Privacy Policy

At TelescopeGrowth.com, we value your privacy and adhere to all applicable laws and regulations concerning the protection of your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to all data collected on our website, https://telescopegrowth.com, as well as any other sites we own and operate.

Personal information refers to any data that can be used to identify you, such as your name, address, birthdate, device information, payment details, and usage information for websites and online services.

Please note that our site may contain links to third-party sites and services with their own privacy policies. We encourage you to review those policies when visiting third-party sites. This Privacy Policy does not cover any activities after leaving our site.

Types of Information We Collect

The information we collect falls into two categories: "voluntarily provided" information and "automatically collected" information.

"Voluntarily provided" information is any information you actively submit when using or participating in our services and promotions.

"Automatically collected" information is any data sent by your devices when accessing our products and services.

Log Data

Our servers may log standard data provided by your web browser, such as your device's IP address, browser type and version, pages visited, visit time and date, time spent on each page, and other visit-related details.

If you encounter errors while using our site, we may collect data about the error and surrounding circumstances, including technical details about your device and actions leading up to the error. You may not receive notice of such errors or their nature.

While this information alone may not be personally identifying, it could be combined with other data to identify individuals.

Device Data

When visiting our website or using our services, we may automatically collect data about your device, including:

1. Device Type
2. Operating System
3. Unique device identifiers
4. Device settings
5. Geo-location data

The data collected depends on your device and software settings. We recommend reviewing your device manufacturer's or software provider's policies to understand what information they share with us.

Personal Information

We may request personal information, such as when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us, which may include:

1. Name
2. Email

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information for legitimate purposes and when reasonably necessary to provide our services.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information when you:

1. Register for an account
2. Enter competitions, contests, sweepstakes, or surveys
3. Sign up for updates via email or social media
4. Access our content using a mobile device or web browser
5. Contact us via email, social media, or similar technologies
6. Mention us on social media

We may use and disclose information for the following purposes, ensuring it is not processed in a manner incompatible with these purposes:

1. Providing core features and services of our platform
2. Communicating with you
3. Conducting analytics, market research, and business development to improve our website, applications, and social media platforms
4. Advertising and marketing, including sending promotional information about our products, services, and third-party offers we believe may interest you
5. Enabling access and use of our website, applications, and social media platforms
6. Running competitions, sweepstakes, or offering additional benefits
7. Attributing content (e.g., posts and comments) you submit for publication on our website

We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data from trusted sources. For example, our marketing and research activities may reveal insights, which we may use to enhance our site and visitor experience.

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Security of Your Personal Information

We strive to protect your personal information using commercially acceptable means to prevent loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

However, we acknowledge that no method of electronic transmission or storage is completely secure, and absolute data security cannot be guaranteed.

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your own information within the scope of our services, such as ensuring the confidentiality of any passwords associated with accessing your personal information and accounts.

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Retention of Personal Information

We retain your personal information only for as long as necessary. The retention period depends on the purpose for which the information is used, as described in this Privacy Policy. For instance, if you provide personal information while creating an account with us, we may keep this information for the duration your account exists on our system. If your personal information is no longer required for its intended purpose, we will either delete it or anonymize it by removing all identifiable details.

In some cases, we may retain your personal information for compliance with legal, accounting, or reporting obligations or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research, or statistical purposes.

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Children’s Privacy

Our products and services are not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly gather personal information from children under 13.

Sharing Personal Information with Third Parties

Personal information may be disclosed to:

1. A parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company
2. Third-party service providers to facilitate their services, such as IT services, data storage, hosting, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or troubleshooting providers, marketing, advertising, professional advisors, and payment systems operators
3. Our employees, contractors, and related entities
4. Existing or potential agents or business partners
5. Sponsors or promoters of competitions, sweepstakes, or promotions we organize
6. Credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities if you fail to pay for goods or services we provide
7. Courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers as required by law, in connection with legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
8. Third parties, including agents or subcontractors, assisting us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing
9. Third parties for data collection and processing
10. An entity acquiring or to which we transfer all or a significant portion of our assets and business

Current third parties we use include:

1. Google Analytics
2. customer.io
3. klaviyo.com
4. Google Adsense
5. Bing Ads

Your Rights and Managing Your Personal Information

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Your choice: By giving us your personal information, you acknowledge that we will collect, hold, use, and share your personal information according to this Privacy Policy. You may choose not to provide personal information, but this may affect your ability to use our website or its products and services.

