Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is https://businessbronto.com.

Your privacy is very important to us. At Business Bronto we have a simple set of principles that we follow:

  • We will not ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
  • We do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We do not sell or rent out your personal information to third parties for advertising or other purposes.
  • We do not store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Website Visitors

Like most other commercial websites, Business Bronto collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Business Bronto’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use our website.

Business Bronto also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Business Bronto only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Business Bronto choose to interact with us in ways that require Business Bronto to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Business Bronto updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Business Bronto. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Collected Statistics

Business Bronto may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to this website. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on Business Bronto or use spam screened by the Antispam Bee service to help identify spam. Business Bronto may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Business Bronto discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees that need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services to users of this website. By using the Business Bronto website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Business Bronto will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, Business Bronto discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Business Bronto believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Business Bronto, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of an The Business Bronto website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on at Business Bronto. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via an email), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Business Bronto takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Business Bronto uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of The Business Bronto website, and their website access preferences. Business Bronto visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Business Bronto website, with the drawback that certain features of our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If the Business Bronto website’s ownership is transferred, or substantially all of its assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that Business Bronto goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Business Bronto may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on our website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Business Bronto and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Links to other other websites

Our website does contain links to other websites. Our site does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our website to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by Business Bronto.

Who we share your data with

We contract with third parties, such as Google Analytics, to supply products, services, and a good user experience on our behalf. These include payment processing, delivery of goods, search engine facilities, advertising, and marketing. Furthermore, visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

In some cases these parties may require access to some or all of your data, when that is the case we take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data will be handled safely, securely, and in accordance with the law.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Information collected using Google analytics is retained for 26 months.

Information submitted through forms, such as email forms or contact forms are retained until such a time as the data subject chooses to unsubscribe or invokes their right under GDPR to be forgotten.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Similarly, if you have subscribed to our email list, you can unsubscribe at any time and make a request to the site administrator to have all personal data obtained via our email marketing service erased.

If we send you physical mailings or short message service (SMS) messages or contact you via telephone, you can opt-out by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

Your choices regarding your personal data

It is important to us that you understand your choices regarding your personal information.

Opting Out of/Blocking Cookies.  Most browsers accept cookies by default.  However, most browsers will allow you to prevent accepting new cookies, disable cookies, and/or receive a notification when you receive new cookies.  If your browser has such functionalities, information on how you can change your cookie settings can typically be found in the help section of the browser toolbar.  Please note that if you do disable cookies, this may have an impact on or interfere with your user experience, including your ability to use or make purchases from the website, or receive personalized content.

Managing “Do Not Track”.  As required by the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we would like you to know that our systems are currently unable to recognize browser “Do No Track” signals.

Use of Personal Information.  You can request that we delete your personal information at any time by contacting us using the contact details provided below, subject to certain exceptions.  You can also (i) request to see your personal information that we have available on you, (ii) withdraw consent for our use of your personal information, (iii) review and request we rectify, change or modify your personal information, (iv) restrict or limit the processing of your personal information, (v) cancel the processing of your personal information and (vi) request your personal information and transfer it to another controller without any impediments on our part by contacting us using the contact details provided below.

Notice about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR Notice)

The information in this section, under the subheading “Notice About the General Data Protection Regulation”, applies to individuals covered by the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).  References to “you” and “your” in this section refer only to those covered by GDPR.  GDPR, which took effect on May 25, 2018, provides privacy rights for those inside the European Economic Area.

For the purposes of this section, “personal information” refers to any information relating to an individual which can be directly or indirectly used to identify such individual.  Examples include first name and last name, email address, identification number, information about location, ethnicity, gender, biometric data, web cookies, and religious or political beliefs.

Legal basis for processing information.  We may process personal information under the following conditions: (i) we have received your consent to process your personal information for one or more specific purposes, (ii) processing of your personal information is necessary to perform a contract to which you are a party to, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract, (iii) processing of your personal information is necessary to comply with a legal obligation we are subject to, (iv) processing of your personal information is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of you or another natural person, (v) processing of your personal information is necessary to perform a task carried out in the public interest or to exercise an official authority vested in us; (vi) processing of your personal information is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or a third party, except in certain circumstances where the need for the information is overridden by the need to protect the subject of the personal information (such as when the subject of the personal information is a child).

We are happy to let you know which legal basis applies to the processing of your personal information.

You have certain rights you can exercise under the GDPR, including the following.  Please note that this summary is merely provided for your convenience, but we do not warrant the accuracy or exhaustiveness of this summary nor should you rely on this as an accurate or exhaustive list of your rights.

  • Right to Access. You have the right to learn whether or not your personal information is being processed. If it is being processed, you have the right to access the personal information, and to learn certain information about your personal information, including: (i) why it is being processed, (ii) the categories of personal information we collected, (iii) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom we have or will disclose the personal information to, (iv) if possible, the amount of time we will store the personal information, or if not possible, the criteria we use to determine such period and (v) available information about the sources for personal information we collected.
  • Right to Correction. You have the right to correct any inaccurate personal information about yourself.  You also have the right to complete any incomplete personal information collected, including through providing an additional statement.
  • Right to Be Forgotten. You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information, which we will do without undue delay under certain circumstances. Examples may include: (i) where the personal information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, (ii) where you withdraw consent on the basis of which we processed your personal information, and there is no legal ground for processing such personal information, (iii) where you invoke your right to object (described below) and there are no overriding grounds for processing such personal information, (iv) where your personal information has been unlawfully processed and (v) where the personal information has to be erased to comply with a legal obligation.
  • Right to Restrict Processing. You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances. Examples may include: (i) where you indicate the inaccuracy of your personal information, (ii) where the processing is unlawful but you would like the processing of your personal information to be restricted as opposed to erased, (iii) where we no longer need the personal information for processing, but you would like it restricted for a legal basis, and (iv) where you invoke your right to object (described below).
  • Notification of Recipients of Personal Information. If you exercise your Right to Rectification, Right to Be Forgotten or Right to Restrict Processing (each as described above), we will convey that to each recipient we have shared your personal information with.  You have the right to request we provide you with a list of all recipients we have notified.
  • Right to Data Portability. You have the right to request your personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
  • Right to Object. You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information under certain circumstances. Examples may include: (i) where the personal information is being processed on grounds relating to your personal situation, where the legal grounds for processing such personal information falls under categories (v) and (vi) as described in the sub-section titled “Legal basis for processing information” and (ii) where the personal information is processed for direct marketing purposes.
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
  • Right to Be Informed About International Transfers. You have the right to be informed about the international transfer of your personal information and safeguards in place.  Please read the section of this Privacy Policy titled “International Data, Transfers and Processing”.
  • Right To Object to Profiling. We may use automated decision-making in operating our website.  You have the right not to be subjected to any decisions arising from automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

To exercise any of your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.  We are required to verify the identity of anyone who makes any request.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS (CCPA NOTICE)

The information in this section, under the subheading “Notice to California Residents”, applies to residents of California.  References to “you” and “your” in this section refer only to residents of California.  The California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”), which took effect on January 1, 2020, provides privacy rights for residents of California.  Please refer to the referenced sections in this Privacy Policy for details on the following, which you have a right to know under the CCPA:

  • To review information on the categories of personal information and the categories of sources from which we collect, use, store and share personal information, read the section of this Privacy Policy titled “Gathering of Personally Identifiable Information”.
  • To review information on the categories of third parties we share personal information, read the section of this Privacy Policy titled “Who we share your data with”.

As a California resident, you have certain rights you can exercise under the CCPA, including the following.  Please note that this summary is merely provided for your convenience, but we do not warrant the accuracy or exhaustiveness of this summary nor should you rely on this as an accurate or exhaustive list of your rights.

  • Right to Know. You have the right to obtain from us certain information about our collection of your personal information over the past 12 month period, including: (i) the categories of personal information we collected, (ii) the specific pieces of your personal information we collected, (iii) the categories of sources for the personal information we collected, (iv) our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information, (v) the categories of third parties with whom we share that personal information, and (vi) if we sold or disclosed your personal information, then (a) a list disclosing the categories of personal information involved in sales and the categories of third parties to whom we sold your personal information and (b) a list disclosing categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose and the categories of third parties with whom we shared your personal information.  You have the right to obtain this information from us, free of charge, twice each year.
  • Right to Delete. You have the right to request that we delete your personal information that we have collected, subject to certain exceptions.  When you contact us, please let us know the information you are requesting we remove, update, correct or amend, and the timeframe and manner in which you believe we came to collect such information.
  • Right to Opt-Out. You have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information.  We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information to any third parties, as we value your privacy.  Therefore, no request to opt-out of sale is necessary.
  • Right to Non-Discrimination. You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us for exercising your rights under the CCPA.  We will not discriminate against you in any way for exercising any of the rights available to you under the CCPA, including by denying you goods or services, charging you different prices or rates, providing you with a lesser quality of goods or services or suggesting that you would receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different quality of goods or services.

To exercise any of your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.  We are required to verify the identity of anyone who makes any request.

NOTICE TO CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS (California’s “Shine the Light” Law)

We do not share your personal information with third parties who we know or have reason to know may use your personal information for “direct marketing purposes” as contemplated by California’s “Shine the Light” law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83).

NOTICE TO NEVADA RESIDENTS

We do not exchange your personal information for monetary consideration with anyone who will license or sell your personal information to third parties.

NOTICE TO VIRGINIA RESIDENTS (VCDPA NOTICE)

The information in this section, under the subheading “Notice to Virginia Residents”, applies to residents of Virginia.  References to “you” and “your” in this section refer only to residents of Virginia.  The Virginia Consumer Protection Act (“VCDPA”), which took effect on January 1, 2023, provides certain rights for personal data collected by businesses under condition outlined in the law.  Please refer to the referenced sections in this Privacy Policy for details on the following, which you have a right to know under the VCDPA:

  • To review information on the categories of personal information and the categories of sources from which we collect, use, store and share personal information, read the section of this Privacy Policy titled “Gathering of Personally Identifiable Information”.
  • To review information on the categories of third parties we share personal information, read the section of this Privacy Policy titled “Who we share your data with”.

As a Virginia resident, you have certain rights you can exercise under the VCDPA, including the following.  Please note that this summary is merely provided for your convenience, but we do not warrant the accuracy or exhaustiveness of this summary nor should you rely on this as an accurate or or exhaustive list of your rights.

The VCDPA allows for consumers to request that the controller of their personal data:

  • Confirm if the controller is actually processing their personal data.
  • Correct inaccuracies in the consumer’s personal data that is collected by the controller.
  • Delete personal data provided by or obtained about the consumer.
  • Obtain copies of the personal data collected by the controller.
  • Opt out of the processing of personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or further profiling.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

This website is not directed towards or designed for use by children under the age of 18.  This website and the information contained on it is specifically designed for individuals over the age of 18.  If you are under the age of 18, you must not access this website or perform any of the Actions.  We do not knowingly collect, use, store or share personal information from children under the age of 18.  If you know or have reason to believe that we have collected data from anyone under the age of 18, please contact us using the contact details provided for removal of that data.

How to contact us

Users can contact us by either going to our “contact us” page on this website or emailing us directly at info@businessbronto.com

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Business Bronto may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such a change.