Welcome to Built By Determination (“we”, “us”, “our”, or “the Site”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit or use our site at builtbydetermination.com (the “Site”). By using the Site, you agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following categories of information:
1.1 Information you provide directly
- Registration / Account Information: If you create an account, subscribe, or sign up, you may provide your name, email address, username, password, contact number, date of birth, and other profile details.
- Payments & Transactions: When you purchase or subscribe to services, programs, or products, we may collect billing address, credit card or payment information (via third‑party payment processors), transaction details, and related data.
- Communications: When you contact us (e.g. via email, forms, support), you may provide messages, feedback, and other content.
1.2 Information collected automatically
- Log Data: When you use our Site, our servers automatically record information such as your IP address, browser type and version, pages you visited, the time and date of your visit, time spent, referring website, and your operating system.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about your browsing activities, preferences, and to improve and customize your experience.
- Device & Usage Data: We may collect information about your device (device model, OS version, unique device identifiers), app or browser version, and performance data (crash logs, usage statistics).
1.3 Information from third parties
We may receive information about you from third parties, such as social media platforms (if you link or login via them), analytics providers, advertising networks, or partners. This may include demographic data, interests, or usage data.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your information for purposes including, but not limited to:
- To provide, operate, maintain, and improve the Site, our programs, and services.
- To process and fulfill your orders, payments, subscriptions, or requests.
- To communicate with you: send confirmations, updates, newsletters, marketing communications (where permitted), support responses, and other administrative notices.
- To personalize your experience (e.g. customize content, recommendations, offers).
- To track and analyze usage, trends, and traffic to understand how users interact with our Site.
- To detect, prevent, and address technical issues, fraud, security breaches, or misuse.
- To comply with legal obligations, enforce agreements, and protect rights or property.
If we combine anonymized / aggregated data (that cannot identify you), we may use or share that data for any purpose.
3. Legal Basis for Processing (if applicable)
If you are a resident of a jurisdiction that requires a legal basis for processing personal data (e.g. European Union / GDPR), the legal bases we rely on may include:
- Consent — when you provide explicit consent for certain data processing (e.g. marketing emails).
- Contract — where processing is necessary to perform our contract with you (e.g. processing payments or delivering services).
- Legitimate interests — for our business operational needs (e.g. security, fraud prevention, improving our services), provided your interests are not overridden.
- Legal compliance — where required to comply with laws, regulations, or requests by authorities.
4. Sharing & Disclosure of Information
We may share your personal data under the following circumstances:
- Service Providers: With vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform functions on our behalf (e.g. payment processors, email platforms, hosting, analytics). They are contractually obligated to protect your data and only use it for intended purposes.
- Legal Requirements & Protection: If required to comply with laws, regulations, legal processes, or government requests; or to protect our rights, privacy, safety, property, or that of our users.
- Business Transfers: In connection with a merger, acquisition, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar events, your information may be transferred, provided that the acquirer agrees to terms at least as protective as this Policy.
- With Consent: We may share your data if you give us explicit consent to do so (for instance, when you permit us to share your profile or testimonials).
We never sell your personal data to third parties for their marketing without your explicit consent.
5. Cookies, Tracking & Analytics
We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect and store certain types of information, including:
- Essential / strictly necessary cookies (for site functionality).
- Preference cookies (to remember your settings).
- Analytics / performance cookies (to track usage, site performance, errors).
- Marketing / advertising cookies (to deliver relevant ads or promotions).
You can usually control or disable cookies through your browser settings or opt‑out settings (though that may affect functionality). We may also employ services like Google Analytics or similar to analyze usage; these tools may collect data about your behavior (e.g. pages visited, time on site, referral sources). If your region requires it, we may present a cookie banner or opt‑in consent mechanism.
6. Data Security & Retention
We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet transmission or storage is perfectly secure; we cannot guarantee absolute security.
We will retain your personal information as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected (e.g. for providing services, fulfilling legal obligations, resolving disputes). Where feasible, we may anonymize or delete data if it is no longer needed.
7. Your Rights & Choices
Depending on your jurisdiction, you may have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- Access / Portability: You can request a copy of your data.
- Rectification: You can request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Deletion / Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): You can request that we delete your data in certain circumstances.
- Restriction of Processing: You can request limiting how we use your data.
- Objection: You may object to certain types of processing (e.g. marketing).
- Withdraw Consent: For processing based on consent, you can withdraw consent at any time (without affecting prior processing).
- Opt‑out of Marketing: You may opt out of receiving promotional communications from us.
To exercise these rights, you may contact us using the contact information below. We may need to verify your identity before honoring such requests.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for children under the age of 13 (or a higher age if required by local law). We do not knowingly collect or solicit personal data from minors. If we become aware that we have collected data from a child under the permitted age without parental consent, we will take steps to delete that information.
9. International Transfers
If you are accessing the Site from outside our home country, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in countries other than your own. We will ensure appropriate safeguards to protect your data in those transfers (e.g. standard contractual clauses, data protection agreements), as required by law.
10. Third‑Party Links & Services
Our Site may contain links to third‑party websites, plug-ins, or services (for example, social media, payment gateways). These third parties have their own privacy policies and may collect data when you interact with them. We are not responsible for their practices, so we encourage you to review their policies.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make changes, we will revise the “Last Updated” date and, where required by law, notify you (e.g. via email or site banner). Your continued use of the Site after those modifications constitute your acceptance of the updated Policy.