Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how MediaMint (collectively, “MediaMint,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, shares, and protects personal information. This Privacy Policy also tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, and how you can reach us to get answers to your questions.
Information We Collect
We collect information about you in a variety of ways depending on how you interact with us and our websites and services, including:
- Directly from you when you provide it to us, such as when you sign up to receive communications from us, purchase services, or contact us by phone, email, or otherwise.
- Automatically using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies when you interact with our websites, advertisements, and emails.
- From other sources, including, for example, our affiliates, business partners, service providers and other third parties, or from publicly available sources.
The following provides examples of the type of information that we collect in a variety of contexts and how we use that information.
| Context | Types of Personal Information | Primary Purpose for Collection and Use of Personal Information |
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| Client Information | We collect the name, and contact information, of our clients and their employees with whom we may interact. | We have a legitimate interest in contacting our clients and communicating with them concerning normal business administration such as projects, services, and billing. |
| Email Inter connectivity | If you receive email from us, we use certain tools to capture data related to when you open our message, click on any links or banners it contains and make purchases. | We have a legitimate interest in understanding how you interact with our communications to you. |
| Inquiries, Comments, and Feedback | If you contact us, such as by completing our online Contact Us form, we collect your name, email address, telephone number, Company and as well as any other content that you send to us, in order to reply. | We have a legitimate interest in receiving, and acting upon, your feedback or issues. |
| Job Applicants | If you apply to a job posting we collect information necessary to process your application or to retain you as an employee. This may include, among other things, your Social Security Number. Providing this information is required in some jurisdictions to be considered for employment. | We use information about job applicants in anticipation of a contract of employment. In some contexts, we are also required by law to collect information about applicants. We also have a legitimate interest in using this information to evaluate candidates for job openings. |
| Mailing List | When you sign up for one of our mailing lists we collect your email address or postal address, as applicable. | We share information about our products and services with individuals that consent to receive such information where required by law. We also have a legitimate interest in sharing information about our products or services. |
| Service Order Placement | We collect your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and credit card number when you order our services. | We use your information to perform our contract to provide you with products or services. |
| Your Use of Our Website | We use technology to monitor how you interact with our websites. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. Some of these technologies may use “cookies.” Cookies are small pieces of information that a website sends to a computer’s hard drive while a website is viewed. Other types of data we track include your IP address, the website that referred you to our website, and data about the device you use to visit our website. | We have a legitimate interest in making our website operate efficiently. We also use it to understand how you interact with our websites to improve them and understand your preferences. For more information and to update your preferences, click the “Cookie Settings” link available on our website. |
| Technology on Our Website for Targeted Advertising | We may allow third parties to place technology on our websites (e.g., a cookie or a pixel) that allows them to track you. The third party might also collect data over time and across other websites. They use this data to serve advertisements tailored to your interests, which may include advertisements about our products or services. | Our partnerships with third-party service providers allow us to enhance our web content. We permit cookies on our website to participate in behavior-based advertising, which allows us to tailor our advertisements to better suit users’ interests. Where required by law, we base the use of third-party tracking technologies upon consent. For more information and to update your preferences, click the “Cookie Settings” link available on our website. |
| Website interactions | We use technology to monitor how you interact with our website. This may include which links you click on, or information that you type into our online forms. This may also include information about your device or browser. | We have a legitimate interest in understanding how you interact with our website to better improve it, and to understand your preferences and interests in order to select offerings that you might find most useful. We also have a legitimate interest in detecting and preventing fraud. |
How We Use Information.
In addition to the purposes and uses described above, we use information in the following ways:
- To identify you when you visit our website.
- To provide services.
- To improve our service offerings.
- To conduct analytics.
- To communicate with you, such as to respond to and/or follow-up on your requests, inquiries, issues, or feedback.
- To send marketing and promotional materials including information relating to our services, sales, or promotions, or those of our business partners.
