PPS Privacy
Policy and Terms Updated May 24, 2018
The Professional Pricing Society, Inc.], (“the Company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”), operates the
website https://www.pricingsociety.com/ We may change or add to this privacy notice, so we
encourage you to come back and read it periodically. The Professional Pricing Society, Inc.
This privacy notice governs the website and, Professional Pricing Society, Inc. informs you of
our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our
Service and the choices you have associated with that data. This privacy notice only covers
information collected through this site and via direct communications between you and
Professional Pricing Society, Inc. It does not cover any information collected at any other
website, application or other communication methods such as when you call us, write us, or in
any other manner. Your privacy is very important to us.
DATA WE COLLECT
While using our site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personal data that can be used to
contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personal Data may include, but is not limited to:
• Email address
• First name and last name
• Phone number
• Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
• Job title, profession
• Company na
INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY
Like many websites, we and our third-party service providers, such as advertising and analytics
providers, use cookies, web beacons and other data technologies to receive and store certain
types of information when you interact with us through your computer or mobile device. Using
these technologies helps us recognize you, customize your experience and make relevant
marketing messages. Here are some of the types of information we collect:
• Log & Device data. When you visit our site, we may automatically record information
(“log data”), including information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site.
This log data may include the web address you came from or are going to, your device
model, operating system, browser type, unique device identifier, IP address, mobile
network carrier, and time zone or location.
• Our third-party service providers may provide us information that tells us how are
marketing ads, often placed on third-party sites, performed and who clicked on them.
This information does not identify any specific individual and is generally non-
identifying. If we were to associate it with you we would treat it as personal data.
• Cookie data. We may use “cookies” (a small text file sent by your computer each time
you visit our site) or similar technologies to record log data. Many browsers default to
accepting cookies. You may be able to change this setting in your browser and you can
also clear your cookies. If you do, you may lose some functionality of our site. Check
your browser’s help function to learn more about your cookie setting options.
o We may use the following types of cookies:
Advertising and analytics: These cookies collect information about who is
visiting our site and how users engage with our site. This information
does not identify any individual user. It is aggregated and
anonymous. Information included in this analysis is the number of visitors
to our site, referring websites, pages visited while on this site, time of day
visited our site if this is a new or repeat visitor and other comparable
information. This information is used to help us understand the usage of
our site, improve and operate our services more efficiently and to monitor
the activity on our site. Please see below for a listing of our analytics
providers.
Essential cookies: These cookies help run our site and make your
experience better. These include cookies that all you access to a members-
only part of the site or help the content of our site load quickly. These
cookies are only used to provide you with these services.
Functionality cookies: These cookies allow the site to remember
preferences you have selected such as login details or other selections you
may have made. These are designed to make it easier to use our site and
not have to set the same preferences every time.
Social Media cookies: We use social media tools on our site and these
cookies allow the social media network to record when you have liked or
engaged with a social media tool on our site. In some situations, the social
network may send us data that you have set to share. If you do not want
the social media network to share information with us, please check your
privacy settings with the social media network.
Advertising cookies: These cookies allow you to track browsing habits as
you visit the site. Based on your browsing history and with our
permission, we use third-party advertising partners who can then display
to you a relevant ad when you are on a third-party site such as a social
media platform. Within these cookies, we may also know your precise
location such as latitude, longitude, GeoIP, and other location-specific information. Please see below for your choices on cookies in the use of advertising.
o To help us make e-mails more useful and interesting, we often receive a
confirmation when you open e-mail from us if your computer supports such
capabilities. You can opt out of receiving emails from us. Please see the Your
Choices section below.
o We might also use a pixel tag which is a small graphic file that allows us and third
parties to monitor the use of the site and provide us with information based on
your interaction with the site. These tags may collect the IP address from the
device which you loaded the page, the browser type. Pixel tags are also used by
our third parties to collect information when you visit our site, the links and other
actions you take on our site, and we may use this information in combination with
cookies to display targeted advertisements.
o Other data technologies may be used that collect comparable information for
security and fraud detection purposes.
o If you have any questions about cookies you can go to
www.youronlinechoices.com/uk.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use information that we collect about you to:
• Provide our Products and Services. We will use your information to provide our
products and services to you.
