Effective Date: November 4, 2025
Notice Version: 1.0
Data Controller Contact Information:
Platinum Strategies, Inc.
610 N. River Dr.
Marion, IN 46952
Our privacy notice governs the privacy practices of our website www.grandmasterscircle.com and all sub-domains, and our software as a service, collectively and hereinafter called website.
Our privacy notice tells you what personal data and nonpersonal data we collect from you, how we collect them, how we protect them, how we disclose them, how you can access and change them, and how you can limit our disclosure of them. Our privacy notice also explains certain legal rights that you have about your personal data.
Definitions
‘NONPERSONAL DATA’ (NPD) means any information that is in no way personally identifiable.
‘PERSONAL DATA’ (PD) means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person can be identified directly or indirectly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person. PD is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, PD is broader in scope and covers more data.
‘SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA’ (SPD) means a consumer’s social security, driver’s license, state identification card, or passport number; a consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security, access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account; a consumer’s exact geolocation; a consumer’s ethnic or racial origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or union membership; the contents of a consumer’s mail, text messages, and email unless the business is the intended receiver of the communication; a consumer’s genetic data; the processing of biometric data to uniquely identify a consumer; personal information collected and analyzed about a consumer’s health; sex life or sexual orientation.
Topics Covered in Our Privacy Notice
YOUR RIGHTS
Contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice to exercise any of your legal rights contained within this privacy notice. We will respond to your request within 30 days of receiving it. Occasionally, it may take longer for multiple requests or complex circumstances.
Our policy is that we do not sell our users and customers PD except in the sale or merger of our business. See the section about “Disclosures to Successors” in this privacy notice. The provision below is only here because it is required by law that we include it. If you want to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal data, you can do so at this link: (link here to the opt-out form) - You can also submit your request by contacting us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
When using our website and submitting PD to us, you may have certain rights under privacy laws in the United States, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), and other U.S. state laws. You may also have rights under privacy laws of other countries, including the European Union General Data Protection Regulation (the EU GDPR), the UK General Data Protection Regulation (the UK GDPR), the UK Data Protection Act of 2018, Canada’s Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and other global privacy laws. Even if not listed here, we will make reasonable efforts to honor data subject access requests, even though we may be under no legal obligation to do so. However, we reserve the right to decline any data subject access request that we are not legally obligated to comply with. Your rights may include, but are not limited to the following:
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT
Based on our current data collection methods, and including our practices over the last 12 months, we collect the following categories of PD, SPD, and other information about you:
Automatic Information
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information may include the IP address of your computer or the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use this type of information to help improve our website and marketing.
When Entering and Using Our Website
When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.
Our Use of Cookies
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text in the cookie consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.
By agreeing to accept our use of cookies you are giving us and the third parties with which we partner permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer and or mobile device.
Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Web Beacons
We may use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and your use of special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to statistically watch the number of people who open our emails.
At User Registration or When Buying Products or Services
Based on our current practices when you provide information to us (including our practices over the last 12 months), we collect some or all of the following categories of PD when you register as a user or when buying our products or services: We collect some or all of the following information: first name, last name, phone number, email address, physical address, billing address, payment information, password, and other information listed.
When Completing Surveys and Questionnaires
When filling out surveys and questionnaires, you may be asked a variety of questions; some of these questions may request more sensitive PD. These questions may include but are not limited to your gender, age group, race, religious beliefs, and other SPD.
Collecting Information About Your Physical Location
When you use our services, we may collect and process information about your actual physical location. We use several technologies, such as GPS and IP tracking to determine your location. These technologies may also give us information about nearby cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other devices.
Chat Software or Contact Forms
Our website contains chat software or contact forms that enable visitors to communicate with us online or offline by email. Sometimes, visitors can communicate with us without buying our products and services. When you use our chat software or contact forms, we may collect some or all of the following information: your email address, first name, last name, and any other information you willingly choose to provide us.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics may collect information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic and improve our marketing, advertising, and website. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with PD. You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Analytics
Our website uses analytics services from several companies other than Google to collect information about the use of our website. Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our website, what pages they visit when they do so, what other websites they used before coming to our website, and their IP addresses. We use the information we get from analytics to improve our services.
Remarketing
Our website and applications use remarketing advertising services. These remarketing services are provided by companies that show our ads on websites and devices across the Internet. With remarketing you may see ads for our products you have previously looked at. As an example, suppose you visit a website that sells computers, but you do not buy a computer on your first visit to that website. The website’s owner might like to encourage you to revisit their site and buy a computer by showing you their ads on other websites that you visit. We use remarketing for similar purposes. For this to happen remarketing companies will read a cookie in your browser. This can only happen if your browser is set to let it happen. You can opt out of these types of advertising cookies by visiting http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices.
Google Ad and Content Network
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies, pixels, and other technologies to serve ads based on a user's past visits to our website. These technologies are also used to track your activities on our website and other websites, including the web pages that you visited, the ads or content that you clicked on, any items you may have purchased, and the search terms you used to deliver tailored advertising to you. Users may opt out of the use of Google’s cookies for interest-based advertising by visiting http://www.aboutads.info/choices. For European users, visit http://www.youronlinechoices.eu.
Providing Your PD for Lookalike or Similar Audience Marketing
We may provide your PD to third parties for similar audience marketing purposes. Similar audience marketing is also called lookalike audience marketing. The third parties we provide your PD to for this type of marketing include Facebook and/or Google. Using your PD for similar audience marketing or lookalike audience marketing helps us find new audiences (users and customers) based on similar interests to yours. This will help us improve our marketing services. Your PD is only provided to Facebook and Google for this type of marketing. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice you are giving consent for your PD to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.
Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing PD
Our legal basis for collecting and processing your PD when you buy our products and services are based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract.
What Happens If You Don’t Give Us Your PD
If you do not provide us with enough PD, we may not be able to provide you with all our products and services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your PD.
HOW YOUR PD IS USED AND DISCLOSED
We use the information we receive from you to:
UPDATING AND DELETING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
You can update or delete your personal data (PD) using services found on our website. If no such services exist, you can contact us using the following url:
https://www.grandmasterscircle.com/contact-us to make your request(s), or you can contact us using the information located at the top of this privacy notice. However, we may keep your PD as needed to enforce our agreements and comply with legal obligations.
Communications and Emails
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when you registered as a user or customer. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information. You can change your contact preferences at any time through your account or by contacting us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
Providing Your Information When You Log In Using Social Media Websites
We may provide your PD to third parties such as Facebook.com, Twitter.com, YouTube.com, Instagram.com, Google.com, and others. If you sign into our services through a third-party social networking service or website, your “friends” list from that service or website might be automatically imported to our services. We do not have any control over the privacy notices and business practices of other third-party services or websites.
If you log into our website using social media websites, you are agreeing to let us use and store your profile information from those websites to make better use of any social media features on our website. This providing of information helps us provide you with a better experience when using our website and provides us with information such as visitor traffic. If you use any of the social icons on our website to tell others about our information, you may also be disclosing your personal information through social media websites.
Text Messaging, SMS, Push Notifications, and Telephone Calls
If you provide a mobile telephone number or landline telephone number to us, you are giving your express consent and authorize us or a third party to contact you by using any of these communication methods. You are not required to give us your consent to contact you through these communication methods. However, withholding your consent may interfere with or prevent us from providing some or all our services to you. You can stop receiving text messages, push notifications, and telephone calls by contacting us or using one of our opt-out methods.
Disclosing Your PD to Third Parties
We do not sell or rent your PD to third parties for marketing purposes. However, for data aggregation purposes we may use your NPD, which might be sold to other parties at our discretion. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your PD.
