Effective date: April 8, 2022
Captive Eight (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the https://captiveeight.com website (the “Website”).
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our executive networking service (the “Service”) and the choices you have associated with that data.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. The Website and Service are solely directed to, and intended for, Captive Eight’s business customers, and not for individual consumers.
Acceptance of Privacy Policy
By using the Website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Service. Your continued use of the Website or Service following the posting of changes to these terms will mean that you accept those changes.
Information Collection and Use
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data That You Provide
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”) with regard to our networking events. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
- Phone number
- Work/home mailing address
- Title
- Company
- Cookies and Usage Data
Your Personal Data, specifically name, title and company, may be shared with a sponsor of one of our networking events so that they may express interest in connecting with you.
Domain Information
From time to time, our Website may be configured to collect domain information. This data enables us to become more familiar with which users visit our site, how often they visit and what parts of the site they visit most often. Captive Eight uses this information to improve our Website. No personally identifiable information is gathered in this process. This information is collected automatically and requires no action on your part.
Usage Data
We may also collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (“IP address”), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Automatically Collected Information and Anonymous Information
Each time a visitor comes to the Website, Captive Eight collects some information to improve the overall quality of the visitor’s online experience.
Aggregated Data
Captive Eight collects aggregate queries for internal reporting and also counts, tracks, and aggregates the visitor’s activity into Captive Eight’s analysis of general traffic-flow at the Website. To these ends, Captive Eight may merge information about you into aggregated group data. In some cases, Captive Eight may remove personal identifiers from Personal Data and maintain it in aggregate form that may later be combined with other information to generate anonymous, aggregated statistical information. Such anonymous, group data may be shared on an aggregated basis with Captive Eight’s affiliates, business partners, service providers and/or vendors; if it does so, Captive Eight will not disclose your individual identity.
Web Server Logs and IP Addresses
An Internet Protocol (“IP”) address is a number that automatically identifies the computer or device you have used to access the Internet. The IP address enables our server to send you the web pages that you want to visit, and it may disclose the server owned by your Internet Service Provider. Captive Eight may use IP addresses to conduct Website analyses and performance reviews and to administer the Website.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Periodically, some pages on this Website may use “cookies,” which are small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes. These files are used for site registration and customization the next time you visit us. You should note that cookies cannot read data off of your hard drive. Your web browser may allow you to be notified when you are receiving a cookie, giving you the choice to accept it or not. You can also refuse all cookies by turning them off in your browser. By not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on this Website. Information that we collect through cookies includes (i) the name and version of the operating system on the visitor’s computer, (ii) the name and version of the visitor’s browser, (iii) which page on the Website the visitor is currently reading, as well as clicks and time spent on a particular page, (iv) if the visitor was sent to the current page by some other page on the web, the universal resource locator (“URL”) of the referring web page, and (v) geolocation of the visitor’s computer or device. Some of the Website’s web pages may use web beacons in conjunction with cookies to compile aggregate statistics about Website usage. A web beacon is an electronic image (also referred to as an “action tag,” “single-pixel,” or “clear GIF”) that is commonly used to track the traffic patterns of users from one web page to another in order to maximize web traffic flow and to otherwise analyze the effectiveness of the Website. Some web beacons may be unusable if you elect to reject their associated cookies.
Examples of cookies we use:
- Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
- Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
- Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Use of Data
Captive Eight uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To operate the Website
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
- To communicate with you about our products or services via email
- To send information to you
- To notify you of changes to this Privacy Policy
Disclosure of Data
Unless you expressly give us permission in writing to do so, Captive Eight will not sell, rent, license, or trade your Personal Data other than as specified in this Privacy Policy.
Disclosures to Sponsors
Your Personal Data may be shared with sponsors of Captive Eight events to arrange in- person or virtual business networking meetings. Personal Data shared with sponsors is limited to name, email address, phone number, LinkedIn, title and company name and address.
Disclosures to Third Parties Assisting In Our Operations
Captive Eight may share your Personal Data under confidentiality agreements with other companies that work with, or on behalf of, Captive Eight to provide products and services. These companies may use your Personal Data to assist Captive Eight in its operations. However, these companies do not have any independent right to share this information.
Disclosures Under Special Circumstances
We may provide information about you to respond to subpoenas, court orders, legal process or governmental regulations, or to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We believe it is necessary to share information in order to investigate, prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, or as otherwise required by law. In such circumstances, we will take appropriate measures to ensure that the requester understands the sensitive nature of the Personal Data that they may receive.
Business Transfers
We may share your Personal Data with other business entities in connection with the sale, assignment, merger or other transfer of all or a portion of Captive Eight’s business to such business entity. We will require any such successor business entity to honor the terms of this Privacy Policy.
Storage of Data in US
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Captive Eight will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including controls with respect to the security of your data and other personal information.
Security
The security of your data is very important to Captive Eight. We have implemented appropriate security measures preventing your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. However, you should know that no website operator, including Captive Eight, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Data. While Captive Eight has endeavored to create a secure and reliable website for users, the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from the Website or via e-mail cannot be guaranteed.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
• Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third- party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Response to “Do Not Track” Signals
Some Internet browsers include the ability to transmit “Do Not Track” signals. Since uniform standards for “Do Not Track” signals have not yet been adopted, Captive Eight does not process or respond to “Do Not Track” signals.
Children’s Privacy
Captive Eight understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy in the interactive online world. The Website is not designed for, or intentionally targeted at, children under 18 years of age. It is not our policy to intentionally collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 18. No one under the age of 18 should submit any Personal Data to Captive Eight or the Website.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- By email: info@captiveeight.com
- By phone number: (747) 264-0047