Who we are
Sinickas Communications, Inc understands that your privacy is important to you. We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personally-identifiable information as you use this website. This Privacy Policy tells you how we protect and use information that we gather from you. By using this website, you consent to the terms described in the most recent version of this Privacy Policy.
“We,” “our” means Sinickas Communications, Inc and its affiliates. “You,” “your,” visitor,” or “user” means the individual accessing this site. “This website” is https://www.sinicom.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Our contact form collects your name, email address, phone number, region and IP address. We use this information to respond to your inquiries, but not for marketing purposes. If you opt in to receive the Marketing Works Newsletter, we use your region to send you location-specific updates about events of interest to communicators.
Our newsletter subscription form for Measurement Works collects your name, email address, and region and sends it to our email service provider, Constant Contact. Subscribers to the newsletter receive a newsletter full of articles aimed at organizational communicators with a need to measure the effectiveness of their communication programs, and location-specific updates about relevant events.
The Ask Angela form collects your name, email address, and optionally your job title and the company you work for, in order to give you credit for your question if you provide permission to publish the response on the website. You will not be subscribed to the Measurement Works newsletter unless you check the box requesting it.
Form data is collected in the website database and emailed to Angela. You may request to see your form data or to have it deleted.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the sites. Further information on cookies can be found at: http://ec.europa.eu/ipg/basics/legal/cookies/index_en.htm
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
We also store a cookie to track whether you have consented to the use of non-essential cookies, namely our Google Analytics tracking code. This cookie (cookie_notice_accepted) remembers your choice for 1 month.
How do I change my cookie settings?
We show a cookie consent form to visitors when they arrive on the site. This enables you to disable cookies. In addition, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers, click on the following links:
To find information relating to other browsers, visit the browser developer’s website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
Sinickas Communications, Inc uses Google Analytics to track visits to this website. We have elected to have visitor IP addresses anonymized before they are sent to Google. Google Analytics sets the following cookies.
| Cookie Name | Expiration Time | Description |
|---|---|---|
_ga |
2 years | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
__gat |
session | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate. |
__gid |
session | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the website. |
See the Google Analytics Cookie Usage page for more details or read about Google’s compliance with data protection laws.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Our web hosting company, SiteGround, also collects server usage statistics for every website. Read SiteGround’s privacy policy.
Who we share your data with
If you ask a question via the Ask Angela form and consent to have the answer published, your name, title, and company will be included the the post on the website.
Data stored in our database (such as form entries) is backed up securely to Amazon S3 along with the rest of the website’s data. Measurement Works subscriber data is stored securely at Constant Contact.
Sinickas Communications, Inc does not rent or sell your information. We may share your personal information with authorized service providers that perform certain services on our behalf. These services may include processing credit card payments, delivering products and services, providing customer service and marketing assistance, performing business and sales analysis, supporting our website’s functionality, and supporting other features and promotions offered through our site. We will only provide these service providers with the limited information that they need to provide us with such services, including limited access to personal information needed to perform their functions. However, they are not permitted to share or use such information for any other purposes. When you enter into transactions with others or make payments on our site, we will either (a) link you to a third party who handles the transaction outside of our Site, or (b) share transaction information with only those third parties necessary to complete the transaction. We will require those third parties to agree to respect the privacy of your information.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
How we protect your data
While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our website for potential vulnerabilities and attacks and keeping all software up to date.
All information sent to and from this website is encrypted with Transport Layer Security, better known as SSL.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have filled out a contact form, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Contact information
You may contact Sinickas Communications, Inc. via our contact form, by telephone at 1.714.277.4130, or by postal mail at
24310 Moulton Pkwy
Suite O-123
Laguna Woods, CA 92637
USA