Privacy Policy
This privacy policy was last updated Feb 15, 2014.
Little Genius Marketing, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability company that owns and operates www.littlegeniusmarketing.com (known hereafter collectively as “Little Genius Marketing, LLC”, “Websites,” “we” or “us”) cares about the privacy of each user of our Websites.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this statement, you should first contact LittleGeniusMarketing@gmail.com. You can also contact us via regular mail at: Little Genius Marketing, LLC, 1213 Culbreth Dr., Wilmington, North Carolina 28405.
Information Collection and Use
The Little Genius Marketing, LLC, Websites (including www.littlegeniusmarketing.com) collectively the “Websites” collect information from our users at several different points on our Websites. When you use any of the Websites, some basic, general information is collected. This general information is used internally in connection with our business to improve the Websites, including our marketing and advertising efforts, and to make your use of the Websites as enjoyable and efficient as possible.
Information Voluntarily Provided by You
When you set up an account on our Websites or purchase an item from our Websites, we collect personal information provided by you voluntarily that may include your: (i) first and last name; (ii) billing address; (iii) shipping address; (iv) other shipping addresses; (v) email address; (vi) phone number; (vii) credit card account number; (viii) items purchased from us. We use this personal information in order to provide you with the content, subscriptions, goods and services that you request or purchase on our Websites. We use your email address to provide you with information about your order and its status and we may occasionally send out emails, including newsletters, to people who have placed an order on-line, with information about other goods and services available on our Websites. Your phone number may be used by us in the event that our customer service representatives need to contact you about an order you have placed or to contact you regarding customer offers or information you have requested or we need to provide to you.
Information We Automatically Collect Through Your Use of the Websites
As you use the Websites and services, certain information may also be passively collected. Through cookies, pixels, beacons, log files and other technologies, we may collect information about how you use the Websites and services. By knowing about you, we can deliver more helpful information, programs, tools and advertisements. Please see the Third Party Advertising on Little Genius Marketing, LLC and Targeted Advertising sections below for more information.
How We Use Your Information
Little Genius Marketing, LLC owns and operates the Little Genius Marketing, LLC Websites and we are the sole owner of this information collected on them. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to a third party in any way other than as disclosed in this privacy policy without your opt-in agreement. We may share this information to a 3rd party or vendor in ways disclosed in this privacy policy.
We fully cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities and may, in our sole discretion, disclose personal information or other information to satisfy any law, regulation, subpoena, or government request. We reserve the right to release personal information or other information about users who we believe are engaged in illegal activities or are otherwise in violation of our Terms of Service, even without a subpoena, warrant or court order, if we believe, in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is necessary or appropriate to operate our Websites or to protect the rights or property of Little Genius Marketing, LLC, our affiliates, or our officers, directors, employees, agents, third-party content providers, suppliers, sponsors, or licensors. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities we reasonably believe in our sole discretion to be unlawful. If we are legally compelled to disclose information about you to a third party, we will attempt to notify you by sending an email to the email address in our records unless doing so would violate the law or unless you have not provided your email address to us.
Registration
To use some features on the Little Genius Marketing, LLC, Websites, a user must first complete a registration form on the Website. During registration, a user is required to give contact information, such as name and email address. This information is used to contact users about the services on our Websites for which they have indicated interest. In some cases, it is optional for users to provide additional, demographic information, such as age and gender, but we encourage our users to provide such information so that we can provide a more personalized experience for our users on our Websites.
Cookies
A cookie is a text file stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user. Websites create cookies to record information about a user’s preferences, such as the items you add to your shopping cart, and for security purposes (see Security below). Cookies are also used to help us determine the various services you use and the support you may need, and to help us detect and solve any problems you may have while using our Websites. In addition, the use of a cookie on our Websites will enable users to log on without having to reenter their password on each visit and to fully participate in our Community discussions. Most cookies expire after a certain time period. If you wish, you may set your browser to reject all cookies and still view our Websites. Cookies placed by Little Genius Marketing, LLC, Websites are not tied to any personally identifiable information.
Also, in the course of serving advertisements to our Websites, our third-party advertisers may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser.
Third Party Advertising on Little Genius Marketing, LLC
Banner Advertisements appearing on these Websites are delivered to you by third-party Ad-servers. Information about your visits to these Websites, such as number of times you have viewed an ad (but not your name, address, or other personal information), is used to serve ads to you.
