Privacy Policy

At Passionate Business website, accessible from www.PassionateBusiness.net, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains the types of information that is collected and recorded by Passionate Business and how we use it.

This privacy policy mentions how Passionate Business uses and protects any information which you provide/volunteer, when you use/visit any area/portion of this website.

Last updated on- 26th Sept 2022

The website www.PassionateBusiness.net is committed to ensure that your privacy is protected. In case, you need to provide certain information, through which you can be identified while you are using this website, then you can be assured – that information would be used only in accordance with this privacy policy. 

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

This privacy policy mentions how this website (PassionateBusiness.net, “company”, “we”, “us”, or “our”), collects, uses and discloses information about you.

This privacy policy applies to the information which we collect, when you use this website, the content, the materials offered, the services offered (All collectively known as “Services”), as well as when you interact with us, through any means, or when you are using any kind of user interactive area of this website (eg. comments section, chat rooms, bulletin boards etc)

We will not distribute, lease or sell your personal information to any third parties, unless and until we have your explicit permission to do so, Or in case we are required by law to do so.

In case, you wish to receive any kind of promotional materials regarding third parties and ask us/tell us/provide your consent for this to happen, then we may use your personal information to send to you, promotional materials related to third parties, which we think you might find to be interesting/useful.

In case you believe that any information about you, which you have provided to us/we are having about you, is incomplete, incorrect, or in case you wish to have it deleted, then please write an email regarding this as soon as possible, at the below mentioned email address. We will try our best to correct/complete the information, or remove the information which you request to be deleted, as soon as possible.

We might change this privacy policy from time to time. If/when we make any changes, we would notify you by  revising the”Last Updated” date, which is mentioned at the top of this privacy policy and in some instances, we might also provide you with an additional notice. For example, by adding a statement to our website, or by sending a notification to you.

Whenever you use/access this website/services, or interact with us/participate in any user interactive area of this website, then we encourage you to review our privacy policy, so that you remain informed about the various information practices and the ways we can help to protect your privacy.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, (for example, by email), then we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information which you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

Collection of Information

There is some information which you provide to us directly. We collect that information.

You provide information during the following activities-

– When you create an account

– When you participate in any user interactive area of this website, or participate in any promotion, event, survey, questionnaire

– When you subscribe to any newsletter

– When you make a purchase

– When you request customer support/communicate via social media sites or otherwise communicate with us

Some examples of this type of information, are

– Name, Password, Email address, Phone number, Photo, Preference/interest data

Or any other information, which you may choose to provide.

Information collected automatically

When you use/access the website, then some information gets collected automatically. For example-

Log information

We collect log information about your use of the Website/Services. These include information about your Internet Protocol address  (“IP” address), web requests, access times, web browser, pages viewed, any links clicked and the pages you visited before navigating/coming to the website/services.

We also correct information about the mobile devices which you use,in order to access the website/services. For example – Model of the mobile phone(hardware related), operating system, version of the operating system, UID (unique device identifiers), information about particular mobile network and information about your use of our mobile applications (if any).

Log Files

This website follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this as part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Information collected by cookies and other tracking technologies

We and our service providers use various technologies to collect information.Information is collected using cookies and web beacons.

Cookies are the small data files, which are stored on your hard drive or in the device memory, that help us to improve our services and your experience, to see which areas and features of our services are popular, and count visits.

Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. For more information about cookies, and how to disable them, please see “Your Choices” below.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, this website uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.

Google DoubleClick DART Cookie

Google is one of a third-party vendor on our site. It also uses cookies, known as DART cookies, to serve ads to our site visitors based upon their visit to the website and other sites on the internet. However, visitors may choose to decline the use of DART cookies by visiting the Google ad and content network Privacy Policy at the following URL – https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

We may also receive information from other sources and combine that with the information we collect through our services. As an example, if you create an account, or log into your account, through any third party social media sites, then this website will have access to certain information from that website. For example, account information, maybe friend lists etc. In accordance with the Authorization procedures determined by such social media websites, we may also collect information about you, when you post any kind of content to our pages/feeds on third party social media websites

How we use your information

The information collected about you, may be used for various purposes, including the following-

– Provide, operate and maintain our services/website.

– Improve, personalize and expand our services based upon your feedback.

– Understand and analyse how you use this website/services.

– Develop new products, services, features, and functionality.

– Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes.

– Send you emails.

– Find and prevent fraud.

– Promote our products and services.

– Provide information about products and services.

– Upon your request, Deliver the products and services.

