Privacy Policy and Terms of Use
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy describes how Pierce Patent Law and its
affiliates (“we,” or “our”) collect, use, and disclose information when you interact with Select
Investments Group, including via our website, mobile apps, email newsletters, online subscriptions,
other product offerings, and any other services that display this Privacy Policy (collectively referred to as
the “Services”). This Privacy Policy also applies to any offline data collection, such as the contact
information you provide to create or update your print subscriptions.
In this Policy, “personal information” means information that identifies, relates to, describes, is
reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a
particular individual.
Individuals from different countries or jurisdictions may have different rights with respect to their
personal information. In particular, the European Union Privacy Policy applies to individuals in the
European Union, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway, Lichtenstein, Iceland, Australia, and New
Zealand in lieu of this Privacy Policy. We reserve the ability to limit our response to any request to
exercise your rights based on the law that is applicable to you.
1. The Information We Collect
Through the Services, you can, among other activities, order publications and products, including print
and digital subscriptions and newsletters; sign up for events; engage in various activities including
entering contests or sweepstakes, voting in polls or otherwise expressing an opinion or participate in
one of our online forums or communities.
Some of the information we request from you is required in order for you to use our Services. If you do
not wish to provide such information to us, you are not obligated to, but as a result you may not be able
to use the particular Service. However, some of the information we request from you is optional. This
means that you can elect not to provide it to us and you will still be able to use the Service. If not all the
information we request on a form is required, we may identify the required information to you such as
by displaying an asterisk (*) next to the field where we request the required information.
Information you give us about yourself or others: You give information to us directly when, for example,
you register for a subscription or newsletter, purchase a product from us, disclose information in
response to a survey, apply for a job, or contact our customer service department.
Through some features of the Services and through certain promotions, you can submit information
about other people. For example, you might submit a person's name, mailing and/or e-mail address to
send a gift or electronic greeting card. The types of personal information that may be collected about
other people at these pages include: recipient's name, address, e-mail address and telephone number.
Please ensure that you notify the person whose information you are providing to us.
Please remember that any information you disclose in any public forum or community areas becomes
public information and is immediately accessible to other users, so it is important for you to carefully
consider what, if any, information you reveal in these areas.
Information we collect automatically: When you interact with our Services, we (and our partners,
advertisers, advertising networks and other third party service providers) automatically collect certain
information. For example, we collect information about the webpages you view and how you move
through our Services, how you reached our Services, how you interact with our social media pages, and
how you interact with our email communications.
We (and our partners, advertisers, advertising networks and other third party service providers) use
cookies and other tracking technologies to obtain information automatically. Cookies are small text files
that are placed in your computer or device to store your preferences. Other information you provide to
us may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. A cookie assigns a unique numerical identifier to your
Web browser or device, and may enable us to recognize you as the same user who has used our
Services, and relate your use of the Services to other information about you. Please see our Cookies
Policy, which explains our use of cookies and similar technologies in connection with our Services and
lists partners and other third parties who collect information from you automatically on our Services.
Information from other sources: We obtain information from third party sources, which may include:
Third party data suppliers from which we purchase demographic data to supplement the data we
collect;
Social networks when you reference our Services or grant permission to Time to access your data on one
or more of these services;
Partners with which we offer co-branded services, sell or distribute our products, or engage in joint
marketing activities; and
Publicly-available sources such as open government databases or other data in the public domain.
The following is a listing of the personal information we collect.
Personal Identifiers:
Name, phone number, email address, and contact address.
Demographic information such as age, gender, and income level.
Social media handle and basic account information when you interact with our Services through social
media.
We collect or create a unique numerical identifier when you use our Services.
We collect your credit card number (through a service provider) when you complete a transaction. You
have the option to store this information as part of your account.
We or external parties operating on our behalf collect information about the device you use to access
our Services, such as your IP address, a device ID, and information about your web browser.
Commercial Information: When you engage in transactions with us, we create records of goods or
services purchased or considered, as well as purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: We collect information about the websites
you came from and to which you are going, ad clicks, search history, and other information regarding
your interaction with our websites and applications, such as the duration you stay on a webpage.
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information: If you contact us via phone, we may
record the call. We will notify you if a call is being recorded at the beginning of the call. We may collect
your photographic or video image in limited circumstances, such as when you attend an event hosted by
Time.
Professional or employment-related information: We collect professional or employment-related
information you voluntarily provide.
Education information: We collect education information you voluntarily provide.
Geolocation Data: We collect your IP address automatically when you use our Services, from which we
or external parties operating on our behalf may be able to determine your general location. If you are
using our app, with your consent, we or our authorized service providers and partners also may use
precise geolocation technology such as GPS or Wi-Fi triangulation or mobile Bluetooth beacon
technology to collect information about the exact location of your mobile device.
Inferences drawn to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences or
characteristics: We or third parties operating on our behalf may analyze your actual or likely preferences
based on the information we gather about you as described above.
2. How We Use the Information We Collect
We may use and/or disclose the information we collect for the following purposes:
Provide the Services:
Deliver content and fulfill requests for our publications, products, or services, including on our websites
and in our apps. For example, when you subscribe to one of our publications or newsletters, we use the
information we collect to deliver print issues and fulfill digital subscriptions and newsletters.
Establish and administer your account, including conducting billing and invoicing, contacting you about
the expiry of your subscription and sending you service messages about your subscription. For example,
once you are subscribed, we may store your subscription information, including its start date, renewal
date, pricing, publication, and any customer service contacts you may have with us.
Authenticate access to your account. For example, you may provide us with a username and password
to get access to your account.
Perform maintenance and operations, including management of the network and devices supporting the
Services and our systems.
Provide technical support and assure quality of customer service interactions.
Facilitate hardware and software upgrades for devices and systems.
Enable your participation in surveys, sweepstakes, contests, and promotions.
Enable your participation in community forums.
Communicate with You:
Respond to your inquiries.
Personalize communications.
Send you service-related announcements, such as to notify you when you have won one of our contests
or sweepstakes, when we make changes to subscriber agreements, to fulfill a request by you for an
online newsletter, or to contact you about your account.
Make Improvements to Our Products and Services:
Identify and develop new products and services.
Improve the design of our Services.
Understand how our Services are used, including by creating measurement and analytics reports.
Provide Recommendations and Deliver Relevant Advertising:
Offer products, programs or services that may be of interest to you, and keep you informed of new
happenings.
Market our Services.
Determine which content to recommend to you.
Send you promotional communications for the Services and other products and services we think may
be of interest to you, including by disclosing contact information to third parties that may want to
market products or services to you.
Deliver more relevant advertising.
Investigate Theft or Other Illegal Activities and Ensure a Secure Online Environment:
Detect the unauthorized reception, use, or abuse of the Service.
Protect you and other subscribers from fraudulent, abusive, unlawful use of, or subscription to, the
Service.
Protect our rights, our personnel, and our property.
Comply with applicable law.
We and our partners use cookies, tags, pixels, web beacons, or other means of collecting information
automatically from you. Please see our Cookies Policy for more information.
3. Disclosure of Information
Publicly: If you choose to submit content (e.g., a “letter to the editor” or an online review), we may
publish your name, screen name and other information you have provided to us, which will be public.
Affiliates: We may transfer information to other offices for internal management and administrative
purposes or where necessary for the performance or conclusion of our contractual obligations to you or
for your benefit. We may combine information from the Services together and with other information
we obtain from our business records. Additionally, information collected about you from a particular
browser or device may be linked to information collected from another computer or device that we
believe relates to you.
Sale or Merger of Business: We may transfer to another entity or its affiliates or service providers some
or all information about you in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, acquisition, sale
of assets or any line of business, change in ownership control, or financing transaction. We cannot
promise that an acquiring party or the merged entity will have the same privacy practices or treat your
information the same as described in this Policy.
Service Providers: We may disclose personal information to our service providers, which are companies
that process information on our behalf, without your consent to deliver the Service and conduct
business activities. We require the service providers to treat the information we disclose to them, or
that they collect on our behalf, as confidential and to use the information only for the purposes for
which they have been engaged. The following is a list of categories of our service providers.
Subscription management and fulfillment providers.
Billing and collection providers, such as payment processors and organizations that assist us in assessing
your credit and payment status.
Auditing and accounting firms.
Professional services consultants, such as firms that assist with providing legal services, or supplying
project-based resources and assistance.
Advertising, marketing, and analytics services, including entities that analyze the information we collect
from or about you to communicate with and advertise to you.
Security vendors, such as entities that assist with security incident verification and response, service
notifications, and fraud prevention.
IT vendors, such as entities that assist with website design, hosting, and maintenance, data and software
storage, and network operation.
Production vendors, such a pre-press printing service providers.
There are limited circumstances in which the service provider collects data directly from you when their
privacy policies may also apply.
Third Parties: We may disclose personal information to third parties. The following is a list of categories
of our third-party partners.
Advertising, Marketing, and Analytics Partners: We partner with companies that assist us with marketing
our Services, including by “remarketing” to you on other websites, apps, or social media platforms.
These companies may collect information from you automatically via cookies or other tracking
technologies when you use our Services.
Other External Parties: We may disclose personally identifiable information, including your contact
information, to organizations such as marketers, other magazine publishers, retailers, and non-profit
organizations that want to market products or services to you.
Authorities: We will disclose information we maintain when required to do so by law, for example, in
response to a court order or a subpoena. We also may disclose such information in response to a law
enforcement agency’s request.
4. Third Party Websites
Our Services provide links to third party websites or offerings where data privacy practices may be
different. The inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of any other company, its websites,
or its products and/or services. These linked websites or offerings have separate and independent
privacy policies, which we recommend you read carefully. We have no control over such websites or
offerings and therefore have no responsibility or liability for the manner in which the organizations that
operate such linked websites or offerings may collect, use, disclose, or otherwise treat your personal
information.
5. Your California Privacy Rights: Notice to California Customers
California Shine the Light: California’s “Shine the Light” law, Civil Code Section 1798.83, requires
businesses that disclose personal information to third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing
purposes to give California customers the ability to opt-out of such disclosure. California Residents may
exercise their opt-out right by going to our California Do Not Sell Page.
California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”):
The California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”) grants residents of California certain rights with respect to
their personal information and requires us to provide such individuals with certain information, as
described in this Section.
Your Rights:
Transparency. At the time we collect personal information, you have the right to receive notice of the
categories of personal information we collect, and the purposes for which those categories of personal
information will be used.
Access/Right to Know. You have the right to request access to personal information we collected about
you and information regarding the source of that personal information, the purposes for which we
collect it, and the third parties and service providers with whom we share it. You can make this access
request by going to our California Access/Deletion Page. If you are a print subscriber, you can also access
and update much of the personal information we have collected about you through your account page.
Deletion. You have the right to request that we erase data we have collected from you. Please note that
we may have a reason to deny your deletion request or delete data in a more limited way than you
anticipated, e.g., because of a legal obligation to retain it or to provide a good or service that you
request. You can make this deletion request by going to our California Access/Deletion Page.
Opt-Out of Sale and Share. You have the right to request that we stop “selling” your personal
information as that that term is defined in the California Privacy Rights Act. A “sale” of personal
information is defined broadly: “selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available,
transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a
consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or a third party for monetary or
other valuable consideration.” “Sharing” of personal information is defined as: “sharing, renting,
releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally,
in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to a third
party for cross-context behavioral advertising, whether or not for monetary or other valuable
consideration, including transactions between a business and a third party for cross-context behavioral
advertising for the benefit of a business in which no money is exchanged.” Please see below for more
information about our “sales” or “sharing” of personal information. To opt-out, please go to our
California Do Not Sell Page.
Categories of personal information we collect: We collect the categories of information described above
in the “ Information We Collect” section for the purposes described in the “ How We Use Information”
section.
Categories of personal information we disclose: We may disclose any of the categories of personal
information listed above and use them for the above-listed purposes or for other business or
operational purposes compatible with the context in which the personal information was collected. Our
disclosures of personal information include disclosures to our “service providers,” which are companies
that we engage for business purposes to conduct activities on our behalf. The categories of service
providers with whom we share information and the services they provide are described above.
Categories of personal information we “sell”: We may “sell” any of the categories of personal
information listed above to third parties, except for Professional or employment-related information;
and Education information. To opt-out of such sales, please go to our California Do Not Sell Page.
Right to Request Correction of inaccurate personal information.
You can also make a CPRA access, deletion or “do not sell” request by calling the following toll-free
number: +1 (888) 914-9661 PIN 430210.
6. Disclosures to Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, and Utah
The disclosures in this section apply solely to individual residents of the States of Colorado, Connecticut,
Virginia, and Utah. Privacy laws in these states give residents certain rights with respect to their personal
data, when they take effect over the course of 2023. Those rights include:
Right to Access Information. You have the right to access and obtain a copy of your personal data.
Right to Request Deletion. You have the right to request that we delete personal data provided by or
obtained about you.
Right to Correct. You have the right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data.
Right to Opt-Out of Targeted Advertising. You may ask us not to use or disclose your information for the
purposes of targeting advertising to you based on your personal data obtained from your activity across
different businesses, services, websites, etc.
Right to Opt Out of Personal Information Sales to third parties.
To submit a request to exercise your access, deletion, or correction privacy rights, please write to us at
the address below with the subject line “Privacy Rights Request” and let us know in which state you live.
Please see Section 8 for a description of how to exercise your right to opt-out of targeted advertising or
sales.
Residents of Colorado, Connecticut, and Virginia may appeal a refusal to take action on a request by
contacting us by mail.
7. Special Information for Nevada Residents
Residents of the State of Nevada have the right to opt out of the sale of certain pieces of their
information to other companies who will sell or license their information to others. We disclose contact
information to third parties that may want to market products or services to you. To opt-out of such
sales, please write to us at the below address.
8. Your Opt-Out Choices
Verification Procedures: We must verify your identity for everyone’s protection. To do so, we may
require you to provide us with verification information prior to accessing any records containing
personal information about you. We do this by:
Asking you to provide personal identifiers we can match against information we may have collected
from you previously and confirm your request using the email or telephone number stated in the
request; or
Having you submit your request through your account page (if you are a subscriber), which will
automatically verify your identity and will result in faster processing of your request.
If you are a California resident, you may authorize another individual or a business registered with the
California Secretary of State, called an authorized agent, to make requests on your behalf. If we receive
a request from an authorized agent, we require that the authorized agent verify its identity with us, that
you verify your identity with us, and that you provide us with proof that you authorized the authorized
agent in writing to make the request.
We will use the information you provide for verification only for the purpose of verification. We may
have a reason under the law why we do not have to respond to your request, or respond to it in a more
limited way than you anticipated. If we do, we will explain that to you in our response.
Your Account and Payment Information: If you are a print subscriber, please visit the account page to
update your contact information and payment method.
Marketing and Other Communications:
If you are a newsletter subscriber, you may unsubscribe using the unsubscribe options in the newsletter
emails.
If you wish to opt-out of sharing of your personal information, including contact information, with third
parties for marketing purposes, please email us here.
Please note that even if you opt out of receiving marketing communications from us, we may continue
to send you transactional communications about your subscription or orders.
Opt-out of “sale”: If you are a California resident, you have the right to opt out of our “sale” of personal
information to third parties. Please see “ Your California Privacy Rights: Notice to California Customers ”
above for a description of your rights and information on how to opt out.
Cookie Management, Analytics, Personalized Advertising, and Do Not Track:
Information about our use of cookies and other tracking technologies is available in our Cookie Policy.
You can control cookies using your web browser’s settings. If you delete your cookies or if you set your
browser to decline cookies, some features of the Services may not be available, work, or work as
designed.
You can use our partners’ links above to learn more about the options they may make available to opt-
out of their tracking technologies.
