IDate of Last Revision: 1 January 2025

Effective: 1 January 2025

Inspire! Privacy and Security LLC (“Inspire!,” “we,” “our,” and “us”) is a limited liability company located in Mapleton, Utah, USA. Inspire! provides business consulting services via this website via books and other on-line forums (“Inspire! Platform”). Our goal is to create a single source of truth for privacy, data protection, and artificial intelligence compliance professionals. Come and join us!

We know your (“you” or “your”) personal information is important. We appreciate the trust you place in us when you visit and use the Inspire! Platform. As a result, we process the personal information we receive from you responsibly and in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

This privacy notice (“Privacy Notice”) describes how we process the personal information collected when you access the Inspire! Platform. When you leave the Inspire! Platform, this Privacy Notice no longer applies. Any subsequent website, application, or service you access via the Inspire! Platform will have its own Terms of Service and Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice tells you about your rights and choices with respect to your personal information, including how you can contact us if you have any questions or concerns. In this Privacy Notice “Personal Information“ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural living individual.

Please read this Privacy Notice carefully. If you do not agree with this Privacy Notice or any part thereof, you should not access or use any part of the Inspire! Platform. If you change your mind in the future, you must stop using the Inspire! Platform. You may exercise your rights in relation to your Personal Information as set out in this Privacy Notice and you may contact us at any time regarding those rights at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

1. Our Relationship With You

The Inspire! Platform can only be used by individuals. Inspire! can restrict, suspend, or terminate your access to or ability to use the Inspire! Platform at its sole discretion, access information about you, access or retain information stored with us (including log data about your use of the Inspire! Platform) all for the purposes and for the periods of time described below. You guarantee that the email address you use to register for access to the Inspire! Platform is personal to you. We will decline any registrations relying on an organizational email address. You are the controller of any personal information you provide to Inspire! Privacy and Security LLC.

2. Personal Information We Collect

When you visit the Inspire! Platform we collect: (1) technical information that is used to deliver the Inspire! Platform and for other purposes described below, and (2) information you voluntarily provide to us.

Personal Information You Provide to Us

We collect a variety of information that you provide to us. The specific types of information we collect will depend upon your engagement with the Inspire! Platform.

• Account Information. When you create an account to use the Inspire! Platform, we collect Personal Information to allow you to use the Inspire! Platform. When you sign up, you must provide us with your name, username, password, email address, and any other account information necessary to create and maintain your account (e.g. for verification or payment purposes).
• Contact Information and Other Information You Choose to Provide to Us. You can provide a variety of information during your interactions with us, such as through emails or other communications. When you contact us via a website contact form, email, or other means, you provide us with Personal Information, such as your name and contact details, and the content of your communications with us.
• Support Information. When you request technical support for the Inspire! Platform, we will process your Personal Information such as your name and the contact information that you use to contact us, as well as information regarding the reasons for your support request, the support that was provided, and any additional information you may provide in that context.
• Financial Information. If you purchase a book, paid subscription account or other services made available from the Inspire! Platform you must provide payment information. We (or our third-party service provider) will use that information solely for the purpose of fulfilling your purchase request.
• Other Information. You may choose to directly provide us with information associated with your use of the services provided on the Inspire! Platform. For example, if you decide to use the Inspire! Platform forums, we will collect and store the content and information you create on the Inspire! Platform (“User Generated Content”). Inspire! is the controller and owner of User Generated Content. You guarantee you will not provide confidential information when using the services provided on the Inspire! Platform. Confidential information for purposes of this Privacy Notice and the Inspire! Privacy and Security Terms of Service [INSERT URL] is defined as any information that is not public, including Personal Information, trade secrets, intellectual property, health information, or other information that could be reasonably understood to be confidential (“Confidential Information”).

Information Collected Automatically

We may automatically collect certain information based upon your behavior on the Inspire! Platform. We use this information to conduct internal research on system usage, demographics, interests, and behavior to better understand who is visiting the Inspire! Platform, for marketing purposes and to improve our Inspire! Platform. Whenever possible, the collected data is de-identified, aggregated and/or anonymized.

• Device and Usage Information. When you access and use the Inspire! Platform, we receive and store information about your interactions, such as date/time stamps, usage information and statistics, your internet protocol (IP) address, hardware and software information (including operating system version and type), browser type, device identifiers, device event information, crash data, and the pages you have viewed or engaged with before or after accessing the Inspire! Platform including content accessed, time viewed, links clicked, referring/exit pages, and clickstream data (“Event Logging”). This information could be used to identify you or your device and may provide us with your location.
• Cookies and Similar Technologies. We do not collect Personal Information via third-party cookies, pixel tags, or similar technologies on the Inspire! Platform.
• Location Information. When you use the Inspire! Platform, we may collect general location information (such as general location inferred from an IP address).

