Our Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are Courageous Encounters, LLC, a partnership company based in Texas. We own and operate the website address: https://courageousencounters.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments 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.

Media

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.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site 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.

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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We utilize Google Analytics on our website.

Who we share your data with

We do not sell and will not sell your data. Period. The End.

We do utilize Google Ads, Facebook Ads, and LinkedIn Advertisements for our marketing efforts. We may obtain your name or information from one of these platforms

Facebook Remarketing and Remarketing with Google Analytics

Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data are obtained from these platforms in order to advertise and market to those interested or potentially interested parties.

Google Analytics, HubSpot Analytics, Google Ads conversion tracking and Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel)

Personal Data: Cookies; Usage Data are obtained from these platforms in order to advertise and market to those interested or potentially interested parties.

Facebook Audience Network

Personal Data: Cookies; unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example); Usage Data re obtained from these platforms in order to advertise and market to those interested or potentially interested parties.

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 only can see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Otherwise, no where. We keep it for ourselves for future marketing efforts for future events, retreats, or workshops.

Your contact information

• Contact form: 

  Personal Data: company name; email address; first name; last name; phone number

• Mailing list or newsletter:

  Personal Data: email address; first name; last name

• Order form: 

  Personal Data: company name; email address; first name; last name; phone number; any additional information you leave on the form. Your credit card payment details are handled completely by PCI Compliant PayPal Services so we never have access to your credit card details as those are encrypted and tokenized by PayPal.

• Phone contact:

  Personal Data: phone number

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