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Privacy Statement, effective as of January 1, 2016

Privacy is important to us. BusinessPlanCourse.net (“BusinessPlanCourse.net” or the “Company”) is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals who visit the Company’s Web sites (“Visitors”), individuals who register to use the Services as defined below (“Customers”), and individuals who register to attend the Company’s corporate events (“Attendees”). This Privacy Statement describes BusinessPlanCourse.net’s privacy practices in relation to the use of the Company’s Web sites and the related applications and services offered by BusinessPlanCourse.net (the “Services”).

  1. Web sites covered

This Privacy Statement covers the information practices of https://www.BusinessPlanCourse.net; We may add other websites in the future which will be updated in this location and may be done so with out notice. Collectively all websites are referred to as “BusinessPlanCourse.net’s Web sites” or “the Company’s Web sites”.

BusinessPlanCourse.net’s Web sites may contain links to other Web sites. The information practices or the content of such other Web sites is governed by the privacy statements of such other Web sites. The Company encourages you to review the privacy statements of other Web sites to understand their information practices.

  1. Information collected

When expressing an interest in obtaining additional information about the Services or registering to use the Services, BusinessPlanCourse.net requires you to provide the Company with personal contact information, such as name, company name, address, phone number, and email address (“Required Contact Information”). When purchasing the Services, BusinessPlanCourse.net may require you to provide the Company with financial qualification and billing information, such as billing name and address, credit card number, and the number of employees within the organization that will be using the Services (“Billing Information”). BusinessPlanCourse.net may also ask you to provide additional information, such as company annual revenues, number of employees, or industry (“Optional Information”). Required Contact Information, Billing Information, and Optional Information about Customers are referred to collectively as “Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers”, or in the case of Attendees, “Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees”.

As you navigate the Company’s Web sites, BusinessPlanCourse.net may also collect information through the use of commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and Web beacons (“Web Site Navigational Information”). Web Site Navigational Information includes standard information from your Web browser (such as browser type and browser language), your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, and the actions you take on the Company’s Web sites (such as the Web pages viewed and the links clicked). For additional information about the collection of Web Site Navigational Information by BusinessPlanCourse.net and others, please see Section 4 below.

  1. Use of information collected

The Company uses Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers to perform the services requested. For example, if you fill out a “Contact Me” Web form, the Company will use the information provided to contact you about your interest in the Services.

The Company also uses Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees to plan and host corporate events, host online forums and social networks in which event attendees may participate, and to populate online profiles for Attendees on the Company’s Web sites. Additional information on the Company’s privacy practices with respect to Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees may be found in additional privacy statements on the event Web sites. Please see Section 6 below for more information on bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms provided by BusinessPlanCourse.net in connection with its corporate events.

The Company may also use Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers and Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees for marketing purposes. For example, the Company may use information you provide to contact you to further discuss your interest in the Services and to send you information regarding the Company, its affiliates, and its partners, such as information about promotions or events.

BusinessPlanCourse.net uses credit card information solely to check the financial qualifications and collect payment from prospective Customers and Attendees.

BusinessPlanCourse.net uses Web Site Navigational Information to operate and improve the Company’s Web sites. The Company may also use Web Site Navigational Information alone or in combination with Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers and Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees to provide personalized information about the Company. For additional information about the use of Web Site Navigational Information, please See Section 4 below.

  1. Web Site Navigational Information

Cookies, Web Beacons and IP Addresses
BusinessPlanCourse.net uses commonly-used information-gathering tools, such as cookies and Web beacons, to collect information as you navigate the Company’s Web sites (“Web Site Navigational Information”). This section describes the types of Web Site Navigational Information used on the Company’s Web sites and how this information may be used.

Cookies
BusinessPlanCourse.net uses cookies to make interactions with the Company’s Web sites easy and meaningful. When you visit one of the Company’s Web sites, BusinessPlanCourse.net’s servers send a cookie to your computer. Standing alone, cookies do not personally identify you; they merely recognize your Web browser. Unless you choose to identify yourself to BusinessPlanCourse.net, either by responding to a promotional offer, opening an account, or filling out a Web form (such as a “Contact Me” or a “15 Day Free Trial” Web form), you remain anonymous to the Company.

BusinessPlanCourse.net uses cookies that are session-based and persistent-based. Session cookies exist only during one session. They disappear from your computer when you close your browser software or turn off your computer. Persistent cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser or turn off your computer. Please note that if you disable your Web browser’s ability to accept cookies, you will be able to navigate the Company’s Web sites, but you will not be able to successfully use the Services.

The following sets out how BusinessPlanCourse.net uses different categories of cookies and your options for managing cookies’ settings:

Type of Cookies Description Managing Settings
Required cookies Required cookies enable you to navigate the Company’s Web sites and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Web sites and using BusinessPlanCourse.net Services.

If you have chosen to identify yourself to BusinessPlanCourse.net, the Company uses cookies containing encrypted information to allow the Company to uniquely identify you. Each time you log into the Services, a cookie containing an encrypted, unique identifier that is tied to your account is placed on your browser. These cookies allow the Company to uniquely identify you when you are logged into the Services and to process your online transactions and requests.

Because required cookies are essential to operate the Company’s Web sites and the Services, there is no option to opt out of these cookies.
Performance cookies These cookies collect information about how Visitors use our Web site, including which pages visitors go to most often and if they receive error messages from certain pages. These cookies do not collect information that individually identifies a Visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and anonymous. It is only used to improve how the Company’s Web site functions and performs.

From time-to-time, BusinessPlanCourse.net engages third parties to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit the Company’s Web sites. BusinessPlanCourse.net may also utilize Flash cookies for these purposes.

To learn how to opt out of performance cookies using your browser settings click here.

To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here.

Functionality cookies Functionality cookies allow the Company’s Web sites to remember information you have entered or choices you make (such as your username, language, or your region) and provide enhanced, more personal features.  These cookies also enable you to optimize your use of BusinessPlanCourse.net’s Services after logging in. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts and other parts of web pages that you can customize.

BusinessPlanCourse.net uses local shared objects, also known as Flash cookies, to store your preferences or display content based upon what you view on our Web sites to personalize your visit.

To learn how to opt out of functionality cookies using your browser settings click here. Note that opting out may impact the functionality you receive when visiting BusinessPlanCourse.net.

To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here.

Targeting or Advertising cookies From time-to-time, BusinessPlanCourse.net engages third parties to track and analyze usage and volume statistical information from individuals who visit the Company’s Web sites.  BusinessPlanCourse.net sometimes uses cookies delivered by third parties to track the performance of Company advertisements.  For example, these cookies remember which browsers have visited the Company’s Web sites. The information provided to third parties does not include personal information, but this information may be re-associated with personal information after the Company receives it.

BusinessPlanCourse.net also contracts with third-party advertising networks that collect IP addresses and other information from Web beacons (see below) on the Company’s Web sites, from emails, and on third-party Web sites. Ad networks follow your online activities over time by collecting Web Site Navigational Information through automated means, including through the use of cookies. They use this information to provide advertisements about products and services tailored to your interests. You may see these advertisements on other Web sites. This process also helps us manage and track the effectiveness of our marketing efforts.

Third parties, with whom the Company partners to provide certain features on our Web sites or to display advertising based upon your Web browsing activity, use Flash cookies to collect and store information.  Flash cookies are different from browser cookies because of the amount of, type of, and how data is stored.

To learn more about these and other advertising networks and their opt out instructions, click here and here.

To learn how to manage privacy and storage settings for Flash cookies click here.

Web Beacons
BusinessPlanCourse.net uses Web beacons alone or in conjunction with cookies to compile information about Customers and Visitors’ usage of the Company’s Web sites and interaction with emails from the Company. Web beacons are clear electronic images that can recognize certain types of information on your computer, such as cookies, when you viewed a particular Web site tied to the Web beacon, and a description of a Web site tied to the Web beacon. For example, BusinessPlanCourse.net may place Web beacons in marketing emails that notify the Company when you click on a link in the email that directs you to one of the Company’s Web sites. BusinessPlanCourse.net uses Web beacons to operate and improve the Company’s Web sites and email communications.

IP Addresses
When you visit BusinessPlanCourse.net’s Web sites, the Company collects your Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses to track and aggregate non-personal information. For example, BusinessPlanCourse.net uses IP addresses to monitor the regions from which Customers and Visitors navigate the Company’s Web sites.

BusinessPlanCourse.net also collects IP addresses from Customers whey they log into the Services as part of the Company’s “Identity Confirmation” and “IP Range Restrictions” security features.

Social Media Features
The Company’s Web sites may use social media features, such as the Facebook ‘like’ button (“Social Media Features”). These features may collect your IP address and which page you are visiting on the Company’s Web site, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. You may be given the option by such Social Media Features to post information about your activities on the Company’s Web site to a profile page of yours that is provided by a third party Social Media network in order to share with others within your network. Social Media Features are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on the Company’s Web site. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy of the company providing the relevant Social Media Features.

Do Not Track
Currently, various browsers – including Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Safari – offer a “do not track” or “DNT” option that relies on a technology known as a DNT header, which sends a signal to Web sites’ visited by the user about the user’s browser DNT preference setting. BusinessPlanCourse.net does not currently commit to responding to browsers’ DNT signals with respect to the Company’s Web sites, in part, because no common industry standard for DNT has been adopted by industry groups, technology companies or regulators, including no consistent standard of interpreting user intent. BusinessPlanCourse.net takes privacy and meaningful choice seriously and will make efforts to continue to monitor developments around DNT browser technology and the implementation of a standard.

