Privacy Policy

GrowthMine (“GrowthMine,” “us” or “we”) places a high value on your personal privacy. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) governs our online information collection, use, disclosure, transfer, and storage practices. Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using growthmine.com (the “Site”), and the ways in which we use this information. By submitting personally identifiable information, you consent to GrowthMine’s use of such personally identifiable information as described herein. Please read our Terms of Use for more information about our online terms and general policies.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

Personal information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact a single person. Below are some examples of the types of personal information that GrowthMine collects and how it may be used.

What personal information we collect

You may provide personal information to GrowthMine in several ways including, but may not be limited to: (1) subscribing to our newsletter or blog updates, (2) requesting information via our Contact Form, (3) posting a question or commenting on our blog posts, (4) submitting an entry for a contest or other promotion, (5) accessing resources, (6) logging in to the Site, thus requiring a user name and/or a password, (7) participating in an online survey, (8) registering to attend a seminar or any event, (9) emailing, calling or communicating with GrowthMine or it’s employees, or (10) any other business-related reason.

When you request information from GrowthMine and/or supply personal information through the Site that identifies you and/or allows us to contact you, you are agreeing to share such information, including your name, e-mail address, title, occupation, company information, industry, relationship to GrowthMine, reason for contacting GrowthMine, and any message you submit, with GrowthMine, its agents, representatives, and affiliates, and you should know that GrowthMine may disclose such information to its agents, representatives, and affiliates for marketing and promotional purposes.

How we use your personal information

GrowthMine may use your personal information to fulfill your request for information, deliver products or services to you, provide resources to you, publish your comments, process your request to attend a seminar or event, distribute updates or newsletters to you, send notices, develop, deliver, and improve our content, products, services, marketing, and advertising, and for other purposes as you may initiate or request.

Note, when you sign up for communications from GrowthMine, you will always be given the opportunity to opt out of receiving future communications. You may change your preferences at any time and will only be contacted in manners consistent with your stated preferences.

Collection and Use of Non-Personal Information

GrowthMine may collect non-personal information that is not directly associated with a specific individual. We may collect, use, transfer, and disclose non-personal information for any purpose.

We may collect domain information to enable us to analyze our visitors and how they use the Site. This data enables us to become more familiar with which people visit our Site, how often they visit, and what parts of the Site they visit most often. GrowthMine uses this information to better understand our users and to improve our Site, products, services, marketing, and advertising. This information is generated automatically as you navigate online and requires no action on your part.

In addition, our analytics trackers may also collect other information. This may include the operating system you are using, the Internet browser you are using, and the screen resolution of your computer.

If at any time we combine non-personal information with personal information the combined information will be treated as personal information while it is combined.

Use of Cookies and Other Technologies

We may use cookies or other technology to obtain certain types of information when your web browser accesses our Site. “Cookies” are small packets of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive for identification purposes. A cookie file can contain information such as a user ID to track the pages visited, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself.

GrowthMine may use cookies and other technologies to store pertinent user information during a session to speed navigation and keep track of items and to collect anonymous traffic data that we may use to enhance our Site and for marketing and promotional purposes. We also use cookies to control access to certain content on the Site, process certain requests that you make with us, and customization the next time you visit us.

The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive new cookies, and how to disable cookies altogether. Please note that by not accepting cookies, some pages may not fully function and you may not be able to access certain information on the Site.

Information Sharing and Disclosure to Third Parties

At times, GrowthMine may make certain personal information available to third parties that work with us to provide products or services, or that help GrowthMine with marketing and advertising. Personal information will only be shared by GrowthMine to provide or improve products, services, marketing, and advertising; it will not be shared with third parties for their marketing purposes.

Service Providers

GrowthMine shares personal information with companies who provide services such as email list management, transmittal of electronic updates and newsletters, information processing, providing products and services, providing resources, publishing comments on or blog, conducting research, providing customer service, other marketing and promotional services, and for any other purpose you may initiate or request. All third party service providers are required to protect your personal information.

Others

GrowthMine will also disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (1) comply with law or comply with legal process served upon us or our agents, representatives and affiliates, (2) enforce GrowthMine’s Terms of Use, (3) protect the rights, property or personal safety of GrowthMine, its employees, users of or visitors to the Site, and the public.

Additionally, in the event of a sale, merger or reorganization we may transfer any and all personal information we collect to the applicable third party.

Protection of Personal Information

GrowthMine has implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect your personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized GrowthMine employees and third party vendors are provided access to personal information, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this information as confidential. Despite these precautions, however, GrowthMine cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personally identifiable information.

We urge you to be careful and responsible when disclosing personal information online. We cannot control the action of our Site users and advise you to use your discretion in sharing information about yourself on the Internet. All information sharing is optional and done so at your own risk.

This Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you may disclose publicly in any chat rooms, blogs, message boards, or similar web pages, including those hosted on or linked to the Site. You should keep in mind that whenever you publicly disclose information about yourself online that information could be collected and used by people whom you do not know. GrowthMine bears no responsibility for any action or policies of any third parties who collect any information users may disclose on the comment areas, message boards, chat areas or other user forums, if any, on the Site.

Children

This Site is not directed at children 13 years of age or younger. GrowthMine will not knowingly collect information about children under the age of 13, and requests that no such information be submitted to us. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under the age of 13 we will take steps to remove the information as soon as possible.

Links to Third Party Sites

This Site may contain links to other websites. GrowthMine does not share your personal information with those websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to learn about the privacy policies of those third parties. When you access another website, use of any information you provide is governed by the privacy policy of the operator of the website you are visiting.

Consent and Changes to this Privacy Policy

By using this Site, you consent to the collection, use, and storage of your information by us in the manner described in this Privacy Policy and elsewhere on the Site. GrowthMine reserves the right to revise or update this Privacy Policy at any time without notice. Any material changes in the way we use your personal information will be posted on the Site. Therefore, we encourage visitors to our Site to review the current version of the Privacy Policy each time they return to the Site. The date of the most recent update is reflected at the bottom of this document.

Privacy Questions

If you have any questions or concerns regarding GrowthMine’s Privacy Policy, please contact us.

Last Updated: August 1, 2013