Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

We at DG COUNSELING (DG COUNSELING INC.; DG COUNSELING INC.+, and our affiliates listed below) are committed to protecting your privacy.
This Privacy Statement (“Privacy Statement”) explains how DG Counseling Inc., INC, (“DG COUNSELING INC.”) uses personal information (“Personal Information”) and applies to all users (“users”) who access, view, visit, download, or otherwise interact with http://www.dgcounselinginc.com (the “Site”). By visiting the Site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement. If you do not agree to the DG COUNSELING INC. practices, do not access, view, visit, download, or otherwise interact with the Site. If you have any questions or comments concerning DG COUNSELING’s Privacy Statement, please contact us by sending an email to contact (at) Dgcounselinginc.com.

Our Privacy Statement is organized as follows:

1) Personal Information DG COUNSELING INC. gathers

“Personal Information” is information that can be used to identify, locate, or contact an individual. DG COUNSELING INC. collects the following types of Personal Information:
Contact Information. Contact Information allows DG COUNSELING INC. to communicate with you. Examples of Contact Information include, but are not limited to, your name, accurate postal addresses, valid email address, or other addresses at which you receive communications from or on behalf of DG COUNSELING INC..DG COUNSELING INC. may also request demographic contact information including, but not limited to, your job title, job function, and corporate title.
Transaction Information. DG COUNSELING INC. automatically receives and records some information from your browser when you visit the site, such as your IP address, cookies and data about which pages you visit on the site through the use of log files provided by our third-party tracking-utility partners. This information helps DG COUNSELING INC. analyze and understand how the site works for users. Information that is gathered includes, but is not limited to, information about how you interact with DG COUNSELING INC., information about how you use DG COUNSELING INC.’s Sites, email, other communications, and applications, and how you interact with other users and DG COUNSELING INC. business partners.
Mobile Location Information. If you have permitted your mobile or other location-aware device to transmit location data, DG COUNSELING INC. collects Mobile Location.
Posted Information. If you chose to post a comment on DG COUNSELING INC.’s blog, DG COUNSELING INC. may collect information regarding your name and the content of your post. It is important to note that any content you post on the blog is publicly displayed and will be seen by other users of the Site.

2) How DG COUNSELING INC. Collects Personal Information

DG COUNSELING INC. gathers Personal Information in the following ways:
If and when you are prompted and to provide Personal Information (including Contact Information) when you use DG COUNSELING INC. or otherwise interact with the Site or contact DG COUNSELING INC..
When you use the Site. For example, DG COUNSELING INC. may track the pages you view, the methods of communication that may be offered on or through the Site from time to time. DG COUNSELING INC. uses cookies and related technologies to collect information about your computer and your interaction with the Site and our partner websites.
If and when you contact DG COUNSELING INC. via telephone, email, or other methods of communication.

Lawful basis for DG COUNSELING INC.’s processing of your Personal Information:

As applicable, the following is the lawful basis DG COUNSELING INC. relies on to process your Personal Information:

Legitimate Interest means the interest of DG Counseling Inc. in conducting and managing its business to enable it to give you best service/product and the most optimized and secure interaction. DG COUNSELING INC. makes sure to weigh any potential DG Counseling Inc. on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before DG COUNSELING INC. processes your Personal Information for its legitimate interest. Unless DG COUNSELING INC. has your consent or is otherwise required or permitted to by law, it will not use your Personal Information for activities where the DG Counseling Inc. on your overrides DG COUNSELING INC.’s interests.

3) How DG COUNSELING INC. Uses Personal Information

DG COUNSELING INC. may use Personal Information to enhance to enhance your user experience, to help DG COUNSELING INC. better understand you, to help DG COUNSELING INC. customize offers, blog topics, or posts that may be of interest to you, and to help DG COUNSELING INC. otherwise enhance the Site.

DG COUNSELING INC. uses Personal Information to:

  • Identify and authenticate users;
  • Facilitate transactions;
  • Operate and improve the Site;
  • Connect with you on social media (such as Facebook, LinkedIn, or Twitter);
  • Contact you by phone or email;
  • Personalize and continually improve users’ DG COUNSELING INC. experience;
  • Provide you with suggested information based on variables such as stated preferences, interests, business activities, and/or location;
  • Send you technical notices, updates, alerts and support and administrative messages service bulletins, or marketing;
  • Evaluate additional services, items, or offerings that may be of interest to users;
  • Track transactions and perform other analytics;
  • Communicate and provide additional information that may be of interest to you about DG COUNSELING INC. partners or third parties; and
  • Manage DG COUNSELING INC. everyday business needs such as Site administration, communication management, analytics, fraud prevention, enforcement of our corporate reporting obligations, Terms of Use or to comply with the law.

