Privacy Policy

What is the Privacy Policy and what does it cover?

Effective June 4, 2024

Read the United States Regional Privacy Notice for more details about how we handle Personal Information and how to exercise your rights.

Highlights

• This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and share your information. It also describes how long we keep your information and how we keep it safe when we transfer it.
• The Privacy Policy also lets you know your rights.
• This policy covers and applies to the ALPHA BIZ website. Our Products include the Valuation Calculator; Online Profile, mergers and acquisitions related documents and forms; and any other information on the website to buy and sell businesses.

We at ALPHA BIZ want you to understand what information we collect, and how we use and share it. That’s why we encourage you to read our Privacy Policy. This helps you use the ALPHA BIZ website in the way that’s right for you.

In the Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect, use, share, retain and transfer information. We also let you know your rights. Each section of the Policy includes helpful examples and simpler language to make our practices easier to understand.

What information do we collect?

Highlights

In this policy we list the kinds of information we collect. Here are some important ones. We collect:

• The information you give us when you sign up for our Products and create a profile, like your email address or phone number
• What you do on our Products.
• Information from the phone, computer, or tablet you use our Products on, like what kind it is and what version of our app you’re using
• Information from partners about things you do both on and off of our Products. This could include other websites you visit, apps you use or online games you play.

The information we collect and process about you depends on how you use our Products. When you use our Products, we collect some information about you even if you don’t have an account.

Here’s the information we collect:

Your activity and information you provide

On our website, you can send messages, upload photos and videos, buy or sell things and much more. We call all of the things you can do on our website as “activity.” We collect your activity on our website and information you provide, such as:

• Content you create, interact with posts, comments on images, and videos
• Content provided by users such as images or videos.
• Messages you send and receive, including their content, subject to applicable law.
• Metadata about content and messages, subject to applicable law
• Types of content, including ads, you view or interact with, and how you interact with it
• Apps and features you use, and what actions you take in them.
• Purchases or other transactions you make, such as through ALPHA BIZ checkout experiences, including credit card information.
• The time, frequency and duration of your activities on our Products

Information with special protections

You might choose to provide information about your religious views, your sexual orientation, political views, health, racial or ethnic origin, philosophical beliefs or trade union membership. These and other types of information could have special protections under the laws of your jurisdiction.

Connections

Information we collect about your connections

We collect information about connections, ALPHA BIZ connections and other users and groups you’re connected to and interact with. This includes how you interact with them across our Products and which ones you interact with the most.

Information we collect about contacts

We also collect your contacts’ information, such as their name and email address or phone number, if you choose to upload or import it from your device, like by syncing an address book.

Learn how to upload and delete contacts on the ALPHA BIZ website, or how to connect your device’s contact list on ALPHA BIZ.

App, browser and device information

We collect and receive information from and about the different devices you use and how you use them.

Device information we collect and receive includes:

• The device and software you’re using, and other device characteristics.
• Identifiers that tell your device apart from other users’, including Family Device IDs.
• Signals from your device.
• Information you’ve shared with us through device settings, like GPS location, camera access, and photos.
• Information about the network you connect your device to and your connection, including your IP address.
• Some location-related information, even if Location Services is turned off in your device settings. This includes using IP addresses to estimate your general location.
• Information about our Products’ performance on your device.
• Information from cookies and similar technologies.

Information from partners, vendors and other third parties

What kinds of information do we collect or receive?

We collect and receive information from partners, measurement vendors, marketing vendors and other third parties about a variety of your information and activities on and off our Products.

Here are some examples of information we receive about you:

• Your device information
• Websites you visit and cookie data.
• Purchases and transactions you make off of our Products using non-ALPHA BIZ checkout experiences
• Your demographics, like your education level
• The ads you see and how you interact with them
• How you use our partners’ products and services, online or in person

Partners also share information like your email address, cookies and advertising device ID with us. This helps us match your activities with your account, if you have one.

