Privacy Policy & Notice
Effective Date: January 1, 2023
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Mansueto Ventures LLC (“we,” “us,” or “our”), adopted this privacy policy and notice (“Privacy Policy”) to reflect our commitment to protecting the privacy of your Personal Information. Please carefully read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use before you provide any Personal Information to us.
Mansueto Ventures is the publisher and parent of both Inc. and Fast Company.com and their related branded web pages, including Inc. Plus and Inc. Verified Profile (“Websites”).
This Privacy Policy applies to the Services, including our Websites, and your interaction with them. But if a particular Service refers or links to a different privacy policy — not this Privacy Policy — then that privacy policy applies.
The Services may include links to websites and services that are not operated by us. A link to a third-party website or service does not mean that we reviewed or endorsed its privacy practices. If you visit a third-party website or service, activities there may be subject to its privacy practices and policies, not ours. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any Personal Information that you provide to these other websites and services.
If you have any questions regarding the Services or our Privacy Policy or privacy practices, please contact us at:
For more information about how to exercise your privacy rights, please see Section 12, EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS below.
In this Privacy Policy, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:
The Effective Date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Unless applicable law prevents or a revision is needed to protect the privacy or security of our Users, we will notify you via email about any material change that reduces your privacy right in advance so that you have time to review the changes before they are effective. The previous version of this Privacy Policy will apply until the Effective Date. Your use of the Services after the Effective Date means that you accept the Privacy Policy as revised.
To comply with certain data protection laws, we are required to disclose specific information regarding the categories of Personal Information we collect, and your rights with regard to that Personal Information. The following Table 1 identifies the categories of Personal Information we collect, and specific information as required by those laws.
Table 1 |
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Category of PI |
Examples |
Do we collect PI from this category? |
Purposes for which the PI is collected |
Our retention period for this PI |
Do we sell this PI? |
Do we share this PI for targeted |
Do we share this PI with third |
If yes, we share this PI with the |
Identifiers |
See |
Yes |
See |
See |
No |
No |
Yes |
See |
Characteristics |
See |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
N/A |
Commercial |
See |
Yes |
See |
See |
No |
No |
Yes |
See |
Biometric |
N/A |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
N/A |
Internet |
See |
Yes |
See |
See |
No |
No |
Yes |
See |
Location |
See |
Yes |
See |
See |
No |
No |
Yes |
See |
Sensory |
N/A |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
N/A |
Professional |
See |
Yes |
See |
See |
No |
No |
Yes |
See |
Inferences |
See |
Yes |
See |
See |
No |
No |
Yes |
See |
Sensitive |
See |
No |
N/A |
N/A |
No |
No |
No |
N/A |
When you use the Services, we may collect the Personal Information shown in Table 2, below.
Table 2 |
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Category of Personal |
Specific Personal |
1 |
Identifiers |
Such as your name; |
2 |
Characteristics of protected classifications |
We do not purposefully |
3 |
Commercial Information |
Such as your use of our |
4 |
Internet Activity |
Such as mobile network |
5 |
Location Information |
Such as the country and |
6 |
Professional Information |
Such as your business |
7 |
Inferences drawn from |
Preferences, |
8 |
Sensitive Information |
We do not collect |
9 |
Job Applicant |
Such as your Identifiers |
We collect Personal Information from a variety of sources, which include:
Generally, we use the Personal Information we collect from or about Users to provide more meaningful editorial and advertising content, to advertise products and services that we think may interest you, to maintain and improve the Services and for other lawful purposes. More specifically, we use Personal Information to:
Administer the Services
Market and operate our Awards Programs, Community Programs, promotions and Events
Advertise the Magazines and other products and services that we and our customers offer
Perform services for our customers
Improve the Services and develop new ones
Prevent, detect and fight illegal or unauthorized activities
For legal compliance
Generally, we disclose information, including your Personal Information that you provide us, to both our Affiliates and Suppliers to improve your experience with the Services. We may also disclose your information, as detailed below, to our customers who may wish to market and/or advertise their products or services to you as detailed below. In addition, we may provide your Personal Information to the following entities for the purposes listed.
