This privacy statement (“Privacy Statement”) describes how SUCCESS STORIES HUB uses and collects your information through its websites (the “Sites”) and mobile applications (the “Apps”), as well as how you can access the apps and services that are hosted on our platform successstorieshub.com.
Your privacy is important to us, and we take seriously our responsibility to protect it. Before using or continuing to visit the Sites, please read this privacy statement carefully. You are accepting the policies and procedures outlined in this Privacy Policy by using the Sites and Services. Click here to access our terms of service.
Information We collect and its Usage:
Reference to “Personal Data,” for us means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”). An identifiable natural person is one who can be located, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier like a name, an identification number, location information, or an online identifier.
We gather general data (“Usage Data”) about your usage of the Services offered on our Sites in addition to Personal Data. Demographic data which includes details about your preferences, interests, search history, and online behaviour are all examples of Usage Data. Usage data that contains personal information is handled in accordance with this privacy policy.
SUCCESS STORIES HUB gathers the data you give us via using the Services, from other sources, and directly and indirectly through third parties. We aggregate all of the information we have about you so that we can conduct analyses and give you better Services. The information we gather and how we process it are dependent on how you use and access the Services. We gather data, including personal data, in the manners described below:
Your Submissions to Us – When you subscribe to an online newsletter, sign up for an event, or get in touch with us with a question or request, SUCCESS STORIES HUB will gather your personal information. For instance, if you make a request to advertise with us, you may give us your name, email address, contact information for your place of employment, as well as your company and home address. We use this information as needed to fulfil your request or query, as well as to maintain, provide services, and enhance our products. You may offer personal information to us such as your demographic, financial, and billing details. We process this personal data as long as we have a good reason to or with your permission. Please be aware that if you are our paid subscriber ICLAIRON will not collect, process, or keep any of your billing or payment information. Instead, it will be sent to our payment processors. If any further information/requirements are needed, we might additionally obtain personal information from you at that time so we can handle your subscriptions. But ICLAIRON will not keep, gather, or use any PCI (Payment Card Industry) data.
Content Submissions – SUCCESS STORIES HUB allows users to submit content to some or all of our sites, such as comments and photographs, which we post on the Services with your permission. Upon registering for this service, users are required to enter their email address and username. Any Personal Data you provide to us in comments or photographs is collected by us. According to your consent and in accordance with our legitimate interests, we treat this personal data. You must get permission from all identifiable third parties/sources before publishing their work if, in addition to you, they may be identified in it.
Your location—”Location Data”—is either gathered with your permission or inferred from how you use the Services. These details could be your device’s IP address, the geographic data you give us, or the location of the computer or mobile device you used to access the Services as determined by GPS or WiFi use. (e.g., your city). We use this information to analyse how the Services are used, personalise and enhance the content we provide to you on the Services, offer you content that is relevant to your location, and display events or businesses close to you. We use and store your personal information for as long as it’s required to give you relevant, customised services or until you decide to revoke consent.
Social Media communications- When you connect with us through the social media features of our websites, on our social media pages and channels, or through other channels and content, we may acquire Personal Data about you. The Personal Data consists of your contributions’, content as well as your profile name and profile identifier. As long as you do not withdraw your consent or we continue to use the social media pages, we will use this information to interact with you and for internal purposes. If you have any concerns about the website, mobile application, or social network’s privacy policies, please review the privacy settings and policies. Please be aware that anything you upload directly to our sites, including our social media pages, including comments, images, information, and other things, is public and can used and read by others. We advise caution in disclosing Personal Information through submissions and public activities.
Marketing updates and other information – With your permission and as otherwise allowed by law, we may contact you via email with information about our products and services as well as those of third parties. We may also send you information about special offers and promotions that may be of interest to you. You can stop receiving these marketing communications at any moment if you no longer want to give your consent. The validity of the processing carried out prior to your withdrawal will not be impacted by your withdrawal of consent. Periodically, we might also let you know if there are significant changes to the services. If you opt out of receiving marketing communications, we will still be able to communicate with you on other matters, such as providing you with services or attending to your requests.
Promotions, surveys, sweepstakes, and contests – You can have the opportunity to take part in competitions, freebies, surveys, sweepstakes, or other similar promotions that we or other sponsors may run, which we will announce from time to time. You should review the rules to understand how your information will be used and shared with others before participating in any activity that may need you to provide your Personal Data to us or to third parties who are sponsoring the contest, giveaway, survey, sweepstakes, or promotion. You could be asked for further information, to sign a release, or to give your permission for specific information about you to be used in marketing materials before you can claim any accolades or prizes. If a third party manages the contest or if we handle contest administration through a third-party platform (such as Facebook or Twitter), your participation will be reviewed subject to additional Terms and Conditions as well of the Third-Party Policy or Guidelines. We are outside the purview of the Third Party; hence, we will not be responsible for Third Party. Before choosing whether to participate in a contest advertised or provided through the Service, you should carefully study the contest rules and the terms and conditions of these third parties.
Data collection through cookies and other similar automated technologies – We and other third-party vendors, such as advertising networks, social media widgets, affiliate partners, and analytics providers, collect certain information, including Personal Data, when you visit the Services (including our social media pages) or open our emails, with your permission or as otherwise permitted by law. This information is collected automatically using tools like cookies, web beacons, and web server logs. Usage Data, IP addresses, browser characteristics, specific device IDs and characteristics, operating system versions, language preferences, dates and times of access to the Services, referring URLs, and data regarding the use of our Services are among the details gathered in this way. We use this data, for instance, to estimate the number of visitors who have visited a particular website and social media networks, pages, or messages that have been opened in newsletters in order to assess and enhance the services we offer. Regarding our use of cookies and the preservation of the Personal Data we gather through cookies, please refer to the information below.
Vendor Compliance with Our Privacy Policy – We may combine this data with other information that we have collected /learned about you and from other sources besides collected from you. If other websites and apps that use the same vendors as ours do, our vendors may also gather and combine information about your online activities over time, on different devices, and on other websites and apps with information about our Services and emails. The information that our vendors gather is used in accordance with their privacy rules. For example, we currently use Google Analytics to collect and process certain website Usage Data for the above purposes and to facilitate our use of other Google tools (e.g. Google Display Network Impression Reporting and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting). To learn more about Google Analytics and how to opt out, please visit google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. You may be able to change browser settings to block and delete cookies when you access the Services through a web browser. However, if you do that, the Services may not work properly. Our Sites are not set up to respond or process web browser “Do Not Track” (“DNT”) signals but they do respond to browser cookie settings. You can learn to decline or opt-out of cookies by reading the section on Cookies below.
II. How We Share Information
To fulfil our obligations /Services to you and operate our business consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable Data Protection Laws, we share Personal Data within SUCCESS STORIES HUB (including our affiliates and subsidiaries. In addition to what is already stated in this Privacy Policy, we will also share your Personal Data with third parties in the following situations and for the following purposes:
(III) Suppliers and Vendors
To provide services to us and you and to assist us in communicating with you about goods and services, deals, events, and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you, we share the Personal Data we collect with our service providers, vendors (including ad networks), and suppliers for the reasons outlined in this privacy policy. Unless otherwise specified in this Privacy Policy, our service providers and vendors are only allowed access to your information for the purposes of providing such services.
(IV) Accrediting Services on the Sites
The Services, we provide ranges in varieties and features. To enable the services we provide, personal data that is obtained through the Services may be utilized, disclosed, or both. You can interact with websites, material, ads, and features from third parties, for instance, through the Services. In facilitating services, we use your Personal Data and/or divulge it to the third party managing the websites and services in order to accomplish that engagement.
(V) Legal and related users
Despite our best efforts to protect user privacy, SUCCESS STORIES HUB may be forced by law to reveal Personal Data if we have a good-faith belief that doing so is necessary to comply with a pending legal matter, a court order, or other legal process served SUCCESS STORIES HUB or one of its affiliates. Unless we are prohibited from doing so by law or a court order, we will make commercially reasonable attempts to notify you in advance if we intend to disclose information about you for any of these reasons.
(VI) Online Advertisement
To provide you with pertinent advertising on and off the Services, we employ industry-standard website tracking and delivery technology. Through tailored advertising techniques, our services show you advertisements. This enables us to present you with specific advertising about goods and services based on data we gather from users of the Services and from third parties, which is tailored to your personal interests. Due to our participation in advertising networks, you might also encounter certain advertisements while using the Services. Ad networks give us the ability to target consumers with our advertising by using click-stream, demographic, behavioural, and contextual data. The use of tracking technologies by third parties to gather this data is frequently governed by their own privacy policies:
Ad Serving – The advertisements that you see on our websites are sent to you by advertising agencies and/or by SUCCESS STORIES HUB’s own specialised software for delivering advertisements. We may use information about your searches or visits to our websites, as well as information we specifically obtain from third parties, to deliver ads to you.
Advertising and Cookies – A few of our third-party advertising partners have the ability to provide users cookies through the advertisements they deliver to us. Once we have received the ads, SUCCESS STORIES HUB has no access to or control over these cookies.
Affiliate Marketing – We engage in affiliate marketing and permit the encoding of affiliate links on a few of our pages. As a result, we might get paid when you click on or buy something from affiliate links, and affiliate partners might use cookies to track how you use the Services.
(VII) Cookies
SUCCESS STORIES HUB stores small data files known as cookies on your device to make sure the Sites work properly, to monitor how you use the Sites, to enhance the Sites’ functionality and your user experience, and to customise the Sites to your interests. When you visit the Sites, cookies—small text files—are saved on your computer or mobile device. They allow the Sites to keep track of and/or remember your preferences and actions. The following cookies are used by SUCCESS STORIES HUB on our websites:
Strictly Necessary Cookies- You will have certain cookies in order to navigate the website and enjoy its features. Even if you do not provide your agreement to the usage of cookies, these cookies will be downloaded to your device and used.
Performance Cookies- These cookies gather data on how you use the websites (such as the pages you visit most frequently) in order to enhance their functionality.
Functionality Cookies- These cookies allow the sites the ability to remember decisions you make (such the language or location you’re in) and offer better, more individualised features.
Targeting/Advertising Cookies- These cookies are used to display online ads that are more relevant to you and your interests both on and off the Sites. In addition, they assist determine how effective advertising campaigns are by limiting the number of times you see an advertisement. The cookies keep track of your visits to the site, and this information could be given to other businesses, including marketers.
SUCCESS STORIES HUB utilises either first party or third-party cookies. SUCCESS STORIES HUB sets first party cookies, which are the ones that are utilised when you log into your account, and they all come from the same website. On the other hand, third-party providers and organisations with different domains store third-party cookies. We use both session cookies, which vanish when you shut your browser, and persistent cookies, which remain on your device until you delete them or they expire.
Opt-out- We give the following links to opt out of cookies provided by both our first party ad server and various third-party advertising partners that may be involved in online behavioural advertising as part of our commitment to openness and your privacy.
First Party Opt-out-To disable cookies from our first-party ad serving vendor, Google, please click this page……………………
Third Party and Interest-Based/Online Behavioral Advertising Opt-out -To opt out of cookies from more than 50+ major third-party behavioural advertising providers, please click this page………………
(VIII) Global Privacy Control (GPC)
We respect GPC signals. You can enable GPC through your browser if it supports it and you are using one that does. Through the browser, you can choose not to have your personal information sold, shared, or processed. Click here for additional information on GPC.
(IX) Third-Party Content, Widgets, Links to Other Sites
Our sites frequently have content that is hosted and provided by outside sources or link to such information. These third parties might use their own cookies and web beacons to independently collect data or seek personal data in order to learn more about you. The privacy policies or the content of such third sites are not the responsibility of SUCCESS STORIES HUB. Please go to the privacy policies on each of these websites if you have any queries. This Privacy Policy only applies to data that of SUCCESS STORIES HUB collects via our sites. Some unique conditions apply if you decide to buy a good or service from our website. Payment processing is handled by a third party, and your transaction will be governed by its own terms and privacy policy. Although the merchant and/or the third-party payment processor may give us information about your order, such as what you bought and how much you spent, we do not process, record, or keep your credit card, bank account, or payment information. We fully disclaim any and all responsibility for your use of the system of any third-party payment processor, including any liability arising from its privacy practises. We occasionally get a tiny percentage of the money when you make a purchase on an e-commerce site that we link to. A separate business manages the commercial ties with e-commerce websites. As a result of the third party’s ability to create affiliate links independently, we use it to assist us in automating the process of linking to products. Our editorial staff solely determines the direction of our evaluations based on our opinions; none of our journalists are involved. Our editorial decisions are unaffected by financial incentives, and the journalists who choose the links for their stories aren’t aware of which websites might bring in extra money for SUCCESS STORIES HUB.
(X) Merger, Sale or Other Asset Transfers- Your information may be disclosed in connection with the negotiation of a business transition involving SUCCESS STORIES HUB, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of a portion of its assets, and/or sold or transferred as part of that business transition, as permitted by law and/or contract.
(XI) Children’s Privacy
We are concerned about children’s privacy. As a result, we do not knowingly target our Sites towards users under the age of 16 or solicit their Personal Information. We shall immediately erase any Personal Data that a user has given us if we become aware that the user is under the age of 16.
(XII) How Long We Keep Personal Data
We keep the data we gather about you for as long as is required to accomplish the goals we set out to accomplish with it, as well as to meet any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The amount, nature, and sensitivity of your personal data, the risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether those purposes can be met by other means, and any applicable legal requirements are all taken into account when determining the right retention period.
For information about deleting your Personal Data, including your account, see below.
(XIII) Notice to Residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland
Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union of April 27, 2016 (the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) gives residents of the EEA and Switzerland certain rights. These rights include but are not limited to: (i) the ability to access your personal data (as that term is defined by the GDPR), (ii) the ability to ask for the erasure of your personal data in our possession, (iii) the ability to request processing restrictions on your personal data, and (iv) the ability to get your personal data in a portable format. Only the procedures outlined in this privacy statement will be used to process your personal data, and only for as long as is required. Please click here to exercise any of these rights. We may require you to prove your identity as a security precaution. We could get in touch with you to ask for further details so we can assist you exercise your legal rights or respond to you more quickly. We’ll make an effort to respond to requests within a month, and we’ll let you know if we need more time—for instance, if your request is complex—to do so. There could be an overriding legal justification for our processing of your personal data or there could be exclusions. You have the right to file a complaint with the appropriate data protection regulator in your country of residency, whose contact information is shown here.
We encourage you to raise your worries with us first so we can try to find a solution.
(XV) Where Personal Data is Used and Stored
We have our main office in the US. Users are informed that their Personal Data may be stored, transferred, or processed on servers and databases situated outside of their country of residence or in other governmental jurisdictions that are not EEA members or recognised by the European Commission as having sufficient privacy protections. Every one of those jurisdictions still has its own data protection regulations in place. Standard contractual clauses (SCC) may be used when transferring your personal data overseas and strictly as described in this Privacy Policy in order to offer necessary safeguards. You may find more details on SCCs here.
(XVI) Standard contractual clauses for data transfers between EU and non-EU countries.
Read on ec.europa.eu
XVII. California Privacy Rights – Notice to California Users
If you live in the state of California, you have specific rights regarding your personal information, which is defined as “personaI information” under the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and as revised by the California Privacy Rights Act (“CPRA”). The following rights are included in this:
Delivering the products and services you’d expect from us.
Avoiding, identifying, and looking into security incidents.
To combat and hold accountable any malicious, false, fraudulent, or illegal actions taken against our company.
To make sure you’re safe physically.
For brief, temporary purposes, such as the non-personalized advertising you are currently seeing in connection with your usage of our website.
To carry out tasks for our company, such as handling transactions, managing and servicing accounts, or providing analytics.
Global Privacy Control
We respect the GPC signal, as stated above in our privacy policy. You can give GPC the option to decline to sell or share your personal information. Click here for additional details.
Authorized Agent
You can give your agent permission to email privacy@successstorieshub.com with requests to exercise any of the aforementioned rights on your behalf. An individual or company registered with the California secretary of state who is authorised to submit these requests on your behalf is referred to as a “authorised agent” under the CCPA. Unless your agent has a signed power of attorney in your name, we will still need to confirm your identification. In the event that an agent cannot show evidence of their authorization, we reserve the right to refuse any request.
Categories and Business Purposes for Processing Personal Data
For the above-mentioned business purposes, the categories of Personal Data that were gathered and processed are as follows:
Submissions to Us
Content Submissions
Location Data
Social Media Interactions
Marketing Updates
Contests, Surveys, Sweepstakes, Promotions
Automatic Usage Data Collection Through Cookies and Similar Technologies
Vendor Use in Accordance with our Privacy Policy
Any sales, sharing, or disclosures of personal information made in the last year have been done in compliance with the policies outlined in the sections linked above and elsewhere in this privacy statement.
Third Parties:
According to the “CCPA,” we neither sell nor exchange personal information with third parties. We have not sold, shared, or revealed Personal Information to third parties in the last 12 months.
We do not direct our Sites to children under the age of 16 or knowingly collect Personal Information from them. Accordingly, we do not have actual knowledge of Personal Information of consumers under the age of 16 that the Company has sold or shared.
Consumers Under the Age of 16
We may use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information as permitted under the CPRA as proportionately necessary and not for any other purpose. This may include:
Sensitive Personal Information
We may use or disclose your Sensitive Personal Information as permitted under the CPRA as proportionately necessary and not for any other purpose. This may include:
(XIX) Changes to this Privacy Policy
SUCCESS STORIES HUB Media has the right to modify this privacy statement at any time. When that happens, we’ll let you know by posting the updated privacy statement here. You are in charge of checking this page for updates on a regular basis. Any modifications will be applicable to both the personal information we handled before the modified privacy policy took effect and the personal information we acquire on or after that date. Your continued use of the Sites following any amendments to this privacy statement will be taken as acceptance of the terms and conditions of the privacy statement, as changed.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@successstories.com