PRIVACY POLICY

Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines Soul Obstacles Sanctuary LLC (SOS) ("online platform") practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at www.soulobstaclessanctuary.com ("Site"), or otherwise share personal information with us (collectively: "Users"). 

Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data provided in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. Additionally, an anonymized string created from your email address (also known as a hash) may be utilized by SOS for verification purposes.

After your comment is approved, it may be visible to the public along with your chosen display name in the context of the comment (for example, in blogs or social media platforms related to this company).

Grounds for data collection 

Processing of your personal information (meaning, any information which may potentially allow your identification with reasonable means; hereinafter "Personal Information" is necessary for the performance of our contractual obligations towards you and providing you with our services, to protect our legitimate interests and for compliance with legal and financial regulatory obligations to which we are subject.

When you use the Site, you consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and other uses of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.

We encourage our Users to carefully read the Privacy Policy and use it to make informed decisions. 

How do we receive information about you?

We receive your Personal Information from various sources:

When you voluntarily provide us your personal details in order to contact our Site or register on our Site for newsletter updates;

When you use or access our Site in connection with your use of our services;

What information we collect?

We do not rent, sell, or share Users’ information with third parties except as described in this Privacy Policy.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

We may use the information for the following:

• Communicating with you – sending you notices regarding our services, providing you with technical information and responding to any customer service issue you may have;

• To communicate with you and to keep you informed of our latest updates and services;

• To serve you advertisements when you use our Site (see more under "Advertisements"); 

• To market our websites and products (see more under "Marketing"); 

• Conducting statistical and analytical purposes, intended to improve the Site.

We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time from your profile page at our website or by sending us an email.

In addition to the purposes listed in this Privacy Policy, we may share Personal Information with our trusted third party providers, who may be located in different jurisdictions across the world, for any of the following purposes: 

Hosting and operating our Site;

• Providing you with our services, including providing a personalized display of our Site;

• Storing and processing such information on our behalf; 

• Serving you with advertisements and assist us in evaluating the success of our advertising campaigns and help us retarget any of our users;

• Providing you with marketing offers and promotional materials related to our Site and services; 

• Performing research, technical diagnostics or analytics;

We may also disclose information if we have good faith to believe that disclosure of such information is helpful or reasonably necessary to: (i) comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request; (ii) enforce our policies (including our Agreement), including investigations of potential violations thereof; (iii) investigate, detect, prevent, or take action regarding illegal activities or other wrongdoing, suspected fraud or security issues; (iv) to establish or exercise our rights to defend against legal claims; (v) prevent harm to the rights, property or safety of us, our users, yourself or any third party; or (vi) for the purpose of collaborating with law enforcement agencies and/or in case we find it necessary in order to enforce intellectual property or other legal rights.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

User Rights

You may request to: 

  1). Receive confirmation as to whether or not personal information concerning you is being processed, and access your stored personal information, together with supplementary information. 

  2). Receive a copy of personal information you directly volunteer to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. 

  3). Request erasure of your personal information. 

  4). Object to the processing of personal information by us. 

Request to restrict processing of your personal information by us.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

How do we safeguard your information?

We take great care in implementing and maintaining the security of the Site and your information. We employ industry standard procedures and policies to ensure the safety of the information we collect and retain, and prevent unauthorized use of any such information, and we require any third party to comply with similar security requirements, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Although we take reasonable steps to safeguard information, we cannot be responsible for the acts of those who gain unauthorized access or abuse our Site, and we make no warranty, express, implied or otherwise, that we will prevent such access.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select "Remember Me", your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Minors

We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. The Site is not designed for or directed at children. Under no circumstances shall we allow use of our services by minors without prior consent or authorization from a parent or legal guardian. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from minors. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with Personal Information without their consent, he or she should contact us at support@soulobstaclessanctuary.com.

Updates or amendments to this Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to periodically amend or revise the Privacy Policy; material changes will be effective immediately upon the display of the revised Privacy policy. The last revision will be reflected in the "Last modified" section. Your continued use of the Platform, following the notification of such amendments on our website, constitutes your acknowledgment and consent of such amendments to the Privacy Policy and your agreement to be bound by the terms of such amendments.

How to contact us

If you have any general questions about the Site or the information we collect about you and how we use it, you can contact us at support@soulobstaclessanctuary.com.

Last Modified March 2024.