Terms of Use, Privacy Policy, and GDPR
Privacy Policy
PlanetM takes your privacy very seriously. We have developed this privacy policy to protect the information gathered from our site visitors.
When you subscribe or register, we collect and store personally identifiable information from you that may include your name, postal and email addresses, facts about your profession, company, and responsibilities. Our web server identifies the domain name and IP address of each visitor to our websites. We also track information, in aggregate, on pages and features that users access.
Information collected about subscribers and users may be used by us, our publications, and our affiliates and partnering third-party companies to provide subscribers and users with the features of the site, to enable us to provide the products you requested, to send email notifications about our services and products, to enforce our user agreement, to inform advertisers as to how many users have seen or click their advertising banners, and for audits, statistical analysis and product development. We will disclose site usage information to third parties only in aggregate.
We will remove any registrant (and their personal information) from our database pursuant to a request from the registrant. PlanetM may modify this policy from time to time to reflect legal, technological or other developments. Any such modified policy will appear at this URL.
Terms and Conditions
Access and use of the PlanetM website are subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein and all applicable laws. PlanetM may revise these terms and conditions from time to time by updating this page. By using the web site you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by these terms and conditions.
Copyright Notice
All contents of this web site, other than those expressly otherwise identified, Copyright 2017 PlanetM. All rights reserved. Materials published in the PlanetM web sites may contain other proprietary notices or describe products, services, processes or technologies owned by PlanetM or third parties. Please note that by publishing these materials, PlanetM is not granting any license under any copyright, trademark, patent or another intellectual property right of PlanetM or any third party.
Restrictions of Use
PlanetM owns a copyright in the selection, coordination, arrangement, and enhancement of such content, as well as in the content original to it. Various third-party content providers have made available their intellectual property for the purposes of promotion and own the copyright in content original to it. You may not modify, publish, transmit, display, participate in the transfer or sale, create derivative works, or in any way exploit the content of the sites except as otherwise expressly permitted under copyright law without the express permission of PlanetM and the copyright owner. For information on reuse and reprints, click here, log on to
www.copyright.com.
PlanetM maintains the right at any time to change or discontinue any aspect or feature of its sites.
You shall not upload, post or otherwise make available on interactive areas and comments sections, forums, and any other user-generated content section and any material protected by trademark, copyright or another proprietary right without the permission of its owner. Responsibility lies with you for determining that such material is not protected by trademark, copyright or another proprietary right. You will be solely liable for any damages resulting from any infringement of copyright, trademark or another proprietary right, or any other harm resulting from any uploading, posting or submission.
Postings made to the interactive areas do not become the property of PlanetM but can be used for the promotion of its print or digital properties. You grant the royalty-free, non-exclusive and ongoing right, and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display any message posted in interactive areas and/or any email in PlanetM existing or future digital or print titles.
Community Guidelines and User Content
PlanetM may contain comments sections in which you may post or upload comments or user-generated content. You are solely responsible for your use of any interactive content areas and you use them at your own risk.
Community Guidelines
If you submit any user content or participate in an interactive area within or in connection with PlanetM, you agree to abide by the following rules of conduct: To agree not to:
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any user content that violates or infringes in any way upon the rights of others, including any statements that may defame, harass, stalk or threaten others;
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any user content that is offensive to the online community, including blatant expressions of bigotry, racism, abusiveness, vulgarity or profanity.
Upload, post or otherwise transmit user content that does not generally pertain to the designated topic or theme of any interactive area;
Upload, post or otherwise transmit any user content, software or other materials that contain a virus or other harmful or disruptive component;
Upload, post, email or otherwise transmit any unsolicited or unauthorized advertising, promotional materials, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or any other form of solicitation;
Reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit for any commercial purpose, any portion of PlanetM, use of PlanetM, or access to PlanetM;
Upload, post, or otherwise transmit any user content protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or another proprietary right without the express permission of the owner of such copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or another proprietary right. The burden of determining that any user content is not protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret, right of publicity or other proprietary right rests with you. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets, rights of publicity or other proprietary rights or any other harm resulting from such a submission. Any person determined by PlanetM, in its sole discretion, to have violated the intellectual property or other rights of others shall be barred from submitting or posting any further material on PlanetM.
