Privacy Policy

Effective Date: March 28th, 2022

Vibe Projects LLC (Vibe Projects or we) adopted this Privacy Policy to reflect our commitment to protecting the privacy of your personal information. Please carefully read this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Service before providing any personal information to Vibe Projects.

If you have any questions regarding the Services or our privacy practices not answered in this Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@vibeprojects.com or Vibe Projects, LLC, Attn: Privacy Officer, Sharjah Media City. For more information about how to exercise your privacy rights, please see YOUR CHOICES ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION below.

In this Privacy Policy, the following capitalized terms have the following meanings:

“Awards Programs” means our awards and recognition programs, such as the Inc. 5000 List.

“Events” means conferences, festivals, or other events (including virtual events and webinars) organized by us. such as the or the Fast Company Middle East Innovation Festival.

“Magazines” means Inc.Magazine and Fast Company Middle East Magazine.

“Services” means our websites and mobile applications that make available the Magazines, information about our awards programs, our events, and our surveys, contests and sweepstakes.

“Suppliers” means suppliers of products and services that help us make the Services available for you, such as web hosting, advertising technology, data analytics and forensics, virtual event hosting, marketing and information security.

“Websites” means Fastcompanyme.com and their related branded web pages.

“User” means any individual who accesses and uses the Services.

HOW THIS PRIVACY POLICY APPLIES

This Privacy Policy applies to the Services. But, if a particular Service refers or links to a different privacy policy, then that privacy policy — not this Privacy Policy — applies.

Our agreements with certain customers may contain provisions about processing personal information collected through the Services. Suppose a provision of one of these customer agreements conflicts or otherwise is inconsistent with a provision of this Privacy Policy. In that case, the provision of the customer agreement will prevail but solely to the extent of the conflict or inconsistency. If you have a question about whether your personal information is covered by a customer agreement, please contact us at marketing@fastcompanyme.com

The Services may include links to websites and services that we do not operate. A link to a third-party website or service does not mean that we reviewed or endorsed its privacy practices. If you visit a third-party website or service, you are subject to its privacy practices and policies, not ours. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any personal information you provide to these other websites and services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

At the top of this page, the Effective Date indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Unless applicable law prevents or a revision is needed to protect the privacy or security of our Users, we will notify you about any material change that reduces your privacy right in advance so that you have time to review the changes before they are effective. Your use of the Services after the Effective Date means that you accept the Privacy Policy as revised.

PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECT

The personal information that Mansueto collects through the Services depends on how the Services are used:

When a magazine subscription is purchased, Vibe Projects collects the subscriber’s name, email address, and postal service address. If a subscription is purchased as a gift, we also collect the purchaser’s information.

If you create an account, Vibe Projects collects your name, email address and also may collect business name and title, postal address and other information requested or required to create the account.

Suppose you use an ad blocker (such as AdBlock Plus). In that case, we may require you to register or whitelist the relevant website to gain access to our content, subject to the privacy rights described in the YOUR CHOICES ABOUT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION section below.

If you register for an Event, Vibe Projects collects your name, business name and title, email address, postal address and other information that you are required or choose to provide to complete the registration or use the software through which we host a virtual event.

If you choose to participate in an Awards Program, Vibe Projects collects your name, business name and title, email address, postal address and other information that you are required or choose to provide as part of your participation.

When you choose to enter a contest or sweepstakes or complete a survey, Vibe Projects collects your name, business name and title, email address, postal address and other information that you provide when you enter or complete a survey.

If you request customer support, the information that Vibe Projects collects depends on your support request but typically includes your name, telephone number, email address and other information that you provide so that we can troubleshoot.

When you connect with us through a social media platform, we may collect information associated with your social media account depending on your privacy settings.

When you use the Services, we automatically collect information about how you access the Services and which Service you use through cookies and other data collection tools. Depending on your privacy and operating system settings, automatically-collected information includes: Internet Protocol (IP) address; MAC address; the make, model and operating system version of the computer or mobile device (“Device”) you use to access the Services; browser type and language; country and time zone in which the Device is located; mobile network information; internet service provider; and metadata stored on the Device. Some of this automatically-collected information is personal information.

