Privacy Policy

Effective: May 20, 2018 | Updated: March 23, 2021

Your Privacy is important to us. In this Privacy Policy, we’ll disclose how we collect and use personal information, and what rights/options you have over the information that we collect.

Please read our Privacy Policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, and share information about you, along with the choices that you have with respect to that information.

1. Who We Are

Our website address is: https://davyandtracy.com.

DavyandTracy.com is a personal development and lifestyle blog by Davy and Tracy Russell. We help people connect to the cycles and rhythms of nature for mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing. We do this through engagement with social media and other online platforms. We also offer e-courses and coaching programs.

2. What Personal Data We Collect And Why We Collect It

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so – for example, to provide our website’s services, to communicate with you, or to make improvement to our website’s function.

We collect information in three ways:

  1. If and when you provide information to us,
  2. Automatically through operating our website’s services,
  3. And from outside sources.

The information we collect may include:

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you provide us with, e-mail, or 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

When you fill out a contact form on our site, we collect the data that you type into the form including your name and e-mail address, as well as any other information you relay to us via the text field(s), drop-down or check-box options in the form.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

We also use some third party services on our site that may also create cookies. Please read our Cookie Policy to understand how we use cookies.

Member Account Profiles

If you become a member of our site, or purchase anything from our online store, we collect your username, password, first and last names, email address, and IP address for the purposes of granting you access to premium content on the site, or details about the orders that you placed.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies to help websites analyse how visitors use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to, and stored by Google, on servers in the United States . Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

You can prevent Google’s collection and use of data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Please note that our website has configured Google Analytics with the setting “anonymizeIp”. This guarantees anonymized data collection by masking the last part of your IP address, which makes it impossible to connect an IP with an individual.

Further information concerning the terms and conditions of use and data privacy can be found at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Compliance With Data Protection Laws For Children

All content, products, and services on our website are intended for general audiences and are NOT directed to children. We do not knowingly permit children under age 13 (in the United States) or age 16 (in the EEA) to register for any content, product or service that we offer. We do not knowingly collect, use, or disclose personal information about users under age 13 (in the United States) or age 16 (in the EEA), except as permitted by law.

3. How And Why We Use Information

We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes listed below:

  • To provide our website’s services, for example, to set up and maintain your membership account and to deliver products/services that you purchase through our website in accordance with our Terms of Service;
  • To further develop and improve our website’s services by adding new features that we think our users will enjoy;
  • To monitor and analyze trends and better understand how users interact with our website, which helps us improve our website and makes it easier to use;
  • To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition–for example, we may analyze how many individuals purchased our product/s after receiving a marketing message;
  • To monitor and prevent any problems with our website, protect the security of our website, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of DavyandTracy.com and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our website;
  • To communicate with you, for example through an email, about offers and promotions offered by DavyandTracy.com and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on our website’s services and products; and
  • To personalize your experience using our website, provide content recommendations, target our marketing messages to groups of our users (for example, those in a certain geography), and serve relevant advertisements.

4. How We Share Information

We do not sell our users’ private personal information. We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our website’s services, or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.

Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services. This may include vendors that help us provide our services to you (for example, email delivery services that you opt in to), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our website’s services (like analytics providers), and companies that re-publish our posts who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide authorship and proper credits back to you. We require vendors to agree to privacy commitments in order to share information with them.

Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

To Protect Rights, Property, and Others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of DavyandTracy.com, third parties, or the public at large. For example, if we have a good faith belief that there is an imminent danger of death or serious physical injury, we may disclose information related to the emergency without delay.

Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the event that DavyandTracy.com goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Aggregated or De-Identified Information: We may share information that has been aggregated or reasonably de-identified, so that the information could not reasonably be used to identify you. For instance, we may publish aggregate statistics about the use of our website’s services and we may share a hashed version of your email address to facilitate customized ad campaigns on other platforms.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Collection of Personal Financial Information by a Payment Service. We use third party payment services (Stripe and PayPal) to enable you to purchase products or make payments through our website. When making a payment, you may be directed to a page operated by that Payment Service. Any information that you provide to a Payment Service will be subject to the applicable Payment Service’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy. We have no control over, and are not responsible for, any Payment Service’s use of information collected through any Payment Service.

PayPal Privacy Policy: https://www.paypal.com/privacy/

Stripe Privacy Policy: https://stripe.com/privacy

5. How Long We Retain Your Data

We will retain your information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide 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.

Remember that even after you cancel your account, or if you ask us to delete your personal information, copies of some information from your account may remain viewable in some circumstances where, for example, you have shared information with social media or other services. Because of the nature of caching technology, your account may not be instantly inaccessible to others. We may also retain backup information related to your account on our servers for some time after cancellation or your request for deletion, for fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security or recordkeeping policies. It may is not always be possible to completely remove or delete all of your information due to technical constraints or, contractual, financial, or legal requirements.

If you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, or otherwise opt-in to electronic communication from us, we will retain your name and e-mail address indefinitely in order to send you communications that you have opted in to. Your name and e-mail may be retained for a period of time even after you have opted out of electronic communication. We periodically batch delete e-mails from persons who have unsubscribed to our services, or opted out of electronic communications from us. You may request that your name and e-mail address be permanently deleted immediately after opting out of electronic communication by using the Privacy Contact Form at the very bottom of this Privacy Policy notice on our website.

6. What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data;
  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
  • Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data by sending us a request via email. EU individuals also have the right to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority.

You have several choices available when it comes to the information that we may collect about you:

Limit The Information That You Provide: If you have an account with us, you can choose not to provide the optional account information, or other profile information. Please keep in mind that if you do not provide this information, certain features of our website may not be accessible to you.

Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving any and all messages from us. If you subscribe to our e-mail newsletter, you can click on the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every e-mail we send. Additionally, you can manually contact us to request to be opted out of any and/or all communication.

If you opt out of certain messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices, or responses to requests for information that you send us prior to, or after, you’ve opted out of of electronic communications.

Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before visiting davyandtracy.com, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

See our Cookie Policy for more information about cookies, and how we use cookies.

Close Your Account: If you have purchased our membership services and no longer wish to use our website, or keep your account, you can close your davyandtracy.com membership account by sending us a request for account deletion via email.

Please keep in mind that we may continue to retain your information after closing your account, as described in How Long We Keep Information above–for example, when that information is reasonably needed to comply with (or demonstrate our compliance with) legal obligations such as law enforcement requests, or reasonably needed for our legitimate business interests.

7. Contact Information

You can send us questions regarding our privacy policy and your personal information via e-mail using our Privacy Contact Form at the bottom of this page.

8. How We Protect Your Data

DavyandTracy.com takes reasonable measures to help protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction.

This includes hosting our site with the latest encryption technology, and using best practices to safeguard against hacking and data breaches.

However, no one can guarantee the complete safety of your information online since the Internet is not a 100% secure environment.

9. Additional Information

Changes to this Privacy Policy. We may update this Privacy Policy at any time by posting the most recent version of it on our website, along with the date the new Privacy Policy takes effect. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy in the way we collect, use, and/or share personal information through our website in a manner that expand our rights to use the personal information we have already collected from you, we will notify you and provide you with a choice about our future use of that information.

Location of Data. Our website is hosted in and managed from the United States. If you are a user located outside the United States, you understand and consent to having any personal information (which may include information collected through the use of cookies and other technologies, as described above) processed in the United States or in any other country in which we engage service providers. United States and other countries’ data protection laws may not be the same as those in your jurisdiction. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or security authorities in the United States may be entitled to access your personal information.

Third-Party Sites. If you click on or interact with a hyperlink or advertisement that you find on our website, you may leave our website or send information to a different website. Our Privacy Policy does not apply to your interactions with third-party websites, even if you find a link to them on or access them through our website, and so you should read the privacy policy of the third-party provider to see how your personal information will be treated on its site. We have no control over third-parties, their websites, or their products or services.


Privacy Contact Form

Please direct any privacy-related queries to our Contact Page.