1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors; in this
policy we explain how we will treat your personal information.
1.2 By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in
accordance with the terms of this policy.
2. Credit
2.1 This document was created using a template from SEQ Legal
(http://www.seqlegal.com).
3. Collecting personal information
3.1 We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information:
(a) information about your computer and about your visits to and use of
this website (including your IP address, geographical location, browser
type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit,
page views and website navigation paths);
(b) information that you provide to us when registering with our website
(including your email address);
(c) information that you may provide when completing your profile on our
website (including your name, profile pictures, gender, date of birth,
relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and
employment details);
(d) information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to
our email notifications and/or newsletters (including your name and
email address);
(e) information that you provide to us when using the services on our
website, or that is generated in the course of the use of those services
(including the timing, frequency and pattern of service use);
(f) information relating to any purchases you make of our
goods and/or services or any other transactions that
you enter into through our website (including your name, address,
telephone number, email address and card details);
(g) information that you post to our website for publication on the
internet (including your user name, your profile pictures and the
content of your posts);
(h) information contained in or relating to any communication that you
send to us or send through our website (including the communication
content and metadata associated with the communication); and
(i) any other personal information that you choose to send to us.
3.2 Before you disclose to us the personal information of another person, you
must obtain that person’s consent to both the disclosure and the processing
of that personal information in accordance with this policy.
4. Using personal information
4.1 Personal information submitted to us through our website will be used for
the purposes specified in this policy or on the relevant pages of the website.
4.2 We may use your personal information to:
(a) administer our website and business;
(b) personalize our website for you;
(c) enable your use of the services available on our website;
(d) send you goods purchased through our website;
(e) supply to you services purchased through our website;
(f) send statements, invoices and payment reminders to you, and
collect payments from you;
(g) send you non-marketing commercial communications;
(h) send you email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(i) send you our email newsletter, if you have requested it (you can
inform us at any time if you no longer require the newsletter);
(j) send you marketing communications relating to our business
which we think may be of interest to you, by post or, where you have
specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can inform
us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications);
(k) provide third parties with statistical information about our users (but
those third parties will not be able to identify any individual user from
that information);
(l) deal with inquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to
our website; and
(m) keep our website secure and prevent fraud
4.3 If you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will
publish and otherwise use that information in accordance with the license you
grant to us.
4.4 Your privacy settings can be used to limit the publication of your information
on our website, and can be adjusted using privacy controls on the website.
4.5 We will not, without your express consent, supply your personal information
to any third party for the purpose of their or any other third party’s direct
marketing.
4.6 All our website financial transactions are handled through our payment
services provider, Paypal. You can review the provider’s privacy policy here.
We will share information with our payment services provider only to
the extent necessary for the purposes of processing payments you make via
our website, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and
queries relating to such payments and refunds.
5. Disclosing personal information
5.1 We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees,
officers, insurers, professional advisers, agents, suppliers or subcontractors
insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this policy.
5.2 We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of
companies (this means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and all
its subsidiaries) insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in
this policy.
5.3 We may disclose your personal information:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including
providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention
and reducing credit risk);
(d) to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset
that we are (or are contemplating) selling; and
(e) to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or
other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information
where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be
reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
5.4 Except as provided in this policy, we will not provide your personal
information to third parties.
6. International data transfers
6.1 Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred
between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use
the information in accordance with this policy.
6.2 Personal information that you publish on our website or submit for
publication on our website may be available, via the internet, around the
world. We cannot prevent the use or misuse of such information by others.
6.3 You expressly agree to the transfers of personal information described in this
Section 6.
7. Retaining personal information
7.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedure, which are
designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation
to the retention and deletion of personal information.
7.2 Personal information that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not
be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
7.3 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we will retain
documents (including electronic documents) containing personal data:
(a) to the extent that we are required to do so by law;
(b) if we believe that the documents may be relevant to any ongoing or
prospective legal proceedings; and
(c) in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including
providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention
and reducing credit risk).
8. Security of personal information
8.1 We will take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent
the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.
8.2 We will store all the personal information you provide on secure
(password- and firewall-protected) servers.
8.3 All electronic financial transactions entered into through our website will be
protected by encryption technology.
8.4 You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is
inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over
the internet.
8.5 You are responsible for keeping the password you use for accessing our
website confidential; we will not ask you for your password (except when you
log in to our website).
9. Amendments
9.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on
our website.
9.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any
changes to this policy.
9.3 We may notify you of changes to this policy by email.
10. Your rights
10.1 You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold
by sending a request via the contact form on this website.
10.2 We may withhold personal information that you request to the extent
permitted by law.
10.3 You may instruct us at any time not to process your personal information for
marketing purposes.
10.4 In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of
your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with
an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for
marketing purposes.
11. Third party websites
11.1 Our website includes hyperlinks to, and details of, third party websites.
11.2 We have no control over, and are not responsible for, the privacy policies
and practices of third parties.
12. Updating information
12.1 Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs
to be corrected or updated.
13. Cookies
13.1 Our website uses cookies.
13.2 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers)
that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser.
The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests
a page from the server.
13.3 Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or session cookies: a persistent
cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set
expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session
cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the
web browser is closed.
13.4 Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a
user, but personal information that we store about you may be linked to the
information stored in and obtained from cookies.
14. Our details
14.1 This website is owned and operated by Amanda Strong, Strong Virtual Support.
14.2 Our principal place of business is P.O. Box 642, Springboro, Ohio, 45066, United States.
14.2 You can contact us:
(a) by mail, using the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(d) or by email, using the email address published on our website from
time to time.