Last modified: March 20, 2024
NC Ventures, LLC (“NCS”) cares about your privacy and wants you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information. This Website Privacy Policy (“Policy”) details our collection, use, and disclosure of information collected via ncsolutions.com and any other website where this Policy is posted or linked (collectively, this “Website”) and your legal rights with respect to such information.
Please take the time to read this Policy to understand how your personal and other information may be handled and used while using the Website. Other NCS websites or NCS products are subject to their own policy specific to those websites or products and such policy will apply to the applicable website or products. We encourage you to review each privacy policy that is applicable to you and your personal information.
Types of Information We Collect
When you use this Website, we obtain information relating to you, which may include information that alone or in combination with other information identifies you as an individual or can be reasonably linked to your identity (“Personal Information”).
Information you provide: When you submit a comment or question through the Website, or subscribe to NCS communications, we collect Personal Information that you provide directly to us, including your name, address, email, and phone number.
Information we collection when you visit our Website: We automatically receive certain information about the computer or device you are using when you visit this Site, including: your Internet Protocol (IP) address; information about the browser or type of device you are using; information collected through Cookies, pixel tags, and other similar technologies (as described below in the “Cookies and Other Internet Technologies” section); the date and time of your visit; and the web page you visited immediately prior to visiting this Site.
Information collected from third parties: We use third parties, such as Google Analytics and Pardot to help us analyze how visitors use the Website. Among other things, Google Analytics uses javascript, persistent cookies, and other similar technology, to collect information about the number of visitors to the site, the web page that referred visitors to the site, and the pages that visitors view within the site. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For information on how Google uses information, please visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. Pardot (a SalesForce company) helps NCS analyze and identify visitors to the Website, analyze email campaigns, and track website forms. Pardot stored Personal Information if you complete a contact/request form or request email communications from NCS. For more information, please visit https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/.
How We Use Your Information
We use information about you for the purpose(s) for which it was collected or provided to us (as stated at the point of collection) or as otherwise obvious from the context of collection. We may also use your Personal Information to:
- Administer and manage this Website, communicate with you about this Website, process your request for information, or otherwise complete a transaction or service you request or authorize;
- Customize or personalize your user experience and the content we deliver to you, including to provide you with content that is more relevant to you;
- Contact you about NCS’s products and services, provide you with promotional materials or offers for products/services from NCS, or send you other communications about NCS’s business and events (including communications based on your interests, personal and business characteristics, and location) (collectively, “marketing communications”). We may provide these communications and offers via email, postal mail, online, social media platforms, text messages, and other means;
- Carry out our internal business purposes, such as corporate transactions, audits, and data analysis; conduct research and analytics about your use of this Website and interaction with us; develop new products; improve this Website and our existing products and services; identify usage trends; assess the performance of our advertisements; optimize our advertising campaigns; and determine the effectiveness of our communications;
- Protect the rights, safety, property, or operations of NCS, you, or others;
- Comply with applicable law and/or respond to requests and communications from law enforcement authorities or other government officials.
Note that you may unsubscribe from a NCS’s mailing list at any time by clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any of our marketing communications to you. After you unsubscribe, we will not send you further marketing communications, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any services you have requested.
We will never use your Personal Information to advertise, promote, or market third-party goods or services to you. Additionally, we will not license or publish any of your Personal Information. We do not and will not sell any Personal Information to third parties for their own commercial use.
Disclosures of Your Information
In connection with one or more of the purposes outlines in the “How We Use Your Information” section above, we may disclose your Personal Information to:
- NCS affiliates and subsidiaries;
- Third parties that provide services to us, such as system hosting, management, and support; data analysis; facilitation of advertisements; data backup; and information security and storage services;
- Relevant third parties as part of a corporate transaction, such as a reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with a bankruptcy or similar proceeding);
- Competent governmental and public authorities, in each case to comply with legal or regulatory obligations or requests; and
- Other third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; (d) to protect our operations and those of any of our affiliates; (e) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or those of our affiliates, you, or others; and (f) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit damages that we may sustain.
In addition, the Website contains content and plugins from social media sites like Facebook (“Like” button), Twitter (“Share to Twitter”), LinkedIn, and others. These plugins allow you to share information from the Website to your timeline or account. When you connect to these services, the third parties may store and/or access information (including through the use of Cookies and other similar technology) over which NCS does not have control. If you are logged into a social media website while visiting the Website, the social media plugins may allow the social media website to receive information that you visited the Website and link it to your social media account. NCS does not control these websites, and information collected is governed by the privacy statement of the third party company. For more information, please refer to their privacy statements.
Cookies and Other Internet Technologies
We use Cookies and other digital technologies (collectively “Digital Technologies”) for the purposes described in this section. The technologies we use may include:
- persistent cookies, pixel tags, web beacons, clear GIFs, (“Cookies“) and
- local shared objects (such as HTML5 storage).
