I’M A RESIDENT OF CALIFORNIA AND USE ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA PRODUCTS OR SERVICES AND WANT TO UNDERSTAND ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA’S PRIVACY PRACTICES.
WHAT INFORMATION DOES ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA COLLECT & PURPOSES FOR WHICH WE COLLECT AND USE IT?
The tables below explain the categories of information we collect and the purposes for which we use them. Each ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Service’s collection and use may vary. Please note that we may use any or all of this information to comply with the law, detect or prevent fraud, for safety and security purposes, and to defend our legal rights. Further detail about each of the purposes is set out in the “Additional Information on Purposes” table in the Privacy Policy.
Information you provide to us:
Categories of personal information we collect
Contact and account registration information
For example: name, email, postal address, telephone number, account username and password, business contact information, and any information you may provide to us at an event or in person.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
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Market and advertise for third parties
Information you provide to us:
Categories of personal information we collect
Identification information, demographics, and interests
For example: as permitted by law, date of birth, race*, ethnicity*, gender, interests, lifestyle information, school and sports information, photos, social media credentials, including identification information about friends, contacts or referrals you provide.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Market and advertise for third parties
Transactional
For example: credit/debit card details, purchase history, delivery address, membership information, reservations and other travel related information, meal preferences, and the personal details of any of your guests.
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Market and advertise for third parties
User-generated content
For example: photos, videos, audio, and other information you may submit to us, such as comments on our forums.
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Safety and security
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Market and advertise for third parties
Information you provide to us:
Categories of personal information we collect
Research and feedback
For example: comments that you send us through online forms and social media platforms, by email, over the phone, by mail, or in surveys.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
Health Data*
For example: as permitted by law, vaccine or symptom related information
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Safety and security
Audio and video
For example: audio recordings of customer service calls or security video footage if you visit one of our properties.
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Safety and security
Information we collect automatically from you and/or your device:
Categories of personal information we collect
Device information and identifiers
For example: IP address, cookie IDs, browser type and language, operating system, platform type, device type, and advertising and app identifiers.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Market and Advertise for third parties
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Information we collect automatically from you and/or your device:
Categories of personal information we collect
Connection and Usage (including information collected through cookies)
For example: domain names, browsing activity, scrolling and keystroke activity, advertisements viewed, forms or fields you complete or partially complete, search terms, whether you open an email, content you view and duration, quality of the service and interaction with the content, logs, and other similar information. If these events occur while you are offline, they may be logged and uploaded to us when you next connect.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Market and advertise for third parties
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Geolocation*
For example: city, state and ZIP code associated with your IP address or derived through Wi-Fi triangulation.
We will ask for your permission before using your precise location from GPS-based functionality on your mobile devices.
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Market and advertise for third parties
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Information we collect from third party sources:
Categories of personal information we collect
Information from public and commercial sources
For example: demographic including at a household level, contact information, inferences about your preferences, viewing and other consumption choices, loyalty program membership, and purchasing data.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience and make recommendations
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
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Market and advertise for third parties
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Safety and security
Social Media Information
For example: if you interact with us through a social media service or log in using social media credentials, depending on your social media settings, we may have access to your information from that social network, such as your name, email address, friend list, photo, age, gender, location, birthday, social networking ID, current city, your comments about our Services, and the people/sites you follow.
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Market and advertise for third parties
Information we collect from third party sources:
Categories of personal information we collect
Third Party Partners in Connection with providing the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
For example: contact information such as authentication information, account legitimacy, search requests, log events and device identifiers such as IP addresses, device IDs or other unique identifiers.
Purposes of use
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Market and advertise for third parties
*Please note: this information is considered “sensitive” under certain laws, and we process this information in accordance with applicable legal requirements.
Additional information that we collect for business-to-business relationships only:
Categories of personal information we collect
Business contact information
For example: company name, your name, email address, and job
Purposes of use
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Social Media Information
For example: if you interact with us through a social media service or log in using social media credentials, depending on your social media settings, we may have access to your information from that social network, such as your name, email address, friend list, photo, age, gender, location, birthday, social networking ID, current city, your comments about our Services, and the people/sites you follow.
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Provide the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services
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Personalize your experience
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Send you ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA marketing and advertising
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Provide seamless experience across platforms and devices
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Safety and security
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Market and advertise for third parties
Transactional information
For example: bank details of suppliers, credit/debit card details, purchase history, delivery address.
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Demographics
For example (as permitted by law): ethnicity (minority owned businesses), gender (women-owned businesses)
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Additional information that we collect for business-to-business relationships only:
Categories of personal information we collect
Due diligence information
For example: contact information, nationality (as permitted by law), job title, age, date of birth, gender, country of residence, employment and education information, public, religious, political or trade union role (each as permitted by laws), personal and professional affiliations, connections to criminal activities or offences related to money laundering.
Purposes of use
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Compliance and risk management activities for business-to-business relationships
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Events Information
For example: travel information including passport and visa, meal preferences and restrictions, payment details, and guest’s details.
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
Social Media and Lifestyle Information
For example: if you interact with us on social media or other platforms as an influencer or an athlete, we may have access to your name, photos, age, gender, location, birthday, social networking ID, current city, interests, lifestyle information, list of followers, engagement with your posts, school and sports information.
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Build and manage business-to-business relationships
DOES ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA “SELL” OR “SHARE” MY PERSONAL INFORMATION & HOW CAN I OPT OUT?
California residents may opt out of the “sale” of their personal information and the sharing of their personal information for cross context behavioral advertising (also known as “targeted advertising”). The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) defines a ‘sale’ in a way that may include allowing a third party to receive certain information to add to a profile about your device, browser, or you. This profiling powers interest-based advertising on some ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA sites and services and marketing to you and allows us to keep many of our sites and services at low or no cost.
We disclose the following information to third parties and such disclosure may be considered a “sale” of personal information under the CCPA and is sharing of personal information for targeted advertising purposes:
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identification and demographics; device information and identifiers, such as IP address, and unique advertising identifiers and cookies; connection and usage information, such as browsing history or app usage; hashed identifiers [contact information], geolocation information, such as city; and inference data.
We disclose this information in order to enable marketing to you and to deliver targeted advertising on the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services or other sites. Advertising, including targeted advertising, enables ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA to provide you with certain content for free and provide relevant offers to you.
CAN I LIMIT THE USE OF MY SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We may use certain sensitive personal information as allowable by law for purposes including analytics and to enable marketing to you and the delivery of targeted advertising on the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services or other sites, such displaying an ad relevant to your precise location data.
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You can change your precise geolocation permissions for our mobile apps in your mobile device settings.
HOW LONG DOES ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA RETAIN MY DATA?
We will keep your information only for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes of use described above, unless longer retention is required or permitted by law. In determining how long to retain information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process the information, applicable legal requirements, and our legitimate interests. The purposes for which we process information (as well as the other factors listed above) may dictate different retention periods for the same types of information. For example, we retain your email address as an authentication credential (where applicable) as long as you have an account with us and an additional period of time after that for our legitimate interests and for our fraud and legal compliance purposes. If you opt out of email marketing, we maintain your email on our suppression list for an extended time to comply with your request. In addition, in the event you have an account that holds credits, point balances or other entitlements, we may continue to hold the account to allow you to obtain the benefit in accordance with the relevant terms and conditions.
We may delete or de-identify your information sooner if we receive a verifiable deletion request, subject to exemptions under applicable law. The retention period that applies to your information may vary depending on the ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services you use and how you interact with them. Some ENERGY COMMUNICATIONS CORP. / ENERGY MEDIA Services may provide additional details on their data retention practices, so we encourage you to consult their website and/or FAQs.