Frequently Answered Questions
We've compiled the most frequently questions so that it could help you get the most of the MyBusiness platform.
1. How to Start using MyBusiness?
MyBusiness is a user-centric and easy-to-uses platform to help you build your Business. To take the most of the platform we advise you to follow the Start Menu, where we showcase the status of your account, namely its performance indicators, as well as the Activities and the Actions we suggest to be taken on the platform.
The main actions we suggest to be taken after registration are the following:
- Verify your account
Confirm your email address by clicking on the email we've sent you. This step is mandatory, and non confirmation of your account will result on its deactivation. - Complete your professional profile
Without including information about who you are and what you do and what you seek, your account will be limmited (eg. no networking capabilities, no access to certain evants, etc)
2. How MyBusiness can help me?
MyBusiness is a digital platform that can help you achieve certain goals in youir entrepreneurship or trainning path.
My Business can help you:
- Acquire new skills and competences
We provide a wide range of concise guides and super-guides that help in areas such as product development, business setup, marketing, scaling and expansion among others. - Keep you informed on trends, technologies and sectors
By providing access to articles, news, case studies and information shared by influencers.
1. Acceptance of Terms
1.1. This "website" (Website) www.mybusiness.com, hereinafter referred to as MYBUSINESS, owned by Media Invest Lda, a company based in Lisbon, registered in Portugal with Tax Number PT514274093, is available, provided they are the "Terms of Use" presented below are complied with by the user. By accessing this "website", the user is informed and aware that the use of this "website" implies acceptance of the following "Terms of Use" and that he may not use the same in a manner contrary to these "Terms of Use" or for any purpose that is illegal.
1.2. MYBUSINESS will periodically update the content of the website and the "Terms of Use", as well as the Privacy Policies governing its use, at any time, without notification of past, present and occasional users. To access the most up-to-date version of the "Terms of Use", simply click on the "Terms of Use" hypertext link located at the bottom of MYBUSINESS. If you do not accept these Terms of Use, please do not use the "website" MYBUSINESS.
1.3. The User may not use the MYBUSINESS Services or accept the "Terms of Use" if:
- I. You are not of legal age to enter into an agreement with legal effect with Media Invest Lda;
- II. You are a person with restrictions on receiving Services imposed by the laws where you are resident or from which you use the Services.
1.4. Before proceeding, the user must print or save a copy of the "Terms of Use".
2. Provision of Services by MYBUSINESS
2.1. MYBUSINESS may, at any time, temporarily or permanently withdraw the MYBUSINESS "website", due to technical problems or failures or by decision thereof, without the need to communicate to the user, accepting that he is not entitled to any type of compensation for these facts.
2.2. You acknowledge and accept that if MYBUSINESS deactivates your account, you may be prevented from accessing the services or data generated by it. The user may request the transfer of personal or business data that were entered by him up to 6 months after the deactivation date of the account, and to do so, communicate by letter to the address indicated below.
2.3. MYBUSINESS develops its activity in the IT area, managing, creating and maintaining content and commercial spaces on the Internet in areas related to Internet marketing and advertising, owning and administering a portal, directory and newsletter, dedicated to the dissemination of information, promotion of products, services and business opportunities relating to the entire range of products directly related to advertising and marketing of companies and services, with the web domain www.mybusiness.com. MYBUSINESS has the legitimacy to analyze and decide the presence of a certain advertiser on MYBUSINESS.
3. Use of the Services by the User
3.1. MYBUSINESS services are available to the user under the "MYBUSINESS Beta Program", which is an experimental free to use cloud service.
3.2. The user undertakes not to practice or develop any offensive, harmful or intrusive conduct or practice likely to jeopardize the protected rights or interests of MYBUSINESS, being held responsible, bearing all costs associated with unlawful actions attributed to him. Among others, they are considered as unlawful actions:
- I. If the user manages to access the Business Zone, without our consent and in an unauthorized manner;
- If the user tries to test and assess the vulnerability of the system, jeopardizing the installed security;
- III. If the user installs or tries to install a virus on the portal;
- IV. Sending unsolicited emails that include promotions or advertising for products or services;
- V. If the user uses any of the services provided by MYBUSINESS for a purpose other than that proposed by the website.
3.3. In case of dispute, regarding the express "Terms of Use", Portuguese law shall apply, and the Judicial Court of the District of Lisbon is exclusively competent for its assessment.
