Successful Career Strategies (“SCS “ sometimes referred to as “our” “us” or “we”) respects the privacy rights of all users of this website (www.successfulcareerstrategies.com) (the “Website”). Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code § 22575(a), this policy describes and answers commonly asked questions about how we protect and use information we collect through this Website.
Effect of Our Privacy Policy: When you visit or access our Website, you agree to allow us to collect, delete, disclose, share, store, and use information about you, as detailed in this Privacy Policy.
What Categories of Information Do We Collect About Individuals Who Use or Visit www.successfulcareerstrategies.com?
Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code § 22575(a)(1), we collect certain kinds of personally identifiable information about you. Personal identifiable information is information, such as your first and last name and email address, which allows us to identify who you are and to contact you. We may require you to provide certain personally identifiable information to access certain information on or to use certain features of our Website. For example, when you provide information about yourself through an email intake form or contact form on our Website, we collect that information. And when you provide us with personal information through our Website, you give us permission to use this information to communicate with you as well as to use, share, and delete this information as described in more detail below.
How Do We Use Your Personal Identifiable Information?
The personal identifiable information you provide to us is used to communicate with you. For example, we may use your email address to send you articles, notices, and information that we think might be of interest to you. We may also keep track of information relating to your communications and other interactions with us.
Subject to the exceptions set forth in this Privacy Policy, our general policy is not to share your personal identifiable information with third parties without your consent. By using our Website, you do, however, consent for us to share your personal identifiable information with those who are affiliated with us, individuals and entities working on our behalf, and third parties needed to collect our computer servers or otherwise provide us with IT-related services.
By using our Website, you also consent to us collecting certain non-personal identifiable information about you. This includes information about your computer such as the type of browser you use and when and from where you accessed our Website. We collect this information so that we can calculate metrics about the performance and effectiveness of the Website, such as the number of visitors to the Website, how many pages they visit, which pages they visit, and how long they stay on the Website. We use this data to monitor the Website’s performance and to help decide how to add or change information presented on the Website. We also may aggregate your personal and non-personal identifiable information to conduct certain analyses.
Cookies
Cookies are text files with small pieces of data that are used to identify your computer as you use a computer network. Cookies allow us to provide you with a customized experience as you move around and otherwise use our Website. We may also use cookies to enable and enhance certain social media features.
When you use or access our Website, you agree to let us use cookies for a variety of purposes. This includes what are sometimes referred to as “Essential Cookies,” which provide services that are necessary for you to be able to use the Website more fully. For example, Essential Cookies allow us to remember your information when you complete forms on our Website. We also use what are sometimes referred to as “Performance and Analytics Cookies,” which allow us to collect information such as which pages on the Website are being visited and with what frequency. We use Performance and Analytics cookies to collect and tabulate information about how visitors access information through the Website.
You can block or disable cookies on your device at any time by indicating this in the preferences or options menus in your web browser. You can also delete the cookies that are stored on your device. However, blocking, disabling, or deleting cookies may limit your ability to view all the pages of the Website or use aspects of the Website which require registration.
By visiting our Website, you also consent to our collecting, recording, and using information such as your browser type, your Internet Protocol address, the search engine you used, what aspects of the Website you used, and for how long you used them. Likewise, we may collect similar information from emails we send you, including which links are clicked on within those emails.
What Information Do We Share With Third Parties?
California Business and Professions Code § 22575(a)(1) also requires us to explain “the categories of third party persons or entities with whom” we share your personal identifiable information.
As detailed in this Privacy Policy, the personal identifiable information you provide through the Website may be shared with individuals and entities who are affiliated with us, entities working on our behalf, and third parties needed to collect our computer servers or otherwise provide us with IT-related services.
We may also aggregate your depersonalized personal information as part of our efforts to analyze our users and to improve the effectiveness of the Website. We may share your personal identifiable information with Service Providers that we may interface with to collect and analyze information. Likewise, we may work with other companies to process, analyze, or store data, and these companies may access your personal identifiable information in the performance of their duties. We will also share your personal identifiable information when required to comply with the law, to prevent fraud, and to otherwise protect legal rights. Specifically, we will share your personal identifiable information if we have a good faith belief that its use or disclosure is required to comply with a court order, such as a subpoena or an authorized request by law enforcement agencies. We will also share and disclose personal identifiable information when it is reasonably necessary to enforce the terms of this Privacy Policy, to detect, investigate, or prevent fraud or technical issues related to the security and maintenance of the Website, or to take appropriate action to protect the rights of SCS, its employees and contractors, and other users of the Website.
Links to Websites and Features Controlled by Third Parties
When you access or use our Website, you may be able to link to features, services, and websites owned or controlled by third parties. When you click or otherwise use a link controlled by a third party, our Privacy Policy no longer applies, and you have to look at the Privacy Policy issued by the third party to determine how they will collect, delete, store, and use your personal identifiable information.
In addition to the cookies used by us and our service providers, some cookies are placed by third parties whose websites are accessible through links on the Website. The Website may also contain direct links to websites operated by third parties. We do not control these third parties’ use of cookies and cannot guarantee that they will uphold the same privacy standards we do. Likewise, we do not control what information these third parties collect, and you should communicate directly with these third parties to address any questions you have about how they collect, store, or use your personal identifiable information.
What Can You Do to Control Your Personal Identifiable Information on Our Website?
Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code § 22575(a)(2), you may update or delete your personal identifiable information by contacting us through the Website. Please note that we may retain your contact information for a reasonable period of time afterward for the purpose of internal data management and fraud prevention. If you no longer want to receive our newsletter, emails, or other announcements, you may unsubscribe by following the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of our emails or by contacting us through the Website.
In addition, California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of the Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us through the Website or write to us at Successful Career Strategies, 9595 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90212.
What Measures Do We Take to Protect Your Personal Identifiable Information?
We take the following steps to protect your personal identifiable information:
- Personnel: We take steps to reduce access to your personal identifiable information, including limiting access to SCS employees, independent contractors, and others working on our behalf who help operate and maintain the Website.
- Servers: We store your personal identifiable information on servers that are professionally maintained by a company that is in the business of maintaining the security of its information. To our knowledge, the Website is stored on servers by a company that follows generally accepted standards to store and protect the personal information we collect, both during transmission and once received and stored, including utilization of encryption where appropriate.
- Communications From You: When we receive a communication from you, we seek to keep it secure.
- Communications With You: If your personal identifiable information is compromised, we will take reasonable steps to investigate the situation, notify you of it, and remedy the situation in compliance with applicable rules and regulations.
By using our Website, you acknowledge that no Internet data transmission, communication, server, network, or system can be completely secure. We can therefore not warrant the complete security of personal identifiable information, and you provide such information through the Website at your own risk.
Effective Date of This Policy
Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code §Section 22575(a)(4), we are informing you that this Privacy Policy is effective on August 5, 2020. We may amend this policy from time to time and will post such changes on the Website.
Do Not Track and Tracking Over Time Across Sites
Pursuant to California Business and Professions Code §Section 22575(a)(5) and (a)(6), we are informing you that we honor the request of “do not track” signals sent by your browser when you visit the Website. We also do not collect user information about your online activities over time and across different websites; nor do we authorize third parties to track such information.