We receive this information whether or not you’re logged in or have an account on our Products. Learn more about how we connect information from partners to your account.

Partners also share with us their communications with you if they instruct us to provide services to their business, like helping them manage their communications. To learn how a business processes or shares your information, read their privacy policy or contact them directly.

What if you don’t let us collect certain information?

Some information is required for our Products to work. Other information is optional, but without it, the quality of your experience might be affected.

What if the information we collect doesn’t identify individuals?

In some cases information is de-identified, aggregated, or anonymized by third parties so that it no longer identifies individuals before it’s made available to us. We use this information as described below without trying to re-identify individuals.

Information we collect and receive if you use or interact with our Products but don’t have an account

Even if you don’t have an account, you may interact with or use ALPHA BIZ Products. Then we collect things like:

• Browser and app logs of your visits to public content, like ALPHA BIZ Pages, and sites.
• Basic information about devices that downloaded our apps, like device model and OS

We also receive information using cookies and similar technologies, when you visit other websites and apps that use our Business Tools or other ALPHA BIZ Products. Read more about information we receive from partners, vendors and other third parties in this policy and in our Cookies Policy.

Examples of why we collect and receive information

Security of our Products

For example, we collect information to monitor attempted attacks on our systems, such as overloading our servers with traffic. Also, if we see someone without an account trying to load too many pages, they could be trying to scrape our site in violation of our terms. Then we can take action to prevent it.

Safety and integrity

For example, if someone without an account joins a room and shares a harmful video, we can take action according to our Community Standards. We can remove content that violates our terms and policies, or share information with law enforcement when we believe there is a genuine risk of death or imminent bodily harm.

Advertising

For example, you may also see ads for the ALPHA BIZ Products when you visit other apps if we can’t recognize you as a registered user of the Meta Products.

Performance

For example, we collect information when people use our Products, even if they don’t have an account, to measure how fast our pages load in different countries and whether they’re working properly. This helps us identify and fix issues with local networks.

Information you provide

For example, when you create an ALPHA BIZ account, you must provide some information, like a password and your email address or phone number.

We also collect information you provide when you:

• Fill out a form
• Contact us

Apps and features you use, and how you use them

For example, we log:

• What apps, posts, videos, ads, and other content you view or interact with on our Products
• What features you access from our messaging products
• When you use the ALPHA BIZ website in-app browser link history or autofill
• Information about websites that you visit or interact with when you use our in-app browser.

When we collect information based on others’ activity

For example, we collect information about yo2u on ALPHA BIZ Products when others:

• Send you a message
• Invite you to join a conversation
• Upload their address book that has your contact information in it

What device you’re using, and other device characteristics

We collect device information like:

• The type of device
• Details about its operating system
• Details about its hardware and software
• Brand and model
• Browser type
• Plugins

Identifiers that tell your device apart from other users’

Identifiers we collect include device IDs, mobile advertiser ID, apps or accounts you use. We also collect Family Device IDs or other identifiers unique to ALPHA BIZ website associated with the same device or account.

Device signals

Device signals include GPS, Bluetooth signals, nearby Wi-Fi access points, beacons and cell towers.

Related Metadata

For example, if you give us permission to access your device’s camera roll, we collect metadata. This metadata is from and about your photos and videos and includes the date and time they were made. We use this to do things like remind you when you have new photos to upload.

Information about the network you connect your device to and your internet connection

Information about your network and connection includes:

• The name of your mobile operator or internet service provider (ISP)
• Language
• Time zone
• Mobile phone number
• IP address
• Connection and download speed
• Network capability
• Information about other devices that are nearby or on your network
• Wi-Fi hotspots you connect to using our Products

One reason we collect this information is to make your experience better.

Information about our Products’ performance on your device

We collect device information to prevent, diagnose, troubleshoot and fix errors and bugs. This includes how long the app was running, what model of device you were using and other performance and diagnostic information.

