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Maintaining the privacy of our website visitors and mobile application users is very important to us. Because we gather information about you, you need to know:
This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes how Young Black Entrepreneurs, Inc. (“YBE”) with a registered address at 815 Thayer Avenue, Silver Spring, MD 20910 may collect, use and share information you provide when using our Service, including your personal information. The term “Service” includes the websites www.ybe-dc.com together with any related subsites, sub-domains, mobile and software applications, services, features and/or content associated therewith (collectively, “our Websites”). For purposes of this Privacy Policy, the terms “we,” “us” and “our” refer to YBE, and “you” refers to you, as a user of our Service.
We’ve tried to keep this Privacy Policy simple, but if you’re not familiar with any of the terms used or have any questions, contact us at legal@ybe-dc.com. Your privacy matters to us at YBE, so whether you are new to our Service or are a regular or longtime user, it is important that you take the time to carefully read our Privacy Policy, so you can understand our practices as relates to your information.
We will ask for your consent before using your information in any manner and for any purpose other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
We collect information to provide better services to all the users of our Service, including determining what types of editorial content and the products and services offered on our Service are of the most interest and relevance to you.
We collect information about you from the following two sources:
We use the information we collect from users of our Service in order to provide you with more meaningful editorial and advertising content and to offer you relevant products and services, as well as to maintain, protect and improve your overall experience. In particular, you may choose (i) to subscribe to any of our electronic newsletters, (ii) to receive “special offers” by YBE and its various service providers, (iii) to receive franchise and business opportunity information from selected advertisers, and we will use your information for these purposes provided you have given us your consent. You may also choose (iv) to submit questions or comments in response to editorial content on our Service, or (v) to purchase books and related publications offered on our affiliated website at bookstore.entrepreneur.com (the “Bookstore Website”) in which case, we will process your information to perform our agreement or comply with your request. In each of those instances, you will be asked to provide, and we will collect and store, certain personal information such as email address, zip code, telephone number, and in some instances information about your business. In the case of purchases made through the Bookstore Website, we will also collect and store additional information about those purchases, including titles purchased, quantity and dates of purchases, the method of payment, and other information provided such as billing and shipping addresses (if different). By providing that information and provided you have consented thereto, you acknowledge that it can be used by YBE and its various advertisers and other service providers to send you promotions and other communications concerning business opportunities, products, or services. You can remove yourself from any such electronic newsletters and otherwise stop receiving any further promotions and other commercial communications by following the “unsubscribe” directions included with each newsletter or, in all of the above instances, by sending an email with the word “unsubscribe” in the subject line to unsubscribe@ybe-dc.com.
We may use the name you provide for your YBE Profile across all of the services we offer that require a YBE Account, which is where the information you provide is maintained. In addition, we may replace past names associated with your YBE Account, so that you are represented consistently across all our services.
When you contact EMI, we retain a record of your communications to help solve any issues you might be facing or to maintain a record to assist with legal claims. We will keep these records for a period of no more than 6 years. Provided you have consented thereto, we may use your email address to inform you about the products and services offered on our Service, such as letting you know about upcoming changes or improvements.
We use information collected from cookies and other technologies, like pixel tags, to improve your user experience and the overall quality of our services. You can reset your browser to reject all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. But you need to know that you may not be able to access or use some features and services on our Service without cookies. A pixel tag is a type of technology that is placed on a website or within an email and used for the purpose of tracking activity on a website and is often used in combination with cookies.
We do not track our users across third-party websites and thus do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals. However, some third-party websites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, certain website browsers allow you to set the DNT signal on your browser so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked.
Advertising on our Service makes it possible for us to offer you the information and products/services free of charge. We take it seriously and make every effort to make sure that advertising is safe, unobtrusive, and as relevant as possible.
Cookies are used to make that advertising as relevant as possible to the needs and interests of users of our Service, and more valuable to our advertisers in being able to show our visitors more relevant ads. Cookies are also used to avoid you from seeing the same ad multiple times and to detect and prevent click fraud. We use AdSense, Google Analytics, and other DoubleClick services (collectively, “Google® Services”), which help us manage and improve our Service and help our advertisers better understand and track user interaction with their ads. When you visit a location on our Service that includes one or more of these ads, various cookies may be sent to your browser.
We may use other technologies, including Flash and HTML5, which provide the functionality for such displays as interactive advertising. We may also use your IP address to select and provide advertising targeted to that address, in order to improve the relevance of the ads you see and to measure and report to advertisers non-personal statistical information about the geographical location of those website visitors who are viewing their ads.
The advertising you see on our Service is determined by a number of factors relating to relevance, including (i) your approximate geographical location based on your IP address and (ii) the subject matter you may be viewing on our Service. For example, if you are viewing an article about physical health, you may see ads concerning exercise equipment.
If you wish to know more about the information collected from website users and used to tailor those advertisements for products and services which might be of the most interest and relevance to those users or would like to know more about the user’s options in connection with the collection and use of that information, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) website at https://www.networkadvertising.org. The NAI is a cooperative of online advertising companies that are committed to responsible practices and consumer protection.
