Last updated on 29th May, 2018
1. Introduction
Thank you for visiting www.blissfulway.com.
Welcome to the Site and for choosing to use our Services. This Site and the Services provided are owned by Blissful Way. This Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use and Terms of Service are a fundamental part of using our Service and therefore it is essential that you agree to our Privacy Policy in order to use our Site or Services. You must be 18 years of age or older to use our Site or Services or to purchase any products or services from Blissful Way.
Blissful Way respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information that you provide to us. This statement explains our policies and practices regarding the use and disclosure of your personal information by Blissful Way.
Please be aware that, Blissful Way reviews and updates this Privacy Policy from time to time as needed without notice. Therefore, you should review the terms of this policy periodically to make sure that you are aware of how Blissful Way collects and uses personal information. By using the Blissful Way Site, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by Blissful Way as explained below.
2. Personal Information
You have complete control over your personal information. In general, you can visit the Blissful Way Site without providing us with any personal information. However, there are instances where we must have your personal information in order for us to grant you an access to our protected and secured sites. This information may include registration data (your name, address, email address, phone number, title, etc.), information request data and response data (“User Information”). When you receive your confirmation email or when you receive any email from the list server, you will be given instructions on how to remove yourself from the list. Please be aware that any purchases made by you will require all payment information to be shared and stored by our third party processors.
2a. Right to be forgotten
Where legally possible we will remove your personal information from our systems and from partner services when requested. If you want to have your information removed please contact us by using the contact form provided.
In a limited number of cases for contractual, legal or taxation reasons we are unable to remove your personal information. For example if we sell you a product we have to keep records of that sale.
2b. Updating Your Information
Each email you receive as a subscriber to “Blissful Way” contains a link to update your subscription information in our Email Service Provider system, which is provided by AWeber.
Where legally possible we will update your personal information in our systems and in partner services when requested by you. If you want to have your information updated in this way please contact us by using the contact form provided.
In a limited number of cases for contractual, legal or taxation reasons we are unable to update your personal information. For example if we sell you a product we have to keep records of that sale.
2c. Receiving a Copy of Your Information
You can request to receive a copy of your personal information.
If this request is reasonable then we will provide you with this information at no charge to you.
If this request is unfounded or excessive we may charge you a reasonable fee to procure and collate this information for you.
3. Use of User Information
We intend to use such information for purposes of supporting you and your relationship with Blissful Way by providing you with suitable content on the Blissful Way Site and the products and services provided by Blissful Way i.e. Professional Speaking, Executive Coaching, Life Coaching, webinars, audio/sound recordings, E-books, work/play books and any other coaching or course materials etc. In addition we will be alerting you to new product and service offerings as they become available. This User Information may be retained by Blissful Way to verify compliance with the agreement between you and Blissful Way to keep track of the domains from which people visit us, to create a user profile to better serve you or to simply contact you either electronically or otherwise. If you decide that we should not use your personal User Information to contact you, please let us know and we will not use that information for such purpose. However, please do not submit any User Information if you are less than 18 years of age.
4. Disclosure of User Information
Blissful Way does not sell, trade or transfer User Information to third parties except as specified in the following paragraphs. However, we may share User Information with our business partners for marketing, advertising or product/service offering purposes. For example, we provide User Information to our service providers for direct emailing of our newsletters, online surveys or notifications on Blissful Way Offerings to our viewers.
We also disclose User Information if: we have your consent; we need to share it in order to provide you with the products and/or services you requested; to announce the winner’s name of any competitions, quizzes or challenges; we respond to a court order or you violate our Terms of Use. You may separately agree to provide your personal information to third parties that provide content for Blissful Way Offerings, in order to access and/or use their products and/or services. If you agree to provide such information to these third parties, then your personal information will be subject to their privacy policies.
Please be aware that your personal information may be transferred and stored on computers outside of New South Wales, Australia and therefore subject to privacy laws that may differ and not be as protective as the Privacy Laws of New South Wales, Australia. By consent to this Privacy Policy and submitting your personal information you agree to that transfer.
If you start to enter your personal details on our checkout page we may capture the details you have entered in order to remind you about your purchase or to offer you a special deal. These reminders or deals may be sent to you using email, SMS or Facebook messenger.
These details will be stored at our email service provider which is provided by AWeber. You can read the privacy policy of AWeber at:
https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm
Our ecommerce shopping cart is provided by Thrivecart and payment services are provided by Stripe and PayPal. Thrivecart will receive a copy of your personal information if you choose to make a purchase on our site. One of the payment companies will receive a copy of your personal information if you choose to make a purchase on our site.
You can read their privacy policies at:
Stripe:
https://stripe.com/privacy-shield-policy
Paypal:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full?locale.x=en_US
Thrivecart:
https://legal.thrivecart.com/platform/privacy/
The above policies may have versions which are specific to your location. Please select the version which applies to you.