Information from cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information on web browsers. We use cookies and similar technologies, including data that we store on your web browser or device, identifiers associated with your device and other software. They help us provide, protect and improve our Products, such as by personalizing content, tailoring and measuring ads and providing a safer experience.

We collect information from cookies stored on your device, including cookie IDs and settings.

Read our ALPHA BIZ Cookies Policy.

Types of partners

Partners

Our partners use our Products and other technologies that allow businesses to advertise or support their products.

Integrated partners

Integrated partners also use our Products, specifically the technologies that help you make a connection to them. For example, you might log into their app or website using ALPHA BIZ Login.

Who are our partners and integrated partners?

Here are some examples:

• Advertisers
• Businesses and people that use our Products to sell or offer goods and services
• Publishers (like a website or app) and their measurement vendors
• Device manufacturers, internet service providers and mobile network operators
• E-commerce platforms

Third-party public sources

For example, we get datasets from publicly available sources, research institutions and professional and non-profit groups. We use these datasets to:

• Detect and stop scraping in violation of our terms
• Take other actions to promote the safety, security and integrity of our Products, our users, the public and our personnel and property
• Improve our AI technologies and support AI research and product development, such as translations, computer vision, content understanding, natural language processing, and tools for people and businesses to create content
• Engage with research survey respondents who choose to participate in additional conversations

What happens if you don’t let us collect certain information

For example, if you don’t provide an email address or phone number, we won’t be able to create an account for you to use our Products.

How do we use your information?

Highlights

Here are some of the ways we use your information:

• We improve our Products by applying information about what you use them to do, and what else is happening on your device when our website crashes
• We work to prevent harmful behavior and keep people safe on our Products
• We send you messages about the Products you use or ones you might like, if you let us

We use information we collect to provide a personalized experience to you, including ads, along with the other purposes we explain in detail below.

For some of these purposes, we use information across our Products and across your devices. The information we use for these purposes is automatically processed by our systems. But in some cases, we also use manual review to access and review your information.

To use less information that’s connected to individual users, in some cases we de-identify or aggregate information or anonymize it so that it no longer identifies you. We use this information in the same ways we use your information as described in this section.

Here are the ways we use your information:

To provide, personalize and improve our Products

We use information we have to provide and improve our Products. This includes personalizing features, content and recommendations, such as your ALPHA BIZ online profile, and ads. We use information with special protections you choose to provide for these purposes, but not to show you ads.

Read more about how we use information to provide, personalize and improve our Products:

How we show ads and other sponsored or commercial content

When you use our Products, you see ads and sponsored or commercial content, like product listings in Shops. You also see ads shown through ALPHA BIZ Audience Network or commercial content when you visit other apps. We want everything you see to be interesting and useful to you.

To decide what to show you and others, we use information we have about you, including:

• Your profile information
• Your activity on and off our Products, including information we receive through cookies and similar technologies.
• Content you create or interact with across ALPHA BIZ.
• Things we infer about you, like topics we think you may be interested in
• Information about your connections, including their activity or interests

How we use information to improve our Products

We’re always trying to make our Products better and create new ones with the features you want. Information we collect from you helps us learn how.

We use information we collect to:

• See if a product is working correctly
• Troubleshoot and fix it when it’s not
• Test out new products and features to see if they work
• Get feedback on our ideas for products or features

How we use location-related information

We use location-related information that you allow us to receive if you turn on the Location Services device setting. This includes things like your GPS location and, depending on the operating system you’re using, other device signals.

We also receive and use some location-related information even if Location Services is turned off. This includes:

• IP addresses, which we use to estimate your general location. We can use IP addresses to estimate your specific location if it’s necessary to protect the safety and security of you or others.
• Your and others’ activity on our Products.
• Information you give us directly, like if you enter your current city on your profile.

We use location-related information, such as your current location, where you live, the places you like to go and the businesses and people you’re near, to do the things described in the “How do we use your information?” section of the Policy, like:

• Provide, personalize and improve our Products, including ads, for you and others.
• Detect suspicious activity and help keep your account secure.

