For more information on information we collect, including the sources we receive information from, review the “Information We Collect About You” section. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the business purposes described in the “How and Why We Use Your Information” section, including to provide and manage our Services.
Right to Know and Delete
If you are a California resident, you have rights to delete your personal information we collected and know certain information about our data practices in the preceding 12 months. In particular, you have the right to request the following from us:
- The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
- The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
- The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
- The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
- The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information; and
- The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy.
How We Protect Your Information
We use physical, technical, and administrative measures to protect your information against loss, theft, and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. While we strive to protect the information we maintain, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information that you transmit to us since no method of data transmission or storage is 100% secure.
Retention Periods
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and processed, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, accounting, or reporting requirements.
To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we will consider the following criteria: (i) the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, (ii) the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, (iii) the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, (iv) and any applicable legal requirements.
In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case it is no longer personal data.
Upon expiration of the applicable retention period we will securely destroy your personal data in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time, and we will make an updated copy of any such Privacy Policy available on our website
Further Information
For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us at [email protected].