Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Takes a Break family of Websites (together, “Takes a Break,” “we,” or “us,” “our,” unless otherwise noted). This Privacy Policy is intended to give you a better understanding of the type of information we collect, what we use that information for, and the situations in which we share that information with others. This Privacy Policy applies to your use of all Takes a Break Websites and Web Pages affiliated with Takes a Break (together, “Websites”), including any content, functionality, services, and podcasts offered on or through our Websites, whether as a guest or as a registered user.

We take your privacy seriously, and we want you to use the Takes a Break Websites confident in knowing that we are committed to respecting your privacy and have implemented fair and ethical practices to do so.

By using a Takes a Break Website, you accept the practices described herein, including our use of cookies and similar online data collection tools. If you do not agree to the terms set forth in this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Takes a Break Websites.

Personal Information

When you sign up for newsletters, register for events or webinars, submit information to us, or download certain information from one or more of our Websites, you voluntarily supply personally identifiable information about yourself. The personal information that we collect and store about you may include, but is not limited to, the following types of information:

Contact information, including first and last name, email address, and phone number.
Occupation information, including your title and industry, and any other information you provide to us.
Geographic residential information, including region, city, and state.
Audio and visual information, including your photos and videos, if you choose to submit such audio and visual information to us.
Any other information you share with us, regardless of whether we have solicited that information from you.
Unless explicitly stated at the time of collection, your personal information is not shared directly with those who advertise via Takes a Break or our Websites.
You can unsubscribe from our newsletters and other communications at any point via the link provided in each email we send to you.

Non-Personal Information

When you use any of our Websites, we collect additional non-personally identifiable information. This non-personally identifiable information includes, but is not limited to, data about the device, web browser, and operating system you are using to access our Website(s), as well as your IP address, geolocation, page information, and the date and time you access each of our Websites or make a request on any of our Websites.

This non-personally identifiable information may be collected through various technologies, including, but not limited to, server logs, cookies, and web beacons.

We may gather and use information across our family of Websites, mobile apps, newsletters, and other products to create a single user record. We may also use or combine information that we collect with information you voluntarily provide to us and with information we receive from third-party sources to enhance, expand, and check the accuracy of our records.

Use of Information

We use your data and information for the following purposes:

Provide you with access to our content and services.
Analyze demographic and behavioral data to improve or personalize the content and services we offer.
Provide you with more relevant advertising content.
Publish your user-generated content and comments to the Websites as you request and consistent with our Terms of Use.
To respond to any emails or requests you make directly to us.
For our own marketing and targeting purposes.
For our statistical, research, recordkeeping, and reporting purposes.
To monitor our products for compliance with our Terms of Use and to protect the security of our network.
To comply with the law.
For any other purpose identified at the time we collect your data or information.

We will not use the information we receive in ways unrelated to the aforementioned purposes.

Sharing Information

We may share your information under any of the following circumstances:

With your consent, after informing you as to what information will be shared and with whom that information will be shared.

To third-party service providers helping provide, improve, or market our Websites or products, including any content, functionality, and services we offer through our Websites or through other mediums. Examples of how we use this type of third-party service provider include the email service provider we use to share our newsletter with you and other users; online analytic tools, such as Google Analytics, which we use to collect usage data and analyze how users use our Websites and to provide advertisements to you on other websites; and tools on social networking websites, such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

To third-party service providers to aid in their assessment of whether to expand our offerings, and to third-party service providers to establish, or to aid in establishing, new offerings.

With government entities, as needed to provide our services and where required by law.

Sometimes we establish business relationships with other persons or entities whom we believe to be trustworthy and whom we have asked to confirm that their privacy policies are consistent with ours. We call these persons and entities our Break Makers. We may rent, exchange, share, and/or cross-reference information, including your contact information, with our Break Makers to enable them to contact you regarding products and services that may be of interest to you. This paragraph does not apply to mobile phone numbers and opt-in consent information collected for SMS text programs. We may collect mobile phone numbers for purposes other than SMS text programs, and those purposes are subject to this paragraph.

We may share personal information with persons and entities controlling, controlled by, or under common ownership with any of the Takes a Break family.

As part of an acquisition or merger with another company, negotiations regarding an acquisition or merger with another company, a partial or total sale of assets, or some other corporate change, including bankruptcy proceedings.