To promote safety, security and integrity

We use information we collect to help protect people from harm and provide safe, secure Products.

To provide measurement, analytics and business services

Lots of people rely on our Products to run or promote their businesses. We help them measure how well their ads and other content, products and services are working.

To communicate with you

We communicate with you using information you’ve given us, like contact information you’ve entered on your profile.

Promoting safety, security and integrity

Here are some ways we promote safety, security and integrity. We work to:

• Verify accounts and activity
• Investigate suspicious activity
• Detect, prevent and combat harmful or unlawful behavior
• Detect and prevent spam and other bad experiences
• Detect when someone needs help and provide support
• Detect and stop threats to our personnel and property
• Maintain the integrity of our Products

Providing measurement, analytics and business services

To provide measurement and analytics services, we use the information we collect about you across your accounts on our Products.

Our measurement and analytics services help our partners understand things like:

• How many people see and interact with their products, services or content.
• How people interact with their content, websites, apps and services
• What types of people interact with their content or use their services
• How people use our partners’ products and services to connect to ALPHA BIZ Website, the performance of their connection and networks and users’ experience with them

We also use the information we collect to provide business services.

Communicating with you

We communicate with you in a few different ways. For example:

• We send messages about the Products we know you use, using the email you register to your account
• We ask you to participate in research based on things like how you use our Products
• We let you know about our policies and terms of service
• When you contact us with questions, we reply to your email

Using information across our Products

We use information across your accounts on our Products to:

• Personalize ads for you and others.
• Measure the performance of those ads.
• More accurately count people and understand how they use our Products
• Help keep you and others safe.

Why we use information across devices

One reason we use your information across devices is to help us give you a more personalized experience. For example, we might show you an ad on your phone, and later you might use your laptop to click on the ad and buy the product. By combining that information across your devices, we can understand what ads are relevant to you and help businesses measure how well their ad performed.

Manual review

Examples of when we use manual review

• Our reviewers help us promote safety, security and integrity across our Products. For example, reviewers can look for and remove content that violates our terms and policies and keep content that doesn’t break our terms and policies available. Their work supplements our technology that detects violations.
• When our algorithms detect that someone might need help, a reviewer can review their post and offer support if needed.
• We also use manual review to analyze content to train our algorithms to review content the same way a person would. This improves our automatic processing, which in turn helps us improve our products.

Who reviews this information

Our reviewers work at ALPHA BIZ. We require every reviewer who’s allowed access to your information to meet privacy and security standards.

How we personalize your ALPHA BIZ Feed

Your ALPHA BIZ Feed is unique to you. We order (or “rank”) the content you can see in your Feed, and you can learn more about the different types of signals we use to rank it. We also suggest content that’s relevant to you.

Other device signals we receive

We receive different types of device signals from different operating systems. They include things like nearby Bluetooth or Wi-Fi connections.

Helping to keep your account secure

For example, we use information about the locations you normally log in from, combined with other information, to detect suspicious activity. So if we detect an attempt to log into your account from a new location, we can check that it’s really you.

Providing more personalized features, content and suggestions across our Products

For example we can:

• Automatically fill in registration information, like your phone number, from the ALPHA BIZ website when you sign up for an account on a different Product
• Let others see and search your name and profile photo on the website and communicate with you
• Show all interactions in one place for content you’ve cross-posted to different Products

How is your information shared on the ALPHA BIZ Website or with integrated partners?

Highlights

• You can choose to share information on our Products or with integrated partners
• Remember to share only with people you trust
• If you do, that organization will ask you to receive some information about you, like your email address or birthday

The ALPHA BIZ Website

Learn more about the different cases when your information can be shared on our Products:

People and accounts you share and communicate with

When you share and communicate using our Products, you can sometimes choose the audience for what you share.

