Privacy Policy

As a fellow Internet user, I totally respect your online privacy. So it goes without saying that I’m fully committed to safeguarding your online privacy while you’re here on my website…and that’s precisely why I’ve provided the following, which discloses the information gathering and dissemination practices for this website.

Who We Are

aRoundJoy LLC, which operates as aRoundJoy (”Company” or “We”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

It describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website, https://aroundjoy.com (our “Website”), and explains our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH OUR POLICIES AND PRACTICES, YOUR CHOICE IS NOT TO USE OUR WEBSITE. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this Privacy Policy. This policy may change from time to time and you will be notified as explained further below. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • On this Website.
  • In email, text, and other electronic contact messages between you and this Website

This policy applies to information we collect:

  • by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or ANY OTHER INFORMATION THE WEBSITE COLLECTS THAT IS DEFINED AS PERSONAL OR PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION UNDER AN APPLICABLE LAW (”personal information”);
  • that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as social media handles, and IP addresses ; and/or
  • about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

  • Directly from you when you provide it to us.
  • Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies such as Facebook Pixels, Google Analytics and Pinterest ‘Pin It’ buttons, and social media share features.
  • From third parties, for example, our business partners and/or advertisers and affiliates

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

  • Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our Website, subscribing to our email list, downloading materials, posting material, or requesting further information about services.
  • Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us or comment.
  • Information provided when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
  • Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and for the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.
  • Information used to schedule classes/lessons or services

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

  • Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
  • Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information.  It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

  • Advertise our services/products and/or content
  • Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
  • Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
  • Speed up your searches.
  • Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

  • Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
  • Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
  • Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and/or opened an email,  and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server.

More About Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

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

Who we share your data with

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

How long we retain your data

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection, anti-spam service. We collect information about visitors who comment, and this typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

More About Your Comment Data and Media

  • When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
  • An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
  • If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website could download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies and Analytics

Some content or applications on the Website are served by third-parties, content providers, and application providers. 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 our 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. You can find out more details about Third-Party Tracking Privacy Policies at the links below –

Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/policy/

Instagram – https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Google – https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us

Pinterest – https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What Third-Parties We Receive Data From

Backup Destinations

Backups can be sent to third-party destination servers, including but not limited to:

Links to third-party privacy policies have been included above.

Backups

Per the functionality of this plugin, backups of your website files and/or database are created and stored locally on your server and/or remotely on 3rd party servers based on the settings of this plugin. Archives can include, but are not limited to – file and database assets, including hashed passwords, 3rd party data, uploads and user information. These backups are stored to provide critical functionality of this plugin.

How long we retain your data

Backup retention is completely up to the website owner. This can vary from less than one minute to indefinitely.

Where we send your data

Backups are not automatically sent to remote destinations automatically, however backups can be configured to be sent to third-party servers.

How we protect your data

Backup zip files are stored with hashed file names to prevent filename guessing and directory browsing is disabled.

Cookies

Cookies are used to handle importing and restoring backups.

How long we retain your data

Cookies used during the restore/import process expire after 24 hours.

Plugin Settings

Some plugin settings ask for an email address or login credentials to 3rd party services. This is stored to provide functional features to the plugin. Settings are retained indefinitely until they are changed or removed manually.

Recent Activity

This plugin tracks dates, times and actions of successful and unsuccessful backups and remote data transfers. This is stored to help make the plugin better and assist with troubleshooting problems.

Logging

This plugin logs some personal information such as email addresses, usernames, database and server information. This is stored to help make the plugin better and assist with troubleshooting problems.

Additional Information About What Data We Collect and Share

Who we share data with and for what purpose. This includes, but may not be limited to – analytics/reporting tools, marketing services (such as email services), payment gateways, gamification programs, and third party embeds.

We share information with third parties who help us provide our orders and store services to you; these include, but are not limited to:

1. eCommerce / WooCommerce

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

What we collect and store

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

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

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

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

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you very limited updates from aRoundJoy

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 8 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses. We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Who on our team has access

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

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

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

2. Payments / PayPal and Stripe

After your order is ready for checkout, your payments are processed through PayPal or Stripe, whichever you choose. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal and Stripe, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.

For more details about each other these payment processors, please see their individual Privacy Policy pages, linked below –

PayPal – https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full

Stripe – https://stripe.com/gb/privacy

3. Recurring Payments / WooCommerce Subscriptions

Recurring payment plan products (special payment plans or subscription groups/courses) are SUBSCRIPTIONS, which require storing your personal data to keep track of payment information to process future payments during the duration of the subscription. Currently, there are no subscription plan recurring payment plans offered on this website.

What we collect and store

For the purposes of processing recurring subscription payments, we store the customer’s name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number and credit card/payment details.

What we share with others

What personal information your store shares with external sources depends on which third-party payment processor plugins you are using to collect subscription payments. We recommend that you consult with their privacy policies to inform this section of your privacy policy.

4. Email Marketing / Aweber

What we collect and store

For the purposes of subscribing to email lists, both for periodic information messages and important updates about your order, we collect your email, name, IP address and the products you purchase.

What we share with others

We share the information mentioned above with AWeber. If you have questions regarding their Privacy Policy, it can be found at the link below –

Aweber – https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm

Children Under The Age Of 13

You understand that this Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to us. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use this Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact geri@aroundjoy.com

Security of Your Data

We have implemented measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. We are not responsible for the loss or breach of any of the third party sites we use to provide you with content or services. Any payment transactions made are through the following third-party provider(s) – Stripe and PayPal.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

We will notify you promptly of any known breach in our security systems or your data, which might expose you to serious risks.

California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to geri@aroundjoy.com

Changes To This Privacy Policy

We will post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address you have provided and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of this page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact geri@aroundjoy.com

 

Last modified: 11/12/24