Privacy Policy

This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information we receive from users of the Site. We use your Personal Information only for providing and improving the Site.

This policy informs SSA Site users and help them better understand the following:

1. 1. Your Consent
   2. SSA Site Adherence to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
   3. Personal Data Collected, its Usage, and Storage
   4. Sharing of Information
   5. Data Storage and Security
   6. Updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies and is used with other SSA Site policies for:

• Sales Terms and Conditions (under development)
• Refunds (under development)
• Affiliate Marketing
• Copyrights and Permissions (under development)
• Comments

Consent

By using the Site, you agree to the collection and use of information under this policy.

SSA Site Adherence to GDPR

For users in the European Union, we adhere to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016, known as the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). For users in the United Kingdom, we adhere to the GDPR as enshrined in the Data Protection Act 2018.

Data Collected and Its Usage

Personally Identifiable Data

While using the SSA Site, we may ask you to provide personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name, email addresses and preferences regarding what information the frequency that you would like to see notifications from the SSA Site. We may use your Personal Information to contact you regarding giveaway entries, our newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that is pertinent to the Site. This information is collected through the SSA Site and stored in Mailchimp. At any time, you may elect to delete your personally identifiable information by informing us directly through the SSA Site Contact Form or selecting to unsubscribe using the Mailchimp unsubscribe link in any email sent by the SSA Site.

Log Data

Like many site operators, the Site collects information that your browser sends whenever you visit the SSA Site (the “Log Data”).This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics. In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Comments and Google Analytics that may collect, monitor and analyze this data.

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Like many sites, WordPress uses “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of the Site. If you click informational hyperlinks to one of our Affiliates, cookies will be placed on your site, the duration depending on the terms of the Affiliate organization. See the SSA Site police regarding Affiliate Marketing for more information.

Banking and Financial Data

We do not collect nor store any banking, credit or debit card, or other financial information on the SSA Site. The SSA Site is not an eCommerce site. While it is possible to purchase items from the SSA Site, it is done through hyperlinking to other sites such as Amazon, or via email or phone. If any banking or credit card information if provided for the sake of a sales transaction initiated through the SSA Site, we will immediately destroy the information upon the completion of the transaction.

Sharing of Information

We may disclose user data to any member of our organization who reasonably needs access to user data to achieve the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

We will not share nor sell your data to any third party, except in the following situation, should they arise:

• If required by law
• If required for a legal proceeding
• To prove or protect our legal rights
• To buyers or potential buyers of this company in the event that we seek to sell the company

Please note that if you click on hyperlinks on the SSA Site that direct you to external websites, that we are not responsible for nor have control over their privacy policies or practices.

Data Storage and Security

Your personally identifiable data is stored on our the SSA Site until you unsubscribe via Mailchimp or direct us to delete it. Log and cookie data is stored until the purpose of the data is achieved. Log and cookie data can also be removed by using your browser to clear cookie and site data. Refer to the information regarding your specific browser to achieve this.

We have configured and use WordPress and Mailchimp to keep your personally identifiable data secure. However, remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security, and have no control over third party collection (i.e. such as by Google).

Updates to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of August 29, 2021, and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, this Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time in order to maintain compliance with the law and to reflect any changes to our data collection process, for example, if we elect in the future to become an eCommerce or Membership site. Your continued use of the Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you by placing a prominent notice on the Site and also in our Newsletter.

Questions regarding this SSA Site Privacy Policy may be directed to info@steveshipley.com or you may use the SSA Site Contact Form. Please place the words ‘Privacy Policy’ in the email title or first line of the Contact Form and we will respond as soon as we can.