The LDC-IL Speech Data Collection Portal (in short the LDC-IL SDCP) values your privacy and is committed to safeguard your privacy online. This “Privacy Policy” explains how LDC-IL SDCP (collectively “LDC-IL SDCP“, or “We“, or “Us“, or “Our“) collects, uses and shares your personal information in connection with your use of speech.ldcil.org (the “Website“ or the "App" or the "Web App") and Our services, and explains your choices for how we handle your personal information. For convenience, the Website and Our services are collectively referred to as the “Services.” This Privacy Policy applies only to personal information of users of the Website or Services.
We refer to any information described above as “Account Information” for the purposes of this Policy. By voluntarily providing Us with Account Information, you represent that you are the owner of such personal data or are otherwise authorized to provide it to us.
Our servers may automatically record certain information about how you use the Website (we refer to this information as “Log Data“), including clients of Our services (“Clients”), Website visitors and Subscribers. Log Data may include information such as a user’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, device and browser type, operating system, the pages or features of Our Website to which a user browsed and the time spent on those pages or features, the frequency with which the Website is used by a user, search terms, the links on Our Website that a user clicked on or used, and other statistics. We use this information to administer the Services and We analyze (and may engage third parties to analyze) this information to improve and enhance the Services by expanding its features and functionality and tailoring it to Our users’ needs and preferences.
We partner with third-party service providers to use cookies or similar technologies to analyze trends, administer the Website, track users’ movements around the Website, and to gather demographic information about Our user base as a whole. Users can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.
The Website includes social media features, such as the Facebook Like button, and widgets, such as the Share This button or interactive mini-programs that run on Our Website. These features may collect your Internet protocol address, which page you are visiting on the Website, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the websites. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy statement of the companies that provide them.
If you have LDC-IL SDCP account, we use the information we collect about you (including personal information, to the extent applicable) for a variety of purposes, including to
We use your personal information as we believe necessary or appropriate to comply with applicable laws, lawful requests and legal process, such as to respond to subpoenas or requests from government authorities.
With your consent, we may use or share your personal information with your consent, such as when you consent to let us post your testimonials or endorsements on the Website, you instruct Us to take a specific action with respect to your personal information or you opt into third party marketing communications.
We do not share or sell the personal information that you provide us with other organizations without your express consent, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We disclose personal information to third parties under the following circumstances:
We share information, including personal information, with Our third-party service providers that we use to provide hosting for and maintenance of Our Websites, application development, backup, storage, payment processing, analytics and other services for us. These third-party service providers may have access to or process your personal information for the purpose of providing these services for us. We do not permit Our third-party service providers to use the personal information that we share with them for their marketing purposes or for any other purpose than in connection with the services they provide to us.
In certain situations, we may be required to disclose personal information in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. We may disclose personal information to respond to subpoenas, court orders, or legal process, or to establish or exercise Our legal rights or defend against legal claims. We may also share such information if we believe it is necessary in order to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, situations involving potential threats to the physical safety of any person, violations of Our service agreement, or as otherwise required by law.
Our Website may offer publicly accessible blogs, community forums, comments sections, discussion forums, or other interactive features (“Interactive Areas”). You should be aware that any information that you post in an Interactive Area might be read, collected, and used by others who access it. To request removal of your personal information from an Interactive Area, contact us at oic-ldcilATgovDOTin. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case We will let you know if We are unable to do so and why.
Upon request we will provide you with information about whether we hold, or process on behalf of a third party, any of your personal information. To request this information please contact us at oic-ldcilATgovDOTin. Subscribers to Our Services may update or change their Account Information by editing their profile or organization record by logging into their Account or by contacting oic-ldcilATgovDOTin for more detailed instructions. To make a request to have personal information maintained by us returned to you or removed, please email oic-ldcilATgovDOTin. Requests to access, change, or remove your information will be handled within 30 days.
An individual who seeks access to, or who seeks to correct, amend, or delete inaccuracies in personal information stored or processed by us on behalf of a Subscriber should direct his/her query to the Subscriber (the data controller). Upon receipt of a request from one of Our Subscribers for us to remove the data, we will respond to their request within thirty (30) days. We will retain personal information that we store and process on behalf of Our Subscribers for as long as needed to provide the Services to Our Subscribers. We will retain and use this personal information as necessary to comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce Our agreements.
If you are a Subscriber or otherwise provide us with personal information in connection with your use of Our Website or Services, we will delete this information upon your request, provided that, notwithstanding such request, this information may be retained for as long as you maintain an account for Our Services, or as needed to provide you with Our Services, comply with Our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce Our agreements.
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once it is received. If you have any questions about the security of your personal information, you can contact us at oic-ldcilATgovDOTin
We do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any personal information through Our Website or Services. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce this Policy by instructing their children never to provide personal information through the Website or Services without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided personal information to Us through the Website or Services, please contact Us at oic-ldcilATgovDOTin, and We will use commercially reasonable efforts to delete that information.
We may assign or transfer this Policy, as well as your account and related information and data, including any personal information, to any person or entity that acquires all or substantially all of Our business, stock or assets, or with whom we merge.
Our Website may contain links to other websites and the information practices and the content of such other websites are governed by the privacy statements of such other websites. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of any such other websites to understand their information practices.
A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard drive by a web page server. Cookies contain information that can later be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. Some of the cookies will only be used if you use certain features or select certain preferences, and some cookies will always be used. Web beacons, tags and scripts may be used in the Website or in emails to help us to deliver cookies, count visits, understand usage and campaign effectiveness and determine whether an email has been opened and acted upon. We may receive reports based on the use of these technologies by our service/analytics providers on an individual and aggregated basis.
LDC-IL SDCP and Our marketing partners, affiliates, and analytics or service providers use cookies and other technologies to ensure everyone who uses the Website has the best possible experience.
When you visit the Websites, We may place a number of cookies in your browser. For example, we use cookies on the Website to understand visitor and user preferences, improve their experience, and track and analyze usage, navigational and other statistical information. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level. If you disable cookies, you may still visit the Website, but your ability to use some features or areas of the Websites may be limited.
Marketing: You can opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our marketing messages. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages that are required to provide you with our Services.
Opt-out from Advertising Networks. We may use Google AdWords, a marketing tool from Google. To disable the cookies responsible for conversion tracking. To do that, set your browser so that cookies from the domain “www.googleadservices.com” are blocked. You can make this setting at: https://www.google.com/settings/ads. If you delete your cookies, this setting is deleted.
We may make available on Our Website, or link to, features that allow you to share information online (e.g., community forums, on message boards, in chat areas, in file uploads, through events, etc.). Please be aware that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online, that information becomes public and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over, and take no responsibility for, the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly-disclosed personal information. By posting personal information online in public forums, you may receive unsolicited messages from other parties.
If there are any material changes to this Policy, you may or may not be notified by Our posting of a prominent notice on the Website prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on Our privacy practices. Your continued use of the Website or the Services constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to this Policy. Your only remedy, if you do not accept the terms of this Policy, is to discontinue use of the Websites and the Services.
If you have questions regarding this Policy or about LDC-IL SDCP privacy practices, please contact us by email at oic-ldcilATgovDOTin.