Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Steele Business Consulting, we have a few fundamental principles:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We dislike services that 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 ongoing operation of one of our services.
In our blogging products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy, which incorporates these goals.
If you have questions about deleting or correcting your personal data please contact our support team.
Steele Business Consulting operates the following website: SteeleBC.com. It is Steele Business Consulting’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Steele Business Consulting 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. Steele Business Consulting’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Steele Business Consulting’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Steele Business Consulting may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Steele Business Consulting also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on blogs.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Steele Business Consulting’s website choose to interact with Steele Business Consulting in ways that require Steele Business Consulting to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Steele Business Consulting gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up for a blog to provide a username and email address. In each case, Steele Business Consulting collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Steele Business Consulting. Steele Business Consulting 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.
Aggregated Statistics
Steele Business Consulting may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. For instance, Steele Business Consulting may monitor the most popular blogs or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Steele Business Consulting may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Steele Business Consulting does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Information We Collect from Other Sources
With your authorization, we may also obtain information about you from other sources. For example, if you create or log into your WordPress.com account through a social media service (like Google) or if you connect your website or account to a social media service through our Publicize feature, we will receive information from that service (such as your username, basic profile information, and friends list) via the authorization procedures used by that service. The information we receive depends on which services you authorize and any options that are available.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Steele Business Consulting discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Steele Business Consulting’s behalf or to provide services available at Steele Business Consulting’s website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Steele Business Consulting’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Steele Business Consulting will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Steele Business Consulting discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Steele Business Consulting believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Steele Business Consulting, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Steele Business Consulting website and have supplied your email address, Steele Business Consulting 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 Steele Business Consulting and our services. We primarily use our various service 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. Steele Business Consulting 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. Steele Business Consulting uses cookies to help Steele Business Consulting identify and track visitors, their usage of Steele Business Consulting website, and their website access preferences. Steele Business Consulting visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Steele Business Consulting’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Steele Business Consulting’s website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Steele Business Consulting, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Steele Business Consulting 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 Steele Business Consulting may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites 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 Steele Business Consulting and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to our Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives or missed spam, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives and missed spam.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Steele Business Consulting may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Steele Business Consulting’s sole discretion. Steele Business Consulting 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.
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