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NICO Corporation Privacy Policy

Effective Date:        1 November 2020

Please read this privacy policy carefully before using this site.

Thank you for visiting niconeuro.com (the “Web Site”) and reviewing our Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”). The Web Site is owned and operated by NICO Corporation (“we,” “us,” “our”). Your privacy is important to us, and our policy is simple: we will collect no personally identifiable information about you when you visit the Web Site unless you choose to provide that information. This Privacy Policy does not describe information collection practices on other sites, including those linked to or from the Web Site. Our Web Site provides these links as a convenience, and is not responsible for the contents or activities of any linked sites.

By using this site you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Please read the entire Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use before submitting any personally identifiable information. Except as written in any other disclaimers, policies, user agreements, terms of use or other notices, this Privacy Policy and the Terms of Use are the complete agreement between you and NICO Corporation with respect to your use of this site.

NICO Corporation reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time and for any reason. By accessing and using our Web Site after a change is made to the Privacy Policy, you agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy as revised. The last date this Policy was modified can be found at the end of the Policy. We encourage you to look at this Privacy Policy each time you visit the site and especially before you provide any personally identifiable information.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

We do not collect any personally identifiable information about you from our Web Site unless you voluntarily provide it. In some areas of the Web Site, we may give the option for you to provide us with personal information that will help us to provide you with information about our products and services, including your name, postal address, e-mail address, phone number, and other information from which your identity is discernible. For example, our Web Site may include places where you can opt in to receiving information from us via a sign up form. There are also links for registration to training courses. If you choose to use those links to register for a course you will be required to enter personally identifiable information.

NICO Corporation may monitor, collect, and store user population, traffic patterns, and other information about the online activities of its users on an aggregate basis. This includes information such as the domain names of users and browser types that visit our Web Site, and the time of day the Web Site was visited. We may collect this information through cookies or other tracking technology, such as web beacons. We may also use certain technologies to determine whether you have opened an email or clicked on a link within an email.

A cookie is a small piece of data that is stored in a browser-related file on your computer’s hard drive when you use the Web Site. Cookies are uniquely assigned to your computer, and are read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Our primary use of cookies is to improve your experience on our Web Site.

Most cookies expire within 24 hours, but you can refuse to accept these cookies by following your browser’s instructions at any time. Note, however, that if you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Web Site. You may also not receive advertising or other offers from us that are relevant to your interests and needs. For more information about cookies, and to learn how to disable cookies in your browser settings, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

Web beacons allow third parties to obtain information such as the IP address of the computer that downloaded the page on which the beacon appears, the URL of the page on which the beacon appears, the time the page containing the beacon was viewed, the type of browser used to view the page, etc.

With both cookies and other tracking technology, the information we collect and share is anonymous and not personally identifiable.

Personally Identifiable Information

When you voluntarily provide us with personally identifiable information, we will use that information for the purposes for which it was provided. In general, and except for the situations specifically described below, we do not share any information about you or your business with anyone without your express consent.

We may use the information you voluntarily provide to us to deliver to you information about our company, our Web Site, and the products and services we provide. For example, we may use your contact information in order to send you e-mail or other communications regarding new products or services we offer. Additionally, we may use your personal information to register you for a course and to communicate the details of that course with you. We may also use information you provide to tell you about carefully-screened products and services that we feel may be of interest to you.

Retention of Your Personal Data

NICO Corporation will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including personal data, is processed at NICO Corporation’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

NICO Corporation will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your personal data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personally identifiable information.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Except as outlined below, where required by applicable laws, we will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your consent.

Third Parties
We may disclose your personal information to our trusted third party business partners and service providers for a business purpose. For example, we sometimes share your personal information with our marketing service providers, who help us create targeted advertisements for products and services that may interest you.
Business Transactions
If NICO Corporation is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your personal data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law Enforcement
Under certain circumstances, NICO Corporation may be required to disclose your personal data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). For example, we may be required to share information to protect against fraud, in response to a court subpoena, and the like. As we continue to explore new business opportunities, we may need to, and we reserve the right to, transfer and assign customer contact and site usage information collected on the Web Site to one or more affiliated and unaffiliated entities as part of a business transaction. In all such situations, we stress the confidential nature of the information being shared.

