Privacy Policy

This Privacy and Data Collection Policy (the “Policy”) applies to your use of the Collectibles Investment Group LLC’s (“CIG” or the “Company”) website collectiblesinvestmentgroup.com, platform, and any other websites, applications, or services provided, owned, or operated by CIG (collectively, the “CIG Services”).  CIG respects the privacy of its users, subscribers, publishers, members, and others who use the CIG Services.  This Policy is intended for you to understand how CIG collects, uses, and discloses personal information and data from and about you to third-parties.  You may share personal information when using the CIG Services and that information may be collected, used, or disclosed by others who are part of that interaction.  By agreeing to this Policy by using the CIG Services you consent to the information handling practices described in this Policy.

Table of Contents

1. Personal Information CIG Collects.
2. How CIG Uses Personal Information.
3. CIG’s Disclosure of Personal Information.
4. Data Subject Rights. 
5. Account Closure and Deletion.
6. Third-Party Websites and Services.
7. Advertisers and Analytics Providers.
8. Do Not Track.
9. Data Security.
10. Retention of Your Information.
11. Privacy of Certain Minors.
12. Merger or Sale.
13. International Data Transfers.
14. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy.
15. Contacting CIG and its Data Collection Officer.
16. California Privacy Rights.
17. Personal Information CIG Collects.

CIG obtains information about you when it provides you with the CIG Services.  The Company obtains your personal information so that it can provide you with full access to the CIG Services.  If you do not provide us with such information, or ask us to delete it, you may no longer be able to access or use the CIG Services.

• User-provided Information:  You may provide CIG with information about yourself, such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number, credit card number, and billing information when you register for CIG Services, view or participate in certain content from the CIG Services, or otherwise use the features and functionality of the CIG Services.
• Automatically Collected Information: When you access the CIG Services we record and store certain information about your system by using cookies and other types of technologies. Cookies are small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters that are sent to your browser.  Other examples of such information CIG automatically collects include Internet Protocol address (“IP Address”), a unique user ID, device and browser types and identifiers, referring and exit page addresses, software and system type, and information about your usage of CIG Services.  Examples of how CIG uses automatically collected information include to: (a) update the CIG application on your system; (b) remember your information so that you will not have to re-enter it the next time you access the CIG Services; (c) provide customized advertisements, content, and information; (d) monitor the effectiveness of marketing; (e) monitor and store aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages accessed; and (f) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities.
• Information from Other Sources: CIG may obtain additional information such as demographic and statistical information from third parties and sources other than the CIG Services, such as advertisers or social media networks (such as Facebook or Google) for which you have approved our access. When you access the CIG Services through social media networks or when you connect the CIG Services to social media networks, you are authorizing CIG to collect, store, and use such additional information and content in accordance with this Policy.  The Company may also obtain information from third-party services regarding your use of such services, including about your use of the content you choose to broadcast or post through the CIG Services.  The Company uses this information to supplement the information we collect about you in order to provide more relevant experiences for you with the CIG Services.

2. How CIG Uses Personal Information.

CIG uses its users’ personal information to: (1) operate, maintain, enhance, provide, create, and develop all of the features, functionality, and services (new or existing) found on the CIG Services; (2) provide security for CIG’s websites, products, software, or applications; (3) manage relationships with CIG account holders (e.g., partners, affiliates); (4) improve your experience with the CIG Services by providing content recommendations and by delivering content that we hope you will find relevant and interesting, including advertising and marketing messages; (5)  allow you to comment on content; (6) prevent fraud; and (7) understand the usage trends of our users.

CIG uses your email address to communicate with you, including to notify you of major CIG Services updates, for customer service purposes, or to contact you regarding any content that you have posted to or downloaded from the CIG Services.  CIG may send promotional materials or notifications to you related to the CIG Services.  If you want to stop receiving promotional materials, you can visit your account settings once you have logged in to the CIG Services or follow the unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of any email from us.

In certain cases, CIG has a legal obligation to collect and process your personal information (such as our obligation to share data with tax authorities).  The Company may also ask for your consent to process your personal information for a specific purpose that we communicate to you. When you consent to our processing your personal information for a specified purpose, you may withdraw your consent at any time and we will stop processing of your data for that purpose.

