Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy was last updated on September 17, 2018, governing the privacy terms of this website and its social networking accounts.

Definitions, Extent, and Purpose of this Privacy Policy

iCanBreakThrough follows the legal requirements to protect your privacy. This is a legal statement explaining how we may collect information from you, how your information may be shared, and how you can restrict our sharing of your information.

“Non-PPI (Personally Identifiable Information) data” are anonymous data that does not directly identify to you. We collect this information when you access the iCanBreakThrough website or its social media networks using through a browser or a mobile app. This may also consist of publicly available information shared between you and others.

“PII (Personally Identifiable Information)” are that can personally identify you, which we obtain, such as your name, email address, and other information that you give us or that we collect about you.

As you submit your PII to our websites or social networks, you expressly permit its collection, use and disclosure in accordance with this Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

This Privacy Policy does not administer to information collected about you by anyone except iCanBreakThrough or its social networks.

How Your Information is Collected

iCanBreakThrough or its social networks generally obtains PII that you provide voluntarily in the following instances but not limited to:

a. Create an account in iCanBreakThrough website
b. Join a promo or contest
c. Complete a survey
d. Engage in any of our community forums
e. Subscribe to our emails
f. Subscribe to our SMS
g. Subscribe to receive newsletters
h. Subscribe to promotional correspondence
i. Subscribe to any electronic services
j. Send us a private message in social networks,
k. Send us an email or feedback

Information such as your email address, name, contact number, and address may be collected by iCanBreakThrough as well as any other details that you provide us in engaging in any of the above actions. Very personal information such as your life stories or struggles may also be obtained.

If you choose to post your comments, stories, or any materials to iCanBreakThrough website or social media networks, forums, then those data will be obtained and may be publicly available for others to view.

Information that we automatically collect

We automatically collect Non-PII such as some computer information through the interaction of your web browser or mobile phone with iCanBreakThrough website or its social networks.

We also collect the following:

a. Cookies

iCanBreakthrough or its social networks may set and access Cookies or similar technologies on your computer or gadget. Cookies are small pieces of data that usually includes a unique identifier, which are stored on your computer or gadgets by your web browser when you visit a website.

We use Cookies to know the site usage and improve on the content or any offers that we may have. We may also use Cookies to track usage patterns within the iCanBreakThrough website, to present editorial content, to record subscription requests, and to personalize the content that you see on the iCanBreakThrough website and social networks.

iCanBreakThrough or third party services on our behalf may also use Cookies to collect aggregate information about website users anonymously. We may share aggregate demographics and usage information with our prospective and actual partners and advertisers.

Some of our third party partners such as advertisers or marketing services companies may set and access cookies or similar technologies on your computer or gadgets as well, or we may do so on their behalf. We do not have control over the information derived from the Cookies or similar technologies by these third parties.

There are web browsers that can be set to disable the use of Cookies. But then, disabling Cookies will lead to not being able to correctly access the full functionality of the iCanBreakThrough website or not at all. We do not put PII on Cookies.

b. IP (Internet Protocol) Address

Your IP address usually shares the place from which you enter the Internet, like your Internet Service Provider, your company, or your school. Our server may also record the page that refers how you were linked to us, such as:

1. Another website, social network, or search engine
2. The pages that you visit within the iCanBreakThrough website
3. The websites that you visit after the iCanBreakThrough website
4. The ads that you click on
5. Other information about the type of browser
6. Computer operating system
7. Device, platform, related software, and settings that you use
8. Search terms that you entered to our website or to a referral site
9. Other website activity and data logged by our web servers

We may use your IP address in the following:

1. Diagnosing problems with our servers
2. Gathering demographics data
3. Analyzing trends among users for the improvement of the iCanBreakThrough site

These information may be linked with your PII when we deem it necessary to enforce conformity with our rules and policies or terms of service to protect iCanBreakThrough, its users or audience, and others.

c. 3rd Party Tracking Tools

We use 3rd party tracking tools to improve our website performance and features. These tools are designed to collect Non-PPI only about your iCanBreakThrough site usage. Still, you understand that aforesaid tools are created and managed by parties outside our control. We are not responsible for what information is actually captured by the 3rd parties and how they protect your information.

Using Your Information

Usage of the information that we get from you follows:

a. To provide you with your requested services

When you subscribe to any of our services, we may also use your email address to send you a subscription confirmation notice. In addition, if you join a promo or a contest, we will use this information to notify you if you are a winner. We may also send out emails to users and others who joined the promo or contest to announce special offers, services, and announcements from the iCanBreakThrough website, our partners or advertisers.

b. To modify or improve our website

We may use your PPI to identify you as a user and improve iCanBreakThrough website and services, send you administrative notifications, and respond to your inquiries.

c. For marketing purposes

For the purpose of promoting or marketing iCanBreakThrough website or campaign, we may combine and use any information that we collect from you, whether online or in other ways, including from 3rd parties.

We may create anonymous information from your PII by excluding data, such as your name, that make the information associated with you. In our discretion, we may use this anonymous information for any purpose and may disclose it to 3rd parties.

d. For editorial purposes

We may use the information that you provide us through emails, social networks, and all interactions with us for editorial purposes.

e. Data Collection

We have the right to collect and use any Non-PII that we obtained from your use of the iCanBreakThrough website and accumulate the data for internal analytics that would help improve our website and services, and for use and resale to other parties. Your PII will not be included in such data collections.