Include images, photos, articles or other content that constitutes, promotes or encourages illegal acts, violation of any right of any individual or entity, violation of any local, state, national or international law, rule, guideline or regulation, or otherwise creates liability.
To protect your safety, please use judgment when submitting information to the website. Be mindful that divulging personal phone numbers and addresses or other information can be used to identify or locate you in public areas of the web site. PlanetM reserves the right to delete, move or edit any submission at any time, for any reason or in its discretion, but has no obligation to review or remove any such content.
Disclaimer
The materials on this site are provided "as is" and without warranties of any kind either express or implied.
Trademarks
The trademarks, service marks, and logos (referred to herein collectively as "Trademarks") displayed on this site, including PlanetM and their logos, are registered and/or unregistered marks of PlanetM. The Trademarks of third parties may also be displayed on this site and are the property of their respective owners.
Linking
PlanetM sites may provide links to certain other web sites, not under our ownership or domain. We have done so only for the convenience of Web users, and are not responsible for the content of other sites.
Contact
General Data Protection Regulation
We are PlanetM.us, located at 1140 Broadway 6th Floor, New York, NY 10001 USA (“PlanetM.us”) and welcome to our privacy policy. This policy sets out how we handle your personal information if you’re a PlanetM.us user or visitor to our Sites. It applies across all PlanetM.us Sites (the “Sites”).
1. When we say ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘PlanetM.us’ it’s because that’s who we are and we own and run the Sites.
2. If we say ‘policy’ we’re talking about this privacy policy. If we say ‘user terms’ we’re talking about the rules for using each of the Sites. The rules vary by product and each product makes them separately available and seeks consent to them separately to this policy.
The type of personal information we collect
1. We collect certain personal information about visitors and users of our Sites.
2. The most common types of information we collect include things like: user-names, member names, email addresses, IP addresses, other contact details, survey responses, blogs, photos, support queries, forum comments, content you direct us to make available on our Sites (such as item descriptions) and web analytics data. We will also collect personal information from job applications (such as, your CV, the application form itself, cover letter and interview notes).
How we collect personal information
1. We collect personal information directly when you provide it to us, automatically as you navigate through the Sites, or through other people when you use services associated with the Sites.
2. We collect your personal information when you provide it to us when you complete membership registration and buy or provide items or services on our Sites, subscribe to a newsletter, email list, submit feedback, enter a contest, fill out a survey, or send us a communication.
Personal information we collect about you from others
1. Although we generally collect personal information directly from you, on occasion, we also collect certain categories of personal information about you from other sources. In particular:
1. Social Media;
2. Third party service providers (like Google, and others) who are located in or outside the US, which may provide information about you when you link, connect, or log in to your account with the third party provider and they send us information such as your registration and profile from that service, this only occurs if you are using PlanetM.us sites. The information varies and is controlled by that service provider or as authorized by you via your privacy settings at that service provider; and
3. Other third-party sources/ and or partners from around the world whereby we receive additional information about you (to the extent permitted by applicable law), such as demographic data or fraud detection information, and combine it with information we have about you. For example, fraud warnings from service providers like identity verification service. We also receive information about you and your activities on and off the PlanetM.us platform through partnerships, or about your experiences and interactions from our partner ad networks. We also receive information about you as a rights holder from our third-party authors. For example, information in the form of a model release when your image is used in an item made available on our Sites.
How we use personal information
1. We will use your personal information:
1. To fulfill a contract, or take steps linked to a contract: in particular, in facilitating and processing transactions that take place on the Sites, like where you purchase an item from our marketplace.
