Privacy Policy
Last modified: 01/24/2023
At Ardent Growth, protecting your privacy is a commitment shared by us and our affiliates. This Privacy Policy governs the collection, usage, and protection of information and data by Ardent Growth when you use our websites, products, and services, as well as any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy. This applies to instances when you:
- Interact with us on our websites or through other channels (for example, by communicating with us or attending one of our live events);
- Use our product and services (including the Ardent Growth Subscription Services); and
- When you use any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy (for example our other brands such as Ardent Academy).
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, receive, use, store, share, transfer, and process your Personal Data. It also describes your choices and rights regarding to your Personal Data, including your rights of access and correction of your Personal Data. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy "Personal Data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. If you disagree with this Privacy Policy, you should not use our websites, product and services, or any other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy. Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.
Ardent Growth customers may collect and manage Personal Data when using our product and services, or what we may refer to as the Subscription Service. "Subscription Service" is defined in the Ardent Growth Terms of Service and means all of our web-based applications, tools and platforms that you have subscribed to under an Order Form or that we otherwise make available to you, and are developed, operated, and maintained by us at ardentgrowth.com, any of our subdomains, or another designated URL, and any ancillary products and services, including Topic Explorer and Consulting Services, that we provide to you. When you use the Subscription Service, Ardent Growth may process Personal Data as a processor under the direction of our customers. Our customers, as data controllers, are responsible for complying with any regulations or laws that require providing notice, disclosure, and/or obtaining consent prior to collecting their customers’ Personal Data using the Subscription Service. Please see Section 1.b "Information We Process on Behalf of our Customers When They Use the Subscription Service" and Section 1.c "Information We Collect and Process When You Use the Subscription Service" as well as our Customer Data Processing Agreement for more information.
We regularly update our Privacy Policy and suggest you to review it occasionally. Any changes made to the policy will be posted on this page. If the changes are significant, we will notify you by email. Any terms that are not defined in this Privacy Policy will have the meaning as stated in the Ardent Growth Customer Terms of Service.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our treatment of your Personal Data, or to exercise your rights to delete or modify your Personal Data, please email legal@ardentgrowth.com.
1. What Information We Collect About You
A. Information You Provide to Ardent Growth
When you interact with our company through our websites, linked sites, or services, or by using our Subscription Service, we may collect certain Personal Data and other information from you, as outlined in this Privacy Policy.
Visiting Our Websites
We may collect Personal Data from you when you engage with our websites, such as through submitting web forms, subscribing to a blog, signing up for a webinar, or requesting customer support. This data may include, but is not limited to, your email address, name, and job title. You are able to browse some of our websites without providing any Personal Data.
Ardent Growth Live and Other Event Information
When you register for an Ardent Growth event, such as Ardent Growth Live, we may collect information such as your name, address, phone number, and email address. This information is used to communicate with you and may be shared with service providers to facilitate your registration and improve your experience at the event.
Account and User Information
We may collect Personal Data when you create an account with us, update user information, set preferences, or provide any other related information to access or utilize our Subscription Services or Consulting Services.
Payment Information
We may collect payment and billing information when you register for paid products or services. This may include a billing address or contact information for your Ardent Growth account. We use secure third-party payment service providers to handle payment processing and the data collected is done through a secure process.
Customer Testimonials
We may post customer testimonials and comments on our websites that may contain Personal Data. Prior to posting, we obtain the customer's consent via email or other agreements between the customer and our company.
B. Information We Process on Behalf of Customers When They Use the Subscription Service
Our product, referred to as the Subscription Service, enables our clients to create and plan content marketing, SEO initiatives, and activities related to hiring, sales, and customer service. When using our product, clients may collect Personal Data such as names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, or other information. We refer to this information as "Customer Data" in our Customer Terms of Service.
We do not have control over the content of our clients' webpages or the types of Personal Data that they may choose to collect or manage using the Subscription Service. We store our clients' information on servers managed by our service providers, but we process it as a processor under our clients’ instructions and in accordance with our Customer Terms of Service, which prohibit us from using the information except as necessary to provide and improve the Subscription Service and as required by law.
Our clients are responsible for controlling and correcting, deleting, or updating the information they process using the Subscription Service, as well as for complying with any regulations or laws that require providing notice, disclosure, and/or obtaining consent prior to transferring the Personal Data to Ardent Growth for processing purposes.
