TMEGINC PRIVACY NOTICE

Under the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) effective from 25 May 2018 for any person residing in an EU country, PII data will be collected through online opt-in consent only. If we have collected your data on paper or a business card, we will send you an email to ask you to confirm your opt-in consent. See the full TMEGINC GDPR Policy here.

We updated The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc Privacy Policy on May 25, 2018. These changes will be effective May 25, 2018, to customers who signed up for The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc services before May 25, 2018 and all future customers. View a record of the previous Privacy Notice.

The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc, Inc. is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Notice (“Notice”), (“The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc”, “TMEGINC” “us”, “we”, “our”) explains our privacy practices and provides information on how and why we collect, use and share your personal data through our interaction with you and through our products and services and available at www. tmeginc.com, and its sub-domains (“Website“), and mobile applications (“App“). The policy also describes your choices regarding use, access, deletion and correction of your personal information.

The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc’s Privacy Notice applies to Customers (including Customer’s End Users) and Users (all other individuals who use TMEGINC products or website) who provide their information directly to us when they use our Website, Apps, or Services.

QUICK LINKS

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INFORMATION WE COLLECT

Information which you provide to us

We collect information which you provide directly to us when you use our Website, Apps or Services. The types of personal information we may collect directly from you include email addresses, postal addresses, phone numbers, usernames, information about the type of service required, marketing preferences, credit card payment information, transactional information (including Services purchased), as well as any communications, inquiries, contact or other information you choose to provide during your use of the Services.

When you provide personal information we will only use this information for the specific reason for which it is provided. If you believe that one of your contacts has provided us with your personal information and you would like to request that it be removed from our database, please contact us at requests@tmeginc.com.

Information we collect automatically when you visit our Website or Apps or use our Services

When you visit our Website, or use our Apps or Services, we may collect certain information automatically from your device. In some countries, including in the European Economic Area, this information may be considered personal data under applicable data protection laws:

Usage information – We keep track of your activity in relation to the Website, Apps or Services, the configuration of their computers, and performance metrics related to their use of the Website, Apps or Services. For example, when you use our Services, we may collect:

  1. Traffic data about the communications that take place through our platform (such as calls, team chat, video conferencing, SMS,) to enable us to transmit those communications effectively and efficiently;
  2. Network Monitoring data to enable us to maintain the security and agility of our internal networks;
  3. Log data about you when they use the Services, Website or Apps including Internet Protocol (“IP“) address, Internet Service Provider (“ISP“), browser type, referring/exit pages, the files viewed on our site (e.g., HTML pages, graphics, etc.), operating system, date/time stamp, and/or clickstream data to analyze trends in the aggregate and administer the site;
  4. Device data about any device including mobile phone number and other information related to mobile devices like operating system and model if you use our Services via our Apps. For other devices information collected by cookies and other similar technologies. We use various technologies to collect information which may include saving cookies to your computers;
  5. Call Detail Records of data record produced by a telephone call or other telecommunications transactions. The record contains various attributes of the call, such as time, duration, completion status, source number and destination number;
  6. Meta data, which is data created about other data which can include size, formatting, other characteristics of a data item;
  7. Emails/Communications with us; and
  8. Billing data, which includes any payment data.

Information we collect from third parties

We may collect the names, phone numbers, e-mail addresses, postal addresses and city of residence of individuals from third parties to market our products / services to these individuals. This collection of information and marketing is always carried out in compliance with applicable law.

We may receive personal information about you from other sources, including publicly available databases or third parties from whom we have purchased data, and combine this data with information we already have about you, in accordance with applicable laws. This helps us to update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you.

We may collect personal information about you from other applications you may use if you choose to integrate TMEGINC Apps or Services with other Apps or Services.

INFORMATION COLLECTED BY COOKIES

Do we use ‘cookies’?

Yes. We use various technologies to collect information which may include cookies when you visit our Website or use our Apps or Services. Below explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

What are cookies?

A cookie is a small file or a string of letters and numbers placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website, mobile app or use an online service. Cookies are widely used by online service providers to facilitate and help to make the interaction between users and websites and mobile apps faster and easier, as well as to provide reporting information.

Cookies may be either “first party” cookies or “third party” cookies. First party cookies are set by a website, mobile app or service owner (in this case, TMEGINC). Third party cookies are set by parties other than the website, mobile app or service owner. Third party cookies often enable third party features or functionality to be provided on the website, mobile app or service you are using (e.g. like interactive content and analytics). The third parties that set these cookies can use them to recognize your computer when it visits the website, mobile app or service in question and also when it uses certain other websites, mobile apps or services.

Why do we use cookies?

We use first party and third party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Website or App to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies.

We use these cookies to:

  • Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.

     

  • Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits which enables us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website or App.

     

  • Keep track of advertisements.

     

  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

     

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled It won’t affect the user’s experience that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

Types of cookie

Essential website cookies: These cookies placed by TMEGINC are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas. Because essential cookies are strictly necessary to deliver the Websites to you, you cannot refuse them. You can block or delete them by changing your browser settings however, as described below under the heading “How can I control cookies?”

