BY VISITING MANAGEMENTISAJOURNEY.COM YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY.

 

OVERVIEW

Business Consulting Solutions LLC is committed to protecting your privacy online. This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect through this website at ManagementisaJourney.com (the “Site”), and how we collect and use that information.

The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refers to Management is a Journey. The terms “user,” “you,” and “your” refer to site visitors, customers, and any other users of the site.

The term “personal information” is defined as information that you voluntarily provide to us that personally identifies you and/or your contact information, such as your name, phone number, and email address.

Management is a Journey is a leadership blog helping managers, entrepreneurs, and business owners with the people side of the business (the “Service”). Our website address is: https://managementisajourney.com. Management is a Journey is a registered trademark of Business Consulting Solutions LLC.

Use of Management is a Journey, including all materials presented herein and all online services provided by Management is a Journey, is subject to the following Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy applies to all site visitors, customers, and all other users of the site. By using the Site or Service, you agree to this Privacy Policy, without modification, and acknowledge reading it.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

This Site may collect and process personal data that you voluntarily provide to us (for example through filling out a form). This site also automatically collects information through trusted third parties. Information collection on this Site occurs as follows:

  • Affiliate Relationships: We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program (Associates Program), an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.  The Associates Program permits us to monetize this website by placing Site links to the Amazon.com website. These links use special “tagged” link formats and connect you to our products on Amazon.com (leadership books).  When you click through these links to purchase our books or another item on Amazon.com, we will receive program fees from Amazon.com for qualifying purchases. These qualifying purchases are further described in the Associates Program Fee Statement. Amazon.com's privacy policy is available here.
  • Hosting Services: Web services and hosting for this Site are provided by BigScoots. This includes web database, file storage, and log files. BigScoots' privacy policy is available here. Backup services for Site data is provided by Google and Amazon Web Services. Google's privacy policy is available here. Amazon Web Service's privacy policy is available here.
  • Subscriber Signups: At different times, we may offer visitors to our site an opportunity to join our email list. (Note: In order to protect our business under GDPR restrictions, we won't be accepting subscriptions from people from the EU however). When offered, if you voluntarily opt in to join our email list, we will collect your first and last name, email address, and job title. By voluntarily joining our email list, you agree to receive regular emails from us on leadership and management topics. We will also send you information about our paid products and services that we believe may be of interest to you.  You can unsubscribe at any time from our email list by selecting the ‘unsubscribe’ link that appears in every email we send. Automated marketing activities for our email list are provided by Drip. Drip uses cookies to track your interactions with us. This tracking information may also include personal information such as your country. Other examples of tracking activities include the following: whether you open the emails we send you;  whether you click the links contained in the emails; how you move around our Site when you are using it, etc. We use this information to customize your user experience and make the emails that we send you more relevant to your actual management and leadership interests. Drip's privacy policy is available here.
  • Patron Relationships: You can become a patron of this site via Patreon and access restricted membership content. In order to enable you to use this website with Patreon services, we save certain functionally-important Patreon information about you in this website if you log in with Patreon. These include your Patreon user id, Patreon username, your first, last names and your vanity name. Additionally, the id of your campaign at Patreon and your campaign's Patreon URL are also saved. If you request that your data be deleted from this website, this data will also be deleted and Patreon functionality will not work. You would need to register on this website and log in to this website with Patreon again in order to re-populate this data and have Patreon functionality working again.
  • Third Party Analytics Providers: We use third parties to help us operate and improve the Service. In doing so, we may share with these third parties non-personally identifiable information about your use of the Service. These third party providers also use cookies. We do not control information collected by third parties and we are not responsible for their use of that information.We use the analytics providers Google Analytics and the JetPack Plugin by Automattic to create a better user experience. Google Analytics provides us with general demographic and interest-level information about our users. Google Analytics uses cookies and pixels in order to collect demographic and interest-level information and usage information from users that visit the Service, including but not limited to information about the pages where users enter and exit the Service and what pages users view on the Service, time spent, browser, operating system, and IP address. Cookies and pixels allow Google to recognize a user when a user visits the Service. Google uses the information it collects from the Service and other websites to share with us information about users including age range, gender, geographic regions, general interests, and details about devices used to visit websites. We take reasonable measures to prevent linking of information we receive from Google with any of your personally identifiable information. To opt out of Google Analytics, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-Out Page. Google’s privacy policy is available here. The JetPack Plugin provides information on post and page views, outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that the plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.).
  • Website Security: Website security and data protection are provided to us by Defiant Inc. This includes website firewall protection, block brute force attacks protection, malware scanning, and live traffic viewing.  Defiant automatically collects user search queries and the date and time of your request and referral URL. Depending on the settings of your computer or mobile device (“Device”), Defiant also automatically collects: IP address; MAC address; Device make, model and operating system version; mobile network information; internet service provider; browser type and language; country and time zone in which the Device is located; and metadata stored on the Device.  When permitted, Defiant may collect data about your geographic location through GPS, beacons and similar technology. We use website security to protect your data and ensure that you can access our leadership and management content. Defiant's privacy policy is available here.

