Who we are
Our website address is: https://smartstartupenglish.com.
The name of our website is Smart Startup English
Here at Smart Startup English (“Website”), we will always disclose any financial stake in an article or post. We believe strongly in keeping your personal information confidential. The following privacy policy, cookie policy, and disclosure describe what information we collect and how it is used and shared:
What Information We Collect And How It Is Used
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: SmartStartupEnglish.com may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by subscribing to a newsletter or submitting a contact form.
Automatically-Collected Information: When you use this website, we automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
Cookies: The website may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
Embedded content – Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
Collection of data may include:
- Contact Forms (i.e. on your about/ contact/ work with me page)
- Traffic analysis (i.e. tools such as Google Analytics, Amazon Associates Codes)
- Email forms/ lists (i.e. sign up/ subscription forms from email services such as MailerLite or MailChimp)
- Embedding content from external sites
- Forums / user registration
- Chatbots
- Order forms
- Selling products/ courses/ e-merchandise/ selling subscription services
- Comment forms (i.e. on any blog posts/ articles)
How Information May Be Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
To operate and maintain the Website;
To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support;
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third Party Use of Personal Information
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics. On the back end, we see data in an aggregated manner, and no identifiable data is shown in Google Analytics.
Mail Chimp – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for the purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Mail Chimp’s privacy policy for further information. Please note that every email we send contains the option to unsubscribe from our mailing list.
Soundcloud – this service is used to embed our podcast episodes into our lessons. Please refer to Soundcloud’s privacy policy for further information.
This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, SmartStartupEnglish.com will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Anonymous Data
From time to time,SmartStartupEnglish.com may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Cookies
Cookies / IP Address tracking
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser. This is possible in all main Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely available.
Advertising
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
Affiliate disclosure
This site may contain affiliate links and advertisements. If you click on a link and make a purchase, the site owner may earn a fee, at no extra expense to you. In other words, you’ll pay the same price for the product, but we’ll make a small commission. We will disclose all posts which contain affiliate links. We only recommend products that we’ve tried ourselves or that we believe are good quality and will provide value to your learning process. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for the purposes of tracking commissions.
Rights Related to Your Personal Information
Optout – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at info [at] smartstartupenglish.com that you wish to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to info [ at] smartstartupenglish.com
Amend – You may contact us at info [at] smartstartupenglish.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – You may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info[at]smartstartupenglish.com
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Information
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 18. If a parent or legal guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 18 in its database, please contact us immediately at info@smartstartupenglish.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
General Disclaimer
www.smartstartupenglish.com has made every effort to ensure that all information on the Website has been tested for accuracy. www.smartstartupenglish.com makes no guarantees regarding the results that you will see from using the information provided on the Website.
Contact
Should you need any further information, then please contact us at info[at]smartstartupenglish.com or via our contact form.
