Circle of Wisdom, Inc. (“Company,” “we,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. It is our continued honor to serve you as a community member. We fully recognize our responsibility to protect your user information and its confidential nature, and we employ the highest standards of safety, security, and confidentiality with your personal and financial information.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of CircleofWisdom.org (“the Website” “Site”), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Site, whether as a guest or a registered user.
When accessing the Website, we will learn certain information about you both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Site.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
“Cookies” are small bits of information that your web browser stores on your computer’s hard drive. In order to become a registered user of the Circle of Wisdom Site, your web browser must be enabled to accept cookies. We also use cookies to give credit to those sites that direct traffic to Circle of Wisdom for networking purposes. Circle of Wisdom does not use cookies to store or collect personal information such as full names, addresses, or payment information.
Children Under 13
Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
Information We Collect
When you access the Website, we will learn certain information about you during your visit. The Website includes various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website.
The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings and to make you aware of new content, promotions, and other information. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
We sometimes use cookies and social media pixels. Pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, through mail, and via telephone. This also applies when you register on our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address, or make a purchase on this site. For further information, see the email policies below.
We are committed to keeping your email address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as described in the section below titled Disclosure of Your Information. We also will maintain the information you send via email in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the us. In addition, all email messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further email communication from us. Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt out of receiving communications from us and our partners by following the “unsubscribe” instructions located at the bottom of any email they receive from us at any time.
How We Use The Information You Provide
We use personal information for purposes of providing you with information including offers for products and services, administering our business activities, and providing membership services.
On occasion, we may use the information you provide to us to make you aware of offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.
Disclosure of Your Information
As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action. We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, Affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you. If you opt in for marketing associated with certain online courses, we do share your contact information with the course authors.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and us. We may provide your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Circle of Wisdom’s assets and/or business. In other words, we may disclose information when legally compelled to do so when we in good faith believe that the law requires it, for the protection of our legal rights, or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
Sharing With Friends
When you email a message to a friend from CicleofWisdom.org using the “Share” functionality, your email address and your friend’s are both required. This ensures that your friend will know that we have sent the email message at your request.
How We Protect Your Information
We employ rigorous security protocols and work only with reputable third-party vendors to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. Doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit card and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email.
The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Policy Changes
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our Privacy Policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website homepage. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, as well as for periodically visiting our Website and this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.