Vibe Projects may supplement the information you provide to us with information that we collect from our Suppliers and other sources as described below. This information is treated as personal information when it directly or indirectly identifies an individual natural person.

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

Generally, we use the personal information we collect from or about users to provide more meaningful editorial and advertising content, advertise products and services that we think may interest you, and maintain and improve the Services and other lawful purposes. More specifically, we use personal information to:

Administer the Services

Provide you with customer support

Respond to your requests and inquiries

Create and manage your account

Fulfil orders for the services or merchandise that you purchase through the Services or communicate with the Suppliers that help us complete these transactions

Market and operate our Awards Programs, promotions and Events

Evaluate your submission for ranking in our Awards Programs, such as the Inc. 5000

Promote and administer sweepstakes, contests or other promotions that our customers and we make available for Users

Advertise and operate the Events that we organise.

Advertise the Magazines and other products and services that our customers and we offer

Ensure that our advertising is properly displayed on the Services and other websites

Identify advertising that we think may interest you

Track advertising tailored to your interests on the Services and other websites

Perform services for our customers

Help our customers develop content based on inferred user interest

Display advertisements in the Magazines and Websites

Fulfil sponsorships that our customers purchase for our Events and Awards Programs, including marketing

Improve the Services and develop new ones

Administer focus groups and surveys

Conduct research and analysis of Users’ behavior to improve the Services

Identify and repair bugs in the Services

Develop new features

Prevent, detect and fight illegal or unauthorized activities

Address suspected or detected unauthorized and illegal activity on or through the Services, such as scraping, spam or fraud

Analyze data related to fraudulent activities to prevent recurrences and design countermeasures

Detect security incidents

For legal compliance

Enforce or exercise our rights, for example, our Terms of Service

Audit our and our Suppliers’ compliance with applicable law

HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

With our Suppliers:

Our Suppliers help us to operate and improve the Services. Our Suppliers support technical processing operations, such as data hosting and maintenance, virtual event hosting, analytics, customer care, securing our data and systems, marketing and detecting and preventing spam and intellectual property infringement.

With sponsors and advertisers for Events and Awards Programs:

We provide co-branded Events and promotions with certain customers and we also offer customers the opportunity to sponsor certain aspects of our Events and Awards Programs. As a part of these Events and Awards Programs, we request personal information for participation and/or registration and we may share this participation and registration information with the customer. For example, we may share your contact information and attendee lists with our Event sponsors and advertisers. We share information collected through our Awards Programs with providers of products and services that we believe will interest participants in the Awards Program.

With order fulfillment vendors:

For our users’ convenience, we may provide the opportunity to purchase certain goods and services through the Services. We partner with order fulfillment vendors for payment processing and order fulfillment. These vendors will request information from you and process it according to their own privacy policy and other terms. Some of the vendors also may share your information with us. We are not responsible for processing your personal information or the fulfillment of your order when a vendor’s own privacy policy and terms apply.

With advertising technology providers:

Third-party advertising technology (“Ad Tech”) providers (some of which are Suppliers) help us to serve and track digital advertisements through the Services and on third-party digital services. Ad Tech providers use cookies and other data collection tools to collect information about your interaction with the Services and digital advertisements and combine this information from other sources to deliver digital advertisements about goods and services targeted to your interests (as inferred from your online activity). To learn more, please read “OUR USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TOOLS” below.

For corporate transactions:

We may transfer your personal information if we are involved, whether in whole or in part, in a merger, sale, acquisition, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, bankruptcy or other change of ownership or control.

When required by law:

Applicable law may require Vibe Projects and Suppliers to disclose your personal information when we believe necessary to (i) comply with a legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search warrant, government investigation or other legal requirement, (ii) help prevent or detect crime and (iii) respond to lawful requests from law enforcement and government regulators.

