Journey4Us Privacy and Policy

Privacy Policy

Journey4Us Privacy Policy

Updated 23rd June 2021

Journey4Us commitment to safe and healthy online communities is paramount, and the privacy and data protection of all visitors to the website is equally paramount. As a visitor, you have a choice to subscribe to the Journey4Us community and to voluntarily share your stories if you wish.

Please know that any information you choose to share will not be sold for marketing, and will be protected by the Journey4Us privacy policy. Safeguarding your digital information is of the utmost importance to us.

Below is the privacy policy for Journey4Us, a community that aims to provide an online platform for a Happy.Healthy.Harmony lifestyle. This is aligned with our dedication to protecting you, the visitors.

The Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your Information when You use the Service and tell You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

We use Your personal data to provide and improve the Service.  By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Pirvcay Policy. 

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions.  The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
  • Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Journey4Us.
  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
  • Device means any device that can access the Service such as computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
  • Service refers to the Website
  • Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company.  It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
  • Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through which a User can log in or create an account to use the Service.
  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
  • Website refers to Journey4Us, accessible from https://journey4us.com
  • You means the individual accessing or using the Service or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
  • User(s)/Visitor(S) means anyone visiting the website

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You.  Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • Email address
  • First name and last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
  • Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (eg. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit. The time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

What Personal Data We Collect and Why We Collect It

Comments

When You leave comments on the Website, 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 and Personal Information

When using our Site, You may voluntarily provide information about yourself, including Your name, Your email address, Your location, and any other information you choose to provide. We collect this information when You subscribe to our mailing list, send us feedback or request information, share Your story, or interact with Us for any other purpose. We will also collect any content that You provide to Us, such as text, videos, or social media posts, when you link to or otherwise submit that content on the Site. We automatically collect information related to your interactions with Us and our Site, including browser type, IP address, pages visited and other activities on the Site, device type, time and date of visit, and other information We collect through the use of cookies and similar technologies.

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.

If You have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when You close your browser.

When You log in, we will also set up several cookies to save Your login information and Your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If You select “Remember Me”, Your login will persist for two weeks. If You log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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 You have 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

Analytics allow Us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around the Site.  This helps Us to improve the way Journey4Us works, for example, by ensuring that visitors are finding what they are looking for easily. You can find more information about the individual cookies and similar technologies used on our Site and the purposes for which they are used are for Google Analytics:

Who We Share Your Data With

We may share the information We collect with other parties, including the following:

  • with third-party service providers who process data on Our behalf, such as email service providers
  • with other charitable, nonprofit, and for-profit ventures associated with Journey4Us that exist now or may be established in the future
  • as part of a prospective or completed sale, merger, or acquisition, or other transfer of all or part of our assets, including in the event of a bankruptcy proceeding
  • pursuant to a subpoena, court order, governmental inquiry, or other legal process or as otherwise required or permitted by law or to protect our rights or the rights of third parties or with your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing

We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation.

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.

What Rights Do 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

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

Third-Party Links and Tools

Our site may provide links to third-party websites or apps.  We do not control the privacy practices of those websites or apps, and they are not covered by this privacy notice.  We encourage you to reviews the privacy notices of other websites or apps that You use to learn about their data practices.

Children’s Privacy

Our service does not address anyone under the age of 13.  We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13.  If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice

If our information practices change, we will post these changes on this page.  We encourage you to visit this page periodically to learn of any updates.