Last updated: April 03, 2024
Welcome to www.providingpositivesolutions.com (hereinafter theWebsite
). The Website is owned and operated by Providing Positive Solutions, a business operating in accordance with the laws of Michigan, United States. Any reference in this Privacy Policy to the user,
you,
or your
refers to you, an individual who accesses the Website and/or subscribes to our mailing list, and all references to the Company,
we,
us,
or our
refer to Providing Positive Solutions.
This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and secure your personal data and your rights as a data subject when you access the Website and subscribe to our mailing list. We respect your privacy and are committed to providing full transparency regarding how we collect and use your personal information and with whom we share this personal information.
We process all personal data that we collect from our users in compliance with the personal data protection laws of the jurisdictions where our users are located, including but not limited to the European Union General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (EU GDPR), Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and applicable U.S. Privacy Laws.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully to familiarize yourself with our practices regarding the collection and use of your personal data. We urge you not to use/access the Website and provide us with any personal information if you do not expressly agree with our collection and use of your personal data as described hereunder. By accessing the Website, you hereby give us your express consent to the collection and use of your Personal Data as stated herein.
1. Data Controller
2. Definitions
3. What personal data do we collect, and how do we use it?
4. Disclosure of Personal Data
5. Storage and Security
6. Your Rights
7. U.S. Privacy Laws
8. Canadian Residents
9. Amendments
The data controller is Providing Positive Solutions, with its business address at
Providing Positive Solutions
161 Ridge St Unit 1898
Sault Sainte Marie, MI 49783-6084 US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your rights as a data subject, please contact us by email at contact@providingpositivesolutions.com.
Any use of the following words in this Privacy Policy shall have the meaning as defined hereunder:
Data Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law
as defined in Article 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Data Subject means a natural person whose personal data is processed by the Company and its processors.
Personal Data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (
as defined in Article 4(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation.data subject
); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person
Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction
as defined in Article 4(2) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Service means the provision of the Website owned and operated by the Company.
This section informs you of what personal data we collect from you, how we collect it, and the legal basis we rely upon for processing your personal data.
3.1 Subscription Data
We collect your full name and email address when you subscribe to the mailing list on our Website. We use this personal data to send you marketing communication that we think you will find interesting.
Our legal basis for processing this personal information is your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of EU GDPR.
We will retain your personal data until you withdraw your consent. If you wish to withdraw your consent at any time, you can easily do so by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of our email, and we will remove your email address from our mailing list.
3.2 Visitor Data
When you visit our Website, we collect data such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, date, and time stamp.
We process this data to improve your user's experience on the Website.
Our legal basis for processing this information is our legitimate interest, as provided under Article 6(1)(f) of EU GDPR.
We do not retain this personal data longer than we have a legal basis for processing.
3.3 Cookies and Tools
We use cookies and other tracking technologies and tools like pixels, tags, and other third-party services (collectively Cookies
) to optimize and improve our Website and for our advertising purposes, including but not limited to showing you interest-based advertisements on our Website and other third-party websites. The data collected through these Cookies may include but is not limited to:
Please note that we may use Cookies without your permission, provided such Cookies are necessary for the operation of our Website (ePrivacy Directive 2002/58 EC). However, if we use Cookies that are not necessary for the operation of our Website, for example, for marketing purposes, our legal basis for processing your personal data is your consent, as provided under Article. 6(1)(a) of EU GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time by accessing our cookie banner and deselecting the processing purposes for which you do not consent.
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), your personal data will be transferred to the United States, and your consent will extend to the transfer of this data in accordance with Article 49(1) of EU GDPR.
We use third-party providers who use Cookies to collect your personal data. Please note that these third-party providers' processing of your personal data is governed by their respective privacy policies and our data processing agreements with them. We may use the following third-party providers:
3.3.1. Google Ads and Remarketing
We use Google Ads and Remarketing services, which for users from the EEA and Switzerland is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, and for all other users by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter collectively Google
).
We use Google Ads to measure your interactions with our advertisements as placed by Google. Google Ads uses Google Ads Conversion Tracking,
which records and analyzes user behavior when such user clicks on our web ads. This data enables us to measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. The Remarketing function within Google Ads allows Google to serve ads to our users based on their interests on third-party websites within the Google advertising network, such as YouTube, Google Search, and other websites. To this end, your actions on our Website are analyzed so that you can be shown targeted advertising on other web pages even after you exit the Website.
If you have a Google account (subject to your Google account settings), Google may merge the data it already has about you with the data it obtained from your interactions on a website to serve personalized advertisements to you. To avoid merging your use data on a website with your Google account data, you should log out of your Google account before visiting any website.
Please note that we rely upon your consent under Article 6(1)(a) of the EU GDPR as the legal basis for processing your personal data. If you have not consented to the use of Google Ads, you will not receive personalized ads. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time or deactivate personalized advertising by visiting https://adssettings.google.com. You also have the option to change your browser settings to block all third-party ads.
Your use and behavior data, as collected above, is transferred and stored on Google servers in the United States; your consent will extend to the transfer of this data in accordance with Article 49(1) of EU GDPR.
The above data will not be retained for longer than 12 months from the collection date. To learn more about Google's privacy policy, please visit www.google.com/privacy/ads/.
3.3.3. Microsoft Advertising
We use Microsoft Advertising (formerly Bing Ads) provided by Microsoft Corporation, One Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA 98052-6399, USA.
Microsoft Advertising uses Cookies to serve relevant advertisements based on your previous visits to our website and other third-party websites on the internet. For this purpose, we also use retargeting technologies. .
Please note that we rely upon your consent under Article 6(1)(a) of the EU GDPR as the legal basis. Your use and behavior data is transferred and stored on Microsoft servers in the United States, and your consent will extend to the transfer of this data in accordance with Article 49(1) of EU GDPR. .