3.4. The MYBUSINESS Beta Program (MBP) is a digital service available free-to-use for entrepreneurs and busineses. The program has 2 objectives:
- I. Provide users digital tools and digital resources to enable them to become more Digital;
- II. Provide the MYBUSINESS development and management teams with necessary experience to develop an innovative service cloud for the digitalization of businesses.
3.5. The MYBUSINESS Beta Program and MYBUSINESS website is currently under development phase and therefore is not being offred as a commercial product. During the development period we will offer the service to users at their own risk.
3.6. The MYBUSINESS Beta Program gives no guarantee of level of service or support to the users, besides standard RGPD legal obligations of a normal web site.
3.7. The MYBUSINESS platform will comply to the best of its abilities to a secure communication and data security policy. For that media Invest will:
- never store you password or other sensitive data on any server;
- ensure that the best practices for data comunication and data privacy are followed, in order to guarantee users the best security;
- never share your public or private data with other organizations. On the other hand, by registing to MYBUSINESS Beta Program via an affiliated network, the data will also be available to that network accordingly to teir data policy.
- will respect data ownership of the user and will eliminate that data if requested to.
4. Account Security and User Passwords
4.1. You agree and understand that you will be responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of passwords associated with any account you use to access the Services.
4.2. Therefore, you agree that you will be solely responsible to MYBUSINESS for all activities that occur under your account.
4.3. If you become aware of any unauthorized use of your password or account, you agree to notify MYBUSINESS immediately using the form of contact.
5. Content on the Services
5.1. The user understands that full responsibility for all information (such as: data files, written text, computer software, music, audio files or other sounds, photographs, videos or other images) to which he may have access, as part of the Services or through the use of the Services, is of the person who originated the content. All this information is called “Content”.
5.2. You should be aware that Content presented to you as part of the Services, including, without limitation, advertisements on the Services and Sponsored Content on the Services, may be protected by intellectual property rights that are owned by the sponsors or advertisers who provide such Content to MYBUSINESS (or by other persons or companies on your behalf). You may not copy, reproduce, alter, modify or create derivative works based on this Content (in whole or in part), unless you have been specifically authorized to do so, through a separate contract with MYBUSINESS. com or by the owners of such Content.
5.3. MYBUSINESS may, at any time, terminate the contract with the user, without prejudice to the law, if:
- I. You have violated any provision of the Terms (or have acted in a way that clearly shows that you do not intend or cannot comply with the terms of the Terms);
- II. The partner with whom MYBUSINESS offered the Services to the user has terminated its relationship with MYBUSINESS or has ceased to offer the Services to the user;
- III. MYBUSINESS is transitioning to a situation where it no longer provides the Services to users in the country in which you are resident or from which you use the Services;
- IV. The provision of the Services to the MYBUSINESS user is no longer, in the opinion of Media Invest, commercially viable.
5.4. Newsletter subscription can be managed through the newsletter channel. In this same channel, you will find instructions on how to unsubscribe.
5.5. It is also possible to unsubscribe from the newsletter by sending a message via the contact form.
6. Means of Contact
6.1. All information related to MYBUSINESS's data processing or privacy policy must be requested through the contact form or in writing, addressed to the Data Protection Officer of MYBUSINESS, to the following address: Rua Abel Manta, 6, 6ºC, 2675-614 Odivelas, Portugal.
6.2. Any communications of a legal nature must be communicated exclusively by letter to the address mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Privacy Policy
1. Who we are
This "web site" (www.mybusiness.com), hereinafter referred to as MYBUSINESS, is owned by Media Invest Lda, a company based in Lisbon, registered in Portugal with Tax Number PT514274093.
Media Invest manages the website and all its contents, unless expressly stated otherwise.
2. Personal Data
Personal data means any information that can be used to identify a person, and which includes, without limitation, the name, email address, mailing address, any other address or other information necessary to provide a service or to perform a requested transaction. Personal data is also considered to be information collected electronically that allows, directly or indirectly, to identify a name, an identification number or location data, among other electronic identification processes. Personal data is also considered to be information referring to one or more specific elements of the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that individual.
In the case of MYBUSINESS we only collect two types of data: those that are collected electronically and those that are requested to provide a service or transaction.
3. What personal data is collected
On MYBUSINESS personal data can be collected through the following means:
- Internet;
- E-mail;
- Website;
- Phone calls;
- Questionnaires;
- Individual processes of contributors;
- Processes of service providers.
