Privacy Policy

Kidspeakshine (“Kidspeakshine“) operates Kidspeakshine.com and may operate other websites. It is Kidspeakshine’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Like most website operators, Kidspeakshine collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Kidspeakshine’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kidspeakshine’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Kidspeakshine may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Kidspeakshine also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on Kidspeakshine.com blogs/sites. Kidspeakshine only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Kidspeakshine’s websites choose to interact with Kidspeakshine in ways that require Kidspeakshine to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Kidspeakshine gathers depends on the nature of the interaction.

We collect personal data for the following purposes:

  1. Opt-In To Ongoing Free Resources: Your name and address.
  2. Coaching Payment: You name, email address, billing information and payment source.
  3. Asking Questions: Your name, email address, and question.
  4. Online Courses: You name, email address, billing information and payment source.

What is the purpose of processing your personal data?

We collect the information above for the following purposes.

  1. Opt-In To Ongoing Free Resources: To provide you with relevant information the topic in general.
  2. Transaction: To process a purchase you make with us.
  3. Asking Questions: To answer questions you might have for us.
  4. Online Courses: To send you lessons you are interested in.

Kidspeakshine does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

GDPR Compliance

Your data will be retained until you request us to delete it, or until 24 months passes without any action from you including opening an email, purchasing a product, and visiting our website pages. If you provide us with any of your personal information such as your name, email, phone number, address, or credit card for a purchase, then you have the right to request to view all of the information you’ve provided, to correct any of your information, or request us to delete it from our database. You can exercise this right by clicking on the link you’ll find for data request in the footer of our website as well as in the footer of each email.

If you have a concern about how the data that you’ve provided is being used, or if you have a complaint you’d like to file regarding your personal information, you can contact us at the email brenda@kidspeakshine.com

Aggregated Statistics

Kidspeakshine may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. Kidspeakshine may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Kidspeakshine does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Kidspeakshine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Kidspeakshine’s behalf or to provide services available at Kidspeakshine’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Kidspeakshine’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Kidspeakshine will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Kidspeakshine discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Kidspeakshine believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kidspeakshine, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Kidspeakshine website and have supplied your email address, Kidspeakshine may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Kidspeakshine and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Kidspeakshine takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Kidspeakshine uses cookies to help Kidspeakshine identify and track visitors, their usage of Kidspeakshine website, and their website access preferences.

If you leave a comment on Kidspeakshine 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 have an account and you log in to Kidspeakshine, 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.

Kidspeakshine visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Kidspeakshine’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Kidspeakshine’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on Kidspeakshine 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: //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 toKidspeakshine, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to Kidspeakshine can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact Form

When you contact Kidspeakshine using the contact form, we retain your name and email address for the purposes of responding back to you and customer service purposes.  We do not use your personal information in the contact form for marketing purposes.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on Kidspeakshine 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

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 Kidspeakshine (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). Kidspeakshine administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on Kidspeakshine, 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.

Who Has Access To The Data We Collect?

We process and 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)
  • Survey and contest providers
  • Customer service communication platform
  • Email communication manager
  • Marketing funnel providers
  • Website management services
  • Website design and programming services

These third parties have signed contract with us in which they are prohibited from utilizing, sharing or retaining your personal data for any purpose other than we dictate.

Your Right To Ask For Corrections, Removal 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 removal: Request we remove 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 send an email at brenda@kidspeakshine.com with your request.

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 can send us an email at brenda@kidspeakshine.com with your request.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Kidspeakshine and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kidspeakshine may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Kidspeakshine’s sole discretion. Kidspeakshine encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a Kidspeakshine.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.