Privacy Policy
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information the Website may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website (https://thenticgrowth.com) and Thentic Growth governs data collection and usage. Thentic Growth is a personal blog that is written and edited by myself, Nicole Harris.
With all of the content I post, I like to share what I’m doing to learn and grow as a person and I try to be as open as I possibly can. With that, I have all of my disclosures and privacy policy listed. By using Thentic Growth website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement. By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website. The terms “us” or “we” refer to Thentic Growth (http://thenticgrowth.com)
Collection of Your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with updates on new content offered on our Website, Thentic Growth may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
First and Last Name
E-mail Address
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Website. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Website; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message. We will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of Your Personal Information
Thentic Growth collects and uses your personal information to operate its Website and deliver the services you have requested. Thentic Growth may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Thentic Growth and its affiliates. You can choose to opt-out of any data collection, use, and sharing of their personal info, by not engaging with this website and other, Thentic Growth, websites.
Comments: When visitors leave comments on the Website, we collect the data shown in the comments form. Any such interactions via comments with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to misuse of your information by others.
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.
Contact Forms: Your name and email address and any other information you provide when submitting a contact form will only be used as a means for sharing the blog. You will not be spammed with emails and we would never sell your information to any other third party nor will it be used for marketing purposes. This information will be kept indefinitely unless explicitly requested to remove information by user.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Use of Cookies
Thentic Growth may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you leave a comment on the site you may opt-in to saving your first name, last name, email address and website in cookies.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Thentic Growth does not sell, rent or lease its subscriber/customer lists to third parties.
Thentic Growth may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email, or provide customer support. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Thentic Growth, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Additionally, like other websites, this website automatically collects certain information about you through Log Data and Google Analytics. Log Data is information about your computer’s Internet Protocol Address, which is your “IP” address, browser information, Internet Service Provider’s information, your operating system, and your browser type. Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, equipment you used to access the website, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your use of the website.
This information is used to analyze website statistics related to user behavior and interests, improve our performance and your use of the website and to further enhance our products and services offered to you.
Thentic Growth may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Thentic Growth or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Thentic Growth; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Thentic Growth, or the public.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Thentic Growth. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain the quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of Thentic Growth website.
How Long the Site Retains Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
For users that register on the Website (if any), we also store the personal information provided 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.
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Links
This Website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
E-mail Communications
Occasionally, Thentic Growth may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Thentic Growth or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Thentic Growth, you may opt-out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE link.
Right’s Related to Your Personal Information
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in emails. You may also notify us at thenticgrowth@gmail.com to be removed from the mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to thenticgrowth@gmail.com.
Amend – You may contact us at thenticgrowth@gmail.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to thenticgrowth@gmail.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Thentic Growth’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.
Children’s Information
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of sixteen (16) in its database, please contact us immediately at thenticgrowth@gmail.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from the records. If you are under the age of sixteen (16), you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
Changes to this Statement
Thentic Growth reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your profile, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
At any time, please contact us at thenticgrowth@gmail.com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
This policy is effective as of 7/24/22. We may change, modify, or update this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify you of any such changes by email.