PRIVACY POLICY
This privacy policy ("Policy") describes how Gonçalo Moreira PhD - Soul Integration collects, uses, and shares personal information when you use this website https://www.goncalomoreira.net/. Please read the information below carefully so that you can understand our practices regarding how we handle your information and how we treat that information.
1. PURPOSE OF PROCESSING
What is personal data?
We collect information about you in a variety of ways, including personal data. As described in this Policy, "personal data" is defined in the general data protection regulations and includes any information that, combined with other data, whether or not we collect it, allows you to be identified as an individual, including, for example, your name, postcode, email address, and telephone number.
Why do we need this personal information?
We will only process your personal data in accordance with applicable data protection and privacy laws. We need certain personal data to provide you with access to the site. If you have registered with us, you will have been asked to agree to provide this information to access our services, such as purchasing our products or viewing our content. This consent provides us with the legal basis we require under applicable law to process your data. You maintain the right to withdraw such consent at any time. If you do not agree to the use of your personal data in accordance with this Policy, please do not use our website.
2. COLLECTING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We collect information about you in the following ways:
Information you provide to us. This includes:
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The personal data you provide when you register to use our website, including your name, address, email, telephone number, username, and demographic information;
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Personal data that may be contained in any comment or other post you make on our website;
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The personal data you provide in our affiliate programme or other promotions we run on our website;
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The personal data you provide when you report a problem on our website or when you need customer support;
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The personal data you provide when you make a purchase on our website;
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The personal data you provide when you contact us by telephone, email, or other means.
Information we collect automatically. We automatically log information about you and your computer or mobile device when you access our website. For example, when visiting our website, we log the name and version of your computer or mobile device, the manufacturer and model, browser type, browser language, screen resolution, the website visited before entering our website, the pages viewed and how long you were on a page, access times and information about your use of and actions on our website. We collect information about you using cookies.
We receive, collect and store any information you add to our site or provide to us in any other way. In addition, we collect the IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login details; email address; password; computer and internet information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect browsing information, including page response times, total time spent on certain pages, information about page interaction and the methods used to leave the page. We also collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, means of communication); payment details (including credit card information), comments, feedback, recommendations and personal profile.
How do we collect this information?
When you carry out a transaction on our site, as part of the procedure, we collect the personal information you provide us with such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific actions mentioned below only.
Where do you store, use and share your site visitors' personal data?
Our business is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with an online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your information on secure servers behind a firewall.
Wix.com is compliant with the PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) and is recognised as a level 1 provider.
The PCI DSS is a security standard for organisations that accept credit card payments. This standard helps to create a secure environment, improving the quality of cardholder data and reducing credit card fraud.
3. COOKIES
What are cookies?
We may collect information using 'cookies'. Cookies are small data files stored on your computer's hard drive or mobile device by your browser. We may use both session cookies (which expire after you close your browser) and persistent cookies (which remain on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our website. We use two types of cookies:
Firstly, cookies inserted by us on your computer or mobile device, which we use to recognise you when you visit our website again; and third-party cookies, which are from services provided by third parties on our website, and which can be used to recognise you when your computer or mobile device visits our and other websites.
4. COOKIES WE USE
Our website uses the following cookies described below:
Essential cookies
These cookies are necessary to provide the services available on our website, so that you are able to use some of its features. For example, they may allow you to log in to the member area, or to load content from our website quickly. Without these cookies, many of the services available on our website may not function correctly, and we only use these cookies to provide you with a good service.
Functionality cookies
These cookies allow our website to remember choices you have already made, such as language, login details, and other choices you have made that can be personalised by you. The purpose of these cookies is to remember all the choices you have made to create a more personalised experience without you having to re-enter your details on our website.
Analysis and performance cookies
These cookies are used to collect information about traffic on our website and how users use and browse the website. The information collected does not identify any particular user. It includes the number of visitors to our website, the websites that refer to our website, the pages that users visit, the possible websites they have previously visited and other similar information. We use this information to improve and monitor the activity on our website.
We use Google Analytics for this purpose. Google Analytics uses its own cookies. It is only used to improve the way our website works. You can find out more about Google Analytics cookies here: https://developers.google.com/analytics/resources/concepts/gaConceptsCookies
Find out more about how Google protects your data here:
http://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html You can prevent the use of this Google Analytics cookie on your browser by installing an extension on Google Chrome, you can download this extension here: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB
Advertising cookies
These cookies analyse how you browse so that we can show you adverts that are likely to be of interest to you. These cookies use information about your browsing history which, with your permission, shows you relevant third-party adverts, based on your interests. You can disable cookies that store your browsing history by visiting the website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. If you choose to remove this type of cookie, you will still see adverts, but they will not be relevant to your interests.
Social media cookies
These cookies are used when you share information on social networks, or in some other way have access to our content through social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, or Instagram.
5. DISABLING COOKIES
You can remove or reject cookies through your browser settings. To do this, we recommend that you follow your browser's instructions (you can usually find this information in your browser's "settings" or "tools"). Most browsers automatically accept cookies until you change your settings.
If you do not accept our cookies, your experience on our site will not be as pleasant. For example, we may not be able to recognise your computer or mobile device and you may have to log in every time you enter our website.
In case you do not want your information to be collected by us, please send us a message to goncalo.moreira.phd@gmail.com.
6. ADVERTISING
We may use third parties to serve advertisements when you visit our website. These companies may collect information such as browser type, time and day, type of advertisement clicked on this and other websites in order to show you the most relevant advertisements. These companies normally use their system to collect this data, which is subject to their own privacy policies.
7. USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may use your personal data as follows:
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to maintain and improve our website, products, and services;
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to manage your account, including communications we have with you regarding your account, if you have an account on our website;
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to operate and administer our affiliate programme and other promotions you may participate in on our website;
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to respond to your comments and questions and to provide customer support;
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to send information, including technical information, updates, security alerts, and support;
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with your consent, we do email marketing about promotions, and other news, including information about our products, or services offered by us, or our affiliates. You can opt out of receiving this information at any time, in all our emails there is always an option to opt out of the list. Even if you leave our list we may send non-marketing emails, including emails about an account you have with us (if you have one), or business you have with us;
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to process payments you have made on our website;
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when we deem it necessary and appropriate (a) to comply with the law; (b) to comply with legal requests and processes, including requests from public and governmental authorities; (c) to comply with our Policy; and (d) to protect the rights, privacy, safety, yours and of others.
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to analyse and study services;
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as described below under "Sharing your personal data".
8. SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We may share your personal data in the following ways:
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To third parties designated by you. We may share your data with third parties where you have given your consent.
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Services provided by third parties. We may share your personal data with third parties who perform some services such as (data analysis, payment processing, customer support, email marketing and other similar services).
9. THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. This Policy does not cover the Privacy Policies of third parties. These third-party websites have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those websites, their functions, or privacy policies. Please read the privacy policies of these third-party websites before submitting any information.
10. USER-GENERATED CONTENT
You may share your personal data with us when you submit and generate content on our website, including blog comments, support messages on our website. Please be aware that any information you post on our website becomes public knowledge and will be accessible to all users of our website including visitors. We suggest that you are very careful when deciding to make your personal data, or any other information on our website, public. Any personal information posted on our website will not be private or confidential.
If you give us any review or comment, we may make these public on our website.
11. INTERNATIONAL DATA TRANSFER
Your information, including personal data we collect from you, may be transferred to, stored at, and processed by us outside the country in which you reside, where data protection and privacy regulations may not have the same level of protection as in other countries. By accepting this privacy policy, you consent to the transfer, processing, and storage of your data in accordance with our policies. We will take all necessary measures to ensure that your data is treated in the most secure way and in accordance with our policies.
12. SECURITY
We seek to take all possible technical, and administrative measures to protect all your data in the most secure way possible. Unfortunately, no system is 100% secure and can completely guarantee the security of your data. If you believe that your data is no longer secure with us (for example, access to your account has been compromised), please contact us immediately and report your problem.
13. RETENTION
We will only retain your personal information for 30 days unless a longer period is required or permitted by law.
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We will only retain your personal information for as long as is necessary and permitted by you for you to be able to use our website until you close your account or terminate your subscription, unless a longer period is necessary or permitted by law.
14. OUR POLICY ON CHILDREN
Our website is not directed at children under the age of 18. If a parent or guardian discovers that his or her child has provided personal data on our website without their consent, they should contact us immediately. We will delete all of this data as quickly as possible.
15. YOUR RIGHTS
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Opt-out list. You can contact us at any time to opt-out of our list; (i) e-mail marketing communications (ii) our collection of sensitive personal data (iii) any new processing of personal data that we may carry out.
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Access. You may access the information we hold about you at any time by contacting us.
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Amend. You can also contact us to update or correct any personal information we have about you.
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Move. Your personal information can be transferred. You have the flexibility to move your data to another service as you wish.
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Erase. In some situations, for example when the information we have about you is no longer relevant, or is incorrect, you can request that we erase your data.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us. Please make it clear in your request (i) what information you want; and (ii) which of the above rights you want to use. For your protection, we may only fulfil requests for information associated with your email address, we will need to verify your identity before making any changes. We will attend to your request as soon as possible, but no later than 30 days. Please be aware that we may eventually need to keep some information for record-keeping purposes.
16. COMPLAINTS
We are committed to resolving any complaints about how we collect your personal data. If you have a complaint you would like to make about our privacy policy, or our practices regarding your personal data, please contact us at: goncalo.moreira.phd@gmail.com. We will respond to your contact as quickly as possible, within a maximum of 30 days. We hope to resolve any situation brought to us by you, in any case, if we find that your complaint is not applicable, you are within your right to contact a local data protection authority.
17. CONTACT INFORMATION
We welcome your comments or questions about this Privacy Policy. You can contact us in writing at goncalo.moreira.phd@gmail.com.
