Privacy Policy

Online Privacy Policy

Welcome to The Culture Think Tank. These terms and conditions outline the rules and regulations for the use of The Culture Think Tank website, located at www.theculturetinktank.com and www.culturethinktank.ai.

By accessing our website, product portals and community, we assume you accept these terms and conditions. Do not continue to use The Culture Think Tank or the Community if you do not agree to take all of the terms and conditions stated on this page.

The following terminology applies to these Terms and Conditions, Privacy Statement and Disclaimer Notice and all Agreements: "Client", "You" and "Your" refers to you, the person log on this website and compliant to the Company’s terms and conditions. "The Company", "Ourselves", "We", "Our" and "Us", refers to our Company. "Party", "Parties", or "Us", refers to both the Client and ourselves. All terms refer to the offer, acceptance and consideration of payment necessary to undertake the process of our assistance to the Client in the most appropriate manner for the express purpose of meeting the Client’s needs in respect of provision of the Company’s stated services, in accordance with and subject to, prevailing law of Netherlands. Any use of the above terminology or other words in the singular, plural, capitalization and/or he/she or they, are taken as interchangeable and therefore as referring to same.

Cookies

We employ the use of cookies. By accessing The Culture Think Tank, you agree to use cookies in agreement with The Culture Think Tanks policies. Most interactive websites use cookies to let us retrieve the user’s details for each visit. Cookies are used by our website to enable the functionality of certain areas to make it easier for people visiting our website. Some of our affiliate/advertising partners may also use cookies.

PRIVACY POLICY

License

Unless otherwise stated, The Culture Think Tank owns the intellectual property rights for all material on www.theculturethinktank.com and www.culturethinktank.ai. All intellectual property rights are reserved. You may access this from The Culture Think Tank for your own personal use subjected to restrictions set in these terms and conditions.

You must not:

  • Republish material from The Culture Think Tank
  • Sell, rent or sub-license material from The Culture Think Tank
  • Reproduce, duplicate or copy material from The Culture Think Tank
  • Redistribute content from The Culture Think Tank

This Agreement shall begin on the date the document was issued or updated. Our Terms and Conditions were created with the help of the Terms & Conditions Generator Terms And Conditions Generator and the Privacy Policy Generator.

Parts of this website offer an opportunity for users to post and exchange opinions and information in certain areas of the website. The Culture Think Tank dos not filter, edit, publish or review Comments prior to their presence on the website. Comments do not reflect the views and opinions of The Culture Think Tank or their agents and/or affiliates. Comments reflect the views and opinions of the person who post their views and opinions. To the extent permitted by applicable laws, The Culture Think Tank shall not be liable for the Comments or for any liability, damages or expenses caused and/or suffered as a result of any use of and/or posting of and/or appearance of the Comments on this website.

The Culture Think Tank reserves the right to monitor all Comments and to remove any Comments which can be considered inappropriate, offensive or causes breach of these Terms and Conditions.

You warrant and represent that:

  • You are entitled to post the Comments on our website and have all necessary licenses and consents to do so;
  • The Comments do not invade any intellectual property right, including without limitation copyright, patent or trademark of any third party;
  • The Comments do not contain any defamatory, libelous, offensive, indecent or otherwise unlawful material which is an invasion of privacy
  • The Comments will not be used to solicit or promote business or custom or present commercial activities or unlawful activity.

You hereby grant The Culture Think Tank a non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, edit and authorize others to use, reproduce and edit any of your Comments in any and all forms, formats or media.

Hyperlinking to our Content

The following organizations may link to our Website without prior written approval:

  • Government agencies
  • Search engines
  • News organizations
  • Online directory distributors may link to our Website in the same manner as they hyperlink to the Websites of other listed businesses and
  • System-wide Accredited Businesses except soliciting non-profit organizations, charity shopping malls, and charity fundraising groups which may not hyperlink to our Web site.

These organizations may link to our home page, to publications or to other Website information so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products and/or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

We may consider and approve other link requests from the following types of organizations:

  • Commonly-known consumer and/or business information sources
  • Dot.com community sites
  • associations or other groups representing charities
  • online directory distributors
  • internet portals
  • accounting, law and consulting firms and
  • educational institutions and trade associations.

We will approve link requests from these organizations if we decide that: (a) the link would not make us look unfavorably to ourselves or to our accredited businesses; (b) the organization does not have any negative records with us; (c) the benefit to us from the visibility of the hyperlink compensates the absence of Connect2Metrics; and (d) the link is in the context of general resource information.

