PRIVACY POLICY

 

  1. What and Who This Policy Covers:

The RECON Network LLC, doing business as The Recon Network and at the url https://recon.vet, (collectively referred to in this document as “Recon”, “we”, “us” or “our”) appreciate and respect the trust you have in our ability to protect the information you share with us or that we collect from you (or about you) when you visit our website and utilize our services. This policy covers your personal information, which is any information that specifically identifies you, such as your full name or your email address. If we collect any other information now or in the future that could be associated with your personal information, we will also treat that information as personal information.

  1. Collection of Your Personal Information:

Information You Provide Directly

We collect personal information from you directly when you fill out our Attendee Registration form for live or online events, sign up for our newsletter or fill out the contact form on our website. We may also collect personal information from you after you have attended one of our events and given us permission to contact you. We collect this information to enable us to provide our services to you, to improve communications and services we provide to you and to develop new services for you.

Information We May Collect Automatically

In addition to information you choose to provide to us directly, we and our service provider(s) may also use technology to automatically collect specific additional information. For example:

IP Address and Other Identifiers – When you access and interact with our website and online services, Recon and our service providers may collect information about your visits to permit you to connect to and obtain the services and to understand how often specific visitors visit or interact with various services. For example, we may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, which identifies the computer or service provider you use to access our services, or information about the type of browser you use, authentication identifiers, and other information about software and hardware. If you access our services through a mobile or other device we may collect your mobile device identifier, geolocation data (including your precise location), or other transactional information for that device. We may combine this information with other collected information to target our services and communications to your specific interests.

Social Media Information and Content. If you access or log into our services through a social media service or connect one of our services to a social media service, the information we collect may also include your user ID and/or user name associated with that social media service, information and content you have permitted the social media service to share with us (e.g.: profile picture, email address or friends lists and information you have made public through that social media service). When you access our services through social media services or when you connect a Service to social media services, you are authorizing Recon to collect, store and use your information and content according to this Privacy Policy.

Cookies. Our website and online services may also use several different types of “cookies”, which are small text files that are stored on your computer to enable websites to remember information about you. We and our service providers use cookies for a variety of purposes to enhance the quality of our website and services such as webpage continuity and to help us personalize your return visits and save you time during certain activities. You can learn how to change your cookie preferences (such as setting your browser to accept or reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set) through your browser’s “Help” menu.

Web Beacons and Other Technologies.

We may use other technologies including web beacons and JavaScript that sometimes work together with cookies and other means within our mobile applications to uniquely identify your device. These other technologies help enable features on our websites and within our mobile applications.

Third-Party Internet Advertising

Some of the advertisements you see on Recon are delivered by third parties who also collect information about your online activities, on any of your devices, on this and other websites and apps through cookies, web beacons, and other technologies. These technologies are used to deliver personalized advertisements tailored to your interests. We may also provide certain information about you for these third parties to use (such as your age, gender, interests, our features or services you use, information about and activity on the different devises you use) so they may personalize and analyze the delivery of their advertisements to you on our website. However, we will not provide personal information about you to these companies, except as permitted under this Privacy Policy.

The third parties who collect information about your online activities and deliver tailored ads to you on Recon may offer you a way to choose not to have your information used for advertising purposes. These third-party companies may be members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”). The NAI offers an “Opt Out Page” to allow you to opt out of receiving tailored ads from member companies, to obtain information about the technologies member companies use or to read their own privacy policies. Another organization (made up of several media and marketing associations) known as the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) allows consumers to make choices regarding third-party interest-based online advertisements. According to the DAA, “Using this browser tool, you can control the collection and use of Web viewing data for interest-based advertising and other applicable uses on this browser, by some or all of the participating companies.” To opt-out of third-party advertisements in mobile apps, you can download the AppChoices

  1. What We Do with Your Personal Information:

Recon and our service providers may use information that we collect from and about you for a variety of business purposes, including:

  1. to maintain your account, deliver requested information or services and to enhance your experience with our services,
  2. to process, track, provide and communicate with you about any product, services or content you order or request,
  3. to communicate with you about product, services or content in which you may be interested, or to respond to your inquiries or comments,
  4. to offer you affiliate or co-branded services, products, or features,
  5. to deliver relevant advertising,
  6. to perform business analyses or for other purposes to improve the quality of our business, website, products and services we offer, or
  7. in accordance with your consent.