When you interact with people or businesses, they can see:

What you share with them

For example, the audience you choose can see when you:

• Share a post you’ve written
• Share a photo or video
• Add information to your profile

What you communicate with them

People you interact with can see what you send to them. So if you send a person or a business a message on ALPHA BIZ, that person or business can read your message.

Public content

What content is public?

Some of your information and activity are always public. This includes your name, ALPHA BIZ, profile picture and activity on public ALPHA BIZ Pages and groups.

Who can see public content?

When content is public, it can be seen by anyone on or across our Products, and in some cases off our Products, even if they don’t have an account.

Where can public content be shared?

We, you and people using our Products can send public content (like your profile photo, or information you share on the ALPHA BIZ Website) to anyone on, across or off our Products. For example, users can share it in a public forum, or it can appear in search results on the internet.

Public content can also be seen, accessed, reshared or downloaded through third-party services, like:

• Search engines. Learn more.
• APIs
• The media, like TV
• Other apps and websites connected to ALPHA BIZ

With integrated partners

You can choose to connect with integrated partners who use our Products. If you do, these integrated partners receive information about you and your activity.

When you use an integrated partner’s product or service

Information they receive automatically

When you use an integrated partner’s products or services, they can access:

• What you post or share from these products or services
• What you use their services to do
• Information from and about the device you’re using
• The language setting you’ve chosen on our Products

Information they receive with your permission

Sometimes these integrated partners ask you for permission to access certain additional information from your ALPHA BIZ account. In their request, they’ll explain what information they’d like to access and let you choose whether to share it.

On ALPHA BIZ, this includes things like your email address, hometown or birthday.

We automatically log when you receive a request from an integrated partner to access your information.

How long they can access your information

Apps or websites you’ve logged into using ALPHA BIZ Login account can access your nonpublic information on the ALPHA BIZ website unless it appears to us that you haven’t used the app or website in 90 days. Note that even if an app’s access to your information has expired, it can still retain information you shared with it previously.

When you interact with someone else’s content on an integrated partner’s product or service

Integrated partners receive information about your activity when you interact with other ALPHA BIZ users while they’re using the integrated partner’s product or service.

How integrated partners handle your information

Integrated partners handle the information you share with them according to their own terms and policies, not ALPHA BIZ’s. You can review their privacy policy on their website or app to learn how they receive and process your information. In some cases, they use a separate service provider to receive and process your information.

Choosing an audience

On ALPHA BIZ, the audience can be made up of:

• The public, including people on and off ALPHA BIZ
• Your friends and other connections,
• A customized list of people
• Yourself
• The members of a single community, such as a group

How do we share information with third parties?

We share certain information with:

• Advertisers who show ads on our Products
• Businesses we hire to market our Products for us
• Businesses we hire to do things like offer customer service or conduct surveys
• Researchers who use it to do things like innovate, advance technology, or improve people’s safety

We don’t sell your information, and we never will.

We don’t sell any of your information to anyone, and we never will. We also require partners and other third parties to follow rules about how they can and cannot use and disclose the information we provide.

Here’s more detail about who we share information with:

Partners

Advertisers and Audience Network publishers

Advertisers

We provide advertisers with reports about the number and kinds of people who see and engage with their ads and commercial content. These reports include information about the general demographics and interests of people who engaged with an advertiser’s ad or commercial content. Then advertisers can better understand their audience. See an example.

ALPHA BIZ also provides advertisers and their vendors with information about:

• Ads and commercial content people engaged with, if any
• When people engaged with ads and commercial content
• Where that ad or commercial content was shown (for example, on ALPHA BIZ)

We also confirm which ads or commercial content you viewed that led you to take an action with an advertiser, such as downloading an advertiser’s app. But we don’t share information with these advertisers and their vendors that by itself can be used to contact or identify you, such as your name or email address, unless you give us permission.

Vendors

Measurement vendors

We don’t create every measurement and analytics report ourselves.

We share information (like whether people saw an ad or engaged with it) with our measurement vendors, who aggregate it to provide their reports.

For example, an advertiser might ask a measurement vendor to help figure out the impact its ads on ALPHA BIZ have had on sales. The measurement vendor compares information from us about clicks on the advertiser’s ALPHA BIZ ads with information from the advertiser about product purchases. Then the measurement vendor creates and provides aggregated reports that show the advertiser how its ads are performing.

Marketing vendors

We share information about you with marketing vendors. For example, we share your device identifier or other identifiers with marketing vendors to help us serve you ads most relevant to your interests.

Marketing vendors support our marketing and advertising efforts by:

• Serving our advertisements across the internet, including on mobile, desktop and connected television devices
• Tracking and categorizing your online and mobile app activity
• Providing us information about your interests and community and advertising interactions

These marketing vendors help us understand who might find our advertising most relevant to their interests, and which of our Products might interest you. This information can be used to personalize which of our ads are shown to you. Marketing vendors also use this information to measure response to our marketing efforts and the effectiveness of our advertising.

Service providers

Service providers provide services to us that help us provide our Products to you. We share the information we have about you to receive these services, which include:

• Investigating suspicious activity
• Detecting and stopping threats to our personnel and property
• Facilitating payments
• Providing customer support
• Improving the functionality of our Products
• Providing technical infrastructure services
• Analyzing how our Products are used
• Conducting research and surveys
• Marketing and promoting our Products

Third parties

External researchers

We provide information to external researchers. They use it to conduct research that advances scholarship and innovation, and to promote safety, security and integrity.

Research goals include supporting:

• Our business or mission
• Social good. Learn more.
• Technological advancement
• Safety and security on our Products
• Public interest
• Health and well-being

When sharing information with external researchers, we ensure the privacy of our users is protected.

Other third parties

We also share information with other third parties in response to legal requests, to comply with applicable law or to prevent harm.

And if we sell or transfer all or part of our business to someone else, in some cases we’ll give the new owner your information as part of that transaction, but only as the law allows.

When you might give us permission

For example, you might request more information from a business by clicking their ad in the ALPHA BIZ website and submitting a form with your name and contact information. Then the advertiser would receive the information you provided.

Transactions you might make

• Buying, selling or using products
• Buying, selling or using services

Commerce services platforms

Commerce services platforms provide a range of commerce services, including:

• Payments
• Marketing
• Customer engagement tools

Measurement vendor

A third party that creates reports to help advertisers understand how their content and ads are performing. These reports also measure whether people took an action after seeing an ad.

Marketing vendor

A third party that helps market or advertise ALPHA BIZ and our Products, measures the effectiveness of our own marketing campaigns and performs advertising research

Manage ALPHA BIZ ads you see off our Products

We advertise our own products and services on non-ALPHA BIZ ad platforms. We use marketing vendors to deliver these ads. Here’s how to opt out of our tailored ads you see off our Products:

• Cookie-based opt out: You may use our contact form to let us know if you want to opt out.
• Mobile phone-based opt out: Check your mobile device settings. Different manufacturers provide different ways to opt out of advertisements.
• Other online identifiers: You may use our contact form to let us know if you want to opt out.

How can you manage or delete your information and exercise your rights?

Highlights

• You have rights to view and download the information we have about you.
• You may use our contact form to let us know if you want to delete your account or specific account information.

Manage ALPHA BIZ ads you see off our Products

We advertise our own products and services on non-ALPHA BIZ ad platforms. We use marketing vendors to deliver these ads. Here’s how to opt out of our tailored ads you see off our Products:

• Cookie-based opt out: You may use our contact form to let us know if you want to opt out.
• Mobile phone-based opt out: Check your mobile device settings. Different manufacturers provide different ways to opt out of advertisements.
• Other online identifiers: You may use our contact form to let us know if you want to opt out.

Port your information

In certain cases and subject to applicable law, you have the right to port your information.

