Your privacy is critical to us. Likewise, we have built up this Policy with the end goal you should see how we gather, utilize, impart and reveal and make utilization of individual data.
- What Type of Information do we Collect and Receive?
- How GSMM Use Your Information and Our Legal Basis?
- How does GSMM Share Your Information?
- How GSMM Transfers Your Information
- How does GSMM Protect Your Information?
- How Long Does GSMM Store Your Information?
- Know Your Rights & Choices
- Know Your Responsibilities
- Know Privacy Policy Changes
- Additional Disclosures for United States Residents?
- How You Can Contact Us?
1) What Type of Information does GSMM Collect and Receive?
At GSMM, we collect and receive information that directly or indirectly relates to individuals like you in various ways and from multiple sources. We refer to this information as personal information. The following gives you a detailed description of what information is collected.
Information you provide to GSMM:
- Forms, Surveys, Responses, and Market Research: We collect data from leads on our website including their personally identifiable information like first name, last name, phone number, email, company, and address.
- Service usage information: We’re a Marketing agency so we provide a wide range of services to our clients. So, for legal company purposes, we do have client’s service usage information including their company details, reports, and payment information.
- Buyer Information: We sell both digital products and services so we collect and store buyer information including personal, purchase data, and transactional data.
- Transaction information: We do collect Credit card data through our e-commerce YouTube ads course, sponsored posts, and client services or hourly consulting services.
Information that is automatically collected:
GSMM automatically collects your device or browser data when you visit our site, take some actions, or use certain features of GSMM.
- Browser and Device information
- Cookie information
The information that we collect from third parties:
Thirdly we are a partner of various tools, technologies, and software that collect data for our company on our behalf. Here are some major third-party sources:
- Analytics information: We basically use Google Analytics 4 and Google Tag Manager for data collection and tracking of our website visitors.
- Third-party application information: We also collect Leads via partnership directories (many chat, google, and highlevel). The data is personally identifiable information like first name, last name, phone number, email, company, and address.
- Information from our Payment Processors: We use a wide range of payment methods such as Quickbooks, PayPal, Stripe, and Payoneer to offer flexible payment methods to our clients. So, these payment processors also have payment transnational data of our clients.
- Information from our Advertising and Marketing Partners: As a digital marketing agency, we run Paid ads on Google, YouTube, Facebook, and other social media platforms. So, advertising and marketing platforms also have customer data for better targeting.
- Highlevel data: We are using Highlevel as CRM and sales and marketing solution, So, it includes all the customer database to better nurture leads with unsubscribe options
Log files
KeyDesign follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files includes:
- internet protocol (IP) addresses
- browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP)
- date and time stamp, referring/exit pages
- possibly the number of clicks
2) How does GSMM use your Information and Our Legal Basis?
When you interact with our website or access or use our services/products, we collect data, process, use, and share it for various legitimate and company purposes. The following are the main purposes of your data usage at GSMM.
- To create and maintain your account with GSMM
- To provide our services
- To facilitate selling on GSMM
- To provide preferred payment services
- To maintain the safety and security of our services.
- To send meaningful service communications.
- To run marketing and promotional activities
- To provide customer support
- To verify your identity
- To comply with legal requirements
- To understand how you use our website, services, and products and improve your overall experience.
- To provide advertising and personalize your ads experience on third-party websites or apps.
- To send you email campaigns.
3) How does GSMM Share Your Information?
We may share your data with third parties who process information on us when it is necessary to provide you the services, comply with legal law, or for the purposes that are mentioned in this privacy policy. Also, we may share your information with some other parties, including the following.
- Third parties organizations, advertisers, and networks such as advertising and social networks.
- GSMM business partners, service providers and contractors.
- To serve the most relevant advertisements to you and others.
- Web analytics such as GA4, search engine tools such as google search console, email marketing providers and web hosting providers.
- To comply with a legal requirement we may share your information with legal partities.
- With affiliate partners such as Gohighlevel or others we may have in the future.
4) How GSMM Transfers Your Information
GSMM is a global marketing agency which is based in the United States. By using our services, you acknowledge that GSMM will use your information in the United States and other countries where the GSMM operates. Also, be aware that the privacy and data protection laws in certain countries including the right of access may differ from the country in which you reside. To the extent that GSMM is deemed to transfer your personal data outside of the EEA. We can rely on one or all of the following legal bases to transfer your personal information.
Adequacy Decisions: Where applicable, GSMM relies on the decisions of the European Commission which are known as “adequacy decisions”. Reconginiisend that certain countries offer a level of protection of personal information that is essentially equal to the EEA, Check the list of adequacy decisions here on the European Commission website.
