About This Privacy Policy
SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY MAGAZINE / CLINE GROUP LLC / LEVEL UP PODCAST is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy policy applies to SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY MAGAZINE / CLINE GROUP LLC / LEVEL UP PODCAST’s website. This privacy policy may be supplemented by additional privacy statements, terms or notices provided to you.
Information We Collect
We collect information about you in three ways: (1) from your input through our websites, forms, badge scanners, app forms and other mechanisms, (2) from third-party sources, and (3) through automated technologies.
Data You Provide To Us
The types of personal information that we collect directly from you depends on how you interact with us and may include:
Contact details, such as your name, email address, postal address, social media handle and phone number;
Comments, feedback and other information you provide to us, including information that you send to customer support and messages, inquiries and other information that you wish us to share with us including Interests and communication preferences.
Data From Other Sources
We also may obtain personal information about you from other third parties, including:
Service providers that help us market our products and services to you in a timely manner, to include determining a location based on your IP address in order to customize certain products to your location;
Partners with which we offer co-branded services or engage in joint marketing activities; and/or
Publicly-available sources and data suppliers from which we obtain data to validate or supplement the information we hold.
How We Use Your Information
Only survey data is reported, no individual private data.
Our Service Providers
Depending on the products and services we are providing, we share personal information with:
Our vendors, affiliates and partners that provide technology, customer service and other shared services functions; and/or
Our service providers, suppliers, agents and representatives, including but not limited to, payment processors, venue providers, onsite event contractors, customer support, email service providers, IT service providers, mailing houses and shipping agents,
to process the information as necessary to provide our products and services, complete a transaction or fulfill your request or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this privacy policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Your Choices
We share your personal information with vendors, affiliates, partners, exhibitors, sponsors, media partners, joint venture partners and other third parties that wish to send you information about their products and services that may be of interest to you, as determined by your choices in managing your communications preferences and other settings.
Our websites, products and services may let you post and share personal information, comments, materials and other content. Any such contributions you disclose publicly may be collected and used by others, may be indexed by search engines, and might not be able to be removed. Please be careful when disclosing personal information in these public areas.
Legal Reasons
We will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:
Meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
Detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues; and/or
Protect the rights, property or safety of SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY MAGAZINE / CLINE GROUP LLC / LEVEL UP PODCAST, our users, employees or others;
and as part of a corporate transaction, such as a transfer of assets or an acquisition by or merger with another company.
Your Communications Preferences
You can customize and manage your communication preferences and other settings when you register with our websites, by updating your account features and preferences, by using the ‘opt-out’ or unsubscribe mechanism or other means provided within the communications that you receive, or by contacting us. We reserve the right to notify you of changes or updates to our products and services whenever necessary.
Accessing and Updating Your Information
Your Rights
You may have the right under European and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to request free of charge:
Access to and correction or deletion of your personal information;
Restriction of our processing of your personal information, or to object to our processing; and
Portability of your personal information.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us through the contact address provided below. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may require you to verify your identity.
Data Retention
We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the products and services and fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements.
Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 or target the Service to children under 13.
Data Security
We take precautions to safeguard your personal information against loss, theft and misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction through the use of appropriate technical and organizational measures.
Locations of Processing
Your personal information may be stored and processed in your region or another location where SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY MAGAZINE / CLINE GROUP LLC / LEVEL UP PODCAST, its partners and affiliates and their service providers maintain servers and facilities. We take steps, including through contracts, intended to ensure that the information continues to be protected wherever it is located in a manner consistent with the standards of protection required under applicable law.
Grounds for Processing
When we collect from you any personal information within the scope of the General Data Protection Regulation, we do so:
Where necessary to provide our products and services, fulfill a transaction or otherwise perform a contract with you or at your request prior to entering into a contract;
Where necessary for our compliance with applicable law or other legal obligation;
Where applicable, with your consent; and/or
As necessary to operate our business, protect the security of our systems, customers and users, detect or prevent fraud, enable our customers to comply with legal obligations, or fulfill our other legitimate interests as described in the “Information We Collect”, ”How We Use Your Information” and “Sharing of Your Information” clauses above, except where our interests are overridden by your privacy rights.
Where we rely on your consent to process personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you may have the right to object to our processing.
Changes
We will update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. If we make any material changes, we will provide notice through the Service or by other means.
Contact
If you have any questions, comments, complaints or requests concerning this privacy policy or our processing of your information, please contact: Data Protection Officer, SCUBA DIVING INDUSTRY MAGAZINE / CLINE GROUP LLC / LEVEL UP PODCAST, 1740 AIRPARK LANE, Plano, TX 75093, USA, postmaster at SCUBADIVINGINDUSTRY.com. You also may lodge a complaint with the General Data Protection Regulation authority in the applicable jurisdiction.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://scubadivingindustry.com.
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
Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
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 in the exact same way 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.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, 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 website (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). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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