Performance and functionality cookies: These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to its use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality feedback and contact forms, and relative links may become unavailable.

Analytics and customization cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website are being used or how effective are marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.

How to refuse

To refuse these cookies, please follow the instructions below under the heading “How can I control cookies?”

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie table above.

You can set or amend your web browser or mobile app controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website or App though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website or App may be restricted. The means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser-to-browser. See as follows for a current guide to web browser controls.

  • Google Chrome: Click the wrench icon to the right of the address bar and select “Settings”. Click “Show advanced settings…”, scroll down to the “Privacy” section, and click “Content settings”. Under the “Cookies section”, you can select “Block sites from setting any data” or “Block third-party cookies and site data” to prevent cookies from being set. In order to delete cookies, click “All cookies and site data”, scroll to the particular cookies you would like to remove, and click “x” to the right of the cookies, or click “Remove all” to remove all cookies. Click “OK” when you are finished making your changes.

     

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer: Click the gear icon to the right of the address bar and select “Internet Options”. Select the “Privacy” tab, and you can move the slider to “High” or “Block All Cookies”. In order to delete cookies, select the “General” tab, and under the “Browsing history” section, click “Delete…”. Make sure “Cookies” is selected, and click “Delete” to delete cookies. Click “OK” when you are finished making your changes.

     

  • Mozilla Firefox: Click the “Firefox” menu on the upper-right corner of your browser and select “Options”. Select the “Privacy” tab, and under the “History” section, select “Never remember history” or “Use custom settings for history”. If you select “Use custom settings for history”, you can deselect “Accept third-party cookies” or “Accept cookies from sites”. In order to delete cookies, click “Show Cookies”, scroll to the particular cookies you would like to remove, and click “Remove Cookie”, or click “Remove All Cookies” to remove all cookies. If your history setting is set to “Never Remember history”, click “clear all current history”, make sure “Cookies” is selected, and click “Clear Now”. Click “OK” when you are finished making your changes.

     

  • Apple Safari: Click the gear icon to the right of the address bar and click “Preferences…”. Select the “Privacy” tab, and under the “Block cookies” section, you can select “From third parties and advertisers” or “always”. In order to delete cookies, click “Details…”, scroll to the particular cookies you would like to remove, and click “Remove Cookie”, or click “Remove All” to remove all cookies.

     

  • In addition, most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of targeted advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

     

How does our site handle do not track signals?

We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.

Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?

It’s also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking

INFORMATION WE USE

We may use the information we collect from you for a range of purposes, including to:

  • Administer, operate, protect and maintain the Website, Apps or Services;
  • Process and complete transactions, and send related information, including transaction confirmations and invoices;
  • Manage and improve your use of the Website, Apps or Services;
  • Prepare and provide you testimonials regarding the Website, Apps and / or Services;
  • To help deliver our Website, Apps, or Services to Customers for service and support;
  • Investigate and prevent fraudulent activities, unauthorized access to the Website, Apps or Services, and other illegal activities; and
  • For any other purposes about which we notify and receive your consent from you;
  • To help personalize your experience and retarget you for advertising purposes;
  • Respond to inquiries and requests and to provide you with information and access to resources that you have requested;
  • Analyze and aggregate your and use of the Website, Apps or Services for trend monitoring, marketing advertising purposes; and
  • Send you technical alerts, updates, security notifications, and administrative communications.

We and our third-party marketing service providers may also use the information Customers send to us for our marketing purposes, if this is in accordance with your marketing preferences and applicable law. However, you may opt out of our marketing. For further information, see the “Unsubscribe from Our Mailing List” section below.

Legal basis for processing personal information (EEA only)

If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you, or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect the personal information in question.

If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or enter into a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information).

Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our or a third party’s legitimate interests and those interests are not already listed above (see “Information We Use” section), we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.

If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided under the “Contact Us” section below.

SHARING AND DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

 

We may share and disclose your information we collect with the following third parties:

  • The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc or any of its worldwide affiliates consistent with this Notice for data processing;
  • Business partners, contractors, vendors, and authorized third party agents, to:
    • Operate, deliver, improve and customize our Services
    • Provide support and technical services;
    • Send marketing and other communications related to business;
    • Enforce our acceptable use policy;
    • Law enforcement agencies, regulatory or governmental bodies, or other third parties in order to respond to legal process, comply with any legal obligation; protect or defend our rights, interests or property or that of third parties; prevent or investigate wrongdoing in connection with the Website, Apps or our Services;
    • Any third parties in connection with prospective or actual, sale, merger, acquisition, financing or reorganization of our business.

YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

 

Update and access to your information

Where we process personal information collected via our Website or Apps or via our Services for our own account management, billing or marketing purposes and where required by applicable law, we provide individuals with the opportunity to access, review, modify, and delete any such personal information that we process.