CIG will follow all applicable laws when it processes your personal information, which may include, without limitation:   honoring contractual commitments, taking steps in anticipation of entering into contract, to fulfill legal obligations, your consent, and CIG’s business interests.

3. CIG’s Disclosure of Personal Information.

CIG shares your personal information as described below:

• CIG discloses such information to service providers working on our behalf, such as, to: provide website and security services; conduct data analysis and create reports; offer certain functionality; or assist CIG in improving the CIG Services and creating new services and features. We require that these parties process such information in compliance with this Policy, we authorize them to use the information only for the purposes for which it is provided to them, and we require them to use reasonable confidentiality measures.
• CIG may make information available to our affiliates (meaning entities controlled by, controlling, or under common control with CIG) that are either subject to this Policy or follow practices at least as protective as those described in this Policy.
• CIG may disclose user information if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to comply with U.S. state and federal laws or other applicable laws around the world (for example, in the country of your residence), or respond to a court order, judicial or other government request, subpoena, or warrant in the manner legally required.
• CIG also reserves the right to disclose information that we believe, in good faith, is appropriate or necessary to protect CIG from potential liability or from fraudulent, abusive, or unlawful uses; investigate and defend ourselves against third-party claims, or allegations; protect the security or integrity of the CIG Services; or protect the rights, property, or safety of CIG, our users, or others.

Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when personal information about you might be shared with third parties and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

4. Data Subject Rights.

You may decline to share certain information with CIG, in which case CIG may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality found on the CIG Services.

If you have created a CIG account, depending on the service, you may be able to update your profile information and preferences or disable your account by logging in and going to the settings page.  For other requests to review, update, delete, or otherwise limit CIG’s use of information that you have provided directly to CIG, you may contact admin@collectiblesinvestmentgroup.com.  In your request, please include your email address, name, address, and telephone number and specify all relevant background.

To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before granting you access or making corrections to your information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of your unique password and account information at all times.

5. Account Closure and Deletion.

If you would like to close your CIG account and delete your profile information, please email: admin@collectiblesinvestmentgroup.com.

For CIG Services, generally, you may update or delete information tied to your account, or close an account, by accessing the “My Account” area of the service.  If you close your account, CIG may retain certain information about you for the activities described in this Policy, or as permitted or required by applicable law.

6. Third-Party Services and Websites.

The CIG Services may link to third-party websites or services. The privacy practices of those third parties are not governed by this Policy.  We encourage you to review the privacy policies of these third-party websites and services to understand their practices.

If you connect to a third-party service (such as Facebook, Google, Twitter, or another third-party application) through the CIG Services or otherwise link your CIG account with a third-party service, you are requesting and authorizing us to share or grant access to information on your behalf (such as your username, the fact that your connection originated from the CIG Services, and other relevant usage and diagnostic information) with such third party. We may also send information about your activities on the CIG Services to such third parties.

7. Advertisers and Analytics Providers.

We may use third-party Web analytics services in connection with the CIG Services, such as those of Google Analytics, and its advertising features. These service providers use a variety of tracking technologies such as cookies to analyze how users use the CIG Services. The information collected (described above in “Automatically Collected Information”) will be collected directly by these service providers to evaluate your use of the CIG Services. For more information on how Google Analytics uses data from our websites and how you can control the information sent to Google, click here. To learn about opting out of Google Analytics, please click here. Because these opt outs are cookie-based, please note that if you get a new computer or device, install or start using a new browser, or erase or alter your browser’s cookie file, you may need to opt out again.

CIG may allow advertisers, third-party advertising networks and third-party advertising serving companies to serve advertisements directly to you within the CIG Services and other CIG websites, services, and software. By serving these advertisements directly to you, these companies can set their own cookies on your computer and trigger their own Web beacons and other tracking technologies to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements, and to collect and track information such as demographic information, inferred interests, aggregated information, and activity to assist them in personalizing the advertising content delivered to you. CIG does not provide information that is intended to identify you personally to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. However, if you respond to an advertisement that targets a certain audience (for example, males age 20 to 25 who have participated in certain promotions), the advertiser or ad-server may conclude that you fit the description of the audience that they were trying to reach.

This Policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the tracking technologies and activities of, other advertisers, third-party advertising networks, or third-party advertising servers. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these advertisers, third-party advertising networks, or third-party advertising servers. For more information about third-party advertising networks and similar entities that use these technologies visit: http://www.aboutads.info/consumers, and to opt-out of such ad networks’ and services’ advertising practices, for example, Google Analytics advertising features and Google’s use of cookies, go to the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page, the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page, or the Your Online Choices page.

8. Do Not Track.

Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in certain web browsers. DNT is a way for users to inform websites and services that they do not want certain information about their webpage visits collected over time and across websites or online services. We are committed to providing you with choices about the information collected on our website for third-party purposes.  However, CIG does not recognize or respond to browser-initiated DNT signals.

9. Data Security.

CIG uses a variety of managerial, technical, and physical measures to protect the integrity and security of your information. These measures may vary based on the sensitivity of your information.  However, no security precautions or systems can be completely secure.  CIG cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to CIG, and you do so at your own risk.  The Company cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

10. Retention of Your Information.

CIG keeps your personal information to enable your continued use of CIG Services, for as long as it is required in order to fulfill the relevant purposes described in this Policy, as may be required by law such as for tax and accounting purposes, or as otherwise communicated to you.

11. Privacy of Certain Minors.

IF YOU ARE UNDER thirteen (13) YEARS OF AGE, THEN PLEASE DO NOT USE OR ACCESS THE CIG SERVICES AT ANY TIME OR IN ANY MANNER.  You are expressly prohibited from doing so.

Protecting the privacy of young children is important.  CIG does not knowingly collect or maintain personal information (as defined by the United States Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) from persons under 13 years old.  If CIG learns that personal information of persons under 13 has been collected on or through the CIG Services, the Company will take steps to delete this information.

If you are the parent or legal guardian of a child under 13 who has become a CIG Services member, then please contact admin@collectiblesinvestmentgroup.com  to have that child’s account terminated and personal information removed from the CIG Services and destroyed.

For residents of the EEA, where processing of personal information is based on consent, CIG will not knowingly engage in that processing for users under the age of consent established by applicable data protection law.  If we learn that we are engaged in that processing with such users, we will halt such processing and will take reasonable measures to promptly remove applicable information from our records.

12. Merger or Sale.

In the event that CIG, or some or all assets related to the CIG Services are acquired by or merged with a third-party entity or in connection with a contemplated change of ownership transaction, we reserve the right, in any of these circumstances, to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users as part of that merger, acquisition, sale, or other change of control event, including in the course of diligence.

13. International Data Transfers.

Information collected by CIG may be stored and processed in your region, in the United States (for instance in our major data centers), or in any other country where CIG or its affiliates, subsidiaries, partners, or service providers are located or maintain facilities.  If we provide any information about you to any such entities, we will take appropriate measures to ensure such companies protect your information adequately in accordance with this Privacy Policy and applicable law.

14. Changes and Updates to this Privacy Policy.

CIG reserves the right to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Policy at any time (for example to reflect updates to the CIG Services or to reflect changes in the law). Please check this Policy periodically for those changes. Your continued use of the CIG Services after the posting of changes constitutes your binding acceptance of such changes.

We will not materially change our policies and practices to make them less protective of personal information collected in the past under a prior version of the Privacy Policy without the consent of affected individuals.

15. Contacting CIG and its Data Collection Officer.

For purposes of applicable data protection laws, CIG is located at 4836 East McDowell Road, Suite 102, Phoenix, Arizona 85008 and is a “Controller” and “User” of your information.

CIG’s Data Collection Officer is: Blythe Grace, PLLC, Attn: Robert S. Reder, 4040 East Camelback Road, Suite 275, Phoenix, Arizona 85018, (602) 237-5366, robert@blythegrace.com.  For clarity, only questions regarding this Policy, requests related to personal information or data, or reports of data breaches should be sent to the Data Collection Officer.

Any other feedback, comments, requests for technical support, or other communications should email  CIG at: admin@collectiblesinvestmentgroup.com.

The Data Collection Officer or its agents will respond to your inquiry within thirty (30) days of its receipt.  If you are a California resident, you may have this same information emailed to you by sending a letter to the foregoing address with your email address and a request for this information.

16. California Privacy Rights.

California law permits users who are California residents to request and obtain from us once a year, free of charge, a list of the third parties to whom we have disclosed their personal information (as defined by applicable California law) for their direct marketing purposes in the prior calendar year, as well as the type of personal information disclosed to those parties.