How Does The Excelling Edge Protect Your Privacy?
The Excelling Edge (The Excelling Edge, “we,” “our,” “us” or “I”) am committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out how I collect, store, process, transfer, and use data that identifies or is associated with you (“personal information”).
The Excelling Edge provides coaching and consulting products and services which assist our clients with leading effectively, building better teams and improving the psychological resources of their team members. This includes providing online content and relevant product marketing via our website located at www.theexcellingedge.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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.
Contact forms
When visitors submit a contact form on the site we collect the data shown in the contact form. This information is stored for the sole purpose of serving our clients by responding their needs and requests, and is not used for marketing.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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
Who we share your data with
We do not share or sell your data with any third-parties or partners with the intent to solicit or market services to you. We do share your data with a few third-party entities in order to better serve you.
LeadPages: LeadPages is a third-party service provider we use to provide our clients with downloadable resources. In order to receive those resources (most often free), you (the visitor) must complete a simple opt-in form providing us with your name and email address. In some cases the form may include additional demographic information. LeadPages does store this information as a backup system to our own records such that I can access and download should my records fall through. You can further review LeadPages’ own Privacy Policy for more information by clicking here.
MailChimp: MailChimp is a third-party service provider we use to provide our clients with free content, updates, announcements, marketing, and affiliate offers from The Excelling Edge via email. You can review MailChimp’s own Privacy Policy for more information by clicking here.
Google Analytics: Google Analytics is a third-party service provider that assists us in tracking and analyzing visitor data (such as frequent website visits) in order to provide more relevant content and improve visitor’s experience when accessing our website. You can review the Google Analytics Privacy Policy for more information by clicking here.
How long we retain your data
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 (if any) or through our third-party controllers (e.g., LeadPages or MailChimp), 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.
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.
Where we send your data
Your data is sent and stored according to U.S. and European data protection laws. Our web services hosts (i.e., Blue Host and WordPress) and all third-party service providers who have access to any visitor data are in compliance with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
For further inquiries regarding your privacy, you may contact our team by clicking here.