Privacy Policy

1. INTRODUCTION

This privacy notice provides you with details of how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our site https://www.financialfreedomways.com, including any information you may provide through our site when you purchase a product or service, or sign up to our newsletter.

By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age. We are responsible for your personal data (referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).

2. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

2.1. BASIC INFORMATION 

In operating the Site, we collect personal information from you in three situations:

1. If and when you choose to join our email list, usually in exchange for a free eBook, guide, promotion or opt-in form, we collect your name and email address. You can unsubscribe at any time using the link provided in every email.
2. If you choose to contact us via email. In doing so, you will provide us with your name and email address.
3. If you leave a comment on a blog post, you may be asked for a name, email address, and other information.

The legal basis for this processing is your consent and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

You are required to provide us with information via these three methods to use and enjoy the Site. Please do not supply any other person’s personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.

What If You Don’t Give Us Your Personal Information?

If you don’t provide us with enough personal information, you may not have access to all of our products and services. However, you will still be able to access and use parts of our website without giving us your personal information.

2.2. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

(a) AUTOMATIC COLLECTION: Our servers automatically recognize visitors’ domain names and IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet). No personal information about you is revealed in this process. The Site may also gather anonymous “traffic data” that does not personally identify you, but that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer.

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

(b) COOKIES: From time to time, we may use the standard “cookies” feature of major browser applications that allows us to store a small piece of data on your computer about your visit to our Site. Cookies help us learn which areas of our Site are useful and which areas need improvement through programs including, but not limited to, Google Analytics. We may also use cookies from third party social sites and programs including, but not limited to, Facebook, Pinterest, and Twitter.

The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.

3. COOKIE POLICY

3.1 What is Cookie?

A “cookie” is a piece of information that is stored on your computer’s hard drive and which records how you move your way around a website so that, when you revisit that website, it can present tailored options based on the information stored about your last visit. Cookies can also be used to analyze traffic and for advertising and marketing purposes.

• Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

3.2 How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

Cookies are either:

• Session cookies: These are only stored on your computer during your web session and are automatically deleted when you close your browser – they usually store an anonymous session ID allowing you to browse a website without having to log in to each page but they do not collect any personal data from your computer
• Persistent cookies: A persistent cookie is stored as a file on your computer and it remains there when you close your web browser. The cookie can be read by the website that created it when you visit that website again. We use persistent cookies for Google Analytics.

Cookies can also be categorized as follows:

• Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential to enable you to use the website effectively, such as when buying a product and / or service, and therefore cannot be turned off. Without these cookies, the services available to you on our website cannot be provided. These cookies do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing or remembering where you have been on the internet.
• Performance cookies: These cookies enable us to monitor and improve the performance of our website. For example, they allow us to count visits, identify traffic sources and see which parts of the site are most popular.
• Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember choices you make and provide enhanced features. For instance, we may be able to provide you with news or updates relevant to the services you use. They may also be used to provide services you have requested such as viewing a video or commenting on a blog. The information these cookies collect is usually anonymized.

We may also use cookies for:

• Our website analytics 
• Allowing you to post comments 
• Allowing you to share content with social networks
• Affiliate marketing 
• Targeted advertising and serving relevant ads to your interests
• Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
• Remarketing our products or services to you
• Personal Content on website

4. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA  

We will only use your personal data when legally permitted. The most common uses of your personal data are:

• Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
• Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
• Allows us to Provide our products and services that you have requested or purchased from us
• Provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us
• Personalize and customize our content 
• Website Improvements 
• Contact you with updates to our website, products, and services
• Contact you with marketing and advertising of products and information that may interest you.
• Resolve problems and disputes

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal ground for processing your personal data, other than in relation to sending marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by emailing us at privacy@financialfreedomways.com

5. DATA RETENTION

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements

By law, we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. In some circumstances we may anonymous your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

6. TRANSFERRING DATA FROM THE EUROPEAN UNION

Because we are in the United States, We process and store your information in the United States and our service providers may process and store it elsewhere.

If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, We transfer data to the United States for processing, and our service providers may process data in the United States and elsewhere. These countries may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. When we transfer your information to the United States, we will protect it as described in this Privacy Policy.

When we transfer Personal Information from territories in the EEA or with similar laws to our affiliates or service providers in the United States and elsewhere outside the EEA, we rely on approved data transfer mechanisms, including standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and the Privacy Shield. 

Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we do our best to ensure a similar degree of security of data by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented. 

We may request your explicit consent to the specific transfer if We deem it appropriate. You will have the right to withdraw this consent at any time.

Please email us at privacy@financialfreedomways.com if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

7. GOOGLE REMARKETING

We also use 3rd party vendor re-marketing tracking cookies, including the Google tracking cookie. This means we will continue to show ads to you across the internet, specifically on the Google Content Network (GCN). As always we respect your privacy and are not collecting any identifiable information through the use of Google’s or any other 3rd party remarketing system.

The third-party vendors, including Google, whose services we use – will place cookies on web browsers in order to serve ads based on past visits to our website. – Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website. This allows us to make special offers and continue to market our services to those who have shown interest in our service. 

For further information regarding the privacy practices of our advertisement provider, please visit http://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html

8. FACEBOOK REMARKETING

We use Facebook remarketing service to advertise on third party websites to previous visitors to our site. It could mean that we advertise to previous visitors who haven’t completed a task on our site, for example using the contact form to make an enquiry. This could be in the form of an advertisement somewhere on Facebook. Third-party vendors, including Facebook, use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to Our website. Of course, any data collected will be used in accordance with our own privacy policy, as well as Facebook privacy policy.

You can opt-out of Facebook remarketing by visiting the link: https://www.facebook.com/ads/website_custom_audiences/

9. CREDIT CARD

We respect and are committed to protecting your privacy.  We do not sell or pass along your personal information to anyone.  Name, email and other identifying information that you provide is used by Us to further serve you better and keep records.  Your credit card information is not retained as the result of any of these processes.

Your payment and personal information are always safe.  Our Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software is the industry standard and among the best software available today for securing commercial transactions.  It encrypts all of your personal information, including credit card number, name, and address so that it cannot be read over the internet.

10.YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

• Request access to your personal data.
• Request correction of your personal data.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data.
• Request restriction of processing your personal data.
• Request transfer of your personal data.
• Right to withdraw consent.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at privacy@financialfreedomways.com.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

11. CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

Usage of Our website and products/services is not designed for, or intended for use by, any individual under the age of thirteen (13). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of thirteen (13), and if we became aware that we have inadvertently collected personal data from a child under the age of thirteen (13), we will undertake reasonable commercial efforts to delete such personal data.

12. THIRD-PARTY LINKS 

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

13. SECURITY

We maintain an appropriate level of technical, administrative, and physical safeguards to protect personal data and other information disclosed or collected by Us. We review, monitor, and evaluate Our privacy practices and protection systems on a regular basis. Despite the safeguards we implement, transmissions over the Internet and/or a mobile network are not totally secure, and We do not guarantee the security of online transmissions. We are not responsible for any errors by individuals in submitting personal data to Us.

14.UPDATES AND CHANGES

We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Policy to reflect changes in our Privacy Policy. We shall post any such changes on the Site in a conspicuous area. You may then choose whether you wish to accept said policy changes or discontinue using the Site. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately after posting on the Site. It is your responsibility to review this Policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all its terms.

15.CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Policy or practices related to this Site, please feel contact us by emailing us at privacy@financialfreedomways.com