  1. Public forums, refer a friend, and customer testimonials

BusinessPlanCourse.net may provide bulletin boards, blogs, or chat rooms on the Company’s Web sites. Any personal information you choose to submit in such a forum may be read, collected, or used by others who visit these forums, and may be used to send you unsolicited messages. BusinessPlanCourse.net is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums.

Customers and Visitors may elect to use the Company’s referral program to inform friends about the Company’s Web sites. When using the referral program, the Company requests the friend’s name and email address. BusinessPlanCourse.net will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the Company’s Web sites. BusinessPlanCourse.net does not store this information.

BusinessPlanCourse.net posts a list of Customers and testimonials on the Company’s Web sites that contain information such as Customer names and titles. BusinessPlanCourse.net obtains the consent of each Customer prior to posting any information on such a list or posting testimonials.

  1. Sharing of information collected

Service Providers
BusinessPlanCourse.net may share Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers and Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees with the Company’s contracted service providers so that these service providers can provide services on our behalf. Without limiting the foregoing, BusinessPlanCourse.net may also share Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers and Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees with the Company’s service providers to ensure the quality of information provided, and with third-party social networking and media Web sites, such as Facebook, for marketing and advertising on those Web sites. Unless described in this Privacy Statement, BusinessPlanCourse.net does not share, sell, rent, or trade any information with third parties for their promotional purposes.

BusinessPlanCourse.net Affiliates
The Company may share Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers with other companies in order to work with them, including affiliates of the BusinessPlanCourse.net corporate group.  For example, the Company may need to share Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers for customer relationship management purposes.

Business Partners
From time to time, BusinessPlanCourse.net may partner with other companies to jointly offer products or services. If you purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly-offered product or service from BusinessPlanCourse.net, the Company may share Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers collected in connection with your purchase or expression of interest with our joint promotion partner(s). BusinessPlanCourse.net does not control our business partners’ use of the Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers we collect, and their use of the information will be in accordance with their own privacy policies. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may opt not to purchase or specifically express interest in a jointly offered product or service.

BusinessPlanCourse.net does not share Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees with business partners unless: (1) you specifically opt in to such sharing via an event registration form; or (2) you attend a Company event and allow BusinessPlanCourse.net or any of its designees to scan your attendee badge. If you do not wish for your information to be shared in this manner, you may choose not to opt in via event registration forms and elect not to have your badge scanned at Company events.  If you choose to share your information with business partners in the manners described above, your information will be subject to the business partners’ respective privacy statements.

Third Parties
This Privacy Statement sets forth the information BusinessPlanCourse.net collects on the Company’s Web sites and the information we share with third parties. BusinessPlanCourse.net does not authorize the collection of personal information by third parties through advertising technologies deployed on the Company’s Web sites, nor do we share personal information with any third parties collected from the Company’s Web sites, except as provided in this Privacy Statement. Section 4 of this Privacy Statement, Web Site Navigational Information, specifically addresses the information we collect through cookies and web beacons, and how you can control cookies through your Web browsers.

Billing
BusinessPlanCourse.net uses a third-party service provider to manage credit card processing. You are subject to their terms of use and privacy policy. We make all efforts possible to assure the payment processor takes all precautions to protect and not sell your data.

If you choose to store your data with the third party payment processor you are subject to their terms of service, privacy policy and data security measures. Because we have no control over the their part we are not responsible for any failure of service or breach of data that may occur. For instance we may use Pay Pal for payment processing, as such they process and should you choose store your data under all their terms and conditions.

Should you have a recurring yearly subscription fee you are responsible for changing that setting in the payment processors site. Because we do not store your credit card information we do not control that functionality. Please see the payment processor site for information on how to cancel any recurring billing.

Compelled Disclosure
BusinessPlanCourse.net reserves the right to use or disclose information provided if required by law or if the Company reasonably believes that use or disclosure is necessary to protect the Company’s rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process.

  1. International transfer of information collected

The Company primarily stores Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers and Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees in the United States. To facilitate BusinessPlanCourse.net’s global operations, the Company may transfer and access such information from around the world, including from other countries in which the Company has operations. This Privacy Statement shall apply even if BusinessPlanCourse.net transfers Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers or Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees to other countries.

  1. Communications preferences

BusinessPlanCourse.net offers Visitors, Customers, and Attendees who provide contact information a means to choose how the Company uses the information provided. If you provide BusinessPlanCourse.net with contact information, you can manage how the Company uses your information by accessing your account and changing the preferences. You may manage your receipt of marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of the Company’s marketing emails.

