Privacy Policy
Last Updated on November 22nd, 2021
Our website address is: https://becreatives.co (beCreatives). The website is owned and founded by Birute Efe in 2019, Wyoming, USA. We value your privacy and understand that your privacy is of critical importance.
Thus, we have this Privacy Policy that describes what information we collect from you via the website and how we use and disclose such information.
This privacy policy may change from time to time. The most recent version will always be posted on the site, with the effective date posted at the top of the policy. By using this website, you agree to the terms of this policy.
How Information is Collected
Here is how your information is collected on beCreatives:
- if you subscribe to the newsletter
- if you purchase of a service or product
- through website cookies and log files
- through Google Analytics
- through Google Optimizer
- through WordPress, Elementor
- through Intercom chatbot
What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect it
NEWSLETTER
If you choose to join our newsletter via any of the signup forms located throughout this website or on social media, then your first name and email address are required. We require your email address in order to send you the emails and we require your first name so our emails can include a personalised note.
At the bottom of every email we send, you will find a link to unsubscribe. You may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. You have the right to have your data deleted or forgotten. If you are having trouble unsubscribing or would like to be removed from the newsletter, then simply send an email to [email protected] asking to be removed.
We use Mailerlite as our email service provider (read their privacy policy here). Your data is collected and then passed to them. Tags are used within Mailerlite to track your actions and page visits so that future emails can be better tailored to meet your needs.
We send a minimum of 1–2 emails per week. However, we will occasionally email you about products and other special promotions that may be relevant to your interests.
Your email address and name are never sold, traded, or given away to a third party.
All emails you receive are CAN-SPAM compliant. At the bottom of every email, you will find information on how to contact the sender, as well as information on how to unsubscribe.
COMMENTS
We love when you’re engaged in beCreatives content! Leaving a comment is a great way to let us know what you think! We enjoy hearing your feedback. If you choose to leave a comment on our website, please be aware that your comment is public and visible to anyone who reads the comment section. Your email address is never shared or disclosed, but your name and comment will be visible to others.
We highly recommended that you avoid leaving personal information in your comments. beCreatives reserves the right to remove comments deemed as inappropriate, threatening, profane, or spammy without notice.
So far we use wordpress built in comment feature and Facebook comment plugin to gather your comments, so in order to find out more about their privacy policy please read here.
SUBSCRIBING TO SERVICES OR BUYING A PRODUCT
If you choose to subscribe to one of our services or buy one of our products, you’ll be asked to leave an email as well as choose the payment option you want to finalise your purchase with. All of this data is collected and passed to our 3rd party safe-buying service providers PayKickStart, PayPal and / or Stripe. To explain how these three sites may collect, retain, process, share and transfer your Personal Data when you subscribe to one of our services or purchase one of our Products or use our Services, we suggest to read their privacy policies. Press here to read the full PayKickStart privacy policy. Press here to read PayPal privacy policy, or get familiar with Stripe privacy policy by clicking here.
COOKIES
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We use cookies for the following purposes on beCreatives:
- Authentication: we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website
- Personalisation: we use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalise the website for you
- Security: we use cookies as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our websites and services generally
- Advertising: we use cookies to help us display advertisements that will be relevant to you
- Analysis: we use cookies to help us analyse the use and performance of our website and services
We use the following cookies on beCreatives:
- WordPress (for performance, authentication, personalisation and security tracking): read their privacy policy
- Elementor: read their privacy policy
- Facebook Pixel (for Facebook ad targeting): read how the pixel works
- Proof (for live visitor activity count): read their privacy policy
- Stripe (for email SMTP service): read their privacy policy here
- Intercom (for authentication & personalisation): read their privacy policy here
LOG FILES
We also collect and use the data contained in log files. In other words, while visiting our website, certain information is automatically logged about how you are using it. The information in log files includes your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Google Chrome or Safari), the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited throughout our site. These logs enable us to prevent users who breach our terms and conditions by refusing communications from their IP addresses to our Sites. If you are concerned that we have blocked in error an ip address that you use to access our Site, please email us at [email protected].
GOOGLE ANALYTICS
To analyze the use of our website we use Google Analytics. This 3rd party tool gathers information about our website by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available here: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including beCreatives. Some features of the site may cease to be available to you.