2. Where this is necessary for purposes which are in our, or third parties, legitimate interests. These interests include:
1. Operating the Sites;
2. Providing you with services described on the Sites;
3. Verifying your identity when you sign in to any of our Sites;
4. Responding to support tickets, and helping facilitate the resolution of any disputes;
5. Updating you with operational news and information about our Sites and services e.g. to notify you about changes to our Sites, website disruptions or security updates;
6. Carrying out technical analysis to determine how to improve the Sites and services we provide;
7. Monitoring activity on the Sites, e.g. to identify potentially fraudulent activity and to ensure compliance with the user terms that apply to the Sites;
8. Managing our relationship with you, e.g. by responding to your comments or queries submitted to us on the Sites or asking for your feedback or whether you want to participate in a survey;
9. Managing our legal and operational affairs (including, managing risks relating to content and fraud matters);
10. Training PlanetM.us staff about how to best serve our user community;
11. Improving our products and services.
12. Providing general administrative and performance functions and activities; and
13. Processing your job application to PlanetM.us.
3. Where you give us consent:
1. Providing you with marketing information about products and services which we feel may interest you; and
2. Customizing our services and websites, like advertising that appear on the Site – where this involves the use of cookies or similar technologies – in order to provide a more personalized experience.
4. for purposes which are required by law.
5. For the purpose of responding to requests by government, a court of law, or law enforcement authorities conducting an investigation.
When we disclose your personal information
1. We will disclose personal information to the following recipients:
1. Companies that are in the PlanetM.us group which are located in Argentina and the US;
2. Authors of any items or services made available to you, so they can facilitate support and license validation, who may be located in any of the countries our products are available in;
3. subcontractors and service providers who assist us in connection with the ways we use personal information (as set out above), in particular: website hosting providers which are located in The US; technical and customer support services which are located in Argentina, and the US; recruitment agencies which are located in Argentina and the US; marketing and analytics services which are located in the US; security and fraud prevention services which are located in the US; subscription management services which are located in the US; payment processing services which are located in the US; identification verification services located in the US; and operational tooling services which are located in the US. Noting that our subcontractors and services providers may also transfer and access such information from other countries in which they have operations.
4. Our professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, financial advisers etc.) which are located in Argentina and the USA;
5. Regulators and government authorities in connection with our compliance procedures and obligations;
6. A purchaser or prospective purchaser of all or part of our assets or our business, and their professional advisers, in connection with the purchase;
7. A third party to respond to requests relating to a criminal investigation or alleged or suspected illegal activity;
8. A third party, in order to enforce or defend our rights, or to address financial or reputational risks;
9. A rights holder in relation to an allegation of intellectual property infringement or any other infringement; and
10. Other recipients where we are authorized or required by law to do so.
Where we transfer and/or store your personal information
1. We are based in the USA so your data will be processed in the USA. Some of the recipients we have described in section 10 above, and to whom we disclose your personal information, are based outside Argentina and the US. We do this on the basis of your consent to this policy. In order to protect your information, we take care where possible to work with subcontractors and service providers who we believe maintain an acceptable standard of data security compliance.
How we keep your personal information secure
1. We store personal information on secure servers that are managed by us and our service providers, and occasionally hard copy files that are kept in a secure location in the US. Personal information that we store or transmit is protected by security and access controls, including username and password authentication, two-factor authentication, and data encryption where appropriate.
How you can access your personal information
1. You can access some of the personal information that we collect about you by logging in to your account. You also have the right to make a request to access other personal information we hold about you and to request corrections of any errors in that data. You can also close the account you have with us for any of our Sites at any time. To make an access or correction request, contact our privacy champion using the contact details at the end of this policy.
Marketing Choices regarding your personal information
1. Where we have your consent to do so (e.g. if you have subscribed to one of our e-mail lists or have indicated that you are interested in receiving offers or information from us), we send you marketing communications by email about products and services that we feel may be of interest to you. You can ‘opt-out’ of such communications if you would prefer not to receive them in the future by using the “unsubscribe” facility provided in the communication itself.
2. You also have choices about cookies, as described below. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject cookies some parts of our Sites may not work properly in your case.
Cookies and web analytics
We use cookies to improve the experience of our users. Cookies are small files that are stored on your computer and are used to identify our users. You will see a message on our website. By closing this message you consent to the use of cookies on our part unless you decide to disable them.