3. How We Use the Personal Information We Collect?

We use the Personal Information we receive or collect for the following purposes:

• To create your accountfor your use of the Inspire! Platform.
• To provide our Inspire! Platform, including to operate, maintain and support our Inspire! Platform by making available our user database with business contact details to our administrators.
• For personalizationto customize our Inspire! Platform to meet your specific needs.
• For improvement of the services as described in our Terms of Service and other collateral documentation to improve the Inspire! Platform and to develop new services, Inspire! Platform, and features.
• To communicate with you, by phone, text, email, or chat. This may include contacting you for administrative purposes such as security or support and maintenance advisories, to provide the Inspire! Platform and information you request, to respond to comments and questions, to contact you regarding issues concerning your use of our Inspire! Platform, including changes to this Privacy Notice, and to otherwise provide customer support.
• Subject to any consent requirements, to send marketing materials, alerts about the latest developments and features or other promotional materials, and to develop new promotional materials that can be useful or relevant to you. You will always be provided with an opportunity to opt out of receiving marketing communications. For example, you can opt out by following the instructions located at the bottom of any commercial emails you may receive or by contacting us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.
• For customer and third-party relationship management including to track emails, phone calls, and other actions you have taken as a prospective customer, our customer, or with other associated third parties.
• For aggregation or anonymization of Personal Information which is a format that does not allow you to be personally identified. We use the resulting information for statistical analysis regarding the use of the Inspire! Platform, such as to better understand our customer base, or for other purposes.
• For administrative and legal purposes, such as for compliance purposes, including enforcing our Terms of Service or enforcing or defending other legal rights, or as may be required by applicable laws and regulations or requested by any judicial process or governmental agency, and to comply with our legal obligations and internal policies as permitted by law.
• For safety, security and integrity focused on investigating in good faith alleged violations of our Terms of Service, including unauthorized access and use.

4. Who We Share Personal Information With

We may disclose Personal Information about you under the following circumstances:

• Group Entities. We may disclose Personal Information about you to our affiliates and subsidiaries, if any, for the purpose of providing the Inspire! Platform and conducting business.
• Service Providers. We work with third parties for the purpose of providing the Inspire! Platform such as hosting, maintenance, and support. These third parties may have access to or process your Personal Information as part of providing their services to us. For example:
  • We use service providers such as payment providers to process credit card payments on the Inspire! Platform. When you use a credit card to pay for our Inspire! Platform, information (such as your name, billing address, phone number, email address and credit card information) your financial information will be submitted to service providers for verification and to manage any recurring payments.
  • We use cloud service providers who we rely on for data storage, disaster recovery and to perform our obligations to you.
  • We use service providers of business communication tools.
• Change of Corporate Ownership. Personal information about our administrators or users, may be disclosed, and otherwise transferred to an acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any merger, acquisition, debt financing, sale of assets, or similar transaction, as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which personal information is transferred to one or more third parties as one of our business assets.
• Legal. Personal information about our administrators and users will be disclosed to law enforcement agencies, regulatory bodies, public authorities or pursuant to the exercise of legal proceedings if we are legally required to do so, or if we believe, in good faith, that such disclosure is necessary to comply with a legal obligation or request, to enforce our terms and conditions, to prevent or resolve security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property or safety of Inspire!, our administrators or users, a third party, or the public.

5. Subprocessors

A list of current sub-processors is located on the Website in the footer of the home page. We will provide notice via the Inspire! Platform if this list of sub-processors changes. If you do not agree with the changes, you may terminate your use of the Inspire! Platform in accordance with the Inspire! Platform Terms of Service.

