Privacy Policy

1. General Information

The following Privacy Policy governs the online information collection practices of Butterfly Effect Platform (“we” or “us”). Specifically, it outlines the types of information that we gather about you while you are using https://resources.butterflyeffect.pt/, and the ways in which we use this information. This Privacy Policy applies primarily to information which we collect online; however, the portion of this Privacy Policy that relates to the European Union’s General Data Privacy Regulation may apply to some of the data that you provide to us offline and/or through other means, as well (for example, at a live event, via telephone, or through the email).

We have created this Privacy Policy to demonstrate our deep commitment to privacy and security. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect information from all end users of our Internet services (the “Services”), including those who visit our Platform.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By visiting and using this Site, you agree that your use of our Site, and any dispute over privacy, is governed by this Privacy Policy. In an effort to comply with changes in technology, and the adoption of new regulations and laws, we may need to change our Policy at some point in the future, in which case we’ll post the changes to this Privacy Policy on this website and update the Effective Date of the policy to reflect the date of the changes. By continuing to use the Site after we post any such changes, you accept the Privacy Policy as modified.

2. Introduction

We may collect and store personal or other information that you voluntarily supply to us online while using the Site (e.g., while on the Site or in responding via email to a feature provided on the Site). The Site only contacts individuals who specifically request that we do so or in the event that they have signed up to receive our messaging, attended one of our events, or have purchased one of our products. The Site collects personally identifying information from our users during online registration and online purchasing. Generally, this information includes name and e-mail address for registration or opt-in purposes and name, and credit card information when registering for our events or purchasing our products. All of this information is provided to us by you.

We use the information collected from you while you are using the Site in a variety of ways, including using the information to customize features; advertising that appears on the Site; and, making other offers available to you via email, direct mail or otherwise. We also may provide your information to third parties, such as service providers, contractors and third-party publishers and advertisers for a variety of purposes. Unless you inform us in accordance with the process described below, we reserve the right to use, and to disclose to third parties, all of the information collected from and about you while you are using the Site in any way and for any purpose, such as to enable us or a third party to provide you with information about products and services.

We also may use a standard feature found in browser software called a “cookie” to enhance your experience with the Site, and web beacons, to access cookies, count users who visit the Site, or open HTML-formatted email messages.

Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties online – for example on message boards, web logs, through email, or in chat areas – that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information. The use and collection of your information by these third-party advertisers and ad servers is governed by the relevant third-party’s privacy policy and is not covered by our Privacy Policy.

3.  How we use Personal Information

Users may be asked to provide certain personal information when they sign up for our Products or Services including name, address, telephone number, billing information (such as a credit card number). The personal information collected from Users during the registration process (or at any other time) is used primarily to provide a customized experience while using our Products and Services. Your information will never be disclosed, traded, licensed or sold to any third party. However, we may make limited disclosure of personal information under the specific circumstances described below.

Some of the information we may collect about you and store in connection with the provision and fulfillment of our services to you may include:

  • Name
  • Email Address
  • PayPal Email Address
  • Masked Credit Card Information (for – refunds)
  • Age
  • Gender
  • Marital Status
  • Religion
  • Income Range
  • Education
  • Profession
  • Parent Status
  • Other responses to surveys and questionnaires
  • Sign-up source
  • Date of account creation
  • Date of account updates
  • IP address
  • Time stamp
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • Browser
  • Email open clicks
  • User ID
  • User behavior
  • Login history
  • Order details
  • Location
  • Facebook ID
  • Photo
  • Language
  • Country
  • Timezone
  • Birthday
  • Your rating of our support
  • Telephone number
  • Testimonials, with your authorization
  • Anonymized Facebook comments
  • Live location
  • Sexual preference

The above personal information may be used for the following purposes:

  • To operate, improve, or promote our Service
  • To contact you
  • When you have opted in to receive email messaging
  • To respond to your email inquiries.
  • To monitor and analyze trends such as: Purchase history, Sales reports, Behavior on the Site and Email clicks and opens
  • Email marketing
  • Advertising, including retargeting via Google and Facebook
  • Notifications
  • Perform accounting, administrative and legal tasks

