PRIVACY POLICY – SUMMARY

This policy applies to products and services provided to industry professionals by WATT Global Media. Our brands include but are not limited to:

  • Magazines: Egg Industry, Feed & Grain, Feed Strategy, Petfood Industry, Poultry International, WATT PoutryUSA
  • eNewsletters: Egg Industry Insight, Feed & Grain Industry Watch, Feed & Grain Product Watch, Feed Strategy eNews, Feed Mill of the Future, Petfood Industry eNews, Poultry Future, Trending Topics, WATT Poultry Update
  • Websites: FeedAndGrain.com, FeedStrategy.com, PetfoodIndustry.com, PetfoodForumEvents.com, PetfoodIndustrySolutions.com, WATTAgNet.com, WATTGlobalMedia.com, WATTMediaKit.com, WATTPoultry.com
  • Events: Chicken Marketing Summit, Feed Strategy Events, Petfood Forum, Poultry Tech Summit

How does WATT Global Media protect my personal information?

To protect your personal information from unauthorized access and use, we use security measures that comply with applicable US regulations and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings as well as procedures for our staff and vendors that ensure compliance.

What do we use your information for and what is the purpose of collecting it?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience
  • To improve our website
  • To process your orders or requests and to pre-populate forms
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature
  • To send periodic emails
  • To match the right messages to you on our sites or on third party sites
  • To offer you opportunities to connect directly with your peers and with sellers of technology or services that may be of interest to you
  • For any other purpose that we tell you about when you give us the information

We may process your personal information for our legitimate business interests, these include but are not limited to: fraud prevention, direct marketing, network and information systems security, data analytics or data enhancement, modifying or improving our services, identifying usage trends, and determining the effectiveness of promotional campaigns and advertising. You have the right to object to this processing.

The information you provide will be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your subscription, order, download, or other transaction. In addition, you may receive related company news, updates, and product or service information, etc.

How can limit sharing and/or exercise my rights under GDPR?

If applicable, you will be asked for consent to share information when you sign up for our products and services. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails from us, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. You may also reach us via our Privacy Contact Form


 

PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated: January 31, 2023

WATT Global Media (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates these websites, collectively, the “Service”): www.feedstrategy.com, www.feedandgrain.com, www.petfoodindustrysolutions.com, www.wattmediakit.com, www.wattpoultry.com, www.wattagnet.com, www.petfoodindustry.com, www.petfoodforumevents.com, and www.wattglobalmedia.com.

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) when you use our Service.

We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy.

We use your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible at www.wattagnet.com

INFORMATION COLLECTION AND USE

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to, your email address, name, phone number, postal address, job title, and company information.

We collect this information for the purpose of providing the Service, identifying and communicating with you, responding to your requests/inquiries, servicing your purchase orders, and improving our services.

If applicable, you will be asked for consent to share information when you sign up for our products and services, including sponsored products where information may be shared with the sponsor.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails from us, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email. You may also reach us via our Privacy Contact Form

LOG DATA

We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor and analyze this type of information in order to increase our Service’s functionality. These third party service providers have their own privacy policies addressing how they use such information.

COOKIES

Cookies are files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and transferred to your device. We use cookies to collect information in order to improve our services for you.

We use cookies to personalize content and ads, to provide social media features and to analyze our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help feature on most browsers provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies or to notify you when receiving a new cookie.

If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our Service and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

DOUBLECLICK COOKIE

Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other web sites on the Internet.

You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page.

REMARKETING

WATT Global Media uses remarketing services to advertise on third party web sites to you after you visited our Service. We, and our third party vendors, use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

  • Google

Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.

You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page.

Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page.

  • Facebook

For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/

  • Linked In

For more information on the privacy practices of LinkedIn, please visit https://www.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy

DO NOT TRACK DISCLOSURE

We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.

You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.

SERVICE PROVIDERS

We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services and/or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

These third parties have access to your PII only to perform specific tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use your information for any other purpose.

COMMUNICATIONS

We may use your PII to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. By subscribing to our products, you consent to receive email notifications about your subscriptions. 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.

COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS

We will disclose your PII where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.

SECURITY

The security of your PII is important to us, and we strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information we store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure, in compliance applicable US regulations and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). These measures include computer safeguards and secured files and buildings as well as procedures for our staff and vendors that ensure compliance.

However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and we are unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information we have collected from you.

In the event of a security breach involving the PII we have stored, we will inform you within 72 hours of our becoming aware of the breach. In compliance with GDPR, we will also inform the appropriate authority in the EU.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER

Your information, including PII, 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.

If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including PII, to United States and process it there.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Only persons age 13 or older have permission to access our Service. Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13 (“Children”).

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you learn that your Children have provided us with PII, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected PII from a child under age 13 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

YOUR RIGHTS UNDER GDPR

Citizens of the EU have certain rights under GDPR including the right to see the PII we have stored for you, correct the Personal Information we have stored, receive a copy of this information, and the right to have that data removed from our system. Please contact us if you wish to exercise these rights, using our Privacy Contact Form.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is effective as of May 23, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us .