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Business
Growth Specialists, Inc. (“BGS”) Online Privacy
Policy
(Last
updated
April 16th, 2008)
BGS
has established this Privacy Policy to explain how it protects and
manages the personal information that it collects from you (the
customer) online.
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1.
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Consent
for Collection, Use and Disclosure
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Your
use of the BGS website(s) and/or your registration for BGS and
associated company products and services constitute your consent to the
terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not
agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, please do not use the BGS or
related company websites.
BGS may
occasionally update this Privacy Policy.
When it does, BGS will also revise the
“last update” date at the top of this Privacy
Policy. In
addition, BGS will seek a customer’s prior consent, by email,
for any new uses or proposed disclosures of information collected from
the customer prior to the change.
BGS will notify customers by
email of changes to this policy that will affect
information collected from them in the future. In certain
circumstances, however, BGS will not inform and obtain the consent of
the customer, such as in connection with an investigation of a breach
of an agreement, contravention of laws, an emergency where the life,
health or security of an individual is threatened, the collection of a
debt or in compliance with the request of a law enforcement agency or a
court order.
A
customer may withdraw his or her consent for collection, use and
disclosure at any time by sending an email to privacy@businessgrowthspecialists.com. Please note that, if you
do, IMC may suspend its provision of products and services to you.
When you
unsubscribe, if you fall within the guarantee period for any BGS
product and you request a refund, the guarantee will be honored.
BGS
collects, at the time of your registration and your sign-on to any of
its websites, certain “personal information”
(information that personally identifies you) including but not limited
to your name, email address, home or work address, telephone number,
and information about your computer hardware and software (e.g.: IP
address, operating system, browser type, domain name, URL, access
times, and referring web site addresses).
BGS
has implemented this Privacy Policy to protect personal information
received from its customers, and to respond to any inquiries.
The Privacy Policy also provides that BGS will use appropriate
contractual means to establish a comparable level of protection for
personal information which is sent for processing by third parties on
BGS’s behalf.
BGS
has designated responsibility for your personal information to its
Privacy Officer, who ensures compliance with the principles in this
Privacy Policy. Other BGS individuals may be delegated to act
on
behalf of the Privacy Officer.
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3.
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Purposes
for Collecting Personal Information
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BGS
collects and uses personal information for the following Identified
Purposes:
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(a)
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to
understand customer needs regarding BGS’s services;
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(b)
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to
develop and provide our website(s) and our products and services for
our customers;
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(c) to fulfill your requests for
products, services or information;
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(d)
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to
communicate with customers and site visitors, when necessary, and to
inform customers of upgrades, as well as of other products and services
available from BGS, its associated websites and third parties;
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(e)
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to
allow customers to access limited-entry areas of the BGS’s
websites;
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(f)
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to
personalize some of our services and products for you and to deliver
targeted advertisements and offers from BGS and third parties;
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(g)
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to
bill accounts and maintain payment records;
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(h)
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to
comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or government
request;
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(i)
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to
respond to a legitimate claim, or to address our reasonable belief,
that you are violating the rights of any third party or any of the
agreements or policies that govern your use of the BGS website(s) or
any BGS product or service;
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(j)
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to
protect the services, products or rights of BGS, including but not
limited to the security or integrity of the BGS webite(s); and
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(k)
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to
identify and resolve technical problems concerning BGS’s
website(s), products and services.
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BGS
also uses personal information in an aggregate form (i.e.,
not individually attributable to you) for its business analysis,
operational, marketing and other promotional purposes.
If
we hire other companies to provide some products or services on our
behalf, then we will only provide those companies the personal
information they need for the Identified Purposes, and we will limit
their rights to use and further disclose your personal information as
appropriate in the course of their work for us.
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4.
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Limiting
the Collection of Personal Information
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BGS
limits its collection of personal information to only that information
which is necessary for the Identified Purposes. BGS does not
direct its site to, nor does it knowingly collect any personal
information from children under the age of thirteen.
When
you visit the BGS website(s), a cookie may be placed on your computer
or the cookie may be read if you have visited the BGS realted website
previously. BGS uses cookies to allow BGS to determine which
products and services you have already purchased so that BGS does not
provide redundant information to you, and, if you are an BGS affiliate,
to track BGS sales made to customers referred by you so that you can
receive compensation under our affiliate program. If you
choose to not have your browser accept cookies from the BGS website(s),
you may not be able to view all the text on the screens, or to
experience a personalised visit, or to subscribe to certain service and
product offerings on the BGS site(s).
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5.
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Disclosure,
Processing and Retention
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BGS
does not sell, rent or disclose your personal information to anyone
else, except:
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(a)
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to
someone you have designated to act as your agent, for one or more of
the Identified Purposes (listed in Section 2, above);
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(b)
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to
BGS’s employees, independent contractors, subsidiaries,
affiliates, consultants, business associates, service providers,
suppliers and agents, acting on BGS’s
behalf for any of the Identified Purposes;
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(c)
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as
necessary if BGS has reason to believe that disclosure is necessary to
identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be
causing injury to or interference (either intentionally or
unintentionally) with BGS’s rights or property, other users
of BGS’s website(s), products or services, or anyone else
that could be harmed by such activities; and
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(d)
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to
respond to judicial process and provide information to law enforcement
agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to
public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law.
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In
addition, as we continue to develop our business, we or our affiliates
may sell or buy other businesses or entities, or we may merge with
another company. In
such transactions, personal information may be one of the transferred
business assets. Also,
in the event that BGS or substantially all of its assets are acquired,
your personal information may be one of the transferred assets.
Your
information may be stored and processed in the United
States of America and/or Canada, or in any other country in which BGS or its
affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities. By
using this website, you consent to any such transfer of information
outside of your country.
After
your account becomes inactive (that is, if you request to be removed
from our database), BGS will keep your personal information in its
archives. Your
information will then be used only as necessary for tax reasons or to
prove BGS’s
compliance with any applicable law.
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6.
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Accuracy
of Personal Information
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BGS
will use reasonable efforts to keep customer personal information
accurate for the Identified Purposes,
and for minimizing the possibility of making inappropriate customer
decisions based on such information. Customers are
responsible for informing BGS about changes to their personal
information. You can do this by calling toll-free (North America) 866-897-3674 or sending an email to our
privacy department.
BGS will use new or updated personal information it receives from
customers to update its own records.
BGS
will use reasonable efforts to protect customers’ personal
information.
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Access
to Personal Information
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BGS
will afford you a reasonable opportunity to review the personal
information in your file, if you so request by calling toll-free
1-866-897-3674
(North America) or
in writing to:
Business Growth Specialists Inc.
1623 Military Rd. #497,
Niagara Falls, NY USA 14304
92 Caplan Ave., Suite 244, Barrie, ON Canada L4N 0Z7
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or upon request to the Privacy Officer.
If
BGS is not able to provide access to some aspect of a
customer’s personal information, it will provide reasons for
denying access such as; that by doing so would likely reveal personal
information about a third party, or that it is confidential commercial
information or attorney–client privileged communications, or
that the information relates to a breach of an agreement or a
contravention of law, or that its disclosure could reasonably be
expected to threaten the life or security of another individual.
Customers
have the right to request that inaccurate or incomplete information be
amended as appropriate, by contacting BGS or the Privacy Officer as
described above. BGS
will promptly correct such personal information.
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