The information you provide is used to process transactions, send periodic emails, and improve the service we provide. We do share your information with trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business and servicing clients and visitors. These trusted third parties agree to keep this information confidential. Your personal information will never be shared with unrelated third parties.

EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES

Articles on this site include embedded content from other sites (for example, YouTube). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if you visited those other sites. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with their embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

ACTIVITY

We may record information relating to your use of the Site, such as the searches you undertake, the pages you view, your browser type, IP address, requested URL, referring URL, and timestamp information. We use this type of information to administer the Site and provide the highest possible level of service to you. We also use this information in the aggregate to perform statistical analyses of user behavior and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the Site.

COOKIES

We may send cookies to your computer in order to uniquely identify your browser and improve the quality of our service. The term “cookies” refers to small pieces of information that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive while you are viewing the Site. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them). You have the ability to accept or decline cookies using your web browser settings. If you choose to disable cookies, some areas of the Site may not work properly or at all. The Site does not respond to Do Not Track signals sent by your browser.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

The Site contains links to third party websites. Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you on our Site. Other sites accessible through our site via links or otherwise have their own policies in regard to privacy. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third parties.

SECURITY

We maintain security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, or disclosure. However, no exchange of data over the Internet can be guaranteed as 100% secure. While we make every effort to protect your personal information shared with us through our Site, you acknowledge that the personal information you voluntarily share with us through this Site could be
accessed or tampered with by a third party. You agree that we are not responsible for any intercepted information shared through our Site without our knowledge or permission. Additionally, you release us from any and all claims arising out of or related to the use of such intercepted information in any unauthorized manner.

CHILDREN

To access or use the Site, you must be 18 years old or older and have the requisite power and authority to enter into this Privacy Policy. Children under the age of 18 are prohibited from using the Site.

VISITORS' CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our 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 send an e-mail to [email protected] or write us at: 13504 NE 84th St, Suite 103-172, Vancouver, WA 98682-3091.

VISITORS’ GDPR RIGHTS

According to the GDPR a “data subject” is defined as an identifiable natural person. A natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as: a name, an identification number, location data, or online identifier. Alternatively, they may be identified by reference to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. A data subject may be of any age or nationality.

As a data subject, within the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Those rights include:

You have the right to be informed with respect to your personally identifiable information (PII) retained by the Company. As such, you may request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either correct or erase your personal data.

We will retain any personally identifiable information you choose to provide to us unless: (a) you request for us to delete the information, (b) we stop using our existing data providers, or (c) at Company’s discretion, we decide to remove the data.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

You have the right to withdraw consent provided to the Company concerning the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to not be subjected to automated decision-making via pre-ticked boxes, additions to our email marketing lists and the like.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us by way of downloading a lead magnet, webinar, freebie or any other traditional list building methods. (Note: In order to protect our business under GDPR restrictions, we won't be accepting subscriptions from people from the EU however).

UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION

You may access and correct your personal information and privacy preferences by contacting us via email at [email protected].

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Site and this Policy periodically and to be aware of any modifications. We will notify you of any changes to this privacy policy by posting those changes on this page.

CONTACT

If you have questions about our privacy policy, please email us at [email protected].

Updated: FEB 2022