Privacy Policy
I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of www.cultivatedculture.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.cultivatedculture.com (the “Website”) or Cultivated Culture (the “Company”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
When accessing the website, I will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit. This policy applies to information I collect on the website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the website.
Information Collected About You
When you access the website, certain information about you will be shared during your visit. The website provides various places for users to provide information. I collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the website, communicating with me via contact forms, providing comments on posts, and providing information when ordering a product via the website.
I use information you provide to me to provide the service and/or deliver the requested product, to improve my overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.
Information Collected Through Automatic Data Collection Technology
As you navigate through my website, automatic data collection technologies like Google Analytics collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through my website, and any communications between your computer and my website. Among other things, I will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
The information I collect automatically is used for statistical data and does not include personally identifiable information. I use this data to improve my website and my service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to me through opt in forms, emails, comments, or other feedback, my systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
Use of Cookies & Pixels
Similar to other commercial websites, my website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how my site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at my site, and the websites visited just before and just after my own, as well as IP addresses.
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
I reserve the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Third Party Use of Cookies
Some content or applications on the website are served by third-parties such as servers, content providers, application providers, and the like. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use my website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
International Transfer
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to the United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Links To Other Sites
My service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by me. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
I have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with me through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and my responses. I provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for my website, sign up through any of my forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
Email Policies
If submitted, I am committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. I do not sell, rent, or lease my subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.
I will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from my organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from my mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from me.
My emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from me and my partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from me at anytime.
Users who no longer wish to receive my newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.
How & Why I Collect Information
The Company collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. I use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to download resources and/or purchase products that you are required to provide information.
If you are outside the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar, or purchase any products sold by the Company on this Website, we will automatically enroll you to receive my promotional email communications, including my weekly newsletter. If you do not wish to receive this communication, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to [email protected] requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
If you are in the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar, or purchase any products sold by the Company on this Website, we will only enroll you to receive my free email communication if you affirmatively consent to it. If you do not wish to receive this communication, you can unsubscribe anytime. I include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to [email protected] requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
How Do I Use The Information That You Provide?
I use personal information for purposes of presenting my website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering my business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to my customers and prospective customers.
From time-to-time, I may use the information you provide to me to make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to me by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.
From time-to-time, I may use the information you provide to me to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.
Disclosure of Your Information
As a general rule, I do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action. The only exception to this rule would be a sale of Cultivated Culture and its assets (including email addresses) to another company or entity. In the event that Cultivated Culture is sold to / acquired by another entity, we reserve the right to sell and transfer ownership of its assets, including data, email addresses, and any other information. Outside of that instance, we will never sell or give away your data or information.
I may disclose your personal information to my subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing my services to you.
I may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce my terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company.
I may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when I, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of my legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
How Do I Protect Your Information & Secure Information Transmissions?
The security of your Personal Information is important to me, and I strive to implement and maintain reasonable, commercially acceptable security procedures and practices appropriate to the nature of the information I store, in order to protect it from unauthorized access, destruction, use, modification, or disclosure. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and I am unable to guarantee the absolute security of the Personal Information I have collected from you.
I employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to me and the information I collect automatically.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, I request that you do not send private information to me by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.
The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to my site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Policy Changes
It is my policy to post any changes I make to my privacy policy on this page. If I make material changes to how I treat my users’ personal information, I will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring I have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting my Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Visitors’ GDPR Rights
If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
I will retain the any information you choose to provide to me until: (a) you asking me to delete the information, (b) my decision to cease using my existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.
You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.
To exercise these rights please email me at [email protected].
To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
I require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. I will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with me.
Effective May 24th, 2018. Last updated on February 24th, 2021.
