Privacy Policy



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The following Privacy Statement summarizes the various ways that North Coast Media, LLC (“NCM”) treats the information you provide while using  www.northcoastmedia.net or any other NCM site. It is our goal to bring you information that is tailored to your individual needs and, at the same time, protect your privacy. This Privacy Statement does not cover information collected elsewhere, including offline and on sites linked to or from any of our sites. 

Please read this Privacy Statement carefully. Your use of, accessing, and/or registration on any aspect of our sites will constitute your agreement to this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to these terms, please do not use our sites. If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by e-mail at privacy@northcoastmedia.net 

In addition to reviewing this Privacy Policy, please read our Terms of Use. Your use of our sites constitutes agreement to its terms and conditions as well. 

This Privacy Statement may be modified from time to time; the date of the most recent revisions will appear on this page, so check back often. Any change, update or modification we make will be effective immediately upon posting on our site(s). If we are going to be using the information collected from users in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection, we will send affected users written notice of the change by e-mail. Continued access of our sites by you will constitute your acceptance of any changes or revisions to the Privacy Statement. 

Collection of Personal Information

In general, you may visit our sites without identifying yourself or revealing any personal information. 

As you browse our sites, we collect log file, IP address of your computer, and other standard tracking data we use to evaluate site traffic and usage patterns. 

Such information is aggregated with tracking data from all site visitors. We may use the information to personalize our sites according to your preferences based on the aggregated information. We also use the aggregated information to evaluate products and services we may offer to you. These products and services may be targeted to users who fit a certain general profile category, which may be inferred from information provided to us by a user, may be based on usage patterns of particular users, or may be based on your activity. We do not provide Personal Information to any ad networks for use other than in connection with the Services. 

Portions of our sites may require you to give us personally identifiable information, such as your name, job title, company, physical mailing address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers and, if applicable, financial information such as your credit card information, for, among other purposes: 

(i) registration for attendance at certain NCM trade shows, conferences, webinars and events; 

(ii) subscriptions to our publications, including e-newsletters; 

(iii) promotions from NCM for webinars, books, editorial content, advertiser opportunities, etc.; and from third-party marketing partners; and 

(iv) use of our websites, including customized content, quizzes, surveys, contest entries and feedback submission. 

If you communicate with us by e-mail, post messages to any of our websites or forums, or otherwise complete online forms, surveys or contest entries, any information provided in such communications may be collected as personal information. You always have the option not to provide the information we request. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of our sites, but you may be unable to access certain options and services. 

If you elect to provide us personal information, we use it to deliver the services you’ve requested and carefully selected related materials. If you submit financial information, we use that information to verify your credit and collect payments for your purchases, orders, registrations, etc.

 Webinar/LeadGen Privacy Statement

By signing up to attend this webinar/download this content you agree to our terms and conditions and privacy policy.  By continuing, you agree that North Coast Media may contact you with updates about our relative products and services including those of our carefully selected partners.  You can opt out of receiving these messages at any time by clicking unsubscribe or contacting us.  You can find more information in our privacy policy.   

Personal and Financial Information Sharing

We may share your personal information with our affiliates and with our partners, including our exhibitors, sponsors and advertisers, for marketing, advertising, and/or product/service offering purposes, and with others who are licensed to access your personal information by any of the foregoing. While we will seek to require all such third parties to follow appropriate privacy policies and will not authorize them to use this information except for the express purpose for which it is provided, NCM does not bear any responsibility for any actions or policies of third parties. 

If you do not wish to have your personally identifying information shared, or if you do not wish to receive future commercial communications from us by e-mail, you may unsubscribe or opt-out, as described below – see “Opt-Out Option.” 

We also allow access to our database by third parties that provide us with services, such as development services, but only for the purpose of and to the extent necessary to provide those services. 

In addition, we reserve the right to use the information we collect about your computer, which may at times be able to identify you, for any lawful business purpose, including to help diagnose problems with our servers, to gather broad demographic information, and to otherwise administer our sites, or if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on NCM or to protect and defend the rights or property of NCM, or to enforce our terms of service. 

In addition, as our business changes, we may buy or sell various assets. In the event all or a portion of the assets owned or controlled by NCM, or any subsidiary or affiliated entity, are sold, assigned, transferred or acquired by another company, the information from and about our sites’ users may be among the transferred assets.

