Privacy

Privacy Policy for www.thewoodwhisperer.com

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us.

At thewoodwhisperer.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This privacy policy document outlines the types of personal information received and collected by www.thewoodwhisperer.com and how it is used.

Newsletter

If you subscribe to our newsletter, then we store your email address and use this to send the newsletter. Your email address is not made public or disclosed to third parties.

• Collected data: Email address, first name, last name
• Purpose of use: Sending of the newsletter requested
• Storage period: As a general rule, the data is only stored for as long as is needed to fulfill the purpose. For the newsletter, the data are stored as long as it is expected that a newsletter will be sent and as long as you have not objected to the use of your data.
• Legal basis: article 6 (1) a) GDPR – consent
• Revocation: You can unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time using a link included in each newsletter at the bottom. We will then delete your email address from our distribution list. As an alternative, you can also unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time by sending an email to marketing@thewoodwhisperer.com

Marketing Campaigns

• We use email marketing to communicate with customers and potential customers from time to time. All email lists and campaigns are “opt-in” meaning we will not send you these sorts of emails unless you indicated that you wish to receive them during signup or other interactions on our website.
• We may send you “system” emails, such as password reset requests or payment notifications/receipts even if you have not opted-in to email marketing lists.
• All marketing emails sent by us will include an unsubscribe link in the footer of the email. Emails sent to you may also include standard tracking, including open and click activities.
• We use Aweber for our email marketing and mass communication campaigns. GetResponse’s privacy policy is found here.
• We use Attentive for our text messaging marketing. Attentive’s privacy policy is found here.

Security of your Personal Information
The Wood Whisperer secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Wood Whisperer uses the following methods for this purpose:

• SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

• For payment transactions for The Wood Whisperer Guild, we use Stripe and PayPal. PayPal’s privacy policy can be found here. Stripe’s privacy policy can be found here. 
• To comply with accounting and legal requirements, we keep data on financial transactions on the PayPal and Stripe systems.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Embeds are pieces from other websites that are shown from time to time on our websites. They behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website and may use cookies or capture information. Typically embedded content is from websites that share videos, images, or other content. These services may collect your IP Address, your User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including correlating your interaction with the content with your account with that service, if you are logged in to that service.

Links to the privacy policies of the most common services have been included below. Where a general privacy policy is not available, the applicable country is indicated.

• Amazon
• Facebook
• Instagram
• SoundCloud
• Vimeo
• YouTube (Google)

Publishing Content (Comments, Pages, Posts, Forums)

• Your Profile Picture (Gravatar), Display Name, Website (URL) (if any) and Biographical Info (if any) may be visible to visitors to the website (e.g. if you leave a comment, forum post, or contribute an article/post).
• If you author an article/post, your Username, User ID, Profile Picture (Gravatar), Display Name, Website (URL) (if any) and Biographical Info (if any) are provided to any visitor using the website’s REST API interface.
• If you upload media (e.g. images) to the website (in forums, posts, or comments), you should avoid uploading images with EXIF GPS location data included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data included in images on the website.
• Visitors using the website’s REST API interface can correlate uploaded media to a particular user. This may allow such visitors to map a user to a particular time and location if EXIF GPS location data was included in the uploaded media.
• When visitors leave comments on one of our sites 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.
• If you leave a comment on a site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies so we can recognize you as a commenter. These cookies will persist for one year.
• Additional spam detection is provided by Automattic/Akismet. The Automattic privacy policy is available here.
• Published content and comments are stored indefinitely unless deletion/removal is requested by the original author.

Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Log Files
Like many other Web sites, thewoodwhisperer.com makes use of log files. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol ( IP ) addresses, type of browser, Internet Service Provider ( ISP ), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.

Children Under Thirteen
The Wood Whisperer does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

Cookies and Web Beacons
thewoodwhisperer.com does use cookies to store information about visitors preferences, record user-specific information on which pages the user access or visit, customize Web page content based on visitors browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.

DoubleClick DART Cookie

.:: Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.thewoodwhisperer.com.
.:: Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to your users based on their visit to thewoodwhisperer.com and other sites on the Internet.
.:: Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …….
Google Adsense

These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to the advertisements and links that appear on www.thewoodwhisperer.com send directly to your browsers. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies ( such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons ) may also be used by the third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertisements and / or to personalize the advertising content that you see.

thewoodwhisperer.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt out of certain practices. www.thewoodwhisperer.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or websites.

If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics will collect visitation information and associate it with Google information from accounts of signed-in users who have consented to this association for the purpose of ads personalization. This Google information may include end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into your users’ cross device behaviors. By enabling these features, you acknowledge you adhere to the Google Advertising Features Policy, including rules around sensitive categories, have the necessary privacy disclosures and rights from your end users for such association, and that such data may be accessed and/or deleted by end users via My Activity.

Changes to this Privacy Statement
The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.

Contact Information
The Wood Whisperer welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Wood Whisperer  has not adhered to this Statement, please contact us at:

The Wood Whisperer, Inc.
2135 Mette Road, Wentzville, MO 63367

Email Address:
marketing@thewoodwhisperer.com

Updated as of June 22, 2023