PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is Subject to Change. The Last Update to this Privacy Policy: January 1, 2023

Midland Radio Corporation Privacy Policy 

The Midland Radio Corporation (“Midland”, “we,” “us,” “our”) Privacy Policy discloses the types of information we gather, how we use it, and how to correct or change it. Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide the User (“User” also referred to as “you/your”) and/or your company with the best and most useful content. Several of the products and features that we offer on our Website require you to provide us with information as a condition of purchase or use. We may collect personally identifiable information, such as your name, company name, email address, postal address, phone number, and purchase history. We may also collect other sensitive information such as your date of birth, gender, and username. Passwords are not stored directly; we use a hash of the password to maintain security. Midland does not knowingly collect any personal information from anyone under 13 years of age. This policy is subject to change.

 

1. Personal Information Collected 

Products

When you place an order with us, we may collect personal information about you, including name, company, address, email address, phone number and, in rare instances, other categories of personal information, such as payment card information and date of birth. 

Marketing

We may ask you for and collect personal information at other times in connection with any of our Midland Sponsored Activities, including when you enter a sweepstakes or contest; participate in a promotion or marketing campaign or event; when you want to find out about products offered in your area; when you complete surveys or other questionnaires; when you participate in a user forum or blog hosted by us; or when you send us an email.

We may also collect information made publicly available through third-party platforms such as social media websites, online databases, or online directories. If you do not wish to receive marketing communications you can opt out by clicking here. After you opt out, we will not send further promotional communications, but we may continue to contact you to the extent necessary for the purposes of any information you have requested regarding our products.

Other Information Collection

Our web server logs also collects IP addresses and other unique identifiers of Users on our Website, as well as certain metrics relating to your visit(s). This information is aggregated to measure number of visits, average time spent on our Website, pages viewed and Website usage information. We use this information to measure and improve the content of our Website. Aggregated information is not used in such a form that would enable direct connection of any personal information to our Website’s Users.

Social Computing Tools

We also provide social computing tools on our Website to enable online sharing and collaboration among Users who have registered to use them. These include forums, wikis, blogs and other social media platforms. When registering to use these social computing tools, you may be asked to provide certain personal information. Registration information will be subject to this Privacy Policy. After completing your registration, any other content you voluntarily post, such as pictures, information, opinions, or any other type of personal information that you make available to other participants on these social platforms may be made available to others inside and outside of Midland. If you do not wish this information to be made broadly available you can cancel your registration at any time. However, you may not be able to participate on these social platforms once you cancel your registration and any information already posted will continue to be made available through these platforms.

Third Party Websites

When you are on our Website and are asked for personal information, you are sharing that information with Midland in the United States. Additionally, if you purchase a product, your personal information may be collected by a third party company working with us. We may also contract with third party companies to perform services for us on our Website that require these companies to collect personal information (e.g. hosting a website sweepstakes, promotion or survey, conducting advertising activities, selling products, or facilitating customer satisfaction of our products).

Our Website may also contain various links to third-party websites. These websites may provide additional information, goods, services and/or promotions. These websites are owned and operated independently of us, and have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any information you provide to our Website will be governed under the terms of their Privacy Policy. We have no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the independent actions or policies of these independent websites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such websites.

Cookies

When you interact with us online, including through our Website, we and our third-party providers use cookies, pixels and related tracking technologies to collect information automatically about the electronic path you take to our Website, through our Website and when exiting our Website, as well as your usage and activity on our Website and other online services, such as the links and objects you view or click. We may use cookies and related technologies in a variety of ways, including: (1) keeping count of return visits to our Website; (2) accumulating and reporting anonymous, aggregate, statistical information on Website and advertisement usage; (3) determining which features our Users like best; (4) saving your password so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our Website; and (5) displaying the most appropriate advertising or content based on your interests. We then use this information to improve our products and your experience on our Website. You can choose to prevent us from obtaining cookies by adjusting your settings on your browser, but this will limit your ability to use all aspects of our Website. Overall, the information we gather through the use of our tracking technologies cannot be matched with any personally identifiable information about you.

Third Party Pixels and Cookies:

When you visit our website, log in, register or open an email, cookies, ad beacons, and similar technologies may be used by our online data partners or vendors to associate these activities with information they or others have about you, including your email address. We (or service providers on our behalf) may then send communications and marketing to these email addresses. You may opt out of receiving this advertising by visiting https://app.retention.com/optout. This information can also be found here: https://retention.com/support/update-privacy-policy/

 

2. Use of Personal Information

Midland’s primary goal in collecting personal information is to facilitate order processing, to contact you if a problem arises with your order. Our Website may, from time to time, contain optional registration, promotions, surveys and questionnaires (Midland Sponsored Activity) requesting information. We use the information Users provide to help us design and build better products and to provide advice and purchase recommendations.

