Last updated on: September 2022 

U.S Good Business Lab Foundation (“GBL”/ “We”) recognizes the importance of maintaining your privacy and is committed to protecting the privacy of personal information you provide when you visit our website and all other websites, mobile sites, services, applications, platforms and tools where this Privacy Policy appears or is linked (collectively, the “Website/website/Site“). This Privacy Policy explains the information we may collect during your visit to our Website and how we use, share, and store that information.  

This Policy describes how we treat user information we collect through www.gblusa.org and other offline sources. By visiting and/or using our Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy as well as the Terms of Use.  

 

Information we collect 

Contact information: We might collect your name, email, mobile number, phone number, street, city, state, pin code, country and IP address. 

Information you post: We collect information you may post in a public space on our website or on a third-party social media site belonging to goodbusinesslab.org.  

Demographic information: We may collect demographic information about you provided by you during the use of our website. We might also collect this as a part of a survey. 

Other information: If you use our website, we may collect information about your IP address and the browser you’re using. We might look at what site you came from, duration of time spent on our website, pages accessed or what site you visit when you leave us. We might also collect the type of mobile device you are using, or the version of the operating system your computer or device is running. 

 

We collect information in different ways. 

We collect information directly from you. We collect information directly from you when you subscribe to our mailing list, and like or share our projects on social media. We also collect information if you post a comment on our websites or ask us a question through our website or email. 

We collect information from you passively. We use tracking tools like Google Analytics, Google Webmaster, browser cookies, and web beacons to collect information about your usage of our website. We get information about you from third parties – for example, if you use an integrated social media feature on our website. The third-party social media site will give us certain information about you. This could include your name and email address. 

 

Aggregate and Non-Personal Information 

GBL may use the personal information you provide in an aggregate form. Such aggregated information is not considered personal information for purposes of this Privacy Policy and we may use it for any purpose, including but not limited to, for our internal program, research and general marketing purposes, such as generating statistics and developing plans for promoting our services.  Some service providers with whom we share information may use it in aggregate form for their internal business purposes, such as generating statistics for marketing materials, but they may not use your personal information for any other purpose and may not share it with other parties. 

We may also collect certain non-personal information about your use of the Site (e.g., to determine which pages of our Site are most popular and to improve use of the Site). We may collect IP addresses to analyze trends, administer our website, track traffic patterns, and gather demographic information for aggregate use. We may share this aggregated non-personal information with our affiliates, licensees and partners, and may post analyses and statistics based on the aggregated data on the Site or use the data for research or promotional purposes relating to our mission. We do not use IP addresses in combination with your personal information without your prior consent. 

 

Cookies 

GBL also may use “cookies” to collect information about visitors to our Site. A “cookie” is a small text file that a website places on your computer’s hard drive to make it easier to use certain website functions or to collect information about your activities on the website. The cookie transmits this information back to the website. Many users do not know that “cookies” are placed on their computers when they visit websites. If you want to prevent this from happening, you can set your browser to warn you when a website attempts to place a cookie on your computer. Please note that if you disable cookies you may lose some functionality on our Site. 

We use cookies to analyze how visitors, in the aggregate, use our Site to make it as useful as possible.  We do not collect or store personal information through the use of cookies. We use cookies for our member login so that when members return to our Site, they can access members only content without having to sign back into the Site. 

 

Use of your personal information 

• We use information to contact you: We might use the information you provide to contact you for promotional purposes. 
• We use information to respond to your requests or questions. We might use your information to confirm your registration for an event or mailer. 
• We use information to improve our services. We might use your information to customize your experience with us. This could include displaying content based upon your preferences. 
• We use information to look at site trends and user interests. We may use your information to make our website and services better. We may combine information we get from you with information about you we get from third parties. 
• We use information for security purposes. We may use information to protect our organization, our users, or our websites. 
• We use information for marketing purposes. We might send you information about special promotions or offers. We might also tell you about updates or new projects. 
• We use information to send you transactional communications. We might send you emails about your subscription to our mailers. 
• We use information as otherwise permitted by law. 

 

Sharing of information with third-parties 

• We will share information with third parties who perform services on our behalf. We share information with vendors who help us manage our online registration process or payment processors or transactional message processors.  
• We may share information if we think we have to in order to comply with the law. We will share information to respond to a court order or subpoena. We may also share it if a government agency or investigatory body requests us to. We might also share information when we are investigating potential fraud. 

Email Opt-Out:

You can opt out of receiving our subscription emails. To stop receiving our promotional emails, please email info@goodbusinesslab.org. It could take up to ten days to process your request. 

Third party sites 

If you click on one of the links to third party websites, you may be taken to websites we do not control. This Policy does not apply to the privacy practices of those websites. Read the privacy policy of other websites carefully. We are not responsible for these third-party sites. 

Employee hiring related personal information  

GBL is committed to maintain the confidentiality and security of personal information collected from users who use our website or various links generated by GBL to apply for various job applications available here. GBL maintains such personal information post such user’s successful induction in GBL, during their course of employment and after their exit from GBL. GBL endeavours to retain such personal information as long as it is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which the personal information was collected (including, for the purpose of meeting any business, legal, accounting or other reporting requirements or obligations) except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulatory requirements.  

Children 

Our Site is not directed to children and we will not knowingly allow anyone under the age of 13 to use the Site or to provide us with any personal information. Children always should get permission from their parents before sending any information about themselves (such as their names, email addresses and phone numbers) over the Internet. If you are under 13, please do not use our services, access the Site, or provide any information about yourself. If a child under 13 submits personal information to us and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will, in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, delete the information as soon as possible. If you believe that we might have any personal information from a child under 13, please contact us (see the “Contact Us” Section on the Home page). Please visit the FTC’s website at www.ftc.gov for tips on protecting children’s privacy online. 

Updates to this policy 

From time to time we may change our privacy practices. We will notify you of any material changes to this policy as required by law. We will also post an updated copy on our website. Please check our site periodically for updates. 

Jurisdiction 

If you choose to visit the website, your visit and any dispute over privacy is subject to this Policy and the website’s terms of use. In addition to the foregoing, any disputes arising under this Policy shall be governed by the laws of state of Michigan.  

 

You can reach out to us at info@goodbusinesslab.org for any questions or queries related to our Privacy Policy.