Privacy policy

Inventables Privacy Policy

DATE LAST MODIFIED: July 10, 2023

INTRODUCTION

Inventables, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Inventables”, “we”, “us”, “our”, and its correlatives), is committed to privacy transparency and compliance. This Privacy Policy outlines our data collection, use, and access practices for personal information collected via our websites located at www.inventables.com, easel.inventables.com and/or any of our other digital properties including mobile applications and mobile browser access, (the “Website(s)”), and our offline collection, including, collections that occur through telephone, email, or in-person (collectively, the “Service(s)”).

By submitting personal information to us, you are consenting to the use of your personal information (including any disclosures, processing, and transfers of your information to third parties by Inventables) in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We own the information collected via the Website and our Services, and we may use it for our own purposes, including marketing. If you do not accept this Privacy Policy, then you should not use the Services or otherwise submit any personal information to Inventables.

  1. Notice At Collection
  2. What Information Is Collected
  3. How Do We Collect Information
  4. How Is your Information Used
  5. Shared Information
  6. Links To Third-party Websites
  7. Information Security
  8. Data Retention Periods
  9. Other Social Media Sites, Blogs, Message Boards
  10. General Audience Web Site Not Directed Toward Children
  11. Consent to Privacy Policy
  12. Access to Personal Information
  13. Your California Privacy Rights
  14. Questions About This Privacy Policy

1. Notice At Collection – Why We Collect Your Personal Data

The following is a description of how we may use the personal information we have collected about you. Automatically-collected information and other personal information may be combined with other information that we collect directly from you or that we receive from other sources and is used for the purposes described below:

  • To provide services to you.
  • For your participation in certain of our services including purchasing Inventables products.
  • To provide our Website and its functionalities to you.
  • To enhance your online experience, including as a way to recognize you and welcome you to our Services and to the Website.
  • To respond to your requests. If you contact us with a question or a request, we will use your information to respond to your request.
  • To conduct data analytics to support our Website, Services and business. Typically, these analyses are done using aggregated or otherwise de-identified data. We use information, including automatically-collected information, to manage and improve our Website and our business. For example, we may use such information to:
    • Manage our business needs, such as monitoring, analyzing, and improving the Services and the Website’s performance and functionality. For example, we analyze Website user behavior and conduct research and analysis about the way you and other users use our Website; or
    • Manage risk and protect the Website. We use data to better protect our Services, our Website, and you.
  • To market to you. Information we collect about you and how you use and interact with the Website and our Services, ads, and other online content helps us to improve our Website and offer additional products and services that we think might interest you. For example, we may analyze information about user interactions with our marketing emails (such as whether emails have been opened or what content is clicked on) to determine whether those communications and ads are effective, and to understand what other website functionalities, products or services may interest you.
  • To operate and improve our business.
  • To maintain our records.
  • For legal, contractual and safety purposes. We will use your information as necessary to enforce the terms of our Website; to comply with all applicable laws and regulations; to protect our security and the security of our users, employees, and property; to respond to court orders, lawsuits, subpoenas, and government requests; to address legal and regulatory compliance; to verify your identity or communications from you; to comply with contracts and other agreements to which we are a party; and to notify you of changes to our terms, policies, or practice.
  • To conduct internal monitoring and training.
  • For other purposes for which you provide your consent. We will use your information for other purposes which are disclosed to you at the time your information is collected, or for purposes which can be inferred from or are obvious given the circumstances of collection.

2. What Information Is Collected

The following are the types of information we may collect:

Inventables may collect personal information like name, telephone number, email address, date of birth, home or business mailing address, and details regarding your mode of payment, e.g., credit/debit card or account information, when you access certain areas of the Website and Service that require registration or payment for products and services, or if you require more information about those services. Photographs you upload via the Services may also contain location information or other metadata about you that may be accessible to others if you share content on the Service.

Non-Personal Information

At other times, Inventables may collect information that cannot be used to directly identify you, such as browser type, Dynamic Internet Protocol (IP) address, “click stream” data, and similar non-personally identifiable information. For example, we may aggregate non-personal information about you and other customers who visit certain areas of our Website and Service. Aggregated information will not contain any information that can be linked directly back to you.