Information from third parties: If we obtain personal information about you from a third party, it will be protected under this Privacy Policy. If you are a third party providing someone else's personal information, you guarantee that you have that person's permission to share their information with us.

Marketing permission: You may withdraw your consent to receive marketing communications by contacting us or using the opt-out feature in the communication.

Access: You can request details about the personal information we have about you.

Correction: If you believe any information we have about you is incorrect, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, contact us. We will take reasonable steps to rectify any inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or outdated information.

Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights regarding your personal information. If your information is not required for a specific service or offer (e.g., user support), we will not deny you goods or services, impose penalties or different prices or rates, grant discounts or other benefits, or provide different levels or qualities of goods or services.

Notification of data breaches: We will comply with applicable laws concerning data breaches.

Complaints: If you think we have breached relevant data protection laws and wish to file a complaint, contact us with full details of the alleged breach. We will investigate your complaint and respond in writing, outlining the outcome of our investigation and any actions we will take. You may also contact a regulatory body or data protection authority regarding your complaint.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), contact us or use the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request specific information from you to confirm your identity.

Cookie Usage

We employ "cookies" to gather information about your activity on our site. Cookies are small data files stored on your computer that our website accesses each time you visit, helping us understand your site usage. This enables us to deliver content based on your preferences. For more details, please consult our Cookie Policy.

Business Transfers

In case we or our assets are acquired, or if we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, data including your personal information would be among the transferred assets to parties who acquire us. You acknowledge that such transfers could occur and that any acquiring parties may, to the extent allowed by applicable law, continue using your personal information according to this policy, which they will be required to adopt as the basis for any ownership or usage rights over such information.

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may contain links to external sites not operated by us. Be aware that we have no control over these sites' content and policies and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Policy Changes

We may modify our privacy policy at our discretion to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we choose to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes at the same link you are using to access this policy.

If the changes are significant, or if required by applicable law, we will contact you (based on your selected preferences for communications from us) and all our registered users with the new details and links to the updated or changed policy.

If required by law, we will obtain your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in or opt out, as applicable, of any new uses of your personal information.

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Additional Australian Privacy Act Compliance Disclosures (AU)

International Transfers of Personal Information

When disclosing your personal information subject only to Australian privacy laws, you acknowledge that some third parties may not be regulated by the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act. You acknowledge that if any such third party engages in any act or practice that contravenes the Australian Privacy Principles, it would not be accountable under the Privacy Act, and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.

Additional General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance Disclosures (EU)

Data Controller / Data Processor

The GDPR differentiates between organizations that process personal information for their purposes (known as "data controllers") and organizations that process personal information on behalf of other organizations (known as "data processors"). We, TelescopeGrowth.com, located at the address provided in our Contact Us section, are a Data Controller and/or Processor with respect to the personal information you provide to us.

Legal Grounds for Processing Your Personal Information

We will collect and use your personal information only when we have a legal basis to do so. In such cases, we will collect and use your personal information lawfully, fairly, and transparently. If we seek your consent to process your personal information and you are under 16 years of age, we will seek consent from your parent or legal guardian to process your personal information for that specific purpose.

Our legal bases depend on the services you use and how you use them. This means we only collect and use your information on the following grounds:

Consent From You

Where you grant us consent to collect and use your personal information for a specific purpose. You can withdraw your consent at any time through the facilities we provide; however, this will not affect any usage of your information that has already occurred. You may consent to provide your name and contact details for participating in a giveaway or promotion. While you may withdraw your entry at any time, this will not affect any selection or judging that has already taken place. For any further inquiries about withdrawing your consent, please feel free to contact us using the details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy.

