Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.bizgrowthbase.com.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

When you sign up for our newsletter or use our Contact page, we collect personal information such as your name, email address, and any other information you choose to provide. We use this information to communicate with you, send you our newsletter, and respond to your inquiries.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Third-Party Services

We may use third-party email services such as Mailchimp or Mailerlite to manage our newsletter and other email communications. These services may process your personal data according to their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review their privacy policies to understand their practices. Here are links to the privacy policies of Mailchimp and MailerLite.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

In addition to the third-party email services mentioned, we do not share your personal data with any other third parties except as required by law.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

For users who sign up for our newsletter or submit information through our Contact page, we will retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Additionally, information collected through newsletter sign-ups and contact form submissions may be processed by our third-party email service providers for the purposes mentioned.

Security Measures

We are committed to ensuring the security of your personal information. We take reasonable precautions to protect against the loss, misuse, or alteration of your data. We ensure that our third-party service providers who have access to your data also employ security measures to protect your information.

Updates to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new policy on this page. You are advised to review this privacy policy periodically for any changes.