Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Privacy Policy applies to https://www.futurethink.com and FutureThink and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to FutureThink include https://www.futurethink.com. The FutureThink website (“Site”) is a news and information Site. By using the FutureThink site, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Application of Privacy Policy:

This Privacy Policy applies to information Future Think collects:

  • From the Site.

  • In email, text, and other electronic messages between you, Future Think, and the Site.

  • Through Future Think’s mobile and desktop applications and those mobile and desktop applications you download from the Site.

  • When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, FutureThink may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

  • First and Last Name

  • E-mail Address

  • Employer

  • Job Title

  • Postal address

  • Telephone number

  • Internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Site, and usage details.

FutureThink may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

  • Age

  • Gender

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstake or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site; (f) subscribing to any of our services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information

FutureThink collects and uses your personal information to operate its Site(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

FutureThink may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from FutureThink and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

FutureThink does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

FutureThink may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to FutureThink, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Notwithstanding the foregoing, we do not control third parties' collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way.

FutureThink may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on FutureThink or the Site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of FutureThink; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of FutureThink, or the public and/or (d) To enforce or apply our terms of use, available here: https://www.futurethink.com/terms-of-use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

(e) If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Future Think, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Tracking User Behavior

FutureThink may keep track of the Sites and pages our users visit within FutureThink, in order to determine what FutureThink services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within FutureThink to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

We use common web analytics to track user behavioral patterns on our Site, including cookies (or browser cookies), flash cookies, or web beacons. It monitors traffic and popularity trends by counting the number of Site visitors and page views. This includes how long a user spends on a webpage, where they came from, and ultimately if users are achieving certain goals.

More specifically:

  • Users/unique visitors

  • Page views

  • Unique page views

  • Pages/visit

  • Average visit duration

  • Bounce rate

  • Goal completions

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by FutureThink. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring Site addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding the use of the FutureThink Site.

Use of Cookies

The FutureThink Site may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize FutureThink pages, or register with FutureThink Site or services, a cookie helps FutureThink to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same FutureThink Site, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the FutureThink features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the FutureThink services or Site you visit.

Links

This Site contains links to other Sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other Sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of any other Site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

FutureThink secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. FutureThink uses the following methods for this purpose:

  • SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other Sites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed. The safety and security of your information also depend on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of the Site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Children Under Thirteen

FutureThink does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this Site.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, FutureThink may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from FutureThink or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from FutureThink, you may opt-out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

CCPA Privacy

Your Rights under the CCPA

Under this Privacy Policy, and by law if You are a resident of California, You have the following rights:

The right to notice. You must be properly notified of which categories of Personal Data are being collected and the purposes for which the Personal Data is being used.

The right to access / the right to request. The CCPA permits You to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of Your Personal Data that has been collected in the past 12 months by the Company or its subsidiaries to a third-party for the third party's direct marketing purposes.

The right to say no to the sale of Personal Data. You also have the right to ask the Company not to sell Your Personal Data to third parties. You can submit such a request by visiting our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or web page.

The right to know about Your Personal Data. You have the right to request and obtain from the Company information regarding the disclosure of the following:

  • The categories of Personal Data collected

  • The sources from which the Personal Data was collected

  • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the Personal Data

  • Categories of third parties with whom We share Personal Data

  • The specific pieces of Personal Data we collected about You

  • The right to delete Personal Data. You also have the right to request the deletion of Your Personal Data that have been collected in the past 12 months.

  • The right not to be discriminated against. You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising any of Your Consumer's rights, including by:

  • Denying goods or services to You

  • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties

  • Providing a different level or quality of goods or services to You

  • Suggesting that You will receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

Exercising Your CCPA Data Protection Rights

In order to exercise any of Your rights under the CCPA, and if you are a California resident, You can email or call us or visit our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" section or web page.

The Company will disclose and deliver the required information free of charge within 45 days of receiving Your verifiable request. The time period to provide the required information may be extended once by an additional 45 days when reasonably necessary and with prior notice.

Do Not Sell My Personal Information

We do not sell personal information. However, the Service Providers we partner with (for example, our advertising partners) may use technology on the Service that "sells" personal information as defined by the CCPA law.

If you wish to opt-out of the use of your personal information for interest-based advertising purposes and these potential sales as defined under CCPA law, you may do so by following the instructions below.

Please note that any opt-out is specific to the browser You use. You may need to opt-out on every browser that you use.

Website

You can opt-out of receiving ads that are personalized as served by our Service Providers by following our instructions presented on the Service:

From Our "Cookie Consent" notice banner

Or from Our "CCPA Opt-out" notice banner

Or from Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" notice banner

Or from Our "Do Not Sell My Personal Information" link

The opt-out will place a cookie on Your computer that is unique to the browser You use to opt-out. If you change browsers or delete the cookies saved by your browser, you will need to opt-out again.

Mobile Devices

Your mobile device may give you the ability to opt-out of the use of information about the apps you use in order to serve you ads that are targeted to your interests:

"Opt-out of Interest-Based Ads" or "Opt-out of Ads Personalization" on Android devices

"Limit Ad Tracking" on iOS devices

You can also stop the collection of location information from Your mobile device by changing the preferences on your mobile device.

"Do Not Track" Policy as Required by California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)

Our Service does not respond to Do Not Track signals.

However, some third party websites do keep track of Your browsing activities. If You are visiting such websites, You can set Your preferences in Your web browser to inform websites that You do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable DNT by visiting the preferences or settings page of Your web browser.

Your California Privacy Rights (California's Shine the Light law)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California's Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their Personal Data with third parties for the third parties' direct marketing purposes.

If you'd like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, and if you are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below.

California Privacy Rights for Minor Users (California Business and Professions Code Section 22581)

California Business and Professions Code section 22581 allow California residents under the age of 18 who are registered users of online sites, services or applications to request and obtain removal of content or information they have publicly posted.

To request removal of such data, and if you are a California resident, You can contact Us using the contact information provided below and include the email address associated with Your account.

Be aware that Your request does not guarantee complete or comprehensive removal of content or information posted online and that the law may not permit or require removal in certain circumstances.

Changes to this Statement

FutureThink reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our Site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

FutureThink welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that FutureThink has not adhered to this Statement, please contact FutureThink at:

FutureThink

405 Lexington Ave. 9FL

New York, New York 10174

Email Address:

innovate@futurethink.com

Telephone number:

+19178104191

Effective as of May 14, 2020.

Last updated on January 5, 2024