– Process transactions(if any) and  provide information about them, like confirmation, receipts etc.

– Provide information about updates, services, technical notices and miscellaneous service messages.

– Provide customer service, like Responding to your comments and feedback suggestions, reporting to your queries/questions and requests.

– To communicate with you in relation to the various products, services, promotions, offers, rewards etc. provided by various companies.

– To provide you relevant news and information about your requests/what we think might be of your interest.

– To monitor the trends as well as analyse the trends, usage statistics and activities which are in contention with our offered services.

– To use the information obtained,or provided from other sources, like social media sites, to improve the services, personalize the services, and to provide advertisements, or features, which are related to the user profiles or interests.

– To manage events like various promotions, contests etc. Process various entries and rewards.

– To provide any other related services for which the information was collected.

Sharing of information

We might share your information as below and also as described in this privacy policy.

– We might share your information with service providers, consultants, vendors etc. who need access to such information to perform services on our behalf, or carry out work on our behalf.

– When you use/participate in any user interactive area of the website/any area of services, then some of the information which you provide might be visible to others, like name, profile photo, comments and any other information which you choose to provide in any user interactive areas of the website.

– We may share your information in response to a request for information, if we believe that the disclosure of information is in accordance with, or is required by any applicable law,  regulation or legal process.

– If we believe that your actions are not in accordance with, or are inconsistent with our user policies or agreements, or to protect the rights, safety and property of the company/website/services, or any others.

– Your information may be shared In connection with, or during negotiations of, any sale, or merger of website/company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by any other person/another company; and with your consent, or at your direction.

– Features/Information related to sharing on social media websites

This website/services might offer the option/features for social sharing (sharing content on social media websites) and other integrated tools, for example – Share on Twitter, share on Facebook, Button for – Like on facebook.

These tools let you share the actions which you take on this website/with services, with other media and vice versa. Your use of such features further helps/enables you to share the information with your friends, or with the public, depending upon the settings you establish with the website/entity, which is providing this social sharing feature.

For more details and related information about the scope and purpose of data collection and further processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the specific related websites/entities, which provide such features.

Analytics Services and Advertising Services Provided by Other Entities/Parties/websites

We might allow other Entities/parties/websites to serve advertisements on our behalf across the internet and may also allow them to provide analytics services. These entities might use cookies, web beacons and other technologies, in order to collect information about your use of this website/services and other websites. This includes your IP address, the web browsers you are using to access the internet and the websites, the various pages that you have viewed, the time you spent on various pages, links clicked and conversion information.

This information may be used by this website and other entities, in order to track data, analyse data, determine the popularity of certain types of content, to better understand your online activity and to deliver advertising and other content which is related to your interests on this website/other websites and services.

For more details and information about various interest based advertisements, or in order to opt out of having your web browsing information being used for behavioral advertising purposes, by various companies which participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance, you can visit www.aboutads.info/choices

Our Advertising Partners

Some of the advertisers on our website may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Google

https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies.

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Passionate Business.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks use technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on this website, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that this website has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

This website’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Affiliate disclosure

PassionateBusiness.net is an affiliate of many online products, services and tools. Some links on the website may be affiliate links and Passionate Business may earn commissions for the purchases which are made by visitors visiting the site and making purchases through the links.

Security

This website takes reasonable measures to help to protect the information about you, from any loss, theft, unauthorised access and misuse, destruction, alteration and disclosure

Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

This website does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we will try to respond at the earliest, but it might take some time.

For any information, you may please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we will try to respond at the earliest, but it might take some time.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we will try to respond at the earliest, but it might take some time.

Your choices

You may access as well as update your profile information, correct, modify or review the same at any time, by logging into your account, or by contacting us via the Contact Us Page. In case, you want to delete or deactivate your account, then also, you may please contact us. But please note that some kind of information which you provide in any user interactive area of the website/through any services, may still be accessible. For example, when you submit comments in any blog post, chat room, bulletin board etc. And that we may continue to store information about you, as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain/preserve, cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.

Cookies

Many web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. In case you prefer, then you can also choose to manually set your web browser to reject, or to remove browser cookies. Please note that if you set your browser to reject or to remove, then this might affect the functionality or availability of our services.

Regarding promotional communications

In case you receive any promotional communications and want to opt out of such communications, then you can do so, by following the instructions in those conversations, or you can also reach us at our Contact Us Page. In case, you opt out of promotional communications, then we may still send you non-promotional communications. For example- communications related to your account information, or regarding our ongoing business relations/communications.

Contact Us

For any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us, through our Contact Us Page