Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at thecandylei.com (Hereafter, “Website”, “Site”, “blog”, “we”, “us,” “our”). Protecting your personal information is of utmost importance to us. If after going through this Privacy Policy agreement you still have questions, comments or concerns, please contact us at brian@thecandylei.com
When you visit and use (register, answer surveys, fill out a form, contact us through a form) our website and services, this means you trust us with your personal information. This privacy policy lays out how we use your information that gets collected from your use of our website and services, and what rights you have in relation to it.
If you disagree with any terms in this privacy policy, please discontinue your use of our Sites and services.
This privacy policy applies to all the information collected through your use of our website and services, and other third-party tools. By using our Website and/or services, or by clicking “Agree” or “Accept” to the Terms of Use when this option is explicitly made available to you, you acknowledge, accept and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy terms and abide by it.
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
PERSONAL INFORMATION YOU DISCLOSE TO US
During your visit and use of our Website and services, we collect certain data that you yourself provide us with if you fill out opt-in forms, contact forms, surveys, purchase products and/or services, enter your information for giveaways and/or competitions.
The personal information that you provide us can be your name, email address, location, your occupation. Moreover, if you’re purchasing products, then you’re also providing us with payment and address information (however, the payment information does not get stored in our system because everything gets processed through payment processors. Therefore, should you have any questions about payment activities and/or information, contact the specific payment processor directly.
OUTSIDE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION (“EU”)
If you’re outside of EU and enter your information to receive a freebie, make a purchase, respond to survey, register for a free training, participate to a webinar, then we will automatically enroll you to receive our newsletter and updates.
If you don’t wish to receive any communications from us, you can opt out by clicking on the unsubscribe link located on the bottom of the emails.
IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
If you are in the EU and opt to receive a freebie or participate to a free training, register for a webinar, live event, or purchase a product, your email address will not be added to the email list to receive our newsletter and updates unless you affirmatively consent to it.
If you change your mind at any point, and don’t want to receive electronic communication, simply unsubscribe.
If you have trouble unsubscribing by clicking the link on the bottom of the email, simply email us at brian@thecandylei.comand request to be unsubscribed from future emails.
INFORMATION COLLECTED THROUGH THIRD PARTY SOURCES
During the time you visit and use our Site, certain limited data is collected from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and analytics sources.
The type of data collected about you from other sources are your location, your computer system, which pages you’ve visited on our Site, how long you spend on each page, your IP address, country, and possibly even social media profiles and referrals.
2. HOW DO WE USE THE COLLECTED INFORMATION ON YOU?
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM YOU
We use the information we collect from you personally to send you targeted marketing and promotional communications. If you at any time indicated an interest in a particular field related to our Site, then we, and/or our third party marketing partners may use this relevant information to send you additional communication regarding similar products/services.
If you don’t want to receive any marketing and/or promotional communication, you can opt-out at any time by either UNSUBSCRIBING from the particular list or topic, or from all the emails coming from us by clicking on the unsubscribe button located at the bottom of every email you receive.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM THIRD-PARTY APPS AND TOOLS
Any information collected from third party tools is used for statistical and analytical purposes and for evaluating and making improvements to our Site. This automatically collected information will not include personal information data.
3. WILL WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH ANYONE?
We respect your privacy and the value of your information. We do not share, disclose, sell, lease or rent your information to anyone or any third party without your express consent.
Only in limited circumstances will necessary information be shared with third parties. Here are the situations for sharing your information:
- You gave us express consent to do so
- You entered into a contract for recurring payments-for this reason your information will be process on as needed basis to hold up the agreement
- Performance of a Contract-if you are obligated to pay or do something, and you don’t, we reserve the right to share necessary information with third party company, such as collection agency, or attorney
- Mandated by Law-if legal proceedings initiated, and there is a subpoena (long shot, but better prepared than surprised).
4. WE MAY USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
We may use cookies and other tracking technologies, such as pixels to collect data on advertisements, website use and information retention.
WHAT ARE COOKIES?
Cookies are tiny data files that are placed on your computer, mobile device or table when you visit a certain website. Website owners widely use cookies to get reporting information and to make sure that their websites work efficiently.
When a cookie is set by the website owner, in this particular case, thecandylei.com. These cookies are identified as “first party cookies”.
There also cookies that are set by third parties. These cookies are called “third party cookies”. These third-party cookies enable certain features or functionality to be provided on or through the website for tasks such as advertising, analytics, and interactive content such as commenting.
You should be aware that these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when you are visiting our Website and also when you visit certain other websites.
WHY DO WE USE COOKIES?
First and third-party cookies are used for various reasons. Those reasons extend from functionality, analytics, reporting, and much more. The cookies that are required for technical reasons in order for our Website to work efficiently are referred to as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies.
Other third parties also serve up cookies for advertising, analytics and other purposes.
HOW CAN YOU CONTROL COOKIES?
It is completely within your right to either accept or reject cookies. At any time you can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in the Cookie Consent Manager.
The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories you accept or reject. Please note that the Essential Cookies cannot be rejected because they are necessary to provide you with services.
If you decide to reject cookies, you can still use our Website. However, certain aspects and functionality of the Website may be restricted for you. Furthermore, you can set your browser setting to automatically accept or reject cookies.
To know how to set the controls from your browser, you have to visit your browser’s help menu for information because each browser has a different settings and modes.
CERTAIN THIRD PARTY INSTALLED COOKIES
Third-Party websites and/or services install cookies on our Website, and they might not necessarily ask for your permission or consent. Such third-party cookies may be installed for following areas in our Website:
- Analytics
- Content commenting
- SPAM protection
- Displaying content from external platforms
- Interaction with external social networks and platforms, etc.
5. EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS & POLICIES
If you decide to contact us through email, we reserve the right to retain the content of your email messages along with your email address and our responses.
Your privacy is important to us, therefore, your email address will never be shared, sold, leased to any third party members.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, any and all communications sent from our Company or Website will clearly state who the email is from, why’s it’s for, and will have a clear method for contacting the sender.
Furthermore, should you not wish to receive any more emails, you can click on the “Unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of the email.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments regarding our Privacy Policy, please feel free to reach out to us: brian@thecandylei.com
Effective as of January 1, 2019.