Privacy Policy
Introduction
GoSocialBiz (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the websites www.gosocialbiz.com, (our “Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
• On this Website
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
• Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.
• When you register for and/or purchase a course or other goods or services from the Company.
It does not apply to information collected by:
us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at [email protected].
Security of Your Information
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information and secure it. For example, we use online secure payment systems and deploy generally accepted standards of security to protect against data loss or misuse. However, no security measure is 100% guaranteed to be effective every time, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against interception or misuse. As such, the Company cannot (i) promise complete security of any information you transmit to us or (ii) prevent the use or misuse of your data. To that end, by consent to this Privacy Policy, you acknowledge that your personal information may be available, via the Internet, around the world. WE WILL NOTIFY YOU PROMPTLY IF THERE HAS BEEN ANY KNOWN BREACH OF OUR SECURITY SYSTEMS WHICH MIGHT EXPOSE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO A MATERIAL RISK OF MISUSE.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
Introduction: In general, we collect two general types of information from users which are stored in a secure
Database: voluntary information (such as name, e-mail address, billing and shipping addresses if applicable, phone, and credit card information if applicable) and automatic information (such as number of visits and browser used). Voluntary information is personally identifiable information that our users provide us. It makes it possible for users to purchase items, receive electronic newsletters and enter contests and other promotional opportunities provided through the Website. We also maintain a record of customer product interests and purchase history from our site in order to better supply products. This information is also necessary for us to process and ship orders, inquire our customers about purchases, and inform them about occasional special offers. Automatic information is non-personally identifiable information that we receive and store whenever you interact with us. As with many other websites, we use “cookies” which are small data files stored on your computer. Consistent with this, we collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information: by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, shipping address if different, e-mail address, telephone number, demographic information like your age, gender, or hometown, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”); that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or about your internet connection, browser type, number of visits, the equipment you use to access our Website including any referral website (for example, if you come to our Website via a link from another website, the location of the referral is noted which is used to help us know where some of our users come from), and usage details. If you use our Website via a mobile device or app, we may collect information about your mobile device, including device ID, phone number, your country of origin, model and manufacturer, and location information.
We collect this information:
• Directly from you when you provide it to us (voluntary information).
• Automatically as you navigate through the site (automatic information). Information collected automatically may include usage details, browser type, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
• From third parties, for example, our business partners.
Information You Provide to Us.
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or by registering for or purchasing a course or other services or goods from the Company. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website or take a course, subscribing to any of our services or publications (such as a blog or newsletter), posting material, or purchasing an item for sale through the Website, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.
• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
• Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders, including financial information such as data related to your payment method including credit card or bank transfer details. (You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.) We collect financial information in order to allow you to purchase, order, return or exchange products or services from us. We store limited financial information. Most financial data is transferred to our payment processors, Stripe, and You should review these processors’ Privacy Policy to determine how they use, disclose and protect your financial data. We accept no responsibility for the validity or stated privacy policy of any of our payment processors.
• Social Networking Data: We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter, Snapchat or other social networking sites or apps not named specifically here, which may include your name, your social network username, location, email address, age, gender, profile picture and any other public information. If you do not want us to access this information, please go to the specific social networking site and change your privacy settings.
• Your search queries on the Website.
You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted”) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions”). For example, if you interact with others on our Website, such as participating in a group chat or a group online course, other users may have access to some of your data, including your name, profile picture, and your history of interaction with our website, such as prior comments or posts. Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although we limit access to certain pages, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
The Website uses automatic data collection technologies of third parties to help us recognize your device and understand how you use our Website so that we can improve our services to reflect your interests. Thus, as you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use such automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, browsing activity, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Measure and analyze the performance of any advertising campaign.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer (specifically, a small text file sent to us by your computer). We may use cookies to authenticate your identity, to determine if you are logged onto our Website, for personalization, for security, for targeted advertising, or for analysis of the performance of our website and services. For example, cookies allow us to recommend blog posts to you based on what you have read on our site in the past. We use cookies that are not specific to your account but unique enough to allow us to analyze general trends and use, and to customize your interaction with our website. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. However, you may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. If you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website, including preventing you from making purchases from the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website. If you do not disable cookies on your browser, by continuing to use our Website you are consenting to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy.
• Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• Log Files. Like many other websites, we make use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
• Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
• Third Party Software-Sourced Automatic Data Collection Technology. In addition, we may use third-party software to post advertisements on our Website or mobile app to oversee marketing or email campaigns or manage other company initiatives. These thirdparty software may use cookies or similar tracking technology. We have no control over these third parties or their use of cookies. For more information on opting out of interest based ads, visit the Network Advertising Initiative Opt-Out Tool (https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1).
We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.