You can broadly opt out of participating companies’ website tracking technologies by visiting the
websites for the Network Advertising Initiative, the Digital Advertising Alliance, and the European
Interactive Digital Advertising Initiative.
Similarly, you can learn about your options to opt out of mobile app tracking by some advertising
networks through your device settings and by resetting the advertiser ID on your mobile device.
When you make an opt-out choice, it does not necessarily mean that you will stop receiving ads
altogether, but you will no longer receive personalized ads.
If you delete your cookies, you may also delete your opt-out preferences.
To opt out of “sales” or “sharing” of personal information you can toggle your cookies off in the cookie
preference center or enable Global Privacy Control (“GPC”) on your browser. To learn more about GPC,
please visit http://globalprivacycontrol.org.
9. Security of Personal Information
We have put in place administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to help prevent unauthorized
access, maintain data security and correctly use the information we collect. No system can be
completely secure, however, and we do not guarantee that unauthorized disclosures and access will not
happen.
10. Retention of Personal Information
We will retain your personal information while you have an account with us and thereafter for as long as
we have a legitimate need to retain it. Thereafter, we will either delete your personal information or de-
identify it so that it is anonymous and not attributed to your identity.
11. Special Note for Parents
If you are under the age of 18 please do not submit any personal information through this site.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated periodically to reflect changes to our information practices. The
revised Privacy Policy will be posted on this website with the date of the last modification, and we will
notify of the changes if required by the applicable law. We will treat your information in accordance
with the privacy policy in place at the time of collection of such information, or as you otherwise
indicate your preferences. We encourage you to check whenever you use our Services to see if the
policy has been updated.
13. How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, our data practices, or our compliance
with applicable law please contact us by email at sam@piercepatentlaw.com
TERMS OF USE
These terms govern use of the website of Sam Pierce, an Attorney licensed by the State of Maine and the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Acknowledgment
These are the Terms and Conditions governing the use of this Service and the
agreement that operates between You and the Company. These Terms and
Conditions set out the rights and obligations of all users regarding the use of the
Service.
Your access to and use of the Service is conditioned on Your acceptance of and
compliance with these Terms and Conditions. These Terms and Conditions apply to
all visitors, users and others who access or use the Service.
By accessing or using the Service You agree to be bound by these Terms and
Conditions. If You disagree with any part of these Terms and Conditions then You
may not access the Service.
You represent that you are over the age of 18. The Company does not permit those
under 18 to use the Service.
Your access to and use of the Service is also conditioned on Your acceptance of and
compliance with the Privacy Policy of the Company. Our Privacy Policy describes
Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your personal
information when You use the Application or the Website and tells You about Your
privacy rights and how the law protects You. Please read Our Privacy Policy carefully
before using Our Service.
Intellectual Property
You may not transfer, redistribute or sublicense the Service or any intellectual
property associated with the Service. You may not copy, reverse-engineer,
disassemble, attempt to derive the text or source code of, modify, or create
derivative works of the Service, any updates, or any part thereof.
"AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE"
Disclaimer
The Service is provided to You "AS IS" and "AS AVAILABLE" and with all faults and
defects without warranty of any kind. To the maximum extent permitted under
applicable law, the Company, on its own behalf and on behalf of its Affiliates and its
and their respective licensors and service providers, expressly disclaims all
warranties, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, with respect to the
Service, including all implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular
purpose, title and non-infringement, and warranties that may arise out of course of
dealing, course of performance, usage or trade practice. Without limitation to the
foregoing, the Company provides no warranty or undertaking, and makes no
representation of any kind that the Service will meet Your requirements, achieve any
intended results, be compatible or work with any other software, applications,
systems or services, operate without interruption, meet any performance or reliability
standards or be error free or that any errors or defects can or will be corrected.
Without limiting the foregoing, neither the Company nor any of the company's
provider makes any representation or warranty of any kind, express or implied: (i) as
to the operation or availability of the Service, or the information, content, and
materials or products included thereon; (ii) that the Service will be uninterrupted or
error-free; (iii) as to the accuracy, reliability, or currency of any information or content
provided through the Service; or (iv) that the Service, its servers, the content, or e-
mails sent from or on behalf of the Company are free of viruses, scripts, trojan
horses, worms, malware, timebombs or other harmful components.
Some jurisdictions do not allow the exclusion of certain types of warranties or
limitations on applicable statutory rights of a consumer, so some or all of the above
exclusions and limitations may not apply to You. But in such a case the exclusions
and limitations set forth in this section shall be applied to the greatest extent
enforceable under applicable law.
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to third-party web sites or services that are not owned
or controlled by the Company.
The Company has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content,
privacy policies, or practices of any third party web sites or services. You further
acknowledge and agree that the Company shall not be responsible or liable, directly
or indirectly, for any damage or loss caused or alleged to be caused by or in
connection with the use of or reliance on any such content, goods or services
available on or through any such web sites or services.
We strongly advise You to read the terms and conditions and privacy policies of any
third-party web sites or services that You visit.
Termination
We may terminate or suspend Your access immediately, without prior notice or
liability, for any reason whatsoever, including without limitation if You breach these
Terms and Conditions.
Upon termination, Your right to use the Service will cease immediately.
Limitation of Liability
Notwithstanding any damages that You might incur, the entire liability of the
Company and any of its suppliers under any provision of this Terms and Your
exclusive remedy for all of the foregoing shall be limited to the amount actually paid
by You through the Service or 100 USD if You haven't purchased anything through
the Service.
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, in no event shall the Company
or its suppliers be liable for any special, incidental, indirect, or consequential
damages whatsoever (including, but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, loss
of data or other information, for business interruption, for personal injury, loss of
privacy arising out of or in any way related to the use of or inability to use the
Service, third-party software and/or third-party hardware used with the Service, or
otherwise in connection with any provision of this Terms), even if the Company or
any supplier has been advised of the possibility of such damages and even if the
remedy fails of its essential purpose.
Some states do not allow the exclusion of implied warranties or limitation of liability
for incidental or consequential damages, which means that some of the above
limitations may not apply. In these states, each party's liability will be limited to the
greatest extent permitted by law.
Governing Law
The laws of the State of Maine, excluding its conflicts of law rules, shall govern
this Terms and Your use of the Service. Your use of the Application may also be
subject to other local, state, national, or international laws.
Disputes Resolution
If You have any concern or dispute about the Service, You agree to first try to resolve
the dispute informally by contacting the Company. If the dispute cannot be resolved
informally, you agree to submit all disputes exclusively to arbitration in Los Angeles,
California according to the rules of the American Arbitration Association.
For European Union (EU) Users
If You are a European Union consumer, you will benefit from any mandatory
provisions of the law of the country in which you are resident in.
United States Legal
Compliance
You represent and warrant that (i) You are not located in a country that is subject to
the United States government embargo, or that has been designated by the United
States government as a "terrorist supporting" country, and (ii) You are not listed on
any United States government list of prohibited or restricted parties.
Severability and Waiver
Severability
If any provision of these Terms is held to be unenforceable or invalid, such provision
will be changed and interpreted to accomplish the objectives of such provision to the
greatest extent possible under applicable law and the remaining provisions will
continue in full force and effect.
Waiver
Except as provided herein, the failure to exercise a right or to require performance of
an obligation under these Terms shall not effect a party's ability to exercise such right
or require such performance at any time thereafter nor shall the waiver of a breach
constitute a waiver of any subsequent breach.
Translation Interpretation
These Terms and Conditions may have been translated if We have made them
available to You on our Service. You agree that the original English text shall prevail
in the case of a dispute.
Changes to These Terms and
Conditions
We reserve the right, at Our sole discretion, to modify or replace these Terms at any
time. If a revision is material We will make reasonable efforts to provide at least 30
days' notice prior to any new terms taking effect. What constitutes a material change
will be determined at Our sole discretion.
By continuing to access or use Our Service after those revisions become effective,
You agree to be bound by the revised terms. If You do not agree to the new terms, in
whole or in part, please stop using the website and the Service.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about these Terms and Conditions, You can contact us by email sam@piercepatentlaw.com