Other Legal Requirements
NICO Corporation may disclose your personal data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • Comply with a legal obligation
  • Protect and defend the rights or property of NICO Corporation
  • Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Web Site
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the Web Site or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data
Our Web Site has industry standard security measures in place to protect the loss, misuse, unauthorized access, and alteration of the information under our control. We will take all reasonable steps to insure the safety of your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data. But we cannot guarantee the security of information provided over the internet, and we will not be responsible for breaches of security beyond our reasonable control. In particular, email sent to or from this site may not be secure.

We use a 3rd party Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform to store the personally identifiable information we collect through our sign up forms. We also use a 3rd party registration site to store the personally identifiable information of those who register for one of our courses. Both of these 3rd party vendors were carefully vetted and are respected as top performers in their industry. The privacy policy of our 3rd party CRM can be reviewed here: https://www.sendinblue.com/legal/privacypolicy/. The privacy policy of our 3rd party course registration vendor can be reviewed here: https://zoom.us/privacy-and-legal.

Processing of Your Personal Information

Service Providers have access to Your Personal Data only to perform their tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Email Marketing

We may use your personal data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.

We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to you.

Non-Personal Information

If you only read or download information on our site, we do not collect or learn your name, email address, home address or other personally identifiable information about you; however, certain non-personal or anonymous information may be passively collected (that is gathered without your actively providing the information) using various technologies, such as cookies. Your internet browser automatically transmits to this site some of this anonymous information. This can include data such as the URL of the web site you just came from, the browser version your computer is currently using, the date and time you access our site, etc. The cookies we use may be stored on your computer’s hard drive. The information we collect using cookies is non-personal information.

We will use non-personal information to help us make our site more useful to visitors and for other business purposes. We may prepare reports and other materials using non-personal information. Since these reports and materials contain no personal information, we may share them with others. All information that is not personal to you or someone else, such as questions, comments, and suggestions (collectively “feedback”) shall be deemed to be non-confidential, and NICO Corporation shall be free to disclose and use the same. By choosing to send a message to NICO Corporation, you acknowledge that all feedback will be considered to be non-confidential. NICO Corporation shall be free to reproduce, use, disclose, exhibit, display, transform, commercialize, create derivative works and distribute the feedback to others without limitation.

Further, NICO Corporation may not be prohibited from using any ideas, inventions, concepts, know-how or techniques contained in such feedback or anything else you send to NICO Corporation via the web site for purposes including but not limited to developing, manufacturing and marketing products incorporating such feedback.

Patient Information

We do not automatically collect your personal health information (PHI) on the Web Site. If you provide us with PHI or other personal information about other individuals, , you  acknowledge and agree that the individual or the individual’s personal representative is aware of the disclosure and that the individual or the individual’s personal representative consents to the disclosure as well as to our Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. By using this Web Site to provide PHI or other personal information about other individuals, you assume all liability for any claims or damages arising out of your unauthorized disclosure of PHI or other personal information to NICO Corporation.

Access, Correction and Deletion

To keep personally identifiable information that you provide via this site accurate, current and complete, please contact us via the email address or physical address specified below and we will take appropriate steps to update or correct such information in our possession, or to delete your information from our contact list. Before we are able to correct any inaccuracies or delete any information, we may ask you to confirm your identify and to provide other details to help us respond to your request.

Privacy of Children

We care about protecting the online privacy of children. This site is not intentionally designed for or directed at children 16 years of age or younger without obtaining prior consent from a person with parental responsibility. It is our policy to never knowingly collect or maintain information about anyone under the age of 16 (such as a child’s name or email address). If you think we have collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 16, please contact us.

Do Not Track Statement

Some browsers have incorporated “Do Not Track” (DNT) features. Most of these features, when turned on, send a signal or preference to the websites you visit indicating that you do not wish to be tracked. Those sites (or the 3rd party content on those sites) may continue to engage in activities you may view as tracking even though you have expressed this preference, depending on the sites’ privacy practices. Because there is not yet a common understanding of how to interpret the DNT signal, we do not currently respond to the browser DNT signals when you interact with our Web Site.

