Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how Launchpad Systems, Inc. (“Launchpad”, “we”, “us” or “our”) handles personal information that we collect through our digital properties that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the “Website”).

Personal Information We Collect

Contact Data
We may collect contact data, such as your first and last name, salutation, email address, mailing address, professional title and company name, and phone number.

Communications Data
We may collect communications data based on our exchanges with you, including when you contact us through the Website, social media, or otherwise.

Research Data
We may collect research data, such as your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes related to our business.

Marketing Data
We may collect marketing data, such as your preferences for receiving our marketing communications and details about your engagement with them.

Profile Data
We may collect profile data, such as the username and password that you may set to establish an online account on the Website.

Payment Data
We may collect payment data needed to complete transactions, including payment card information or bank account number. Payment data is collected directly by our payment processor, Stripe, as described further below.

Other Data
We may collect other data not specifically listed here, which we will use as described in this Privacy Policy or as otherwise disclosed at the time of collection.

Third-Party Sources
We may combine personal information we receive from you with personal information we obtain from other sources, such as:

• Public sources, such as government agencies, public records, social media platforms, and other publicly available sources.
• Data providers, such as information services and data licensors that provide demographic and other information that we use to provide the Website.
• Marketing partners, such as joint marketing partners and event co-sponsors.

Automatic Data Collection

We, our service providers, and our business partners may automatically log information about you, your computer or mobile device, and your interaction over time with the Website, our communications and other online services, such as:

• Device data, such as your computer or mobile device’s operating system type and version, manufacturer and model, browser type, screen resolution, RAM and disk size, CPU usage, device type (e.g., phone, tablet), IP address, unique identifiers, language settings, mobile device carrier, radio/network information (e.g., Wi-Fi, LTE, 3G), and general location information such as city, state or general geographic area.
• Online activity data, such as pages or screens you viewed, how long you spent on a page or screen, the website you visited before browsing to the Website, navigation paths between pages or screens, information about your activity on a page or screen, access times and duration of access, and whether you have opened our emails or clicked links within them.
• Communication interaction data such as your interactions with our email, or other communications (e.g., whether you open and/or forward emails) – we may do this through use of pixel tags (which are also known as clear GIFs), which may be embedded invisibly in our emails.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

Some of the automatic collection described above is facilitated by the following technologies:

• Cookies, which are small text files that websites store on user devices and that allow web servers to record users’ web browsing activities and remember their submissions, preferences, and login status as they navigate a site. Cookies used on our sites include both “session cookies” that are deleted when a session ends, “persistent cookies” that remain longer, “first party” cookies that we place and “third party” cookies that our service providers place.
• Local storage technologies, like HTML5, that provide cookie-equivalent functionality but can store larger amounts of data on your device outside of your browser in connection with specific applications.
• Web beacons, also known as pixel tags or clear GIFs, which are used to demonstrate that a webpage or email was accessed or opened, or that certain content was viewed or clicked.

How We Use Your Personal Information

Website Delivery and Operations
We may use your personal information to: provide, operate and improve the Website and our business; communicate with you about the Website, including by sending announcements, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages; understand your needs and interests, and personalize your experience with the Website and our communications; and provide support for the Website, and respond to your requests, questions and feedback.

Research and Development
We may use your personal information for research and development purposes, including to analyze and improve the Website and our business. As part of these activities, we may create aggregated, de-identified or other anonymous data from personal information we collect. We make personal information into anonymous or de-identified data by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to you. We may use this anonymous or de-identified data and share it with third parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze and improve the Website and promote our business.

Marketing
We and our service providers may collect and use your personal information to send you direct marketing communications. You may opt-out of our marketing communications as described in the Opt-out of marketing section below.

Compliance and Protection
We may use your personal information to: comply with applicable laws, lawful requests, and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities; protect our, your or others’ rights, privacy, safety or property (including by making and defending legal claims); audit our internal processes for compliance with legal and contractual requirements or our internal policies; enforce the terms and conditions that govern the Website; and prevent, identify, investigate and deter fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity, including cyberattacks and identity theft.

With Your Consent
In some cases, we may specifically ask for your consent to collect, use or share your personal information, such as when required by law.

Cookies and Similar Technologies
In addition to the other uses included in this section, we may use the Cookies and similar technologies described above for the following purposes: Technical operation, Functionality, and Analytics. To allow the technical operation of the Website, to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website, and to help us understand user activity on the Website, including which pages are most and least visited and how visitors move around the Website, as well as user interactions with our emails.

How We Share Your Personal Information

Service Providers
We may share your personal information with third parties that provide services on our behalf or help us operate the Website or our business (such as hosting, information technology, customer support, email delivery, customer research, marketing, and website analytics).

Payment Processors
Any payment card information you use to make a purchase on the Website is collected and processed directly by our payment processor, Stripe. Stripe may use your payment data in accordance with its privacy policy, https://stripe.com/privacy.

Third Parties Designated by You
We may share your personal data with third parties where you have instructed us or provided your consent to do so. We will share personal information that is needed for these other companies to provide the services that you have requested.

Business and Marketing Partners
Third parties with whom we co-sponsor events, with whom we jointly offer products or services, or whose products or services may be of interest to you.

Professional Advisors
Professional advisors, such as lawyers, auditors, bankers and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.

Authorities and Others
Law enforcement, government authorities, and private parties, as we believe in good faith to be necessary or appropriate for the Compliance and protection purposes described above.

Business Transferees
Acquirers and other relevant participants in business transactions (or negotiations of or due diligence for such transactions) involving a corporate divestiture, merger, consolidation, acquisition, reorganization, sale or other disposition of all or any portion of the business or assets of, or equity interests in, Launchpad, our parent, our affiliates, or our subsidiaries (including, in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

Your choices
In this section, we describe the choices available to you.

Access or Update Your Information
You may review and update certain account information by logging into the account if you have registered for an account with us through the Website.

Opt-Out of Marketing Communications
You may opt-out of marketing-related emails by following the opt-out or unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of the email, or by contacting us. Please note that if you choose to opt-out of marketing-related emails, you may continue to receive service-related and other non-marketing emails.

Do Not Track
Some Internet browsers may be configured to send “Do Not Track” signals to the online services that you visit. We currently do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” please visit http://www.allaboutdnt.com.

Declining to Provide Information
We need to collect personal information to provide certain services. If you do not provide the information we identify as required or mandatory, we may not be able to provide those services.

Other sites and services

The Website may contain links to websites, mobile applications, and other online services operated by third parties. In addition, our content may be integrated into web pages or other online services that are not associated with us. These links and integrations are not an endorsement of, or representation that we are affiliated with, any third party. We do not control websites, mobile applications or online services operated by third parties, and we are not responsible for their actions. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of the other websites, mobile applications and online services you use.

Security

We employ technical, organizational and physical safeguards that are designed to protect the personal information we collect. However, security risk is inherent in all internet and information technologies, and we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information.

International data transfer

We are headquartered in the United States and may use service providers that operate in other countries. Your personal information may be transferred to the United States, Germany, or other locations where privacy laws may not be as protective as those in your state, province, or country.

Children

The Website is not intended for use by anyone under 18 years of age. If you are a parent or guardian of a child from whom you believe we have collected personal information in a manner prohibited by law, please contact us. If we learn that we have collected personal information through the Website from a child without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian as required by law, we will comply with applicable legal requirements to delete the information.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by updating the date of this Privacy Policy and posting it on the Website or other appropriate means. Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting the modified version (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your use of the Website after the effective date of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the modified Privacy Policy.

How to contact us

To exercise your choices or if you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at: admin at launchpad dot pm.