PRIVACY & COOKIE POLICY

Thank you for trusting us with some information about you. We take your privacy very seriously, and so we want to let you know how and why we use your information. Thus, this privacy policy sets out how Barbara Watson (“we”, “us”, “ours” or “sheMeditates”) uses and protects any information that you give us when you use this website (“site”).
This policy is effective from June 9, 2019. Since the internet is continually evolving, we may update this page to change this policy from time to time. If we do so, we will update the effective date of the policy at the same time. Please check back from time to time to ensure you have the latest version. In continuing t

Our Values around Personal Information

We want this to be simple and clear: we are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected and we promise to treat all personal information you give us with the utmost respect. This policy outlines when and why we collect information, how we use it and keep it secure, and any circumstances in which other people may see and/or use it. But we can brief you here, just in case you don’t want to read through it all right now.

• Our intention is to use your information to ensure you have a smooth experience in your dealings with us. If that turns out to not be the case, please don’t hesitate to give us a shout. It’s best to put things in writing, so please email us at shemeditates@bell.net.
• We can assure you right here that we do not sell, rent or trade our email lists with anyone else.
• While we do not specifically target European Union (EU) citizens, if the personal data you provide to us as you use our site and/or services, is governed by General Data Privacy Regulation (“GDPR”) which is intended to protect the data of European Union (EU) residents, we abide by the relevant parts of the GDPR.

Definitions in This Policy

In this policy, some words and phrases have special meanings, as follow:

• “personal data” is any information about an identifiable living human being.
• “process” refers to anything we do with your personal data, such as collect, record, organize, store, adapt, alter, retrieve, use, combine, disclose and/or delete.
• “special category data” is personal data that reveals racial and/or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious and/or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, sex life and/or sexual orientation, health, genetics and/or biometric data. Please note that we do not routinely collect this data about anyone.

Our Overall Practice regarding Your Personal Data

We are committed to protecting your privacy, and we honour your legal rights to control how we use your personal data. We try to ensure that it is accurate and up-to-date, and to collect only as much as we need to have. We collect and use personal data only when we need to do so, in order to

• do something that you have asked us to do, e.g. send you emails
• provide you with our services
• improve our services, e.g. to ask your opinion on a survey
• send you promotional emails or other information
• reply to your queries
• facilitate internal record keeping
• meet our legal obligations

If you have any questions about our collection and/or use of your personal data, please email us at shemeditates@bell.net.

Our Use of Cookies

We use cookies to help us tailor our services to your needs. You may choose to accept or decline cookies. By using this website, you accept our use of cookies unless you have disabled them yourself. If you decline them, this may affect your ability to take full advantage of our website.

Links to Other Websites and Social Media Platforms

If you subscribe, or ask to be subscribed, to a particular sequence, you will be added to that list. We use automations (email sequences that begin when you request something, and may contain tips and/or short videos) in order to administer and/or send you the information, services and/or products that you have requested. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the unsubscribe button or sending us an email at shemeditates@bell.net. But these automations are fairly short, and you may wish to wait for all the information as most people find it useful. In fact, many people say we do not email them often enough!
We hold your information in programs called MailChimp, Teachable, LinkedIn and Facebook. For more information, you can see MailChimp’s privacy notice at https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/, Teachable’s privacy notice at https://teachable.com/privacy-policy, LinkedIn’s privacy notice at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy and Facebook’s privacy notice at https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update. Our website may have links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, please note that we have no control over that other website. Thus, those websites are not governed by this privacy statement and therefore we cannot be responsible for the privacy of any information you provide there.

Your Right to Control Your Personal Data

You have the right to know what information we hold about you and to amend it if it is inaccurate. You may request details of personal data that we hold about you by emailing us at shemeditates@bell.net, and ensuring you include your name and email address(es). If you believe that any information we hold about you is incorrect or incomplete, please email us at the above address as soon as possible. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect or incomplete.
Please read this privacy policy carefully. By visiting and/or using the site, you agree that it governs your use of the site and/or any dispute over privacy.

In Conclusion

Again, thank you for trusting us with some information about you. We take your privacy very seriously, and so we want to let you know how and why we use your information. If you have any comments about our collection and/or use of your personal data, please email us directly at shemeditates@bell.net, and include your name and email address(es).