These organizations may link to our home page so long as the link: (a) is not in any way deceptive; (b) does not falsely imply sponsorship, endorsement or approval of the linking party and its products or services; and (c) fits within the context of the linking party’s site.

If you are one of the organizations listed above and are interested in linking to our website, you must inform us by sending an e-mail to The Culture Think Tank. Please include your name, your organization name, contact information as well as the URL of your site, a list of any URLs from which you intend to link to our Website, and a list of the URLs on our site to which you would like to link. Wait 2-3 weeks for a response.

Approved organizations may hyperlink to our Website as follows:

  • By use of our corporate name or
  • By use of the uniform resource locator being linked to or
  • By use of any other description of our Website being linked to that makes sense within the context and format of content on the linking party’s site.

No use of TCTT 's logo, other artwork or digital images will be allowed for linking absent a trademark license agreement.

iFrames

Without prior approval and written permission, you may not create frames around our Webpages that alter in any way the visual presentation or appearance of our Website.

Content Liability

We shall not be held responsible for any TCTT content that appears on your Website. You agree to protect and defend us against all claims that is rising on your Website. No link(s) should appear on any Website that may be interpreted as libelous, obscene or criminal, or which infringes, otherwise violates, or advocates the infringement or other violation of, any third-party rights.

Your Privacy

Please read Privacy Policy below.

Refunds, Returns & Exchanges

See Product Purchase Agreement (link)

Reservation of Rights

We reserve the right to request that you remove all links or any particular link to our Website. You approve to immediately remove all links to our Website upon request. We also reserve the right to amen these terms and conditions and it’s linking policy at any time. By continuously linking to our Website, you agree to be bound to and follow these linking terms and conditions.

Removal of links from our website

If you find any link on our Website that is offensive for any reason, you are free to contact and inform us any moment. We will consider requests to remove links but we are not obligated to or so or to respond to you directly.

We do not ensure that the information on this website is correct, we do not warrant its completeness or accuracy; nor do we promise to ensure that the website remains available or that the material on the website is kept up to date.

Disclaimer

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury
  • limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation
  • limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law or
  • exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature.

Privacy Policy

The Culture Think Tank may be referred to herein as "TCTT,” "WE" OR "US," whether in uppercase, lowercase, or combination.

Thank You for accessing or having accessed any TCTT sites, products, services, offerings, content or community by way of the internet sites located at www.theculturethinktank.com or www.culturethinktank.ai or by way of a mobile device, smart-phone, tablet, reader, application or app, software, tangible Content medium, ) Facebook, X, LinkedIn, a video service (such as YouTube or Vimeo), or any other device or method now known or developed in the future (individually and collectively, “the,” “any,” or “an” “TCTT Platform”).

This Privacy Policy details certain policies implemented throughout every TCTT Platform governing the use of personally identifiable information about users of our various Platforms and users of services available on or through each TCTT Platform (the "Services"). Notwithstanding anything herein, including the use of the phrase “any” or “every TCTT Platform or Website.

PRIVACY POLICY UPDATES

TCTT may make changes to the Privacy Policy, any TCTT Platform, Content, Services Products or Community at any time. The latest Privacy Policy will be posted or be available via www.theculturethinktank.com - you agree that you should always review it prior to using any TCTT Platform, Content or Services.

Because of the rapidly evolving nature of the internet, computers, mobile technologies, other technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI), in our attempts to make our user experience better, and for other aesthetic and business reasons, TCTT may change, update and modify the Privacy Policy from time to time.

TCTT will post its updated Privacy Policy at www.theculturethinktank.com so you may always be aware of what has changed. If any modification is unacceptable to you, you shall cease using the TCTT Platform, Content, and Service right away. If you do not cease using the TCTT Platform, Content, and Services, you will be conclusively deemed to have accepted the change(s). Except as stated elsewhere, any amended Privacy Policy shall automatically be effective as soon as it is initially posted and/or sent to registered Users, except if TCTT states that it is giving advance notice of any amended term to be effective on a date in the future.

Please check the Privacy Policy and any guidelines periodically for changes. Except as posted by TCTT to the www.theculturethinktank.com sites or other aspects of any TCTT Platform, this Privacy Policy may not be otherwise amended, and no term may be waived by TCTT, except in a writing, hand signed by pen on paper (or as set forth below) by you and an authorized representative of TCTT. For purposes of this provision, a "writing" does not include an email message, text, chat, or the like, sent from any device existing now or later developed and a signature does not include an electronic signature.

