Privacy Policy
Spectacular.com, LLC respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets forth how we handle information we obtain from you and learn about you when you visit our Website. Please read this Privacy Policy before using the Website or submitting any personal information. By using the Website, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. These practices may be changed, but any changes will be posted and changes will only apply to activities and information on a going forward, not retroactive basis. You are encouraged to review the Privacy Policy whenever you visit the Website to make sure that you understand how any personal and public information will be used.
I. Collection of Information and Usage When Visiting Website
When you visit our Website you may provide us with two types of information: personally identifiable information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis (including, but not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, email address and uploaded images) and non-personal, aggregate information (such as information regarding the pages on our Website that you have visited, your IP address, website browser and operating system).
A. Personally Identifiable Information: The only personally identifying information that we collect and store about you is the information that you choose to provide to us. For example, we gather your personally identifiable information when you send us an email, sign-up for our newsletter, fill out any of our online forms, enter a contest, sweepstakes or promotion, register a new account or sign-in to an existing account.
B. Non-Personally Identifiable Information: Our servers automatically collect Website usage information each time you visit the Website. The Website usage information includes but is not limited to the following: the domain names, operating system in use (including, but not limited to, Macintosh, Windows, Linux), browser (including, but not limited to, Firefox, Netscape, Internet Explorer) and version, the Website that referred you to us, and other similar information. This information may be aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the Website, pages viewed, time and date of visits, and other similar information. We collect all of this information to allow us to detect broad demographic trends, to provide information tailored to your interests and to enhance your experience on the Website. We may use and disclose Website non-personally identifiable usage information, for example, to measure the use of our Website, explain the usefulness of our Website, and to improve the content of our Website.
C. Cookies: The Website may use cookies depending on the features offered. Cookies are useful for gathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to the Website, and understanding how visitors use the Website. A cookie is a small piece of data that a web site can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive so we can recognize you when you return to our Website. You may be able to set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies, however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information. Our cookies collect general information that enhances our ability to serve you and measure the usefulness of our Website. Aggregate non-personally identifiable cookie information may be shared with third parties to explain the usefulness of our Website, and to improve the content of our Website.
II. Collection of Information and Usage of Publicly Identifiable Information
Prior to launching our website(s) and during the ongoing course of operation for our website(s), we may collect “publicly identifiable”, “publicly accessible”or “publicly available” information (“Publicly Identifiable Information”) that is made available through websites indexed on the major search engines or through domain name Whois lookup services. To provide a good user experience and content for our website(s), we collect certain Publicly Identifiable Information that is strictly and solely utilized and publicly displayed in the course of adding event(s) with attribution and credit to event organizer(s), and through our indexing of websites being displayed on these websites: (1) home page URL; (2) RSS feed URL; (3) event category listing; and (4) event detail listing. We also collect, when readily available, the following Publicly Identifiable Information that is not disclosed, made publicly available or displayed, and is used solely to contact event organizer(s) and is not stored in any manner on website server(s). Upon launch of websites or during the course of operation for our websites, we will make every reasonable effort to contact and inform event organizer(s) that our website is an events website and that we are utilizing Publicly Identifiable Information of their categorically arranged event(s) to provided on our website with content and that event organizer(s) may Claim Ownership of their respective event(s). Event organizers may opt-out of having their event listing included on our website(s) and we will promptly delete all Publicly Identifiable Information collected and/or displayed on the website. Please contact admin@spectacular.com with your questions and requests regarding our Collection of Information and Usage of Publicly Identifiable Information.
III. Monitoring Security Threats
For Website security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, Spectacular.com, LLC uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage. Spectacular.com, LLC will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, nor will such information be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.
IV. California Privacy Rights
Residents of the State of California, under certain provisions of the California Civil Code, have the right to request from companies conducting business in California a list of all third parties to which the company has disclosed certain personally identifiable information as defined under California law during the preceding year for third party direct marketing purposes. You are limited to one request per calendar year. In your request, please attest to the fact that you are a California resident and provide a current California address for our response. You may request the information in writing at: Spectacular.com, LLC, P.O. Box 112601, Naples, Florida, 34108, USA, and admin@spectacular.com.
