Overview
Here at StartBusiness.com, the privacy of our visitors is important to us. We know how important personal information is to you, so we do our best to make sure your are protected.
Here is information on what types of personal information we receive and collect when you use and visit our site, and how we safeguard your information. This policy is based on our goal to provide our visitors with quality information and resources while maintaining personal privacy.
By visiting the Site, registering with us or contacting us, you signify that you understand and agree to the collection, use and transfer of your information (including your personal data) under the terms of this policy. If you do not accept, or do not wish to be bound by this policy, please do not use the Site.
“Personal data” is any information that enables us to identify you, directly or indirectly, such as your email address, name, shipping and billing address, telephone number, financial information, user names, any form of identification number or one or more factors specific to your physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.
Information We Collect From You
When you access our Site, we collect different types of information, described as “access information”, “contact information” and “third party information”, below. Some of the information we collect will be personal data relating to you, and we will be subject to certain obligations in respect of such personal data.
Access Information
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your geographic location, IP address, operating system and browser type, device type, bandwidth, etc. for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. Except as set forth in this policy, we will only share anonymized statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns from the Site which cannot be used to identify any individual.
We may also keep details of your visits to our Site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, time spent on the Site, number of pages viewed, referring web pages, the resources that you access and the date and time of access, etc. To the extent this information can identify you directly, or indirectly when combined with other information, it will be personal data and will be subject to this privacy policy.
Our Site uses cookies, web beacons, and other technologies in order to provide you with an improved browsing experience, to allow us to improve our Site and to serve targeted advertising. We may collect advertising information, including but not limited to, type of ads seen, number of times ads were served, pages where the ads were served, etc.
When you first access the Site, depending on your location, you may receive a message advising you that cookies and similar technologies are in use. By clicking “accept”, closing the message, or continuing to browse the Site, you signify that you understand and agree to our use of cookies.
Contact Information
When you contact us via the Site or otherwise (for example, by clicking a link to send us an email or if you telephone or write to us), you may provide certain personal data about yourself including your name, contact details and address which will be stored by us.
You may also give us information about you by filling in forms on the Site. This includes personal data you provide when you subscribe to our services, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our Site, enter a competition, promotion or survey and when you report a problem with our Site. The personal data you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, financial and credit card information, personal description and photograph.
You may also create an account on our Site and subscribe to our services using your social media profile. If you select this option, we may automatically collect selected personal data about you from your social media account. The personal data we collect depends on your social media privacy settings for sharing such personal data, and may include name, profile picture, age range, gender, language, country and other public information.
Third Party Information
We may also receive information about you if you use any of the other services we provide. We also work closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, search information providers, credit reference agencies, advertising networks, advertising exchanges, data management platforms, email newsletter providers, content recommendation platforms and analytics providers) and may receive information about you from them.
Depending on its nature, this third-party information will either be “access information” or “contact information”, as described above. We will take reasonable steps to notify you where your personal data is received from third parties as required.
The Way We Use Personal Data
Your “access information” is used to route the requested web page to your computer or mobile device for viewing. It enables us to provide you with access to our Site. We use this information in line with our legitimate commercial interests to administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, site analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes, to improve our Sit.
Your “contact information” enables us to provide services to you, or information tailored more specifically to your needs, or to forward your message or enquiry to another entity that is better able to do so. As such, it may enable us or our selected partners to contact you, for example, to respond to a query you have submitted to us. We will also use and analyze the information we collect so that we can administer, support, improve and develop our business, customer service and the features of our Site and our services generally. We will not share your personal data for marketing purposes without your consent.
Providing Information Is Your Choice
There is no legal requirement for you to provide any information at our Site. However, our Site may not work without certain “access information” described above. Failure of your browser to accept “cookies” will not prevent your use of our Site but may prevent certain features from working.
For any “contact information” that is requested on our Site, failure to provide the requested information will mean that the particular feature or service associated with that part of the Site may not be available to you.
How Long We Store Your Personal Data
We will only retain your personal data, in a form which permits us to identify you, for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for. We will retain and use your personal data as necessary to satisfy any legal, accounting or reporting requirements, to resolve disputes or to enforce our agreements and rights. In line with this policy, we will either securely delete or anonymize your personal data so that it cannot be linked back to you.
Email Policy
We offer email newsletters. If you no longer wish to receive emails, follow the “unsubscribe” instructions located near the bottom of each newsletter.
We will not share, sell, rent, swap or authorize any third party to use your email address for commercial purposes without your permission.