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time or deactivate Microsoft Advertising personalized advertisements by accessing your Microsoft account settings. In no event will you personal data be retained for longer than 12 months from the collection date..
3.3.3. Pinterest Advertising
We use Pinterest Advertising provided by Pinterest, Inc., 651 Brannan St #310, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
Pinterest ads allow us to run advertising campaigns on the Pinterest advertising network. Pinterest Advertising uses Pinterest Tag to track your actions on our website for retargeting purposes.
Please note that we rely upon your consent under Article 6(1)(a) of the EU GDPR as the legal basis. Your use and behavior data will be transferred and stored on Pinterest servers in the United States, and your consent will extend to the transfer of this data in accordance with Article 49(1) of EU GDPR
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and opt out of behavioral advertising by accessing Pinterest personalization settings at https://www.pinterest.com/settings/ or visiting https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN. In no event will you personal data be retained for longer than 12 months from the collection date.
We respect your personal data and do not engage in selling or renting it. We will only disclose/share your personal data as described hereunder:
4.1. Third-Party Service Providers
We may disclose your personal data to third-party service providers (Service Providers
) who help us with the performance of our business operations, such as emailing tools, analytics tools, marketing (listed in Section 3.3 of this Privacy Policy), and customer support.
4.2 Change of Ownership
If, in the future, we enter into any sale/purchase negotiations or transactions with another business, Your personal data may be disclosed to such other businesses as part of negotiations and due diligence. If any commercial transaction results in a change in ownership of the Company, the personal data we process may be transferred to the new entity as part of the commercial transaction. Please note that in the aforementioned scenarios, your personal data will continue to be governed by this Privacy Policy, except where you expressly consent otherwise.
4.3 To protect ourselves or our users
We may be required to disclose your personal data to law enforcement authorities and other government bodies to comply with the law, to defend ourselves in legal actions, or to protect our users or others from threats posed by your actions.
4.4 Lawful requests
If we receive a lawful request for your personal data from any law enforcement authorities or courts of law with jurisdiction over the Company, we will only disclose your personal data where we are legally obliged to provide it.
Your personal data will be stored in the United States and other parts of the world in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
The Website is designed with the security of personal data in mind. We collect limited personal data, which reduces the risk and impact of data breaches on our users. We have also implemented appropriate organizational and technical security protocols to prevent unauthorized access or deletion of your personal data. We also restrict access to personal data within our organization on a need-to-know basis to prevent unauthorized access.
You acknowledge that data transmission over the internet is never one hundred percent secure. Thus, we cannot offer any guarantees regarding the absolute security of your personal data. Your decision to submit your personal data through the Website is solely at your own risk.
Your rights relating to your personal data that we process are as follows:
6.1. Right to access your personal data
You have the right to request access to your personal data or a copy of your personal data by contacting us.
6.2. Right to rectification
If the personal data we process for you is incorrect or outdated, you may request us to rectify or update your personal data by contacting us.
6.3. Right to withdraw consent
You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can opt out of receiving marketing communication from us by clicking the unsubscribe
link at the bottom of our marketing emails. You can also block the use of our cookies to which you previously consented by accessing your browser settings.
6.4. Right to the erasure of personal information
You may request the erasure of your personal data that we process by contacting us.
7.1. California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA)
We do not sell your personal information to any third parties. If you reside in the State of California, you have the right to request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by the Company to third parties for direct marketing purposes. If you wish to make a request, please contact us at the contact details provided under Section 1 of this Privacy Policy. We will make our best effort to respond to you within 20 business days.
You also have the right to request information about our privacy practices, how we collected your personal data, and with whom we share your personal data. You may make specific requests to exercise the aforementioned rights by sending a support request.
CalOPPA also requires us to inform our users how we respond to Do Not Track (DNT
) signals when the user visits our Website. Please note that we currently do not respond to DNT signals.
7.2. Children Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)
The Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control of the collection of personal information from children under the age of thirteen. In compliance with the COPPA Rule, we do not knowingly collect any personal data from children under the age of 13. If you are a parent of a child who has submitted any personal data through the Website, please contact us, and we will immediately investigate and delete any personal data relating to minors.
7.3. CAN-SPAM Act
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, we agree that:
7.3.1. If a message we send you is an advertisement, we will identify it in a reasonable way.
7.3.2. We will enable you to unsubscribe from our emails using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our email.
7.3.3. We will honor your decision to opt out of receiving emails from us.
7.3.4. We will not mislead you by using any misleading subjects or email addresses.
7.3.5. We will include our business address in our correspondence with you.
This section only applies to users who are residents of Canada. Our Privacy Policy and practices adhere to the ten principles of privacy in accordance with PIPEDA.
We have a designated Privacy Officer who ensures that we are accountable for any and all personal data of our users in our possession and control.
We will never collect any personal data from our users without informing them of the purpose for which we are collecting their personal data or do so without their express consent.
We will never disclose or use any of your personal data in a manner other than that indicated at the time when we obtained such information, with the exception that we reserve the right to disclose any personal data as and when required to do so by law.
We take all reasonable steps to keep all your personal data in our possession accurate, complete, current, and relevant based on the information you provide us.
We also take all reasonable and commercially viable measures to protect your personal data in our possession, and you may at any time access this data and query how we manage and protect your personal data by contacting us.
From time to time, we may amend this Privacy Policy to reflect our new privacy practices and commitment to compliance with applicable privacy laws and regulations. We will post the updated Privacy Policy on this page and notify you of such updates by changing the last updated date on the top or by sending an email (if required by law). You should review this Privacy Policy regularly to ensure that you are familiar with any changes. You understand and accept that your continued use of the Website after the updates become effective will be deemed as acceptance of such updated privacy practices.
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