Privacy Policy

The Peaceful Belly & www.thepeacefulbelly.com

 
 

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE USING www.thepeacefulbelly.com (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE “SITE”). 

This Privacy Policy is here to better serve those who are concerned with how their information is used online. The following describes what type of information we collect, what it’s used for, and the measures we take to protect it.

IMPORTANT NOTE: By using the Site and/or purchasing, viewing, downloading, or otherwise signing up to receive The Peaceful Belly email list newsletter, social media posts, blog posts, coaching services, consultation requests, guides, eBooks, forms, and website materials (hereinafter collectively referred to as the “Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products”), you voluntarily agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy. 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Erin Costa at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com.

If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, you shall not use or browse the Site. 

  1. Definitions

“Company” means The Peaceful Belly and www.thepeacefulbelly.com.

“Content” means any and all written, visual, video, or audio information contained on the Site, including, but not limited to, any and all emails received from Erin Costa, The Peaceful Belly, or www.thepeacefulbelly.com and any and all written or downloadable material purchased, viewed, or otherwise offered on www.thepeacefulbelly.com such as blog posts, graphics, designs, documents, information, templates, and materials.

“Personal Information” means information that can be used on its own or in conjunction with other information to identify, contact, or locate a person or to identify an individual in context. For example, personal information includes, among other things, your name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card information, site behavior, etc.

“Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products” means www.thepeacefulbelly.com content, email list, social media posts, blog posts, coaching services, consultation requests, guides, eBooks, forms, and website materials available on the Site.

“Site” means www.thepeacefulbelly.com and any and all of the Company’s associated pages, tabs, landing pages, forms, or sub-pages.

“You” or “Your” means the user, customer, or viewer of the Site.

2. Company Statement:

The Site and its Content are owned by The Peaceful Belly.

The Peaceful Belly is committed to protecting your Personal Information. We will only collect or use your Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy herein.

3. What kind of Personal Information do we collect?

Personal Information You Provide: 

When using the Site, and in filling out forms, providing comments, or contacting us, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, date of birth, weight, and height. We use this information to deliver the information requested, to improve the performance and applicability of the Site, and to provide you with educational content, newsletters, promotions, and special offers. 

Personal Information Automatically Collected:

Through the use of the Site, the Company may use data collection technology to collect information related to your use of the Site. Generally speaking, this includes information about your geographic location and Site behavior. The Data Collection Companies also provide us with information about what type of device or software you use, your IP address (with location information), and whether you view the Site on mobile, tablet, or desktop.

We collect this information for statistical purposes only and to improve the viewer experience.

4. What if the Personal Information we have about you is incorrect or you want to update it?

If the Personal Information we have collected about you is incorrect or incomplete in any way, or you would like to update what we have, please contact Erin Costa at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com. We will make the appropriate corrections when notified, as long as the corrections requested to be made are not incorrect or fraudulent in any way.

5. When do we collect Personal Information?

We collect Personal Information from you when you sign up for and for the Site and Services, download our freebies or resources, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, browse the Site, view content, or enter your Personal Information on the Site. If you're just viewing the Site, you won't be required to provide personal information to browse.

If you're outside of the EU: if you sign-up to receive any freebies, downloads, recordings, or services from the Company, or purchase any services from us, you will automatically be added to our email list to receive free email messages from us. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking "UNSUBSCRIBE" at the bottom of each email. If you have any questions or difficulty unsubscribing from those emails, email Erin Costa at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com to be unsubscribed from future messages.

If you're IN the EU: if you sign-up to receive any freebies, downloads, recordings, or services from the Company, or purchase any services from us, you will only be added to our email list to receive free email messages from us if you affirmatively consent to receive such messages. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking "UNSUBSCRIBE" at the bottom of each email. If you have any questions or difficulty unsubscribing from those emails, email Erin Costa at erin@thpeacefulbelly.com to be unsubscribed from future messages.

6. How do we use your Personal Information?

When using the Site or Services, we may use the Personal Information we collect from you when you register, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication (typically by email), browse the Site, or use certain other Site features in the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.

  • To improve our Site in order to better serve you.

  • To allow us to better serve you in response to your customer service requests.

  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other Site feature.

  • To quickly process your transactions on and for the Site or Services.

  • To send periodic emails regarding the Site or Services.

7. Do we share your Personal Information with anyone?

In general, we do NOT sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside (third) parties your Personal Information for marketing or advertising purposes, except for the following purposes:

  • in order to comply with an investigation, law enforcement inquiry, government entities, courts, or other third parties as required or allowed by applicable law, such as for legal and/or safety purposes.

  • Third-party service providers that provide products, tools, platforms or services to us, such as email-list building, website management, customer service, account maintenance, and performing other activities and services related to the management and running of our company.

