Who we are
Your privacy is very important to us. At Growth Vertical (www.growthvertical.com) we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We won’t ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Growth Vertical operates the website www.growthvertical.com. It is Growth Vertical’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Growth Vertical 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. Growth Vertical’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Growth Vertical’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Growth Vertical may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Growth Vertical also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Growth Vertical 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.
Growth Vertical will continue to collect website visitor data in order to improve the Growth Vertical website and to improve the user experience for visitors visiting the Growth Vertical website.
Ads
Ads appearing on the Growth Vertical website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise 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 Growth Vertical 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.
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet or other automated anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Media
If you upload images to the Growth Vertical website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the Growth Vertical website can download and extract any location data from images on the Growth Vertical website.
Contact forms
Certain visitors to Growth Vertical’s websites choose to interact with Growth Vertical in ways that require Growth Vertical to gather personally-identifying information. One of these ways is to enquire about Growth Vertical’s services through a contact form. Growth Vertical will ask visitors enquiring about Growth Vertical’s services to provide names, email addresses, phone numbers, enquiry details and support notes. In addition to adhere to GDPR regulation, Growth Vertical will ask whether you would like to receive event updates & news from Growth Vertical. Growth Vertical will collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Growth Vertical. Growth Vertical does 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 and enquiring about Growth Vertical’s services.
Growth Vertical will keep contact form submissions information and the personal details submitted as long as necessary to serve visitors and fulfil their requests on the Growth Vertical website. Submitted information will be used for customer service purposes but will not be used for marketing purposes.
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. Growth Vertical uses cookies to help Growth Vertical identify and track visitors, their usage of Growth Vertical website, and their website access preferences. Growth Vertical visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Growth Vertical’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Growth Vertical’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit Growth Vertical’s login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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To opt-out of Growth Vertical’s use of cookies, you can instruct your browser by changing it’s options, to stop accepting cookies or to prompt you before accepting a cookie from the websites you visit.
Transfer of Business
If Growth Vertical, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Growth Vertical 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 Growth Vertical may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
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.
Who we share your data with
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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.
Growth Vertical visitors submitting personal details for Growth Vertical services enquiries via contact forms, will be stored and kept indefinitely to serve visitors and fulfil their requests on the Growth Vertical website. Submitted information will be used for customer service purposes but will not be used for marketing purposes. Visitors can request for a copy of their personal details, and can request Growth Vertical to remove any personal details, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities and enquiring about Growth Vertical’s services.
Gathering of Personal-Identifiable Information
Certain visitors to Growth Vertical’s websites choose to interact with Growth Vertical in ways that require Growth Vertical to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Growth Vertical gathers 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 enquire about Growth Vertical’s services, we will collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, enquiry details and support notes. Those who wish to receive Growth Vertical updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Growth Vertical collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Growth Vertical. Growth Vertical does 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 and enquiring about Growth Vertical’s services.
Aggregated Statistics & Analytics
Growth Vertical may collect statistics and analytics about the behaviour of visitors to the website. For instance, Growth Vertical may monitor the most popular pages on the growthvertical.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet or other automated service to help identify spam. Growth Vertical may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Growth Vertical does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Growth Vertical will use collected data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences.
Protection of Specific Personal-Identifiable Information
Growth Vertical discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Growth Vertical’s behalf or to provide services available at Growth Vertical’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Growth Vertical’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Growth Vertical will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Growth Vertical discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Growth Vertical believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Growth Vertical, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of the Growth Vertical website and have supplied your email address, Growth Vertical 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 with Growth Vertical and our products and services. We primarily use our various blogs 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 a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), 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. Growth Vertical takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information. We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside Growth Vertical for marketing purposes.
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.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Growth Vertical may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Growth Vertical’s sole discretion. Growth Vertical encourages 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 change.
Your contact information
If at any time you have any privacy-specific concerns regarding your contact information or any other personal information collected, or would like to opt out of marketing messages, follow the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us at any time.
Additional information
Data Security
Growth Vertical has put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, Growth Vertical limit access to your personal data to those employees and other third parties who are on a need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Source: Really Simple SSL
Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here.
Source: Akismet
We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).