C. Information We Collect and Process When You Use the Subscription Service
Usage Data
We collect usage data when you or your users interact with the Subscription Service. This includes metrics and information related to how you use and interact with the service, such as which features are used the most, when an object (such as a ticket or sales inquiry) is opened and closed, and how often certain features (such as clustering or traffic metrics) are utilized in your account.
We engage third-party providers to collect usage data. For more information on how we protect your information with these service providers, please refer to Section 3 "How We Share Information We Collect."
Mobile
When you access or use the Subscription Service via our mobile applications, we automatically collect information such as your device model and version, operating system, or device identifier.
Third Party Integrations
You may connect third-party integrations to our products, which may request certain permissions to access data or send information to our tools. It is your responsibility to review any third-party integrations you authorize. We may collect information about the types of integrations you use in your Ardent Growth account.
Any permission(s) granted by you grants these third parties access to your data, which may include (but is not limited to) granting third-party applications access to view, store, and modify your Ardent Growth data. We are not responsible for the practices of third-party integrations, so please carefully review the permissions you grant to third-party applications. For more information on integrations with third-party providers, please refer to the relevant documentation.
Additional Limits on Use of Your Google User Data
Ardent Growth's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.
Google Search Console
You can integrate your Google Search Console with our technology and data storage system as part of our Topic Explorer product. As part of this integration, the Subscription Service will be able to view properties, including the list of sites and domains you control in Ardent Growth and the Search Console data for your connected properties.
D. Information We Collect From Other Sources
Ardent Growth Partners
We may also collect information about you through our co-marketing partnerships with other companies. For example, you may sign up for a webinar or free tool published by Ardent Growth and an Ardent Growth co-marketing partner.
Third Parties
We may receive information from third-party service providers, related companies, and our business and solution partners.
Personal Information from Different Sources
We may combine the personal information we collect from you with personal information we receive from other sources, such as third-party providers of business information and publicly available sources (such as social media platforms). This may include physical mail addresses, job titles, email addresses, phone numbers, IP addresses, and social media profiles. This helps us to update and improve our records, identify new customers, create more personalized advertising, suggest products and services that may interest you, deliver personalized communications, and promote events. The collection of your Personal Data by these other third-party providers is governed by the provider's privacy policy.
Log Files
Like many websites and technology services delivered over the Internet, we automatically collect and store information about your computer hardware and software when you visit our websites, use our products and services, or visit other sites or services that link to this Privacy Policy. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, internet service provider (ISP), and the files viewed on our websites (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), the files viewed on our websites, your operating system, access times, and referring website addresses.
When you use the Subscription Service, we collect and store the categories of information listed above in logs in the following instances, subject to the customer's implementation settings when an Ardent Growth user logs into their account and accesses tools in the Ardent Growth Platform.
Social Media Features
Our websites may include social media features (such as the Facebook "like" button) and widgets (such as the share button or interactive mini-programs) that run on our websites. These features may collect your IP address, the page you are visiting on our sites, and may set a cookie to enable the feature to function properly. Social media features and widgets are either hosted by a third party or hosted directly on our websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to these features. Your interactions with these features are governed by the privacy policy and other policies of the companies providing them.
2. How We Use Your Information
A. To Communicate with You About the Product and Services
We use the account information you provide to Ardent Growth when signing up for the Subscription Service and Consulting services to send you transactional emails about billing, account management, and other administrative matters. We may also send you updates regarding our Customer Terms of Service or other legal agreements, and may also communicate with you about security incidents via email.
We use your information to provide customer support, such as resolving technical issues you encounter and analyzing product outages or bugs.
B. To Provide the Subscription Service
We use your account information and Customer Data to provide the product and services to you. For example, we use the email address you provide when signing up for the product to create your user account, and we use your payment information to process payments for paid use of the Subscription Service. We also use this information to authenticate you when you log in and to provide customer support.
C. To Improve and Develop Our Product and Services
We collect usage data about how you or your users interact with our product and services. We use this data to develop and improve our products and services. For example, we use usage data to assess trends and usage across the product to help us determine what new features or integrations our users may be interested in.
We use Customer Data in an anonymized manner for machine learning that supports certain product features and functionality with the Subscription Service. For example, machine learning helps power the prioritization, relevancy, and recommendations engine if you use our Total Searchable Marketing or Grouper apps. You may opt-out of having your Customer Data used for machine learning purposes by emailing privacy@ardentgrowth.com
We may publish data about how our product and services are being used across our customer base. When we share statistical information externally in this way, the data will be aggregated and we will not identify individual users or customers. For example, we may publish blog posts on trends or insights into how users are interacting with our product.