We retain certain information that we collect from you while you are a member on the Site, and in certain cases where you have deleted your account, for the following reasons:

  • So you can use our Site;
  • To ensure that we do not communicate with you if you have asked us not to;
  • To provide you with a refund, if entitled;
  • To better understand the traffic to our Site so that we can provide all members with the best possible experience;
  • To detect and prevent abuse of our Site, illegal activities and breaches of our Terms of Service; and
  • To comply with applicable legal, tax or accounting requirements.

When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your information, we will either delete or anonymize it.

4. Who Access to Your Data

Access to your data is limited to those persons who require access in order to provide you with the Services you purchase from us, to contact you, and to respond to your inquiries, including requests for refund. Those staff members may be on teams such as: marketing, events, development, executive, customer support.

We may use service providers in connection with operating and improving the Site, to assist with certain functions, such as payment processing, email transmission, conducting surveys or contests, data hosting, managing our ads, and some aspects of our technical and customer support. We take measures to ensure that these service providers access, process, and store information about you only for the purposes we authorize, subject to confidentiality obligations, including through the execution of GDPR-compliant Data Privacy Agreements or Addenda, as applicable.

We use 3rd-party solutions for marketing and analytics. This processing occurs on third party platforms on accounts owned by us, including, but not limited to, Google Analytics, Push notifications and email services. This processing is subject to our Data Privacy Agreements or Addenda with these third parties, and their respective privacy policies.

We may access, preserve, and disclose information about you to third parties, including the content of messages, if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, applicable law, regulation, legal process, or audits. We may also disclose information about you if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our Terms & Conditions or if necessary to protect the rights, property, or safety of, or prevent fraud or abuse of, us or others.

Occasionally you may have clicked on one of Butterfly Effect Platform affiliate links and signed up or bought something via that link. In this case, the person or organization in charge of the affiliate link will have the information that you have submitted. This may be your email address, name, address, or whatever else they asked you. If you have signed up for or bought something from Butterfly Effect Platform via an affiliate link, please check the privacy policy on their site.

If you order services or products directly from our Platform we will use the personal information you provide only to process that order. We do not share this information with outside parties except to the extent necessary to complete that order.

If you complete an order for some other company(ies) that may be linked to our Site, such as an online gift order sent directly to a recipient, you may be asked to provide information about the recipient, such as the recipient’s name, address, and phone number. We have no control over the third parties use of any personal information you provide when placing such an order. Please take care when doing so. We recommend that you familiarize yourself with the Privacy and Terms policies of any other company(ies) whose web sites you may access from our site.

5. Cookies and Tracking Tools

We use cookies to help you make using our website easier. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our Site. We use cookies for the following reasons:

  • To remember your country and language preferences
  • To deliver information that matches your interests
  • To help us understand our audience and traffic patterns
  • To let you automatically log into programs and parts of our site that require membership
  • To manage and present site info displayed on our website that will be specific to you

We also use Web Beacons to collect non-personal data on how you use our site, such as how long did you visit our page, what web browser you’re using, what’s your operating system, and who’s your Internet service provider. In addition we also use Google Analytics data to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website. This data is collected from thousands of site visits and analyzed as a whole. This helps us build a better website to match our visitors’ needs.

If you are uncomfortable with the collection of such information through the use of Cookies and Beacons, we recommend disabling these features through your browser preferences, though please understand this will limit the performance and functionality of our Company’s website. Your browser documentation should provide specific procedures for disabling cookie and beacon support.

6. General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR)

The GDPR takes effect on May 25, 2018, and is intended to protect the data of European Union (EU) citizens.

If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), or are accessing this Site from within the EEA, you have certain rights with respect to your data. We respond to all requests that we receive from individuals who wish to exercise their data protection rights in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

7. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to update these Privacy Policy as necessary and without prior notice. We ask that you periodically review this document so that you are aware of any changes.

Last update: January 2022