Privacy Policy

Who We Are

The company is The Success Doula (referred to in this document also as “we”, “us,” “our,”  “the company,” “me,” and “I”). The Success Doula is currently a sole proprietorship owned by Wendy Shoef (aka Wendy Perkins) but in process of becoming a LLC.

This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of thesuccessdoula.com and any subdomains including any content, functionality, products and services offered on or through thesuccessdoula.com (the "Website"), whether as a guest or a registered user. 

Acceptance of Terms

This privacy policy provides you with details of how your personal data is collected and processed on this website. When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. 

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the accompanying Terms of Use and Conditions (referred to in this document as “Terms”)  when this option is made available to you, 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. By providing us information offline, you are also agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy and our Terms.

Disclaimer

Your use of the Website is also subject to the Company’s Disclaimer. Please review our Disclaimer, which also governs the Website and informs users of various limitations regarding the information provided on the Website. Your agreement to the Disclaimer is hereby incorporated into these Terms.

Protection of Minors

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. By providing us with your data, you warrant to us that you are over 13 years of age. 

If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on 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. 

We do not knowingly or willingly collect information from minors. If you are under 18 please do not share any information with us. 

We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor what information their minors have access to. We also encourage them to enforce policies that protect their privacy by never giving personal information through a website, including ours. If you suspect that a minor has shared personal data with us, please contact us and we will take the necessary actions to remove the data from our databases. 

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymized data.

The Company collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you register to download a book or resources, sign up for our newsletter, and/or purchase a product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services.

As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to download resources and/or register for services that you are required to provide information.

The purpose and reason for collecting data, and thus our lawful ground is to grow our business by analyzing the data to develop products/services and an effective marketing strategy.

Communication 

Data that includes any communication that you send to us whether that be through a contact form on our website, through email, text, social media messaging, social media posting or any other communication that you send us. We process this data for the purposes of communicating with you, for record keeping and for the establishment, pursuance or defense of legal claims. Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to reply to communications sent to us, to keep records and to establish, pursue or defend legal claims.

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, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for 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.

Email Policies

We are committed to keeping your e-mail 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 allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.

We will maintain the information you send via email in accordance with applicable federal law.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.

Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any email they receive from us at any time.

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to [email protected] requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.

Identifying Information

We have several forms on our websites that collect varying kinds of information depending on the purpose, such as signing up to receive a newsletter, completing a survey, registering for a course, purchasing any products or services, providing comments or feedback, or search queries on our search feature. Some of the information collected includes but is not limited to:

  • Your name
  • Your contact information including email address and telephone numbers
  • The name and website address of your company
  • Other information related to your inquiry that you provide
  • Social media handles
  • Information provided by you for surveys and polls

We do not collect this information except on a voluntary basis. You are not required to sign up or give any information. Giving any personal information is voluntary.

We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, promotions, and information.

Account information

If you place an order for a product or service or sign up for a membership to access certain content, then we will retain records of data relating to the purchase whether the purchase was free or a monetary exchange. Some of the account data will include information about the order, billing and contact information. All financial data is collected and stored using Stripe or PayPal, pursuant to their terms, conditions and privacy policies. 

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

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.

Marketing

We retain data about your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences. We process this data to enable you to partake in our promotions such as competitions, prize draws and free giveaways, to deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of this advertising.  Our lawful ground for this processing is our legitimate interests which in this case are to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to decide our marketing strategy.

We may use this data to deliver targeted advertising to you such as through Facebook, Instagram or other platforms and to measure and understand the effectiveness of our marketing activities. 

We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website by using cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this : https://thesuccessdoula.com/cookie-policy/

We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU, advertising networks such as Facebook based outside the EU, such as search information providers such as Google based outside the EU, providers of technical, payment and delivery services, such as data brokers or aggregators. We may also receive data from publicly available sources based inside the EU.

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.

Sensitive Data

We do not collect any Sensitive Data about you. Sensitive data refers to data that includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We do not collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

We will only use your personal data for a purpose it was collected for or a reasonably compatible purpose if necessary. For more information on this please email us at [email protected]. In case we need to use your details for an unrelated new purpose we will let you know and explain the legal grounds for processing.

We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automated profiling.