• Request to port your information. You may contact us and let us know if you want to port your information through our contact form.

Delete your information or account

To delete your information, you can:

• Find and delete specific information. You may contact us and let us know what specific information to remove through our contact form.
• Permanently delete your account. You may contact us and let us know if you want to delete your account through our contact form.

How long does it take to delete your information?

If you request that we delete your account or content, it may take up to 90 days to delete your information after we begin the account deletion process or receive a content deletion request. After the information is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery.

How long do we keep your information?

Highlights

• We keep information for as long as we need it to provide a feature or service
• But you can request that we delete your information
• We’ll delete that information unless we have to keep it for something else, like for legal reasons

We keep information as long as we need it to provide our Products, comply with legal obligations or protect our or other’s interests. We decide how long we need information on a case-by-case basis. Here’s what we consider when we decide:

• If we need it to operate or provide our Products. For example, we need to keep some of your information to maintain your account.
• How long we need to retain the information to comply with certain legal obligations.
• If we need it for other legitimate purposes, such as to prevent harm; investigate possible violations of our terms or policies; promote safety, security and integrity; or protect ourselves, including our rights, property or products

If we need it to operate or provide our Products

For example, we keep profile information, photos you’ve posted (and not deleted) and security information for the lifetime of your account.

But even if you don’t clear your search or delete your account, within six months of your search we delete information about that search that isn’t necessary to show you your search history, like information about the device you were using, or your location.

How long we need to retain the information to comply with certain legal obligations

For example, we retain information for as long as we need it for:

• A legal request or obligation, including obligations of ALPHA BIZ Companies or to comply with applicable law
• A governmental investigation
• A legal claim, complaint, litigation or regulatory proceedings

Why we may preserve your information longer

Your information, including financial transaction data related to purchases or money transfers made on our Products, may be preserved and accessed for a longer time period if it’s related to any of the following:

• A legal request or obligation, including obligations  of ALPHA BIZ Companies or to comply with applicable law
• A governmental investigation
• An investigation of possible violations of our terms or policies
• To prevent harm
• For safety, security and integrity purposes
• To protect ourselves, including our rights, property or products
• If it’s needed in relation to a legal claim, complaint, litigation or regulatory proceedings

In some cases, we may preserve your information based on the above reasons even after you request deletion of your account or some of your content. We may also preserve information from accounts that have been disabled and content that has been removed for violations of our terms and policies.

Delete your information or account

To delete your information, you can:

• Find and delete specific information. You may contact us and let us know what specific information to delete through our contact form.
• Permanently delete your account. You may contact us and let us know if you would want to permanently delete your account through our contact form.

How long does it take to delete your information?

If you request that we delete your account or content, it may take up to 90 days to delete your information after we begin the account deletion process or receive a content deletion request. After the information is deleted, it may take us up to another 90 days to remove it from backups and disaster recovery.

Examples of why we might preserve your information

To respond to a legal request

For example, we might preserve your information after you delete your account when we receive a valid legal request, such as a preservation order or search warrant, related to your account.

To comply with applicable law

For example, we preserve certain information about purchases or transactions associated with an account, in line with ALPHA BIZ’s accounting obligations.

For safety, security and integrity purposes

For example, if we disable an account for violating our terms or policies, we preserve information about that user to prevent them from opening a new account.

We also might preserve some of your account information as part of our review of suspicious activity. This includes any suspicious activity associated with our financial products, like suspected money laundering or terrorist funding.

For litigation

We may preserve your information where we deem it necessary for reasons related to a legal claim or complaint. For example, we may be required to defend ourselves in legal proceedings in a claim related to your information.

How do we transfer information?

Highlights

• Because we connect people all around the world, we need to transfer information all around the world, too
• When we do this, we follow international regulations to keep your information safe

Why is information transferred to other countries?

We share the information we collect globally, both internally across our offices and externally with our partners, measurement vendors, service providers and other third parties. Because ALPHA BIZ is global, with users, partners and employees around the world, transfers are necessary for a variety of reasons, including:

• So we can operate and provide the services stated in the terms of the ALPHA BIZ Product you’re using and this Policy.
• So we can fix, analyze and improve our Products.

Where is information transferred?

Your information will be transferred or transmitted to, or stored and processed in:

• Countries where the ALPHA BIZ Websites are available
• Other countries where our partners, vendors, service providers and other third parties are located outside of the country where you live, for purposes as described in this Policy

How do we safeguard your information?

We rely on appropriate mechanisms for international data transfers.

We also make sure that appropriate safeguards are in place whenever we transfer your information. For example, we encrypt your information when it’s in transit over public networks to protect it from unauthorized access.

Mechanisms we use for global data transfers

We rely on appropriate mechanisms for international data transfers. For example, for information we collect:

• We utilize standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and by other relevant authorities.
• We rely on determinations from the European Commission, and from other relevant authorities, about whether other countries have adequate levels of data protection.
• We use equivalent mechanisms under applicable laws that apply to data transfers to the United States and other relevant countries.

How do we respond to legal requests, comply with applicable law and prevent harm?

Highlights

• Sometimes we have to provide information to respond to legal requests when necessary
• If there’s a law that says we need to keep your information for some reason, we need to comply with it. So we’ll keep information to obey that law.
• We also sometimes keep information that we think will help prevent or stop bad activity, either on our Products or in the world

We access, preserve, use and share your information:

• In response to legal requests, like search warrants, court orders, production orders or subpoenas. These requests come from third parties such as civil litigants, law enforcement and other government authorities.
• In accordance with applicable law
• To promote the safety, security and integrity of ALPHA BIZ Products, users, employees, property and the public.

We may access or preserve your information for an extended amount of time.

How we promote safety, security and integrity

We share your information with law enforcement, government authorities, ALPHA BIZ Companies and other third parties (including industry peers) when we have a good faith belief it’s necessary to detect, prevent and address a variety of situations, such as:

• Unauthorized use of our Products.
• Violations of our terms and policies.
• Investigating suspicious activity
• Protecting ourselves, including our rights, property, personnel or Products
• Preventing abuse, fraud, or other harmful or illegal activity, on and off our Products
• Protecting you or others, including as part of investigations or regulatory inquiries
• Emergency situations, such as risk of death or imminent bodily harm

Unauthorized use of our Products

For example, if you unlawfully collect and use ALPHA BIZ user data, we may share your information to defend ourselves against claims or in litigation.

Violations of our terms and policies

For example, if you post threatening or harmful content, we may share your information to protect ourselves and others. This can include blocking your access to certain features or disabling your ALPHA BIZ account.

Examples of why we might preserve your information

To respond to a legal request

For example, we might preserve your information after you delete your account when we receive a valid legal request, such as a preservation order or search warrant, related to your account.

To comply with applicable law

For example, we preserve certain information about purchases or transactions associated with an account, in line with ALPHA BIZ’s accounting obligations.

For safety, security and integrity purposes

For example, if we disable an account for violating our terms or policies, we preserve information about that user to prevent them from opening a new account.

We also might preserve some of your account information as part of our review of suspicious activity. This includes any suspicious activity associated with our financial products, like suspected money laundering or terrorist funding.

For litigation

We may preserve your information where we deem it necessary for reasons related to a legal claim or complaint. For example, we may be required to defend ourselves in legal proceedings in a claim related to your information.

How to contact ALPHA BIZ with questions

You can learn more about how privacy works on ALPHA BIZ and in the ALPHA BIZ Help Center. If you have questions about this Policy or have questions, complaints or requests regarding your information, you can contact us as described below.

You can contact us online or by mail at:

ALPHA BIZ, Inc.

ATTN: Privacy Operations

888 Rosario Drive

Thousand Oaks, CA 91362

Why and how we process your information

The categories of information we use, and why and how information is processed, are set out below: