Privacy Policy

WELCOME to the Website startoptimize.com, which is provided by the Company MB “StartO” in order to enable Our Users to learn about and purchase certain products which may also be provided by Our Partners through affiliate and/or partnership agreements. The Website and the Brand “startOptimize” are operated by the company MB “StartO”. The Website created as a part of the Project named “startOptimize” with the Purpose of learning and sharing experience as well as teaching, coaching, advising and consulting about How to Optimize (make the best or most effective, transform and/or change) personal, professional and social life to find fulfillment in every aspect of “life” respectively optimizing performance, service, project or business – eliminate bad habits, change mindset, attitude and behavior, inspire and empower by practicing an advanced methods and tools helping to pursue “vision” and “goals” whether it is a “mission” of one person or family, team or company, community or society. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully before using the Website as it discloses the following conditions related to personal information and privacy.

Data Collection and Processing

The Website registers, collects and stores different information when the Website visitors and/or users (further the User/Users) open and use the Website and/or access to the Service by placing Orders for Products and Payment described in the Terms and Conditions, respectively creating an Account and/or becoming Our Members as well as when the Users subscribe to the Newsletter, participate in the Forums and/or post the Comments and/or send the Messages through the Contact Us form. The User’s information (such as Name, Surname, Company, Email address, Payment information, Delivery address, etc.) provided in the appropriate fields are never disclosed to third parties, except when it is required by the Law. We can not protect the User’s information and/or data if it was entered it in the fields available for the public view, such as forum pages, posts or comment posts. Like almost any website in the world, the Website uses the Google Analytics Tool for improving the Website and troubleshooting various problems. You can download Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on and/or learn more about Google Analytics Privacy Policy in case You need more detailed information. Please note that the Google Analytics uses their cookies as well. Google collects and stores personal information of the Users to serve Them in a better way by detecting the Users’ preferred language and interest zone when They come They visit the Website. The information of the User identified by Google also includes the Users’ IP address, browser, geographical location, application, and device, i.e. mobile or desktop used while using the Website. We could use the Users’ personal information for the legitimate business interest which can be website promotion, market research and analysis, making provisions and improvements. The Website is hosted and built at the hosting service provider company Hostinger which may also access some of the Users’ data, but the company applies the highest level of data privacy as stated in the Hostinger Privacy Policy. The Website uses website builders and different plugins to build, operate and maintain the Website functionality and safety. The Automattic Privacy Policy applies to information and data that could be accessed via the builders and/or relevant plugins used by the Website and includes Automattic, WordPress, Jetpack, Woocommerce, Gravatar, Akismet, Cloudup, Mailpoet privacy policies. When the Users leave comments, the Website collects the data shown in the Comment’s form and also the Users’ IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from the User’s email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if the User is using it. After approval of comment, the User’s profile picture is visible to the public in the context of comment. Any comment made by the User on the Website, lets the Website to store data, such as name, email ID, website, as well as the visitors IP address and browser user agent string with the aim of spam detection. Akismet is an automated spam detection service is used by the Website to verify the User’s comments. The anonymized string or hash generated by the User’s email address may be issued to Akismet. The Website stores the comment of the User and its metadata for an indeterminate term, assisting us in identifying and approving any of their follow-up comment automatically, instead of keeping them in moderation. The Users should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included, because other visitors and/or users of the Website can download and extract any location data from images on the Website. When the Users use Contact Us form, the Website records and collects the Users’ personal information. The Users can request to delete any of this data that the Website collects and stores. Nevertheless, this does not include any information which we are obligated to record for administrative, legal or security reasons.

Cookies Policy

The Website uses session cookies to allow the User access to a specific features of the Website that require being logged in (i.e., the member accessible pages, forums, account information, etc.). Besides, the Website might show advertisements and third-party content which might use cookies for providing the best value to the Users. This includes, but is not limited to content sharing platforms, Google Adsense advertising networks, Affiliate networks to attribute software downloads and Analytics packages. This is done to identify the source of Users or provide customized browsing experience. The Website is not responsible for the information collected by the service relevant provider including relevant third party. To avoid these kinds of cookies, the Users can disable cookies or allow them one by one in the settings of browser used by the User. However, some of the Services offered on the page might be disabled if the Users disable these kinds of cookies. If the Users leave comment on the Website, the Users may opt-in to saving the Users’ information (name, email address and website) in relevant cookies, so the Users do not have to fill in this information again for another comment in future, and these kinds of cookies will last for one year and will be disabled in an automated way. When the Users visit the Login page, the Website will set a temporary cookie to determine if the Users’ browser accepts these kinds of cookies, and these cookies contain no personal data and are discarded when the Users close web browser. When the Users use to Log in, the Website will also set up a several cookies to save the Users login information and the screen display choices, and these kinds of Login cookies last for two days, and the screen options cookies last for a year and will be disabled in an automated way. If the User selects an option “Remember Me”, the User’s login information will persist for two weeks and/or it will be removed after the User logs out from the User’s account. If the Users has access to edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in the Users’ web browsers, and these kinds of cookies include no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the edited article, and it expires after one day. Google AdSense uses cookies of the Users coming to the Website for better advertising, and these kinds of cookies typically include targeted advertising depending on relevancy to the User, advance reporting on campaign performance and avoid displaying the advertisements which are already seen by the User, and these kinds of cookies do not carry any personally identifiable information. Based on the Publisher’s and/or the User’s settings, information concerned with cookies used in advertising can be annexed to the User’s Google Account in case the Users use the Google Account.

Embedded Content and Linked Websites

Pages and Articles on this Website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). The embedded content from other websites and/or social media platforms and apps behave in the exact same way as if the Users have visited the other website and/or the content relevant social media platform. These websites and/or platforms may collect data about the Users, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor the Users’ interaction with that embedded content, including tracking the Users’ interaction with the embedded content if the Users have an account and are logged in to that website and/or platform. In an attempt to provide a valuable service, the Website may include third-party links in the pages, articles and/or the article related images. We expect all the linked websites and/or the embedded content owners (as third-party) to respect the privacy of the Users, but please be aware that the third-parties may have their privacy policy and may use different data collection methods, so the Website Users must in addition check and follow the third-party instructions, because the Website administration is not responsible for actions and/or policies of any other linked website or platform and/or respectively embedded content. Some of the advertisers might collect information to determine if the Users saw the advertisement before, or use it in other ways for improving the Users’ experience.

Internet Advertising

The Website uses internet advertising and Google AdSense may become the Website’s source of monetization in future. The Google AdSense collects, saves and uses data whenever the User browses through the Website. It also uses the particulars regarding the device (i.e., computer, tablet, phablet, mobile, etc.) via which the User access the Website. This information includes The Information, such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser used, Internet Service Provider (ISP), geographical location, device identifier, operating system and/or platform, and browser plugin types and versions. The Information regarding the User’s visit and/or use of the Website, which covers complete Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from the Website, referral source/exit pages, pages viewed and searched for, length of visits to specific pages, page response time, page interaction information (like scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs) and the Website navigation. The Website may use Internet-based advertising services, otherwise known as “remarketing” or “retargeting” provided by the third-party vendors and/or partners, i.e. Google to show ads of third-party sites and social media platform that the User of the Website visits and/or uses. The third-party vendors use cookies, pixels or tokens as unique identifiers of an installed browser on the system, when the User goes through the Website, to present ads as per the device’s previous access to the Website. The User can relinquish from the Google’s use of cookies with the help of the Google Ads Settings. The User can also get rid of remarketing the vendors’ use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative’s consumer opt-out page. For additional information, including instructions about how to block such cookies, please visit the Google Analytics relevant support page.

Data Protection

The Website secures and protects the Users information and data in an advanced way, but there are cases when the Website cannot provide safety for the Users’ personally identifiable information. This statement is related to optional information, because the Users are the only ones to decide whether to make information public or not in some cases. The Website does not take responsibility for the safety and privacy of such information in case the Users leave it in public on the Website or share it with other users or members of this Website and/or Community, and We are not responsible for the following consequences. The Website is also not responsible for illegally-disclosed information from the third-parties mentioned in the chapters above. Please note that the Website administration can only disclose the User’s information to third-parties only if it is considered this procedure as necessary and/or required by the Law, and it may be disclosed to governmental authorities if it is requested and considered as necessary. The security of the Users’ information is extremely important, so the Website administration takes care of technical, administrative, and physical security measures to protect the Users’ information from unauthorized access and improper use. However, please note that, despite Our best efforts, no security measures are perfect these days and there are still a small possibility that the Users’ information can migrate and/or merge with another business and/or third-party Users’ database through the interfaces that the Website is indirectly linked by using different plugins and add-ons. In such cases, the information collected by the Website (such as Google Analytics data, comments, server logs and other information) might be among the transferred assets. The Website do not share the sensitive personal details of the User to any third-party, without getting the User’s prior approval only when it is requested or required by the Law and/or by any court or government agency or authority to disclose, for – verification of identity, or prevention, detection, investigation including cyber-crimes or for prosecutions and punishment of offence. The disclosures are made in a good faith and belief that the preceding declaration is essential to put in force these terms, to adhere to the applicable laws and regulations. External server capacities are used by the Website to save the data and to operate the Website related systems. The Users personal information and data is stored at this external location, and the safety and privacy are stated in a confidential contract with the hosting service provider Hostinger mentioned in the chapters above. We do not sell the User’s personal data to any third-party.

Data Retain

If the Users leave a comment in the Website related pages and/or forums, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. The Website checks, recognizes and approves any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For the Users that log in and/or register on the Website, the Website also retains the Users’ personal information provided as a part of the Users’ profile. All the Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information in the User’s profile page at any time (except they cannot change and/or delete their username), and the Website administrators can also see, edit and delete that information. If the Users have an account or left comments on the Website, they can request to receive an exported file of the personal data the Website collects and/or stores about the User, including any data provided to the Website. The Users can also request that the Website administration erases any personal data related to the User’s information that is collected and retained by the Website, but it can not include any data the Website is obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. The Users’ comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service that may also retain the Users’ relevant information.

By using this Website and/or Our Service, You consent to the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions. If You have any questions or queries, related to Our terms and policy, please contact Us by using the Contact Us form or by email info@startoptimize.com. To know more about the Project, please visit the Website and check information About Us.