Last Modified: April 21, 2023
This Privacy Policy describes how IDC Associates, Inc. (“IDC Associates,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares personal information of users of our website at https://idcassociates.com (the “Site”).
Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of personal information from you when you use our Site:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Company name
- Title
We collect this information through forms, chat, and cookies.
How We Use Your Information
We use the personal information we collect from you to:
- Enhance the user experience on our Site
- Better communicate with and serve our clients in future interactions
- Provide customized recommendations for our services and products
Sharing Your Information
We may share your personal information with third-party software providers, such as Microsoft, Google, and our CRM provider, to help us provide our services and products to you. We do not share your personal information with any other third-party entities, such as advertisers.
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Protecting Your Information
We take appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, or modification. We use Norton software to protect our internal systems and rely on the security measures of third-party software providers to protect the personal information that we share with them.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Site can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
We use cookies on our Site to enhance the user experience and to provide customized recommendations for our services and products. Our Site provides a warning about the use of cookies and allows you to decide whether to allow collection or to opt-out.
If you leave a comment on our Site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Retention of Your Information
We will retain your personal information in our internal third-party software suites outside of our Site unless and until you request its deletion in writing. If you request deletion, we will delete your personal information within 30 days of receiving your request.
If you leave a comment on our Site, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our Site (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Site administrators can also see and edit that information.
Your Rights
You have the right to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us anytime. You may do so by following the instructions provided in our marketing emails.
You also have the right to decline to provide your personal information to us, although this may limit your ability to use some features of our Site.
If you have an account on this Site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy practices or this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@idcassociates.com.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a new version on our Site. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are familiar with any changes.