We also use the information we collect to help with marketing and advertising offers customized for you. This kind of advertising may be done with banner ads as well as promotional emails sent by us, or by third parties under contract with us.

We also conduct research on our users’ demographics, interests, and behavior based on the information provided to us when making a purchase, during a promotion, from surveys and from our server log files. We do this to better understand and serve our Users. This research is compiled and analyzed on an aggregated basis so as to prevent identification of personal information relating to any one individual. We may share the aggregated data with our business affiliates.

Legal Basis

Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. However, we will normally collect personal information from you only when we have your consent to do so, when we need the personal information to perform an agreement with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your privacy interests. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your interests or those of another person.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform agreement with you, we will explain why we are asking for the personal information at the relevant time and inform you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not.

Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interests, we will explain to you those interests.

Sharing of Personal Information

We share Website usage information about Users, who have received a personalized promotional campaign, with third-party advertising companies for the purpose of personalizing future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics. For this purpose, we and our third-party advertising companies note some of the pages you visit on our Website through the use of cookies, pixel tags (also called clear gifs) and related technologies. For more information about these practices, and any choices you may have in relation to the information being collected, please refer to the section above titled “Personal Information Collected”. We may also share your information with third parties, such as legal advisors and law enforcement, in connection with the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; to comply with laws and regulations or to respond to lawful requests and legal process including to enforce our Terms and Conditions of Use; to detect or prevent fraud; to protect the health and safety of us, our customers, or any person; as required by applicable law, court order, subpoena or other legal process; or as requested by a governmental or law enforcement authority. We may also disclose information about you to third parties with your consent.

3. Your Choices

You may have certain choices in relation to your personal information. For more information about these choices, please click here. At Midland’s discretion, we may use one or more companies to place advertisements for our products and those of third parties on our Website. Cookies and other technologies such as web beacons or tags are used to measure the effectiveness of our ads and to determine the display of content and advertising to you based on your interests both on our Website, as well as on third-party sites where you may visit. To support this interest based advertising solution, may use anonymous information about your visit to our Website. The information collected and used by this process is always anonymous, and does not enable any third-party to identify you individually. If you would prefer not to participate, you can always opt-out of this activity by clicking here.

4. Information Security

When you place an order or provide personal information, we employ certain technical and organization security measures, such as encryption where appropriate. Encryption scrambles the information in your purchase, including your credit card number, so this information can only be viewed by Midland and our third-party payment processor. However, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we have taken appropriate steps to protect your personal information, Midland cannot ensure or otherwise warrant the security of any information you provide to us or from our Website, and therefore you use our Website at your own risk.

Retention

We keep personal information only for as long as required to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. However, in some circumstances we may retain personal information for longer periods of time, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal (i.e., warranties), tax and accounting requirements. We may also retain your personal information for longer periods of time so that we have an accurate record of your dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.

Children's Privacy

The Midland Website is not intended for use by persons under the age of 13. We do not seek to or knowingly collect or solicit information about children under the age of 13. No information should be submitted to or posted on our Website by users under 13 years of age. If a child under the age of 13 provides personal information to us, we encourage the child’s parent or guardian to contact us to request that we remove the personal information from our system. If we learn that any personal information we collect has been provided by a child under the age of 13, we will promptly delete the information.

5. California Residents Privacy Disclosures

This section applies to residents of the state of California and provides additional information to our Privacy Policy about how we collect, use, disclose and otherwise process “personal information” of individual residents of the state of California within the scope of the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”). The provisions contained in this section use the term “personal information” as it is defined in The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

Collection and Use of Personal Information

In the last 12 months, we have collected the categories of personal information identified below. We collect this information directly from you, from your browser or device when you interact with our Website, from third parties and from social media platforms, online databases or directories. We have collected the following categories of personal information about you:

Identifiers, such as full name, alias, account name and password, customer number, IP address and other unique personal identifiers.

California Customer Records (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)), such as address, telephone number, email address, date of birth and payment card information.

Protected Classification Characteristics, such as age or gender.

Commercial Information, such as product interests and orders, credit card information (if you purchased a product).

