Imperfectly Honest Privacy Policy
Last Updated: July 12, 2024
Introduction
Imperfectly Honest (“Imperfectly Honest,” “we,” “us,” and “our”) is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) is intended to help you understand what information we collect, what we do with it, how we protect it, and what choices you have with regard to our collection and processing of your information when you use our website – https://imperfectlyhonest.com (the “Site”), and as well as when use our social media pages or otherwise interact and electronically communicate with us (collectively, the “Services”).
As used in this Privacy Policy, “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, to an individual.
If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please see the below “Contact Us” section.
Information We Collect
Information you provide to us:
When you visit our Site or Services, we collect personal information that you provide to us when you subscribe to receive our new episodes and blog posts, leave a comment on the Site, or otherwise communicate with us through the Site or Services. Personal information collected in this way includes, without limitation, your name and email address.
Information we collect from you:
We collect information, including personal information, from and about you when you access and interact with our Site and Services. Such information may include:
- Device Information. Information about your device used to access our Site including IP address, log information, error messages, device type, and unique device identifiers.
- Usage Data. Information that your web browser or device automatically sends to us when using the Site and Services, including pages and content viewed, the features interacted with and actions taken, browser type, the dates and times of access, and computer/internet connection.
- Communication interaction data. Information from email providers, communication providers and social networks, such as your interactions with our email or other communications (e.g., when our emails are opened or forwarded, click-throughs, date/time stamps, etc.).
- Cookies/Tracking Technologies: Like must websites, our Site uses cookies and other tracking technologies See the Cookies/Tracking Technologies section below for more information regarding how such technologies are used on our Site to collect information from and about you.
Cookies/Tracking Technologies
Cookies and other tracking technologies are used on our Site so that we can provide the experiences you request, recognize your visit, track your interactions, and improve your and other users’ experiences.
A “cookie” is a piece of information sent to your browser by a website you visit. It lets the website remember what you do and any settings you choose (e.g., login information). Cookies make your experience more convenient and personalized.
Cookies set by us on the Site are called “first party cookies”. We may also allow our business partners and other third-party companies to set third-party cookies on our Site and Services which enable third party features or functionality to be provided on or through our Site and Services (e.g., embed content, advertising, and analytics). Such third-parties can recognize your device when it visits our Site as well as when you visit other websites.
We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Site to operate and to provide you the Services you request. Other non-essential cookies allow us to collect information regarding your interactions with the Site and our Services to customize your experience.
We and our business partners may also use other technologies to track your use on our Site and Services, such as clear gifs (a.k.a. web beacons), pixels, session-replay technologies, analytics, and other third-party tracking technologies to help us better manage the Site and Services by informing us what content is effective and to gauge the effectiveness of certain communications.
Please be advised, however, that our business partners and other third-party’s use of information collected via third party cookies and tracking technologies is beyond the scope of this Privacy Policy. Third parties use such information for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
You have control over some of the information collected by Cookies and other tracking technologies. Please see the “Your Rights and Choices” section below for more information.
How We Use Your Personal Information
We use your personal information in a number of ways or as otherwise described at the time of collection. This includes, but is not limited to:
- Operating, providing, and maintaining our Site and Services;
- Personalizing and improving our Site and Services, user experience, and our podcasts and blog posts;
- Communicating with you including sending you our new podcasts and blog posts when you subscribe to receive them and responding to your posted comments;
- Security purposes, including monitoring, risk assessment, and fraud and crime prevention and detection;
- Promotional, marketing, and advertising related purposes;
- Other business purposes such as research and development and analytics; and
- Complying with legal obligations, law enforcement, and legal processes, and to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, users, business partners, service providers, or other third parties.
How We Share Your Personal Information
We may share and disclose your personal information, to:
- Affiliates, subsidiaries, business partners, or third-party providers to provide our Site and Services and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. Such third-party providers perform functions such operating, hosting, and supporting our Site and Services, analyzing data, or performing marketing or consulting services.
- Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers, and insurers, in the course of the professional services they render to us.
- Law enforcement, in response to a subpoena or court order, or for other legal purposes such as to establish or exercise our legal rights, to assert or defend against legal claims, or if we believe such disclosure is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding actual or suspected illegal or fraudulent activities or potential threats to the physical safety or well-being of any person.
