User Privacy Notice

If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact us at privacy@eventcapture.com

The Sound of Knowledge, Inc. dba Source of Knowledge, hitherto referred to as ‘SOK’ is committed to your privacy. This privacy notice explains our collection, use, disclosure, retention, and protection of your personal information.

 

Scope

This privacy notice applies to any SOK website, application, service, or tool (collectively “Services”) where this privacy notice is referenced, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices.

We may amend this privacy notice at any time by posting the amended version on this site including the effective date of the amended version. We will announce any material changes to this privacy notice via our websites.

 

Personal Information we Collect

Personal Information is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

We do not consider personal information to include information that has been anonymized or aggregated so that it can no longer be used to identify a specific natural person, whether in combination with other information or otherwise.

We collect personal information from you when you use our Services.

 

Learn More: Personal Information We Collect

We collect personal information from you when you: place an order with us, provide us information on a web form, update or add information to your account, or when you otherwise correspond with us.

The provision of all other personal information is voluntary, but may be necessary in order to use our Services, such as the video playback features of our online portal or shipping of a USB drive.

We may also collect personal information from other sources, as described below.

Personal information you give us when you use our Services or register for an account with us:

• Identifying information such as your name, addresses, telephone numbers or email addresses when you register for an account with us
• Information you provide during a transaction, or other transaction-based content that you generate or that is connected to your account as a result of a transaction you are involved in
• Other content that you generate, or that is connected to your account (such as adding items to your cart, adding items to your Watch List, creating playlists, and interacting with other users)
• Financial information (such as credit card or bank account numbers) in connection with a transaction
• Postage, billing and other information used to purchase or send an item, as well as, where shipping services are provided through one of our programs, information required to clear customs (such as Tax ID or other identification numbers) and relevant postage information (such as tracking numbers and tracking updates)
• You may also provide us other information through a web form, by updating or adding information to your account or when you otherwise communicate with us regarding our Services

Personal information you give us when you use our Services or register for an account with us

• We may collect information about your interaction with our Services, your advertising preferences, and your communications with us. This is information we receive from devices (including mobile devices) you use when you access our Services. This information could include the following: Device ID or unique identifier, device type, ID for advertising, and unique device token
• Computer and connection information such as statistics on your page views, traffic to and from the sites, referral URL, ad data, your IP address, your browsing history, and your web log information
• If you give us personal information about someone else, you must do so only with that person’s authorization. You should inform them how we collect, use, disclose, and retain their personal information according to our privacy notice

How we use your personal information:

We use your personal information to provide and improve our Services, contact you about your account and our Services, and to detect, prevent, mitigate and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities.

We use the personal information we collect from you for a range of different business purposes and according to different legal bases of processing. The following is a summary of how and according to which legal bases we use your personal information.

We use your personal information to fulfill a contract with you and provide you with our Services, to comply with our legal obligation, protect your vital interest, or as may be required for the public good. This includes:

• To provide payment processing and account management, operate, measure and improve our Services, keep our Services safe, secure and operational.
• To contact you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed or as otherwise necessary to provide you customer service
  • When contacting you for such purposes as outlined above, we may contact you via email, telephone, SMS, etc.
• To provide other services requested by you as described when we collect the information
• To prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraud, security breaches or other potentially prohibited or illegal activities

We use your personal information to pursue our legitimate interests where your rights and freedoms do not outweigh these interests. We have implemented controls to balance our interests with your rights. This includes to:

• We may collect information about your interaction with our Services, your advertising preferences, and your communications with us. This is information we receive from devices (including mobile devices) you use when you access our Services.
• Improve our Services, for example by reviewing information associated with stalled or crashed pages experienced by users allowing us to identify and fix problems and give you a better experience
• You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

 

Ways you can access, control, and correct your personal information

We use your personal information to provide and improve our Services, contact you about your account. We respect your right to access, correct, request deletion or request restriction of our usage of your personal information as required by applicable law. We also take steps to ensure that the personal information we collect is accurate and up to date.

• You have the right to know what personal information we maintain about you
• We will provide you with a copy of your personal information on request
• If your personal information is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to ask us to update it
• You have the right to object to our processing of your personal information
• You can also ask us to delete or restrict how we use your personal information, but this right is determined by applicable law and may impact your access to some of our Services

Access, correction, and deletion of your personal information

You can see, review and change most of your personal information by signing in to your account. Please, update your personal information immediately if it changes or is inaccurate.
We will honor any statutory right you might have to access, modify or erase your personal information. To request access and to find out whether any fees may apply, if permitted by applicable national laws, please contact us following the instructions in the Contact Us section below. Where you have a statutory right to request access or request the modification or erasure of your personal information, we can still withhold that access or decline to modify or erase your personal information in some cases in accordance with applicable national laws.

