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Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy is designed to assist you – businesses, consumers and the general public – in understanding how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us, and to help you make informed decisions when using our web site and all of our related services therein.

Website Accessibility
iFranchise Group is continually working to improve the accessibility of all content on our website. If assistance is needed in navigating any information on our site, please contact us directly.

Contact Information
To request a correction or deletion of your private information, or if you have any questions and general comments about this privacy policy, please contact our Data Controller:
Judy Janusz
iFranchise Group, Inc.
[email protected]

What Information Do We Collect?
When visiting the our web site, you may provide us with two types of information: personal information you voluntarily choose to disclose that is collected on an individual basis, and web site use information gathered on a collective basis as you and others browse our web site.

Personal Information You Choose to Provide

Registration Information
You will provide us information about yourself, your firm or company, and your practices when you register to be a user of our services, register for certain services, or register for email newsletters and alerts.

Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. If you use our “Email this page” feature to send a copy of that page to someone else, your email address will appear as the sender of the email. Both your email address and the recipient’s email address will not be used for any other purpose.

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Generally, we use personal information for purposes of managing and expanding our business activities, providing customer service and making available other products and services to our customers and prospective customers. Occasionally, we may also use the information we collect to notify you about important changes to our web site, new services and special offers we think you will find valuable.

Online Advertising
We have implemented and are using Google Remarketing and Display Advertising on our web site. Using cookies, third-party vendors, including Google, may serve ads to you on sites across the Internet based on past website visit behavior. Users can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Ads Preferences Manager or Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.

We have implemented and are using Microsoft Remarketing and Display Advertising on our web site.  Microsoft collects or receives Personal Data from you to provide Microsoft Advertising.  The Microsoft Privacy Statements can be accessed here.

Google Analytics
Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”), is used on our web site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use information generated by cookies and your IP address for website analytics and remarketing. Google’s privacy policy may be obtained here. Users may opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google advertising opt-out page.

Choice/Opt-out
We allow you the choice to opt-out of having your information used for purposes not directly related to our site, when we ask for the information. Until you explicitly opt-in for the first time we consider you in the opt-out category. We always notify our customers when their information is being collected by any outside parties. We do this so our users can make an informed choice as to whether or not they should proceed with services that require an outside party.

If you do not wish to receive any promotional or marketing e-mails and/or surface mail marketing letters, or customize the interests assigned to your browser that we use for customized advertising and content, you can visit our Ads Preferences Manager. It will allow you to opt-out of one or more specific interest categories or opt-out of all interest-based ads and content that iFranchise Group serves. You may also send us an e-mail with the subject line “Unsubscribe” to or e-mail address – see above.

What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a web site, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each web site can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a web site to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

How Do We Use Information We Collect from Cookies?
As you visit our web site, the site uses its cookies to differentiate you from other customers. In some cases, we also use cookies to prevent you from seeing unnecessary advertisements or requiring you to log in more than is necessary for security.

Cookies, in conjunction with our web server’s log files, allow us to calculate the aggregate number of people visiting our web site and which parts of the site are most popular. This helps us gather feedback in order to constantly improve our web site and better serve our customers. Cookies do not allow us to gather any personal information about you and we do not generally store any personal information that you provided to us in your cookies.

If ownership of the business is transferred, the collected information will be transferred with it.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

We may enter into alliances, partnerships or other business arrangements with third parties who may be given access to personal information including your name, address, telephone number and email for the purpose of providing you information regarding products and services that we think will be of interest to you.

In connection with third parties and arrangements, we may provide certain information to third parties if we have determined that the information will be used in a responsible manner by a responsible third party. However, iFranchise Group retains the right, which it may or may not exercise, in its sole discretion, to review third party material and to edit or delete from the service any third party material which iFranchise Group deems to be illegal, offensive or otherwise inappropriate.

We may share your information with third party service providers who provide services or functions on our behalf, including customer service, business analytics, marketing, and services to us in connection with operating the Site to help us bring you the services we offer. Specifically, we may use third parties to facilitate our business, such as to host the service at a co-location facility for servers, to send out email updates, to remove repetitive information from our user lists, to process payments for products or services, or to provide search results or links (including sponsored links). In connection with these offerings and business operations, our service providers may have access to your personal information for use in connection with these business activities. With business partners with whom we may jointly offer a product or service offering. Please note that we do not control the privacy practices of these third-party business partners. Where we utilize third parties for the processing of any personal information, we do our best to implement reasonable contractual and technical protections limiting the use of that information to the Site’s specified purposes.

As we develop our business, we may buy or sell assets or business offerings. Customer, email, and visitor information is generally one of the transferred business assets in these types of transactions. We may also transfer such information in the course of corporate divestitures, mergers, or any dissolution.

How Do We Protect Your Information?

How Can You Access and Correct Your Information?
You may request access to all your personally identifiable information that we collect online and maintain in our database by contacting us, see the above contact information.

What About Other Web Sites Linked to Our Web Site?
We are not responsible for the practices employed by web sites linked to or from our web site nor the information or content contained therein. Often links to other web sites are provided solely as pointers to information on topics that may be useful to the users of our web site. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our web site to another web site, our Privacy Policy is no longer in effect.

Your browsing and interaction on any other web site, including web sites which have a link on our web site, is subject to that web site’s own rules and policies. Please read over those rules and policies before proceeding.

We take organizational and technical measures which we believe maintain an adequate level of security, barring any unforeseen activities by a malicious actor on this website.

Your Consent
By using our web site you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our web site to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it. At any time you may request to view any and all changes and updates, via surface mail.

Notification of Changes
The Privacy Policy is subject to periodic review and change. In order to view the current Privacy Policy, simply check this section of the web site. If we materially change our privacy policy, we will post those changes to this privacy statement and other places we deem appropriate so users are aware of what information we collect, how it is used, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. In some cases where we post a notice, we may also email user who have opted to receive communications from us, notifying them of the changes in our privacy practices.

Privacy Policy | European Union
iFranchise Group does not maintain an establishment in the European Union.
If you are a person in the European Union, in addition to iFranchise Group’s general Privacy Policy, we would like to bring the following to your attention:

  1. Data Controller
    The data controller is the iFranchise Group. The designated representative for purpose of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is Judy Janusz. This representative can be reached at [email protected].
  2. Cookies
    Our Website generally uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Website. This helps us provide you with a good experience when you browse our Website and also allows us to improve our Website. A fuller discussion of what cookies are and how we use them appears in our general Privacy Policy above.
    You may block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies.
    Refusing or blocking all cookies from this Website may prevent you from using all features of the Website.
  3. Your rights as a data subject
    To the extent you choose to provide personal data to us through this website, we would like to bring the following to your attention with regard to our collection and processing of this data:

     

    • The GDPR might provide you with rights as a data subject.
    • Our purpose is to inform you of our consulting services, our company’s networking events, and other matters which we believe would be of interest or benefit to you or others at your company.
    • The lawful basis is your consent and our legitimate interest in providing you with further information as a visitor to our website.
    • The data may be shared among our staff, affiliates and approved vendors.
    • This website is maintained and managed outside the European Union. In providing personal data, you will be transferring it outside the European Union. We take organizational and technical measures which we believe maintain an adequate level of security, barring any unforeseen activities by a malicious actor on this website. 
    • We will maintain the data indefinitely as part of our ongoing informational program.
    • You may, however, by contacting us at [email protected]:
      • Revoke your consent partially or completely at any time.
      • Instruct us to send you a copy of your personal data and/or to rectify or delete some or all of your personal data.
    • According to the GDPR, you may have the right to lodge a complaint with your national Data Protection Authority.