California Residents – Your Privacy Rights

Under California Civil Code Section 1798 (California’s Shine the Light law), California residents with an established business relationship with us can request information once a year about sharing their personal data with third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

If you’d like to request more information under the California Shine the Light law, you can contact us using the contact information provided below.

Under California Civil Code Section 1798, the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) grants California residents with additional rights regarding your personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

a.    The Right to Know What Information We Have Collected, Disclosed, and Sold

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months.

b.    The Right to Deletion of Personal Information

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:

    • Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.
    • Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.
    • Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.
    • Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.
    • Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 et. seq.).
    • Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.
    • Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.
    • Comply with a legal obligation.
    • Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.

c. The Right to Opt-Out of the sale of Personal Information to Third Parties

We do not sell Personal Information as defined by the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

d. The Right to Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:

    • Deny you goods or services.
    • Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.
    • Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.
    • Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.

e. Exercising Your CCPA Rights

We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to fulfilling the above requests. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for disclosure or deletion twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request 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.

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. However, we do consider requests made through your password protected account sufficiently verified when the request relates to personal information associated with that specific account.

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.

As an additional resource, you may also contact us at cs@NICOneuro.com for any additional questions related to the rights granted under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).

To exercise the right to disclosure and right to deletion as described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

  • Calling us at (317) 660-7118.
  • Emailing us at cs@NICOneuro.com.
  • Visiting www.niconeuro.com.

Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.

Nevada Residents – Your Privacy Rights

Under Nevada law, certain Nevada residents may opt out of the sale of “personally identifiable information” for monetary consideration to a person for that person to license or sell such information to additional persons. “Personally identifiable information” includes first and last name, address, email address, phone number, Social Security Number, or an identifier that allows a specific person to be contacted either physically or online.

We do not engage in such activity; however, if you are a Nevada resident who has purchased or leased goods or services from us, you may submit a request to opt out of any potential future sales under Nevada law by emailing privacyrequests@upwork.com. Please note we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity and the authenticity of the request. Once verified, we will maintain your request in the event our practices change.

International Privacy Rights

In limited circumstances, we may collect personal data of individuals outside of the United States, including, but not limited to, those who reside in Australia and Canada. Please read the section below to understand your rights under applicable international data privacy laws, including, but not limited to, the GDPR.

Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data
We may process personal data under the following conditions:

  • Consent: You have given your consent for processing personal data for one or more specific purposes.
  • Performance of a contract: Provision of personal data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof.
  • Legal obligations: Processing personal data is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which NICO Corporation is subject.
  • Vital interests: Processing personal data is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or of another natural person.
  • Public interests: Processing personal data is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in NICO Corporation.
  • Legitimate interests: Processing personal data is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by NICO Corporation.

In any case, NICO Corporation will gladly help to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in particular whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.

Your Rights

NICO Corporation undertakes to respect the confidentiality of your personal data and to guarantee you can exercise your rights.

You have the right under this Privacy Policy, and by law if you are within the EU, to:

  • Request access to your personal data. The right to access, update or delete the information we have on you. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion of your personal data directly within your account settings section. If you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact us to assist you. This also enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  •  Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. You have the right to have any incomplete or inaccurate information we hold about you corrected.
  •  Object to processing of your personal data. This right exists where we are relying on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for our processing and there is something about your particular situation, which makes you want to object to our processing of your personal data on this ground. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
  •  Request erasure of your personal data. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data when there is no good reason for us to continue processing it.
  •  Request the transfer of your personal data. We will provide to you, or to a third-party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
  • Withdraw your consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent on using your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide you with access to certain specific functionalities of the Web Site.

Exercising of Your Data Protection Rights

You may exercise your rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting us. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. If you make a request, we will try our best to respond to you as soon as possible.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your personal data. For more information, if you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please contact your local data protection authority in the EEA. A list of DPAs from the European Commission may be found here:

http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=50061.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 1 November 2020. We may update this policy from time to time as our information practices are modified or changed. If this Privacy Policy changes, the revised policy will be posted on this site. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices, especially before providing any personally identifiable information.

Contact Information

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or information security, you can contact customer service at cs@niconeuro.com. You can also inquire by US mail to NICO Corporation, 250 E. 96th Street, Suite 125, Indianapolis IN 46060. Additionally, we can be reached by phone at 317.660.7118 or 888.632.7071 ext. 111.