Last modified: September 19, 2024

Growth Partner respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website growthpartner.ca (our "Website") and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see How Do We Change Our Policy?). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. “We,” “our” means Growth Partner and its affiliates. “You”, “your”  or “user” means the individual accessing this site.

What is Covered by the Policy?

Our policy covers information that we collect on the Website and through any email, text or other electronic messages between you and the Website.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, email address and telephone number, ("personal information"); and about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details. We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us and automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies. The information we collect on or through our Website includes information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, posting material or requesting services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website.  We may retain records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

ARE COOKIES OR OTHER TECHNOLOGIES USED TO COLLECT INFORMATION?

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website. In addition we automatically collect information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type. The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests and recognize you when you return to our Website.

HOW DOES GROWTH PARTNER USE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To provide you with notices about your account.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent. We may also use your information to contact you about our services that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please adjust your user preferences in your account profile.

WHY MAY GROWTH PARTNER DISCLOSE INFORMATION?

We may disclose aggregated information about our users and information that does not identify any individual without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Growth Partner about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

With your consent. We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property or safety of Growth Partner, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

HOW IS PERSONAL INFORMATION SECURED?

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

ARE LINKS COVERED BY THE POLICY?

We may provide links on the Website to third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use the Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.  We do not control the tracking technologies of third parties or how they may be used. If you have any questions about a link on our Website, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

WHAT HAPPENS TO INFORMATION I POST?

We may allow you to provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, "posted") on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, "User Contributions"). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.

HOW CAN A USER ACCESS, CHANGE OR DELETE PERSONAL INFORMATION?

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email at admin@growthpartner.ca to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect. Privacy laws where you live may provide you with additional rights regarding our use of your personal information.

MAY CHILDREN USE THE WEBSITE?

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under, please contact us at admin@growthpartner.ca.

HOW ARE POLICY CHANGES COMMUNICATED?

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes. If you have any questions about privacy at any websites operated by Growth Partner or about our website practices, please contact us at: admin@growthpartner.ca.

GOOGLE APIs

Growth Partner's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.”

We prioritize user privacy and comply with Google's requirements to ensure users control how their data is used.

Our app follows these guidelines:

Data Sharing Description:
Our app may share user input, usage, and technical data with third-party tools (such as Openai AI models) to enhance services. Details are provided in the privacy policy and user interface.

User Consent:
We obtain explicit user consent before sharing data. Users must opt-in through a consent form and can opt out anytime by contacting us on email at: admin@growthpartner.ca.

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