Privacy Policy at SMNash.com

Our Privacy Statement

The privacy of our visitors to SMNash.com is important to us.

Privacy statement last updated: Nov 2nd, 2022
(Find our terms of service here.)

Privacy Statement

Essentially, and as per EU privacy regulations that came into force on May 25th (2018) called GDPR, you will find the following details here on this privacy page:

Who we are
What tools we use to collect data (e.g. Aweber, Acuity Scheduling, Statcounter, PayPal…) and what data they collect.
Confirmation of the data that does / does not personally or directly identify you
What data we collect when you subscribe to our newsletter services
Who gets to see this data

NOTE: as our understanding of the requirements of GDPR becomes clearer so this privacy policy will become clearer, too.

Who We Are

Our website address is: https://www.smnash.com

At SMNash.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use SMNash.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

SMNash.com strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers’ and online visitors’ privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that SMNash.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to SMNash.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Cookies are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

If you want to check or change what types of cookies you accept, this can usually be altered within your browser settings. You can block cookies at any time by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

How do we use cookies?

We use cookies to track your use of our website. This enables us to understand how you use the site and track any patterns with regards how you are using our website. This helps us to develop and improve our website as well as products and / or services in response to what you might need or want.

Cookies are either:

* Session cookies
* Persistent cookies

But, more important to you, cookies can also be categorised as follows:

– Strictly necessary cookies
– Performance cookies
– Functionality cookies

Find out more about cookies here – https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters/online/cookies/

As regards SMNash.com, and its cookie use…

Google Analytics

Provider: Google Ireland Limited

Purpose: Analytics

Personal Data collected

Tracker
Usage data

Description

Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

Statcounter Cookies

Statcounter is an online service which helps us to understand our visitors; for example, how visitors find our website, how long they spend on our site, which web pages they are most interested in etc. We use Statcounter because better understanding how visitors are interacting with our website helps us to improve the content, design and functionality of our site. This allows us to offer a better online experience to our visitors.

Statcounter uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on visitors and visitor activity on our website. This data includes:

Time and date of visit (this can help us to identify and plan for busy periods on our website)
IP address (this is a numerical label assigned to a device by an Internet Service Provider to enable the device to access the internet)
Browser and Operating System (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the browsers/operating systems used to access our site)
Device Information e.g. device type and screen size (this can help us to make sure that our website functions correctly in the devices used to access our site)
Referring Data e.g. a search engine link (this can help us to understand which search engines are helping visitors to find our website)

Furthermore, when you visit our website a Statcounter cookie (called “is_unique”) may be placed in your browser. This cookie is used only to determine whether you are a first-time or returning visitor and to estimate unique visits to the site.

You can learn more about cookies from StatCounter and set your browser to refuse same by clicking here.

For further details, please see the Statcounter privacy policy.

Affiliate Products and Services

We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on SMNash.com.

The affiliate services platforms we use are Amazon, Aweber, SiteSell, Hypnosis Downloads, Siteground

By clicking on a product or service link, you consent to that platform’s use of cookies, as outlined in the link below.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse SMNash.com‘s cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

Personally Identifiable Information

SMNash.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

To run and operate our site.
To display content on the site correctly.
To improve customer service.
To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
To personalize your user experience.
To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
To improve our site.
To improve our products and services.
To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

SMNash.com lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of:

We sell our books/eBooks on third party platforms. When you click to buy one of our eBooks on our site, you are taken to one of these third party platforms. You may view their privacy policy by clicking the following links:

SMNash.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you leave a comment on the site 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you. (If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.)

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, our payment processor (PayPal or Stripe) will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor’s IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Links

This website
contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these
links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy
statements of these linked sites as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

Also note – and to reiterate from above – third parties may be accessible through our site, such as partners, advertisers, affiliates and other content providers, and may have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices and may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some of your preferences or gather information. SMNash.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature or page operated by a third party.

SMNash.com does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or policies of such third parties.

** Non-personally Identifiable Information **

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Log Files

As with most other websites, we collect and use the data contained in log files. The information in the log files include your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider, such as AOL), the browser you used to visit our site (such as Internet Explorer or Firefox), the time you visited our site and which pages you visited throughout our site.

This information is stored by our site host, SiteGround. (See below.)

** 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 our website (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). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site 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.

Children’s Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell SMNash.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host’s servers. That host is Siteground Hosting Ltd, located at 3rd Floor, 11-12 St. James’s Square, London SW1Y 4LB.

A backup copy of this data is also stored using UpdraftPlus.

Some information is collected by third-party services. These include… YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Acuity Scheduling, Where.by, Skype, Zoom, Aweber

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to update that information or have it deleted from our records, then please contact us.

If you have an account on this site, 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.

These external links allow you to remove your data from the following services (once you are logged in):

Where.by

Updates and Effective Date

SMNash.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to SMNash.com‘s privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: Nov 2nd, 2022