While we take all reasonable steps to protect the privacy of our website visitors, we cannot promise that the current limitations of our online applications programming will address every browser setting or honor every personal browser preference. In particular, we have not implemented the necessary program changes to honor “Do Not Track” or “DNT” browser signals, but we will endeavour honor browser opt-out preference signals. As our online applications programming is refined, we will take all reasonable steps to improve responses to such requests in the future. Please return to this privacy policy for further updates on this topic. 

Further, our online service providers or business partners may implement technologies that allow for the collection of personally identifiable information over time and across websites. We recommend that you review each privacy policy posted on the websites that you visit to better understand privacy practices on those websites.

Electronic Communications

When you open emails from us or engage in SMS or MMS communications, we may log and store such information. We may also keep records of various communications regarding the types of products and services that you indicate are of interest to you via your response to email and text messaging. You will always have the option to opt out of such communications by click an “unsubscribe” link to replying “STOP” to our text messages.  

3. How Do We Collect Information

We may collect information from you in several different areas on the Website, including, without limitation, those described below:

Registration

You may be asked to complete a registration form and provide personally identifiable information; you may also be asked to choose a user ID and password in order to take advantage of certain features the Website or Services or digital messaging services, such as viewing product documentation, or newsletters. Your decision to register is voluntary and you will have the opportunity to decide whether or not to disclose information to us and what communications you would like to receive; however, please be advised that many products and Services available on the Website require registration and if you elect not to provide such information, you will not be able to take advantage of those products and services.

Cookies and Tracking Technology

We may use any number of tools to collect information about you, your computer access points, and the web browser that you use to connect to our Website and Service. For example, “cookies” are tiny text files that we place on your computer’s hard drive when you visit our Website and Service. We may use cookies to personalize your Website and Service experience. You do not have to accept our cookies and you may delete them after they have been placed on your hard drive.  If you do not accept or delete our cookies, some areas of our Website and Service that you access may take more time to work, or may not function properly.  For more information about cookies, visit: http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Inventables may also collect additional information from your web browser each time you visit our Website and Service. We may collect information on the pages that you visit, the promotions or advertisements that you click on, and other actions that you take while using our Website and Service. This information may include your IP address, the type of browser, the time that your browser was used to access our Website and Service, and the referring website address. 

Our Internet Service Providers (defined below) may also use other standard web-based technologies to analyze your movements while accessing our Website and Service.  The technologies include analytic solutions, web “beacons,” “pixel tags,” and “clear gifs.” These technologies help us ascertain the effectiveness of our product and service campaigns and marketing programs, allow us to customize the services offered on or through our Website and Service, and help determine the best use for Website and Service content, and product and service offerings. Some of this information, including the IP address, may be stored on our Internet service provider’s server logs, and may be available for extended periods of time.

Transaction Information

If you conduct a financial or other transaction with the Website, such as subscribe to a Subscription Product or other products/services offered on the Website, we will ask you to complete an order form that will request certain information from you, including contact information, demographic information and/or financial information. In some instances, we may direct you to a third party vendor (for example payment processors) site to collect this information from you directly. Even though the collection form may have the look and feel of Inventables.com, please be aware you will be giving your information directly to the third party vendor, and that in some instances such third party vendor's privacy policy will govern the collection of your personal information. Please reference the privacy policies available from these pages for any privacy related concerns.

We and/or our vendor will use this information to complete the financial or other transaction that you have requested, i.e. to deliver the information, products or other services that you request or purchase, to invoice you, and in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy. For your protection, financial information is collected and stored through encrypted means.

4. How Is your Information Used

Inventables.com uses the services of independent companies to provide certain services to you, including, without limitation, website hosting services, analytics services providers, credit and debit card processing, order fulfilment, and Internet connectivity services (“Internet Service Providers”). 

We may use your personal information to contact you via mail, email, text message, or telephone in order to give you updates about our special announcements, new services, subscription updates announcements and confirmations, or other promotions that may be of interest to you. We also use return e-mail addresses to answer the e-mail we receive from you. We may also use your IP address to help protect us and our Internet Service Providers from fraud.

Additional uses of your non-personal and personal information will allow us to tailor products and services specific to your needs, to help organize and manage your customer relationship and our business, to conduct business, to provide you with customer and member support, to perform functions that are described to you at the time of collection, and to enforce our Website and Service’s Terms and Conditions of Use.   