Aggregated Information

While your personally identifying information is protected as outlined above, we reserve the right to use, transfer, sell, and share aggregated, anonymous data about our users as a group for any business purpose, such as analyzing usage trends and seeking compatible advertisers and partners. 

Information on Children

As a business-to-business company, we have created and maintain sites that are not intended for use by children, particularly those under age 13, and we do not knowingly collect information from children. On-line registration and website usage is restricted to adults who are professionally engaged in the businesses we serve. No one under age 13 is allowed to provide any personal information or use any public discussion areas, forums and chats comprising part of our sites. Minors between the ages of 13 and 17 must get the permission of their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) before making purchases, including subscriptions, on our sites. In the event that we learn we have collected any personal information from a child under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information from our database as quickly as possible. 

Updating Personal Information

Many of our Site functions (but not all) provide you with the option of correcting, updating and modifying your personal and/or financial information, or visitor profile, at any time and as often as desired. The only item of information you cannot change is your username ID selected at registration. 

Right to Access Your Data: You can ask us for a copy of your personal data and we will comply with your request on an individual basis in a format suitable for the type of data requested. If you would like to submit a request, please contact us by e-mail at privacy@northcoastmedia.net. 

Third Party and Affiliated Links

Our sites may from time to time contain external links to other websites, including suppliers, advertisers and affiliates. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the content of, or information gathered by, these other websites. We do not endorse any of these websites or the products or services associated with such websites merely because they are linked to any of our sites. In addition, users of our sites should also be aware that, when you voluntarily disclose personal information in chat areas or bulletin boards, that information may be collected by others and may result in unsolicited messages from others. 

Cookies

Third party links 

This website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites and do not accept any liability in connection with their content. We recommend reviewing the privacy notice of each third-party site linked from this website to determine its use of your personal data. 

Cookie Policy 

We have developed this cookie policy (the “Cookie Policy”) to explain how we use cookies and similar technologies (together, “Cookies”) on this website and to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of your personal information. 

The first time that you visit our Website, we notify you about our use of Cookies through a notification banner. By continuing to use our Website, you consent to our use of Cookies as described in this Cookie Policy. However, you can choose whether or not to continue accepting Cookies at any later time. Information on how to manage Cookies is set out later in this Cookie Policy. 

What are Cookies? 

Cookies are small text files containing user IDs that are automatically placed on your computer or other device by when you visit a website. The Cookies are stored by the internet browser. The browser sends the Cookies back to the website on each subsequent visit, allowing the website to recognize your computer or device. This recognition enables the website provider to observe your activity on the website, deliver a personalized, responsive service and improve the website. 

Cookies can be ‘Session Cookies’ or ‘Persistent Cookies’. Session Cookies allow a website to link a series of your actions during one browser session, for example to remember the items you have added to a shopping basket. Session Cookies expire after a browser session and are therefore not stored on your computer or device afterwards. Persistent Cookies are stored on your computer or device between browser sessions and can be used when you make subsequent visits to the website, for example to remember your website preferences, such as language or font size. 

First and Third-Party Cookies 

The Cookies placed on your computer or device include ‘First Party’ Cookies, meaning Cookies that are placed there by us, or by third party service providers acting on our behalf. Where such Cookies are being managed by third parties, we only allow the third parties to use the Cookies for our purposes, as described in this Cookie Policy, and not for their own purposes. 

The Cookies placed on your computer or device may also include ‘Third Party’ Cookies, meaning Cookies that are placed there by third parties. These Cookies may include third party advertisers who display adverts on our Website and/or social network providers who provide ‘like’ or ‘share’ features. They may also include third parties who provide video content which is embedded on our Website (such as YouTube). Please see the website terms and policies of these third parties for further information on their use of Cookies. 

Managing Cookies 

You always have a choice over whether or not to accept Cookies. When you first visit the Website and we notify you about our use of Cookies, you can choose not to consent to such use. If you continue to use the Website, you are consenting to our use of Cookies for the time being. However, you can choose not to continue accepting Cookies at any later time. In this section, we describe ways to manage Cookies, including how to disable them. 

You can manage Cookies through the settings of your internet browser.  You can choose to block or restrict Cookies from being placed on your computer or device.  You can also review periodically review the Cookies that have been placed there and disable some or all of them. 

You can learn more about how to manage Cookies on the following websites: www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.com. 

