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Privacy Policy

Return, Refund, And Cancellation Policies

Parks Associates does not provide returns, refunds, or cancellation of orders for its research or event products once they have been delivered to the buyer’s reading room. If you are unsatisfied with any of the content delivered, please contact Parks Associates at 972-490-1113 or sales@parksassociates.com to discuss.

Deliverables And Delivery Policy

Upon confirmation of your purchase, an electronic copy of the purchased content, typically a PDF or PowerPoint file, will appear in your online Reading Room. You can view and download this file at your discretion. Past Webcasts include a PDF of the presentation with a link to the archived audio and login instructions.

Parks Associates’ Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us and to assist you in making informed decisions when using our site and our products and services.

What Information Do We Collect?

When you visit our Web site you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you knowingly choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis and Web site use information collected on an aggregate basis as you and others browse our Web site.

2. Web Site Use Information

Registration Information.

You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register for certain services, download Parks Associates latest white papers, or register for email newsletters and alerts.

How Do We Use the Information that You Provide to Us?

Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. You may notify us at any time if you do not wish to receive these offers by emailing us at info@parksassociates.com

Sharing Information with Third Parties.

We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you. In connection with alliances, partnerships or arrangements, we may also provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. We also use third parties to facilitate our business, including, but not limited to, sending email and processing credit card payments. In connection with these offerings and business operations, our partners and other third parties may have access to your personal information for use in connection with business activities.

Notice of New Services and Changes

Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our Web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable. As our customer, you will be given the opportunity to notify us of your desire not to receive these offers by sending us an email request at info@parksassociates.com.

Request to Delete Your Contact Details

Parks Associates will delete any contact details within our database by request. As our customer, you can notify us of your desire to have data deleted by emailing us at info@parksassociates.com or calling our headquarters at +1-972-490-1113.

Your Rights Under the Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA)

You have the right to request access to the personal information we have collected about you, request that we delete your personal information, and opt-out of the sale of personal information. Virginia residents also have the right to correct inaccuracies in their personal information and to opt out of processing for purposes of targeted advertising or profiling.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

How Do We Secure Information Transmissions?

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Some of the information you may enter on our Web site may be transmitted securely via Secure Sockets Layer SSL, 128 bit encryption services. Pages utilizing this technology will have URLs that start with HTTPS instead of HTTP. Please contact info@parksassociates.com if you have any questions or concerns.

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?

You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by emailing info@parksassociates.com.

Certain Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to (a) conform to the law or comply with legal process served on us or affiliated parties; (b) protect and defend our rights and property, our site, the users of our site, and/or our affiliated parties; (c) act under circumstances to protect the safety of users of our site, us, or third parties.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?

We are not responsible for the practices employed by Web sites linked to or from our Web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other Web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our Web site.

Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Web site to another Web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect. Your browsing and interaction on any other Web site, including Web sites which have a link on our Web site, is subject to that Web site’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

Your Consent

By using our Web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our Web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.