Divinity Engaged Privacy Policy
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Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; this Privacy Policy will govern all transactions, communications, and instances where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data and how we store and use that data.
1.3 We may use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
1.4 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive or cancel direct marketing communications and limit the use and publication of your information. You can access the privacy controls via [link to divinity’s privacy controls or description of where to find privacy controls].
1.5 In this policy, "we," "us," and "our" refer to Mystic Forestand www.divinityengaged.com. Mystic Forest is the owner and operator of said website.
1.6 In this policy, “you,” “your,” and “user” refer to a person or entity using our website or services offered therein.
2. Third Party Partners, Affiliates, Independent Contractors and/or Service Providers
2.1 Our Website and Business may use third party entities to process, store, disseminate, and otherwise use certain personal information, including, but not limited to, payment information and opt-in correspondence services. To wit, all payments of any nature to the Website or Business, or any affiliates, subsidiaries, or assigns thereof, are processed by Stripe, Incorporated, located at 185 Berry St., Ste. 550, San Francisco, CA 94107. Stripe’s privacy policy may be found at https://stripe.com/us/privacy/. Our Website, Business, and any affiliate or subsidiary thereof does not store your payment information or in any way process payments made to Us. Therefore, please familiarize yourself with Stripe’s privacy policy and legal publications as they likely govern the manner in which your payment information is processed and stored. Please see other sections herein for further discussion of our interaction with and use of third party entities.
2.2 Our Website and Business uses a third party entity, The Rocket Science Group, LLC, d/b/a MailChimp, to process certain information regarding Our opt-in correspondence services. MailChimp’s privacy policy and related publications may be found at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. Therefore, please familiarize yourself with Mailchimp’s privacy policy and legal publications as they likely govern the manner in which your information is processed, stored, and disseminated when using our opt-in correspondence services.
3. How we use your personal data
3.1 In this Section we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
(d) the legal basis of the processing.
3.2 We may process data regarding your use of our website and services (hereinafter "usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.3 We may process your account data (hereinafter "account data"). The account data may include your name and email address. The source of the account data is provided by the User. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.4 We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website (hereinafter "profile data"). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at the User’s request, to enter into such a contract.
3.5 We may process your personal data that is provided in the course of the use of our services (hereinafter "service data"). The service data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details. The source of the service data is provided by the User. The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and Us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.6 We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services (hereinafter "publication data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.7 We may process information contained in any inquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (hereinafter "inquiry data"). The inquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services from our Website or Business to you. The legal basis for this processing is User consent.
3.8 We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including customer contact information (hereinafter "customer relationship data"). The customer relationship data may include your name, your employer, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between us and you. The source of the customer relationship data is the User. The customer relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our products and services to customers, but said information will not be shared with third parties except as otherwise set forth within this Privacy Policy. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper management of our customer relationships.
3.9 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website (hereinafter "transaction data"). The transaction data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
3.10 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (hereinafter "notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.11 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (hereinafter "correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.
3.12 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.13 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
3.14 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
3.15 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. Providing Your Personal Data to Others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to any agent of our business or website (including our subsidiaries, parent company, and/or all its subsidiaries) insofar as the same is reasonably necessary for the proper administration of our business and website.
4.2 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as the same is reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
4.3 We may disclose your contact information to a third party entity for processing insofar as the same is reasonably necessary for the proper administration of our website and business and the proper functioning of our opt-in correspondence service. We currently use MailChimp to process our Users’ contact information for purposes of disseminating communications to Users who explicitly elect to receive such correspondence. Please see Section 2.2 above for more details about MailChimp.
4.4 Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers; we currently use only one payment service provider: Stripe, Inc. Please see Section 2.1 above for more information about Stripe, Inc. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices in Section 2.1 above.
4.5 We may disclose your inquiry data to one or more of those selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services. Such information will only be disclosed to third parties upon the express consent of the User. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the inquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of your personal data.
4.6 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International Transfers of Your Personal Data
5.1 In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
5.2 We have offices and facilities in North Carolina, USA. The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of said country. Transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which can be obtained from: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en.
5.3 The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the United States. The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the U.S. Transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which you can obtain from Section 5.2 above.
5.4 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and Deleting Personal Data
6.1 This Section 6 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 data.
6.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) Personal data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 day following 19 June 2018, and for a maximum period of 3 years following the cancellation of the User’s account or cessation of activity on our website. In no event shall our website or business share personal data or other information except as explicitly set forth within this privacy policy regardless of these or other circumstances.
6.4 In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
(a) the period of retention of any of your personal data will be determined based on the reasonable needs and circumstances of our website and business, and your personal data will be deleted and completely removed from our possession as soon as is reasonably practicable after the User opts to cancel services, delete his or her account, rescind an agreement, or otherwise communicates his or her wish to stop using our website and its services.
6.5 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Amendments
7.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
7.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
7.3 We will notify you of any changes to this policy by email, through a publication on our website, or through the messaging system provided on our website.
8. Your Rights
8.1 In this Section 8, we have summarizedthe rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
8.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.
8.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Upon request, we will supply to you a copy of the personal data we currently possess. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by submitting a request to the website at an email link provided therein.
8.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
8.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes, if any; and if the personal data has been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for compliance with a legal obligation, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
8.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
8.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
8.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, if any exist (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
8.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
8.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) consent; or
(b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
8.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
8.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
8.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, in addition to the other methods specified in this Section 8.
9. About Cookies
9.1 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.
9.2 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 expiration date, unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
9.3 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.
11. Cookies Used by Our Service Providers
11.1 Our service providers may use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
11.2 We may use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics may gather information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at:https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
11.3 We may publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google may track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. We may publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google may track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This behavior tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website). You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting:https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative's multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at:http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect to a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at:https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
11.4 We sometimes use third party entities for the processing of payment information, personal data, and contact information, among other things. These entities may use cookies; please see Section 2 herein above for a discussion of and links to the policies governing the use of such cookies.
12. Managing Cookies
12.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en(Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences(Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/(Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies(Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411(Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy(Edge).
12.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
12.3 If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.
13. Our Details
13.1 This website is owned and operated by a business entity, Mystic Forest, which operates as a sole proprietorship.
13.2 Our principal place of business is located in North Carolina, USA.
13.3 You can contact us:
(a) by mail, to the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by telephone, at the contact number published on our website; or
(d) by email, using the email address published on our website.
1. Introduction
1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors and service users.
1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of our website visitors and service users; this Privacy Policy will govern all transactions, communications, and instances where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data and how we store and use that data.
1.3 We may use cookies on our website. Insofar as those cookies are not strictly necessary for the provision of our website and services, we will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.
1.4 Our website incorporates privacy controls which affect how we will process your personal data. By using the privacy controls, you can specify whether you would like to receive or cancel direct marketing communications and limit the use and publication of your information. You can access the privacy controls via [link to divinity’s privacy controls or description of where to find privacy controls].
1.5 In this policy, "we," "us," and "our" refer to Mystic Forestand www.divinityengaged.com. Mystic Forest is the owner and operator of said website.
1.6 In this policy, “you,” “your,” and “user” refer to a person or entity using our website or services offered therein.
2. Third Party Partners, Affiliates, Independent Contractors and/or Service Providers
2.1 Our Website and Business may use third party entities to process, store, disseminate, and otherwise use certain personal information, including, but not limited to, payment information and opt-in correspondence services. To wit, all payments of any nature to the Website or Business, or any affiliates, subsidiaries, or assigns thereof, are processed by Stripe, Incorporated, located at 185 Berry St., Ste. 550, San Francisco, CA 94107. Stripe’s privacy policy may be found at https://stripe.com/us/privacy/. Our Website, Business, and any affiliate or subsidiary thereof does not store your payment information or in any way process payments made to Us. Therefore, please familiarize yourself with Stripe’s privacy policy and legal publications as they likely govern the manner in which your payment information is processed and stored. Please see other sections herein for further discussion of our interaction with and use of third party entities.
2.2 Our Website and Business uses a third party entity, The Rocket Science Group, LLC, d/b/a MailChimp, to process certain information regarding Our opt-in correspondence services. MailChimp’s privacy policy and related publications may be found at: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. Therefore, please familiarize yourself with Mailchimp’s privacy policy and legal publications as they likely govern the manner in which your information is processed, stored, and disseminated when using our opt-in correspondence services.
3. How we use your personal data
3.1 In this Section we have set out:
(a) the general categories of personal data that we may process;
(b) in the case of personal data that we did not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data;
(c) the purposes for which we may process personal data; and
(d) the legal basis of the processing.
3.2 We may process data regarding your use of our website and services (hereinafter "usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services.
3.3 We may process your account data (hereinafter "account data"). The account data may include your name and email address. The source of the account data is provided by the User. The account data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.4 We may process your information included in your personal profile on our website (hereinafter "profile data"). The profile data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details. The profile data may be processed for the purposes of enabling and monitoring your use of our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at the User’s request, to enter into such a contract.
3.5 We may process your personal data that is provided in the course of the use of our services (hereinafter "service data"). The service data may include your name, address, telephone number, email address, profile pictures, gender, date of birth, relationship status, interests and hobbies, educational details and employment details. The source of the service data is provided by the User. The service data may be processed for the purposes of operating our website, providing our services, ensuring the security of our website and services, maintaining back-ups of our databases and communicating with you. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and Us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.6 We may process information that you post for publication on our website or through our services (hereinafter "publication data"). The publication data may be processed for the purposes of enabling such publication and administering our website and services. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.7 We may process information contained in any inquiry you submit to us regarding goods and/or services (hereinafter "inquiry data"). The inquiry data may be processed for the purposes of offering, marketing and selling relevant goods and/or services from our Website or Business to you. The legal basis for this processing is User consent.
3.8 We may process information relating to our customer relationships, including customer contact information (hereinafter "customer relationship data"). The customer relationship data may include your name, your employer, your job title or role, your contact details, and information contained in communications between us and you. The source of the customer relationship data is the User. The customer relationship data may be processed for the purposes of managing our relationships with customers, communicating with customers, keeping records of those communications and promoting our products and services to customers, but said information will not be shared with third parties except as otherwise set forth within this Privacy Policy. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR our legitimate interests, namely the proper management of our customer relationships.
3.9 We may process information relating to transactions, including purchases of goods and services, that you enter into with us and/or through our website (hereinafter "transaction data"). The transaction data may include your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. The transaction data may be processed for the purpose of supplying the purchased goods and services and keeping proper records of those transactions. The legal basis for this processing is the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business.
3.10 We may process information that you provide to us for the purpose of subscribing to our email notifications and/or newsletters (hereinafter "notification data"). The notification data may be processed for the purposes of sending you the relevant notifications and/or newsletters. The legal basis for this processing is User consent OR the performance of a contract between you and us and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract.
3.11 We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us (hereinafter "correspondence data"). The correspondence data may include the communication content and metadata associated with the communication. Our website will generate the metadata associated with communications made using the website contact forms. The correspondence data may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and record-keeping. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website and business and communications with users.
3.12 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.
3.13 We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.
3.14 In addition to the specific purposes for which we may process your personal data set out in this Section 3, we may also process any of your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
3.15 Please do not supply any other person's personal data to us, unless we prompt you to do so.
4. Providing Your Personal Data to Others
4.1 We may disclose your personal data to any agent of our business or website (including our subsidiaries, parent company, and/or all its subsidiaries) insofar as the same is reasonably necessary for the proper administration of our business and website.
4.2 We may disclose your personal data to our insurers and/or professional advisers insofar as the same is reasonably necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, obtaining professional advice, or the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
4.3 We may disclose your contact information to a third party entity for processing insofar as the same is reasonably necessary for the proper administration of our website and business and the proper functioning of our opt-in correspondence service. We currently use MailChimp to process our Users’ contact information for purposes of disseminating communications to Users who explicitly elect to receive such correspondence. Please see Section 2.2 above for more details about MailChimp.
4.4 Financial transactions relating to our website and services are handled by our payment services providers; we currently use only one payment service provider: Stripe, Inc. Please see Section 2.1 above for more information about Stripe, Inc. We will share transaction data with our payment services providers only to the extent necessary for the purposes of processing your payments, refunding such payments and dealing with complaints and queries relating to such payments and refunds. You can find information about the payment services providers' privacy policies and practices in Section 2.1 above.
4.5 We may disclose your inquiry data to one or more of those selected third party suppliers of goods and services identified on our website for the purpose of enabling them to contact you so that they can offer, market and sell to you relevant goods and/or services. Such information will only be disclosed to third parties upon the express consent of the User. Each such third party will act as a data controller in relation to the inquiry data that we supply to it; and upon contacting you, each such third party will supply to you a copy of its own privacy policy, which will govern that third party's use of your personal data.
4.6 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 4, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.
5. International Transfers of Your Personal Data
5.1 In this Section 5, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
5.2 We have offices and facilities in North Carolina, USA. The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the data protection laws of said country. Transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which can be obtained from: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en.
5.3 The hosting facilities for our website are situated in the United States. The European Commission has made an "adequacy decision" with respect to the U.S. Transfers to each of these countries will be protected by appropriate safeguards, namely the use of standard data protection clauses adopted or approved by the European Commission, a copy of which you can obtain from Section 5.2 above.
5.4 You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
6. Retaining and Deleting Personal Data
6.1 This Section 6 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 data.
6.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.
6.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:
(a) Personal data will be retained for a minimum period of 1 day following 19 June 2018, and for a maximum period of 3 years following the cancellation of the User’s account or cessation of activity on our website. In no event shall our website or business share personal data or other information except as explicitly set forth within this privacy policy regardless of these or other circumstances.
6.4 In some cases it is not possible for us to specify in advance the periods for which your personal data will be retained. In such cases, we will determine the period of retention based on the following criteria:
(a) the period of retention of any of your personal data will be determined based on the reasonable needs and circumstances of our website and business, and your personal data will be deleted and completely removed from our possession as soon as is reasonably practicable after the User opts to cancel services, delete his or her account, rescind an agreement, or otherwise communicates his or her wish to stop using our website and its services.
6.5 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 6, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.
7. Amendments
7.1 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.
7.2 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.
7.3 We will notify you of any changes to this policy by email, through a publication on our website, or through the messaging system provided on our website.
8. Your Rights
8.1 In this Section 8, we have summarizedthe rights that you have under data protection law. Some of the rights are complex, and not all of the details have been included in our summaries. Accordingly, you should read the relevant laws and guidance from the regulatory authorities for a full explanation of these rights.
8.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:
(a) the right to access;
(b) the right to rectification;
(c) the right to erasure;
(d) the right to restrict processing;
(e) the right to object to processing;
(f) the right to data portability;
(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
(h) the right to withdraw consent.
8.3 You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Upon request, we will supply to you a copy of the personal data we currently possess. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by submitting a request to the website at an email link provided therein.
8.4 You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
8.5 In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay. Those circumstances include: the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed; you withdraw consent to consent-based processing; you object to the processing under certain rules of applicable data protection law; the processing is for direct marketing purposes, if any; and if the personal data has been unlawfully processed. However, there are exclusions of the right to erasure. The general exclusions include where processing is necessary: for compliance with a legal obligation, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
8.6 In some circumstances you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data. Those circumstances are: you contest the accuracy of the personal data; processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure; we no longer need the personal data for the purposes of our processing, but you require personal data for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; and you have objected to processing, pending the verification of that objection. Where processing has been restricted on this basis, we may continue to store your personal data. However, we will only otherwise process it: with your consent; for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims; for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person; or for reasons of important public interest.
8.7 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, but only to the extent that the legal basis for the processing is that the processing is necessary for: the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of any official authority vested in us; or the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process the personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing is for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
8.8 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes, if any exist (including profiling for direct marketing purposes). If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
8.9 You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes on grounds relating to your particular situation, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.
8.10 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is:
(a) consent; or
(b) that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract,
and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
8.11 If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your habitual residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
8.12 To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
8.13 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, in addition to the other methods specified in this Section 8.
9. About Cookies
9.1 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.
9.2 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 expiration date, unless deleted by the user before the expiration date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
9.3 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.
11. Cookies Used by Our Service Providers
11.1 Our service providers may use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website.
11.2 We may use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics may gather information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google's privacy policy is available at:https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
11.3 We may publish Google AdSense interest-based advertisements on our website. These are tailored by Google to reflect your interests. To determine your interests, Google may track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. We may publish Google AdSense advertisements on our website. To determine your interests, Google may track your behavior on our website and on other websites across the web using cookies. This behavior tracking allows Google to tailor the advertisements that you see on other websites to reflect your interests (but we do not publish interest-based advertisements on our website). You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting:https://adssettings.google.com. You can also opt out of the AdSense partner network cookie using those settings or using the Network Advertising Initiative's multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at:http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms themselves use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser your opt-out will not be maintained. To ensure that an opt-out is maintained in respect to a particular browser, you may wish to consider using the Google browser plug-ins available at:https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996.
11.4 We sometimes use third party entities for the processing of payment information, personal data, and contact information, among other things. These entities may use cookies; please see Section 2 herein above for a discussion of and links to the policies governing the use of such cookies.
12. Managing Cookies
12.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:
(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en(Chrome);
(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences(Firefox);
(c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/(Opera);
(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies(Internet Explorer);
(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411(Safari); and
(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy(Edge).
12.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.
12.3 If you block cookies, you may not be able to use all the features on our website.
13. Our Details
13.1 This website is owned and operated by a business entity, Mystic Forest, which operates as a sole proprietorship.
13.2 Our principal place of business is located in North Carolina, USA.
13.3 You can contact us:
(a) by mail, to the postal address given above;
(b) using our website contact form;
(c) by telephone, at the contact number published on our website; or
(d) by email, using the email address published on our website.