Analytics

In order to provide the best products and services, we collect voluntary given data. Often though, other technical information is needed in order to keep up with industry standards for web design and compliance. We may collect IP addresses, device information (type of device, platform, device unique identifiers, hardware, processor, network), location (country, city), carrier, and other similar data.

How we use or share the data

We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.

We utilize several third party apps such as Stripe, PayPal, and Google Analytics. The information that you voluntarily submit is stored in our database and in our accounts with the third parties is under the terms and provisions set forth by those companies. We utilize industry standardized and accepted software and apps to ensure the safety and privacy of our customers. We reserve the right to utilize marketing companies that adhere to industry standards and strive to ensure the protection of their customers.

From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to make you 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. Before we share your personal data with any third party for their own marketing purposes we will get your express consent.

From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.

Marketing Communications

Under the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations, we may send you marketing communications from us if (i) you made a purchase or asked for information from us about our goods or services or (ii) you agreed to receive marketing communications and in each case you have not opted out of receiving such communications since. Under these regulations, if you are a limited company, we may send you marketing emails without your consent. However you can still opt out of receiving marketing emails from us at any time.

You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or OR by emailing us at [email protected] at any time.

If you opt out of receiving marketing communications this opt-out does not apply to personal data provided as a result of other transactions, such as purchases, warranty registrations etc.

Video

Group and private coaching sessions are often recorded so that clients can go back and review what was said during a session. We utilize Zoom to conduct video meetings. The videos are recorded and then uploaded to Amazon AWS, Bunny CDN, Google Drive, or to our web server (Cloudways via Digital Ocean). Access to the videos is restricted to members of the group or the individuals receiving private coaching.

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.

There may be sometimes where we will need to utilize a third-party and thus need to share your data such as:

  • Service providers who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Subsidiaries
  • Affiliates
  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers
  • Government bodies that require us to report processing activities.

We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you. 

We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our Terms or any other agreement between you and the Company.

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 the Company’s assets and/or business.

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.

Outsourcing

We may use carefully selected third-parties to carry out certain activities to help us to run our business (such as payment processing, cloud service providers, IT support vendors). Only necessary information is shared as is permitted by law.

Law Enforcement

If permitted by law, we will share any required information if it is requested by law enforcement, court order, or other government regulatory or enforcement agency. 

Where we send your data

Comments, emails, and other data may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

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, 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.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes, if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

For tax purposes the law requires us to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Financial and Transaction Data) for six years after they stop being customers.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at [email protected].

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you.

If you are not happy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, we should be grateful if you would contact us first if you do have a complaint so that we can try to resolve it for you.

How we protect the data

We utilize commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors including using SSL certificates and requiring strong passwords. However, no security system is 100% safe. We cannot guarantee the safety and security of our databases, nor can we ensure that the information you supply is not intercepted during transmission. 

We will use our best efforts to keep your username and password(s) private and will not otherwise share your password(s) without your consent, except as necessary when the law requires it or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary, particularly when disclosure is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to others or interfering with our rights or property. 

Passwords

To use certain features of the Website or its Content, you may need a username and password. You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of the username and password, and you are responsible for all activities, whether by you or by others, that occur under your username or password and within your account. You agree to notify us immediately of any unauthorized or improper use of your username or password or any other breach of security. To help protect against unauthorized or improper use, make sure that you log out at the end of each session requiring your username and password.

It is your responsibility to protect your own username and password from disclosure to others. We cannot and will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your username, password or account information. If you share your username or password with others, they may be able to obtain access to your personal information at your own risk.

California Residents

We are a California-based business. We are subject to the changes from CalOPPA, including the requirement to post the Do Not Track disclosure.

We do not track our customers over time and across third party websites to provide targeted advertising and therefore do not respond to Do Not Track (DNT) signals. However, some third party sites do keep track of your browsing activities when they serve you content, which enables them to tailor what they present to you. If you are visiting such sites, modern browsers allow you to set the DNT signal on your browser so that third parties (particularly advertisers) know you do not want to be tracked.

Do Not Track help page

Visitors’ GDPR Rights

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:

We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.

You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data. 

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data. 

To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us. 

Contact information

Address:

3325 Kelton Avenue

Los Angeles, CA 90034

USA

Changes to this policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated on this Privacy Policy. 

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 home page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

By accessing the Websites and/or using our services after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of the Information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collect the Information. 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected]

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