Privacy Policy
International Mascot Corporation (IMC) is strongly committed to protecting your privacy and complying with your choices. Both personal and non-personal information collected is safeguarded according to the highest privacy and data protection standards adopted worldwide. IMC has put in place a robust and effective data protection program which complies with existing law.
This privacy policy addresses the following questions:
How IMC collects personal information about you.
The types of personal information IMC collects about you.
How IMC uses your personal information.
How IMC secures your personal information.
How you can manage your personal information collected by IMC.
IMC’s Commitment
IMC adheres to worldwide standards and practices for customer privacy and data protection. IMC employs the following principles:
IMC will only collect your personal information with your consent.
IMC will not sell or give away your name, email address, phone number, or any other personal information about you to anyone outside of IMC or its subsidiary companies, unless required to by law.
IMC employs strong security measures to protect your information from unauthorized use.
IMC gives you the possibility to control the information that you shared with us (opt-out).
1. Notice & Consent
IMC will clearly inform you when information that personally identifies you (“personal information”) is asked for and you will have the choice to provide it or not. IMC may ask you for information that personally identifies you, or allows us to contact you, for variety of purposes pertaining to providing services to you. Generally, personal information about you is requested when you interact with IMC’s website in the following manners:
When you complete an inquiry form.
When you sign up to receive email subscriptions or notifications from IMC.
When you request to download information such as brochures, whitepapers, and other information IMC may publish from time to time.
If you choose not to provide personal information, you can still use internationalmascot.com, but you will not be able to access or request information or services which require your personal information.
When you provide your personal information, you consent that it can be used for purposes listed in the “Usage” section of this policy, and that IMC is an authorized holder of such information.
If you decide to provide your personal information to IMC, you will be able to select the kinds of services you wish to receive from us by subscribing to specific services, for example electronic newsletters, product or service updates, information on upcoming events, and other services which IMC may offer from time to time. You can discontinue receiving information from IMC at anytime by clicking on “unsubscribe” located at the bottom of all electronic correspondence from IMC.
2. The types of personal information IMC collects about you
The personal information IMC may request from you when using internationalmascot.com is very limited, and may include:
First and Last Name.
Email Address.
Telephone number.
Location.
3. Usage
IMC may use your personal Information for four primary purposes:
To improve and optimize the performance of the IMC website.
To enable you to download specific content from IMC or its subsidiaries.
To provide you with notification services you have chosen to subscribe to.
To facilitate contact with key members of IMC’s management team or its subsidiaries.
4. Access to your information
You are entitled to review the personal information you have provided us and ensure that it is accurate and current at all times. To review or update this information, email privacy@internationalmascot.com and request that IMC send you this information.
5. Security of information
IMC is strongly committed to protecting your information and ensuring that your choices are honoured. IMC has taken strong security measures to protect your data from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. All sensitive data is stored behind firewalls on secure servers with restricted employee access.
6. Retention of information
IMC retains information as long as it is necessary to provide the services requested by you, subject to any legal obligations to further retain such information. Information associated with your account will generally be kept until it is no longer necessary to provide the services or until you ask us to delete it or your account is deleted whichever comes first. Additionally, IMC may retain information from deleted accounts to comply with the law, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the Terms of Use, and take other actions permitted by law. The information IMC retains will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
7. What IMC does with the information you share
Your information is never shared outside of IMC without your permission. Inside the company, data is stored behind firewalls on secure servers with restricted user access.
IMC will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on IMC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of IMC and its subsidiaries, and, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of IMC, its websites, or the public.
8. How to opt-out
IMC provides users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving from us updates on our products, newsletters and other communications. You can opt-out by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided in emails or by contacting us at the address at the bottom of this page.
9. Does IMC’s privacy policy apply to linked websites?
IMC’s Privacy Policy applies to information collected on the website internationalmascot.com or via Facebook contact form. IMC’s website may contain links to web sites of third parties. IMC is not responsible for the actions of these third parties, including their privacy practices and any content posted on their web sites. IMC encourages you to review their privacy policies to learn more about what, why and how they collect and use personal information. IMC adheres to industry recognized standards to secure any personal information in IMC’s possession, and to secure it from unauthorized access and tampering.
IMC uses third-party website analytic services to understand how IMC’s website is used in order to better optimize the user experience. These third-party website analytics companies employ cookies to measure and track usage behaviour on IMC’s website. To do so, these companies may use anonymous information about your visits to IMC’s website and other websites but will not collect any information which can personally identify you or can be linked to you.
10. Use of Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data which are created by website servers and are either temporarily or permanently stored on your computer. These cookies allow the issuer to identify your computer and browsing activities when you are visiting a website.
IMC does not create or issue cookies on internationalmascot.com, however you may be subject to cookies issued by the following third parties when visiting IMC’s website, in particular:
Google
IMC uses Google’s website analytics service to understand how visitors engage with IMC’s website so IMC can optimize it for a better user experience. There is no personal information associated with the site visitor cookie.
LinkedIn & Meta Properties
IMC uses a Meta pixel and an Insight tag to serve you advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests across Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Meta’s Audience Network. The information may also be used for frequency capping purposes (i.e., to ensure we do not display the same advertisement to you repeatedly) and to help us regulate the advertisements you receive and measure their effectiveness.
11. Changes to this policy
IMC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy as it deems fit for its’ business and website operations. If IMC makes changes to our Privacy Policy, IMC will post these changes here so that you are always aware of what information IMC collects, how IMC uses it and under what circumstances, if any, IMC discloses it. If at any point IMC decides to use your information in a manner different from that stated at the time it was collected, IMC will notify you by email.
12. Enforcement of policy
If for some reason you believe IMC has not adhered to these principles, please notify us and IMC will do its best to promptly make corrections.
13. Questions or comments
If you have questions or comments about this privacy policy, please email IMC at privacy@internationalmascot.com.
For more information about how to contact IMC please visit the contact page of IMC’s website.
Effective date: April 4, 2022