Privacy Policy
1. Introduction
We understand the value of your privacy and the importance of safeguarding your data. This Privacy Policy ("Privacy Policy") describes our privacy practices for the activities set forth below. As per your rights, we inform you how we collect, store, access, and otherwise process information relating to individuals. In this Policy, "Personal Data" refers to any information that on its own, or in combination with other available information, can distinguish an individual.
We are committed to protecting your privacy in accordance with the highest level of privacy regulation. As such, we follow the obligations under all applicable regulations.
2. Scope
This policy applies only to the KeithJWeber.com website and applies only when you interact with us by doing any of the following:
Visit or browse our website.
Complete and submit the “Contact Us” form, or other forms hosted by Squarespace, our platform provider, requesting products, services, or other information from us.
Receive any communication from us including newsletters, emails, calls, or texts.
This Policy does not apply to third-party applications, websites, products, services or platforms that may be accessed through links that we may provide to you. Third-party sites may be identified by their URL address. These sites are owned and operated independently from us, and they have their own separate privacy and data collection practices. Any personal data that you provide to these websites will be governed by the third-party’s own privacy policy. We cannot accept liability for the actions or policies of these independent sites, and we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such sites.
The third-party websites or applications most frequently accessed from the KeithJWeber.com website include:
Amazon.com
Bookfunnel.com
This list is not all-inclusive. There may be other sites, less frequently accessed, that are also third-party sites, governed by their own policies as described above. This list is provided as a convenience and for transparency of the most frequently accessed sites.
3. Personal Data We Collect/Cookie Policy
We collect information that you knowingly provide, such as when you fill out and submit a “Contact Us” form, and information that is collected automatically when you visit our site. This information is used to enhance your user experience with our site and provide us with analytic information about visitors to our site.
When you submit information via a webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Zapier for data porting.
If you provide us, or our service providers, with any Personal Data relating to other individuals, you represent that you have the authority to do so and acknowledge that it will be used in accordance with this Privacy Statement. If you believe that your Personal Data has been provided to us improperly, or to otherwise exercise your rights relating to your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information set out in the Contact Us section below.
When you visit our website, our hosting platform, Squarespace, automatically collects and stores information about your visit using browser cookies and similar technologies. These are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses. These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace to securely serve this website to you.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. The Help Feature on most browsers will provide information on how to accept cookies, disable cookies, or notify you when receiving a new cookie. If you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some features of our website.
If allowed by your browser settings, we collect information automatically when you visit our site. This information is used to power our site analytics and may include:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
4. Data we collect from third parties
We may receive personal data from third parties who link to our website. This information is not collected by us but by a third party and is subject to the relevant third party’s own separate privacy and data collection policies. We do not have any control or input on how your personal data is handled by third parties. As always, you have the right to review and rectify this information. If you have any questions you should contact the relevant third party for further information about your personal data.
Our websites and services may contain links to other websites, applications and services maintained by third parties. The information practices of such other services, or of social media networks that host our branded social media pages, are governed by third parties’ privacy statements, which you should review to better understand those third parties’ privacy practices.
5. Marketing
We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.
6. Blog Comments
This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:
Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)
Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)
Your website URL (optional)
This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share
Your IP address
7. Purpose and Legal Basis for the Processing of Personal Data
We collect and use personal data about you, with your consent, to provide, maintain, and develop our products and services and understand how to improve them.
These purposes include:
To inform you of our products and services.
To build a Safe and Secure Environment
To investigate and prevent security incidents such as breaches, attacks and hacks.
Where we process your personal data to provide a product or service, we do so because it is necessary to perform contractual obligations. All of the above processing is necessary in our legitimate interests to provide products and services and to maintain our relationship with you and to protect our business. Consent will be required to initiate services with you. New consent will be required if any changes are made to the type of data collected.
8. Sharing and Disclosure
We will share your personal data with third parties only in the ways set out in this Policy or set out at the point when the personal data is collected.
We may, from time-to-time, share your information with other authors or entities whose work is similar to ours, and who, we believe, may have products or services of interest to you.