With our Suppliers
Our Suppliers help us to operate and improve the Services. Our Suppliers support technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, virtual event hosting, analytics, customer care, securing our data and systems, marketing and detecting and preventing spam and intellectual property infringement.
With customers, sponsors and advertisers for Events, Awards Programs, and Community Programs
We provide co-branded Events and promotions with certain customers and we also offer customers the opportunity to sponsor certain aspects of our Events, Awards Programs, and Community Programs. As a part of these Events, Awards Programs, and Community Programs, we request Personal Information for participation and/or registration and we may share this participation and registration information with the customer. For example, we may share your contact information and attendee lists with our Event sponsors and advertisers. We may share information collected though our Awards Programs and Community Programs with providers of products and services that we believe will interest participants in the Awards Program or Community Programs.
With order fulfillment vendors
For the convenience of our Users, we may provide the opportunity to purchase certain goods and services through the Services. We partner with order fulfillment vendors for payment processing and order fulfillment. These vendors will request information from you and process it according to their own privacy policy and other terms. Some of the vendors also may share your information with us. We are not responsible for the processing of your personal information or the fulfillment of your order when a vendor’s own privacy policy and terms apply.
With advertising technology providers
Third-party advertising technology (“Ad Tech”) providers (some of which are Suppliers) helps us to serve and track digital advertisements through the Services and on third-party digital services. Ad Tech providers use cookies and other data collection tools to collect information about your interaction with the Services and digital advertisements and combine this information from other sources in order to deliver digital advertisements about goods and services that are targeted to your interests (as inferred from your online activity). You can unsubscribe from these advertisements by e-mailing our Privacy Officer (privacyofficer@mansueto.com) or clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the footer of the advertisement emails.
For corporate transactions
We may transfer your personal information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.
When required by law
Applicable law may require us and Suppliers to disclose your personal information when we believe necessary to (i) comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government investigation or other legal requirement, (ii) help prevent or detect crime and (iii) respond to lawful requests from law enforcement and government regulators.
To enforce legal rights
We also share information: (i) if we believe that disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our Users or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.
With your consent or at your request
We may ask for your consent to share your personal information with third parties. When we do, we will make clear why we want to share the personal information.
We use cookies and other data tracking technology to collect and use Personal Information about you. We also may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels) to recognize you and/or your device(s) when you use the Websites.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer’s hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the lifetime of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as User settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Websites and certain Services.
We also use “pixels” (also known as web beacons). Pixels are transparent images that are used in collecting information about website usage across websites and over time.
Cookies that we set on the Websites are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by any other party are called third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality on or through the Websites, such as analytics, marketing automation and customer support. The parties that set third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the Websites and also when it visits certain other websites.
Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. You also can opt-out of certain cookies using the following link: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some features of the Websites may not work properly without cookies. To learn more about cookies generally, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a User does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s User. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including us, do not respond to DNT signals.
Why do we use cookies and other tracking technology?
Some cookies are required for the Websites to operate. Other cookies enable us to track the interests of Users, to enhance the experience of the Websites and to target advertising.
The types of cookies used on the Websites and why they are used is as follows:
Pixels and similar data collection technology enable us to monitor the traffic patterns of visitors from one page of the Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you visit the Websites after seeing our online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve performance of the Websites and to measure the success of our email marketing campaigns.
We serve targeted advertisements on the Websites. We may use information about your visits to the Websites to provide relevant advertisements on other websites about goods and services that may interest you. We and Ad Tech providers also may deploy technology that the effectiveness of advertisements by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to the Websites and other websites to provide relevant advertisements on other websites about goods and services that may interest you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or the third parties to identify your name, contact details or similar directly-identifying details unless you choose to provide them.
Our Protection of your Personal Information
We take measures, including physical, technical and organizational measures, designed to protect Personal Information from loss, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, unavailability and destruction. In determining these measures, we take into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the Personal Information. We restrict access to your Personal Information to those employees who need access to service your account or perform their job functions. We have procedures to manage personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are required to do so under applicable security breach laws.
