Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy
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DISCLAIMER AND ACCEPTANCE

The secureii.com website ("Website") and the information and materials that it contains have been prepared by Industry Insights, Inc. ("Industry Insights") for the primary purpose of providing benchmarking information and other data analysis services to organizations or registered users ("Subscriber") on the Website. Use of this Website and its pages constitutes acceptance of the terms listed below. The following is a legal agreement ("Agreement") between Industry Insights and you. By accessing or using this Website you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this Agreement. Please read this Agreement carefully because the terms are binding upon you. If you are a regular user of the Website, please check this Agreement for updates. If you do not accept these terms, please discontinue use of this Website. The information contained within the Website is for informational purposes only, and should not be construed as advice, an offer to enter into a contract, or an acceptance of any offer to enter into a contract.

CONTENT AND ACCESS TO THE WEBSITE

At its discretion and without any notice, Industry Insights may change, alter, suspend, or discontinue this Website at any time and for any reason. This Website may become unavailable due to maintenance or malfunction of computer equipment, the Internet, acts of god or other reasons, including reasons outside the control of Industry Insights. Use of this Website constitutes an agreement to waive any claim you might otherwise have against Industry Insights that arises from your use of this Website or information provided by this Website. In addition, use of this Website constitutes an agreement to indemnify, hold harmless and defend Industry Insights from any claims, damages, losses, liabilities and all costs and expenses of defense, including but not limited to, attorneys' fees, resulting directly or indirectly from a claim by a third party that alleges injury, damage or harm in whole or in part arising from the provision by you of information from, or claimed to be from, this Website, or that in any way arises from your use of this Website or information provided by this Website in violation of these terms. This Website is intended for use only by adults. You must be at least 18 years of age and possess the legal authority to form legally binding contracts under applicable law to use the Website.

UNLAWFUL OR PROHIBITED USE

  • You agree not to use the Website for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by this Agreement. You agree not to post or submit on this Website, any material that:
  • violates or may violate others’ privacy or publicity rights;
  • infringes or may infringe on anyone else’s copyright, trade secret, trademark, or other intellectual property rights;
  • is obscene, defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, hateful, or embarrassing to another party;
  • impersonates another person; or
  • breaches any obligations of confidentiality or any other contractual obligation you may owe to any third parties.

You further agree not to submit any materials that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, or other computer programming routines or engines that are intended to damage, detrimentally interfere with, surreptitiously intercept, or expropriate any system, data, or information. You may not try to gain unauthorized access to the Website, other accounts, computer systems or networks connected to the Website through hacking, password mining, or any other means. You agree that you will not use any robot, spider, other automatic device, or manual process to monitor or copy pages of this Website or the content contained on it without our express prior written permission.

We may (but need not) monitor, edit, or remove any content from this Website that violates this Agreement.

APPLICABLE LAW

The terms and conditions provided herein shall be construed under the laws of the State of Ohio and through your use of this Website, you agree to be bound by the laws of the State of Ohio and agree to be subject to the jurisdiction of its Courts.

COPYRIGHT AND TRADEMARK

Unless otherwise noted, all materials, including but not limited to images, illustrations, designs, icons, photographs, video clips, software, and written and other materials that are part of this Website are protected under copyright laws and are the trademarks, trade dress and/or other intellectual properties owned, controlled or licensed by Industry Insights. You may download and view material on this Web site for your personal or business informational needs. No part of these materials may otherwise be copied, reproduced, stored, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the prior written permission from Industry Insights.

LIMITATION OF LIABILTY

INDUSTRY INSIGHTS SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR OTHER DAMAGES, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF PROFITS, GOODWILL, USE, DATA, OR OTHER INTANGIBLE LOSSES (EVEN IF INDUSTRY INSIGHTS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES), ARISING OUT OF, RESULTING FROM OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH:

(A) THE USE OR THE INABILITY TO USE, ANY DELAY IN, OR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE WEBSITE;

(B) THE COST OF PROCURING SUBSTITUTE SERVICES RESULTING FROM ANY DATA, INFORMATION, OR SERVICES OBTAINED, OR MESSAGES RECEIVED, OR TRANSACTIONS ENTERED INTO THROUGH OR FROM, THE WEBSITE;

(C) UNAUTHORIZED ACCESS TO OR ALTERATION OF YOUR TRANSMISSIONS OR DATA;

(D) STATEMENTS OR CONDUCT OF ANY THIRD PARTY ON THE WEBSITE; OR

(E) ANY OTHER MATTER RELATING TO THE WEBSITE OR THIS AGREEMENT, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE.

SOME JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN WARRANTIES OR THE LIMITATION OR EXCLUSION OF LIABILITY FOR SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTAIL DAMAGES. ACCORDINGLY, SOME OF THE ABOVE LIMITATIONS MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE WEBSITE OR OF THIS AGREEMENT, YOUR EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO STOP USING THE WEBSITE.

