Last updated July 5, 2024
DISCLAIMER
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External links disclaimer
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AFFILIATES DISCLAIMER
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TESTIMONIALS DISCLAIMER
The Site may contain testimonials by users of our products and/or services. These testimonials reflect the real-life experiences and opinions of such users. However, the experiences are personal to those particular users and may not necessarily be representative of all users of our products and/or services. We do not claim, and you should not assume that all users will have the same experience. YOUR INDIVIDUAL RESULTS MAY VARY.
The testimonials on the Site are submitted in various forms, such as text, audio and/or video, and are reviewed by us before being posted. They appear on the Site verbatim as given by the users, except for the correction of grammar or typing errors. Some testimonials may have been shortened for the sake of brevity, where the full testimonial contained extraneous information not relevant to the general public.
The views and opinions contained in the testimonials belong solely to the individual user and do not reflect our views and opinions. We are not affiliated with users who provide testimonials, and users are not paid or otherwise compensated for their testimonials.
COPYRIGHT
This website, including but not limited to text, posts, logos, marks, graphics, videos, photos, computer code, designs, downloads and all other information here (collectively, the Content), is the property of Wandering Sophia and is protected by copyright, trademark and other intellectual property and unfair competition laws with the exception of any content from others that we are lawfully permitted to use. All rights reserved.
You agree not to copy, duplicate, steal, modify, publish, display, distribute, reproduce, store, transmit, post, create derivative works, reverse engineer, sell, license, or rent any part of the Content in any way to anyone without our prior written consent.
PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You. We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
By visiting and using the Site, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting 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.
INTERPRETATION & DEFINITIONS
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
ACCOUNT means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service. AFFILIATE means an entity that controls is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for the election of directors or other managing authority. COMPANY (referred to either “the Company”, “We”, “Us,” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Wandering Sophia. COOKIES are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses. COUNTRY refers to: Ontario, Canada. DEVICE means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet. PERSONAL DATA is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual. SERVICE refers to the Website. SERVICE PROVIDE means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform the services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used. USAGE DATA refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit). WEBSITE refers to Wandering Sophia, accessible from www.wanderingsophia.com YOU means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and using your personal data
PERSONAL DATA: While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include but is not limited to Email address, First and Last Name, and Usage Data. USAGE DATA is collected automatically when using the Service. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. Whey You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including but not limited to the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device’s unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of your Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES AND COOKIES
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include COOKIES OR BROWSER COOKIES. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies. WEB BEACONS. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel stages, and single-pixel gifts) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain section and verifying system and server integrity). Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when Yo go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. You can learn more about cookies on TermsFeed website article. We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
NECESSARY/ESSENTIAL COOKIES. Type: Session Cookies, Administered by: Us. Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
COOKIES POLICY/NOTICE ACCEPTANCE COOKIES. Type: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Us/ Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
FUNCTIONALITY COOKIES: Type: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Us. Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time. You use the Website.
TRACKING AND PERFORMANCE COOKIES: Type: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Third Parties. Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages, features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
TARGETING AND ADVERTISING COOKIES: Typle: Persistent Cookies. Administered by: Third-Parties. Purpose: These Cookies track your browsing habits to enable Us to show advertising which is more likely to be of interest to You. These Cookies use information about your browsing history to group You with other users who have similar interests. Based on that information, and with Our permission, third-party advertisers can place Cookies to enable them to show adverts which We think will be relevant to your interest while You are on third-party websites. For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes: TO PROVIDE AND MAINTAIN OUR SERVICE, including to monitor the usage of our Service. TO MANAGE YOUR ACCOUNT: To manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Dat You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user. FOR PERFORMANCE OF A CONTRACT: The development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service. TO CONTACT YOU: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates when necessary or reasonable for their implication. TO PROVIDE YOU with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information. TO MANAGE YOUR REQUESTS: To attend and manage Your request to Us. FOR BUSINESS TRANSFERS: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going-to concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred. FOR OTHER PURPOSES: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and evaluating and improving our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations: WITH SERVICE PROVIDERS. We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service, and to contact You. FOR BUSINESS TRANSFERS: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company. WITH AFFILIATES: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us. WITH BUSINESS PARTNERS: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions. WITH OTHER USERS: You share personal information or otherwise interact in public areas with other users. Such information may be viewed by all users and may be publically distributed outside. WITH YOUR CONSENT: We may disclose Your personal information for any purpose with Your consent.
RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The company will retain Your Personal Data only as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in the Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of your personal data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those from Your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Privacy Policy, followed by Your submission of such information, represents Your agreement to that transfer. The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your Personal data will take place to the organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place, including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete your personal data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You. Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service. You may update, amend or delete your information at any time by signing in to Your Account if you have one and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us. Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
BUSINESS TRANSACTIONS: If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy. LAW ENFORCEMENT: Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to a valid request by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency). OTHER LEGAL REQUIREMENTS: The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: Comply with a legal obligation. Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company. Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service. Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public. Protect against legal liability. SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA: The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The Service Providers We use may have access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use, process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in accordance with their Privacy Policies. ANALYTICS: We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service. GOOGLE ANALYTICS: Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt out of having made your activity on Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browsers add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js.analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visit activity. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: HTTP://policies.google.com/privacy
Advertising
We may use Service Providers to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain Our Service. GOOGLE ADSENSE & DOUBLECLICK COOKIE Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Serice. Google’s use of DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet. You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: HTTP://www.google.com/ads/perferences/
EMAIL MARKETING
We may use Your Personal Data to contact You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to You. You may opt out of receiving any or all of these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email We send. We may use Email Marketing Service Providers to manage and send emails to You. MAILCHIMP is the email marketing sending service provided by The Rocket Science Group LLC. For more information on the privacy practices of Mailchimp, please visit their Privacy policy: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are the parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If we become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers. If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require your parent’s consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to other websites
Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service prior to the change becoming effective and update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us by email: Sophia@WanderingSophia.com