Standard Contractual Clauses: For the international and onward transfer of personal data outside of the EEA to third countries for example, to the United States and India we primarily rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
Necessary for the Performance of the Contract Between GSMM and Its Users: You have the right to use or decline the GSMM services. We operate in multiple countries worldwide and use tech infrastructure in the United States to provide services. According to the contract between us, we transfer your personal data to the US and other countries where it is necessary to provide the services. In a nutshell, we can’t provide you with the services and perform our contract with you without transferring your personal information outside of your home country.
5) How does GSMM Protect Your Information?
The security of your personal data is the most important thing for us. GSMM protects your personal data through technical and administrative measures. We are always eager to reduce the risk of unauthorized access, destruction, loss, alteration, disclosure, or use of your personal data. To protect your account, we suggest that you choose strong passwords and enable two-factor authentication. We use Google reCAPTCHA with our Forms and Services to prevent you from fraud, spam, and abuse. Your use of reCAPTCHA Enterprise is subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. reCAPTHCA collects hardware and software information including device and application data and sends it to Google for providing, maintaining, and improving reCAPTCHA services for general security purposes.
Children Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity. Global Social Media Marketing, LLC does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
6) How Long Does GSMM Store Your Information?
GSMM will retain your information only for as long as
- It is needed for the purposes that are mentioned in this policy.
- Your account is active,
- Your information is required to comply with our legal rights under national and other applicable laws.
Basically, the retention period is based on the individual cases and also on the applicable laws. Here are the factors which affect the retention period of your information.
- Information is needed to provide services to you: We keep your information as long as we’re providing services to you. This includes things like creating, maintaining, and improving your ad account, sites, and apps, keeping our services secure, and maintaining appropriate business and financial information records. In most cases, the retention periods are decided on the basis of this rule.
- Consent-based retention: If we retain personal data based on consent(including extended storage consent), we will store the data as long as it is necessary for the process as per your consent or until you withdraw your consent.
- Statutory, contractual, or other similar obligations: GSMM will also retain and use your information to comply with our legal obligations. For example, if we need your information to comply with applicable tax/revenue laws we will keep your data stored.
7) Know Your Rights & Choices
There are certain privacy laws around the world, including the European General Data Protection Regulation, Colorado privacy law, California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Utah’s Consumer Privacy Act, and Virginia’s Data Protection Act. These privacy laws provide the rights and choices to the users related to their personal information. Hence, GSMM gives you the choices of accessing, modifying, or removing certain information as well as the choices about how we contact you. In addition, to comply with privacy and data protection laws you may have the following certain rights with respect to your personal information:
Right to Access and Know: You have the right to know what personal, sensitive information we collect and why including the personal information that is not just collected but is also shared or sold.
Right to Deny: You have The right to deny the sale of that personal information. You may also have the right to hold businesses responsible for the security of any personal information that is collected.
The Right to Limit the Disclosure and Use of Sensitive Personal Information: Consumers are now allowed to limit the collection and processing of their sensitive personal data to only “necessary” uses with the goal of providing the services or goods they’ve asked for.
The Right to Delete Rule: You may now have the right to delete any specific information from the company. And in this case, you should contact us to ask for deleting the required information.
Right to Opt-Out: You also have the right to opt out of the processing of your personal data for such purposes as:
- The sale of their personal data
- Targeted advertising, or
- Profiling to help make decisions that produce legal or similarly notable effects concerning a consumer
Right to Correction: Consumers also have the right to correct any inaccurate or outdated details in the data collected about them.
Right to Data Portability: Consumers are also entitled to obtain a copy of their personal data in a portable and readily usable format for transfer to a third party without hindrance.
How You Can Exercise Your Rights and Choices?
In case you want to manage, change, limit, or delete your personal information, you can easily do it by contacting us via our Contact Us page. Additionally, you can also exercise any rights you have by sending us an email at contact@globalsocialmediamarketing.com. Once you contact us regarding exercising your rights, we will take your requirements into account. Additionally, you have communication choices that you can alter by yourself. Such as if you want to opt out of our marketing emails then just follow the unsubscribe link from the bottom of the marketing email. But there are certain legal communication emails that you will be continuing to receive even after opting out from the marketing emails.
8) Know Privacy Policy Changes
We may update this privacy policy page from time to time to keep our company compliant with existing and new privacy policy laws. If we think that the changes are major, we may let you by posting the changes through an email or message about the changes. But we encourage you to check the privacy policy page regularly to keep yourself updated with new changes.
9) Additional Disclosures for United States Residents?
In certain US states, including California, Virginia, Colorado, Utah, and Connecticut, you may be entitled to additional rights or disclosures.
10) How You Can Contact Us?
One of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to get in touch with us:
- Contact Global Social Media Marketing through our Contact Us page.
- Send us an email at contact@globalsocialmediamarketing.com
The following blueprints are our privacy policy.
- Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we will identify the purposes for which information is being collected.
- We will gather and utilize individual data singularly with the target of satisfying those reasons indicated by us and for other good purposes unless we get the assent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
- We will just hold individual data for the length of essential for the satisfaction of those reasons.
- We will gather individual data by legal and reasonable means and, where fitting, with the information or assent of the individual concerned.
- Personal information ought to be important to the reasons for which it is to be utilized, and, to the degree essential for those reasons, ought to be exact, finished, and updated.
- We will protect individual data by security shields against misfortune or burglary, and also unapproved access, divulgence, duplicating, use, or alteration.
- We will promptly provide customers with access to our policies and procedures for the administration of individual data.
Other Terms and Conditions
We are focused on leading our business as per these standards with a specific end goal to guarantee that the privacy of individual data is secure and maintained.
1) Privacy policies
You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Incubator. Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Incubator, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit. Note that Global Social Media Marketing, LLC has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
2) Third-party policies
Incubator’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt out of certain options. You may find a complete list of these Privacy Policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links. You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites. What Are Cookies?
3) Online Privacy
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regard to the information that they share and/or collect in KeyDesign. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions. This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 2023. If there will be any updates, amendments, or changes to our Privacy Policy then these will be posted on this page.
4) Terms
By accessing this website, you are agreeing to be bound by this website’s Terms and Conditions of Use, applicable laws and regulations, and their compliance. If you disagree with any of the stated terms and conditions, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this site are secured by relevant copyright and trademark law.
5) Use License
- Permission is allowed to temporarily download one duplicate of the materials (data or programming) on Global Social Media Marketing’s site for individual and non-business use only. This is just a permit of license and not an exchange of title, and under this permit, you may not:
- modify or copy the materials;
- use the materials for any commercial use or for any public presentation (business or non-business);
- attempt to decompile or rebuild any product or material contained on Global Social Media Marketing’s site;
- remove any copyright or other restrictive documentation from the materials; or
- transfer the materials to someone else or even “mirror” the materials on another server.
- This permit might consequently be terminated if you disregard any of these confinements and may be ended by Global Social Media Marketing whenever deemed. After permit termination or when your viewing permit is terminated, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your ownership whether in electronic or printed form.
6) Disclaimer
The materials on Global Social Media Marketing’s site are given “as is”. Global Social Media Marketing, LLC makes no guarantees, communicated or suggested, and thus renounces and nullifies every single other warranty, including without impediment, inferred guarantees or states of merchantability, fitness for a specific reason, or non-encroachment of licensed property or other infringement of rights. Further, Global Social Media Marketing does not warrant or make any representations concerning the precision, likely results, or unwavering quality of the utilization of the materials on its Internet site or generally identifying with such materials or on any destinations connected to this website
7) Constraints
In no occasion should Global Social Media Marketing, LLC or its suppliers subject to any harm (counting, without constraint, harms for loss of information or benefit, or because of business interference,) emerging out of the utilization or powerlessness to utilize the materials on Global Social Media Marketing’s Internet webpage, regardless of the possibility that Global Social Media Marketing, LLC or a Global Social Media Marketing, LLC approved agent has been told orally or in written of the likelihood of such harm. Since a few purviews don’t permit constraints on inferred guarantees, or impediments of obligation for weighty or coincidental harms, these confinements may not make a difference to you.
8) Amendments and Errata
The materials showing up on Global Social Media Marketing’s site could incorporate typographical, or photographic mistakes. Global Social Media Marketing does not warrant that any of the materials on its site are exact, finished, or current. Global Social Media Marketing may roll out improvements to the materials contained on its site without notification. Global Social Media Marketing does not, then again, make any dedication to updating the materials.
9) Links
Global Social Media Marketing, LLC has not checked on the majority of the websites or links connected to its website and is not in charge of the substance of any such connected webpage. The incorporation of any connection does not infer support by the Global Social Media Marketing of the site. Utilization of any such connected site is at the user’s own risk.
10) Site Terms of Use Modifications
Global Social Media Marketing may update these terms of utilization for its website whenever without notification. By utilizing this site you are consenting to be bound by the then-current form of these Terms and Conditions of Use.
11) Governing Law
Any case identifying with Global Social Media Marketing’s site should be administered by the laws of the country of the United States Global Social Media Marketing State without respect to its contention of law provisions. General Terms and Conditions applicable to Use of a Web Site.
12) Highlevel Affiliate Disclosure
I am an independent entity from HighLevel. I am not an agent or employee of HighLevel and have no authority to make binding contract or represent HighLevel. I receive referral payments from HighLevel. The opinions expressed here are my own and shall NOT be interpreted or considered as representations, guarantees, or statements made by HighLevel Inc. or any of its subsidiaries, agents, or assigns.