The BET Mall Privacy Policy

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Privacy Policy

Last Modified: December 13th, 2023

Use of the BET Mall Membership (Subscription) Service

> Information We Collect: The BET Mall Membership allows verified “Black-Owned” companies to share business content for marketing. Information collected is used for contact and interaction purposes.

> How We Use Your Info: We use the Subscription Service for our marketing. BET Mall Members use it to display business information subject to verification.

> Requesting to Remove Data: BET Mall Members can request data removal.

Protecting your privacy is a priority to us. We at Blackentrepreneurstrading.com (the BET Mall), (Heavenly Start, LLC. and our affiliates) are committed to protecting your privacy. We do not share nonpublic information about you with third-party marketers outside blackentrepreneurstrading.com without your consent, except as explained in our Privacy Policy.

The following Terms of Services and Privacy Policy applies to the website(s) accessible at Blackentrepreneurstrading.com, (“Website”) and Services and mobile applications offered by Blackentrepreneurstrading.Com from now on will be labeled as (“Black Entrepreneurs Trading, blackentrepreneurstrading.com, BET Mall, or thebetmall.com”).

Black Entrepreneurs Trading may also be referred to in this Terms of Services and Privacy Policy as “we”, “us”, or “our”.

This Privacy Policy describes how Black Entrepreneurs Trading collects and uses personal information collected through the Website or through your correspondence with us by phone, email or otherwise. By accessing or using the Website or our services, you agree to this Privacy Policy. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT ACCESS OUR WEBSITE OR USE OUR SERVICES.

1. Information We Collect, Store And Use Regarding BET Mall Members

This Privacy Policy applies to the website accessible at BLACKENTREPRENEURSTRADING.COM and services offered by BLACKENTREPRENEURSTRADING.COM (referred to as “we,” “us,” or “our”).

The BET Mall Membership Subscription Service allows any verified “Black-Owned” company that subscribes to share business content in the form of text, images, or video for marketing purposes. The information added to the Membership Subscription Service, either by Members providing their contact information via the signup form or direct email, is stored and managed on our service providers’ secured servers. This information is then used to contact visitors about their interest in the company’s products or services and interact with the company. The BET Mall provides the Membership Subscription Service to our customers for their own marketing, lead generation, and customer service needs, and we use it to meet Black Entrepreneurs Trading’s related needs.

Please review the terms here, and if you disagree, do not access our website or use our services.

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Privacy Policy Terms

1.1 - How Black Entrepreneurs Trading Utilizes Your Subscription Information

At Black Entrepreneurs Trading, we employ our specialized Subscription Service to craft informative webpages for our Site Visitors. Any data we gather and handle through this Subscription Service for promotional activities remains our property. Rest assured, we handle, share, and secure this information in strict adherence to our Privacy Policy.

1.2- Registering Your Business for Inclusion in the BET Mall

Members of our BET Mall utilize our Subscription Service to showcase their businesses, offering potential customers insights and direct links for further exploration. As a part of our commitment to quality, Black Entrepreneurs Trading meticulously reviews all content intended for display on either Black Entrepreneurs Trading or the BET Mall.

It’s essential to note that any information intended for publication on blackentrepreneurstrading.com or thebetmall.com undergoes a verification process. This ensures we present the most precise and current business details to our audience.

BET Mall Members bear the responsibility of promptly informing Black Entrepreneurs Trading about any required modifications, removals, or updates to previously submitted information.

1.3- Requesting To Remove Data From The Bet Mall

If a BET Mall Member requests to remove data from our website(s), we will respond within a reasonable timeframe. We may work with our Members to help them provide notice to their visitors about their data collection, processing and usage. Our agreements with our Members prohibit them from using the Membership Subscription Service to collect, manage, or process Sensitive Information. We are not responsible for our Members’ use of information they collect on/from the BET Mall Subscription Service.

The BET Mall collects information under the authorization or direction of its Members, and has no direct relationship with the individuals whose Personal Information it processes. If you are a customer of one of our Members and would no longer like to be contacted by one of our Members that use our Membership Subscription Service, please contact the BET Mall Member that you interact with directly.

We may transfer Personal Information to companies that help us provide our service. Transfers to subsequent third parties are covered by the service agreements with our Subscribed Members.

2. Information We Collect, Store And Use Regarding Site Visitors

We adhere to ethical standards in gathering, using and safeguarding any personal information you provide. We collect personal information from you that is collected when voluntarily submitted to us by you through access to the Website or filling out a form on the Website. The types of information that may be collected include your name, mailing address, email address, phone number, usage information, including the materials that you access on the Website and messages that you send through our online contact form.

We may automatically collect information from you (site visitor) each time you visit blackentrepreneurstrading.com or thebetmall.com. This includes technical information such as your IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, website navigation, information about your activity on our Website such as page response times, download errors, length of visit to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouseovers), methods to browse to and away from a page, and methods used to contact our support team. Technical information may also include the internet protocol address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating systems and device platform.