Targeted Advertising
Little Genius Marketing, LLC, Websites third party vendors may use cookies to understand Web usage patterns of users who see advertisements on the Websites, to control the sequence of advertisements you see, to make sure you don’t see the same advertisement too many times, to determine your interests and to target advertisements and promotions based on those interests. These third party vendors may connect information about pages you visit on our Websites with information about pages you visit on other Websites and show you advertising based on this combined information. The advertisement may appear when you are visiting a different section of the Websites, another Site or any other website on the Internet if the website also has a relationship with our vendor.
Information Collected by Third Party Advertisers
Advertisers on the Websites may also engage in Behavioral Advertising and use cookies and web beacons in the manner described above. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies or web beacons or what they do with the information they collect. Many third party vendors that engage in Behavioral Advertising participate in the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) and abide by NAI principles, which prohibit members from connecting Personal Information to information they collect through cookies without your explicit consent. If you wish to opt out of participating in advertising programs conducted by NAI members or learn more about the NAI, please go to the NAI Opt-Out website and follow the instructions. After you opt-out, you will still see advertisements from NAI members, but the advertising will not be tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
If you would like more information about these practices and to know your choices about not having this information used, please visit http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/opting_out.aspx .
Behavioral Advertising Cookies
Little Genius Marketing, LLC and Websites may display Retargeted ads to our site prospects, on our behalf, across the Internet by the use of the services of Advertising partners who collect Non-Personally Identifiable Information about your visits to our Websites, and your interaction with our products and services. The anonymous information is collected through the use of a pixel tag which is industry standard technology used by most major Websites. No Personally Identifiable Information is collected during this process. If you do not want the Advertising partners of Little Genius Marketing, LLC and Websites to collect this information, you may opt out of their services. Opting out will not affect your use of Little Genius Marketing, LLC and Websites.
If you wish to opt out of participating in advertising programs conducted by NAI members or learn more about the NAI, please go to the NAI Opt-Out website and follow the instructions. After you opt-out, you will still see advertisements from NAI members, but the advertising will not be tailored to your web preferences and usage patterns.
Disclosure of Information to Third Party Advertisers and Partners
We know how important it is to keep the information you’ve entrusted to us confidential. We will not rent, sell or share your Personal Information with third parties except as specifically approved or under the circumstances described below. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the ways identified in this Policy, you should not use the Websites or Services.
A. Disclosure for Legal reasons
We may disclose and release your Personal Information to third parties: (a) to comply with valid legal requirements such as a law, regulation, search warrant, subpoena or court order; or (b) in special cases, such as a physical threat to you or others, a threat to homeland security, a threat to our system or network, or cases in which we believe it is reasonably necessary to investigate or prevent harm, fraud, abuse, illegal conduct or a violation or alleged violation of this Policy or other agreement we may have with you.
B. Disclosure for Shipping and Billing reasons
We use an outside shipping company to ship orders placed on our Websites, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services purchased on our Websites. These companies will not retain, share, store or use any of our user’s personal information for any secondary purposes. We partner with other parties to provide specific services that are available on our Websites. When a user signs up for these services, we will share the user’s name or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services to the use. These parties are not allowed to use such personal information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Log Files
Like most standard Websites, we use log files on our servers. These log files store information regarding IP (internet protocol) addresses, browser type, ISP (internet service provider), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks. These log files are used to analyze trends, administer the Websites, track user’s movements in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for our use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personal information.
Web Analytics Services & Tracking
Little Genius Marketing, LLC and Websites use third-party tracking and analytics services from Google Analytics – (Analytics Service Providers). The information collected about your use of the Websites (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by the Analytics Service Providers on servers in the United States. The Analytics Service Providers use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The Analytics Service Providers may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on the Analytics Service Provider’s behalf. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this Website. By using Little Genius Marketing, LLC and Websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by our Analytics Service Providers in the manner and for the purposes set out above.
Links
The Websites contain links to other Websites. We want you to be aware that when you click on such links, including banner advertising, which take you to a third-party or Licensee Website, you will be subject to such third-party’s or Licensee privacy policies. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other Websites and we expressly disclaim any and all liability for the actions of third parties or Licensees, including, without limitation, actions relating to the use and/or disclosure of personal information by such third parties or Licensees. We encourage our users to be aware of when they leave our Websites and enter a third-party Website and to read the privacy statements of each and every Website that collects their personal information. This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by our Websites.