  • Social media platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Pinterest, etc. that offer functionalities and services to use their services through our website (i.e., pinning an image to Pinterest, sharing a link to Facebook). If you use those functionalities on the Site, your information will be shared with those platforms to complete those functions and activities. 

We may disclose your Personal Information to our subsidiaries, contractors, subcontractors, assigns, affiliates or successors in interest when necessary to carry out our business functions.  This may include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, email service, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. 

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. If you make your personal information available to third parties through our Site or Services, The Peaceful Belly is not responsible for any unauthorized use by that third party.

It's also important to note that we do NOT allow third-party behavioral tracking.

8. How do we protect your Personal Information?

We aim to make your visit to our Site as safe as possible. The Site uses commercially acceptable methods of security protection to protect your information.

We also use a SSL certificate and never transmit your credit card information by email.

Your Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the Personal Information confidential. By viewing or using Services on or from the site, you acknowledge that The Peaceful Belly and its staff and independent contractors may access your Personal Information.

9. Do we use 'cookies' or social media pixels?

Cookies. We, and third-parties as described in Section 7 herein, use cookies and collect information from the computer, mobile phone, or other device you use to access the Site, read our emails, or view our advertisements. This information is automatically collected. Cookies are small data files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current Site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about Site traffic and Site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We use cookies to:

  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better Site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

  • To personalize your experience and better understand customers’ preferences for our marketing and business purposes.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since each browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

While you may disable the use of cookies through your browser’s settings or options page, you may lose some of the features and functionality of the Site and Services as cookies are necessary to help track and enhance your experience on the Site.

Pixels. The Company DOES NOT USE social media pixels (Facebook pixels) to track visitors to the Site so we can tailor advertisements towards those visitors on various social media platforms.

10. Third-Party Links:

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products, services, or links to articles/blogs/sites on our Site. These third-party sites may or may not have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites and/or their privacy policy (or lack thereof). Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about any issues you experience with linked-to sites by emailing us at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com.

13. California Online Privacy Protection Act (“CalOPPA”):

CalOPPA stretches well beyond California to require any person or company that operates websites collecting Personal Information from California viewers/consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. Read more about CalOPPA here.

Pursuant to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

Users CAN visit our site anonymously. 

There IS a link to this Privacy Policy in the footer of this site.

Our Privacy Policy link DOES include the word 'Privacy' and can easily be found in the footer of this site. It is titled "Privacy Policy" very clearly.

You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page (see bottom “Updated On” date).

14. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”):

We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13. Please STOP and do not use, view, or otherwise browse the Site or Services if you are under 13 years old. If you’re younger than 13, you are not permitted to enter any Personal Information on this Site.

If you are a parent and you believe your child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us immediately to have it removed by emailing us at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com 

15. Fair Information Practices:

In order to comply with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email within 3 business days of any known breach.

16. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003:

The CAN-SPAM Act is a U.S. law which establishes rules for commercial email messages, gives you the right to stop certain commercial emails from being sent to you, and outlines certain penalties for commercial entities or persons who violate the law.

We collect your email address and name so we can:

  • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.

  • Send you additional information related to your service.

  • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to you after the original transaction has occurred.

  • Email you a newsletter with free information and advertising certain Products or Services we offer.

In accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act, we agree to the following:

  • We will NOT use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.

  • We will identify the email message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.

  • We will include our business mailing address and/or physical address in our emails.

  • We will monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance. We use Flo Desk to send our emails to you.

  • We will honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.

  • We will allow users to unsubscribe by using the appropriate link at the bottom of each email.

TO UNSUBSCRIBE: 

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at Erin at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com or follow the instructions at the bottom of any email you receive from us and we will promptly remove you from future correspondence(s). However, unsubscribing from one list or set of emails may not unsubscribe you from receiving ALL future emails from us. If you experience any problems unsubscribing, please email Erin at erin@thepeacefulbelly.com and we will promptly handle your removal.

17. Your General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") Rights

If you are located within the European Union ("EU"), you are entitled to certain rights under the GDPR. You have the right to:

  • Know how long we'll keep your information. We'll keep your personal information until (1) you either ask us to delete your information or (2) the Company decides it no longer needs the data and the cost of retaining it outweighs the value to keeping it.]

  • Access, rectify or erase your personal information.

  • Withdraw your consent to the Company's processing of your data, which shall have no effect on the lawfulness of the processing of your personal information prior to your withdrawal.

  • Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over GDPR issues.

  • Provide only your personal information which is reasonably required to enter into a contract with us. The Company will not ask for your consent to provide unnecessary personal information on the condition of entering into a contractual relationship with the Company.

18. Contacting Us:

If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the following information:
The Peaceful Belly
Website: www.thepeacefulbelly.com
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 908 Roseville, CA 95661
Email: erin@thepeacefulbelly.com

Updated on: 1/27/2022