Last UPdated: 5/26/2023

Who We Are

We are online, remote (“virtual”) workers, just like you. We understand the importance of striking a balance between work and personal life, which is why our platform focuses on helping you thrive and earn a full-time income while working part-time hours. We consider BuildingYourSkills.com “home” and hope you will, too.

BuildingYourSkills.com (“BYS”) is owned and operated by 8 Grapes Consulting, LLC. Because we are online workers, like you, we are serious about protecting your online privacy — it’s our privacy, too. This Privacy Policy explains our views and practices concerning privacy, and how they may pertain to you as a user of our website.

“You” or “Your” means you as a participant in or as a user of the BYS website. “We” or “Our” or “Us” means 8 Grapes Consulting, LLC. “Our site” refers to BuildingYourSkills.com or any other website, product, or service affiliated with BYS.

Acceptance of Terms

By accessing, downloading, installing, or using BYS, whether or not you become a registered user, you agree to be bound by these terms outlined in our Privacy Policy, which you acknowledge that you have read and understood.

We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to change, modify, or otherwise alter these Terms at any time. You must review them on a regular basis to keep yourself informed of any changes. Please note the date at the top of this page to see when it was last updated.

Earnings and Income Disclaimer

BYS cannot and does not make any guarantees about your ability to get results or earn any money with our ideas, information, tools, or strategies. All products and services by our company are for educational and informational purposes only. Nothing on this page, or any of our content, is a promise or guarantee of results or future earnings, and we do not offer any legal, business, tax, or other professional advice. Any financial numbers referenced here are illustrative of concepts only and should not be considered average earnings, exact earnings, or promises for actual or future performance. Use caution and always consult your accountant, lawyer, or professional advisor before acting on this or any information related to a lifestyle change or your business or finances. You alone are responsible and accountable for your decisions, actions and results in life, and by your use of our site you agree not to attempt to hold us liable for your decisions, actions, or results, at any time, under any circumstance.

Returns and Cancellations

Due to the digital nature of our products, all sales are final. No refunds will be given. Please keep this in mind and purchase wisely. If you have any questions or comments, please email us at hello@buildingyourskills.com.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Blog comments will be publicly available to other blog visitors. We reserve the right to remove any content that we determine to be unlawful, inappropriate, offensive, or otherwise objectionable or violates any party’s intellectual property or these Terms. If any user generated content is found to be copyright infringement, we will respond to and comply with any DMCA Take Down Notices.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

BYS may also contain links to third-party websites (as noted in the next section), which we do not control. If you click a link and leave BYS, we no longer assume responsibility for the content or practices of those third-party websites.

Who We Share Your Data With

BYS uses advertisers and those advertisers may collect, use, store, and disclose data and information collected from visitors. We are also an affiliate for the following companies: Amazon, Ionos, Restored 316 Designs, Canva, and ConvertKit. Each of these advertisers and affiliate partners has their own policy for their site, which you can review at their respective sites. If you click through to an affiliate or advertiser, we may receive a small commission or compensation if you make a purchase. BYS strives to only endorse companies which we have used and genuinely recommend.

We do not sell, trade, or share your personal information. Your email address used to leave blog comments will solely be used to respond to your comment. If you choose to opt in to my email newsletter, you may opt out at any time. Our newsletter is managed through ConvertKit.

How Long We Retain Your Data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where Your Data Is Sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.