If you request that we stop processing some or all of your personal information or you withdraw (where applicable) your consent for our use or disclosure of your personal information for purposes set out in this privacy notice, we might not be able to provide you all of the Services and customer support offered to our users and authorized under this privacy notice.

Upon your request, we will close your account and remove your personal information from view as soon as reasonably possible, based on your account activity and in accordance with applicable national laws.

 

How we might share your personal information

We may disclose your personal information to other SOK affiliated third parties. This disclosure may be required for us to provide you access to our Services, to comply with our legal obligations, or to prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate fraudulent or illegal activities related to our Services. We attempt to minimize the amount of personal information we disclose to what is directly relevant and necessary to accomplish the specified purpose. We do not sell, rent, or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties for their marketing and advertising purposes.

We may disclose your personal information to the following parties for the following purposes:

SOK and its affiliated third parties may use it to:

• Provide joint content and services (like registration, transactions, and customer support)
• Help detect, investigate, mitigate and prevent potentially fraudulent and illegal acts, and data security breaches

Service Providers and financial institutions as follows:

• Third party service providers who help us to provide our Services, payment processing services, to assist us with the prevention, detection, mitigation, and investigation of potentially illegal acts, fraud and/or security breaches, bill collection, and other business operations.
• Third party shipping providers (e.g., DHL, UPS, USPS, etc.) with whom we share delivery address, contact information and shipment tracking information for the purposes of facilitating the delivery of items purchased and other delivery related communications

Law enforcement, legal proceedings, and as authorized by law:

• To comply with our legal requirements, or protect anyone’s rights, property or safety
• To law enforcement or governmental agencies, or authorized third-parties, in response to a verified request or legal process relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity or any other activity that exposes us, you, or any other of our users to legal liability.
• To third parties involved in a legal proceeding, if they provide us with a subpoena, court order or substantially similar legal basis, or we otherwise believe in good faith that the disclosure of information is necessary to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss or to report suspected illegal activity

We may disclose your personal information to Payment Technology Solutions, Merchants Choice Payment Systems, Elite Merchant Solutions, Woodforest Bank, Authorize.Net, SwipeSimple and their corporate families

• To prevent, detect, mitigate, and investigate potentially illegal acts, fraud and/or security breaches, and to assess and manage risk
• To facilitate the processing of payment cards when you pay within our Services with a payment card and we use one or more of the following companies (Payment Technology Solutions, Merchants Choice Payment Systems, Elite Merchant Solutions, Woodforest Bank, Authorize.Net and SwipeSimple) to process your payment

 

Change of ownership

If we are subject to a merger or acquisition with/by another company, we may share information with them in accordance with our global privacy standards. Should such an event occur, we will require that the new combined entity follow this privacy notice with respect to your personal information. If we intend to handle your personal information for any purposes not covered in this privacy notice, you will receive prior notification of the processing of your personal information for the new purposes.

 

How long we keep your personal information

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, and enforcing our policies.

How long we retain personal information can vary significantly based on context of the Services we provide and on our legal obligations. The following factors typically influence retention periods:

• How long is the personal information needed to provide our Services?
  This includes such things as maintaining and improving the performance of our products, keeping our systems secure, and maintaining appropriate business and financial records. This is the general rule that establishes the baseline for most of our data retention periods
• Is the personal information sensitive? If so, a shortened retention time is generally appropriate
• Have you provided consent for a longer retention period? If so, we will retain data in accordance with your consent
• Are we subject to a legal, contractual, or similar obligation to retain your personal information? Examples can include mandatory data retention laws in the applicable jurisdiction, government orders to preserve data relevant to an investigation, or personal information retained for the purposes of litigation

After it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner according to our data retention and deletion policies.

 

Cookies & Similar Technologies

When you visit or interact with our sites, services, applications, tools or messaging, we or our authorized service providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to help provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience, and for advertising and marketing purposes.

How do we protect your personal information

We protect your personal information using technical and administrative security measures to reduce the risks of loss, misuse, or unauthorized access. Some of the safeguards we use are firewalls, data encryption, and information access authorization controls.

Other important privacy information

This section describes some additional privacy information related to your use of our Services that you may find important.

Children’s Privacy

Our websites are general audience websites and not intended for children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from users deemed to be children under their respective national laws.

Third Party Privacy Practices

This privacy notice addresses only our use and handling of personal information we collect from you in connection with providing you our Services. If you disclose your information to a third party, or visit a third party website via a link from our Services, their privacy notices and practices will apply to any personal information you provide to them or they collect from you.

We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your personal information once you provide it to a third party and we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your personal information.

Contact Us

If you have a question or a complaint about this privacy notice, or our information handling practices, you can reach out to our headquarters in writing at: The Sound of Knowledge Inc, Attn: Legal – 3137 W. Tompkins Ave., Las Vegas, Nevada 89103, USA.

Your right to file complaints with a data protection supervisory authority remains unaffected.