We and our third-party service providers may use the information obtained through Digital Technologies for the uses described in the chart below.
| Categories of Use | Description |
| Authentication | To help us show you the right information and personalize your panel experience. |
| Security | To enable and support our security features such as to help us detect malicious activity and combat fraudulent participation. |
| Functionality | To improve your experience when using the Website. For example, these Digital Technologies can remember information such as your user name, language, or location preference. Remembering your choices helps the Website provide enhanced, more personal features. |
To learn more about Cookies, please visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics, a web analytics tool that may set Cookies in your browser, in order to help us understand how visitors engage with this Website. To learn more about Google Analytics’ data practices, please visit this page. For opt-out options specific to Google Analytics, please visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Other third party Cookies and technologies: We also enable third-party Cookies and other similar technologies to collect or receive information from this Website and elsewhere for use in advertising, including for the purposes of serving advertisements targeted to users’ interests, retargeting visitors to this Website, conversion tracking (i.e., tracking the actions users take after viewing or engaging with our advertisements), measuring ad effectiveness, and ensuring that you do not see the same ad repeatedly. These Cookies and similar technologies collect information about your browsing habits and online behavior, including across different browsers and devices used by you, in order to serve advertisements that may be of interest to you. For example, NCS’s third-party providers may use the fact that you visited this Website to place online ads for NCS on non-NCS websites.
Third parties may also use information about your use of this Website to help target non-NCS advertisements based on your online behavior and/or interests in general. Information collected generally includes actions you take on this Website (e.g., URL, previous website visited), device and browser information (e.g., IP address, operating system, browser type), timestamp, and events (e.g., page views). Generally, this information is connected to your social network ID. Please note that NCS is not responsible for practices by such third parties, and those practices are subject to those companies’ own policies.
You may use industry platforms to opt out of interest-based advertising. To learn more about opting out of receiving interest-based advertisements and how to exercise your options, please visit: https://optout.aboutads.info and www.networkadvertising.org/choices. These tools use Cookies to record and implement your preferences. If you disable or delete Cookies on your device after using these tools, you will need to complete the opt-out process again.
Your Rights and Choices
You have choices as well as several rights regarding our processing of your information and we are committed to providing you with reasonable access to it and the ability to review and limit the use of such information in accordance with applicable law.
Depending on your U.S. state of residence, you may have the right to:
- Confirm whether or not we are processing your Personal Information;
- Access and obtain a copy of your Personal Information
- Delete Personal Information you provide or is otherwise obtained from you
- Correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information;
- Delete Personal Information you provide or is otherwise obtained from you; and
- Limit our use of your personal information for targeted advertising.
If you are interested in exercising one or more of the rights described above, you can submit a request to ncs.privacy@ncsolutions.com. Please note that we may require proof of your identity before we can give effect to these rights.
Unsubscribing from NCS news letters: If you no longer want to receive electronic newsletters you signed up to receive or other marketing communications from NCS, you can click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of such communications.
Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you if you decide to exercise your rights under applicable law.
Identity verification when submitting your request: To ensure we take action regarding your Personal Information only at your direction, or the direction of an “Authorized Agent” permitted to act on your behalf may submit a request, we may ask you to provide or confirm some Personal Information when submitting a request. An “Authorized Agent” means a natural person or a business entity you have authorized to act on your behalf by providing your written permission. Please note, we may deny a request from an Authorized Agent if they do not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.
Your request must: Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information or an Authorized Agent; and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. We cannot respond to your request or provide you with Personal Information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the Personal Information we maintain relates to you. To verify your identity, we will seek to match any Personal Information you provide when you (or an Authorized Agent) submit your request to any Personal Information we already maintain. If we are unable to verify your identity based on the information we maintain, we will let you know.
Your right to appeal our decision: If we refuse to take action on your request, you may have the right to appeal that decision depending on your state of residence. For more information on how you can file such an appeal, please contact us at ncs.privacy@ncsolutions.com.
Do Not Track
“Do Not Track” (“DNT”) is a preference you can set in your web browser to let the websites you visit know that you do not want them collecting your Personal Information. At this time, this Site does not respond to DNT or similar signals. Please refer to the “Cookies and Other Internet Technologies” section of this Privacy Statement for more information about how you can decline the use of Cookies on your device.
Children’s Privacy
This Website is not intended for children, and NCS provides no products or services for children. This Website does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from children under the age of 13.
Information Security and Retention
We maintain certain reasonable electronic, physical, technical, and procedural safeguards to protect the security of the information you provide to us through the NCS Site. However, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed as 100% secure. In addition, please note that we do not control the communication channel you choose to electronically communicate with us and cannot guarantee secure information transmission.
We will retain your information for as long as needed for the purpose described in this Policy and in accordance with applicable law.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
We may make changes to this Policy at any time. Any amendments or modifications become effective immediately upon posting. Continued use of this Website means that you accept our revisions.
Contact
Notices concerning this Policy should be directed to:
NC Ventures, LLC d/b/a NCS
675 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor
New York NY 10010
Attn: Privacy Officer
ncs.privacy@ncsolutions.com