Just like you, we care about the use of personal information online, so it is only fair we provide you with insight into the privacy practices employed here at BeardStrokings.com. Particular areas of the world now require different privacy disclosures, so please read the entire policy to make sure you understand our practices fully.
I. If You’re Located In the EU
A. What Personal Data Do We Collect From You?
Personal data is information that can be used to identify you such as your name, IP address, and email address. As a business, we collect personal data from you in a number of ways including:
(1.) When you opt in to our email list for updates: your email address.
(2.) When you register for The Conversation Natural: your name, email address, billing information and payment source.
(3.) When you register for Confidence Plus: Your name, email address, billing information and payment source.
(4.) All transactions: Your name, email address, billing information and payment source.
(5.) When you submit our contact form: your name, email address and question/comment.
B. What Is The Purpose of Processing Your Personal Data?
We collect the information above for the following purposes.
(1.) When you opt in to our email list for updates: To provide you with communication hacks, people skills lessons and Beard Strokings updates.
(2.) When you register for The Conversation Natural: To provide you with the product, additional information on the product and the topic in general.
(3.) When you register for Confidence Plus: To provide you with the product, additional information on the product and the topic in general.
(4.) All transactions: To process a purchase you make with us.
(5.) When you submit our contact form: To answer questions you might have for us.
C. What Legal Basis Do We Have For Collecting and Processing Your Information?
Websites must have a legal basis for collecting information from individuals located in the European Union. Our legal basis for each of the ways we collect information from you is as follows. Please note where consent forms the basis, you can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us or opting out of any email message using the “unsubscribe” link.
(1.) When you opt in to our email list for updates: We will ask for your consent first.
(2.) When you register for The Conversation Natural: We will collect your information as part of a legal contractual transaction.
(3.) When you register for Confidence Plus: We will collect your information as part of a legal contractual transaction.
(4.) All transactions: We will collect your information as part of a legal contractual transaction.
(5.) When you submit our contact form: We have an allowed legitimate interest in providing a response to your questions and need to use your data to do so. We will not use the data for other purposes.
“Legitimate interests” for processing your personal information exist where you submit the information with an expectation that it will be processed and there is no undue impact on you. If you disagree or have questions, please contact us at contact@beardstrokings.com and we will cease the processing of your data under this legal basis.
D. Who Has Access To The Data We Collect?
We process and have access to the data we collect from you. However, we use third parties to assist us with processing your personal data including the following categories of recipients:
- Financial transaction processors (processing your payments)
- Contest and survey platforms
- Email communication manager
- Marketing funnel providers
- Website management services
If you want a list of the specific 3rd parties that assist us you can contact us at contact@beardstrokings.com.
E. Cookies and Similar Technologies
This site uses cookies and similar technologies to track particular aspects of you and other people who visit us. This tracking is done to provide us with information on how people move about the site, what is of interest to them and what is not, how our marketing is performing, and incidental items such as what percentage of users access the site from a personal computer versus a mobile phone. You may block most cookies by adjusting your browser settings as well as responding to the cookie consent notice that appears when you visit this site.
This website uses Google Analytics to collect anonymous information such as the number of visitors to the site, and the most popular pages.
Keeping this cookie enabled helps us to improve our website.
We also use advertising cookies (Facebook, Google, Reddit): These allow us to better assess the effectiveness of our content marketing and advertising efforts. These cookies are provided by our third-party partners to analyze and track site visit and signups stemming from advertising. We do not share your personal information (such as name or email) to third-party providers outside of site visit data collected directly by such Advertising Cookies, though your site visit data may be linked with other personal information collected elsewhere by such third-party providers. Such external data processing is governed by the privacy policies of these third-party providers.
F. How Long Do We Keep Your Data?
We keep your personal data for different periods of time depending on the reason it was gathered in the first place.
(1.)When you opt in to our email list for updates: Five years
(2.) When you register for The Conversation Natural: Five years
(3.) When you register for Confidence Plus: Five years
(4.) All transactions: Five years
(5.) When you submit our contact form: Five years
If a legal claim arises involving your data, we will store and disclose that data until the matter has resolved.
G. Your Right To Ask For Corrections, Erasure, And Export Of Your Data
You have the right to control your personal data. Specifically, you have the following rights:
- The right to be informed: We are informing you now with this policy.
- The right of access: We’ll provide you with the data we have about you.
- The right to rectification: Request we fix incorrect data about you.
- The right to erasure: Request we erase certain data about you.
- The right to restrict processing: Ask us to restrict certain type of processing of your personal information.
- The right to data portability: Ask us to provide your personal data we have for export.
- The right to object: Object to how we use your data.
- Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling: We don’t profile you, but keep in mind you have this right with other sites.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at contact@beardstrokings.com with your request.
H. Your Right To Withdraw Consent
Although this is mentioned above, we want to emphasize that wherever we’ve asked for your consent to collect or process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent. If you receive email messages from us, you can use the “unsubscribe” link in each message to withdraw consent and stop the mailings. Alternatively, you contact us at contact@beardstrokings.com with your request.
I. Privacy Concerns, Contacting Us, Complaints.
You can contact us at contact@beardstrokings.com with your request with any questions or requests you have about these policies or your personal data. If, after contacting us, you feel a privacy issue has not be resolved, you have the right to file a complaint with a Supervisory Authority such as the Data Protection Commissioner of Ireland.
II. For The Rest Of The World
A. Privacy Policy Modifications and Updates.
We may update and modify this Privacy Policy at any time. In doing so, we will post a notice on the site 30 days before the change goes into effect and forward an email message to you should we have an email address for you.
B. Legal Disclosures of Personal Information.
We may process, store, and disclose personal information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary to (1) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on us, (2) protect and defend our rights or property or (3) act under exigent circumstances to protect the safety of the public or users of the site.
C. DMCA Disclosures
We comply with the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998. As part of the compliance process, we may be required to disclose whatever information we have for you to a copyright holder who has submitted a complaint to us.
D. Public Comments.
You may leave comments on forum posts. Please remember that any information you provide is not private. The information can be viewed by anyone online including family, friends, the media, investigators, and potential employers conducting background checks.
E. Third Party Websites.
We link to other sites, but please keep in mind that we do not control the privacy policies of those sites. Make sure to review the policies of any such sites before providing your personal information.
F. Sale of Business
Should we sell this site or our business, your personal information will be an asset transferred to the new owner.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at contact@beardstrokings.com.