V. Third Party Ad Server Networks
The Website may use third parties such as network advertisers to serve advertisements on the Website and may use traffic measurement services to analyze traffic on the Website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to the Website and other Websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products and services in which you might be interested. The Website‘s third party ad network providers, the advertisers, the sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have cookies enabled in your browser and track certain behavioral information regarding users of your computer via a Device Identifier. These third party cookies are set to, among other things: (a) help deliver advertisements to you that you might be interested in; (b) prevent you from seeing the same advertisements too many times; and (c) understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements that have been delivered to you. Note that any images (or any other parts of a web page) served by third parties in association with third party cookies may serve as web beacons, which enable third parties to carry out the previously described activities. Third party cookies and web beacons are governed by each third party’s specific Privacy Policy, not this one.
VI. Public Forums
We may offer comments, reviews, chat rooms, message boards, bulletin boards, or similar public forums where you and other users of our Website can communicate. The protections described in this Privacy Policy do not apply when you provide information (including personal information) in connection with your use of these public forums. We may use personally identifiable and non-personal information about you to identify you with a posting in a public forum. Any information you share in a public forum is public information and may be seen or collected by anyone, including third parties that do not adhere to our Privacy Policy. We are not responsible for events arising from the distribution of any information you choose to publicly post or share through our Website.
VII. Keeping Your Information Secure
We have implemented security measures we consider reasonable and appropriate to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Please be advised, however, that while we strive to protect your personally identifiable information and privacy, we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you disclose or transmit to us online and are not responsible for the theft, destruction, or inadvertent disclosure of your personally identifiable information. In the unfortunate event that your “personally identifiable information” (as the term or similar terms are defined by any applicable law requiring notice upon a security breach) is compromised, we may notify you by e-mail (at our sole and absolute discretion) to the last e-mail address you have provided us in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances; provided, however, delays in notification may occur while we take necessary measures to determine the scope of the breach and restore reasonable integrity to the system as well as for the legitimate needs of law enforcement if notification would impede a criminal investigation. From time to time we evaluate new technology for protecting information, and when appropriate, we upgrade our information security systems.
VIII. Other Websites; Links
Our Website may link to or contain links to other third party Websites that we do not control or maintain, such as in connection with event postings, articles, news, or purchasing products and services referenced on our Website and banner advertisements. We are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by any third party Website. We encourage you to note when you leave our Website and to read the privacy statements of all third party Websites before submitting any personally identifiable information.
IX. Distribution of Information
We may share information with governmental agencies or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when: (1) permitted or required by law; or, (2) trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or, (3) investigating fraud which has already taken place. The information is not provided to these companies for marketing purposes.
X. Children Under Age 18
If you are under age 18, please do not attempt to register at this Website, or provide any personally identifiable information about yourself to us (including, but not limited to, your name, address, telephone number, email address and uploaded images) through any of the methods mentioned above under Section I.(A), (including, but not limited to, email, signing-up for our newsletter, filling out any of our online forms, or entering a contest, sweepstakes or promotion). If we learn that we have collected personally identifiable information from a person under age 18, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. We will never knowingly accept or collect information from children under the age of 18. If this information ever is collected, Spectacular.com, LLC will immediately comply with all provisions of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act. If you believe that we might have any information from a child under age 18, please contact us at admin@spectacular.com.
XI. Contact and Opt-Out Information
You may contact us as at admin@spectacular.com if: (a) you have questions or comments about our Privacy Policy; (b) wish to make corrections to any personally identifiable information you have provided; (c) want to opt-out from receiving future commercial correspondence, including emails, from us or our affiliated companies; (d) wish to withdraw your consent to sharing your personally identifiable information with others; or (e) opt-out your event from being included on our website(s) in accordance with Section II. Collection of Information and Usage of Publicly Identifiable Information. We will respond to your request and, if applicable and appropriate, make the requested change in our active databases as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that we may not be able to fulfill certain requests while allowing you access to certain benefits and features of our Website.
XII. Sole Statement
This Privacy Policy as posted on this Website is the sole statement of our Privacy Policy with respect to this Website, and no summary, modification, restatement or other version thereof, or other privacy statement or policy, in any form, is valid unless we post a new or revised policy to the Website.
This Privacy Policy was last modified on May 10, 2016.