  1. Correcting and updating your information

Customers may update or change their registration information by editing their user or organization record. To update a user profile, please login to http://www.BusinessPlanCourse.net with your BusinessPlanCourse.net username and password and navigate to account information. To update Billing Information or have your registration information deleted, please email [email protected]. To discontinue your account and to have information you maintained in the Services returned to you, please email [email protected]. Requests to access, change, or delete your information will be handled within 30 days.

  1. Customer Data

BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers may electronically submit data or information to the Services for hosting and processing purposes (“Customer Data”). BusinessPlanCourse.net will not review, share, distribute, or reference any such Customer Data except as provided stated pm BusinessPlanCourse.net, or as may be required by law. BusinessPlanCourse.net may access Customer Data only for the purpose of providing the Services or preventing or addressing service or technical problems or as may be required by law.

  1. Security

BusinessPlanCourse.net uses robust security measures to protect Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Customers and Data About BusinessPlanCourse.net Attendees. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the internet or data store connected to the internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, The Company cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit or which is stored via the internet. By transmitting any such information to the Company, you accept that you do so at your own risk.

  1. Mobile applications

Without limiting the generality of this Privacy Statement, in addition to information gathered through its Web sites or submitted to its Services, BusinessPlanCourse.net may obtain information through applications (“Mobile Applications”) that Customers or their authorized individuals (“Users”) download to, and run on, their mobile devices (“Devices”). Mobile Applications provided by BusinessPlanCourse.net may obtain information from, or access data stored on, Users’ Devices to provide services related to the relevant Mobile Application. For example, a Mobile Application may: access a camera on a User’s Device to enable the User to upload photographs to the Services; access the call history on a User’s Device to enable the User to upload that information to the Services; access calendar information on a User’s Device to enable the User to match meeting attendees with contacts submitted by the User to the Services; access the geographic location of a User’s Device to enable the User to identify contacts submitted by the User to the Services who are nearby; or access contact information on a User’s Device to enable the User to sync contact information between the information that is stored on the User’s Device and the information that is submitted to the Services. Information obtained to provide Mobile Application services may include information obtained in preparation for anticipated updates to those services. Mobile Applications may transmit information to and from Devices to provide the Mobile Application services.

Mobile Applications may provide BusinessPlanCourse.net with information related to Users’ use of the Mobile Application services, information regarding Users’ computer systems, and information regarding Users’ interaction with Mobile Applications, which BusinessPlanCourse.net may use to provide and improve the Mobile Application services. For example, all actions taken in a Mobile Application may be logged, along with associated information (such as the time of day when each action was taken). BusinessPlanCourse.net may also share anonymous data about these actions with third party providers of analytics services. In addition, if a User downloads a BusinessPlanCourse.net Mobile Application after clicking on a third-party mobile advertisement for the Mobile Application or for BusinessPlanCourse.net, the third-party advertiser may provide BusinessPlanCourse.net with certain information, such as the User’s Device identification information, which BusinessPlanCourse.net may use to track the performance of its advertising campaigns.

Customers may configure BusinessPlanCourse.net Mobile Application services, and the information accessed or obtained by the Mobile Application on a User’s Device may be affected by the Customer’s configuration. In addition, if a Customer purchases more than one Service from BusinessPlanCourse.net and its affiliates, a Mobile Application may be designed to interoperate with those Services; for instance, to provide a User with access to information from any or all of those Services or to provide information from a User’s Device to any or all of those Services. Information accessed or obtained by the Mobile Application on a User’s Device may be accessible to the Customer and its organization, depending on the intended functionality of the Mobile Application.

In addition to Mobile Applications offered by BusinessPlanCourse.net, the Company may offer platforms for the creation of third-party Mobile Applications. Third parties may obtain information from, or access data stored on, Users’ Devices to provide services associated with any third-party Mobile Applications that Users download, install, use, or otherwise interact with over a BusinessPlanCourse.net platform. BusinessPlanCourse.net’s Mobile Applications may also contain links or integrations to other Mobile Applications provided by third parties. Third parties’ use of information collected through third-party Mobile Applications is governed by the privacy statements of such third parties. The Company encourages you to review the privacy statements of third-party providers of Mobile Applications to understand their information practices.

Notices and contractual terms related to a particular Mobile Application may be found in the End User License Agreement or relevant terms of service for that application. The Company encourages you to review the End User License Agreement or relevant terms of service related to any Mobile Applications you download, install, use, or otherwise interact with to understand that Mobile Application’s information practices. The Mobile Application’s access to information through a User’s Device does not cause that information to be “Customer Data”.

  1. Changes to this Privacy Statement

BusinessPlanCourse.net reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement. BusinessPlanCourse.net will provide notification of the material changes to this Privacy Statement through the Company’s Web sites at least thirty (30) business days prior to the change taking effect.

  1. Contacting us

Questions regarding this Privacy Statement or the information practices of the Company’s Web sites should be directed to BusinessPlanCourse.net Privacy by emailing us at [email protected]