2.1- We May Also Collect, Store And Use The Following Kinds Of Personal Information:

Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website, including information relating to any purchases you make of our products or services;

Information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering with us;

Information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our website services, email notifications and/or newsletters; and

Any other information that you choose to send to us.

Only Affiliates who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

2.2- How We Collect Information

We collect information from you when you submit inquiries through our online contact form. We also use technology to collect information from you.

We may use “cookies” to collect information — small files that the site places on your hard drive for identification purposes.

This Website also includes certain components transmitted by Google Analytics, a web traffic analysis service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Also in this case, they are third party cookies collected and managed anonymously to monitor and improve the performance of Black Entrepreneurs Trading. Google Analytics uses the cookies to collect and analyze anonymously the information on the behavior of use of the website. This information is collected by Google Analytics, which processes in order to prepare reports for the Company regarding activities on the Website. This Website doesn’t use the analysis tool of Google to track or collect personal information.

2.3- Information We Collect Using Third-Parties

We may use a third-party Company to assist us in providing online services to you. To register for services such as BET Mall Membership, you must provide contact information (such as name and phone number) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes when supply services such as Membership Subscriptions.

If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.

2.4- Information We Receive From Other Sources

This is information we receive about you from third parties that we work closely with to provide, promote and improve our services. These third parties include business and integration partners, vendors who assist in technical and payment services, analytics providers and search information providers.

2.5- Disclosing Another Person’s Personal Information

Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing of that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy policy.

3. How We Will Use Your Information

Black Entrepreneurs Trading uses information, including personal information, to carry out the following purposes:

3.1- Meeting our Obligations to You. We may use your personal information to contact you at your request to provide further information about our products and services. We may also contact you to carry out our obligations of delivering or supporting contracted services or products to you.

3.2- Improving and Maintaining the Website. Black Entrepreneurs Trading may collect and use personal information to investigate any customer service issues that you or other users notify us about. We may use your IP address and other information collected from you to help diagnose problems with our server(s), create new functionality and to improve and administer the Website.

3.3- Improving and Developing Products and Services. Black Entrepreneurs Trading may use your personal information to improve and develop products or services offered. We may also use aggregated and anonymized information to assist us in providing the best service possible to our customers.

3.4- Communicating with You. Black Entrepreneurs Trading may collect and use personal information to inform you about new features of our software and advise you of offers that you may be interested in.

3.5- Marketing the Website and Our Services. Additionally, we may use aggregated and anonymized information for marketing purposes such as generating or selling advertisements.

3.6- Responding to You. We will use your information to respond to you after contacting us.

3.7- Sharing Your Data. We may share your information with another third party outside of our organization (such as griotsites.com) if necessary to fulfill and manage your advertising request on our website.

3.8- Inform You of Special Offers. We may contact you via email in the future to tell you about special offers, new products or services unless you request via email to be removed from our mailing list.

4. Access To And Control Over Your Information

You may opt out of any future contacts from us at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website. You may contact us at any time to do the following:

See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data.

5. Children Using Our Site

Black Entrepreneurs Trading may publish content that is for children, but targeted to their parents. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 16. However, if you are concerned about your children providing Black Entrepreneurs Trading any personal information without your consent, you may contact us.

6. Web Security

We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We’ve installed a premium SSL Certificate (one of the safest encryption technologies available) to help protect your personal information while using Black Entrepreneurs Trading.

When you submit information to us using our online forms, you’re utilizing a secure server software SSL. A Secured Socket Layer or “SSL” encrypts your personal information before it’s sent over the Internet.

7. Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

8. Sharing Your Information

We share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. And:

We may use an outside payment gateway company such as PayPal to bill and manage Membership Subscription customers and BET Affiliates. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order unless you sign up for an account with them. And:

We may partner with another party to provide specific services. We will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services.

These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.

9. Disclosures

We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, officers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy.

In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

(1). To the extent that we are required to do so by law;

(2). In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;

(3). In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk);

(4). To the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and

(6). To any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.

10. Links

This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our visitors to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

11. Surveys & Contests

From time-to-time our site requests information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

12. Updates

Our Privacy Policy may change from time to time and all updates will be posted on this page. While we will notify BET Members and Affiliates of any changes to this policy, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle the information you provide us, please write to us by email at legal@blackentrepreneurstrading.com.

13. Summary

Sharing: We share demographic information and may use third-party companies for services.

- Disclosures: Personal information may be disclosed for legal or business reasons.
Links, Surveys & Contests, Updates
- Links: We are not responsible for content or privacy practices of linked sites.
- Surveys & Contests: Participation is voluntary, and information is used for notification and improvement.
- Updates: The Privacy Policy may change; please review periodically.

Last Revised 12/13/2023