When you visit our Sites, there’s certain information that’s recorded which is generally anonymous information and does not reveal your identity. If you’re logged into your account some of this information could be associated with your account. We’re talking about the following kinds of details:
1. Your IP address or proxy server IP address’;
2. The domain name you requested;
3. The name of your internet service provider is sometimes captured depending on the configuration of your ISP connection;
4. The date and time of your visit to the website;
5. The length of your session;
6. The pages which you have accessed;
7. The number of times you access our site within any month;
8. The file URL you look at and information relating to it;
9. The website which referred you to our Sites; and
10. The operating system which your computer uses.
2. Occasionally, we will use third-party advertising companies to serve ads based on prior visits to our Sites. For example, if you visit our Sites, you may later see an ad for our products and services when you visit a different Site. Read more about your options in our cookie policy.
Information about children
1. Our Sites are not suitable for children under the age of 16 years, so if you are under 16 we ask that you do not use our Sites or give us your personal information (if you are a young tech wiz, please direct your nearest responsible adult to use the Sites for you!). If you are from 16 to 18 years, you can browse the Sites but you’ll need the supervision of a parent or guardian to become a registered user. It’s the responsibility of parents or guardians to monitor their children’s use of our Sites.
Information you make public or give to others
1. If you make your personal information available to other people, we can’t control or accept responsibility for the way they will use or manage that data. There are lots of ways that you can find yourself providing information to other people, like when you post a public message on a forum thread, share information via social media, or make contact with another user (such as a third party Author) whether via our Sites or directly via email. Before making your information publicly available or giving your information to anyone else, think carefully. If giving information to another user via our Sites, ask them how they will handle your information. If you’re sharing information via another website, check the privacy policy for that site to understand its information management practices as this privacy policy will not apply.
How long we keep your personal information
1. We retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you and others, and to comply with our legal obligations. If you no longer want us to use your personal information or to provide you with the PlanetM.us services, you can request that we erase your personal information and close your PlanetM.us account. Please note that if you request the erasure of your personal information we will retain information from deleted accounts as necessary for our legitimate business interests, to comply with the law, prevent fraud, collect fees, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce the terms of service and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
When we need to update this policy
1. We will need to change this policy from time to time in order to make sure it stays up to date with the latest legal requirements and any changes to our privacy management practices.
2. When we do change the policy, we’ll make sure to notify you about such changes, where required. A copy of the latest version of this policy will always be available on this page.
How you can contact us
1. If you have any questions about our privacy practices or the way in which we have been managing your personal information, please contact our legal department in writing at
[email protected]
2. We’re really glad you made it to the end of the privacy policy because knowing this stuff is the best way to understand how your personal information is used and how to best manage it!
If you’re a user or visitor in the European Economic Area these rights also apply to you:
1. For the purposes of applicable EU data protection law (including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), we are a ‘data controller’ of your personal information.
How you can access your personal information
1. You are also entitled to ask us to port your personal information (i.e. to transfer in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, to you), to erase it, or restrict its processing. You also have rights to object to some processing that is based on our legitimate interests, such as profiling that we perform for the purposes of direct marketing, and, where we have asked for your consent to process your data, to withdraw this consent as more fully described below.
2. These rights are limited in some situations – for example, we can demonstrate that we have a legal requirement to process your personal information. In some instances, this means that we may retain some data even if you withdraw your consent.
3. Where we require your personal information to comply with legal or contractual obligations, then provision of such data is mandatory: if such data is not provided, then we will not be able to manage our contractual relationship with you or to meet obligations placed on us. In all other cases, provision of requested personal information is optional.
4. If you have unresolved concerns you also have the right to complain to data protection authorities. The relevant data protection authority will be the data protection authority of the country: (i) of your habitual residence; (ii) of your place of work; or (iii) in which you consider the alleged infringement has occurred.
Both personal information and personal data have the same meaning in the context on this page.
Questions? Please contact us at:
PlanetM.us
1140 Broadway 6th Floor
New York, NY 10001 USA
Tel: 212 518 7543