We utilize Bookfunnel.com to deliver free materials to you.
We may use a third party service provider, independent contractors, agencies, or consultants to deliver and help us improve our products and services. Service providers may be located within or outside the USA. We may share your personal data with marketing agencies, database service providers, backup and disaster recovery service providers, email service providers and others but only to maintain and improve our products and services. For further information on the recipients of your Personal Data, please contact us by using the information in the Contact Us section below.
We also use Squarespace and/or Google Analytics to help us understand how visitors use our site. You can read more about how Squarespace and Google use your Personal Information here:
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here:
9. Legal Requirement
We may use or disclose your personal data in order to comply with a legal obligation, in connection with a request from a public or government authority, or in connection with court or tribunal proceedings, to prevent loss of life or injury, or to protect our rights or property. Where possible and practical to do so, we will tell you in advance of such disclosure.
10. Retention & Deletion
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which that data was collected and to the extent required by applicable law. When we no longer need personal data, we will remove it from our systems and/or take steps to anonymize it.
11. Children's Privacy
We do not ask, and therefore do not know, the ages of visitors to our site. We will not knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 18 Years. If a child under the age of 18 submits their information to us, we will remove it promptly upon request.
12. Your Rights to Your Personal Data
Depending on your geographical location and citizenship, your rights are subject to local data privacy regulations. These rights may include:
Right to Access (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 15, CCPA, LGPD). You have the right to request a copy of the personal data we are processing about you.
Right to Rectification (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 16, LGPD). You have the right to have incomplete or inaccurate personal data that we process about you rectified.
Right to be Forgotten (right to erasure) (GDPR Article 17, CCPA, LGPD). You have the right to request that we delete personal data that we process about you, except we are not obliged to do so if we need to retain such data in order to comply with a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Right to Restriction of Processing (GDPR Article 18, LGPD). You have the right to restrict our processing of your personal data where you believe such data to be inaccurate; our processing is unlawful; or if we no longer need to process such data for a particular purpose unless we are not able to delete the data due to a legal or other obligation or because you do not wish us to delete it.
Right to Portability (PIPEDA, GDPR Article 20, LGPD). You have the right to obtain personal data we hold about you, in a structured, electronic format, and to transmit such data to another data controller, where this is (a) personal data which you have provided to us, and (b) if we are processing that data on the basis of your consent or to perform a contract with you or the third party that subscribes to our. services.
Right to Objection (GDPR Article 21, LGPD). Where the legal justification for our processing of your personal data is our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will abide by your request unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for processing which override your interests and rights, or if we need to continue to process the data for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.
Right Not to Be Discriminated (CCPA). You have the right not to be denied service or have an altered experience based on having executed any of your CCPA rights.
13. Withdrawing Consent
If you have consented to our processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, free of charge, such as where you wish to unsubscribe from marketing messages that you receive from us. If you wish to withdraw your consent, please contact us using the information found at the bottom of this page.
14. How to Exercise Your Rights
You can make a request to exercise any of these rights in relation to your personal data by sending the request to our privacy team by using the contact us information below.
For your own privacy and security, at our discretion, we may require you to prove your identity before providing the requested information.
15. Changes
We may modify this Policy at any time. If we make changes to this Policy then we will post an updated version of this Policy on this website. When using our services, you will be asked to review and accept our Privacy Policy. In this manner, we may record your acceptance and notify you of any future changes to this Policy.
16. Complaints
If you have a complaint about this Policy or any element of your personal information that we hold then please contact us below. If you are not satisfied, then you have the right to lodge a complaint with the local data protection authority.
If you are based in the EEA, please visit this website (http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/document.cfm?action=display&doc_id=50061) for a list of local data protection authorities.
17. Contact Us
To request a copy of your information, unsubscribe from our email list, request for your data to be deleted, or ask a question about your data privacy, we've made the process simple:
Please email us at: keithjweberauthor@gmail.com
Please include the Subject: Privacy
Last Updated: 01/07/2024