February 17 & 18, 2023
Friday 12:30PM - 5:00PM
Saturday 11:00AM - 8:00PM
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, GA
Georgia World Congress Center
Atlanta, GA
Last Modified May 14, 2024
American Consumer Shows, LLC ("Company", "we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. ("You", "your", "user") means you as a user of our Services. Our privacy statement, which applies to all users of our Services, is designed to explain the types of personal information we collect, how we use it, who we share it with and why, and what we do to try to protect it ("Privacy Statement"). This Privacy Statement also describes the choices you can make about how we collect and use certain information. We encourage you to read our Privacy Statement carefully. This Privacy Statement is part of and incorporated into our Terms of Use. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Statement have the meanings given in our Terms of Use.
By accessing and using the Services you consent to our collection, storage, use and disclosure of your Personal Information (as defined below) and other information as described in this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Statement, please do not use our Website or provide any Personal Information to us. If you choose not to provide any Personal Information that is necessary for us to provide you with specific products or services, we may not be able to provide those products or services to you.
| What do we collect? We collect and retain certain Personal Information which is information relating to an individual that can be used to contact or identify the individual, such as first name, last name, e-mail address and phone number. You can read here to learn about the categories of personal information we collect. | Why do we use it? We use Personal Information received from Users of our Services and visitors to our Shows to communicate directly with you and to connect you with third party service providers who may provide services of interest to you. We provide further detail about our use of Personal Information here. |
| When do we share it? We share Personal Information when needed to fulfill our legal obligations, with our exhibitors, and when our vendors and business partners need it to perform under the contracts we have with them. We provide further detail about our sharing of personal information here. | How do we protect it? We've invested in a security program that addresses technical, organizational and operational matters. Our program includes incident response and vendor oversight components. |
| Your Privacy Choices and Rights You do not have to provide Personal Information to enjoy most of the features of our Services. You can learn more about that here. The English language version of this Privacy Statement is the controlling version regardless of any translation you may attempt. | |
You can use the links below to navigate to specific areas of this Privacy Statement:
"Personal Information" is information relating to an individual that can be used to contact or identify you or individuals about whom you enter information as part of your activities on our Website, such as:
We collect Personal Information from:
The categories of information we collect from each of these groups, and the ways in which we use it, differs.
Visitors to Our Website and Users of Our Services
We collect Personal Information from visitors to our Website and users of our Services to provide such visitors and users with Admission Passes to our Shows as requested through our admission, request for information and contact forms and to communicate other information or offers that may be of interest.
Our Exhibitors
Our exhibitors enter into contracts with us. That contract is separate from this Privacy Statement and has its own terms and conditions for notice of collection of Personal Information and governing our overall confidentiality, data privacy and data security obligations. As a result, those terms, and not this Privacy Statement, apply to the personal information of exhibitors.
Our Workforce and Job Applicants
We collect and retain the types of professional or employment related Personal Information you would expect an employer to have about its workforce and job applicants. We provide legally required notices of collection and describe our use and sharing of the personal information of our workforce and applicants in greater detail in confidential internal human resource manuals and documents accessible to members of our workforce, or by publication on the workforce/applicant portals and apps we use or operate. In some cases, such portals and apps may be operated by third parties who transfer the Personal Information to us. In those situations, the legal responsibility to provide notice usually rests with the third party, not us.
Vendors and Business Partners
Like all corporate enterprises, we buy goods and services, lease equipment and office space and attend industry events. In doing so, we interact with many existing and potential vendors and business partners from whom we necessarily collect certain Personal Information in connection with our contractual and business relationships. We describe our use of vendor and business partner personal information in greater detail in our confidential contracts with those parties or on the internal vendor management portals we operate.
Generally, we collect Personal Information in two ways: that which you voluntarily provide to us, and that which we collect through automated/technical means. We describe that type of voluntary submission immediately below and we describe our automatic collection here. By using our Services, you are signifying to us that you agree with this section of our Privacy Statement and that we may use and disclose your information as described.
Voluntarily Submitted Information.
If you choose to participate in, or make use of certain activities and features available via our Services, you will need to provide us with information about yourself. The types of Personal Information you will be submitting to us in those situations is almost always limited to basic identifiers such as your name, email address, mailing address and phone number. Here are some of the ways you voluntarily give us your personal information:
If you prefer that we not receive the above-described Personal Information, please do not submit your Personal Information to us. This means you should not participate in the applicable activities on, or use the applicable features available from our Services. Such participation and use are strictly your choice. By not participating, it may limit your ability to take full advantage of the Services.
Automatically Collected Information.
When you visit or use our Services, basic information about your internet/electronic activity is automatically collected through your browser via tracking technologies, such as "cookies." As just about everyone knows by now, cookies are small text files downloaded onto your computer or mobile device. Cookies allow us to collect your IP address and recognize your computer or mobile device and store some information about your preferences for using our Services or past actions, such as:
Additional information about cookies and tracking technologies is available here.
If you access our Services from a phone or other mobile device, the mobile services provider may transmit to us certain information such as uniquely identifiable mobile device information. That, in turn, allows us to collect mobile phone numbers and associate them with the mobile device identification information. Some mobile phone service providers also operate systems that pinpoint the physical location of devices and we may receive this geolocation data as well.
When you use our Services, we may allow third party service providers to place their own cookies or similar technologies in order to engage in the same types of collection we describe above. For example, we use third party "web analytics" services such as those offered by Google Analytics. For more information on how Google specifically uses this data, go to www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You can learn more about how to opt out of Google Analytics by going to https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, there's a category of personal information we may collect that does not fit neatly into the "voluntarily submitted" or "automatically collected" categories. If you use our Services and a third party mail service (such as Google's Gmail, Yahoo! Mail and the like) on your mobile device, you may have activated a setting that allows us to use certain technologies such as application programming interfaces, to automatically access (sometimes referred to as "parse") your mail as it relates to your use of our Services. If you did activate the setting allowing us to do so, our use of any information we receive from those technologies will adhere to their requirements of the publisher of the applicable technology. This includes, if we use Google APIs, adhering to the Google API Services User Data Policy and its Limited Use requirements.
External Sites, Apps, Links and Social Media.
We maintain a presence on one or more external social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, X, TikTok and LinkedIn. We may further allow the community features of our Services to connect with, or be viewable from, that external social media presence. Similarly, our Services may contain links to other websites or apps controlled by third parties.
We are not responsible for the content on, or the privacy practices of, social media platforms, or any third party sites or apps to which we link. Those apps, sites and platforms are not controlled by us and therefore have their own privacy policies and terms of use. To be clear: neither this Privacy Statement nor our Terms of Use apply to our social media presence or any third party sites or apps to which we may link. That means even if you take an affinity action (e.g., "Like" button) on our specific social media profile, and identifiers about you are automatically collected and given to us as a result, that collection and transfer is governed by the privacy policies and other terms of the applicable social media platform and are not our responsibility. If you have questions about how those apps, sites and platforms collect and use personal information, you should carefully read their privacy policies and contact them using the information they provide.
We use the Personal Information we collect only in the manner and through the means allowed by applicable law. That means we determine whether we have a lawful basis/legitimate business purpose to use your Personal Information before doing so. As stated in applicable law, such lawful bases/legitimate business purposes may include receiving express consent, operating our business, performing a contract, and complying with a legal obligation. More specifically, we use the Personal Information as follows:
We use the automatically collected Personal Information described here to compile generic reports about popular pages/features of our Services, and to see how Users are accessing our Services and in some cases (such as affinity actions) send materials to you. We use the Personal Information you voluntarily submitted, as described here, to respond back directly to you, to send you the information you requested or about which you inquired, and we may provide such voluntarily submitted information to third parties who provide services in which you may be interested. We also may use any such Personal Information you provide to customize our programs and newsletters to make them more relevant to you or to alert you when the next show will take place.
ADDITIONALLY, PLEASE BE AWARE THAT WE AND OUR AFFILIATES MAY CONTACT YOU BY EMAIL.
We will not rent, sell or share your Personal Information with third parties except as set forth herein. If you do not want us to use or disclose Personal Information collected about you in the ways identified in this Privacy Statement, you may choose not to use the Services or provide your Personal Information at any time. If you choose not to provide any Personal Information that is necessary for us to provide you with specific products or services, we may not be able to provide those products or services to you.
We may share your Personal Information as described below.
Affiliates
We may share your Personal Information with our corporate affiliates who will use such Personal Information in the same manner as we do under this Privacy Statement.
Exhibitors
We may share your Personal Information with our exhibitors who may contact you with information and promotional materials regarding the services they respectively provide, which would be subject to the exhibitors' privacy policy.
Legal Requirements
We may disclose Personal Information to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (b) enforce this Privacy Statement and our Terms of Use, including investigation of potential violations hereof; government authorities, and to other third parties when compelled to do so by such government authorities, or at our discretion or otherwise as required or permitted by law, including responding to court orders and subpoenas.
To Prevent Harm
We also may disclose Personal Information to: (a) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (b) protect our rights, property or safety, our Users and the public. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware prevention.
Business Sale/Purchase
If we, or any of our affiliates, sell or transfer all or substantially all of our assets, equity interests or securities, or are acquired by one or more third parties as a result of an acquisition, merger, sale, reorganization, divestiture, consolidation, or liquidation, personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
We may disclose your Personal Information to outside individuals and/or companies that help us bring you the products and services we offer and to create, operate, and maintain our Services. For example, we may work with third-parties to: (a) manage a database of customer information; (b) assist us in distributing e-mails; (c) assist us with direct marketing and data collection; (d) provide data storage and analysis; (e) provide fraud prevention; (f) provide customer service; and (g) provide other services designed to assist us in developing and running our Services and maximizing our business potential. We require that these outside companies agree to keep all information shared with them confidential and to use the information only to perform their obligations to us.
For any Personal Information our vendors and business partners process or store at their own locations, we expect them to use technology infrastructure meeting, at least at the facilities level, minimum recognized standards for security controls. Such recognized standards include those published by the International Standards Organization, the National Institute of Standards and Technology or any reasonably equivalent standards.
Please note, however, that we cannot guarantee that all of our vendors and business partners will agree to the above-described contractual requirements; nor can we ensure that, even when they do agree, they will always comply.
Use of Non-Personally Identifiable Information.
BASIS FOR CONTINUED USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION. Please note that, in certain cases, we may continue to process your Personal Information after you have withdrawn consent and requested that we delete your Personal Information, if we have a legal basis to do so. For example, we may retain certain data if we need to do so to comply with an independent legal obligation, if we still need the data for the lawful purposes for which we obtained the data, or if it is necessary to do so to pursue our legitimate interest in keeping our services and operations safe and secure. Furthermore, if we have already disclosed your Personal Information to third-parties pursuant to the terms of this Privacy Statement, we cannot access that Personal Information any longer and cannot compel the deletion or modification of any such information by the parties to whom we have made those disclosures.
Unsubscribe. You may opt out of: (a) receiving e-mail communications such as e-mail newsletters and promotional e-mails by following the instructions provided at the bottom of each e-mail, clicking the "unsubscribe" button at the bottom of e-mails we send to you; and/or (b) receiving promotional e-mail communications and newsletters by e-mailing us at: info@acsshows.com and including the word "UNSUBSCRIBE" in the subject text, or write to us at: American Consumer Shows, LLC, 6901 Jericho TPKE, Ste. 250, Syosset NY, 11791. Opting out of receiving Services communications will not affect your receipt of service-related and administrative communications, such as updates to our Terms of Use and this Privacy Statement as we must be able to communicate with you regarding such activities. If you do not receive a response from us to any e-mails you send to us within ten (10) business days, please send us another e-mail as your original e-mail may not have been received.
Google, Facebook & Apple. Our Services may use Google Analytics Advertising Features and its associated tracking technologies to help display our ads you see on other sites, and to help us manage and optimize our online advertising efforts. To opt out of Google Analytics Advertising Features, visit Google's Ad Settings page, currently located at https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous?hl=en. Services users can also access the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser Add-on, currently located at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout or http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. We may also work with Facebook and Apple to provide analytics in connection with our Services, including our mobile applications. For more information about Facebook's privacy practices, you may visit https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy, and for Apple's privacy policy, click here http://www.apple.com/privacy/privacy-policy/. You can manage your Facebook privacy settings and preferences by going to your account and navigating to the Settings & Privacy page of your account. You can manage your Apple privacy settings and preferences by going to Settings in your Apple device and adjusting third party application access and permissions, as well as adjusting your Analytics & Improvements, Advertising and to Location Services privacy preferences.
Ad Industry Opt-Outs. You can opt out of Internet-based and mobile advertising on your mobile device by visiting TRUSTe's Ad Preference Manager, currently available at https://preferences-mgr.truste.com/. You may can opt out of receiving online behavioral or internet based advertising by using the tools located at the Digital Advertising Alliance's consumer choice page, currently available at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) opt out tool currently available at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/. When using the ad industry opt out tools, note that: (a) if you opt-out we may still collect some data about your online activity for operational purposes (such as fraud prevention), but it will not be used by us for the purpose of targeting ads to you; (b) if you use multiple browsers or devices you may need to execute this opt out on each browser or device; and (c) other ad companies' opt-outs may function differently than our opt-out, and we have no control over the practices of any third parties. We do not make any representations or warranties about such opt-out services. Such services are independent from us, and we have no control over, or responsibility for their performance.
Cookies. You can opt out of accepting Cookies or disable them from your browser. The "Help" function on most browsers contains information on how you can set your browser to notify you before accepting Cookies or can disable them entirely. If you opt out of Cookies, you will not be able to take advantage of various features of the Services that are available to other users. For example, we may use Cookies to recognize you by name when you return to this Services so you don't have to login again and provide your password each time.
Federal law imposes special restrictions and obligations on commercial website operators who direct their operations toward, and collect and use information from children under the age of 13. We take those age-related requirements very seriously, and, consistent with them, do not intend for our Website to be used by children under the age of 18, and certainly not by those under the age of 13. Moreover, we do not knowingly collect personal information from minors under the age of 18. If we become aware that anyone under the age of 18 has submitted personal information to us via our Services, we will delete that information and not use it for any purpose whatsoever. We encourage parents and legal guardians to talk with their children about the potential risks of providing personal information over the Internet.
Shine the Light. Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the "Shine The Light" law, California residents have the right to request in writing from businesses with whom they have an established business relationship: (i) a list of the categories of Personal Information, such as name, address, e-mail address, and the type of services provided to that individual, and (ii) the names and addresses of all such third-parties that your data was shared with. To request the above information, California residents can e-mail us at: info@acsshows.com or write to us at: American Consumer Shows, LLC, 6901 Jericho TPKE, Ste. 250, Syosset NY, 11791. Please note that, under California law, a business is only required to respond to such a request twice in any calendar year.
Do Not Track.
Some browsers have a "do not track" feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. This is different than blocking or deleting cookies, as browsers with a "do not track" feature enabled may still accept cookies. There is currently no industry standard for how companies should respond to "do not track" signals, although one may develop in the future. At this time, we do not respond to browser "do not track" signals.
We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Statement from time to time. Please check our Website periodically for such changes since all information collected is subject to the statement in place at the time of collection. Typically, we will indicate the effective/amendment date at the beginning of this Privacy Statement. If we feel it is appropriate, or if the law requires, we'll also provide a summary of changes we've made.
If you have questions about our Privacy Statement or privacy practices, please contact us: