This Statement of Privacy applies to Growing Emotions, LLC (“we” or “us”) and governs data collection and usage. We have foundational principles which govern our privacy policy:

• We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
• We store personal information for only as long as we have reason to keep it.
• We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
• We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

What Information Is Collected?

We only collect information about you if we have reason to do so – for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

• Payment and contact information: If you buy something from us, such as a webinar, we’ll collect information to process those payments and contact you. If you buy something from us, such as a seminar or subscription, you’ll provide additional personal and payment information like your name, credit card information, and contact information. We also keep a record of the purchases you’ve made.
• Communications with us (hi there!): You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with us about content you would like to see featured, post a question or comment to one of our posts, or sign up for a newsletter. When you communicate with us via form, email, phone, comment, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications (including any call recordings as permitted by applicable law).

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

• Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
• Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
• Information from cookies & other technologies: We use cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy below.

Cookie Policy

What are cookies?

Cookies are small pieces of data, stored in text files, that are stored on your computer or other device when websites are loaded in a browser. They are widely used to “remember” you and your preferences, either for a single visit (through a “session cookie”) or for multiple repeat visits (using a “persistent cookie”). They ensure a consistent and efficient experience for visitors, and perform essential functions such as allowing users to register and remain logged in. Cookies may be set by the site that you are visiting (known as “first party cookies”), or by third parties, such as those who serve content or provide advertising or analytics services on the website (“third party cookies”). Both websites and HTML emails may also contain other tracking technologies such as “web beacons” or “pixels.” These are typically small transparent images that provide us with statistics, for similar purposes as cookies. They are often used in conjunction with cookies, though they are not stored on your computer in the same way. As a result, if you disable cookies, web beacons may still load, but their functionality will be restricted.

You can delete cookies that are on your computer and most browsers allow you to prevent them from being placed. If you opt to clear or block cookies, you may have to manually adjust some preferences each time you visit a site. Some services and functionalities may also be affected.

How we use cookies

We use cookies for a number of different purposes. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons; some enable a personalized experience for both visitors and registered users; and some allow the display of advertising from selected third party networks. We also use cookies to identify you as a returning user and count your visits in traffic statistics. Some of these cookies may be set when a page is loaded, or when a visitor takes a particular action (clicking the “like” or “follow” button on a post, for example).

We do not use cookie-related information to identify you personally and we will not use it for any reason other than those previously mentioned. While enabling cookies is not strictly necessary for the functionality of this site, it will provide you with a better browsing experience.

Controlling cookies

Visitors may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control cookie behavior such as the length of time they are stored – either through built-in functionality or by utilizing third party plugins. If you disable cookies, please be aware that some of the features of our service may not function correctly.

To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, visit aboutcookies.org. For more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for interest-based advertising you may visit the following sites:

• networkadvertising.org
• optout.aboutads.info 
• youradchoices.com
• youronlinechoices.eu

On a mobile device, you may also be to adjust your settings to limit tracking.

How and Why We Use Your Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

• To provide our Services. For example, to set up and maintain your account, provide customer services, process payments and orders, and verify user information.
• To place and manage ads. For example, to place ads and understand ad performance.
• To market our Services and measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our marketing. For example, by targeting our marketing messages to groups of users, advertising our Services, analyzing the results of our marketing campaigns (like how many people purchased a webinar or paid plan after receiving a marketing message), and understanding and forecasting user retention.
• To protect our Services, our users, and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of GrowingEmotions.com and others, which may result in us, for example, declining a transaction or terminating Services.
• To fix problems with our Services. For example, by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
• To customize the user experience. For example, to personalize your experience by serving you relevant notifications and advertisements for our Services, and recommending content through post suggestions.
• To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our Services, or keep you up to date on Growing Emotions; texting you to verify your payment; or emailing you to share offers and promotions that we think will be of interest to you. If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time. (If you opt out, we’ll still send you important updates relating to your account.)

Sharing Information

How we share information

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy. These are spelled out below:

• Subsidiaries and independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any personal information that we share with them.
• Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.
• To protect rights, property, and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Growing Emotions LLC, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury.
• Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
• With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties when you authorize us to do so.

We will never rent or sell your information to a third party.

Information shared publicly

Information that you choose to make public is — you guessed it — disclosed publicly. That means information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on our website, and your “Likes” and comments on our social media pages are all available to others. If you use a Gmail email address when making comments on our website, the image used with your Gmail account, if any, may be shown in your comment once approved.

Third-Party Advertising

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads to you when you visit our site. These companies may store information about your visits to our site so they may provide you with ads relevant to your interests. They may also use cookies to gather information to determine effectiveness of advertising efforts. The only time this information will include personally identifiable information is if you disclose this information through an ad or email message to one of these companies.

We will never provide these companies with any of your personal information.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it — described in the section above on How and Why We Use Information.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. Any sensitive information that is collected is encrypted and transmitted to us by secure servers.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

• Limit the information that you provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide transaction and billing information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our Services — for example, our webinar listings — may not be accessible.
• Opt out of newsletter communications: You may opt out of receiving newsletters from us. Just follow the instructions in those communications or let us know.
• Set your browser to reject cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features on our website may not function properly without the aid of cookies. Review our cookie policy above for more information.
• Close your account: While we’d be very sad to see you go, you can close your account if you no longer want to use our Services. Please keep in mind we will keep your information on file to comply with legal obligations such as law enforcement requests or for that which is reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests such as filing taxes.

Acceptance

Use of this website constitutes acceptance of this Privacy Policy. Please do not use our website if you do not agree to this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy

The Privacy Policy was lasted updated September 1, 2023

See also our Terms of Use