To make our content, services and advertising more interesting, helpful and relevant to you, we may also use the information we collect from and about you to make inferences and predictions about your potential areas of interest. When the information collected from or about you does not identify you as a specific person, we may use that information for any purpose or share it with third parties, to the extent permitted by applicable law.

  1. How and with Whom, we Share your Personal Information:

We will use and share your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy, including:

  1. with entities that help us manage and provide products and services, including development of our websites and applications, maintenance and support, personalization, email distribution, measurement and improvement, only to the extent these entities need the information to perform their services or as required by law,
  2. with partner organizations and corporate partners and other identified entities with whom you may have job opportunities or other related potential opportunities,
  3. with other identified entities whose products or services you specifically use or request to receive while you use our products and services,
  4. with partner organizations, corporate partners, who may offer other products or services to you. Their use of your personal information will be governed by their own privacy policies.
  5. with third parties in the ordinary course of business to process requests and fulfill your orders for specific content, products and services,
  6. in response to subpoena, court order or as otherwise required by law,
  7. in the event of a corporate transaction such as a merger, consolidation, bankruptcy or asset sale
  8. in accordance with your consent.

When information we collect is aggregated, anonymized or otherwise does not identify you, we may use that information for any purpose or share it with third parties, to the extent permitted by law.

  1. How we Protect Your Personal Information:

We take many commercially reasonable administrative, technical, personnel and physical steps to safeguard information in our possession from loss, theft and unauthorized use, disclosure or modification. However, no method of transmitting or storing electronic data is ever completely secure, and therefore we cannot warrant or guarantee that such information will never be accessed, used or released in a manner that is inconsistent with this Privacy Policy.

We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

  1. Your Control Over How We Collect, Use and Share Your Personal Information:

You may opt out of having your personal information used or disclosed for certain purposes.

  1. You can opt out of receiving our promotional communications by contacting us at [email protected]
  2. If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt-out of receiving these emails be clicking “Unsubscribe” or “Update my Preferences” at the bottom of any marketing email you receive.
  3. If you continue to receive our communications in error after expressing an opt-out preference, please let us know so that we can investigate the situation. For this purpose, you may email us at [email protected] or call us at 864-729-3080.
  4. You may request that we not share your personal information on a going-forward basis with our partner organizations and corporate partners and other identified entities with whom you may have job opportunities or other related potential opportunities. You may opt-out of this sharing by emailing [email protected] or by calling 864-729-3080.

We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably possible. Please note that we are not required to respond to a customer’s request more than once in a calendar year, nor are we required to respond to any request that is not sent through one of the methods designated above.

Remember that even after you cancel your account, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances where, for example, you have shared information with social media or other services.

Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancelation for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies. It is not always possible to completely remove or delete all your information due to technical constraints, contractual, financial or legal requirements.

If you want access to or would like to correct your personal information, or have questions or wish to send us comments about this Privacy Policy, you may email us at [email protected] or by call us at 864-729-3080.

  1. Other Important Information:

Third-Party Sites

If you click on a hyperlink or advertisement that you find on our website, you may leave our website or send information to a different website or application. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to your interactions with third-party websites or mobile apps, even if you find a link to them on or access them through our website, and so you should read the privacy policy of the third-party provider to see how your personal information will be treated on its site. We have no control over such third-parties, their websites or their products or services.

Payment Services

We may use an unaffiliated payment service to enable you to purchase products and services or to make payments on a third-party payment service provider website (“Payment Service”). When purchasing a product or service or making a payment using a Payment Service, you will be directed to a page operated by that Payment Service. Information you provide to the Payment Service is subject to that Payment Service’s privacy policy, and not this Privacy Policy. Recon has no control over, and are not responsible for, any Payment Service’s use of information collected through any Payment Service.

  1. Changes in this Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the most recent version of the Policy on our website at https://recon.vet, indicating the date that it was most recently changed. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share personally identifiable information that we collect about you through our website, services or events, we will provide appropriate notification to you.