This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information and that of your clients and prospective clients.
Our Privacy Policy explains how Absolute Engagement collects, uses, protects, and discloses information about you. The terms “Absolute Engagement,” “we,” “us,” and “our” includes Absolute Engagement and our affiliates. We use the term “advisor” “user” “you,” and “your” to mean any person using this website. Absolute Engagement is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
This Privacy Policy applies to the processing of information on this site. For information about choices that we offer under this policy, please see “Your Choices” below. For more information about the scope of our Privacy Policy, please see Section 4.
To make this Privacy Policy easier to understand, we have provided summaries at the beginning of each section. These summaries are not part of the official policy. Even though we have provided summaries, it is important for you to read the entire policy carefully.
The Bottom Line: WE DO NOT rent, sell, or otherwise disclose your personal information to third parties, except in the very limited circumstances set out below.
Any modifications to this Privacy Policy will be posted on this website, so please check the “last modified” date of the Privacy Policy periodically. This Privacy Policy was last modified on January 20, 2021.
Summary: We collect information about you when you use this website and:
Summary: We use information about you to:
2.1 Operating Our Platforms
We may use information about you for various purposes related to operating our programs, including to:
2.2 Communicating With You
We may use information about you for various purposes related to communicating with you, including to:
2.3 Legal Basis for Processing
Our legal basis for collecting and using the information described above will depend on the type of information and the specific context in which we collect it.
3. Sharing of Information
Summary: We do not share information about you in any way other than as described in this Privacy Policy.
We may disclose information about you:
3.1 Data Sharing With Our Service Providers
We may use service providers in connection with operating and improving our platforms to assist with certain functions, such as payment processing, email transmission, conducting follow-up program surveys, data hosting and some aspects of our technical and customer support. We take measures to ensure that these service providers access, process, and store information about you only for the purposes we authorize and subject to confidentiality obligations.
3.2 Following The Law And Protecting Absolute Engagement
We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to third parties, including the content of messages if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our program’s agreements or related guidelines and policies, or, if necessary, to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, Absolute Engagement or others.
3.3 Affiliate Sharing And Merger, Sale, Or Other Asset Transfers
If Absolute Engagement is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, or sale of our assets, information about you may be shared, sold, or transferred as part of that transaction. We may also share information about you with current or future corporate parents, subsidiaries, or affiliates.
Summary:
4.1 Transfer of Information
Given that the internet is a global environment, using the internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Personal information will be stored on servers hosted in North America. As such, your personal information may be subject to laws where the data protection and other laws may not be as comprehensive as those where you reside. Personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities. Therefore, by browsing our website and communicating electronically with us, you acknowledge and agree to our processing of personal data in this way.
We have taken appropriate safeguards so that your information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
4.2 Security
We employ technical and organizational measures designed to appropriately protect your information. These measures address how we control, collect, use, disclose, copy, modify, or dispose of your information, both during transmission and once we receive it. We store all information that you provide to us on secure servers. We train employees regarding our data privacy policies and procedures and permit authorized employees to access information on a need-to-know basis, as required for their role. We use firewalls designed to protect against intruders. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure.
4.3 Safeguarding Data
Absolute Engagement takes all feasible and reasonable precautions to protect the personal information that we collect from you. Every staff member must sign a Confidentiality and Non-Disclosure Agreement wherein they agree not to improperly use and/or disclose any personal information about clients or other individuals who have contacted Absolute Engagement. Also, your personal information is retained in secure databases, which are only accessible by password and are protected using firewalls.
4.4 Data Retention
We retain certain information that we collect from you while you are a participant in our programs and while on our website for the following reasons:
When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will delete it.
4.5 Revisions to This Policy
We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will provide notice to you by publishing the most current version on this site and revising the date referenced in the introduction section of this policy. If we make any material change to this policy, we will provide additional notice to you, such as by sending you an email or displaying a prominent notice on this site.
4.6 Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over those other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
4.7 Use of Your Personal Information
We will maintain your personal information in a secure database. We do not use the information in the database for any purpose other than facilitating your future orders or to permit us to notify you of services, webinars, blog posts, and features offered by Absolute Engagement. We do not store your credit card numbers or expiry dates in our database, but they are stored in our PCI compliant payment processor’s database to facilitate recurring program payments. Consequently, each time you choose to commence payment for a new program, your name and shipping address will be pulled from the database, but you will have to re-enter your credit card information to complete the order. Should you wish to have your credit card details purged from our payment processors database please contact us at support@absoluteengagement.com.
4.8 Our Policy Regarding Sharing Your Personal Information.
Absolute Engagement does not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer the personal information you provide to third parties. We may allow authorized third-party service providers to access your personal information to perform services on our behalf. Our service providers are required to provide privacy protection comparable to ours and to limit their use of such information to provide services on our behalf. These service providers use servers based in North America and the personal information may be subject to disclosure in accordance with the applicable laws of these jurisdictions, which may create a different privacy regime from your country of residence.
4.9 Email Marketing
Absolute Engagement uses ActiveCampaign, developed by ActiveCampaign LLC, 1 N Dearborn Street, Chicago, IL 60602, USA. ActiveCampaign is a service that organizes and analyzes the distribution of email communication. If you provide data (e.g. your email address) to subscribe to our blog or view a program demo, it will be stored on ActiveCampaign servers in the USA. ActiveCampaign is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield. The Privacy Shield is an agreement between the European Union (EU) and the US to ensure compliance with European privacy standards in the United States. We use ActiveCampaign to gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our marketing email. For more information please review the ActiveCampaign privacy policy available by clicking here.
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5.1 Opting Out Of Receiving Communications From Us
If you do not wish to receive communications from Absolute Engagement, you can opt-out of receiving such communications by either following the instructions within each such communication or by contacting support at Absolute Engagement at any time using the email noted below. It may take up to three days to process a request received by email or telephone, and one week to process a request received by mail. If you change your mind and would like to start receiving communications from us again, you can do so by emailing us at support@absoluteengagement.com.
5.2 Log Files
Absolute Engagement follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
5.3 Cookies
This site uses cookies to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.
5.4 Promotional Communications
You can control messages that you receive from Absolute Engagement and third parties by selecting the unsubscribe link in the message that you receive. If you opt-out, we may still send you non-promotional messages, such as those about your program or our ongoing business relationship.
6. Data Rights
Summary:
We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws. You can contact us by sending an email to our company President, Mike Reynolds mreynolds@absoluteengagement.com.
Rights that you have depend on the country in which you live and may include:
Summary:
Under data protection law, the controller of your information is Absolute Engagement. We do not have a dedicated Data Privacy Officer, but these duties are part of the responsibilities of the company President, Mike Reynolds. If you have questions about our policies or your personal information please contact Mike Reynolds directly:
Mike Reynolds
President, Absolute Engagement
340 King Street East, 4th Floor, North Side
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
M5A 1K8
Via email at mreynolds@absoluteengagement.com