We may also use non-personal aggregate information to improve our Website and Service. For example, our Internet Service Providers may report to us that there were a particular number of visitors to a certain area of our Website and Service, or that a certain number of men or a certain number of women completed our registration form in particular areas of our Website and Service. Such information may also be used to analyze the effectiveness of our business and advertising models.

5. Shared Information

We do not sell personal information. We may share your personal information with the Internet Service Providers as appropriate. We may also share personally identifiable information with outside, non-affiliated third parties that offer products and services that are complementary to our product lines.  We may also disclose your personal information as is necessary to: (a) comply with a subpoena or court order; (b) cooperate with law enforcement or other government agency; (c) establish or exercise our legal rights; (d) protect the property or safety of our company and employees, contractors, vendors, and suppliers; (e) defend against legal claims; (f) help with internal and external investigations; or (g) as otherwise required by law or permitted by law. We may disclose your information in connection with the sale or merger of Inventables or any transaction that involves the sale or assignment of some or all of our assets.

Third-Party Ad Serving and Audience and Traffic Measurement Services: We may use a third-party network advertiser to serve the advertisements on the Website or may use a traffic measurement service to analyze the traffic on the Website. Network advertisers are third parties that display advertisements based on your visits to this Website and other websites you have visited. Third-party ad serving enables us to target advertisements to you for products or websites you might be interested in. Audience and Traffic Measurement Services allow us to collect anonymous traffic and behavior information from the Website by monitoring anonymous visitor activity. Although advertisers or other companies do not have access to the Website cookies, the Website's advertisers, sponsors and/or traffic measurement services may themselves set and access their own cookies on your computer if you choose to have your cookies enabled in your browser. Cookies allow third-party advertisers to show you advertisements or content you might be interested in. 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. Other companies' uses of their cookies are subject to their own privacy policies, not this one. Please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/optout_nonppii.asp in order to learn more about the information collection practices and "opt-out" procedures of third-party ad servers we may use.

Links on this Website may allow you to directly access websites operated by third parties, including, without limitation, our service providers (such as third-party shopping cart service provider) or marketing providers. Some of these third-party marketing channels may be “co-branded” with a with our logo; even so, these third-party channels are not operated, controlled or maintained by Inventables.  These channels or links are provided for your convenience only and should be used with your discretion and prudent judgment. Links from our Website to third-party websites do not constitute sponsorship, endorsement, or approval of the content, policies or practices of such third-party Websites. The collection and use of your information by such co-branding third parties is the responsibility of the co-branding partner. We are not responsible for any information these websites or digital channels may obtain and we do not oversee their policies or practices. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided to or gathered by the third parties that operate them.  The privacy policies of these third-party websites may differ from ours.  These Websites may ask you for personal information.  Please review the privacy policy on third-party channels before submitting information, because we do not have control over the use of information collected on these websites.  Please review the privacy policies and practices of these digital channels before providing any personal information.

7. Information Security

Inventables makes reasonable efforts to ensure that our Internet Service Providers have implemented physical, electronic, and procedural security measures to assist with safeguarding your personal information, and to help protect against unauthorized access and disclosure. Only our authorized personnel and our Internet Service Providers who perform legitimate business functions for Inventables are authorized to access your personal information. 

Notwithstanding our efforts, the Internet and online services have inherent security risks. Inventables cannot promise, and you should not expect, that your personal information, personal searches, and other communications will always remain secure. You should take care with regard to how you handle and disclose your personal information or any username or password that you are required to use to access services on this Website and Service or online service.

8. Data Retention Periods

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at help@inventables.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

9. Other Social Media Sites, Blogs, Message Boards

The Website and Services may permit access to or make  available to you and other users social media platforms, chat rooms, forums, or other digital communities. We will not require you to provide any personal information when using these areas but you may choose to do so. If you post personal information online, it will be publicly available and you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties. In addition, when you post a comment to Inventables, the user name with which you registered for the Website and your current location will be made publicly available on the Website and through Inventables Website or Services. By using the commenting features of the Website and Services you acknowledge that your user name and location information will be disclosed. We cannot ensure the security of any information you choose to make public on a social media platform, chat room, forum, or message board. Also, we cannot ensure that parties who have access to such publicly available information will respect your privacy. Please exercise caution when deciding to disclose personal information in these areas. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at help@inventables.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why.