- To detect and protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, including violation of our policies and terms and conditions, security incidents, and harm to the rights, property, or safety of our company and our users, employees, or others.
- To debug, identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality of our website and services.
- To comply with our legal or regulatory obligations, to establish or exercise our rights, and to defend against a legal claim.
- For internal administrative purposes, as well as to manage our relationships.
- For such other purposes as you may consent (from time to time).
Although the sections above describe our primary purpose in collecting your information, in many situations we have more than one purpose. Our collection and processing of your information is based in different contexts upon your consent, our need to perform a contract, our obligations under law, and/or our legitimate interest in conducting our business.
To the extent we maintain and use personal information in a deidentified form, we will not attempt to reidentify the information, except for the purpose of determining whether our deidentification processes satisfy our legal obligations.
How We Share Information.
In addition to the specific situations discussed elsewhere in this Privacy Policy, we may disclose personal information in the following situations:
- Affiliates. We may share information with our corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control).
- Corporate Transaction. We may disclose your information to a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, acquisition, 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, including at the negotiation stage.
- Other Disclosures without Your Consent. We may disclose information in response to subpoenas, warrants, or court orders, or in connection with any legal process, or to comply with relevant laws. We may also share your information to establish or exercise our rights, to defend against a legal claim, to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding possible illegal activities, suspected fraud, safety of person or property, or a violation of our policies.
- Service Providers. We may share your information with service providers. Among other things service providers may help us to administer our website, provide technical support, process payments, and assist in the fulfillment of orders.
- Other Disclosures with Your Consent. We may disclose your information to other third parties when we have your consent or direction to do so.
Your Choices
Some jurisdictions give you a right to make the following choices regarding your personal information:
- Access To Your Personal Information. You may request access to your personal information or confirmation that we have information about you. In certain limited circumstances, you may also request to receive access to your data in a portable, machine-readable format.
- Changes To Your Personal Information. You may ask us to correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete. Note that we may keep historical information in our backup files as permitted by law.
- Deletion Of Your Personal Information. You may request that we delete your personal information. If required by law, we will grant a request to delete information, but you should note that in many situations we must keep your personal information to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our agreements, or for another business purposes.
- Objection to or Restriction of Certain Processing. In certain circumstances, you may object to the processing of your personal information, or request that we restrict the processing of your personal information, by following the instructions described below.
- Revocation Of Consent. Where we process your personal information based upon consent, you may revoke consent. Please note, if you revoke your consent for the processing of personal information then we may no longer be able to provide you services.
- Online Tracking. We do not currently recognize the “Do Not Track” signal.
- Promotional Emails. You can stop receiving promotional emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in emails that you receive from us. If you decide not to receive promotional emails, we may still send you service-related communications.
- Promotional Mailings. If at any time you do not want to receive offers and/or circulars from us you can remove yourself from our mailing lists by emailing us (our contact information is below) with “NO SNAIL MAIL” in the subject line along with your name, address, and zip code. Please note that our mailings are prepared in advance of their being sent. Although we will remove your name from our mailing list after receiving your request, you may still receive mailings from us that had been initiated prior to your name being removed.
Please note, not all the rights described above are absolute, and they do not apply in all circumstances. In some cases, we may limit or deny your request because the law permits or requires us to do so, or if we are unable to adequately verify your identity. We will not discriminate against individuals who exercise their privacy rights under applicable law.
Submitting Requests
You may exercise the rights described above by contacting us as indicated in the Contact Information section below. Note that, as required by law, we will require you to prove your identity. Depending on the type of request, we may conduct the verification process by email or phone using information that matches our records. The information you must provide as part of the verification process may include name, contact information (such as email address or phone number), relationship with us, and residency. We may also ask for additional information as needed based on your relationship with us.
If you are a California resident, you may designate an authorized agent to submit requests to exercise certain privacy rights on your behalf. To do so, you must (1) provide that authorized agent written, signed, and notarized permission to submit such request, and (2) verify your own identity directly with us.