The requested data is related to the name, telephone number, email address, mailing address, any other address or information intended to support the pursuit of the following purposes:
- Compliance with legal or regulatory obligations aimed at the correct identification of the authors of published articles;
- Response to contact requests;
- Collaboration and partnership processes;
- Update of partner data;
- Sending invitations and publicizing activities;
- Sending newsletters;
- Promotion activities within MyBusiness networks;
- Service Delivery Notifications;
- Personal or financial process data arising from contractual relationship.
The data collected by electronic processes are intended to optimize your browsing experience on the site, as detailed below.
4. Data collected by electronic processes
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the MyBusiness site, the data in the comments form, as well as the IP address and browser user agent, are saved to help with spam detection.
An anonymous string created from your email address (also called a hash) can be sent to the Gravatar service to verify that you are using it. The Gravatar service's privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Once your comment is approved, your profile photo is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Multimedia
Images submitted for publication on the website may contain embedded geolocation data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract geolocation data from the site's images.
Contact Forms
When the contact form is used, we ask for the Name and Email, to respond to the user. You may also be asked for a Telephone Number to speed up this response. Your indication is optional.
The data collected is processed and stored in strict compliance with the legislation on the protection of personal data, and this information will only be kept for the period necessary to support the user and will not be used for marketing purposes.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our website, you can choose to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is for your convenience so you don't have to re-enter your details when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and log in to this site, a temporary cookie will be set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain personal data and will be deleted when you close your browser.
When you log in, some cookies will be set to store your session information and your screen view choices. Login cookies last for one year. If you select “Remember me”, your session will persist for two weeks. When you log out, your login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or post an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie does not include personal data, it only indicates the content ID of the article you have just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other sites
MYBUSINESS articles may include embedded content (eg, videos, images, articles, etc.). Please note that the embedded contents of other websites behave as if the user were visiting those websites.
Through embedded content on MyBusiness, another site may collect data about you, use cookies, incorporate third-party tracking, monitor your interactions with it, including logging interactions with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in. started on that site.
Analytical Data
MYBUSINESS does not collect any analytical data. However, many web hosting accounts do collect some anonymous analytics.
5. Who is your data shared with
The data collected and maintained by MyBusiness will not be provided or shared with other entities, except for compliance with legal obligations (Judicial or administrative authorities).
6. How long are your data retained
If you leave a comment, the comment as well as its metadata are saved indefinitely. This is so that you can automatically recognize and approve any comments that follow, rather than putting them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on our site, we store the personal information you provide in your user profile. All registered users can view, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (with the exception of not being able to change their username). Site administrators can also view and edit this information.
The data collected through the form is deleted every six months. However, the data referring to the sending of newsletters or the dissemination of activities and partnerships will be kept until its deletion is requested.
7. What rights do you have to your data
If you have a MyBusiness account, or have left comments, you can request to receive an export file with the personal data stored about you, including any personal data you have provided. You can also request that the saved data be deleted. This does not include any personal data that you are required to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.
Under the terms of the RGPD (Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the European Council) we also grant you the right to object to the use of the data provided for communication and dissemination purposes. You may object to the processing of your personal data, exercising this intention through the contact form or in a written address to the Data Protection Supervisor at MYBUSINESS, to the following address: Rua Abel Manta, Nº6, 6ºC, 2675-614 Odivelas, Portugal.
8. Where your data is sent
MYBUSINESS's web hosting is within the European Union, thus safeguarding the data protection standards in force in Europe. Visitors' comments can be checked through an automatic spam detection service.
9. How your data is protected
The data provided to MYBUSINESS are treated in accordance with the RGPD, being treated lawfully, loyally and transparently. They are collected for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes and will not be further processed in a way that is incompatible with those purposes. The information requested is adequate, pertinent and limited to the purposes for which it is treated.
Kept in such a way as to allow the identification of their holders only for the period strictly necessary for the pursuance of the purposes that justified their collection and/or their treatment, they will then be erased in a way that guarantees their safety, including protection against its unauthorized treatment.
10. Privacy Policy Changes
This Privacy Policy may be changed periodically, without the need for the prior and express consent of the data subject. Any significant changes will be communicated with the degree of publicity corresponding to its relevance, through an online publication.
11. Contact Information
All information related to MYBUSINESS's data processing or privacy policy must be requested through the form contact or in writing, addressed to the Data Protection Officer of MyBusiness, to the following address: Rua Abel Manta, 6, 6ºC, 2675-614 Odivelas, Portugal.
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