D. To Secure and Protect Our Product and Ardent Growth Users
We use your account information to investigate and help prevent security incidents. We may also use this information to meet legal requirements. We use your information to verify user accounts, new product sign-ups, and to detect and prevent product abuse. This includes enforcing our Acceptable Use Policy.
We use log files to provide general statistics regarding use of the websites by you, including how you use our websites, what country you are logging in from (for analytics, export control, and regulatory purposes) and to help improve the navigation experience. Your IP address is also collected and logged for security and debugging purposes, for example to track access patterns, investigate security events and incidents. For these purposes, we do link this automatically-collected data to other personal data provided by you such as name, email address, address, and phone number.
E. To Market and Promote the Subscription Service
We use the information you provide to Ardent Growth to market and promote the products, services, and other offerings. For example, we use the information, like your email or physical address, to send information or Ardent Growth content to you which we think may be of interest to you by post, email, or other means and send you marketing communications relating to our business in accordance with your communication preferences.
We may also reach out to you via telephone to ask about other Ardent Growth products or services you may be interested in. If you have a call scheduled with a Ardent Growth representative, we may use your information to prepare for the call and to follow up with you afterwards.
We may also use your information to send you promotional emails, direct mail, or other communications about products, services, and events offered by Ardent Growth or our business partners, in accordance with your communication preferences. You may opt-out of receiving promotional communications from us at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the communication or by emailing privacy@ardentgrowth.com
F. To Comply with Legal Obligations
We may use your information to comply with legal obligations, such as responding to subpoenas or court orders, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights.
We may also use your information as we believe is necessary to comply with laws, regulations, or other legal processes, such as to comply with tax and accounting requirements, to prevent fraud, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Ardent Growth, our customers, or the public.
G. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (EEA and UK Visitors only)
We currently do not service individuals in the EEA or UK.
However, if we were to collect personal data from individuals in the EEA or UK, our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Data would depend on the Personal Data concerned and the specific context in which we collect it. We will only collect and use Personal Data from you where we have a lawful basis to do so, such as where we have your consent, where we need the Personal Data to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect Personal Data from you. We will make it clear the reason for collecting personal data, whether it's mandatory or voluntary, and the possible consequences if the data is not provided.
3. How We Share Information We Collect
A. Third Party Service Providers
We use third-party service providers to support our websites, products, and services, such as for data hosting, application development, and marketing. To provide information about products or services to you, we may share your information with these service providers. This may include enriching information for prospect lists, analyzing data or performing statistical analysis on your use of the Subscription Service or interactions on our websites, providing marketing assistance, processing credit card payments, supplementing the information you provide us to improve our service, developing and improving the product and services, and providing customer service or support. These service providers are prohibited from using your Personal Data except for these specified purposes and are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. We have strict agreements in place with these third-party service providers that require them to comply with our privacy and data protection policies and standards.
B. Partners
We may share data with trusted partners of Ardent Growth for the purpose of contacting you in accordance with your request for such communications, for statistical analysis, or for providing sales and customer support. These partners are prohibited from using your Personal Data for any other purpose and are required to maintain the confidentiality of your data.
Additionally, we may partner with third-party organizations to provide co-marketing content that may be relevant to you. When engaging with these co-marketing partners, we will inform you of the partners with whom we are sharing data and provide a link to their privacy policy, so that you may learn more about opting out of their communications. These partners are required to comply with our privacy and data protection policies. If you do not wish for us to share your Personal Data with these partners, please contact us.
C. Corporate Events
D. Public Forums
E. Compelled Disclosure
4. How We Transfer Data We Collect Internationally
5. How We Store and Secure Your Information
A. Data Storage and Security
B. Retention of Personal Data
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
A. Cookies
B. Advertising
6. How to Access & Control Your Personal Data
A. Reviewing, Correcting and Removing Your Personal Data
B. Anti-Spam Policy
C. To Unsubscribe From Our Communications
8. California Privacy Rights
A. Applicability
B. How We Collect, Use, and Share Your Personal Information
C. Your California Rights
D. How to Exercise Your California Rights
9. Data Protection Officer
10. Other Important Privacy Information
A. We Never Sell Personal Data
B. Information About Children
C. Third Party Dispute Resolution
Data Controller Contact Information
Ardent Growth Digital Marketing 1712 US Highway 121 N Suite A Murray, KY 42071 team@ardentgrowth.com
This document governs the privacy notice of our website ardentgrowth.com. Our privacy notice tells you what personal data (PD) and non-personal data (NPD) we may collect from you, how we collect it, how we protect it, how we may share it, how you can access and change it, and how you can limit our sharing of it. Our privacy notice also explains certain legal rights that you have with respect to your personal data. Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.