10. General Audience Web Site Not Directed Toward Children

This Website is a general audience Website and Service. Our content is neither directed toward minors nor children who are under the age of 18.  We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 18.  If Inventables or our Internet Service Providers become aware that a minor or a child under the age of 18 has provided us with personal information without the parental consent, that information will be deleted from our databases.  Parents who have questions about personal information that may have been submitted by a child under the age of 18 should email us at help@inventables.com.

By using the Website or Service, you signify your agreement to the terms of this Privacy Policy. We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make a material change to the way in which we collect, use, and/or share your personal information, we will post a notice on the Website and/or send an email to users who have provided an email address. We will assume that you have given your permission for your information to be used under the terms of the Privacy Policy, as modified, if you do not respond to our email within thirty days or continue to use the Website thirty days after a notice is posted. Please note that you should always update your personal information to provide us with a current email address.

12. Access to Personal Information and Consent to Transfer

The first time that you provide us with registration information through our Website and Service, you may be offered the opportunity to subscribe to and receive additional information about our products and services. After your first use, you can make changes to your personal information and your initial choices by accessing your account or by contacting customer service e-mail at help@inventables.com.

For those Website users located outside the United States, we advise you that your information may at times be accessible by individuals who are located worldwide including in countries that the European Commission or other geopolitical regions have not been determined to provide the same level of data protection as in your country, province, territory or geopolitical region. By providing us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with Inventables’s privacy policy, including the transfer of your information across international boundaries to jurisdictions anywhere in the world as permitted by local law.

The United States may not have data privacy laws that are deemed to afford an equal level of protection for your Personal Information as those laws legislated at the direction of the European Union or similar geopolitical, national or regional legislative bodies. However, please be assured that Inventables will continue to adhere to the principles stated in this Privacy Policy and will make reasonable efforts to comply with applicable international, national, regional, territorial, and provincial laws in connection with any information collected through the Website. Inventables will endeavor to preserve the integrity, confidentiality, and security of personal information and afford such personal information reasonable level of protection.

California Privacy Notice

California law permits residents of California to request certain details about information we disclose to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you are a California resident and would like to request this information, please contact us at the address listed below. Please note 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.  This request may be made no more than once per calendar year.

Pursuant to applicable California law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), We make the following disclosures regarding the personal information we have collected within the last 12 months:

Category of Personal Information

Category of Source from Which Data is Collected

Purpose of Collection

Category of Third Parties to Whom Data is Disclosed

Contact information such as name, e-mail address, mailing address, zip code, IP Addresses, and geolocations information

Directly from consumers

To provide to transact, and communicate with users, and market our services

Our Service Providers

Automatically collected information such as IP address, browser type, and device type

Cookies and other tracking technologies

To analyze and track usage data; to determine the popularity of certain content; to deliver advertising and content targeted to user interests

Service Providers

 

We have not sold consumers’ personal information in the twelve (12) months preceding the Effective Date of this Privacy Policy. However, we do allow certain third-party advertising partners to collect information about the users of our Service for the purposes of serving ads that are more relevant, for ad campaign measurement and analytics, and for fraud detection and reporting. This activity can be considered a “sale” under California law.

You have the right to opt out of the “sale” of your Personal Information. Such requests may be submitted by as described in the How to Contact US section of our terms and conditions. You may also exercise your rights using the mechanisms described in the Interest Based Advertising section of this Policy above.

If you are a California resident, pursuant to the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), you have the right to request:

  • the categories of personal information we has collected about you;
  • the categories of sources from which your personal information is collected;
  • the business or commercial purpose of collecting or selling your personal information;
  • the categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information;
  • the specific pieces of personal information we collected about you;
  • the categories of personal information that we have sold about you and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, if applicable;
  • deletion of your personal information; and
  • an opt out of having your personal information disclosed or sold to third parties.

To submit a request, or designate an authorized agent to make a request under the CCPA on your behalf, please contact us at help@inventables, or (312) 775-7009.  To verify your identity when you submit a request, we will match the identifying information you provide us to the personal information we have about you.  If you have an account with us, we will also verify your identity through our existing authentication practices for your account.