If you are an authorized agent submitting a request on behalf of a California resident, you must attach a copy of a completed Authorized Agent Designation Form indicating that you are able to act on his or her behalf. Please note, we may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized to submit such a request.
How We Protect and Retain Information
No method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage, is fully secure. While we use reasonable efforts to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. In the event that we are required by law to inform you of a breach to your personal information we may notify you electronically, in writing, or by telephone, if permitted to do so by law.
We retain your personal information for only as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we obtained the information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, as well as applicable legal requirements.
Transmission Of Information To Other Countries
As a multinational company, we conduct business in different locations. As a result, your information may be processed in a foreign country where privacy laws may be less stringent than the laws in your country. Nonetheless, where possible we take steps to treat personal information using the same privacy principles that apply pursuant to the law of the country in which we first received your information. By submitting your personal information to us you agree to the transfer, storage, and processing of your information in a country other than your country of residence including, but not necessarily limited to, the United States. If you would like more information concerning our attempts to apply the privacy principles applicable in one jurisdiction to data when it goes to another jurisdiction you can contact us using the contact information below.
Third-Party Applications/Websites
For your convenience, we may provide links to websites and other third-party content or services that we do not own or operate. The websites and third-party content to which we link may have separate privacy notices or policies. Please note, we have no control over the privacy practices websites, or services that we do not own. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website or application for details about such third party’s privacy practices.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may change our Privacy Policy and practices over time. To the extent that our policy changes in a material way, the policy that was in place at the time that you submitted personal information to us will generally govern that information unless we receive your consent to the new privacy policy. Our Privacy Policy includes an “effective” and “last updated” date. The effective date refers to the date that the current version took effect. The last updated date refers to the date that the current version was last substantively modified. If we make a material change to our privacy notice, we will attempt to notify you through email or through a website pop-up.
Contact Information
If you have any questions, comments, or complaints concerning our privacy practices, or if you need to access this Privacy Policy in an alternative format due to having a disability, please contact us at the appropriate address below. We will attempt to respond to your requests and to provide you with additional privacy-related information.
Email: [email protected]
Address: 8860 Columbia 100 Parkway Suite 104 Columbia Maryland 2104
If you are not satisfied with our response, and are in the European Union or United Kingdom, you may have a right to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.
Additional Information for California Residents
California law requires us to disclose the following additional information related to our privacy practices. If you are a California resident, the following privacy disclosures apply to you in addition to the rest of the Privacy Policy.
- Categories of Information We Collect, Use, and Disclose. California law requires organizations to disclose whether certain categories of information are collected, “sold,” “shared” for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, or disclosed for an organization’s “business purpose” (as those terms are defined under California law). The table below describes the categories of personal information we collect, disclose for a business purpose, and “share” (as that term is defined by California law). Please note, in addition to the recipients identified below, we may disclose any of the categories of personal information we collect with government entities, as may be needed to comply with law or prevent illegal activity, or professional services organizations, such as auditors and law firms. We do not “sell” your personal information for money or “share” your personal information (as that term is defined by California law).
| Category of Personal Information | Category of Recipients: Disclosures for a Business Purpose |
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| Identifiers – this may include real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, email address, account name, or other similar identifiers. |
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| Financial Information – this may include bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, and other financial information. |
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| Characteristics of protected classifications from job applicants – this may include age and sex. | For hiring purpose |
| Commercial information – this may include information about products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies. |
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| Internet or other electronic network activity information – this may include browsing history, search history, and information regarding an individual’s interaction with an internet website, application, or advertisement. |
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| Professional or employment-related information from job applicants. |
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| Inferences drawn from any of the information listed above |
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- California Sensitive Information Disclosure. We do not collect sensitive personal information (as defined under California law).
- California Shine the Light. If you would like more information concerning the categories of personal information (if any) we share with third parties or affiliates for those parties to use for direct marketing, please submit a written request to us using the information in the Contact Information section above.