 

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES

The information presented on this Website is provided "as is" without representation or warranty of any kind -- as to suitability, reliability, applicability, merchantability, fitness, noninfringement, result, outcome or any other matter. Industry Insights does not represent or warrant that such information is or will be always up-to-date, complete, or accurate. Any representation or warranty that might be otherwise implied is expressly disclaimed.

You agree that Industry Insights is not liable to you or others, in any way or for any damages of any kind or under any theory, arising from this Website, or your access to or use of or reliance on the information in or through this Website, including but not limited to liability or damages under contract or tort theories or any damages caused by viruses contained within electronic files of this Website or any linked Website, regardless of prior notice to Industry Insights.

PRIVACY POLICY

Industry Insights is committed to protecting your privacy and committed to developing services and utilizing technology that gives you the most powerful and secure online experience. To better protect your privacy, Industry Insights provides this notice explaining its online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used by explaining what information is collected, why it is collected, how that information is used, and our online information practices in general. This Privacy Policy applies solely to data collected via the Website. There may be additional personal (and other) information that we have or collect about you or your company pursuant to other relationships which is subject to other agreements and rules.

We want you to feel comfortable using our website and to understand the following privacy principles under which we operate. We hope you will read this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") carefully and let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

COLLECTING PERSONAL INFORMATION

The information collected by Industry Insights through the Website falls into two categories: (1) information voluntarily supplied by visitors to our Website and (2) information gathered via automated means as visitors navigate through our Website.

You can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Preferences page, and if you want to you can opt out of interest-based advertising entirely by cookie settings or permanently using a browser plugin.

The following types of personal information may be collected, stored, and used:

  1. information about your computer including your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, and operating system;
  2. information about your visits to and use of this website including the referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths;
  3. information, such as your email address, that you enter when you register with our website;
  4. information that you enter when you create a profile on our website—for example, your name, profile pictures, gender, birthday, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details, and employment details;
  5. information, such as your name and email address, that you enter in order to set up subscriptions to our emails and/or newsletters;
  6. information that you enter while using the services on our website;
  7. information that is generated while using our website, including when, how often, and under what circumstances you use it;
  8. information relating to anything you purchase, services you use, or transactions you make through our website, which includes your name, address, telephone number, email address, and credit card details;
  9. information that you post to our website with the intention of publishing it on the internet, which includes your username, profile pictures, and the content of your posts;
  10. information contained in any communications that you send to us by email or through our website, including its communication content and metadata;
  11. any other personal information that you send to us.

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

USING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy or on the relevant pages of the website. We may use your personal information for the following:

  1. administering our website and business;
  2. personalizing our website for you;
  3. enabling your use of the services available on our website;
  4. sending you goods purchased through our website;
  5. supplying services purchased through our website;
  6. sending statements, invoices, and payment reminders to you, and collecting payments from you;
  7. sending you non-marketing commercial communications;
  8. sending you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
  9. sending you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
  10. sending you marketing communications relating to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
  11. providing third parties with statistical information about our users (but those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from that information);
  12. dealing with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to our website;
  13. keeping our website secure and prevent fraud;
  14. verifying compliance with the terms and conditions governing the use of our website (including monitoring private messages sent through our website private messaging service); and
  15. other uses.

When you become a registered user (Subscriber) for any online survey administered by Industry Insights, or if you request any other products, services, information or materials from us, we ask you to provide us with certain contact information, including your name, organization name, address, email address, telephone number. We use this information to process your survey participation benefits or other requests, and to provide other products, information and services to you.

Your contact information will only be shared with outside parties as necessary in order to complete your transaction. We also use your contact information as part of your user profile. We may also use your email address to provide information and reports to you.

When you participate in any online survey administered by us, you will also be required to provide us with certain requested financial, operational, and/or compensation and employment information regarding your organization as part of the survey process. All such survey-related information shall be used by Industry Insights or its affiliated parties for survey purposes and shall be integrated into Industry Insights database of collected survey data which is made available to survey participants/subscribers in aggregate form.

DISCLOSING PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all its subsidiaries) as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We may disclose your personal information:

  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  2. in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
  5. to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

Except as provided in this Privacy Policy, we will not provide your personal information to third parties.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, however, the survey information which you provide will only be made available to others in aggregate form, such that the information will not be identifiable as pertaining solely to you or to your specific organization, or to any one specific individual associated with a specific organization.

We may also use any information which you provide to us or a sponsoring association in your membership profile and to analyze use of our website and to make changes to both the design and content of our site in order to provide better service. Finally, we may compile non-identifiable information about you and other users of our site in aggregate form and provide this information to third parties for market analysis and other purposes. Notwithstanding anything herein, we reserve the right to provide identifiable information about you to third parties if it is reasonably determined by us to be advisable to provide such information in order to comply with any legal proceeding, including a search warrant, court order, or any governmental audit, investigation or proceeding.