We will not be required to comply with your request to delete your personal information if it is necessary for us to maintain your personal information in order to:

  • complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
  • detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
  • debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
  • exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
  • comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act pursuant to Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code;
  • engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, if you have provided informed consent;
  • to enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
  • comply with a legal obligation; or
  • otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

We will not discriminate against you in the event you exercise any of the aforementioned rights under CCPA, including, but not limited to, by:

  • denying goods or services to you;
  • charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties;
  • providing a different level or quality of goods or services to you; or
  • suggesting that you will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

14. International Personal Information Transfers

This section supplements the information contained in this Privacy Policy and provides additional information for eligible European Economic Area (“EEA”) and UK data subjects on their rights with respect to our collection, retention, and use of personal information. 
A. Data Controller.
 We are the data controllers responsible for your personal data processed via the Website. 
B. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data.
 If you are an individual located in the EEA or UK, we collect and process personal data about you where we have a legal basis for doing so under applicable EEA and UK laws. This means we collect and process your data only when:
  • It is necessary for a legitimate interest (which is not overridden by your individual privacy interests), such as preventing fraud, improving our website, and increasing the security of the website and network infrastructure;
  • You have consented to this collection and processing for a specific purpose;
  • It is necessary to fulfill our contractual obligations; or
  • It is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.

Some examples of our legitimate interests for processing personal data include:

  • Website and network security;
  • Customer support;
  • Marketing to current customers;
  • Fraud prevention; or
  • Improving our website.

If you have any questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us at help@inventables.com.

C. Data Subject’s Rights. You have the following rights in relation to the personal data we hold about you:

  • Right to withdraw consent. If we rely on your consent (or explicit consent) as our legal basis for processing your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
  • Right of access and/or portability. You may have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, and in some limited circumstances, have that data provided to you so you can provide or “port” that data to another provider.
  • Right to rectification. You may have the right to require us to correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
  • Right to erasure. In certain circumstance, you may have the right to the erasure of personal data that we hold about you, for example, where we no longer need it or if you withdraw your consent (where applicable).
  • Right to restrict processing. You may have the right to request that we restrict processing of your personal data in certain circumstances such as where you contest the accuracy of that personal data or you object to us.
  • Right to object. You may have the right to request that we stop processing your personal data or stop sending you marketing communications.
  • Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling. You have the right not to be subject to a decision when it is based on automatic processing, including profiling, if it produces a legal effect or similarly significantly affects you, unless such profiling is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between you and us.
  • Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. If you have a concern about any aspect of our privacy practices, including the way we have handled your personal data, you can report it to your local data protection regulators.
D. How to Exercise Your Rights. To exercise any of your rights, you may contact us using our information provided in the “How to Contact Us” section of this Privacy Policy.
E. Retention. We retain personal information for only so long as necessary for the intended purpose for which it was collected, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law or our document retention policies, which are based on professional standards and best practices.
F. Cookies. We describe our practices regarding cookie technologies in the Information Collection, Information Use, and Information Sharing sections of this Privacy Policy, and provide information regarding the management of cookies in the Your Choices section of this Privacy Policy.

Data Storage And Transfers

Personal information collected through the Website or Services may be stored and processed in the United States or any other country in which Inventables or its service providers maintain facilities. If you access and use our Website from a location outside of the United States, any personal data you provide to us or that is otherwise collected may be transferred to and processed in the United States or any other jurisdiction in our sole discretion. The laws that apply to the use and protection of personal data in the United States or other countries or jurisdictions to which we transfer, or in which we process, personal information may differ from those of your country of residence. While we take steps to safeguard your personal data, the United States has not been deemed by the European Commission to ensure an adequate level of protection for personal data. Accordingly, the level of protection provided in the United States or other non-EEA countries and jurisdictions from which you may access our website may not be as stringent as that under EEA data protection standards or the data protection laws of some other countries, possibly including your home jurisdiction. Users who access or use our Website or Services from jurisdictions outside of the United States acknowledge and consent for our data collection and use. 

15. Questions About This Privacy Policy

A. Information Provided by You. To access, review, or update your information stored by Inventables, you may contact us at the information provided in the “How to Contact Us” section below.
B. Email. You may unsubscribe from emails from us by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any promotional email from us. You may also contact us by email at help@inventables.com, or postal address as noted below. Please include your current contact information and your requested changes.
C. Mail.
Inventables, Inc.
600 W Van Buren St, Suite 215
Chicago, IL 60607
Attention: Privacy

D. Our Data Protection Officer for the EEA can be reached at privacy@inventables.com.