Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

TruEducation, LLC (DBA The Next Big Thing Colorado) “NBT”

understands that you care about how we collect, use, and share

information when you interact with our websites, email, and online

services (our “Services”), and we value the trust you place in us. This

Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy” or the “Policy”) explains:

The types of information we collect through our Services;

How we use and protect that information;

The types of information we may share with others and

under what circumstances; and

The choices you have regarding our collection, use, and

sharing practices.

For the purposes of this Policy, “client” means TruEducation, LLC

corporate client, and “subscriber” means the individual who has

subscribed to receive publications.

When This Privacy Policy Applies

This Policy applies to NBT and the websites, emails we send, and any

Services that link to it, events we host, as well as the information we

collect when you interact with us through social media or other

websites and online services. It does not apply to non-NBT websites

and mobile applications that may link to the Services or be linked to

or from the Services; please review the privacy policies on those

websites and applications directly to understand their privacy

practices.

We may make changes to this Policy from time to time. We will post

any changes, and such changes will become effective when they are

posted. Your continued use of our Services following the posting of

any changes will mean you accept those changes.

Information We Collect From or About You

Below we describe the different types of information we collect from

you and the devices you use when you interact with our Services.

Information You Give Us: Some of the Services may include features

or services that permit you to enter contact information and other

information about you. We collect and store any information you enter

on our Services. This may include your name, mailing address, ZIP

code, phone number, or email address.
If your access to the Services has been provided by or through a third party (for example, your

employer) (each, a “Third Party”), the Third Party may have provided

us with information about you to enable us to provide you with access

to the Service and distinguish you from other subscribers (such as

your email address or name).

Information Collected Automatically: When you interact with the

Services, certain information about your use of our Services is

automatically collected. This information includes computer and

connection information, such as statistics on your page views, traffic

to and from our Services, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, and

device identifiers. This information also may include how you search

for our Services, the websites you click on from our Services or

emails, whether and when you open our emails, and your browsing

activities across other websites.

Much of this information is collected through cookies, web beacons,

and other tracking technologies, as well as through your web browser

or device (e.g., IP address, MAC address, browser version, etc.).
The

tracking technologies employed when you use our Services may be

first-party or third-party. We use cookies for the following purposes:

Essential operation: These cookies are necessary to allow us

to operate the NBT website as you have requested. For

example, they let us recognize what type of subscriber you

are and then provide you with services accordingly.

Performance/Analytics: We use these cookies to analyze how

the NBT website is accessed, used or is performing. We use

this information to maintain, operate and continually improve

the NBT website. We may also obtain information from our e-

mail newsletters, to learn whether you opened or forwarded

the newsletter or clicked on any of the content. This

information tells us about our newsletters’ effectiveness and

helps us ensure that we’re delivering information that you

find interesting.

Functional: These cookies let us operate certain functions of

the NBT website in line with the choices you make

Advertising: Third parties, including Google, Facebook, and

other social media platforms, may use tracking technologies

on our website to collect or receive information from the

NBT websites and elsewhere on the internet and use that

information to provide measurement services and target ads.

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies but, if you prefer,

you can usually modify your browser setting to disable or reject cookies. If you delete your cookies or if you set your browser to

decline cookies, some features of the Services may not be available,

work, or work as designed.

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google,

Inc., on our Services. Google Analytics uses cookies or other tracking

technologies to help us analyze how users interact with and use the

Services, compile reports on the Services’ activity, and provide other

services related to our Services’ activity and usage. The technologies

used by Google may collect information such as your IP address, time

of visit, whether you are a return visitor, and any referring website.

The Services do not use Google Analytics to gather information that

personally identifies you. The information generated by Google

Analytics will be transmitted to and stored by Google and will be

subject to Google’s
privacy policies . To learn more about Google’s

partner services and to learn how to opt out of tracking of analytics by

Google, click
here.

We also use KEAP, a customer engagement tool, on our Services.

KEAP uses cookies and other tracking technologies for functions

including identification of unique visitors on a client’s website, and

analysis of usage and traffic patterns.

Information from Social Media: When you interact with us or the

Services through a social media platform (such as by clicking on a

social media icon linked from our Services), we may collect the

personal information that you make available to us on that page,

including your account ID or username and other information

included in your posts. If you choose to log in to your account with or

through a social networking service, we and that service may share

certain information about you and your activities.

How We Use Information We Collect From or About You

We may use information you give us or information we collect about

you to:

Communicate with you, including to respond to your

inquiries and fulfill your requests;

Provide, maintain, personalize, optimize, and improve the

Services, including
research and analytics regarding use of

the Services, or to remember you when you leave and return

to the Services;

Provide and improve our products and services;Provide you with more relevant content in email bulletins to

which you may be subscribed;

Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate

our policies or be fraudulent or illegal.

We may combine information from the Services together and with

other information we obtain from our business records or from third

party sources.

We also may use or combine information that we collect from the

Services with information provided by third parties, including

demographic information and other attributes, and organizational

affiliations.

How We Share Information About You

We may share the information collected via our Services with

companies who work on our behalf to help us provide and support the

Services and our products and services.

We may change our ownership or corporate organization while

providing the Services. We may transfer to another entity or its

affiliates or service providers some or all information about you in

connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition,

sale of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or

financing transaction. We cannot promise that an acquiring party or

the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your

information the same as described in this Policy.

We may use or disclose information about you if required to do so by

law or on the good-faith believe that such sharing is necessary to (a)

conform to applicable law or comply with legal process served on us

or our Services; (b) protect and defend our rights or property, the

Services, or our users; or (c) act to protect the personal safety of our

employees and agents, other users of the Services, or members of the

public.

When you register for an event, contest, or other promotion that is

sponsored by a third party, the third party may be provided personal

information unless otherwise posted in connection with the

promotion.

Your Options

Interest-based advertising is the collection of data across different

websites and/or difference devices for the purpose of tailoring advertising based on preferences or interests know or inferred from

the data collected.

NBT partners with third parties to use the information you make

available to us when you interact with our Services to provide you

with advertising that is more relevant to you after you leave our

Services.
While NBT will not share information that personally

identifies you with unaffiliated third parties for their own uses, such

third parties may, with sufficient data from other sources, be able to

personally identify you.

Please note that opting-out of advertising networks services does not

mean that you will not receive advertising while using our Services or

on other websites, nor will it prevent the receipt of interest-based

advertising from third parties that do not participate in these

programs. It will, however, exclude you from interest-based

advertising conducted through participating networks, as provided by

their policies and choice mechanisms.
If you delete your cookies, you

may also delete your opt-out preferences.

Your browser or device may include “Do Not Track” functionality. At

this time, NBT Media does not respond to browser “Do Not Track”

signals.

Updating Your Information

You can update the information you provide to us by logging into your

account. For other questions about your information, please contact

us using the information at the end of this Policy.

How We Secure the Information We Collect From or About You

We use a combination of physical, technical, and administrative

safeguards to protect the information we collect through the Services.

While we use these precautions to safeguard your personal

information, we cannot guarantee the security of the networks,

systems, servers, devices, and databases we operate or that are

operated on our behalf.

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