Privacy Policy & Cookie/Data Storage Policy For Ground One LLC and its three websites (groundonecoaching.com, shoresofoursouls.com, and ramspergercommunications.com):

 Acknowledgment & Acceptance of Terms
Ground One LLC is committed to protecting your privacy and takes very seriously the usage, collection and transference of personal data. The policy below states our current privacy practices regarding the information we collect when you interact with my websites.

By accessing groundonecoaching.com, shoresofoursouls.com, or ramspergercommunications.com, you acknowledge and freely consent to the practices described in this privacy policy. You also give your consent to the information collection practices described below.

 

Participating Vendor/Merchant Policies

This website offers services (like data collection forms) that link to websites other than the ones I own. These sites have their own privacy terms. Because I do not have direct control over these sites, I am not responsible for the content or the privacy practices of those sites.

 

Below you will find links to the sites I partner with, along with links to their privacy policies. I recommend that you review these policies before providing personal or confidential data or before completing any transactions with these sites.

 

Information Collection & Cookies

I use cookies on my three websites (listed above) because: 1) They help me to provide you with a good experience when you browse this website. 2) They also allow me to improve my site and deliver to you a website you want to browse and enjoy. By continuing to browse the site, you agree to the use of cookies as detailed below.

 

First, what is a cookie?

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that I store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. You can find more information about web cookies here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_cookie

 

I use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for you to use the features available on this website. They include, for example, the ability to login and post a comment.
  • Analytical/performance cookies. These cookies allow me to recognize, track, and count the number of visitors who come to this website. They also allow me to track broken pages on the website and to count what visitors do when they click through the website.
  • Functionality cookies. These cookies allow me to track and remember your preferences for my websites. For example, with cookies, I can personalize content for you, greet you by name and/or remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

 

I use two different kinds of cookies on this website: first party and third party cookies (both defined in detail on the wikipedia link above).

First-party cookies

These cookies are specifically about and track your usage of this website. These cookies are considered essential for the website to operate correctly. These cookies, none of which capture personally identifiable information, include:

  • Visitor ID – this cookie is a numeric value that identifies unique visitors and provides coherence and consistency to a site visit -- it is anonymous and contains no personally identifying information;
  • Page number – this cookie identifies the page you are on;
  • Session ID – this cookie identifies your website session;
  • Test – this cookie checks whether or not your browser supports cookies;

Third-party cookies

My websites set different types of third-party cookies to track usage, social sharing and more. These cookies are not under my/our control and serve to help me understand the visitors who come to the website, as well as support my connection to other third party sites.  (Again, see the wikipedia page above for detailed explanations of third party services/cookies).

 

Included in our list of third-party cookies are the following services:

 

  • Google Analytics – Google Analytics is used to collect data about website usage. This data does not include personally identifiable information. Data is stored anonymously for 26 months and per Google’s policies, this data is automatically deleted after 26 months. You can view Google’s Privacy Policy here: google.com/policies/privacy/.
  • Blog comments – If you leave a comment on one of my sites, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These options are there 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 before they are deleted.
  • In order to check login activity and potentially block fraudulent attempts, the following information is used: attempting user’s IP address, attempting user’s email address/username (i.e. according to the value they were attempting to use during the login process), and all IP-related HTTP headers attached to the attempting user. Activity Tracked: Failed login attempts (these include IP address and user agent). We also set a cookie for 1 day to remember if/when a user has successfully completed a math captcha to prove that they’re a real human. Learn more about this cookie. Data Synced (?): Failed login attempts, which contain the user’s IP address, attempted username or email address, and user agent information.
  • Social share buttons- Please be aware that when sharing content from a Ground One LLC website that you are sharing information with a third party, the social network to which you are sharing. Social networks like Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Google+ have their own privacy policies that you should be aware of. If you are sharing to a network other than those mentioned, you can find their privacy policies by doing a search of their website(s).

 

 

Your rights with cookies:

Cookies are set by many entities and may include the website’s owners/developers/managers, plugins, third-party providers, advertisers and anyone else who collects or uses the website’s data.

 

As a user of this (or any) website, you can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of some, or all, cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of the site.

 

To learn how to block cookies, simply go to Google and type in “how do I block cookies” on whatever browser you use (Chrome, Firefox etc.) and you will find the details needed to block some or all cookies on your browser. Please note that most websites cannot function without cookies.

 

Additional data storage and privacy policy considerations

In addition to the non-personally identifiable data collected by cookies, my websites also offer the ability to contact me via contact forms, newsletter registration forms, downloadable ebooks, free downloadable gifts, webinars and other similar files.

 

To receive free gifts from this website, I require that you share your personal information consisting of your first and last name and your email address. In some cases I have additional optional fields to tell me about. In most cases, information is gathered and stored in the website database or via a third-party service called Aweber.  All information gathered via any form on this website can be deleted upon request.

 

Information and informational items are provided in exchange for adding your email address and possibly your name, business and or website information to one of our mailing lists. All mailing lists are stored and executed via Aweber for the sole purpose of communicating information, as well as occasional marketing of services and products. Each mailing list will specifically detail what type of emails you may receive, usually monthly, periodically throughout the year. You may unsubscribe from said email list(s) at any time by using the unsubscribe link provided in every email.

 

A copy of Aweber’s Privacy Policy can be found here: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm.

My webinars are provided via zoom.com. Free webinars are provided in exchange for being placed on one of the aforementioned Aweber mailing lists. The privacy policy for Zoom can be found at https://www.zoominfo.com/business/about-zoominfo/privacy-policy.

Any payments for any products or informational items are processed securely via PayPal. PayPal’s privacy policy is listed at: https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full.

 

Articles on my sites may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

When visitors leave comments on the site, the data collection form collects the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. 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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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.

Your Data Rights

If you have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data my company holds about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that I erase any personal data. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Your information is never shared or sold to others for marketing purposes and is only shared with third party services as necessary and explained above. At present, I am not an affiliate member with any other partner, and I am careful about my partners. I prefer to keep my company small, ethical and trustworthy with as few partners as possible to allow me to communicate with you about my coaching and writing.

If at any time you wish to find out how your data is stored and/or opt out of communication, email, or to have your data deleted, please direct your request to the email and/or phone number below.

 

If you wish to contact us, the best way is as follows:

Email:  kathy@groundonecoaching.com

Phone:  301-503-5150

 

Effective date: May 16, 2018

Last update: June 6, 2018