HelensGuide. (“Company,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions about your privacy or the use of your personal information, you can contact us at helen@helensguide.com
This Document Governs The Privacy Notice of Our Websites:
Our privacy notice tells you what personal data and non-personal data we may collect from you, how we collect it, how we protect it, how we may share it, how you can access and change it, and how you can limit our sharing of it. Our privacy notice also explains certain legal rights that you have with respect to your personal data.
Information We Collect:
Generally, you control the amount and type of information you provide us when using our website.
Our Legal Basis for Collecting and Processing Personal Data:
Our legal basis for collecting and processing your personal data when you buy our products or services is the necessity for performing a contract or taking steps to enter into a contract. Our legal basis for collecting and processing your personal data when you sign up for our newsletter and information about our products and services through our website opt-in forms is consent.
What Happens If You Don’t Give Us Your Personal Data:
If you do not provide us with enough personal data, we may not be able to provide you with all our products and services. However, you can access and use some parts of our website without giving us your personal data.
We Collect Your Personal Data in the Following Ways:
Voluntary information:
When you buy one of our products or services, we will need your name and email address to process your order and deliver your product. Without this information, we cannot process your order.
When you join one of our mailing lists by entering your name and email address, we will use this information to deliver the information you request. We will also use this information to correspond with you via email marketing promotions, tips, bonuses, special offers, and other marketing-related material.
You can opt out of receiving this information at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send or by contacting us.
When you register for one of our webinars, we will receive your name and email address. We use this information to keep you updated with the webinar, send you webinar-related materials, and send out webinar replay information.
Your details will also be stored by the webinar software we use to communicate with you about the webinar.
If you communicate with us via email, we will use your email address to communicate with you.
When you buy a product we recommend as an affiliate, we will use your name and email address to provide additional bonuses. We may also offer you other products and services we think may interest you via email and our website. As with all of our email communication, you can stop it at any time by contacting us or clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email we send.
Automatic Information:
We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes the name of the website from which you entered our website, if any, and the name of the website you’ll visit when you leave our website. This information also includes the IP address of your computer/the proxy server you use to access the Internet, your Internet service provider’s name, your web browser type, the type of mobile device, your computer operating system, and data about your browsing activity when using our website. We use all this information to analyze user trends and help improve our website.
When Entering and Using Our Website:
When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your personal data.
At User and Member Registration or When Buying Products or Services:
When you register as a user, member, or when buying our products or services, we may collect some or all of the following information: your first and last name, email address, physical address, company name, payment information, phone number, user name, password, and other information listed.
Support Software:
Our website contains support software that enables visitors to communicate with us. Sometimes, visitors can communicate with us without becoming a member or buying our products and services. When you use this software, we may collect some or all the following information: your email address, first name, last name, location, and any other information you willingly choose to provide to us. You should limit the information you provide to us to that which is necessary to answer your questions.
Our Use of Cookies:
Our website uses cookies. A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may also contain other information.
By agreeing to accept our use of cookies, you are giving us and third parties we partner with permission to place, store, and access some or all of the cookies described below on your computer.
Strictly Necessary Cookies:
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable these cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Performance Cookies:
These cookies collect information about how the website is used, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.
Functional Cookies:
While using the website, these cookies enable the website to remember a user’s choices – such as their language, user name, and other personal preferences. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.
Media Cookies:
These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.
Advertising or Targeting Cookies:
These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.
Session Cookies:
These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long-term.
Persistent Cookies:
These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.
We May Also Use Cookies For:
– Identifying the areas of our website that you have visited
– Personalizing content that you see on our website
– Our website analytics
– Remarketing our products or services to you
– Remembering your preferences, settings, and login details
– Targeted advertising and serving ads relevant to your interests
– Affiliate marketing
– Allowing you to post comments
– Allowing you to share content with social networks
Most web browsers can be set to disable cookie use. However, if you disable cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.
Web Beacons:
We may also use a technology called web beacons to collect general information about your use of our website and special promotions or newsletters. The information we collect by web beacons allows us to monitor the number of people who open our emails statistically. Web beacons also help us understand the behavior of our customers, members, and visitors.
Google Analytics Privacy Notice:
Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about our website’s use. Google Analytics collects information from users such as age, gender, interests, demographics, how often they visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing and advertising, and improve our website. We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features such as remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with personal data. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit our website, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google also uses specific identifiers to help collect information about the use of our website. For more information on how Google collects and processes your data, visit this link.
You can prevent Google Analytics from using your information by opting out at this link.
Facebook Remarketing:
Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. With Facebook remarketing, you may see our ads after you have visited our site. For this to happen, Facebook uses a Custom Audience Pixel that is activated when a visitor lands on a webpage and a unique “cookie” is placed in their browser. Facebook lookalike audience targeting allows us to show ads on Facebook to people similar to those who have already visited or made a purchase from our website.
To opt out of Facebook’s collection and use of information for ad targeting, visit this link.
How Your Information Is Used:
We use the information we receive from you to:
– Provide the products and services you have requested or purchased from us
– Personalize and customize our content
– Make improvements to our website
– Contact you with updates to our website
– Resolve problems and disputes
– Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you
Communications and Emails:
When we communicate with you about our website, we will use the email address you provided when registering as a member or user. We may also send you emails with promotional information about our website or offers from us or our affiliates unless you have opted out of receiving such information.
You can change your contact preferences at any time through your account or by sending us an email with your request to: helen@helensguide.com
Sharing Information With Affiliates and Other Third Parties:
We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes. However, for data aggregation purposes, we may use your non-personal data. Any such data aggregation would not contain any of your personal data. We may provide your personal data to third-party service providers we hire to provide services to us. These third-party service providers may include but are not limited to: payment processors, web analytics companies, advertising networks, call centers, data management services, help desk providers, accountants, law firms, auditors, shopping cart and email service providers, and shipping companies.
We may share your information with third parties using an Application Program Interface “API” or similar software. Third parties may include companies that process information on our behalf (processors). Information sharing helps us provide you with our services and provide you with a better experience.
Sharing Information With Facebook and Google for Marketing Purposes:
We may share your personal data with third parties for similar audience marketing purposes. Similar audience marketing is also called lookalike audience marketing. The third parties we share your personal data with for this type of marketing include Facebook and/or Google. Using your personal data, for similar audience marketing or lookalike audience marketing helps us find new audiences (users and customers) based on similar interests to yours, this helps us improve our marketing services. Your personal data is only shared with Facebook and Google for this type of marketing. By using our website and agreeing to our privacy notice, you are giving your consent for your personal data to be used for the marketing purposes described within this section.
Legally Required Releases of Information:
We may be legally required to disclose your personal data if such disclosure is (a) required by subpoena, law, or other legal process; (b) necessary to assist law enforcement officials or government enforcement agencies; (c) necessary to investigate violations of or otherwise enforce our Legal Terms; (d) necessary to protect us from legal action or claims from third parties, including you and/or other users or members; or (e) necessary to protect the legal rights, personal/real property, or personal safety of our company, users, employees, and affiliates.
Disclosures to Successors:
If our business is sold or merged in whole or in part with another business that would become responsible for providing the website to you, we retain the right to transfer your personal data to the new business. The new business would retain the right to use your personal data according to the terms of this privacy notice and any changes to this privacy notice as instituted by the new business.
We also retain the right to transfer your personal data if our company files for bankruptcy and some or all of our assets are sold to another individual or business.
Community Discussion Boards:
Our website may offer the ability for users to communicate with each other through online community discussion boards or other mechanisms. We do not filter or monitor what is posted on such discussion boards. If you choose to post on these discussion boards, you should use care when exposing any personal data, as our privacy notice does not protect such information nor are we liable if you choose to disclose your personal data through such postings. Also, personal data you post on our website for publication may be available worldwide using the Internet. We cannot prevent others from using or misuse of such information.
Retaining and Destroying Your Personal Data:
We retain information that we collect from you (including your personal data) only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.
Updating your Personal Data:
You can update your personal data using services found on our website. If no such services exist, you can contact us using the contact information at the top of this notice, and we will help you. However, we may keep your personal data as needed to enforce our agreements and comply with legal obligations.
Revoking Your Consent for Using Your Personal Data:
You have the right to revoke your consent for us to use your personal data at any time. Such an opt-out will not affect disclosures otherwise permitted by law including but not limited to: (i) disclosures to affiliates and business partners, (ii) disclosures to third-party service providers that provide certain services for our business, such as credit card processing, computer system services, shipping, data management services, (iii) disclosures to third parties as necessary to fulfill your requests, (iv) disclosures to governmental agencies or law enforcement departments, or as otherwise required to be made under applicable law, (v) previously completed disclosures to third parties, or (vi) disclosures to third parties in connection with subsequent contests or promotions you may choose to enter, or third-party offers you may choose to accept. If you want to revoke your consent for us to use your personal data, send us an email with your request to: helen@helensguide.com
Protecting the Privacy Rights of Third Parties:
If any postings you make on our website contain information about third parties, you must make sure you have permission to include that information. While we are not legally liable for the actions of our users, we will remove any postings about which we are notified if such postings violate the privacy rights of others.
Do Not Track Settings:
Some web browsers have settings that enable you to request that our website not track your movement within our website. Our website does not obey such settings when transmitted to and detected by our website. You can turn off your browser’s tracking features and other security settings by referring to your browser’s user manual.
Links to Other Websites:
Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control or subject to our privacy notice. These websites will likely have their privacy notices. We have no responsibility for these websites, and we provide links to them solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that using and accessing these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy notices of these websites to see how they treat your personal data.
Protecting Children’s Privacy:
Even though our website is not designed for anyone under 16, we realize that a child under 16 may attempt to access our website. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete his/her information within a reasonable period. You acknowledge that we do not verify the age of our users, nor do we have any liability to do so.
Our Email Policy:
You can always opt out of receiving further email correspondence from us or our affiliates. We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business, or if our company files for bankruptcy.
Our Security Policy:
We have built our website using industry-standard security measures and authentication tools to protect the security of your personal data. We and the third parties who provide our services also maintain technical and physical safeguards to protect your personal data. When we collect your credit card information through our website, we encrypt it before it travels over the Internet using industry-standard technology for secure online transactions. Unfortunately, because of its nature, we cannot guarantee against the loss or misuse of your personal data or secure data transmission over the Internet.
We strongly urge you to protect any password you may have for our website and not to share it with anyone. You should always log out of our website when you finish using it, especially if you are sharing or using a computer in a public place.
Use of Your Credit Card:
You may have to provide a credit card to buy products and services from our website. We use third-party billing services and have no control over these services. We use our commercially reasonable efforts to ensure your credit card number is kept strictly confidential by using only third-party billing services that use industry-standard encryption technology to protect your card number from unauthorized use. However, you understand and agree that we are in no way responsible for any misuse of your credit card number.
Transferring Personal Data From the European Union:
Personal data that we collect from you may be stored, processed, and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate specifically the United States. The European Union has not found the United States and some other countries to have an adequate level of protection of personal data under Article 45 of the GDPR. Our company relies on derogations for specific situations as defined in Article 49 of the GDPR. For European Union customers and users, with your consent, your personal data may be transferred outside the European Union to the United States and or other countries. We will use your personal data to provide the goods, services, and/or information you request from us to perform a contract with you or to satisfy a legitimate interest of our company in a manner that does not outweigh your freedoms and rights. Wherever we transfer, process, or store your personal data, we will take reasonable steps to protect it. We will use the information we collect from you in accordance with our privacy notice. By using our website, services, or products, you agree to the transfer of your personal data described within this section.
Your Rights:
When using our website and submitting personal data to us, you may have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other laws. Depending on the legal basis for processing your personal data, you may have some or all of the following rights:
The Right to be Informed:
You have the right to be informed about the personal data we collect from you and how we process it.
The Right of Access:
You have the right to get confirmation that your personal data is being processed and have the ability to access your personal data.
The Right to Rectification:
You have the right to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
The Right to Erasure (Right to Be Forgotten):
You have the right to request the removal or deletion of your personal data if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.
The Right to Restrict Processing:
You have a right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your personal data. When your personal data is restricted, we are permitted to store your data, but not to process it further.
The Right to Data Portability:
You have the right to request and get the personal data that you provided to us and use it for your own purposes. We will provide your data to you within 30 days of your request. To request your personal data, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy notice.
The Right to Object:
You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for the following reasons:
– Processing was based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling);
– Direct marketing (including profiling) and processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.
– Rights about automated decision-making and profiling.
– Automated individual decision-making and profiling
– You will have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Filing a Complaint With Authorities:
You have the right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation. If the supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint properly, you may have the right to a judicial remedy.
Definitions:
‘Non-personal data’ is information that is in no way personally identifiable.
‘Personal data’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Personal data is in many ways the same as Personally Identifiable Information (PII). However, personal data is broader in scope and covers more data.
A “visitor” is someone who merely browses our website. A “member” is someone who has registered with us to use or buy our services and products. The term “user” is a collective identifier that refers to either a visitor or a member.
Changes to Our Privacy Notice:
We reserve the right to change this privacy notice at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy notice, we will post those changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose. If at any time we decide to disclose or use your personal data in a method different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice by email (sent to the email address on file in your account). Otherwise, we will use and disclose our users’ and customers’ personal data in agreement with the privacy notice in effect when the information was collected. Your continued use of our website, services, and products after any change to this privacy notice will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Questions About Our Privacy Notice:
If you have any questions about our privacy notice, please contact us using the information below.
Contact Information:
We welcome your questions or comments regarding our Privacy Policy:
PO Box 2005
Maple Grove, Minnesota, 55311
United States
Email Address: helen@helensguide.com
Support URL: https://helensguide.com/support-page/
Last Updated: 1st of September, 2024