Privacy Policy

Eikosphere.LLC

Natural Intelligence. LLC

Nature’s Reflection Photography, an affiliate of Eikosphere.LLC

Effective September 1, 2015

Revised May 21, 2018

By Catherine Cunningham, PhD Managing Director

We value your privacy and are committed to respecting the privacy rights of all users of Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection ( https://eikosphere.com or https://naturalintelligence.com/ or https://naturesreflectionphotography.com/) or its mobile version and any of its sub-domains (collectively, the “Site”) and the services, products and networks found at or related to the Site (collectively, the “Service”). The Site and Service are owned and operated by Natural Intelligence Media. LLC and its corporate affiliates (collectively referred to herein as Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection”).

Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy covers how Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection treats the personal information it collects and receives and is designed to help you make informed decisions when using the Site and Service. This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of companies or web sites that Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection does not own, control or is affiliated with or to people it does not employ or manage.

Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection cares deeply about online privacy. If you have any questions concerning this Privacy Policy, please email us at relations@Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection.

This Privacy Policy is incorporated into and is subject to Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection’s Terms of Use. If you do not agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy or the Terms of Use, please do not provide participantmedia.com with any information and do not use the Site or Service.

Information Collection and Use by Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection .

In connection with certain portions of the Site and Services, Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection allows members to set up unique personal profiles that can be linked together through networks of friends and organizations. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection members can view each others’ profiles, communicate with each other, share photos and videos, post journals and comments, and describe their interests. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection members can change their profile information at any time and can control how other members and the Service communicates with them.

When you sign up as a member or for any other service or promotion that requires registration, Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection will ask you for personal information (such as your name, email address and an account password). Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection collects such submitted personal information to authenticate members and to send notifications to those members relating to the Service. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection also may collect other profile data including but not limited to: personal interests, gender, age, education and occupation in order to assist members in finding and communicating with each other.

Member profile information, including without limitation photos, is displayed to people in order to facilitate interaction in the Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection community. Email addresses are used for the purposes of inviting new friends to join Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection, to add users to members’ friends’ networks, and to send notifications related to the Service and Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection. With the exception of inviting friends, adding friends, and notifications, a member’s email address is not shared or displayed to people within a personal network. Members within a personal network communicate on the Site with each other through the Service, without disclosing their email addresses. Members’ full names are never directly revealed to other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and acquaintances on the Service, participantmedia.com allows users to search for members using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where users may have attended or worked.

When you post User Content (as defined in the Terms of Use) on the Site you do so at your own risk. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection cannot control the actions of other members with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorized persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Content.

Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily post public information to blogs, message boards, chat rooms or any other public forums such information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be used by those people to send you unsolicited communications. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection may also log non-personally-identifiable information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and browser type, from users and members of the Site. This data is used to manage the Site, track usage and improve the Service. User IP addresses are recorded for security and monitoring purposes. This non-personally-identifiable aggregated information, such as the number of users that clicked on a particular link, may be shared with third-parties to provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. Such information does not identify you individually.

From time to time, Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection or a partner may sponsor a promotion, challenge, game, sweepstake or contest on the Site. Users may be asked to provide personal information including name, email address or home address or to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information to certain ad partners from whom you have explicitly requested to receive information. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting the personal information and whose privacy policy will apply.

Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection is a general audience site and does not knowingly collect or solicit or intend to collect any personal information from anyone under 14 years of age. If you are under 14, please do not attempt to register on the Site or send any personal information about yourself. No one under age 14 may provide any personal information on the Site. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 14 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 14, please contact us at relations@Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection.

Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members

Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection members can invite friends to join the Service by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be added to the friend’s list of the members sending the invitations, and also to send reminders of the invitations. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations, invitation reminders (up to three (3) per email address). Recipients of invitations from Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection may contact Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection to request the removal of their information from our database. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection members may also store email addresses of people they know in their internal participantmedia.com address book and may also choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.

You may prevent Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection email invitations and other messages from being sent to any email address you control by sending a single email with the subject “UNSUBSCRIBE” to relations@Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection. Please note that the email must come from the account you wish to block.

Use of Cookies

Cookies are small files containing a string of characters sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences and to record session information, for purposes including customizing newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user profile information. We do not link the information we store in cookies to any personally identifiable information you submit while on the Site. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, but you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, you must enable cookies from Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection in order to use most functions on the Site.

Links

Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection contains links to other third-party web sites. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection is not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices on such other web sites. When linking to another site a user should read the privacy policy stated on that site. Our privacy policy only governs information collected on the Site.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information

Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.

Email Choice/Opt-out

Members who no longer wish to receive updates or notifications may choose not to by selecting ‘Do not send me notification emails’ in the user profile ‘Account Settings.’ Users who do not wish to receive Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection newsletters may choose not to by selecting ‘UNSUBSCRIBE’ in the user profile ‘Account Settings.’ All notification emails and Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection newsletters also include the above instructions for opting-out of those communications in the future.

Third Party API’s/Connection

We do not store any data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither we share that data with any third party. Our plugins run absolutely on your website and store the data in the database of our website.

Our plugins send request to third party APIs via website-visitor’s web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by web browser may include IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party that it’s being requested from. This API request doesn’t include any personal data of the website user other than the IP address.  To make your users aware of this,  you can include relevant snippets in your website’s privacy policy.

Facebook Comments

We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update

Twitter Tweet official button

We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update

Linked In

We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

GooglePlus Comments

We use GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Security

Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection member accounts are secured by member-created passwords. participantmedia.com takes precautions to insure that member account information is kept private. We use reasonable measures to protect member information that is stored within our database, and we restrict access to member information to those employees who need access to perform their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware or software failure, and other factors may compromise the security of member information at any time. For any additional information about the security measures we use on Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection, please contact us at: relations@Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection

Sharing and Disclosure of Information Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection Collects

Except as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection will not rent, sell or otherwise disclose personal information to any third party unless we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirements or to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to enforce the Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection. Terms of Use or to protect our rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the service. Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection reserves the right to transfer personal information to a successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of the sale of Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection or substantially all of its assets to that successor in interest. For more information see the “Changes in Our Privacy Policy” section below.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

From time to time we may make changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will post them on the Site to make users aware of what the changes are so they can always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and when we may disclose it. A user is bound by any minor changes to this Privacy Policy when she or he uses the Site after those changes have been posted. If we are going to use any personally identifiable information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify by posting a notice on the Site for 30 days.

Contacting the Site

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of the Site, or your dealings with Eikosphere.LLC, NaturalIntelligence.LLC, or Nature’s Reflection, please contact us at: relations@eikosphere.com