Privacy Policy

Your Online Privacy Rights

Effective Date: January 10, 2011

Value Growth Institute (VGI) and its subsidiaries (together, chialichien.com, Chien Associates LLC, showmethemoneybook.com, “Show Me The Money”, “VGI,” “us,” “our” or “we”) created this Online Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) to give you confidence as your visit and use the VGI Web site, located at VGI (the “Web site”) and to demonstrate our commitment to the protection of your privacy. This Privacy Policy is only applicable to the Web site, and not to any other Web sites that you may be able to access from the Web site, each of which may have data collection and use practices and policies that differ materially from this Privacy Policy. By using the Web site, you are agreeing to the terms of the Privacy Policy.

Section 1.0 Notification of Privacy Policy Changes

We reserve the right to change the Privacy Policy at any time. If we decide to revise the Privacy Policy, we will post a notice at least thirty days prior to making any material changes. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page. Your continued use of the Web site, including use after the posting of any changes to these terms, will be deemed acceptance by you of the Privacy Policy.

Section 2.0 Notice Concerning Children

PLEASE NOTE: We are a general audience site, and do not direct any of our content specifically at children under 13 years of age. We understand and are committed to respecting the sensitive nature of children’s privacy online. If we learn or have reason to suspect that a VGI Web site visitor is under age 13, we will promptly delete any personal information regarding that visitor.

Section 3.0 Information Collection Practices

(a) What Basic Information Does VGI Collect?
You can visit the Web site to read information about our company, products, and services without telling us who you are and without revealing any personal information. In operating the Web site, VGI includes optional information request forms such as a “Download a Sample File”, “Watch 1GAP Demo” or “Preview Show Me the Money 3 chapter” form that request your name, company name, phone number and email address. We use this information to send business growth tips and promote our products or services. This information is provided by you on a voluntary basis only and is not required by us in order for you to use and enjoy the Web site. VGI uses the information that we collect on the Web site to contact you to further discuss your interest in our products and services, and to send information regarding our company, such as marketing promotions or Journal of Value Growth. This information may also be used to improve the services we provide you. We use this information to improve the way that we provide our services to our clients, to relay administrative information, and to verify login information. When you make a purchase, we gather credit card and contact information necessary to complete the credit card transaction. The information is collected and stored in a manner that is appropriate for the nature of the data that we collect, and the need to fulfill your request.

(b) Automatic Collection

Our servers automatically recognize visitors’ IP addresses (the number assigned to computers on the Internet), domain names, and the activity of the visitor’s browser when the visitor is viewing the Web site; the site path of visitors; the time visitors come to the Web site and length of visit. No personal information about you is revealed in the process. The Web site may also gather anonymous traffic data that does not personally identify you, but that may be helpful for marketing purposes or for improving the services we offer and VGI reserves the right to publish such anonymous, aggregate summary information regarding its visitors for promotional purposes.

VGI uses “cookies” and “web beacons” to collect data. A cookie is a small text file containing a random and unique identifier that either VGI or its third party web analytics provider uses on behalf of VGI transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (unless you set your browser to reject cookies) that enables VGI or its third party web analytics provider’s system to recognize your browser. VGI uses cookies to track your movement through the Web site and verify your login status. Cookies are also used to track point of entry to point of registration for those users participating in our affiliate signup programs or to track and measure the success of a particular marketing campaign. Neither VGI nor its third party web analytics provider stores any personally identifiable information in cookies. Web beacons (also known as clear gifs) are typically a transparent graphic image (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that is placed on a site are used by VGI and its third party web analytics provider in combination with cookies to help us understand how you interact with the VGI Web site. We use web beacons to measure visitor behavior, to help us improve visitor experience, and to manage site content.

You may opt out of receiving future mailings; see the Updating and Choice/Opt-Out section below. When you receive an updated profile form, that information comes from our database.

Section 4.0 Security and Privacy

VGI’s Web site uses security measures to help protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information under our control. We store the information in a database in a secure environment at our data hosting service provider, Rochen.com, application service providers infusionsoft.com and lotuslive.com.

Section 5.0 VGI takes care to reinforce the importance of our web site visitors’ security and privacy among our employees.

In order to accommodate changes in our business, we may sell or buy portions of our company or other companies or assets. In such transactions, visitor information may be one of the transferred assets. In the event that all or substantially all of VGI’s assets are acquired in a transaction, our visitor information may be an asset that is reviewed and transferred. Such a transaction will be disclosed per the “Notification of Privacy Policy Changes” guidelines above. Also, we reserve the right to disclose any data we collect at our Web site if required by law or valid order of a court or other governmental authority or to protect the health and safety of VGI’s employees or the general public.

VGI is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of any other web sites to which we link. We encourage our visitors to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that they visit.

Section 6.0 Updating and Choice/Opt-Out

Visitors who request information on our web site have the following options for reviewing, modifying and deleting any personally identifiable information that has previously been provided to ABC Photo School, as well as updating their profiles and unsubscribing (opting out) to avoid receiving future communications from us:

Sending an email message to privacy@valuegrowthinstitute.com. We’ll reply within 30 days of receiving your request confirming any corrections or updates requested.

If you are subscribed to receive newsletter or commercial emails from us, you may send us a request to unsubscribe from receiving such emails at any time by following the unsubscribe instructions within the email. We will comply with your unsubscribe request within 10 business days after receipt of such request (or shorter time period, if required by law).

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about this privacy statement or this web site, please contact us directly:

Value Growth Institute
privacy@valuegrowthinstitute.com
valuegrowthinstitute.com
13016 Eastfield Road, Suite 2876
Huntersville, NC 28078
704-268-9378