Introduction
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Simply Zest LLC (the legal entity for services provided The Business Growth Academy (BusinessGrowthAcademy.com), we start with a few fundamental principles:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
- We make all efforts to ensure that any of your personal information on our servers is secure and protected.
Below is our privacy notice which incorporates these goals:
If you have any questions about accessing or correcting any of your personal data or wish to raise a complaint, please contact us.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, BusinessGrowthAcademy.com collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The purpose of BusinessGrowthAcademy.com in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how BusinessGrowthAcademy.com visitors are using our website.
BusinessGrowthAcademy.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses (including for cybersecurity purposes). BusinessGrowthAcademy.com does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to BusinessGrowthAcademy.com websites choose to interact with BusinessGrowthAcademy.com in ways that require BusinessGrowthAcademy.com to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that BusinessGrowthAcademy.com gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for materials and resources disseminated by BusinessGrowthAcademy.com to provide us with a first and/or last name and an email address. Those who engage in transactions with BusinessGrowthAcademy.com – by requesting or purchasing access to BusinessGrowthAcademy.com products or services, for example – may be asked to provide additional information, including, as necessary, personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, BusinessGrowthAcademy.com collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with BusinessGrowthAcademy.com. BusinessGrowthAcademy.com does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
BusinessGrowthAcademy.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on behalf of BusinessGrowthAcademy.com or to provide services available at BusinessGrowthAcademy.com websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using BusinessGrowthAcademy.com’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. BusinessGrowthAcademy.com does not and will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, BusinessGrowthAcademy.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when BusinessGrowthAcademy.com believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of BusinessGrowthAcademy.com, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a BusinessGrowthAcademy.com website and have supplied your email address, we may send you an email to tell you about new products or services, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date with what’s going on with BusinessGrowthAcademy.com and our products and services. BusinessGrowthAcademy.com takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Our Data Processor
BusinessGrowthAcademy.com uses Infusionsoft as our data processor as defined in the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We have enabled the enforcement of additional controls made available by Infusionsoft to comply with GDPR. These additional controls assist in obtaining consent from users, an easy way to make sure that personal data can be made anonymous, as well as a ‘block’ feature to permanently remove a user from a list if necessary.
Your Rights
You have the right to update, opt-out (unsubscribe) and/or delete your personal data. This is typically provided for with a link at the bottom of our electronic communications with you. If you have any questions about accessing or correcting any of your personal data or you wish to raise a complaint, please contact us.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, BusinessGrowthAcademy.com may change this Privacy Notice from time to time, and in BusinessGrowthAcademy.com ’s sole discretion. BusinessGrowthAcademy.com encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Notice. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Change log:
January 6, 2021: Updated to reflect migration from VanessaShaw.com to BusinessGrowthAcademy.com
August 1, 2013: Initial version of privacy policy added to website
May 24, 2018: Renamed as Privacy Notice, updated for clarity and to address the entry into force of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).