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Who we are

Donna Ditton (“Donna Ditton“) operates yourconsciousconnection.com and may operate other websites. It is Donna Ditton’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites. Our website address is: https://yourconsciousconnection.com

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Donna Ditton collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Donna Ditton’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Donna Ditton’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Donna Ditton may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Donna Ditton also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on yourconsciousconnection.com blogs/sites. Donna Ditton only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Donna Ditton’s websites choose to interact with Donna Ditton in ways that require Donna Ditton to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Donna Ditton gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at yourconsciousconnection.com to provide a username and email address. The nature in which transactions and interactions with Donna Ditton are conducted would require gathering the visitor’s name, email address and telephone number. Those who engage in transactions with Donna Ditton are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Donna Ditton collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Donna Ditton. Donna Ditton does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Donna Ditton may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Donna Ditton may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Donna Ditton does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Donna Ditton discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Donna Ditton’s behalf or to provide services available at Donna Ditton’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Donna Ditton’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Donna Ditton will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Donna Ditton discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Donna Ditton believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Donna Ditton, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Donna Ditton website and have supplied your email address, Donna Ditton may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Donna Ditton and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Donna Ditton takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

Media

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

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Donna Ditton uses cookies to help Donna Ditton identify and track visitors, their usage of Donna Ditton’s website, and their website access preferences. Donna Ditton’s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Donna Ditton’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Donna Ditton’s websites may not function properly without the aid of 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.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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 we send your data

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

Business Transfers

If Donna Ditton, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Donna Ditton goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Donna Ditton may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Donna Ditton and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Additional Information – we share your data with the following venders

Source: WooCommerce

We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store.

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for XXX years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team have access to the information you provide us. For example, both Administrators and Shop Managers can access:

  • Order information like what was purchased, when it was purchased and where it should be sent, and
  • Customer information like your name, email address, and billing and shipping information.

Our team members have access to this information to help fulfill orders, process refunds and support you.

What we share with others

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; for example —

Payments

We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details.

Source: Google Analyitics

Google Analytics is a free Web analytics service that provides statistics and basic analytical tools for search engine optimization (SEO) and marketing purposes. Google Analytics collects the following types of personal data: Online identifiers including cookie identifiers. SEO, or search engine optimization, is the technique of growing the amount of high-quality organic search traffic to a website via search engines like Google.

Source: Really Simple SSL

Really Simple SSL and Really Simple SSL add-ons do not process any personal identifiable information, so the GDPR does not apply to these plugins or usage of these plugins on your website. You can find our privacy policy here. 

Source: Ultimate Member with WP User Frontend

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Forms

Ultimate Member provides you with forms for user registration, login and profiles.

Via these forms you are collecting personal data from your users. WP User Frontend allows for user posts.

You should include in your privacy policy what personal data is captured when someone submits/fills in one of the forms, why you collect it and what you do with this data and how long you keep it.

How long we retain your data

Registered user information is retained in your website’s database indefinitely.

Data can be exported or removed upon users request via the existing WordPress data exporter or eraser.

If syncing data to a 3rd party service (e.g. Mailchimp via our MailChimp extension), data is retained there until unsubscribed or deleted. Mailchimp is currently inactive on this website.

Where we send your data

Ultimate Member does not send any user data outside of yourconciousconnection.com (your site) by default.

If you have extended the functionality of the plugin (e.g. sending registered user data to MailChimp via our MailChimp extension, this user info may be passed to these external services. These services may be located abroad and outwith the EU. MailChimp currently inactive on the website.

What Do You Do With My Information

We use online marketing tools to gather information only to announce to prospective visitors that the website, yourconsciousconnection.com, exists so those visitors may avail themselves of Donna Ditton’s services and other information upon the website. We maintain the privacy of every potential and or actual visitor and those visitors who purchase Donna Ditton’s services, as stated in other parts of this privacy policy. Any other information about the visitor that the visitor wishes to contribute for said services by Donna Ditton or other information from the website is also treated with the utmost privacy by Donna Ditton as stated in other areas of this privacy policy. Your email address, name and any other information you provide, such as address and phone number you provide to Donna Ditton, are held in strict confidence. We only keep your information so that Donna Ditton may add you to the email list so Donna Ditton can email you of additional information and possible services being added to the website. We do not sell or share your information with anyone else.   

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Donna Ditton may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Donna Ditton’s sole discretion. Donna Ditton encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a yourconsciousconnection.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Online Privacy Policy Only

This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Terms of Service and Conditions

Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our websites privacy policy and terms of service as well as the other services terms and policies we use.  You will also have to opt in to our mailing list and state that you agree to these terms.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, contact yourconsciousconnection.com via email to: donna@yourconsciousconnection.com