People have different concerns about privacy. Our goal is to be clear about what information we collect so that you can make meaningful choices about how that information is used. You may set your browser in its “options” or “preferences” feature in order to warn you before accepting cookies or to disable all cookies entirely. However, it is important to understand that many of the services we provide on our Service and to our Service users may not function properly if your cookies are disabled.
YBE does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 16 or knowingly allow such persons to register to use our Service. No one under age 16 is allowed to provide any personal information to YBE or on our Service. In the event that we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under age 16, please contact us at legal@ybe-dc.com.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of your country and the European Economic Area (“EEA”) including, in particular, the United States. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the fulfillment of your order, the processing of your payment details, and the provision of support services. By submitting your information, you agree to this transfer, storing, or processing.
Our Service allows visitors to share information with others, such as comments on editorial content and information shared via social media. When you share information it may as a result become accessible to others, through such mechanisms as search engines. We cannot be responsible for how others with whom we may share information may use that information. (See Paragraph 10 below—The Scope of Our Privacy Policy.)
It is our policy that, whenever you visit our Service, you should be able to access your personal information, which is information identifying you such as name, email address, billing information, or any other information which can reasonably be expected to identify you. If that information is incorrect, we try to provide you with ways to update it quickly or to delete it – unless we have to keep that information for legitimate business or legal purposes, in which case it will be retained for the periods specified in this Privacy Policy. When updating your personal information, we may ask you to verify your identity before we can act on your request.
If allowed under applicable law, we may reject requests that are unreasonably repetitive, and require disproportionate technical effort (for example, requests which would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information residing on backup systems)).
Where we can provide information access and correction, we will do so at no cost to you, except where it would require a disproportionate effort. We aim to maintain our services in a manner that protects information from accidental or malicious destruction. Because of this, after you delete information from our Service, we may not immediately delete residual copies from our active servers and may not remove information from our backup systems.
We do not share personal information with companies, organizations, and individuals outside of YBE unless one of the following circumstances applies:
We work hard to protect the information provided by or collected about, the users of our Service, from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. In particular:
Our Privacy Policy applies to all of the services offered through our Service. However, our Privacy Policy does not apply to any of the following:
Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights
You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to You about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:
Deletion Request Rights
You have the right to request that we delete any of your Personal Information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your Personal Information from our records, unless an exception applies.
We may deny your deletion request if retaining the Personal Information you request to have deleted is necessary for us or our service providers to:
Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights
To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us.
Only You may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.
You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm that the Personal Information relates to you. Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use Personal Information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify your identity as the person making the request or having your authority to make the request.
Response Timing and Format
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you in writing of the reason(s) why we will need more time and the additional time needed. If you have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to that account. If you do not have an account with us, we will deliver our written response to you electronically to the email address you provide. Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding our receipt of your verifiable consumer request. The response we provide will also explain any reason(s) why we cannot comply with your request (if applicable). For data portability requests, we will select a format for providing your Personal Information, which is readily usable and which should allow you to transmit that Information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.
We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.
As used in this Privacy Notice, the terms below shall have the following meanings:
“Affiliate” means a person or entity, who/which directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, us.
“Business purpose” means the use of Personal Information for a business or service provider’s operational purpose(s) or other notified purpose(s), provided that the use of such information is reasonably necessary and proportionate to achieve the purpose for which the Personal Information was collected or processed or for another operational purpose that is compatible with the context in which the Personal Information was collected or processed. A business purpose includes (i) auditing interactions with consumers such as counting ad impressions; (ii) security such as protecting against malicious or fraudulent activity; (iii) debugging such as identification and repair of impairments to functionality; (iv) short-term uses not involving disclosure to a third party, building a profile about a consumer, or altering a consumer’s experience outside of the transaction for which the personal information was collected; (v) performing services such as maintaining or servicing accounts and processing or fulfilling orders, verifying customer information, or providing advertising or marketing services; (vi) internal research for tech development; and (vi) quality and safety maintenance and verification.
“Commercial purpose” under CCPA means to induce a person’s commercial or economic interests, such as by inducing a person to buy, subscribe to, or provide goods, services, or information.
“Sale” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s Personal Information to a third party for valuable consideration or for no consideration, for the third party’s commercial purposes.
“Service Provider” means a for-profit legal entity, to which we disclose a consumer’s Personal Information for processing for a business purpose pursuant to a written contract between us and the Service Provider.
We regularly review our compliance with this Privacy Policy and with any and all industry-recommended best practices, as well as applicable laws and regulations. When we receive a formal written complaint, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow up. This is without prejudice to your right to launch a claim with your local data protection supervisory authority. We work with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that we cannot resolve with the users of our Service directly.
California residents may choose to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes or choose to opt out of such disclosure. Our policy is not to disclose personal information collected online to a third party for directing marketing without your approval. To make a request or to opt out at any time, please contact us at legal@ybe-dc.com or the other contact information provided below.
Our Privacy Policy may be revised from time to time, in which case the Privacy Policy you view will be the most current version and the date of the latest such revision will be identified at the beginning of this Privacy Policy. We will provide you with 30 days’ notice of any substantial changes to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions, concerns or suggestions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at legal@ybe-dc.com
YBECredits Not Redeemable for Cash
Please be advised that YBECredits earned through your participation in the YBE program cannot be redeemed for cash. YBECredits are exclusively for use within the YBE platform and for designated YBE-related purchases or services.