Your Rights
When using our website and submitting personal data to us, you may have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws. Depending on the legal basis for processing your personal data, you may have some or all of the following rights:
The right to be informed
You have the right to be informed about the personal data we collect from you, and how we process it.
The right of access
You have the right to get confirmation that your personal data is being processed and have the ability to access your personal data.
The right to rectification
You have the right to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
The right to erasure (right to be forgotten)
You have the right to request the removal or deletion of your personal data if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.
The right to restrict processing
You have a right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your personal data. When your personal data is restricted, we are permitted to store your data, but not to process it further.
The right to data portability
You have the right to request and get your personal data that you provided to us and use it for your own purposes. We will provide your data to you within 30 days of your request. To request your personal data, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
The right to object
You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for the following reasons:
- Processing was based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling);
- Direct marketing (including profiling); and
- Processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.
- Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.
Automated individual decision-making and profiling
You will have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Filing a complaint with authorities
You have the right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. If the supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint properly, you may have the right to a judicial remedy.
For details about your rights under the law, visit https://goo.gl/F41vAV.
Definitions
‘Non-personal data’ (NPD) is information that is in no way personally identifiable. ‘Personal data’ (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. PD is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, PD is broader in scope and covers more data.
A “visitor” is someone who merely browses our website. A “member” is someone who has registered with us to use or buy our services and products. The term “user” is a collective identifier that refers to either a visitor or a member.
Topics Covered in Our Privacy Notice
Information We Collect Our Use of Cookies How Your Information Is Used Retaining and Destroying Your PD Updating Your PD Revoking Your Consent for Using Your PD Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties Do Not Track Settings Links to Other Websites Protecting Children’s Privacy Our Email Policy Our Security Policy Use of Your Credit Card Transferring PD from the European Union Changes to Our Privacy Notice
Information We Collect
Generally, you control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website.
Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing Personal Data
Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you request a quote from us, request a consultation, submit an employment application and or resume, and request information about our products and services is based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract. Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you sign up for our newsletter, free downloads, or access to our members area, through our website forms is based on consent.
What Happens If You Don’t Give Us Your PD
If you do not provide us with enough PD, we may not be able to provide you with all our products, services, or comply with your request for information. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your PD.
We Collect Your PD in the Following Ways:
Automatic Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our website, if any, as well as the name of the website you’ll visit when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website.
When Entering and Using Our Website
When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.
Submitting a Resume or Employment Application
When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.
Requesting a Free Quote or Consultation
When you request a free quote or consultation from us we collect your first and last name, email address, and phone number.
Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83 our customers and users who are California residents are permitted to request certain information about the types of information shared by Ardent Growth with third parties for their direct marketing purposes and the identities of those third parties. To make such a request, please send an email to: info@ardentgrowth.com or write us at:
Ardent Growth Digital Marketing 1405 Crystal Brook Ln. Apt. A Murray, KY 42071 info@ardentgrowth.com
Website Chat Software
Our website contains chat software that enable visitors to communicate with us live online or offline by email. In some cases, visitors can communicate with us without becoming a member. When you use this chat software, we may collect some or all the following information: your email address, first name, last name, location, and any other information you willingly choose to provide to us. You should limit the information you provide to us that is only necessary to answer your questions.
Gravatar Disclosure
We use a service from www.en.gravatar.com that allows you to have an image that represents you when you are online. It is a picture that appears next to your name when you Interact with different websites that are Gravatar enabled. To make this happen, a tracking mechanism is used that follows you from website to website.
Our Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well. By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer.
Strictly Necessary Cookies
These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable these cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Performance Cookies
These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.
Functional Cookies
These cookies enable the website to remember a user’s choices – such as their language, user name, and other personal choices – while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.
Media Cookies
These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies
These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.
Session Cookies
These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.
Persistent Cookies
These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.