We also provide your contact information to the sponsoring associations in which you have indicated that you or your organization is a member. This is provided to the associations solely for the purpose of coordinating survey promotion to their members and to ensure their participating members receive the appropriate benefits of participating in the survey.

Except as set forth herein, Industry Insights shall take reasonable steps to avoid any disclosure of any identifiable information about you to unrelated or unaffiliated companies or third parties without your prior authorization. However, while we strive to protect your information with data encryption software, and Industry Insights office security procedures, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of the information you transmit to us. Like other forms of communication or records storage, the security of electronic data transfers or storage may be compromised. Accordingly, please be advised that your use of this site is at your own risk.

We maintain servers in multiple locations and your information may be processed on servers located outside of the country where you live. Data protection laws vary among countries, with some providing more protection than others. Regardless of where your information is processed, we apply the same protections described in this policy. We also comply with certain legal frameworks relating to the transfer of data.

When we receive formal written complaints, we respond by contacting the person who made the complaint. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of your data that we cannot resolve with you directly.

We take precautions to protect any information you submit to our website. Your information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon in your web browser address bar or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page.

Keeping your information accurate and up-to-date is very important. Inaccurate or incomplete information could impact our ability to deliver relevant services to you. Please let us know about any changes that may be required to your personal information using the contact us feature of this Website.

This Website is not intended for children, and we do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose information of children under the age of thirteen (13) without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. In an instance where such information was collected, it would be purely accidental and unintentional.

From time to time on our site, we may provide links to other sites maintained by third parties. We offer this for your convenience. Please be aware that if you link to another third-party site from our website, such site is not subject to the Industry Insights Privacy Policy and Industry Insights has no control over the use of information disclosed by you on such sites. You should carefully review the privacy policies and terms of use of any such sites that you link to from this site. While Industry Insights attempts to include links to sites that are in good taste and worthwhile for our visitors, Industry Insights cannot be responsible for the content of any such sites.

You should be aware that Industry Insights may change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the change on our website, and it is your responsibility to be aware of any such changes. Your use of this website constitutes your acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy. Your use of this website following any changes to this Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of any such changes.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

Information that we collect may be stored, processed in, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Information that we collect may be transferred to the following countries which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Economic Area: the United States of America, Russia, Japan, China, and India.

Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.

You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this section.

RETAINING PERSONAL INFORMATION

This section sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations regarding the retention and deletion of personal information.

Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section, we will retain documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:

  • to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
  • if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; and
  • in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk).

SECURITY OF YOUR INFORMATION

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password- and firewall-protected) servers.

All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be protected by encryption technology.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you log in to our website).

YOUR RIGHTS

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you; provision of such information will be subject to the following:

  • the payment of a reasonable and customary fee; and
  • the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity; for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a notary plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address.

We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent permitted by law.

You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for marketing purposes.

In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes.

THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies and practices of third parties.

UPDATING INFORMATION

Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

COOKIES

Our website may use cookies. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

Blocking Cookies:

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies—for example:

  • Microsoft Edge: In Edge, click on the three horizontal dots in the top right corner. Choose "Settings" and scroll down to "Privacy, search, and services". Under "Cookies and site permissions," select "Cookies and site data". Here, you can choose to block third-party cookies or block all cookies.
  • Firefox: Click the three horizontal lines in the top right corner. Select "Options". Go to "Privacy & Security". In the "Cookies and Site Data" section, you can select "Block cookies and site data" (note the available options).
  • Chrome: Click on the three vertical dots in the top right corner. Go to "Settings". Under "Privacy and security," click on "Cookies and other site data". Here, you can select between various options like "Block all cookies" or "Block third-party cookies".

Deleting Cookies:
  • Microsoft Edge: Click on the three horizontal dots in the top right corner. Go to "Settings" and scroll down to "Privacy, search, and services". Under "Cookies and site permissions," select "See all cookies and site data". Here, you can "Remove All" or remove specific cookies.
  • Firefox: Click the three horizontal lines in the top right corner. Go to "Options". Click on "Privacy & Security". In the "Cookies and Site Data" section, click on "Manage Data" to view and remove specific cookies. You can also click on "Clear Data" to clear cookies and cached web content.
  • Chrome: Click on the three vertical dots in the top right corner. Go to "Settings". Under "Privacy and security," click on "Clear browsing data". Here, you can choose the time range and select "Cookies and other site data" before clicking "Clear data".

UPDATES TO INDUSTRY INSIGHTS’ PRIVACY/DATA PROTECTION PRACTICES

To keep up with the rapidly evolving Internet environment, Industry Insights will review and revise these practices from time to time and post updates at https://secureii.com/privacy.html.

Should you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how Industry Insights uses information provided through this website, please feel free to contact us at:

Industry Insights
6235 Emerald Pkwy
Dublin, Ohio 43016 USA

Phone: 614.389.2100
email: [email protected]

Last updated September 19, 2023