Privacy Policy

The Micah Group, Inc. (the “Company” or “we” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal data. The purpose of this policy is to provide you with information about what personal data we collect, why we collect it, how we use and handle it, how an individual could exercise his/her rights with regard to such personal data collected.

This policy also describes a point of contact within the Company where requests regarding an individual’s personal data and/or complaints about the Company’s handling of personal data can be directed and requests for information about how the Company is held accountable for safeguarding any personal data, should it be stored or transferred by the Company, will be handled.

I. HOW WE RECEIVE PERSONAL DATA & TYPES OF PERSONAL DATA RECEIVED

A. Ways in which We Receive Personal Data. The main avenue through which the Company receives personal data is through our dealings with our clients. In addition, we also receive personal data through the following sources:

Through our website (www.micah-group.com) (our “Website”), including, without limitation, your requests for information or subscriptions to our newsletters through the functionality of this Website;
Through your application for employment with the Company, whether written through written communication, email, our Website or our third party service provider(s);
In communications with our clients or potential clients, whether through written communication, email, text, telephone, or other electronic messages between an individual or his/her employer or business and the Company; or
Our third party providers and other business partners (including, without limitation, our marketing consultants).

B. Types of Personal Data. Your personal data that may be collected or processed by the Company includes:

first and last names;
address and past addresses;
phone number;
email address;
date of birth and/or age;
date of death;
sex/gender,
ethnicity and/or race;
payment information;
IP address;
non-academic titles, academic qualifications, and academic titles;
firm/business/employer name, organizational titles, and departments;
occupation;
work experience, including job titles, company names, and dates of employment;
education and education degree(s), including, majors, minors and dates of school attendance;
veteran status;
voluntary self-identification of disability;
financial information, such as that which could be used to process invoices and payments; and
any other information that might be used to identify you by another person.

C. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies. As you navigate through and/or interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website; and/or
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal data, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal data we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns;
Store information about your preferences;
Speed up your searches;
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see the Subsection entitled Individual Rights under the SECURITY, CHOICE AND ACCESS Section below.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Firm, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

We do not collect personal data automatically, but we may tie this information to personal data about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. Our Website does not support DNT codes, but our Website limits tracking to the internal uses described above. Except in the case of analytics cookies, remarketing and other features of Google Display Advertising described above, our website does not track your use across multiple websites, however, other websites to which we link may. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. Also, if you wish to opt out of interest-based advertising, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info to manage your preferences. Alternatively, if you are located in the European Union, you may visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/. Please note that you may continue to receive generic ads.

D. Children under the Age of 16. Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at privacy@micah-group.com.

III. DATA INTEGRITY AND PURPOSE LIMITATION (USES OF PERSONAL DATA)

The Company, generally, processes personal data for the purposes of promoting the Company in its marketplaces. We may also use personal data to allow individuals access to files and computer systems that are provided as part of our services or in connection with our business development, marketing, and accounting activities. Personal data is also and processed through the application for employment with the Company. We use that information in considering your application and for communicating with you about such application. Additionally, personal data may be utilized to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection purposes or to notify you of any changes to our business, our Website or any of services. Access to personal data is controlled pursuant to the Company’s Access Control Operating Procedures and applicable law.

IV. SECURITY, CHOICE, AND ACCESS

In the provision of technical services, the Company is acting as a data processor of client-controlled data. We may be a data controller with regard to personal data collected through our Website but our Website is intended for North American users only. If you are from outside North America, please do not contact us through our Website. You may contact us by mail at 605 US 169 North, Suite 220, Plymouth, MN 55441, Attn: Data Protection and Privacy Officer.

A. Individual Rights. In accordance with applicable law, the Company will facilitate an individual’s right to exercise his or her legal rights with regard to his or her personal information, such as a person’s (i) the right to access; (ii) the right to rectification; (iii) the right to erasure; (iv) the right to restrict processing; (v) the right to object to processing; (vi) the right to data portability; (vii) the right to withdraw consent and (viii) the right to lodge complaints. If you seek to exercise any such rights, please send your request by email to privacy@micah-group.com. You also have the right to lodge your complaints with the applicable legal authorities, including, without limitation, the applicable E.U. supervisory authority(ies) (if you are an E.U. citizen).

We will respond to your reasonable requests in accordance with, and within the appropriate timeframe as determined by, the respective legal authority governing the use of the applicable personal data. In most cases, we will respond to requests within one month; provided, however, if the request is complex, we may extend its response time in accordance with applicable law and regulation.

B. Security. In addition, to protect this data and mitigate risk of a data breach and to comply with applicable law, the Company employs reasonable and appropriate technical and organizational security procedures and processes designed to help protect against loss, misuse, and alteration of personal data collected and processed by the Company, which include:

Physical and logical access controls that limit who can access personal data based on business/processing need;
Privacy policies for personal data and for employee personal data (a copy of which may be requested by emailing privacy@micah-group.com);
Annual employee training on our privacy policies;
Employees who are bound by confidentiality obligations;
Data Protection and Privacy Officer to handle all personal data incidences or issues, including, without limitation, the handling of individual requests related to his/her personal data processed by the Company; and
The Company’s Personal Data Incident Response Process and Business Continuity Plan that contain incident response plans for escalation and resolution of data breach incidents.

However, information transmitted on the Internet and/or stored on systems attached to the Internet is not 100% secure. As a result, we do not ensure, warrant or guarantee the security or integrity of such information.

C. California Privacy Rights. California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal data to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to privacy@micah-group.com or write us at: 605 U.S. 169 North, Suite 220, Plymouth, MN 55441, Attn: Data Protection and Privacy Officer.

V. ACCOUNTABILITY FOR ONWARD TRANSFER

The performance of services or the other processing of your personal data may involve the transfer of certain personal data to or from third parties, including our third party service providers. If the Company transfers personal data subject to a third party, the recipient will have the same level of protection as required of the Company. In addition, all third party service providers engaged by the Company are bound by contract to refrain from using any personal data for any purpose other than the provision of the given service for the Company.

In addition to disclosures described above, we may also disclose personal data to third parties in order to prevent damage or harm to us, our services or any person or property, if we believe that disclosure is required by law (including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements), or in response to a lawful request by any public or governmental authority.

The Company does not sell, trade or transfer personal data to third parties. However, the Company may share personal data with its subsidiaries for the purposes of providing clients with information about our subsidiary’s service offerings. For example, the Company may provide emails to its subsidiary or a third party service provider for direct email distribution of newsletters, on-line surveys, or notifications.

Except as described in this Privacy Policy, we will not otherwise disclose personal data to any third parties unless you have been provided with an opportunity to opt in to such disclosure and, in the case of personal data collected from children, the appropriate verifiable consent is obtained.

If an individual wishes to opt out or limit the use and disclosure of their personal data to a third party or a use that is incompatible with the purpose for personal data was originally collected or authorized, the individual may send such request to privacy@micah-group.com.

If the Company transfers personal data to countries other than the country where it was provided, we do so in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

VI. RECOURSE, ENFORCEMENT, AND LIABILITY

A. Point of Contact for Complaints or Questions. Individuals have the ability to contact the Company regarding any questions or concerns related to its collection or handling of their personal data.

Data Protection and Privacy Officer

By email at privacy@micah-group.com

By mail at 605 U.S. 169 North, Suite 220, Plymouth, MN 55441, Attn: Data Protection and Privacy Officer

VII. CHANGES

We may amend this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make any material changes in the way we collect, use, and/or share your personal data or to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by prominently posting notice of the changes on the websites covered by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our Privacy Policy.