PRIVACY POLICY
The L8 Bloomers operates https://www.thel8bloomers.com. This statement explains what we do with your personal information when you visit our website, subscribe to use our service, and how to exercise your rights over your personal information.
Who is in charge of your information
With respect to the personal information you give us when you subscribe to L8 Bloomers, we are the “data controller” responsible for that information.
The information we may collect about you
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information you give us. You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by email or otherwise.
o This includes information you provide when you register to use our website, subscribe to our service, sign-up for newsletter, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions on our web site and when you report a problem with our site.
o The information you give us may include your name, address, email address and phone number, personal description and photograph, educational and employment history.
- Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our web site, we may automatically collect the following information:
o Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform.
o Information about your visit or visits from your IP address, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number.
- Information we receive from other sources.
o We may receive information about you if you use any of the other websites we operate or the other services we provide. We are also working closely with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, search information providers, credit reference agencies) and may receive information about you from them.
o We may collect your personal details from other sources including where emails are forwarded to you or where we receive your contact details in an automatic out of office response to an email sent by us.
Uses Made of the Information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- to tailor the content that we display to you;
- to notify you about changes to our web site;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or other device used to access our site.
- for system administration and to report aggregated statistical information about browsing patterns and actions which does not identify any individual;
- to store usage logs which may be used by us to provide existing and potential authors, contributors, associations we partner with, subscribers and clients with firm-level (i.e.not individual) information about the user base and usage patterns;
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including product development, troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.
- we may combine information received from other sources with information you give to us and information we collect about you. We may us this information and the combined information for the purposes set out above.
Disclosure of your information
We will not usually share your personal information with other parties without your consent but may do so in the following situations:
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
- where we share aggregated information, which does not identify individuals with potential authors, contributors, subscribers and clients;
- where we are requested to provide information by authorised third parties or regulatory or governmental agencies investigating illegal activities;
- where we believe than an emergency, illegal activity or some other reasonable basis exists for notifying the relevant authority;
- where we use sub-contractors to provide the service. Any such sub-contractor will only use your personal information for the purposes of providing services to us and will have no right to use your personal information for its own purposes;
- in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
- advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. Save as expressly stated, we do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users. We may also use such
aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience;
- we may hold events including seminars and conferences which are sponsored by third parties or have third party speakers. Where you register for one of these events we may share your details with those third parties;
- analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site; and
- we use third party payment processing services when you make payment through our site. We do not have access to any credit card or other financial information processed by the third party.
Dealing with your personal information
We typically process your personal information if we have genuine and legitimate reason to do so.
This means that when you provide your personal details to us we use your information for our legitimate business interests to send you marketing communications or to gather information about how you use our website. Before doing this, though, we will also carefully consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights.
Some other typical examples of when we might use the approach are for preventing fraud, maintaining the security of our system, data analytics, enhancing, modifying or improving our services, identifying usage trends and determining the effectiveness of our campaigns.
Cookies
If L8 Bloomers website is to work properly, you will need to ensure that your web browser is set to accept cookies. A cookie is a small file (or record in a file) which the website can send to your browser which may then store it on your computer’s hard drive. Cookies allow L8 Bloomers to analyse web traffic and to determine more popular areas of its website. Cookies also allow L8 Bloomers to make its website more user friendly by allowing it save all registration and subscription details or passwords so that you do not have to re-enter every time you visit the website. The cookie will stay on your computer and will only be used should you enter the L8 Bloomers website. Notwithstanding the above, you do not have to accept cookies and you should read the information that came with your web browser software to see how you can set up your web browser to notify you when you receive a cookie and to give you the opportunity to decide to accept or reject it. Our cookies will not transmit any information to us about you other than concerning your use of the L8 Bloomers website.
Keeping your information up to date, and how long we will keep your information for
It is your responsibility to ensure that the information you submit when subscribing for L8 Bloomers is complete, accurate and up to date and it is your responsibility to notify us if that information changes.
We will keep the information that you provide us when you visit the L8 Bloomers website for a period of 3 years, after which it will be deleted.
We will keep the information that you provide us when you subscribe, to L8 Bloomers for as long as you continue to be a subscriber, for 3 years after you have ceased to be a subscriber, and for 3 years after you last log into your L8 Bloomers account (but are not a full L8 Bloomers subscriber), after which it will be deleted.
We will keep the information that you provide us when registering for a L8 Bloomers webinar for a period of 3 years, after which it will be deleted.
Your right to unsubscribe
When you receive marketing communications from us you have the right to unsubscribe at any time. You can do that by following the unsubscribe link in the email, or by contacting us at:
info@thel8bloomers.com. If you unsubscribe, we will stop sending you marketing communications.
Your right to a copy of the information we hold about you
With some exceptions designed to protect the rights of others, you have the right to a copy of the personal data that we hold about you, as well as information about what we do with it, who we share it with and how long we will hold it for. We may make a reasonable charge for additional copies of that data beyond the first copy, based on our administrative costs.
Your right to have inaccurate information about you corrected
You have the right to have the information we hold about you corrected if it is factually inaccurate. In most cases the easiest way to do that is to contact us and let us know what information needs to be changed.
Your right to have your information deleted in some circumstances
In some circumstances, you have the right to require us to delete the information that we hold about you. In particular, if you cease being a L8 Bloomers subscriber and we no longer need to process your personal data, then we will delete the relevant data from our systems.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This policy is effective as of September 18, 2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page. We reserve the right to update or change our policy at any time and you should check this policy periodically. Your continued use of our website after we post any modifications to the policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified policy.
If we make any material changes to this policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this policy, please contact us via email info@thel8bloomers.com