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

You can generally visit an TCTT Platform without revealing any personally identifiable information about yourself. However, in certain sections of an TCTT Platform and when you use our Services, including as a subscriber, we may invite you to contact us with questions or comments or request information, provide or upload documents and other Content (for example, links to your blog), contact us with feedback, participate in surveys, questionnaires, or contests, recommend or rate Content, or complete a registration form. Due to the nature of some of these activities, we may collect personally identifiable information that you submit, such as your email address, credit card information, gender, school, photo, age, phone number, postal address, city, and occupation. We may also collect additional personally identifiable information that You voluntarily include in Your profile or Your blog or transmit with Your communications to us.

If you are a registered user, you may be able to send a request to add friends to your network and send them messages and we may collect their personally identifiable information that you use to contact them and other users may be able to view who has posted (for registered users), recommended, or rated certain Content or documents and may be able to comment on or rate the documents and other Content you have posted to the Site (if they are registered users).

Additionally, other users may be able to view information about the documents you have posted, such as the most recently posted documents and highest rated documents and we and other users may modify the tags or categories of the documents and other Content You have posted to an TCTT Platform (which will be associated with your username if You are a registered user).

We may use your personally identifiable information to register you to use a TCTT Platform or Services; to deliver certain services; to provide notices regarding services or documents you have purchased or licensed; to verify your authority to enter or utilize a TCTT Platform or Service; to improve the Content and general administration of an TCTT Platform and our Services and display targeted advertising on or through an TCTT Platform; and to contact you, including by email or telephone.

We may use your email address, physical address, telephone number, and TCTT messaging system to contact you, without further consent, for administrative communications, to address copyright infringement or defamation or other violations, or to contact you regarding your membership, subscription, or any Content that You have posted to or downloaded from the Site.

Users will receive TCTT registration emails when they register, Ask or Ask TCTT personnel will receive communications relating to your questions or request, Users may receive updates and notices about questions they are asking or answering, other posts, your accounts, and new features and policies; these communications are considered part and parcel of your service and You may not be able to opt out of them.

TCTT may contact you about new services, special offers, promotions, and third-party / affiliate offers, and will include in any such emails an opt-out link by which you can opt out of receiving such emails. Our customer care and other departments may contact you and referral participants to attempt to address your satisfaction with surveys and/or to ask how we can improve.

TCTT or its agents may contact you, including by telephone or email, including after your TCTT account has terminated or expired, and your agreement to the Terms constitutes your request that TCTT contact and communicate with you, including by traditional mail, private courier, certified mail, telephone (land/ mobile), email, texts, or through social media such as Facebook, X, Google, YouTube, Vimeo, and various blogs.

We may use and disclose your information if we believe, in good faith, that it is appropriate or necessary to take precautions against liability; to protect TCTT from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; to investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims or allegations; to assist government enforcement agencies; to protect the security or integrity of an TCTT Platform; or to protect the rights, property, or personal safety of TCTT, our Users, or others. We may disclose User information to affiliated companies or other businesses or persons to provide website hosting, maintenance, and security services; fulfill orders; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; and assist us in improving the TCTT Platforms and Services, and in creating new services and features.

 CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

TCTT recognizes the privacy interests of children and we encourage parents and guardians to take an active role in their children's online activities and interests. No TCTT Platform is intended for children under the age of 13. TCTT does not target its Services or Platforms to children under 13. TCTT does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

IF YOU ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE, PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS ANY TCTT PLATFORM AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER. IF TCTT LEARNS THAT PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION OF PERSONS LESS THAN 13 YEARS OF AGE HAS BEEN COLLECTED ON OR THROUGH AN TCTT PLATFORM, TCTT WILL TAKE THE APPROPRIATE STEPS TO DELETE THIS INFORMATION.

IF YOU ARE THE PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN OF A CHILD THE AGE OF 13 WHO HAS BECOME A TCTT SUBSCRIBER, THEN PLEASE CONTACT TCTT AT community(at)theculturethinktank (dot) com TO HAVE THAT CHILD'S ACCOUNT TERMINATED AND INFORMATION DELETED. THE FOLLOWING ARE SOME RESOURCES THAT MAY HELP PARENTS AND LEGAL GUARDIANS IN MONITORING AND LIMITING YOUR CHILDREN’S ACCESS TO CERTAIN TYPES OF MATERIAL ON THE INTERNET. WHILE C2M DOES NOT ENDORSE THESE SITES, SERVICES, OR PRODUCTS, AND DISCLAIMS ANY RESPONSIBILITY IN CONNECTION WITH THEM, WE PROVIDE INFORMATION ABOUT THEM AS A PUBLIC SERVICE.

