Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

Our website address is https://www.positivezone.in.

2. What personal data do we collect and why do we collect it?

Comments

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Courses

If you sign up for a course…

At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to set up your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.

When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.

Contact forms

We collect your email address to:
Subscribe to our Daily Writing Links
Send information, respond to enquiries, and/or other requests or questions
Process orders and send information and updates about orders.

Cookies

Our website requires cookies to operate. They allow us to use things like social media plugins and to allow you to use our online courses.
Cookies are also used for analytic purposes to tell us, for example, when the busiest time for our website is.
Be aware that some cookies are necessary for the operation of the site however you can opt-out of allowing Google Analytics if it concerns you.
Cookies store some information in your browser, your login details for example. 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our site. You can opt out of tracking.

Google Ads

Google’s advertising requirements may use your Google user profile to target their adverts at you. This is beyond our control. You can edit your profile settings in your google account.

Manage the ads you see with Ad Settings or with Your Online Choices.

3. Who do we share your data with

Newsletter: We send emails via Mailchimp.

Social Media Platforms: If you sign-up or log in using a social media platform you grant them access to your information. You can manage this from within the social media platform. We use the Ultimate Social Media PLUS.

How long we retain your data

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

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.

4. What rights do 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.

5. Where do we send your data?

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. But your data is checked by us in person and not sent anywhere.

General

Your contact information

If you sign up for an online course, we store your username and e-mail address on our server.

6. How we protect your data

Your data is stored on our secure server. We have taken a number of precautions to protect your data. Such as not storing any data that could be used to impersonate you. We do not record any data used while making payments other than your name and what you were buying.

Our server is kept up-to-date and protected by our IT team as well as third-party security partners.

What third parties do we receive data from

We receive no data other than what you give us you and data recorded by Google Analytics.

What automated decision-making and/or profiling do we do with user data

We believe that all decisions about data should be made by a person not a computer and as such we do not use automated profiling. All decisions regarding behaviour are reviewed by us manually.

7. Our Advertising Partners

Some of the advertisers on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has its own Privacy Policy for its policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.

Google https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

8. Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of positivezone.in.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on the positive zone, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that positivezone.in has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

9. Online Privacy Policy Only

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in positivezone.in. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

10. Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of www.positivezone.in.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.positivezone.in, which are sent directly to users’ browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that www.positivezone.in has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

11. Third Party Privacy Policies

www.positivezone.in’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found on the browsers’ respective websites.

12. CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business deletes any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

13. GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

14. Children’s Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

www.positivezone.in does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 18. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

15. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the details provided on our contact page.

16. Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its Terms and Conditions.