To investigate, respond to, or resolve problems or inquiries (including law enforcement or legal requests).

To protect, enforce, or defend our rights, assets, and/or interests.

To prevent or respond to a violation of any law, regulation, our Terms of Use, or as necessary to protect and defend our network security.

When you visit our Websites, we may send one or more cookies to your computer or other device. We may also use cookies and other similar technologies in emails that you receive from us. A cookie is a small data file that is placed on your computer’s, or other device’s, hard drive. A session cookie expires immediately when you end your session (i.e., close your browser). A persistent cookie stores information on the hard drive so that when you end your session and return to the same website at a later date, the cookie information is still available. We use cookies to improve the quality of our service when you visit our Websites and other websites of interest to you. We also use cookies to remind us of who you are, tailor our products, services, and advertising to suit the personal interests of you and others, estimate our audience size, assist our affiliates, advertisers, and partners, and to analyze your email interaction and visiting patterns.

If you would like to opt out of accepting cookies, you can generally set your browser to not accept cookies or to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the opportunity to decide whether or not to accept the cookie. If you delete or disable cookies, however, certain features of our Websites or other services may not work.

Advertising and Online Tracking

We allow third-party entities to serve ads and/or collect certain information about you when you visit our Websites. These companies may use information—such as click stream information, type of browser used, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over—collected during your visits to our Websites and to other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services that are likely to be of interest to you.

These entities may also tie identifiers associated with a particular browser or device to identifiers associated with other browsers or devices used by the same user or household (e.g., a device identifier associated with a user’s computer may be tied to the device identifiers of that user’s other devices, such as phone and tablet) in order to measure and target advertisements tailored to user interests across their devices and to send personalized marketing communications. These entities typically use a cookie or third-party web beacon to collect this information.

Our systems do not recognize “Do Not Track” signals, but several of these third-party companies that utilize these cookies or beacons on our Websites enable you to opt out of this behavioral advertising. To learn more, or to opt out from these companies, you can visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and https://aboutads.info/choices/. We also provide you with additional tools to opt out of marketing from us or certain transfers of your information. You can learn about these additional tools in the “Opting Out of Marketing and Transfers; Updating Your Information” section of this Privacy Policy.

Opting Out of Marketing and Transfers

We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. If you prefer not to receive direct marketing from us or from our Break Makers, or if you would like to opt out of our rental or exchange of your information with other marketers, please let us know. You may send an email to hello@TakesABreak.com. Please be sure to include your full name, email address, mailing address (if you have provided it to us), and the specific type of information that you do not want to receive.

If you would like to update or correct your email address, mailing address, or other contact information with us, please send an email to hello@TakesABreak.com. You may also click the designated link at the bottom of all email advertisements to be removed from our future email updates. Please note that it may take up to ten business days to be removed from future email updates.

Even if you have opted not to receive marketing communications from us, we may need to contact you via phone or email to address questions specific to your use of our Websites. We will contact you only in ways compatible with your preferred methods of communication. To the extent necessary for such purposes, we take reasonable steps to make sure that your contact information is accurate, complete, current, and otherwise reliable.

Protecting Children

We do not knowingly market to or knowingly collect personal information from children under age 13. If a child under 13 submits personal information to us and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you are under 13, please do not register for any of our services or provide us any information about yourself, including your name, email address, or phone number. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that any of your children has provided us with personal information without your consent, please contact us and we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our Websites may contain links to websites that are operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on such linked websites may be different from our Privacy Policy. You access such linked websites at your own risk. You should always read the privacy policy of a linked website before disclosing any of your information on such a website.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We can make changes to this Privacy Policy for any reason or for no reason, with or without notifying you before we make changes. If we decide to materially change our Privacy Policy in whole or in part, we will inform you by posting a notice on our Websites, or by providing you notice via email, if appropriate. Those changes will go into effect on the effective date posted in the notice and at the end of the revised Privacy Policy. The new policy will apply to all current and past users of our Websites and will replace any prior policies that are inconsistent with the new policy. Your continued use of our Websites, content, functionality, services, and/or podcasts constitutes your acceptance of the practices described in the revised Privacy Policy.

You can send an email to hello@TakesABreak.com.

Effective Date: August 21, 2020