OnGuard Online, maintained by the Federal Trade Commission:

WiredSafety
Netsmartz.org
The Child Safety Network
Control KIDS
CyberSitter
NetNanny
COOKIES, PIXELS, AND WEB BEACONS

When You use or access an TCTT Platform, we may use small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters called cookies to improve overall Site experience, among other things. A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's hard drive or browser containing information about the user. Information from cookies alone generally do not provide us with information to personally identify you.

TCTT may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie generally disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits to an TCTT Platform or other web sites. Persistent cookies can generally be removed by you. Please review your web browser "Help" file to learn the proper way to modify Your cookie settings and to remove cookies.

We may also use pixels or web beacons on our Platform and in emails that we send to you. (eg API Web Beacons.) We may collect information regarding your activity on a particular web-page, pages visited, searches performed, documents and profiles viewed, documents downloaded, documents uploaded, reviews, and comments made.

 INFORMATION

When you access a TCTT Platform or open one of our HTML emails, we may automatically record certain information from you or your system by using different types of tracking technology, including server logs. This "automatically" information may include Internet Protocol address ("IP Address"), a unique device or user ID, version of software installed, system type, browser used, the Content and pages that You access on or through an TCTT Platform, the dates and times that you visit an TCTT Platform, documents and other Content that you searched for, viewed, uploaded, downloaded, printed, emailed, saved, the documents You have started to complete or did complete using ALL Complete (aka TCTT Custom Documents), messages sent to and received from TCTT and other TCTT users using the TCTT messaging system, as well as any questions you might have asked and answers you might have received using the ASK or ASK TCTT Service, as well as advertisements that You moused over or clicked on, and information from your Facebook account that You make publicly available, which is provided to us by Facebook via the Facebook application programming interface (“API”). Like most websites, our servers automatically record the page requests made when you visit our TCTT Platform sites. These "server logs" typically include your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of Your request, and one or more cookies that may uniquely identify Your browser.

 AGGREGATE INFORMATION

A TCTT Platform may track the total number of visitors to a TCTT Platform, the number of visitors to each page of a TCTT Platform, browser or device type, and IP addresses, and we may analyze this data for trends and statistics in the aggregate, but such information will be maintained, used, and disclosed in aggregate form only and it will not contain personally identifiable information. We may use such aggregate information to analyze trends, administer a TCTT Platform, track users' movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.

DISCLOSURE

We may provide your personally identifiable information and the data generated by cookies, web beacons, logs, and the aggregate information to the vendors and service agencies that we may engage to assist us in providing our Platforms, Services, advertising, and any other product and/or service to You. Such third-party entities may be obligated to use your personally identifiable information to provide the services to us.

We will disclose your personally identifiable information if we reasonably believe we are required to do so by law, regulation or in cooperation with any governmental investigation, including upon receipt of what we believe may be a valid subpoena, whether issued by a Court that has jurisdiction over TCTT or not. (Please note that TCTT reserves the absolute right to assert that only the Federal District Court of the State of Kansas, and the Johnson County Superior Court have jurisdiction over TCTT, and subpoenas from outside these two jurisdictions must be "domesticated," though we are not obligated to do so.) We will not sell your personally identifiable information to any company or organization; however, we may transfer your personally identifiable information to a successor entity upon a merger, consolidation, or other corporate reorganization in which TCTT participates or to a purchaser of all or substantially all of TCTT’s assets to which an TCTT Platform or Service relates.

 PROFILE INFORMATION

When you create a TCTT account, some information about your account and your account activity may be provided to other TCTT users. This may include the date you opened your account, the date you last logged into your account, your age (if you choose to make it public), and the number of documents you have downloaded and, what you have downloaded and uploaded, and what you have viewed, and TCTT may view the Content of those documents.

Your TCTT account name, not your email address, may be displayed to other users when you engage in certain activities on an TCTT Platform. Other users may be able to contact You by using the TCTT messaging system or by commenting on an TCTT Platform. Any documents that you submit may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels and may be viewed by other TCTT users or the general public.