Disclosing Your Information

Your PII obtained by iCanBreakThrough may, and you authorize us to, be shared to other companies or individuals in the following situations, in addition to other disclosures stated in this policy in the following circumstances:

a. We use 3rd party service providers to administer products, services, or functions on our behalf, such as sending emails or processing credit cards or fulfilling subscriptions and request these service providers to agree to keep the confidentiality of your PII and to not use it for any reason except for the purposes for which we hired them.

b. You joined a promo or contest sponsored by a 3rd party and the information that you provided through the promo or contest may be shared by us with that involved 3rd party for them to use in their discretion, including direct marketing. Should you not want your information to be shared, you should not join the contest. The privacy policy of such 3rd party groups apply to their utilization and disclosure of your information that we collect and disclose to them.

c. The entity to whom the information is disclosed is a partner of iCanBreakThrough.

d. You indicated that you wanted to directly receive promotional materials from a 3rd party partner.

e. We think that you would be interested with the products and services that the 3rd party entity that wants to promote.

f. You provided your PII, allowing or requesting that it be forwarded to a 3rd party, to be used in a specified service that you want to participate in. Examples are, but not limited to, location services and e-commerce partners.

g. If we are legally required to disclose your PII, such as in the following conditions:

1. Required subpoena or other legal purposes.
2. It is needed to assist law or government enforcement agencies.
3. It is needed to investigate breach of our Legal Terms,
4. It is needed to protect us from any legal action or claims from 3rd parties including you or others.
5. We believe that it is needed for the protection of someone who may be causing harm to somebody or interfering with our rights or the rights of the other users, employees, staff, our partners, and the general public, or using our services violating legal or personal rights.
6. We will possess the PII that we collected, and we will assume the rights and obligations regarding your PII as described in this Privacy Policy in connection with a sale, merger, transfer, exchange or other disposition of all or just a portion of the activity conducted by iCanBreakThrough to which this policy applies.

h. Social Networking Sites (SNS). We may receive information from social networking sites like Facebook, Instagram, or YouTube, in accordance with their terms and conditions if you use your login credentials from them in the iCanBreakThrough website. We will share with them whatever information that you elected to share with them. The SNS Terms will apply to the information that we give them.

i. 3rd Party Partners. iCanBreakThrough may partner with a retailer or other 3rd parties to offer e-commerce or online shopping opportunities, games, services, subscriptions, and other applications on a cross-promotional or co-branded basis. These transactions may take place in the iCanBreakThrough website or the 3rd party website. In each case, the PII you provided in connection with the activity may be collected directly by, or shared by iCanBreakThrough with, the 3rd party, and with any participating partner of such features or opportunities.

j. iCanBreakThrough may allow you to access a 3rd party website or app with whom we have a relationship to access both sites through co-branded registration. In this event, your registration details may be collected by or shared by iCanBreakThrough, with the 3rd party partner. The 3rd party will use your information in accordance to their own privacy policy.

k. Advertising and other content delivery. We may use 3rd party advertising companies or marketing services companies to present ds or other content when you visit the iCanBreakThrough website. We and these companies may both use your information about your visits to the website and wherever to deliver ads and other content to you. In so doing, a unique 3rd party Cookie may be placed on your browser by such companies.

Your Righ to Opt-out

a. Email subscriptions. We and our partners fully comply with the national laws regarding SPAM. If you want to opt out of our email services, you may do so by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email that you received. We agree not to sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated 3rd party partners without your permission.

b. User registration. You may opt to change your user registration details at any time by logging in and editing your User Profile. If you wish to cancel or delete your User registration, you may send us an email through admin@icanbreakthrough.com. Take note that when we delete any information, it will be deleted from the active database but may be retained in our archives. We may retain your data for fraud or similar purposes.

c. Once you have opted-out as illustrated above, and then you choose to use a service or promotion that requires us to contact you or share your date with a 3rd party like in joining a promo or contest, then your previous opt-out preferences will not apply to such service. We may send you service-related communications that may include notices about your subscription, and we may continue with giving your information to 3rd parties in accordance to this Privacy Policy.

Your PII Security

We use various industry-standard security technologies and methods to help protect your PII from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We also compel you to enter a password to access your registration information. Do not give your registration password to anybody. There is no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. Accordingly, while iCanBreakThrough exerts efforts to protect your PII, iCanBreakThrough cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Residents Outside the Philippines

Please note that the information you provide to us will be transferred to and processed in the Philippines, where laws regarding the processing of PII may be less or more binding that the laws in your country. By using this website, you consent to this transfer and processing. You also agree to the adjudication of any disputes arising in connection with this website in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the Philippines.

Updating this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy anytime. Should we make any material changes in the way we use your PII, we may notify you of the changes on our website, via email, or by whatever method we determine. The process we will choose is our sole discretion. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective fifteen (15) days following our posting of notice of the changes on our website and will replace any prior Privacy Policies. The changes will be effective immediately for the new users or audience of the website or social networks. If you continue using the iCanBreakThrough website or social networks, then you agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

Questions about our Privacy Policy

If you have any concerns or questions about any aspect of this Privacy policy, email us at admin@icanbreakthrough.com.

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