• Understand and Improve Our Products. We will perform research and analysis about
your use of, or interest in, our products, services, or content, or products, services or
content offered by others. We do this to help make our products better and to develop
new products.
• Communicate with you.
o We may send you emails about new product features or other news about us or on
topics relevant to products or services you purchased or that you opted in to
receive. You may opt out of these at any time. Visit the Your Choices section
below.
o Responding to your requests. We will also use your information to respond to
your questions or comments.
o We may contact you to inform you about changes in our services, our service
offering and other important service related notices such as changes to the privacy
policy or about security or fraud notices.
• We may develop and display content and advertising tailored to your interests on our
products and services on our site and on other sites;
• We also may use your information to manage our business, to comply with legal or
regulatory obligations, or perform functions as otherwise described to you at the time of
collection.
SHARING AND DISCLOSING
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We do not share your personal information with others except as indicated by this policy or when
we inform you and give you an opportunity to opt out of having your personal information
shared.
We will share your information in the following ways.
With third-party service providers, agents, or contractors.
We use other companies, agents or contractors (“Service Providers”) to perform services on our
behalf or to assist us with providing services to you. For example, we may engage Service
Providers to process credit card transactions or other payment methods. We may engage Service
Providers to provide services such as marketing, advertising, communications, infrastructure and
IT services, to provide customer service, to collect debts, and to analyze and enhance data
(including data about users’ interactions with our service). These Service Providers may have
access to your personal or other information in order to provide these functions. In addition,
some of the information we request may be collected by third party providers on our behalf. We
do not authorize them to use or disclose your personal information except in connection with
providing their services.
ANALYTICS:
Specifically for analytics providers, we use 2 providers as follows – Drip and Google.
Drip
We use Drip as our CRM and marketing automation solution. Drip’s tracking code sets
appropriate tags when information is entered in on an opt-in form from the site.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics which 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:
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ Google also recommends installing the Google
Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web
browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent
their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
ADVERTISING
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We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements, which may include targeted
advertisements on a third-party site after you have visited our website. We and the third-party
service providers use cookies to inform, optimize, measure performance serve ads based on your
previous visits to our site. Any tracking that a third party performs is subject to their own
privacy notice.
Please note at this time, we do not recognize automated browser signals regarding tracking
mechanisms, which may include “do not track” instructions.
We work with Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie Google, as a third-party vendor, uses
cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its
partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the
Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by
visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
Google AdWords
Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google
Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the
Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. For more information on the
privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page at
http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Twitter
You can opt-out from Twitter’s interest-based ads by following their instructions:
https://support.twitter.com/articles/20170405 You can learn more about the privacy practices and
policies of Twitter by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://twitter.com/privacy
Youtube: Youtube is a Google company and as such is governed by Google privacy policy
which you can access here https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
LinkedIn: You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Linked in by visiting
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/87080/linkedin-marketing-solutions-and-the-
general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr. For more information on Linked in Privacy
policy https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Facebook: You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this
page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950. To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-
based ads follow these instructions from Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217 To see more about Facebook’s participation
in the Digital Advertising Alliance please visit the Choices section of this notice. For more
information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
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We may participate in Facebook.com’s Custom Audience or LinkedIn’s Audience program
which enables us to display personalized ads to persons on our email list when they visit
Facebook or LinkedIn respectively. We provide Personal Information such as your email address
and phone number to the social media provider to enable it to determine if you are a registered
account holder. You may opt-out of participation in this program by contacting us as noted
below. You may also opt out of receiving these ads from the social media network directly.
• To comply with legal process or to protect The Professional Pricing Society. If we
believe that disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, legal or
governmental request; to enforce applicable terms of use, including investigation of
potential violations thereof; to protect the safety, rights, or property of the public, any
person, or The Professional Pricing as required by law; or to detect, prevent, or otherwise
address, security or technical issues or illegal or suspected illegal activities (including
fraud).