4) When and Why DG COUNSELING INC. Discloses Personal Information

DG COUNSELING INC. will not disclose your Personal Information to third parties without your explicit consent, except as specified in this Privacy statement. DG COUNSELING INC. will disclose your Personal Information when:

  • Working with companies and service providers (i.e. HubSpot, Salesforce.com, or other companies that process billing, website hosting, or analytics performance in furtherance of the purposes described in Section 3 (“How DG COUNSELING INC. Uses Personal Information”) above.
  • DG COUNSELING INC. employs other companies to perform tasks on DG COUNSELING INC.’s behalf and therefore DG COUNSELING INC. must share your Personal Information with these companies to provide services to you. Examples include but are not limited to processing payments, handling billing disputes and collections, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance and providing customer service. DG COUNSELING INC. may partner with third-party services for fraud prevention and/or identity verification.
  • Enforcing DG COUNSELING INC.’s rights or protect DG COUNSELING INC. property and intellectual property;
  • Protecting the rights, property or safety of others, investigate fraud, respond to a government request.
  • DG COUNSELING INC. believes in good faith that it must disclose such information to prevent imminent physical harm or financial loss.
  • DG COUNSELING INC. believes in good faith that it must disclose such information to commence an investigation or take action regarding illegal activities or suspected fraud.
  • DG COUNSELING INC. believes in good faith that it must disclose such information per auditing, compliance, and corporate governance functions.
  • DG COUNSELING INC. believes in good faith that it must disclose such information to defend DG COUNSELING INC. in litigation or a regulatory action.
  • DG COUNSELING INC. believes in good faith that it must disclose such information, or advised to do so by law, such as in response to a subpoena, or similar legal process, including to law enforcement agencies, regulators, and courts in the United States and other countries where we operate.
DG COUNSELING INC. will not sell your Personal Information to third parties unless DG COUNSELING INC. is in the process of entering into a merger with another business, acquisition of another business, or the sale of all or a portion of DG COUNSELING INC.’s assets and the information is needed to support the sale or transfer of business assets.
This Privacy Statement only governs when and why DG COUNSELING INC. discloses Personal Information. This Privacy Statement does not apply to the practices of third parties that DG COUNSELING INC. does not own or control, or individuals that DG COUNSELING INC. does not employ or manage. The use of your Personal Information by third parties that you access through the Site is governed by the privacy policies of such parties and is not subject to DG COUNSELING INC.’s control. DG COUNSELING INC. is not responsible for the privacy or security practices of other websites on the Internet, even those linked to or from the DG COUNSELING INC. Site. DG COUNSELING INC. encourages you to ask questions before you disclose your personal information to others.
DG COUNSELING INC. may disclose information about you that is not personally identifiable. For example, DG COUNSELING INC. may provide our partners, or other third parties with reports that contain aggregated and statistical data about DG COUNSELING INC. users.

5) Personal Information Retention

To determine the appropriate retention period, DG COUNSELING INC. considers the type and volume of the information, the negatives that can result from un-permitted access to such information, why DG COUNSELING INC. gathers such information and the availability of achieving the goals of such gathering through alternative means.

6) Tracking Technologies - Indirect Data Collection

DG COUNSELING INC. implements cookies to store user information and track user activities. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information. Cookies enable DG COUNSELING INC. to monitor your activity across sessions of interaction between your device and the Site. Please see #7, Choice and Control, for information on how to refuse cookies.

7) Choice and Control

While DG COUNSELING INC. does need to gather certain information to make your DG COUNSELING INC. experience personalized and to conduct transactions for you, DG COUNSELING INC. wants to give you the ability to control how your information is provided and shared.
  • Email Preferences. For various reasons, DG COUNSELING INC. may contact you about our services or your activity.
  • Cookies and Tracking Devices. Upon visiting DG COUNSELING INC.’s site for the first time (or after a clearing a browser’s cache) you will be shown a notification. You may click “accept” to clear the notification. However, we will, by default, use cookies when you visit our site.

    The notification states: “This website uses cookies to remember you and improve your experience. To find out more see our Privacy Policy.”

