Privacy Policy
The Futurist NYC LLC is DBA The Future NYC.
(“The Futurist NYC", "we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting the privacy of those who entrust us with their Personal Information. "Personal Information" means any information pertaining to an identified or identifiable individual and may include, for example, email addresses, contact details and any similar information provided to us during our business operations.
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What does this Privacy Policy cover?
This Privacy Policy applies to The Futurist NYC and The Future NYC and its website, digital services, products, podcasts, and publications ("Media & Content"), and any other site or service including but excluding www.thefuture.nyc, www.thefuturist.nyc, TF Originals, The Prediction Paper, and any URLs including www.futureideasoftheyear.com, www.thegoldenagejournal.com, www.thegoldenageeconomy.com, www.goldenageherald.com, www.thegoldenagetimes.com, www.citizensofthesolarsystem.org, or site that posts or links to this Privacy Policy (collectively, the "Services").
By using or visiting the Services or otherwise interacting with us, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, we recommend that you review this Privacy Policy periodically.
What types of information do we collect?
We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
How do we collect information?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, as part of the process, we collect personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.
Why do we collect such personal information?
To allow our users to access various aspects of our Services, to communicate with and respond to our users about our Services, or to meet legal obligations, and provide you with the products, promotions, services, newsletters, and information you request. We may share this information with our affiliates and select service providers and partners that perform services for us.
Overview
• To provide and operate Services.
• To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with general or personalized service-related notices and promotional messages.
• To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services.
• To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
• To consider you for an employment position or to respond to an employment inquiry.
How do we store, use, share and disclose your personal information?
Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
• Third-Party Service Providers, their agents and vendors perform functions on our behalf, including, but not limited to, hosting, social media integration, marketing, analytics, content management tools, content syndication, billing, and customer services. These entities may have access to personal information if needed to perform their functions. If such access is required, the third parties will be obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of that personal information.
• Third Party Event Partners or Underwriters. When you register for or attend one of our events, we may share the information you provide at registration with our event partners or underwriters. These third parties may use your information to provide you with information about their own products and services. If you do not want your information used for these purposes, you can opt-out of such by emailing us at thefuturistnyc@gmail.com
• Business Transferees. We may sell, transfer, or otherwise share some or all of your personal information in connection with or during negotiation of any merger, financing, acquisition or dissolution, transaction or proceeding involving sale, transfer, divestiture, or disclosure of all or a portion of our business or assets, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership.
• Professional Advisors. We may disclose your personal information to professional advisors, such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers, where necessary in the course of the professional services that they render to us.
• For Compliance, Fraud Prevention and Safety. We may share your personal information for the compliance, fraud prevention and safety purposes.
• To comply with laws, The Futurist NYC may also disclose specific Personal Information when such disclosure appears necessary to comply with applicable law, a subpoena while managing a dispute, governmental inquiry, or other litigation process.
• We may also disclose Personal Information to our accountants, auditors, agents, lawyers, and other advisors in connection with the enforcement or protection of our legal rights or to protect the interests or safety of our clients, our clients' customers, employees, or others in accordance with or as authorized by law.
Our Services are not directed toward children, and we do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information online from children under the age of 13 without prior verifiable parental consent. If Futurist NYC learns that a child under the age of 13 has submitted Personal Information online without parental consent, we will take all reasonable measures to delete such information from our databases and to not use such information for any purpose (except where necessary to protect the safety of the child or others as required or allowed by law.) If you become aware of any Personal Information, we have collected from children under age 13 without verifiable parental consent, please contact us thefuturistnyc@gmail.com
In some cases, Personal Information that we process of users located in various countries, including in Canada, the EU, and Switzerland or relative to queries or visitors to the Services may be transferred to the United States or other countries that may not have data privacy laws that provide the same protection as the countries where you reside. You understand and expressly agree that your Personal Information may therefore be transferred, processed, and stored outside your country of residence, and therefore may be available to government authorities under lawful orders and laws applicable in such foreign jurisdictions.
How do you communicate with your site visitors?
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to collect fees or monies owed, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our company, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail.
How do we use cookies and other tracking tools?
By using our Services, you are accepting the practices described in our Privacy Policy including the use of cookies and similar online tools. When you use our Services, we, and our third-party partners (which provide content, advertising, functionality, measurements, or analytics for our Services) may use cookies, web beacons, SDKs, and other similar technologies to track your use of the Services.
What Are Cookies? Cookies are small text files that are stored in your device’s browser when you visit a website. Cookies make it possible to recognize you as the same user across one or more browsing sessions, and across one or more websites We and third parties use cookies for a variety of purposes, including remembering your sign-in credentials and preferences so that you do not have to input them each time you use the Services; allowing us and third parties to customize your experience using the Services, including by determining the most relevant content and advertisements to show you on our websites and elsewhere online; and allowing us and third parties to monitor site traffic and performance, so that we may improve our Services and your experience.
What are Beacons? Web beacons (also called “web tags” or “pixels”) are tiny graphics or scripts that communicate information from your device to a server. Beacons can be embedded in online or mobile content, videos, advertisements, or emails. They allow a server to read certain types of information from your device, such as when you viewed the beacon (and thus the content in which it is embedded) and the IP address of the device on which you viewed the beacon. We and third parties use beacons for a variety of purposes, including to analyze the use of our Services and (in conjunction with cookies) to provide content and ads that are more relevant to you.
What are SDKs? SDKs are third-party computer code that we may incorporate into our mobile applications that may be used for a variety of purposes, including to provide us with analytics regarding the use of our mobile applications, to integrate with social media, add features or functionality to our app, or to facilitate online advertising. For more information about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set on your device and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
Third-Party Content or Advertising Partners that provide content, advertising or functionality to the Services may collect or receive information about you and/or your use of the Services, including using cookies, beacons, and similar technologies. These third parties may use your information to provide you with advertising that is based on your interest and to measure and analyze ad performance, on our Services or other websites or platforms, and combine it with information collected across different websites, online services, and other devices. These third parties' use of your information will be based on their own privacy policies.
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The Futurist NYC will review and update its Privacy Policy as required. This policy is effective August 11, 2025. If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to request a copy of this Privacy Policy in another format, please contact us thefuturistnyc@gmail.com
The Futurist NYC protects your Personal Information where applicable. However, you should know that no website operator, including The Futurist NYC, can fully eliminate security risks associated with Personal Information and the confidentiality of any communication or material transmitted to/from the Services or via email cannot be guaranteed.
You can always limit the communications that The Futurist NYC sends to you. To opt-out of commercial emails, send us an email to thefuturistnyc@gmail.com