6. Your Rights

You have the following rights associated with the processing of your personal information:

• Right to Access or Right to Know. You have the right to obtain access to the Personal Information we hold about you and to request certain information about our processing. You have the right to receive an explanation of (i) why we process your Personal Information, (ii) the categories of Personal Information we have about you, (iii) who we share your Personal Information with, (iv) how long we store your Personal Information and (v) who we received your Personal Information from if it was not collected from you directly. We will also inform you about your privacy rights.
• Right to Rectification or Correction. You have the right to correct, update or complete any Personal Information we hold about you that is inaccurate or incomplete. Please note that we may rectify or remove incomplete or inaccurate information, at any time and at our own discretion.
• Right to Erasure or Deletion. You may request to have your Personal Information anonymized, erased, or deleted, as appropriate. In this case, if there is no overriding legitimate interest to continue processing your Personal Information, we will erase your data.
• Right to Object to Processing. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Information where we are relying on a legitimate interest or if we are processing your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to Restrict Processing. You have a right in certain circumstances to stop us processing your Personal Information other than for storage purposes.
• Right to Portability. You have the right to receive, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, Personal Information that we hold about you, if we process it based on our contract with you, or with your consent, or to request that we transfer such Personal Information to a third party.
• Right to Withdraw Consent. You may withdraw any consent you previously provided to us regarding the processing of your Personal Information at any time. We will apply your preferences going forward. This will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before you withdrew your consent.
• Right to Lodge a Complaint. You may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, including in your country of residence, place of work, or where you believe an incident took place.
• Right Against Discrimination. We will not discriminate against your for exercising your rights.
• Right to Opt Out of Targeted Advertising, Sale or Sharing (as defined by CCPA – see Supplemental US Privacy Notice). You can ask us to stop using your personal information for targeted advertising when required by law.

You may exercise these rights by contacting us as at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

Please note that, prior to any response to the exercise of such rights, we will require you to verify your identity. In addition, we may have valid legal reasons to refuse your request and will inform you if that is the case. Note that applicable laws contain certain exceptions and limitations to each of these rights. Subject to certain restrictions, you can ask an agent to exercise your rights for you. If you have an agent exercising your rights, that person must provide to us your written authorization allowing them to make such a request on your behalf. We reserve the right to deny the agent’s request if we are not reasonably able to confirm proper authorization and/or verify your identity as the requestor.

To appeal any refusal by us to act on a data subject rights request by contacting us by email at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

7. Retention of Information

We will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice, to make the Inspire! Platform available to you, or as instructed by you, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

8. Security and Storage

We implement a variety of security measures that are reasonably designed to protect the safety of your Personal Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction when you enter or submit your Personal Information on the Inspire! Platform. However, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. Please keep this in mind when disclosing any information to us via the Internet. IF YOU BELIEVE YOUR PRIVACY HAS BEEN BREACHED THROUGH USE OF THE INSPIRE! PLATFORM, PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY AT: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

When you use the Inspire! Platform, personal information about you will be stored in the United States, and other locations around the world depending on the third-party storage services being used by us.

9. Data Analytics

Analytics. We will use first-party analytics to provide the Inspire! Platform, including analyzing the performance of the Inspire! Platform, for improvement of the services, or for marketing purposes as described above.

10. Third Party Links and Websites

This Privacy Notice does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy practices of any third parties, including those that operate websites to which the Inspire! Platform links. The inclusion of a link on the Inspire! Platform does not imply that we or our affiliates endorse the practices of the linked website.

11. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

The Inspire! Platform is designed for people who are at least 13 years old. Nonetheless, we comply with the US Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and other applicable laws regarding the processing of personal information from children. We do not knowingly collect any “Personal Information” (as defined by the U.S. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act) from anyone under 13 years of age. If we become aware that we have collected the Personal Information of an individual under 13 years of age, we will take reasonable steps to delete it as soon as possible.

12. Change of Ownership

In the event of a change in ownership, or a merger with, acquisition by, or transfer or sale of all or a portion of our assets to, another entity, we reserve the right to transfer all your Personal Information to that entity. We will use reasonable efforts to notify you of a transfer to an unaffiliated third party (by a posting on our homepage, or by email to your email address that you provided to us, as chosen by us in our discretion).

13. Changes to Our Privacy Notice

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at any time to reflect changes in the law, our data collection, use or sharing practices or advances in technology. We will make the revised Privacy Notice accessible throughout the Inspire! Platform. You should review this privacy notice periodically. The “Date of Last Revision” included at the beginning of this privacy notice will indicate when it was last updated.

By continuing to access or use our Inspire! Platform, you are confirming you have read and understand the latest version of this Privacy Notice.

14. Complaints

If you wish to lodge a complaint about how we process your Personal Information, please contact us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com. We will endeavor to respond to your complaint as soon as possible. You may also lodge a claim with the applicable supervisory authority.

15. Contact Us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Notice, our privacy practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights with respect to your Personal Information, please contact us by one of the following methods:

• Send us an e-mail at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com, or
• Write to us at: 63 E 700 N, Mapleton, UT 84664.