We may also use cookies for:
- Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
- Personalizing content that you see on our website
- Our website analytics
- Remarketing our products or services to you
- Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
- Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests
- Affiliate marketing
- Allowing you to post comments
- Allowing you to share content with social networks
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Web Beacons
We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically monitor the number of people who open our emails. Web beacons also help us to understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors.
Google Analytics Privacy Notice
Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with PD. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/ You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Remarketing
Why am I seeing ads by Google for products I’ve viewed? Our website uses a remarketing advertising service. Our remarketing service is provided by Google and other companies that show our ads on websites across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells computers, but you do not buy a computer on your first visit to that website. The website’s owner might like to encourage you to revisit his/her site and buy a computer by showing you his/her ads again on other websites that you visit. We use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen, Google will read a cookie that is already in your browser, or they place a cookie in your browser when you visit our site or other sites using remarketing. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies and remarketing at this link: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/2662922?hl=en or you can opt out using the Network Advertising Initiative opt out page at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#!/
Facebook Remarketing
Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet, and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. With Facebook remarketing you may see our ads on Facebook after you have visited our site. For this to happen, Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique “cookie” is placed in their browser. Facebook lookalike audience targeting allows us to show ads on Facebook to people who are similar to those who have already visited or made a purchase from our website. To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting visit: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
How Your Information Is Used
We use the information we receive from you to:
- Provide our products and services you have requested
- Personalize and customize our content
- Make improvements to our website
- Contact you with updates to our website
- Resolve problems and disputes
- Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you
Communications and Emails
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a member or user. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your contact preferences by sending us an email with your request to: info@ardentgrowth.com.
Sharing Information With Affiliates and Other Third Parties
We do not sell or rent your PD to third parties for marketing purposes. However, for data aggregation purposes we may use your NPD, which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your PD. We may provide your PD to third-party service providers we hire to provide services to us or partner with. These third-party service providers may include but are not limited to: payment processors, web analytics companies, marketing solutions companies, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.
Sharing Information With Facebook and Google for Marketing Purposes
We may share your PD with third parties for similar audience marketing purposes. Similar audience marketing is also called lookalike audience marketing. The third parties we share your PD with for this type of marketing include Facebook and/or Google. Using your PD, for similar audience marketing or lookalike audience marketing helps us find new audiences (users and customers) based on similar interests to yours, this helps us improve our marketing services. Your PD is only shared with Facebook and Google for this type of marketing. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice, you are giving your consent for your PD to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.
Legally Required Releases of Information
We may be legally required to disclose your PD if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.
Disclosures to Successors
If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business.
Retaining and Destroying Your PD
We retain information that we collect from you (including your PD) only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.
Updating Your PD
You can update your PD using services found on our website. If no such services exist, you can contact us using the contact information found at the top of this notice and we will help you. However, we may keep your PD as needed to enforce our agreements and to comply with any legal obligations.
Revoking Your Consent for Using Your PD
You have the right to revoke your consent for us to use your PD at any time. Such an optout will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your PD, send us an email with your request to: info@ardentgrowth.com.
Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties
If any postings you make on our website contain information about third parties, you must make sure you have permission to include that information in your posting. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings about which we are notified, if such postings violate the privacy rights of others.
Do Not Track Settings
Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.
Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. These websites will likely have their own privacy notices. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these websites to see how they treat your PD.
Protecting Children’s Privacy
Even though our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16, we realize that a child under the age of 16 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users nor do we have any liability to do so.
Our Email Policy
You can always opt out of receiving further email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business, or if our company files for bankruptcy.
Our Security Policy
We have built our website using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your PD. We and the third parties who provide services for us, also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your PD. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your PD or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature.
We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and to not share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place.
Transferring PD From the European Union
(PD) that we collect from you may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate, specifically the United States. The European Union has not found the United States and some other countries to have an adequate level of protection of PD under Article 45 of the GDPR. Our company relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. For European Union customers and users, with your consent, your PD may be transferred outside the European Union to the United States and or other countries. We will use your PD to provide the goods, services, and/or information you request from us to perform a contract with you or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. Wherever we transfer, process or store your PD, we will take reasonable steps to protect it. We will use the information we collect from you in accordance with our privacy notice. By using our website, services, or products, you agree to the transfers of your PD described within this section.
Changes to Our Privacy notice
We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy notice, we will post those changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your PD in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. In all cases, your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Questions About Our Privacy notice
If you have any questions about our privacy notice, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