You may also choose to add personal information, which may include your name, gender, profile picture, or other details, such as company name and your job title, that may be visible to other users on your TCTT account page. We may provide your company name and your job title (if you elected to complete those sections of your user profile) to third parties, such as advertising networks and other companies.

LINKS TO THIRD-PARTY SITES/OPT-OUT FOR NON-PII COLLECTION FOR NETWORK SERVICES

We use third-party advertising companies and advertising networks to serve advertisements to you on our behalf when you visit our Website, and to optimize advertisements. These, and other companies may use information (typically not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number, but sometimes including Your company name and job title gathered from your TCTT profile information) about your visits to an TCTT Platform and other Websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to You, as well as to provide us with information that is intended to make our Platforms and Services better, and for other business reasons. They, or we, may do this by using cookies, pixels, and web beacons, among other things.

Although we may attempt to contractually limit what third-party advertising companies and networks do, we have no ability to monitor or control what they do. In the past, some advertising companies and networks have been sued for allegedly using what are called “local shared objects” or “re-spawning cookies. Although we attempt to contractually require that these companies shall always allow the end-user (you) to easily and completely uninstall any means of tracking the end-user without regenerating the means of such tracking, we cannot assure that this will occur and, therefore, you consent to these types of practices.

If you would like more information about what many advertising companies and advertising networks do and to know some of Your choices about not having this information used by the companies that are member of the Network Advertising Initiative, please visit Network Advertising Initiative. We cannot assure that all of our third-party advertising companies and advertising networks are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, or that they comply with the policies of the Network Advertising Initiative.

SECURITY

We may employ procedural and technological security measures that are reasonably designed to help protect Your personally identifiable information from loss, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. TCTT may use encryption, password protection, and other security measures to help prevent unauthorized access to Your personally identifiable information.

YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE SECRECY OF YOUR UNIQUE PASSWORD AND ACCOUNT INFORMATION AT ALL TIMES. WE CANNOT, HOWEVER, ENSURE OR WARRANT THE SECURITY OF ANY INFORMATION YOU TRANSMIT TO US, AND YOU DO SO AT YOUR OWN RISK. ONCE WE RECEIVE YOUR TRANSMISSION OF INFORMATION, WE MAKE COMMERCIALLY REASONABLE EFFORTS TO ENSURE THE SECURITY OF OUR SYSTEMS. HOWEVER, PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS NOT A GUARANTEE THAT SUCH INFORMATION MAY NOT BE ACCESSED, DISCLOSED, ALTERED, OR DESTROYED BY BREACH OF ANY OF OUR PHYSICAL, TECHNICAL, OR MANAGERIAL SAFEGUARDS. IF WE LEARN OF A SECURITY SYSTEMS BREACH, THEN WE MAY ATTEMPT TO NOTIFY YOU ELECTRONICALLY SO THAT YOU CAN TAKE APPROPRIATE PROTECTIVE STEPS. WE MAY POST A NOTICE ON A TCTT PLATFORM IF A SECURITY BREACH OCCURS. DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU LIVE, YOU MAY HAVE A LEGAL RIGHT TO RECEIVE NOTICE OF A SECURITY BREACH IN WRITING.

CORRECTION/UPDATING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION

TCTT provides you with the ability to review, correct, and delete any of your user profile. Information you post in other areas of a TCTT Platform cannot be deleted. If you wish to review or correct any profile information, you have provided to us, you may submit a request to us at the contact email below or access your account online.

EMAIL OPT-OUT / UNSUBSCRIBE

TCTT may contact you for a variety of reasons, including about investor updates, culture research/ insights/ trends, new services, special offers, promotions, and third-party / affiliate offers, and will attempt to always include in any such emails an opt-out link by which you can opt out of receiving such emails.

You have several methods to opt-out from the TCTT mailing list: (1) Click on the unsubscribe URL provided near the bottom of the footer found in the TCTT email you received, (2) Send an email from the email address where you receive emails from us to community(at)theculturethinktank.com, with “Unsubscribe” or “Stop” in the subject line, (3) revise your marketing contact preferences after logging in and going to the TCTT MyAccount area. Following receipt of your request, TCTT will endeavor to honor your request within 10 days.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy please contact us via email at community (at) theculturethinktank (dot) com with “Privacy Policy Question” in the subject line.

This Privacy Policy was last updated January 01, 2024 with non-material clarification edits.