Your personal details may also be provided to the services podio.com and integromat.com if you choose to order a product from us. We use these services to transfer information between systems (intergromat.com) and to provide reporting systems (podio.com).
You can review podio.com’s privacy policy here:
https://www.citrix.com/about/legal/privacy/ (podio is owned by Citrix)
You can review integromat’s privacy policy here:
https://www.integromat.com/en/kb/privacy.html
If you order a product from us your personal details, as required for shipping your product, are passed onto third parties for shipments. Currently shipping is provided by Australia Post.
You can read Australia Post’s privacy policy here:
https://auspost.com.au/privacy
4a. Personal Financial Details
Blissful Way never receives a copy of any sensitive financial details, such as credit card numbers. These are only ever received by our payment processors who have extensive security and meet PCI standards.
4b. Backups
Your personal details may form part of a server or computer backup. These backups are encrypted and securely stored.
5. Accuracy and Security
The accuracy and security of the User Information is important to Blissful Way. Currently, you may review and request updates to your User Information retained by contacting Blissful Way. If you contact us to correct your User Information, we will attempt to correct such inaccuracies in a timely manner. Blissful Way is concerned with the security of your User Information and is committed to taking reasonable steps to protect it from unauthorized access and use of that personal information. To that end, we put in place the appropriate physical, electronic and managerial policies and procedures to secure your personal User Information. We also continue to implement procedures to maintain accurate, complete and current User Information.
6. Usernames and Passwords
Access to certain content on our Site may be allowed under a written agreement between you and Blissful Way and will require a username and/or password. In some cases, failure to provide personal information may prevent you from accessing certain Blissful Way Site(s) containing certain confidential information, products, services, or promotional offers (“Blissful Way Offerings”). By accessing and using our protected and secured Site(s), you agree to maintain the confidentiality of the username and password you selected to access such Site(s) and consent to our Terms of Use.
7. Cookies
Blissful Way uses “cookies”. A cookie is a small data file that a web site can transfer to a visitor’s hard drive to keep records of the visits to such site. A cookie contains information such as your username and password that helps us recognize the pages you have visited and improve future visits, but the only personal information a cookie can contain is the information that you provide yourself. A cookie cannot read data off of your hard drive or read cookie files created by other sites. Information stored in cookies may be encrypted, however, we do not store your credit card number in cookies. If you prefer not to accept a cookie, you can set your web browser to warn you before accepting cookies or you can refuse all cookies by turning them off in your web browser. However, access to some of our secured Site(s) may require the use of cookies, which you must enable for first party cookies that get sent back to the originating server. Otherwise, you can still access most of the features on our Site even without accepting a cookie.
7a. Essential Cookies
Some cookies are required for our site to correctly function. For example cookies are needed for ecommerce transactions and these sales cannot function without cookies.
When you sign up to “Blissful Way” emails a cookie will be set by our email service provider AWeber. This is a temporary cookie and will be automatically deleted when you close your browser.
7b. Non-Essential Analytics Cookies
We also use some non-essential cookies to collect information for making reports and to help us improve the site and our advertising.
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set, visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org.
We use Google Analytics to understand how our visitors use and interact with the site. Google Analytics sets a number of cookies.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
7c. Non-Essential Marketing Cookies
We also may use the Facebook “pixel” to send some of your interactions with our site to Facebook, which may combine that information with other data. We may use this information for helping us to improve ads, retargeting ads and building advertising audiences in Facebook.
Facebook will use this information for targeting advertising, improving your newsfeed and other purposes. This “pixel” will set or access cookie(s). You can read Facebook’s privacy policy here:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
You can opt out of some forms of Facebook advertising here:
7d. Retargeting and Conversion Pixels
We may also use retargeting and conversion pixels on this site from various third party services, such as Google, Facebook, Perfect Audience and Adroll. Conversion pixels allow us to track visitor actions, such as supplying an email address or purchasing a product. Retargeting pixels allow us to show advertisements to you on external sites, after you have visited our site. These services may use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies to collect or receive data from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to serve ads or provide measurement. These pixels may set cookies on your computer which are later used to serve advertisements on other web sites on the Internet based on your visits to this website.
You may opt-out of many of these and other advertising services by visiting: http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
European citizens can also utilise:
http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
We may use third party services, such as Facebook, Google and Twitter to generate similar or lookalike “audiences” based up information collected using retargeting pixels, conversion or similar pixels, for example pixels from website analytics services such as Google Analytics.
8. External Links
Blissful Way Site provides links to other third party web sites. Even if the third party is affiliated with Blissful Way through a business partnership or otherwise, Blissful Way is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices or the content of such external links. These links are provided to you for convenience purposes only and you access them at your own risk.
9. Terms of Use
Please also see our Terms of Service and Conditions, which describes the restrictions, disclaimers, indemnification and limitation of liability governing the use of the entire Blissful Way Site. Blissful Way Privacy Policy is part of, and subject to the Terms of Service and Conditions.
10. General
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, please contact Blissful Way via our Connect page.