To enforce legal rights:

We also share information: (i) if we believe that disclosure would mitigate our liability in an actual or threatened lawsuit; (ii) as necessary to protect our legal rights and legal rights of our Users or other interested parties; (iii) to enforce our agreements with you; and (iv) to investigate, prevent, or take other action regarding illegal activity, suspected fraud or other wrongdoing.

With your consent or at your request:

We may ask for your consent to share your personal information with third parties. We will clarify why we want to share personal information when we do.

We use cookies and other data tracking technology to collect and use personal information about you. We also may allow others to use cookies and similar technologies (e.g., pixels) to recognize you and/or your device(s) when you use the Websites.

With your consent or at your request

We may ask for your consent to share your personal information with third parties. When we do, we will make it clear why we want to share personal information.

OUR USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TOOLS

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are sent to or accessed from your web browser or your computer’s hard drive. A cookie typically contains the name of the domain (internet location) from which the cookie originated, the lifetime of the cookie (i.e., when it expires) and a randomly generated unique number or similar identifier. A cookie also may contain information about your computer, such as User settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Websites and certain Services.

Vibe Projects also uses “pixels” (also known as web beacons). Pixels are transparent images used to collect information about website usage across websites and over time.

Cookies that Vibe Projects sets on the Websites are called first-party cookies. Cookies set by any other party are called third-party cookies. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality on or through the Websites, such as analytics, marketing automation and customer support. The parties that set third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the Websites and also when it visits certain other websites.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically but allow you to disable them. You also can opt-out of certain cookies using the following link:http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some features of the Websites may not work properly without cookies. To learn more about cookies generally, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.

Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“ DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a User does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s User. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including Vibe Projects, do not respond to DNT signals.

Why does Vibe Projects use cookies and other tracking technology?

Some cookies are required for the websites to operate. Other cookies enable us to track users’ interests, enhance the experience of the Websites, and target advertising.

The types of cookies used on the Websites and why they are used is as follows:

“Strictly necessary” cookies are required to allow us to deliver the Websites to you.

“Performance” or “Analytics” cookies help us collect information about how Users interact with the Websites and help us analyze and improve the Websites. Performance or analytics cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser until you delete them.

“Advertising” cookies make advertising messages more relevant to you. They help to display advertisements based on your inferred interests, prevent the same ad from appearing too often and ensure that ads are properly displayed.

Pixels and similar data collection technology enable Vibe Projects to monitor the traffic patterns of visitors from one page of the website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you visit the websites after seeing our online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve performance of the Websites and to measure the success of our email marketing campaigns.

Vibe Projects serves targeted advertisements on the Websites. Vibe Projects may use information about your visits to the Websites to provide relevant advertisements on other Websites about goods and services that may interest you. Vibe Projects and Ad Tech providers also may deploy technology that enhances the effectiveness of advertisements by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to the Websites and other websites to provide relevant advertisements on other websites about goods and services that may interest you. The information collected through this process does not enable the third parties or us to identify your name, contact details or similar directly-identifying details unless you choose to provide them.

HOW WE PROTECT AND RETAIN INFORMATION

We use physical, technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information against unauthorized access, theft and loss. We restrict access to your personal information to those employees who need access to service your account or perform their job functions. We have procedures to manage personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator when we are required to do so.

Although we take precautions intended to help protect the personal information that we process, no system or electronic data transmission is completely secure. Any transmission of your personal information is at your own risk and we expect that you will use appropriate security measures to protect your personal information.

We may suspend your use of all or part of the Services without notice if we suspect or detect any security breach. You understand and agree that we may deliver electronic notifications about security breaches to the email address you provided to us.

If you create an account, you are responsible for maintaining the security of and the information in your account.

If you believe that your account or personal information is no longer secure, please notify us immediately at marketing@fastcompanyme.com.

We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

The criteria used to determine our personal information retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Websites);

Whether we have a legal obligation to retain the personal information (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them);

Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as for statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).

The criteria used to determine our personal information retention periods include:

The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide Services to you (for example, for as long as you have an account with us or keep using the Websites);

Whether retention is advisable considering our legal position (such as for statutes of limitations, litigation or regulatory investigations).