GOOGLE OPTIMIZER
The services contained in this section allow the Owner to track and analyze the User response concerning web traffic or behavior regarding changes to the structure, text or any other component of this Website. Google Optimize is an A/B testing service provided by Google LLC or by Google Ireland Limited, depending on the location this Website is accessed from, (“Google”). Google may use Personal Data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage DataPlace of processing: United States – Privacy Policy; Ireland – Privacy Policy.
Privacy Shield participant.
Visual Website Optimizer (Wingify)
Visual Website Optimizer is an A/B testing service provided by Wingify Inc.
Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.
Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy.
WORDPRESS
beCreatives was built using WordPress (view their privacy policy here) and Elementor (view their privacy policy here), softwares that lets you design and create sales pages, landing pages and manage your entire sales funnel.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Landing pages / articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
DATA TRANSFER OUTSIDE THE EU
The Owner is allowed to transfer Personal Data collected within the EU to third countries (i.e. any country not part of the EU) only pursuant to a specific legal basis. Any such Data transfer is based on one of the legal bases described below.
Users can inquire with the Owner to learn which legal basis applies to which specific service.
Data transfer abroad based on consent (this Website)
If this is the legal basis, Personal Data of Users shall be transferred from the EU to third countries only if the User has explicitly consented to such transfer, after having been informed of the possible risks due to the absence of an adequacy decision and appropriate safeguards.
In such cases, the Owner shall inform Users appropriately and collect their explicit consent via this Website.
Personal Data processed: various types of Data.
Data transfer abroad based on standard contractual clauses (this Website)
If this is the legal basis, the transfer of Personal Data from the EU to third countries is carried out by the Owner according to “standard contractual clauses” provided by the European Commission.
This means that Data recipients have committed to process Personal Data in compliance with the data protection standards set forth by EU data protection legislation. For further information, Users are requested to contact the Owner through the contact details provided in the present document.
Personal Data processed: various types of Data.
Data transfer from the EU and/or Switzerland to the U.S based on Privacy Shield (this Website)
If this is the legal basis, the transfer of Personal Data from the EU or Switzerland to the US is carried out according to the EU – U.S. and Swiss – U.S. Privacy Shield.
In particular, Personal Data is transferred to services that self-certify under the Privacy Shield framework and therefore guarantee an adequate level of protection of such transferred Data. All services are listed within the relevant section of this document and those that adhere to Privacy Shield can be singled out by checking their privacy policy and possibly also by specifically checking for Privacy Shield adherence in the official Privacy Shield List. Privacy Shield also specifically guarantees rights to Users which can be found in its most current form on the website run by the US Department of Commerce.
Personal Data may be transferred from within the EU or Switzerland to the U.S. to services that are not, or not anymore, part of Privacy Shield, only based on other valid legal grounds. Users can ask the Owner to learn about such legal grounds.
Personal Data processed: various types of Data.
Data transfer to countries that guarantee European standards (this Website)
If this is the legal basis, the transfer of Personal Data from the EU to third countries is carried out according to an adequacy decision of the European Commission.
The European Commission adopts adequacy decisions for specific countries whenever it considers that country to possess and provide Personal Data protection standards comparable to those set forth by EU data protection legislation. Users can find an updated list of all adequacy decisions issued on the European Commission’s website.
Personal Data processed: various types of Data.
Other legal basis for Data transfer abroad (this Website)
If no other legal basis applies, Personal Data shall be transferred from the EU to third countries only if at least one of the following conditions is met:
- the transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract between the User and the Owner or of pre-contractual measures taken at the User’s request;
- the transfer is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract concluded in the interest of the User between the Owner and another natural or legal person;
- the transfer is necessary for important reasons of public interest;
- the transfer is necessary for establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
- the transfer is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of other persons, where the data subject is physically or legally incapable of giving consent. In such cases, the Owner shall inform the User about the legal bases the transfer is based on via this Website.
Personal Data processed: various types of Data.
Social Media Privacy
beCreatives uses various social media platforms, however, beCreatives is not responsible for what you post on our social media channels.
Parental Consent
If you are under 18 years of age, you must have parental consent before using our website or entering personal information.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection
Act). We do not intentionally collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products, and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years of age or older.
Final Note to the Policy
You have the right to access your personal data and know how it is being processed.
Hopefully, the policy above adequately explains how your data is used.
Personal information will not be transferred unless we are legally obligated to do so.
If you would like your information removed from our systems, please contact [email protected]. You may request to be removed at any time.
beCreatives contains links to other websites.
As such, beCreatives is not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites or the third party applications they use.
If you have questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]