Effective Date: 5/31/2024

Introduction

Welcome to Retail AI Council's website located at https://www.retailaicouncil.com (the "Site"). Retail AI Council, LLC ("we," "our," "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our Site. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not access the Site.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

• Personal Data: Personally identifiable information such as your name, email address, phone number, mailing address (street, city, state, ZIP code, country), and LinkedIn profile URL that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as online chat and message boards.
• Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
• Financial Data: Financial information, such as data related to your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date) that we may collect when you purchase, order, return, exchange, or request information about our services from the Site.

2. Use of Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:

• Create and manage your account.
• Send you marketing and promotional communications.
• Enable user-to-user communications.
• Perform other business activities as needed.
• Generate a personal profile about you to make future visits to the Site more personalized.
• Increase the efficiency and operation of the Site.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Site.
• Process payments and refunds.
• Offer new products, services, and/or recommendations to you.
• Request feedback and contact you about your use of the Site.
• Resolve disputes and troubleshoot problems.
• Respond to product and customer service requests.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
• Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
• Marketing Communications: With your consent, or with an opportunity for you to withdraw consent, we may share your information with third parties for marketing purposes, as permitted by law.
• Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

4. Tracking Technologies

• Cookies and Web Beacons: We may use cookies, web beacons, tracking pixels, and other tracking technologies on the Site to help customize the Site and improve your experience. When you access the Site, your personal information is not collected through the use of tracking technology.
• Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our Site. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit the Site, what pages they visit, and what other sites they used prior to coming to the Site. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to improve our Site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit the Site, rather than your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected through the use of Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.

5. GDPR Compliance

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. These include the right to access, correct, update, or request deletion of your personal information. You can manage your individual rights through the settings in your account or by contacting us at info@retailaicouncil.com.

6. CCPA, CPRA, and CalOPPA Compliance

If you are a California resident, you are entitled to certain rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA). These include the right to request disclosure of the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you, the sources of that information, the purpose of collecting the information, and the third parties with whom we share that information. You also have the right to request the deletion of your personal information and the right to opt out of the sale of your personal information.

7. Opt-In and Opt-Out Choices

• Emails and Communications: If you no longer wish to receive correspondence, emails, or other communications from us, you may opt out by contacting us at info@retailaicouncil.com.
• Invisible reCAPTCHA: We use the Invisible reCAPTCHA service provided by Google. Your use of Invisible reCAPTCHA is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.

8. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

9. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Retail AI Council 945 Concord St, #1216 Framingham, MA 01701 Email: info@retailaicouncil.com

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. 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.

By using the Site, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.