Supplemental Privacy Notice

(EU, Turkey, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom (EEA+))

Date of Last Revision: 1 January 2025

Effective 1 January 2025

This Supplemental Privacy Notice applies to you only if you are a natural living person and you are in the European Union, a European Free Trade Association country, Turkey, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (“EEA+”. This Supplemental Privacy Notice is incorporated into and forms part of the Inspire! Privacy and Security, LLC Global Privacy Notice.

This Supplemental Privacy Notice provides supplemental notices that are unique to the EEA+ region.

1. Legal Bases for the Processing of Personal Information

Inspire!’s legal basis for processing your Personal Information is described in this section:

• Consent. This is the case where you have consented to the use of your Personal Information.
• Contract. We need your Personal Information to provide you with our Inspire! Platform to perform our obligations associated with our contract with you (the Inspire! Platform Terms of Service), such as to create and secure your account, or to respond to your inquiries.
• Legitimate Interest. We have a legitimate business interest in processing your Personal Information to provide the Inspire! Platform. We only rely on legitimate interest as a legal basis when our legitimate interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms associated with privacy and data protection on balance. We ensure we comply with any requests you make to exercise your associated rights.
• Legal Obligation. We may have a legal obligation to process your Personal Information, for example to comply with tax and accounting obligations, and we may process your Personal Information when necessary to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims. We may also process your Personal Information when necessary to protect yours or another individual’s vital interests.

2. Data Protection Officer

We are a small team and we do not specifically target the EEA+ region, as a result we are not obligated to appoint a Data Protection Officer. If at any time you would like to contact us regarding our privacy and data protection practices, please contact us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

3. Data Protection Representative

We are a small team and we do not specifically target the EEA+ region, as a result we are not obligated to appoint a Data Protection Representative. If at any time you would like to contact us regarding our privacy and data protection practices, please contact us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

4.  International Data Transfers

If you provide us with your Personal Information when using the Inspire! Platform from the EEA, Turkey, Switzerland or the UK or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your Personal Information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. The legal basis for these transfers to the US is: Consent as identified above.

When we transfer your Personal Information internationally, we ensure that relevant safeguards are in place to afford adequate protection for your Personal Information and we comply with applicable global data protection laws, by relying on your express consent.

5. Complaints

You have the right to contact the appropriate supervisory authority at any time to lodge a complaint regarding the processing of your data. The list of EU supervisory authorities is located here. All other supervisory authorities can be located via a search for their website homepage.

 

Supplemental Privacy Notice

(United States)

Date of Last Revision: 1 January 2025

Effective: 1 January 2025

This Supplemental United States Privacy Notice (“Notice”) is for people residing in the U.S., and describes how we collect, use, and disclose your personal information. This Supplemental Privacy Notice is incorporated into and forms part of the Inspire! Privacy and Security LLC Global Privacy Notice. For purposes of the Notice, the terms “personal information” and “sensitive personal information” include the terms “personal data” and “sensitive personal data” and have the meaning provided under applicable U.S. state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2020, as amended) (“CCPA”).

Purpose for Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information. We’ve collected and disclosed the below categories for personal information to create, develop, operate, deliver, and improve our services, to communicate with you, to ensure the safety, security, and integrity of our services, and for the business and commercial purposes outlined the Inspire! Privacy and Security LLC Global Privacy Notice. We do not collect, use, or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in this Notice, to provide the services, or as permitted under applicable law. In addition, to the extent that Inspire! de-identifies personal information, we take reasonable measures to maintain and use the information in a de-identified manner and do not make any attempts to re-identify such information, except as permitted under applicable law.

Collection and Disclosure of Personal Information. In the past 12 months, we’ve collected the personal information described in the Inspire! Privacy and Security LLC Global Privacy Notice, which is described with more specificity as follows:

Personal Information Categories	Personal Information Collected and Disclosed	Recipient Categories
Identifiers	·     Basic User Information ·     Supplemental Identification Information ·     Electronic Identification Information ·     Institutional Information ·     Financial Information	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Financial institutions ·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors ·   Our Affiliates
Protected classifications under state and federal law, including gender, age, and citizenship	·     Supplemental Identification Information ·     Electronic Identification Information	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Professional advisors
Commercial information such as records of services purchased, obtained, or considered	·     Transaction Information	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Financial institutions ·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors ·   Our Affiliates
Internet or other electronic network activity information	·     Services Usage Information ·     App, browser, and device information ·     Information from cookies and similar technologies	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors ·   Our Affiliates
Geolocation data	·     App, browser, and device information	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors
Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information	·     Call and video recordings ·     Communications	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors ·   Our Affiliates
Professional or employment related information	·     Institutional Information ·     Direct deposit ·     Salary	·   Third party identity verification services ·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors ·   Our Affiliates
Inferences about preferences, characteristics, predispositions, etc.	Information derived from other information about you, which could include your preferences, interests, and other information used to personalize your experience or provide you services	·   Service providers ·   Professional advisors ·   Our Affiliates

Collection and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. In the past 12 months, we’ve collected and disclosed the following categories of sensitive personal information, with the following categories of third parties:

Sensitive Personal Information Categories	Personal Information Collected and Disclosed	Recipient Categories
Government identifiers	·   Supplemental identification information	·   Third party identity verification services
	·     Electronic identification information	·   Professional Advisors
A consumer’s account log-in, financial account, debit card, or credit card number in combination with any required security or access code, password, or credentials allowing access to an account	·     Basic User Information Supplemental Identification Information Electronic Identification Information
The contents of a consumer’s mail, email, and text messages (unless the business is the intended recipient of the communication)	·   Communications	·   Service Providers ·   Professional Advisors

Sources of Personal Information. We gather various types of personal information from our customers and individuals who access or use our services from a range of sources, such as:

4. 4. • Information you give us when you sign up for, or otherwise use our services;
      • Information we receive from our Affiliates and third parties; and
      • Information we collect automatically as described in the Inspire! Privacy and Security LL Global Privacy Notice.

Selling or Sharing of Personal Information. In the past 12 months, we have not shared (as that term is defined in CCPA) identifiers with third party analytics providers, advertising partners, and ad networks for analytics and advertising purposes. We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share the personal information of individuals under 16 years of age.

How Long we Retain Your Personal Information. We retain your information as needed to provide our services, comply with legal obligations, or protect our or others’ interests. We decide how long we need information on a case-by-case basis. Here is what we consider:

4. 4. • When the information was collected or created,
      • Whether it is necessary to continue offering you our services,
      • Whether we are required to hold the information to comply with our legal obligations, including automated machine learning/know your customer compliance or other financial regulatory obligations or information preservation requirements. We also keep certain information where necessary to protect the safety, security and integrity of our services, administrators and users.

Privacy Rights. Residents of specific states have certain rights with respect to personal information collected and processed under state privacy laws. You may exercise the following rights, subject to certain exceptions and limitations:

4. 4. • Right to Know. You have a right to request the following information about our collection, use and disclosure of your personal information over the prior 12 months, and ask that we provide you with a copy of the following:
        • Categories of and specific pieces of personal information we have collected, sold, or shared about you,
        • Categories of sources from which we collect personal information,
        • The business of commercial purposes of collecting personal information,
        • Categories of third parties to whom the personal information was disclosed for a business purpose, and
        • Categories of personal information disclosed about you for a business purpose.
      • Right to Correct. You have a right to request that we correct inaccurate personal information maintained about you.
      • Right to Delete. You have a right to request that we delete personal information, subject to certain exceptions.
      • Right to Opt Out. You have a right to opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information, including the processing of your personal information for purposes of targeted advertising. Because we do not sell or share your personal information, no specific opt-out mechanism is provided.
      • Right to Non-Discrimination. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of these rights.

Exercising Your Rights. You may exercise your rights by contacting us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com to make individual rights requests relating to your personal information after verifying your identity. We may take steps to verify your identity before complying with your request to protect your privacy and security and may decline your request if we are unable to verify your identity. To verify your identity, we may collect information such as your email address, or date of birth, before providing a substantive response to the request.

Authorized Agent. Under certain U.S. state privacy laws, you may designate an authorized agent to exercise privacy rights on your behalf. To do so, you must: (1) provide that authorized agent written and signed permission to submit such a request; and (2) verify your own identity directly with us. Please note, we may deny a request from an authorized agent that does not submit proof that they have been authorized by you to act on your behalf.

Appeal. You have the right to appeal our decision(s) regarding your privacy right request. To appeal a declined request please contact us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com.

Questions. If you have questions or concerns regarding this Notice, or if you have a complaint, please contact us at: privacy@inspireprivacyandsecurity.com or by writing to us at the following address: 63 E 700 N, Mapleton, Utah 84664.