Internet/Network Information, such as log file data (including IP address, browser type).

Geolocation, such as your general geographic location based on your IP address or more precise location when using our products.

Other Personal Information, such as your entries to sweepstakes, contests and promotions, your comments on our forums, blogs, social media tools or in response to surveys and any other inquiries, requests or comments you choose to send us.

We will not collect additional categories of personal information without notifying you.

Collection and Use of Sensitive Information

Your sensitive information is subject to an additional layer of protection. As a result, we will not use data from the sensitive information categories, including an account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number with any required security code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account, precise geolocation, and contents of mail, email, and text messages, unless you permit us to use it to provide requested goods or services. 

Disclosure and Sale of Personal Information

We share personal information with third parties for business purposes or we may sell your personal information to third parties, subject to your right to opt-out of those sales. The categories of third parties to whom we disclose your personal information may include marketing, business strategy, advertising, analytics, and sweepstakes/contest providers, order fulfillment and payment providers and certain third parties where you have provided consent or where we are required by law.  As is common practice for online websites, we allow certain third-party providers to collect information about consumers directly through our Website for purposes of analyzing and optimizing our products, delivering ads, providing content, measuring statistics and the success of ad campaigns, and detecting and reporting fraud. To the extent this practice is interpreted to constitute a “sale” under the CCPA, please refer to Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales section below. 

Your California Privacy Rights

As a California resident, you may be able to request to exercise the following rights in relation to the personal information about you that we have collected (subject to certain limitations at law):

1. Right to Know: You have the right to request any or all of the following information relating to your personal information we have collected and disclosed in the last 12 months, upon verification of your identity:

• The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you;
• The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
• The categories of sources of the personal information;
• The categories of personal information that we have disclosed to third parties for a business purpose, and the categories of recipients to whom this information was disclosed;
• The categories of personal information we have sold about you (if any) and the categories of third parties to whom the information was sold; and
• The business or commercial purposes for collecting or, if applicable, selling personal information about you.

1. The Right to Request Deletion: You have the right to request the deletion of personal information we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
2. The Right to Opt-Out of Personal Information Sales: You have the right to direct us not to sell personal information we have collected about you to third parties. If you are under the age of 16, you have the right not to have your information sold, unless you, or your parent or guardian, affirmatively authorize such sales.
3. Submitting Requests: To exercise your Right to Know or Right to Deletion, you need to submit your verifiable request to us by contacting us via the details provided in this document. To exercise your Right to Opt-Out, please use this link. For us to respond to your request, it’s necessary that we know who you are. Therefore, you can only exercise the above rights by making a verifiable request which must:

• provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative; and
• describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.

Please submit a request specifying the right you wish to exercise by:

Email: privacy@midlandradio.com with the subject line “California Rights Request,” or

Phone: (816) 241-8500

Your California Consumer Rights

As a consumer in California, you have the right to request that a business that collects personal information about the consumer or disclose to the consumer the following:

• The categories of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
• The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
• The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information.
• The categories of third parties with whom the business shares personal information.
• The specific pieces of personal information it has collected about that consumer.
• A consumer shall have the right to request that a business that sells the consumer’s personal information, or that discloses it for a business purpose, disclose to that consumer:
• The categories of personal information that the business collected about the consumer.
• The categories of personal information that the business sold about the consumer and the categories of third parties to whom the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to whom the personal information was sold.
• The categories of personal information that the business disclosed about the consumer for a business purpose.
• A consumer shall have the right to request that a business delete any personal information about the consumer that the business has collected from the consumer.

Note: A business or a service provider shall not be required to comply with a consumer’s request to delete if it is necessary for the business in order to:

• Complete transactions, provide a good or service requested by the consumer, or reasonably anticipated within the context of a business’s ongoing business relationship with the consumer, or otherwise perform a contract between the business and the consumer.
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity.
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law.
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act, specifically Chapter 3.6 (commencing with Section 1546) of Title 12 of Part 2 of the Penal Code.
• To enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with the expectations of the consumer based on the consumer’s relationship with the business.
• Comply with a legal obligation.
• Otherwise use the consumer’s personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which the consumer provided the information.

6. How to Contact Us 

If you have other questions, comments or concerns about our privacy practices, or if you wish to issue a request to exercise your rights where applicable by law, please contact us at privacy@midlandradio.com or at the address below. Please provide your name and contact information along with the request.

 

Midland Radio Corporation
5900 Paretta Dr
Kansas City, MO 64120