Disclosing Your PD to Third Parties, Service Providers and Contractors
At times, we disclose your PD to third parties, service providers, and contractors whom we hire to provide services to us. These service providers and or contractors may include, but are not limited to payment processors, web analytics companies, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies. We have contracts with qualified, third parties, service providers, and contractors that obligate them to comply with specific requirements under the law.
Legally Required Releases of Information
We may disclose your PD if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal processes; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and or other users; or (d) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal and or real property, or the personal safety of our company, users, employees, and business partners.
Disclosures to Successors
If our business is sold or merges in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your PD to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your PD according to the terms of this privacy notice as well as to any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business. We also retain the right to transfer your PD if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or company.
Community Discussion Boards, Blogs, or Other Mechanisms
Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate through online community discussion boards, blogs, or other mechanisms. If you choose to post on these discussion mechanisms, you should use care when exposing any PD, as such information is not protected by our privacy notice nor are we liable if you disclose your PD through such postings. Also, PD which you post on our website for publication may be available worldwide on the Internet. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
DATA RETENTION POLICY
Retention Periods
We retain your PD and SPD if necessary to provide our services and or products to you and to fulfill the purposes outlined in our privacy notice. We retain PD for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by applicable legal, regulatory, or contractual obligations, at this point, we will destroy, delete, or erase it, or until you ask us to delete it.
Data Type | Retention Period | Purpose |
|---|---|---|
Age | Retained while the account is active | Personalization and legal age verification |
Payment Data | Retained for 7 years | Comply with financial reporting requirements |
Marketing Data | Retained for 1 year unless consent is withdrawn | Legitimate interests |
Website Analytic Data | 6 months after collection | Legitimate interests |
After the retention periods expire, the data will be securely deleted or anonymized to ensure it is no longer identifiable.
PROTECTING THE PRIVACY RIGHTS OF THIRD PARTIES
If you make any postings on our website that contain information about third parties, you agree that you have permission to include that information. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings about which we are notified if such postings violate the privacy rights of others.
DO NOT TRACK SETTINGS
Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off tracking features and other security settings in your browser by referring to your browser’s user manual.
GLOBAL PRIVACY SIGNALS (GPC)
We make strong efforts to honor global privacy signals (GPC) transmitted by supported browsers as a valid opt-out request. If your browser or device is set to send a GPC signal, we will automatically process it as a request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy notice. We have no responsibility for these websites, and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You accept that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk.
PROTECTING CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect PD from children under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website and they are under the age of 18, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child under the age of 18 is accessing our website, we will delete their information within a reasonable period of time. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users, nor have any liability to do so.
OUR EMAIL POLICY
You can always opt out of receiving email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our company, or if our company files for bankruptcy as described in the section Disclosures to Successors.
OUR SECURITY POLICY
We have built our website and services using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your PD. We and the third parties who provide services to us also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your PD. SPD is protected at a higher level than most PD. Unfortunately, we cannot guarantee the prevention of loss or misuse of your PD or secure data transmission over the Internet because of its nature. We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not disclose it to anyone.
USE OF YOUR CREDIT CARD
You may have to provide a credit or debit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over them. We use commercially reasonable efforts to ensure that your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your credit card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
TRANSFERRING PD FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
PD that we collect from you may be stored, processed, and transferred among any countries in which we operate. The European Union has not found the United States and some other countries to have an acceptable level of protection of PD under Article 45 of the GDPR. Our company relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. If you are a European Union user or a user from another country, with your consent, your PD may be transferred to the United States or other countries when you request information from us. When you buy goods or services, we will use your PD to perform a contract with you. Wherever we transfer, process, or store your PD, we will try to apply reasonable safeguards to protect it. We will use the information we collect from you by following the practices described in our privacy notice. Also, we enter into data processing agreements and standard contractual clauses when appropriate. By using our website, services, or products, you agree to the transfers of your PD described within this section.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY NOTICE
We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy notice, we will post those changes on our website so our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your PD in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email sent to the email address on file in your account. Otherwise, we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ PD in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. Your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change. If you have questions about our privacy notice, please contact us through the information at the top of this privacy notice.
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