Newsletters
Little Genius Marketing, LLC uses an internal email management system as well as third-party Email Service Providers (Aweber and Constant Contact). If a user wishes to subscribe to one of our e-news bulletins, special interest editions or any others that we offer, we will ask for contact information, such as name and email address.
Send to a Friend
If a user elects to use our referral service to inform a friend about a part of our Websites, a form asks for the friend’s name and email address. The form will automatically send the information to the friend via email. We may store this information for tracking and reporting purposes, and we will use the form only to send this one-time referral email.
User Generated Content: Feedback, Ratings, Comments, Public Forums
In order to post a message, comment, or rating on our Websites, you may be asked to sign in with your member login information. We do not use this information in any way other than to recognize you for postings nor do we disclose this information to any third parties.
Do remember that whatever you post on message boards or write in a comments section is considered public knowledge and you should always use caution when posting. Avoid posting your home address or phone number on any public board or chat. Although one must be a registered user to post messages the message boards and comment sections are public and may be read by non-registered users.
Surveys and Contests
From time-to-time, our Websites request information from our users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user has a choice whether or not to provide us with such information. Information requested may include contact information, such as name and shipping address, and demographic information, such as zip code, age level. It may also be shared with other third parties as disclosed at the time of collection or in the promotion rules. These third parties may include a provider of prizes in order to update you of your status of you prize or other fulfillment needs or a co-sponsor who may use your Personal Information to administer the promotion or for marketing purposes, but only in conformance with their privacy policy as made available to you at the time of collection. If data will be disclosed or shared in this manner, we will include a notice at the time of collection of such information. Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used to monitor or improve the use and efficiency of these Websites.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information (such as credit card number) on our registration or order forms, we encrypt that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about the security of our Websites, you can send an email to LittleGeniusMarketing [AT] gmail.com.
Communications from our Websites
We send all new members a welcoming email to verify their password and user name. Established members will occasionally receive information on products, services, special deals, and the e-bulletins or e-newsletters. Each user has the option to not receive these types of communications (see Choice/Opt-Out below).
Occasionally, it is necessary to send out service-related announcements. For instance, if our service is temporarily suspended for maintenance, we might send you an email informing you of such service interruption. Generally, users may not opt-out of receiving these service-related communications. In addition, we communicate with our users on a regular basis to provide requested services and regarding issues relating to their account via email.
Correction/Updating Personal Information
If a user’s personal information changes or if a user no longer desires our service, we will enable our users to correct, update or remove from our Websites the personal data they provided to us. Such changes can be made either through the member information page on our Websites or by emailing our Webmaster at LittleGeniusMarketing [AT] gmail.com.
Choice/Opt-out
Users who no longer wish to receive our e-bulletins or other marketing and promotional materials from our partners or us may opt-out of receiving these communications by replying to any such promotional email indicating your desire to no longer receive such emails or by emailing our Webmaster at LittleGeniusMarketing [AT] gmail.com. Users of our Websites will be notified if, in connection with the use of a particular service on our Websites, their information will be collected by any outside third-party. At such time, the user can determine whether they wish to proceed with a service that will involve an outside party having access to their information.
Collecting Information from Children Younger than 13 years of age
The Websites are not directed or intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 13 years of age. If you are under 13 years of age, you should not register or provide Personal Information on the Websites or through the services. If we later obtain actual knowledge that a user is under 13 years of age, we will take steps to remove that user’s Personal Information from our systems. If you are the parent or guardian of a child whom you believe has disclosed Personal Information to us, please contact us at LittleGeniusMarketing [AT] gmail.com so that we may delete and remove such child’s information from our systems.
Data Retention
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. If you wish to cancel your account or request that we no longer use your information to provide you services contact us at LittleGeniusMarketing [AT] gmail.com. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
Notification of Changes in Use of Information
Our privacy policy is subject to change. In the event of any change, we will provide notice of such change on our Websites. If we want to use your personal information in a manner different from that stated to you at the time you provided such information to us, we will notify you of such change by posting notification of such change on our Websites. At such time, you can determine whether you wish to allow us to use your information in this different manner. If you have opted out of all communication with our Websites or have deleted or deactivated your account with us, then you will not be contacted and your personal information will not be used.
If you have any questions about this privacy policy or believe that the Little Genius Marketing, LLC, Websites are not abiding by our privacy policy, please contact our Webmaster by e-mail at LittleGeniusMarketing [AT] gmail.com.