Privacy Statement
1. What information do we collect and what do we do with it?
When you are approved for membership on our site and its offerings, as part of the enrolling process, we collect your name and email address.
Email marketing: we may send you emails about our site and its offerings or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to our site and its offerings, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion.
2. How do you get my consent?
When you provide us with personal information to become a member, make a purchase, or participate in our site and its offerings, you imply that you consent to our collecting your information and using it for that specific reason only. This means you consent to be billed using the billing information you provide and be contacted via email about our site and its offerings using the address you provide.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent or provide you with an opportunity to say no.
How do I withdraw my consent?
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use, or disclosure of your information, at any time, by contacting us at [email protected] and we will comply to the very best of our capabilities, given our limited volunteer staff and tech learning curve.
3. Disclosure
We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so.
4. Thinkific
Our course and site are hosted by Thinkific Labs Inc. (“Thinkific”). They provide us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products/services to you.
Your data is stored through Thinkific’s data storage, databases, and the general Thinkific application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
Payment:
If you make a purchase on our site, you are agreeing that you have applied for membership and that your membership has been approved. If you make a purchase before your membership has been approved, your access to our site and its offerings will be revoked and no refund will be issued. If your membership is terminated for any reason, your access to our site and its offerings will end immediately and future payments will be canceled. Pro-rated refunds are not offered under any circumstances, regardless of membership status.
We use a third-party payment processor such as Stripe or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.
All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express, and Discover.
PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Thinkific’s Terms of Service here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/privacy-policy/ or Privacy Statement here https://www.thinkific.com/resources/terms-of-service/.
5. Third-Party Services
In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us. An example of a third-party provider is PayPal.
However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies with respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.
Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located in a different jurisdiction than either you or us. If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.
As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.
Once you leave our site and its offerings or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.
Links
When you click on links on our course site, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.
6. Security
To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed.
7. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting in this document. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If our site and its offerings are acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to serve you. You will be given the opportunity to withdraw/opt out before any such action is taken.
QUESTIONS AND CONTACT INFORMATION
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact us at [email protected].