Privacy Related to Sale of Goods via the Website
We gather certain types of information in an effort to improve your shopping experience and to communicate with you about our products, services, courses, and promotions. Third party companies may be used to facilitate fulfillment, shipping, marketing, customer service, payment processing, and other functions necessary to provide the most rewarding experience to our customers. Information shared with these companies is handled securely and with the highest degree of care.
Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly. For information about how you can opt out of receiving targeted advertising from many providers, see Choices About
How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
• To present our Website and its contents to you, including to troubleshoot any technical problems associated with the Website or its contents.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, including to assist with the delivery of any products or services purchased by you from us.
• To deliver targeted advertising. We may use third party advertising companies to run and manage our ads or to produce ads that appears when you visit our Website. These companies may use information about your visit to our Website and other websites that are contained in web cookies (as described below) to offer you personalized advertisements about goods and services that might interest you. We cannot control the activities of such other advertisers or web sites. You should consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party advertisers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, such as to process payments or refunds.
• To correspond with you, including to request feedback from you, send you a newsletter or other updates about the Company, or provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it, such as to contact you about new offerings that we think you will be interested in or notify you of updates to our product, course, and service offerings.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website, such as to generate a profile that is personalized to you or facilitate the creation and administration of your customer account.
• To administer contests or giveaways.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• To assist law enforcement as necessary.
• To compile anonymous statistical data for our own use or for a third party’s use and/or analyze trends to improve our Website and offerings.
• To prevent fraudulent activity.
• For any other purpose with your consent.
We may also use your information to contact you about our own and third-parties’ goods and services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, the corresponding order or registration form, and/or adjust your user preferences in your account profile. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. This could include, but not be limited to, disclosure to third parties who assist us with various tasks, including payment processing, hosting services, email delivery and customer service. We may not always disclose these third party processors if not required by law.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred. However, In the event that our company is sold, goes out of or ceases doing business or enters bankruptcy, your information may be an asset that is transferred to a third party successor. Such a successor is not bound by our Privacy Policy and may have its own. You will be notified in the event our Company is sold, goes out of or ceases doing business or enters bankruptcy.
• To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them. For more information, see Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you give us an email address to use the “email a friend” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information. With your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information:
• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our Terms of Use or Terms of Sale, each of which is incorporated herein by this reference, and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising
If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, or the applicable order or registration form. You can also always opt-out by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to _____________.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address, contact information, or other information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, the applicable order or registration form, or at any other time by logging into the Website and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an email stating your request to ___________. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product, service, or course purchase, or other transactions.
Targeted Advertising. If you (i) do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences or (ii) want to opt out of receiving any third party marketing communications or our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, you can opt-out by contacting us at [email protected] For this opt-out to function, you must have your browser set to accept browser cookies.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at [email protected] to request access to, correction, or deletion of any personal information or other data that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. There are, however, exceptions to your right to request deletion of your information or data, such as when keeping your data is required by law, is necessary to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, is required for compliance with a legal obligation, or is necessary for the exercise or defense of legal claims.
If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other Website users. Proper access and use of information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms of Use.
Hyperlinks
Our Website may include hyperlinks to other websites not controlled by us. We suggest you exercise caution when clicking on a hyperlink. Although we use reasonable care in including a hyperlink on our own web page, we do not regularly monitor the websites of these third parties, are not responsible for any damage or consequences you suffer by using these hyperlinks. We are not bound by the Privacy Policies of any third-party website that you access by a hyperlink, nor are they bound by ours. We encourage you to read the Policies of those third-party websites before interacting with them or making purchases. They may collect different information and by different methods than we do.
Data Retention
We retain personal information as long as it is needed to conduct our legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations, or until you ask us to delete your personal information. For example. we will retain certain personal information indefinitely for the purposes of maintaining your account, unless and until you delete your account. Information that we gather for a specific and particular purpose, such as assisting law enforcement or analyzing trends, will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that particular purpose. Personal information that is no longer needed by us for any of the purposes listed above will be permanently deleted.
Collection of Data
Our site uses technologies of third-party partners [such as NextRoll] to help us recognize your device and understand how you use our site(s) so that we can improve our services to reflect your interests and serve you advertisements about the [products and/or services] that are likely to be of more interest to you. Specifically, [NextRoll/these partners] collect information about your activity on our site(s) to enable us to:
• measure and analyze traffic and browsing activity on our site(s);
• show advertisements for our products and/or services to you on third-party sites;
• measure and analyze the performance of our advertising campaigns;
• We may share data, such as hashed email derived from emails or other online identifiers collected on our site(s) with [NextRoll/ our advertising partners]. This allows our partners to recognize and deliver you ads across devices and browsers. To read more about the technologies used by [NextRoll/our partner] and their cross device capabilities please refer to NextRoll’s Privacy Notice.