    If you would like to decline cooking tracking, you can manage how your browser handles cookies and other tracking devices by adjusting the privacy and security settings on your browser. If accessing DG COUNSELING INC. by a mobile device, you may manage the information your mobile device shares, such as cookies, tracking technologies, and location information, by adjusting your mobile device privacy and security settings.

8) Security of Personal Information

DG COUNSELING INC. strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, however, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure and therefore DG COUNSELING INC. cannot guarantee absolute security of your personal information. DG COUNSELING INC. strives to maintain a system that reasonably safeguards Personal Information and has put in place appropriate security measures to accomplish the foregoing.

9) EU Data Subject Rights

In certain circumstances, you have the following rights under data protection laws in relation to your Personal Information:
  • Request access to your Personal Information (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the Personal Information DG COUNSELING INC. holds about you and to check that DG COUNSELING INC. is lawfully processing it.
  • Request correction of the Personal Information. This enables DG COUNSELING INC. to have any incomplete or inaccurate data held about you corrected, though DG COUNSELING INC. may need to verify the accuracy of the new data provided.
  • Request erasure of Personal Information. This enables you to ask DG COUNSELING INC. to delete or remove Personal Information where there is no good reason for DG COUNSELING INC. continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask DG COUNSELING INC. to delete or remove your Personal Information where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where DG COUNSELING INC. may have processed your information unlawfully or where DG COUNSELING INC. is required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that DG COUNSELING INC. may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
  • Object to gathering of your Personal Information where DG COUNSELING INC. is relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to gathering on this ground as you feel it DG Counseling Inc.s on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where DG COUNSELING INC. is gathering your Personal Information for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, DG COUNSELING INC. may demonstrate that it has compelling legitimate grounds to gather your information which override your rights and freedoms.
  • Request restriction of gathering of your Personal Information. This enables you to ask DG COUNSELING INC. to suspend the gathering of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want DG COUNSELING INC. to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where DG COUNSELING INC.’s use of the data is unlawful but you do not want DG COUNSELING INC. to erase it; (c) where you need DG COUNSELING INC. to hold the data even if DG COUNSELING INC. no longer requires it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to DG COUNSELING INC.’s use of your data but DG COUNSELING INC. needs to verify whether it has overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
  • Request the transfer of your Personal Information to you or to a third party. DG COUNSELING INC. will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for DG COUNSELING INC. to use or where DG COUNSELING INC. used the information to perform a contract with you.
  • Withdraw consent at any time where DG COUNSELING INC. is relying on consent to gather your Personal Information. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any gathering carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, DG COUNSELING INC. may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. DG COUNSELING INC. will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

10) Withdrawing Consent

If DG COUNSELING INC. is relying on your consent for certain activities, you have the right to withdraw you sent at any time by contacting DG COUNSELING INC. at info@dgcounselinginc.com

11) Privacy Practices of Third Parties.

This Privacy Statement describes the collection, use, and disclosure of information by DG COUNSELING INC. through the Site. DG COUNSELING INC. utilizes third parties to provide services to users and also provides links from the Site to other websites. These third parties may have their own privacy policies and may collect, use, and distribute information differently than DG COUNSELING INC..DG COUNSELING INC. encourages all users to read the privacy policies of all third parties.

12) DG COUNSELING INC. Blog

DG COUNSELING INC. contains a blog and other areas where users may publicly post information, communicate with other users, and submit content they deem relevant for discussion. DG COUNSELING INC. strongly encourages you to read the DG COUNSELING INC. Terms of Use carefully prior to posting or engaging in the blog. All the information you post will be accessible to anyone, at any time, with Internet access. Furthermore, DG COUNSELING INC. strongly advises you to NOT post any personal or identifiable information about yourself or contact information, including address, email, phone numbers, or other means of communicating outside of the blog. Any information you post may be read, collected, and used by others.

13) Changes to this Privacy Statement

DG COUNSELING INC. may, from time to time, in DG COUNSELING INC.’s sole, absolute, and unfettered discretion, update this Privacy Statement to clarify its practices or to reflect new or different privacy practices. DG COUNSELING INC. encourages all users to periodically review the Privacy Statement. You are bound by any changes to the Privacy Statement when you use the Site after such changes have been first posted.

14) Contact DG COUNSELING INC.

If you have questions or suggestions, you may contact DG COUNSELING INC. by sending an email to info (at) Dgcounselinginc.com.

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