Contract or Transaction Performance

When you enter a contract or transaction with us, or take preliminary steps before entering into a contract or transaction, we may require your personal information, such as your name and contact details, to proceed. For example, if you send us an inquiry, we need your personal information to respond.

Our Legitimate Interests

We may process your personal information based on our legitimate interests, such as providing, operating, improving, and communicating our services. Our legitimate interests include research and development, understanding our audience, marketing and promoting our services, operating our services efficiently, marketing analysis, and protecting our legal rights and interests.

Compliance with Law

In certain cases, we may have a legal obligation to use or retain your personal information. Examples include (but are not limited to) court orders, criminal investigations, government requests, and regulatory obligations. For further inquiries about how we retain personal information to comply with the law, please feel free to contact us using the details provided in the Contact Us section of this privacy policy.

International Transfers Outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)

We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the EEA to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, such as using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission, binding corporate rules, or other legally accepted means.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Restriction: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information under certain conditions, such as concerns about the accuracy of your personal information, unlawful processing, or maintaining the information for legal claims.

Objecting to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information based on our legitimate interests or public interest. We must provide compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, which override your interests, rights, and freedoms, to continue processing your personal information.

Data portability: You may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you in an easily readable format like CSV, and to request that we transfer this information to a third party.

Deletion: You may have the right to request that we delete your personal information at any time, and we will take reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our current records. If you request that we delete your personal information, we will inform you how the deletion affects your use of our website or products and services. There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons, which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request. If you terminate or delete your account, we will delete your personal information within 30 days of the deletion of your account. Please note that search engines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personal information that has been made public at least once, like certain profile information and public comments, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account.

Additional Disclosures for California Compliance (US)

Under California Civil Code Section 1798.83, if you are a California resident and your business relationship with us is primarily for personal, family, or household purposes, you may request information about the personal information we release to other organizations for their marketing purposes. To make such a request, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy with "Request for California privacy information" in the subject line. You may make this type of request once per calendar year. We will email you a list of categories of personal information we disclosed to other organizations for their marketing purposes in the last calendar year, along with their names and addresses. Not all personal information shared in this way is covered by Section 1798.83 of the California Civil Code.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a "Do Not Track" feature that allows you to tell websites that you do not want your online activities to be tracked. Currently, we do not respond to browser "Do Not Track" signals. We adhere to the standards outlined in this privacy policy, ensuring we collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly, transparently, and for legitimate, legal reasons.

Cookies and Pixels

You may decline cookies from our site at any time if your browser permits. Most browsers allow you to activate settings that refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Your ability to limit cookies depends solely on your browser's capabilities. Please refer to the Cookies section of this privacy policy for more information.

CCPA-permitted Financial Incentives

In accordance with your right to non-discrimination, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels for the goods or services we provide. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to the value of your personal information, and we will provide written terms that clearly describe the nature of such an offer. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt-in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

California Notice of Collection

For more information on the information we collect, including the sources from which we receive the information, review the "Information We Collect" section. We collect and use these categories of personal information for the business purposes described in the "Collection and Use of Information" section, including providing and managing our Service.

Right to Know and Delete

If you are a California resident, you have rights to delete your personal information we collected and know certain information about our data practices in the preceding 12 months. In particular, you have the right to request the following from us:

1. The categories of personal information we have collected about you;
2. The categories of sources from which the personal information was collected;
3. The categories of personal information about you we disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
4. The categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose or sold;
5. The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling the personal information;
6. The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy.

Shine the Light

If you are a California resident, in addition to the rights discussed above, you have the right to request information from us regarding the manner in which we share certain personal information as defined by California's "Shine the Light" with third parties and affiliates for their own direct marketing purposes. To receive this information, send us a request using the contact details provided in this privacy policy. Requests must include "California Privacy Rights Request" in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.

Contact Us

For any questions or concerns regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the following details:

TelescopeGrowth admin@telescopegrowth.com

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