PRIVACY POLICY
Privacy Policy
Last Modified: .This Privacy Policy is effective as of January 31, 2023 (“Effective Date”).
The Privacy Policy applies to personal information that may be collected when you interact (a) with Victor Green (“VG”), (b) VG’s websites, applications and devices listed below, or (c) any commercial or sales outlets operated by VG. Protecting the privacy and security of your personal information is a priority at howtosucceedinbusiness.com, and we believe that a single, comprehensive privacy policy that is straightforward and clear is in the best interests of our customers and our businesses. As of the Effective Date this Privacy Policy covers the following: howtosucceedinbusiness.com and any of VG’s commercial or sales outlets.
By doing business with or interacting with VG in the manner described in this Privacy Policy at any time on or after the Effective Date, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy and you expressly consent to the application of this Privacy Policy to the collection, storage, use and disclosure of all your personal information as described.
VG reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time, but you can be assured that, should it be necessary to do so, we will always do so in accordance with the VG’s Privacy Principles of Clarity, Security and Integrity.
This Privacy Policy addresses the following questions: 1. What is the personal information that we collect? 2. Why do we collect personal information? 3. How do we collect your personal information? 4. How do we use personal information? 5. With whom do we share personal information? 6. How do we secure personal information? 7. How do we respect your choices about your personal information? 8. Whom do I contact if I have questions or concerns? 9. What other information about VG’s Privacy Policy would I want to know?
1. What is the personal information that we collect? Personal information is your name in combination with other information that we collect about you. For example, personal information can include your name in combination with your e-mail address, billing address, shipping address, phone number, or credit card information.
2. Why do we collect personal information? We collect your personal information to provide you with a superior customer experience and, as necessary, to administer our business. It allows us to provide you with easy access to our products and services, with a particular focus on the items and programs that may be of most interest to you. For more information as to why we collect personal information, please see the section below entitled: “How do we use your personal information?” Your personal information also allows us to communicate with you about special offers, promotions, and other marketing programs and news that may be of interest to you
3. How do we collect your personal information? (a) Information that you may provide to us As a general matter, you can browse in our stores and on our websites without submitting your personal information to us. However, there are a number of circumstances in which you may need to provide us with your personal information. The most common of these circumstances include:
Making a purchase or placing an order
Creating an online account
Posting a blog, or participating in an online interactive community
Contacting customer service
For your convenience, we have provided a summary description of each of these circumstances below.
Making a purchase or placing an order When you make a purchase or place an order in our stores or place an order online without an account, you may need to submit personal information to us.
Creating an online account You may now or in the future be able to create a password-protected website account to complete your online order. To create an account, we will ask you to provide us with personal information. If you use your online account to make a purchase or download, we will use the personal information stored in your account and/or require you to input additional personal information, such as credit card information, to complete your order.Contacting Customer Service When you contact customer service, we may ask you to provide, or confirm, personal information so that we can better serve you.
(b) Information automatically collected There are circumstances in which we automatically receive and collect information from you. The most common sources of this information include: Cookies Pixel tags or clear Graphics Interchange Format files, known as GIFs
For your convenience, we have provided a summary description of each of these circumstances below.
Information automatically collected when you visit our websites.
When you visit our websites, we automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. For example, we may receive and collect: the name of the domain and host from which you access the Internet; the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the computer you are using; the date and time you access our websites; and the Internet address of the website from which you linked directly to our sites. We use this information to monitor the usage of our websites and as necessary for our business. This information does not include personal information.
Information collected using cookies
Like many online retailers, we use cookies to personalize and enhance your browsing and shopping experience. Cookies are small files that we place on your computer’s hard drive to collect information about your activities on our websites. Cookies help us to: (1) speed navigation, keep track of items in your shopping bag and provide you with content that is tailored to you; (2) remember information you gave us so that you don’t have to reenter it; (3) determine the effectiveness of some of our marketing efforts and communications; and (4) monitor the total number of visitors, pages viewed, and the total number of banners displayed.
Browsers are typically set to create cookies automatically. You can choose to have your browser notify you when cookies are being written to your computer or accessed, or you can disable cookies entirely. If you disable cookies, however, you will not be able to place items in a website shopping bag, and therefore you will not be able to place an order with us online. Also, by not using cookies, some website features and services may not function properly.
Site Analytics: We may work with a third-party service provider to help us better understand how you use our websites. This third-party service provider will place cookies on your computer to collect information. The information this third-party service provider collects will tell us things like which search engine referred you to our websites, how you navigated around our websites, what you purchased and what traffic is driven by banner ads and emails. This information will help us to better serve you and provide you with more personalized information and product offerings. We do not allow this third-party service provider to collect your credit card information, e-mail address or password information. This third-party service provider may only use your personal information to perform services for us. This third-party service provider is contractually required to maintain all of the information it collects and analyzes for us securely and in confidence. This third-party service provider may not share your personal information with anyone else, or use it for any other purpose, except on an aggregate, non-personal basis. For more information, view this third party’s privacy policy.
Information collected using pixel tags or clear GIFs To help us understand the effectiveness of certain of our communications and marketing efforts, we may use “message format” and “message open” sensing technologies that use pixel tags or clear GIFs (which are also called web beacons). These technologies allow us to know if your e-mail program can accept HTML e-mails and, if it is, to: (1) send you e-mails in that format; and (2) determine if you have opened our e-mail messages.
Information collected from visitors from outside the United States If you are visiting howtosucceedinbusiness.com from outside the United States and provide us with personal information, please note that your personal information will be transferred, stored and processed within the United States. The data protection laws in the United States may not be as comprehensive as those in your country. By doing business or interacting with howtosucceedinbusiness.com, you are consenting to the transfer of your personal information to facilities located in the United States and other facility locations selected by howtosucceedinbusiness.com.
4. How do we use personal information? VG uses your personal information to provide you with a superior customer experience at our stores and on and through our websites and, as necessary, to administer our business. For example, we use your personal information to: Provide you with products and services and information, including the howtosucceedinbusiness.com website and online interactive communities, Digital Content and software, and display associated content and advertising; Provide superior customer service; Conduct research and perform analysis in order to measure, maintain, protect, develop and improve our products and services; Communicate with you about special offers, events, or new products or services that may be of interest to you; Customize and enhance our websites and advertising; Make communications necessary to notify you regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues; Manage our business.
5. With whom do we share personal information? Protecting the privacy and security of your personal information is a priority at howtosucceedinbusiness.com. VG DOES NOT SELL OR RENT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES.