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The I Believe I Am College Bound, LLC Privacy Policy

The terms “we,” “us,” and “Company” refer to I Believe I Am College Bound, LLC, a limited liability company organized and existing under the laws of the State of Georgia, or any successor or assignee of the Company.

This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit, subscribe or make a purchase from htt ps://ibelieveiamcollegebound.com/ (the “Site”).

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

When you visit our site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”

We collect Device Information using the following technologies:

– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.

– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.

– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.

Occasionally, we will upload sponsored posts and sponsored content to our website. The companies that we choose to allow to advertise on our site and that we partner with will frequently provide us with their own tracking information that will be added to each sponsored post so that readers and subscribers are aware. We have affiliate links on our website as well. These links allow tracking of clicks on specific links. If you choose to buy something using the aforementioned links, we may earn a commission at no cost to our readers, subscribers and customers. We have listed the companies mentioned previously, below. We will do our best to make sure these links are accurate and updated, frequently.

Links to privacy policies of the companies we partner with:

Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Gravatar: https://automattic.com/privacy/

Facebook: https://facebook.com/about/privacyshield

Convertkit: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-statement

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/

Hello Bar: https://www.hellobar.com/privacy-policy/

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, debit cards, gift card numbers and PayPal information provided), email address, and phone number. We refer to this information as “Order Information.”

GDPR Policy

We, I Believe I Am College Bound, LLC. own our blog and operate it through WordPress. As a source of income, we use cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation including affiliate relationships. As a result, compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts we publish on our blog and website.

We agree to disclose when content, advertising space or posts will be used as paid or sponsored content. Our opinion will be clear, ours and unchanged regardless of money exchange.

We are Christians and will refer to the Bible or make statements of Faith in our blog, videos and throughout our website.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through the Site (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations). Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;

Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and

When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store–you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIOURAL ADVERTISING

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous

BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK

Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION

When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

MINORS

The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by email at [email protected] or by mail using the details provided below:

PO Box 48, Hiram, GA, 30141, United States

How we use information:

I Believe I Am College Bound, LLC does not purposefully target people in the European Union as readers of our blog, email list or website subscribers, or as customers of our courses or participants of our Facebook Group. Because we appreciate our readers and customers we are currently taking the following precautions (and will do our best to continue to take these steps) to protect our readers’, as well as customers’ privacy.

When you give us your email address for one of our courses, downloadables, or for our monthly email newsletter we will add you to our email list and you will occasionally be sent an email with a variety of topics from budgeting, travel, parenting and marriage. If you provide your email address to us for any reason via one of these signups, you will be subscribed to our email list. You can always opt out by using the unsubscribe link on all of our emails.

We do utilize Google Analytics, and we will have Facebook Pixels, as well as Pinterest Pixels installed. Feel free to read more about their policies on their individual sites to learn more about the information they gather. We’ve provided their specific links below for your convenience.

Our email list never has and never will be sold.