Your Privacy Rights as an EEA Person

In addition, if you are from the EEA, you may have broader rights to access and delete your personal information, to object to or restrict processing of your personal information, or request portability of your personal information.

To make such requests, you can send an email to requests@tmeginc.com or write to us at the mailing address in the “Contact Us” section below. We will consider and handle all requests in accordance with applicable laws.

If we have collected and processed your personal information with your consent, then you can withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent will not affect the lawfulness of any processing we conducted prior to your withdrawal, nor will it affect processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful processing grounds other than consent.

You also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority at any time.

In general, when processing personal information to provide our Services, we do so only on behalf of our EEA Customers and in accordance with their instructions. This means that if you wish to access, review, modify or delete any personal information we process on behalf of a The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc Customer, under applicable EEA law or otherwise, you should contact that Customer with your request. We will then help them to fulfill that request in accordance with their instructions.

See our full GDPR Privacy Policy here.

Your Privacy Rights as a California Resident

If you have provided information to us to identify you as a California resident and receive The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc Services or visit our Website or Apps solely as a private individual—in other words, not as the member or representative of a company or other organization—you may have the right to receive a free, yearly accounting of:

(1) information identifying each third-party company to whom we may have disclosed, within the past year, personal information pertaining to you for our direct marketing purposes; and

(2) a description of the categories of personal information disclosed.

If you are a California resident who qualifies to receive such an accounting and would like to make one, please email requests@tmeginc.com.

Unsubscribe from our mailing list

You may at any time ask us to remove you from our mailing list by sending us an email at requests@tmeginc.com or by visiting https://go.tmeginc.com/unsubscribepage.html, or by clicking “Unsubscribe” in any e-mail communications or push notification we send you. We will remove you from our mailing list in accordance with applicable laws.

To request that your phone number be removed from future sales calls, please email requests@tmeginc.com.

THIRD-PARTY SITES

 

This Notice does not apply to, nor are we responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Website links including but not limited to social media sites. The inclusion of a link on the Website does not imply our endorsement of the linked site or service.

GOOGLE ADS

 

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users: https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We may use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network Privacy Policy.

We along with other third-party vendors, Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

BLOGS AND FORUMS

 

Our Website offers publicly accessible blogs or community forums. You should be aware that any information you provide in these areas is public and may be read, collected, and used by others who access them and may remain on the public forum indefinitely. To request removal of your personal information from our blog or community forum, contact us at requests@tmeginc.com. In some cases, we may not be able to remove your personal information, in which case we will let you know if we are unable to do so and why. We encourage all Users to exercise caution when providing personal information in blogs and community forums.

SECURITY

 

Keeping your information secure is important to us. We maintain a variety of appropriate technical and organizational safeguards to protect your personal information both during transmission and once it is received.

How do we protect visitor information?

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.

  • We use regular Malware Scanning.
  • We use an SSL certificate
  • We do not collect or store any financial information

The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc has no control over or responsibility for the security or privacy policies or practices of other sites on the Internet you might visit, interact with, or from which you might buy products or Services, even if you visit them using links from our Website.

Please note that no website, mobile app or service is completely secure and so, while we endeavor to protect our Customers’ information using the measures described above, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized access, hacking, data loss or a data breach will not occur.

DATA RETENTION

 

We will retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the information was originally collected unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law, for legal, tax or regulatory reasons, or other legitimate and lawful business purposes. Where we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify the users via email

      • Within 7 business days of discovering the data breach

We will notify the users via in-site notification

      • Within 7 business days of discovering the data breach

We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFERS

 

Your personal information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident. Specifically, information collected outside the United States, including in the European Economic Area (“EEA“), may be transferred to and stored on our servers in the United States and potentially in other countries where our group companies and third-party service providers and partners operate. These countries may have data protection laws that are different to the laws in your country (and in some cases, may not be as protective).

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY- COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc does not provide online products or services that are designed for use by children under the age of 16, or knowingly collect personal information from or about children under the age of 16. If you believe that a child under the age of 16 has disclosed personal information to The Mathews Entrepreneur Group Inc, please contact requests@tmeginc.com.

CAN-SPAM ACT

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:

  • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

     

  • Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.

     

  • We may also send you additional information related to your product and/or service.

     

  • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

     

To be in accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:

  • NOT use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.

     

  • Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.

     

  • Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.

     

  • Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.

     

  • Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.

     

  • Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

     

CHANGES TO NOTICE

If we change our Notice, we will post those changes on this page in addition to updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this webpage. If we make changes, we will notify you more directly, for example by posting a notification or message on the Website or by emailing you prior to such changes taking effect. We encourage you to review this Notice regularly to stay informed of the latest modifications.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions, comments or concerns about this Notice, please e-mail us at requests@tmeginc.com Or, you can write to us at:

The Mathews Entrepreneur Group, Inc1020 Park Drive-Suite 491Flossmoor, Illinois 60422 USA requests@tmeginc.com

Last Edited on 2024-04-11