Privacy Policy

ACTive Care Counseling & Coaching, commonly known as “The Chronic Illness Therapist” (“TCIT”) may collect personal information about the users who visit www.thechronicillnesstherapist.com and all content, services and products available at or through the website, including, but not limited to, associated blogs, forums and websites ______________ among others (collectively, the “Site”). Information is collected, used and disclosed in accordance with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) and its amendment, the California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA).

By accessing or using the Site, you are accepting the current version of this Privacy Policy, on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent, and you represent and warrant that you have the right, authority, and capacity to consent to this Privacy Policy, on behalf of yourself or the entity that you represent. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not access or continue to use the Site.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

We collect information so that we can make our products and services better tailored to the people who visit our site and do business with us. We collect this information to (i) deliver products and services you have purchased from us, (ii) to notify you about our product or service offerings that you may be interested in, so long as you have given us consent to do so, and (iii) to keep track of visitor information to our site and/or or create retargeted and “lookalike” audiences for advertising purposes. 

When ordering or registering on the Site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information, and/or other personal information.

We collect information from you directly and indirectly through third-party services, as follows:

When you contact us on the Site:

  • With questions or comments in the contact form.

  • When you comment on a post directly on the website.

  • To request more information, schedule a telephone call, or sign up to the newsletter.

  • To place an order for products or services.

  • To receive your product or services.

When we contact you:

  • To provide the goods and services you requested. 

  • To request occasional feedback.

  • To provide news, updates, and offers through the newsletter, usually by email

When we contact others:

  • We may see certain personal information from third-party apps and services that allow us to complete your order.

  • We may see certain personal information from third-party installations that allow us to remarket our services and products to you on other websites. 

  • We may see certain personal information from third-party apps and services that allow us to monitor website traffic, email conversion, and other analytics data. 

  • We may see your personal information when we work with third-party processors, like our email provider and web host. For EU residents, please note that this means we may transmit your data across international borders. 

WHAT DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION FOR?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience: Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.

  • To improve the Site: We continually strive to improve the Site based on the information and feedback we receive from you.

  • To improve customer service: Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.

  • To process transactions: Your information may be used to deliver purchased products or services, and may be communicated to third parties to facilitate transactions related to purchased products or services.

  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature: Your information may be used to invite you to participate in contests, promotions and surveys, on such other features offered on the Site.

  • To send periodic emails: The email address you provide for order processing may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional news, updates, related product or service information, etc. If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

DO WE DISCLOSE ANY INFORMATION TO OUTSIDE PARTIES?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe such release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

YOUR PRIVACY CONTROLS

We use third-party services on our websites to assist in communicating or interacting with the public, including social media services, widgets, apps, pixels, and plugins, as further identified below. These services may distinguish or trace your identity, through, for example, persistent, multi-session cookies. 

You can configure your system to delete cookies or disable them. In general, we do not collect or disseminate information collected by these services. When interacting with these third parties, their privacy policies apply. As of the time of this writing, we use: 

    • Google Analytics: Specifically, Google Analytics collects data about visitors to the Site via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to other data which may be collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation. We do not merge personally-identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature. Should you wish to opt out of any Google Analytics Advertising features, you are encouraged to change your Ad Settings and Ad Setting for mobile apps, through the NAI’s consumer opt-out, or by using any of the other opt-out options currently available: currently available opt-outs.

    • Facebook pixels. More information is available here and here.

    • HubSpot. More information is available here.

    • SimplePractice. More information is available here.

    • Calendly. More information is available here.

    • Podia. More information is available here.

    • Zoom. More information is available here.

    • Flodesk. More information is available here.

DO WE USE COOKIES?

Yes. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer to collect information about the pages you view and your activities on the site. They enable the site to recognize you by, for example, remembering your user name, offering a shopping cart, or keeping track of your preferences if you visit the site again. The cookie transmits this information back to the website's computer (or server) which generally is the only computer that can read it. You can set your Web browser to warn you about attempts to place cookies on your computer, or to limit the type of cookies you allow. See also more information on how to change cookies settings in popular desktop browsers. 

  • This site uses single and multi-session cookies to enhance the visitor experience. Use the link above to opt out. 

  • This site does not sell or share its email list for use by third parties. 

If you choose to opt out of some or all of our data collection, you may not be able to access all features of this website or our services. 

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION?

We store personal information with third parties that use industry-standard practices for data security. 

ONLINE PRIVACY POLICY ONLY

This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected through or in connection with the Site, including any third-party links posted or embedded within the Site to collect the same, and not to information collected offline.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This Privacy Policy is subject to occasional revision. Continued use of the Site following such changes shall indicate your acknowledgment of such changes and agreement to be bound by the terms and conditions of such changes.

YOUR RIGHTS TO INFORMATION

You own your personal information and have rights to it. For example, you have the rights to: 

  • Withdraw your consent for us to market our products and services to you and otherwise use the personal information you have provided to us. Withdrawing consent is easy. Simply click “unsubscribe” in the footer of our emails, or email to destiny@destinywinters.com.

  • Request a copy of the information we have about you; 

  • Be forgotten (that is, have your data deleted and/or ask us to stop using your information for any purpose); 

  • Correct inaccurate information we have about you (and that means we will notify other service providers we use, and who hold your personal information for us, of those changes as well);

  • Object to direct marketing and profiling (for example, we will remove you from our email list and from any list we have uploaded for the purposes of creating custom or retargeted audiences). We also encourage you to disable data collection services on your browser; 

  • Make complaints about the use of your data to regulatory authorities. 

We will comply with these requests within 30 days. 

COMPLIANCE

We make commercially reasonable efforts to work with data controllers (like our email provider) who guarantee compliance with privacy laws like the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. 

We store your personal information only for as long as it is needed to use it for the reasons you have consented to. 

Occasionally we will revise this policy and will use your contact information to notify you of these changes if they reduce your privacy rights in any way. 

CONTACTING US

If there are any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at destiny@destinywinters.com.

Updated April 2024.