- Third parties in connection with a merger, asset sale, financing, investment, liquidation, bankruptcy, or dissolution during the course of such transaction. In any such transactions, your personal information is a company asset that may be sold or transferred to third parties.
Aggregated or De-Identified Information
We may aggregate or de-identify your personal information so that it may no longer be used to identify you and use such information to analyze the effectiveness of our Site and Services, to improve and add features to our Site and Services, to conduct research and for other similar purposes. In addition, from time to time, we may analyze the general behavior and characteristics of users of our Site and Services and share aggregated information like general user statistics with third parties. We may collect aggregated information through the Site and Services, through Cookies, and through other means described in this Privacy Policy.
Your Rights and Choices
Access Rights:
Depending on where you are located, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. For example, you may have the right to access, update, or delete your personal information from our records, or the right to opt-out of our use of your personal information for certain purposes.
Please contact us as set forth below in the “Contact Us” section to exercise any such rights.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
Your browser or device can allow you to opt-out of data collection from cookies or similar tacking technologies by setting your browser to refuse all or some of the web technologies employed on our Site. The ‘Help’ feature on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new Cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receie a new Cookie, how to block Cookies, and when Cookies will expire. If you block all Cookies on your browser, neither we nor third parties will transfer Cookies to your browser. Please note that your experience using the Site or the Services might be degraded, or certain functionalities may not work, if you opt-out to such collection. For more details on cookies, please visit https://allaboutcookies.org/.
Communications:
If you wish to unsubscribe from receiving our new podcasts and blog posts or to opt-out of our use of your contact information for our direct marketing purposes, you can click the “Unsubscribe” button located within the most recent marketing email you received from us, or contact us as set forth below in the “Contact Us” section.
Links to Other Websites/Social Media Platforms and Embedded Content
Our Site links to third-party websites, social media platforms, and/or audio streaming services such as Facebook, X, Apple Podcast, and Spotify (“Third-Party Services”). When you link to these Third-Party Services or listen to our podcasts via a Third-Party Service, you leave our Site and your use of such Third-Party Service is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Links to Third-Party Services are provided by us as a convenience only.
Articles, videos, and images on this Site may include embedded content from other Third-Party Services, and when you view such embedded content, it acts as if you had visited the Third-Party Service, which may collect information 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.
We may also obtain or receive information about you from such Third-Party Services when you link there from our Site or view their embedded content on our Site. We do not control any of the content or information from Third-Party Services. For more information regarding their privacy and data sharing practices, you should refer to those Third-Party Services’ respective privacy policies.
Comments and Posts
If you post a comment on our Site, your comment becomes public information and is not subject to this Privacy Policy. Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information, including your name, in your comments.
Consent to Electronic Communications
When you sign-up or subscribe to receive our podcasts and blog posts, post a comment, or otherwise communicate with us through the Site, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically. You consent to receiving our podcasts, blog posts, other marketing-related emails from us. If you wish to remove yourself from our email list for such purposes, please use the unsubscribe link in any email received from us, or contact us as provided below in the Contact Us section.
Children
Our Site and Services are not intended for or directed to persons under the age of 13. Accordingly, we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe we may have collected personal information from a child under 13, please contact us.
Users Outside the United States
Imperfectly Honest is based in the United States and the Site and our Services are controlled and operated by us from the United States and are not intended to subject us to the laws or jurisdiction of any other country or territory. Your personal information may be collected, transferred to, stored and otherwise processed in the United States, where our servers are located and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the United States and other countries might not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By using any portion of the Site or our Services, you understand that your information will be transferred to our facilities in the United States and those third parties with whom we share such information, as described in this Privacy Policy.
Data Security/Retention
We have implemented appropriate administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect your personal information we collect from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, as no physical or technological safeguards are 100% secure, and therefore we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, use, or other breach will never occur.
We retain data for as long as it is necessary to provide the Services or in accordance with applicable data retention policies. Upon your written request we will delete personal information stored by us; however, we may be required to maintain your personal information for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time effective upon posting on this page. You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. Please review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. If we make material changes that meaningfully impact the way we process your personal information, we will notify you by posting a notice on the Site, by sending you an e-mail, or by other means consistent with applicable law.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at hello@imperfectlyhonest.com.