Please be aware that if you choose not to accept certain Cookies, it may mean we are unable to provide you with some services or features of the Website. 

Opt-Out Option

Visitors to our sites can decide if they want to receive targeted promotional information from NCM or targeted promotional information sponsored by our marketing partners. Should visitors receive promotional e-mail from NCM, any e-mail that is sent will include instructions on how to be removed from our promotional email list. 

If you do not wish to have your personally identifying information shared, or if you do not wish to receive future commercial communications from us by e-mail, you may change your preferences at any time simply by: (i) writing to us (and please include your e-mail address), or (ii) by following the unsubscribe instructions contained within the e-mail you receive from us. We will update your preferences as soon as is reasonably practicable. If you have registered on any part of our sites, please use the mechanism on our sites that allows you to change or update your profile, preferences or information, if available, to keep all such data accurate and up to date. The only item of information you cannot change is your username ID selected at registration. 

Please note that if you opt-out as described above, we will not be able to remove your personal information from the databases of third parties with which we have already shared your personal information (i.e., to which we have provided your personal information prior to our receipt of your opt-out request). 

If you choose to remove yourself from our lists by opting-out as described above, we will make every reasonable effort to forward your opt-out request (including your e-mail address) to the specific third-party marketer whose offer you received from us prompting your opt-out or unsubscribe request, so that it can include your e-mail address on its own do-not-email list; however, NCM does not bear any responsibility for ensuring that any third party complies with your opt-out or unsubscribe request vis-à-vis its own lists. 

Security and Encryption

We use procedural and technical safeguards to protect your personal information against loss, theft or unauthorized access and disclosure to protect your privacy, including encryption, “firewalls” and Secure Socket Layers. We treat data as an asset that must be protected against loss and unauthorized access. We employ many different security techniques to protect such data from unauthorized access by users inside and outside the company. However, “perfect security” does not exist on the Internet. 

Privacy Statement Coordinator

If you have any questions regarding our privacy statement, please feel free to contact us by letter at the address below, or by e-mail at privacy@northcoastmedia.net. 

Where Californian privacy laws apply, the following additional provisions apply: 

What do we collect 

The information that we collect is set out in the main body of the Privacy Policy. We further detail it below in accordance with Californian privacy requirements in the section below. 

How we share your personal information is set out in the main body of the Privacy Policy. 

We further detail it below in accordance with Californian privacy requirements: 

The categories of personal information that we used, transferred, exchanged, or disclosed  (including to third parties as set out in the “Personal and Financial Information Sharing” with section of the Privacy Policy) about consumers during the preceding 12 months were:  (a)  identifiers; (b) personal information; (c) classification data; (d) commercial information; (e) internet activity; (f) geolocation data; and (g) inferences. 

The categories of personal information that we disclosed about consumers for a business purpose (including to secure our network and our websites, to conduct audits related to our current interactions with you, to debug the site and service, to perform services on behalf of ourselves, including servicing your account and providing you customer service and as set out in the “How and why we use personal information” section of the Privacy Policy) during the preceding 12 months were:  (a)  identifiers; (b) personal information; (c) classification data; (d) commercial information; (e) internet activity; (f) geolocation data; and (g) inferences. 

Tracking 

Please note that the do not track disclosures are covered in the main body of the Privacy Policy under “How and why personal information is used”. For information on how we and our partners use cookies and online tracking technologies when you visit our sites please visit our Cookie Policy in the Tracking Technologies section at the top of this page. 
 
Please note that you can also opt out of tracking by certain third parties through the mechanisms at http://youradchoices.com and https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices. 

As a California resident, you have the right: 

  • To request access to the personal information we have about you; 
  • To request that we delete personal information about you; 
  • To opt-out of our use, transfer, exchange or disclosure (including to third parties) of personal information about you; 
  • Not to be discriminated against based upon whether you decide to opt-out. 

To exercise the access, deletion, and opt-out rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request in writing to: 1360 E. 9th Street, 10th Floor, Cleveland, OH, 44114. 

We read every message submitted and try to reply promptly. 

North Coast Media, LLC 
1360 E. 9th St. 10th Floor 
Cleveland, OH 44114 
privacy@northcoastmedia.net 
© 2025 North Coast Media, LLC Privacy Statement 

Revised and Posted As Of: October 10th, 2025 

North Coast Media, LLC • Privacy Policy • © 2025