• Business Transfers. We may engage in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, dissolution,
reorganization, or similar transaction or proceeding that involves the transfer of the
information described in this Policy. In such transitions, customer information is
typically one of the business assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. In the
unlikely event that we or substantially all of our assets are acquired or enter a court
proceeding, you acknowledge that such transfers may occur and that your personal
information can continue to be used as set forth in this privacy policy.
LINKS TO OTHER SITES
We may have links on our site to other sites that we do not operate. If you click on a third-party
link, you will be taken directly to that site which is governed by its own privacy notice. We
strongly encourage you to read that privacy notice. We do not control that site and assume no
responsibility for the content, policies or its practices.
RETENTION
The Professional Pricing Society will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary
for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the
extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain
your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements
and policies. The Professional Pricing Society will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.
Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to
strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated
to retain this data for longer time periods.
CHOICES AND INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
We aim to take reasonable steps so you can correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your
Personal Data.
We outline your choices below:
• E-mail. As described above, if you do not wish to receive promotional e-mails from us,
you may opt-out at any time. If you opt out of a promotional e-mail, we may still send
you transactional and administrative emails about this privacy notice or about the
products or services you have purchased.
• Your browser’s help function should contain instructions on how to set your computer to
accept all cookies, to notify you when a cookie is issued, or to not receive cookies at any
time.
• You can opt out of online targeted advertising by opting out within the advertisement
itself or by visiting Digital Advertising Alliance, http://www.aboutads.info/, the Digital
Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European
Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. You can also opt out of the Digital Advertising
Alliance using your mobile device settings.
• Your rights under certain circumstances. To initiate any of these actions please
contact us at contactus@pricingsociety.com.
o To access and receive a copy of the Personal Data we hold about you.
o To rectify any Personal Data held about you that is inaccurate
o To request the deletion of Personal Data held about you
o You have the right to data portability for the information you have provided to us.
You can request to obtain a copy of this information in a commonly used
electronic format so that you can manage and move it. We will need to verify
your identity before being able to respond to such requests.
o Please note that 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.
• Right to Lodge a Complaint. For European Union residents, if you feel that our
processing of your personal data infringes on data protection laws, you have a legal right
to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You
may do so in the EU member state where you habitually reside, your place of work or the
location of the alleged infringement. If you are located outside of the European Union,
you may have rights under privacy laws in the jurisdiction where you live.
TRANSFER OF DATA
This site is operated in the United States. If you are located in another jurisdiction, please know
that your information will be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using
this site and providing us with information, you consent to this transfer, processing and storage of
your information in the United States. It is important to note that the privacy laws in the United
States may not be as comprehensive as those in other countries such as the European Union. Our
service providers use appropriate safeguards to transfer your personal data to the United States.
SECURITY
We use reasonable administrative, logical, physical and managerial measures to safeguard your
personal information against loss, theft and unauthorized access, use and modification.
Unfortunately, no measures can be guaranteed to provide 100% security. Accordingly, we cannot
guarantee the security of your information.
SENSITIVE DATA
We request that you do not send us any sensitive data such as social security or national
identification numbers, information related to the racial or ethnic origin, political opinions,
religious beliefs, health data, biometrics or genetic, criminal background or trade union membership
information. If you do send us this information, then you are consenting to its processing in
accordance with this privacy notice. To avoid processing of sensitive data, do not submit it.
OUR POLICY ON CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
Our site is not directed to children under 16. If you learn that your minor child has provided us
with personal information without your consent, please contact us.
CHANGES TO THE POLICY
We may change this policy from time to time, and if we do we’ll post any changes on this page.
If you continue to visit our site after those changes are in effect, you agree to the revised policy.
If the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice or get your consent on the
new policy.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions or comments about this policy, please contact us at
contactus@pricingsociety.com.