Although we take precautions intended to help protect the personal information that we process, no system or electronic data transmission is completely secure. Any transmission of your personal information is at your own risk and we expect that you will use appropriate security measures to protect your personal information.
We may suspend your use of all or part of the Services without notice if we suspect or detect any breach of security. You understand and agree that we may deliver electronic notifications about breaches of security to the email address that you provided to us.
If you create an account, you are responsible for maintaining the security of and the information in your account. If you believe that your account or Personal Information is no longer secure, please notify immediately using one of the mechanisms in the Contact Us Section 2 above.
Our Personal Information Retention Policy
We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
The criteria used to determine our Personal Information retention periods include:
If you would like to exercise one or more of your privacy rights, please:
We are committed to providing you control of your Personal Information we collect and maintain to the fullest extent of your privacy rights under applicable law. If you exercise any of your privacy rights explained in this Privacy Policy, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights.
If you wish to opt out of our selling your Personal Information or sharing your Personal Information for targeted advertising, please submit your request to opt out of such sharing at the “DO NOT SELL OR SHARE MY PERSONAL INFORMATION” link at the bottom of our Website or by reaching out to us via one of the methods in the Contact Us Section 2 above.
Our Websites are based in the United States and operates under United States law. We make no representation that information provided by the Websites are appropriate or available for use outside the United States or complies with laws outside of the United States. If you are located outside of the United States, the information we collect may be transferred to and processed in the United States and in other countries where the privacy laws may not be the same as the laws where you reside. Those who choose to access the Websites from outside the United States do so on their own initiative and at their own risk and are responsible for compliance with all applicable laws and regulations outside the United States. By using the Websites, you hereby consent to having any information you provide to us transferred to and processed in the United States.
We respect the privacy of your child and we want to share with you our policies regarding children under the age of sixteen (16). Although Users of all ages may navigate through the Services, we do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of sixteen (16). If we learn that a child under the age of sixteen (16) has improperly provided us with information, we will notify the child’s parent or legal guardian and thereafter delete the child’s personal information from our records.
This section provides information about your privacy rights about the Personal Information we collect from you as a California consumer when you use the Services, and the choices you can make regarding your rights.
California Privacy Rights
If you are a California consumer, in addition to the rights outlined above, you may be entitled to the privacy rights described below under the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). California consumers under the CPRA have the right to:
How to Submit Your Request to Exercise Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a California resident and would like to exercise one or more of your privacy rights, please:
A different California law permits California residents to request a notice disclosing the categories of personal information about you that we have shared with third parties for their direct marketing purposes during the preceding calendar year. To request this notice, please submit your request by mail to Mansueto Ventures LLC, Attn: Privacy Officer, 7 World Trade Center, New York, NY 10007 or by email to CaliforniaPrivacy@mansueto.com. Please include “California Privacy Rights” in the subject line.
If you are a job applicant seeking employment with us and apply for an open position, you will be redirected to Paycom’s website—a third-party employment-related service provider—to complete your job application. In so doing, your provision of your Job Applicant Information to Paycom will be subject to Paycom’s privacy practices and policies. Please see Section 1 above for more details.
Our use of and access to your Job Applicant Information is for the legitimate business purpose of discussing and evaluating your job application, which may include direct communication with you and/or your references regarding your job application. For this use of your Job Applicant Information, we provide it only to our personnel who need the information to discuss and evaluate your job application.
We do not use, sell, share, or otherwise disclose your Job Applicant Information for any other purposes outside of your job application discussion and evaluation, and direct communication with you and/or your references about it. If you have any questions regarding your Job Applicant Information, please contact us using one of the mechanisms in the Contact Us Section 2 above.
Any Users located in or resident of a member of the European Union and Switzerland who wishes to inquire or submit a complaint regarding their Personal Information collected and maintained by us should first contact our Privacy Officer at PrivacyOfficer@mansueto.com with “GDPR Privacy Rights Inquiry/Complaint” in the subject line.