Privacy Policy
Effective October 2021
This privacy statement describes how we collect and use the personal information you provide on the website, Turning a New Leaf: wfbnewleaf.com. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.
Collection and Use of Personal Information
We collect the following personal information from you:
Contact Information such as name, email address, mailing address, and phone number (if you choose to be contacted by phone/text)
If you submit a piece, we will interpret that as permission to publish the piece to our website. You have the right to request that we take down any of your writing at any time in the future in a timely manner (plus or minus a few days since it would be one of us, as an admin, removing your piece(s) from the website).
As is true of most websites, we automatically gather information about your computer such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and operating system. We use this information to:
Respond to your questions and concerns
Improve our Web site and marketing efforts
Conduct research and analysis
Choice/Opt-Out
You may choose to stop receiving our newsletter or marketing emails by contacting us in writing or email at wfbnewleaf@gmail.com.
Information Sharing
We may use and disclose your Personal Information as follows:
To communicate with you about your submissions
To communicate with you about workshops or meetings.
To enforce compliance with our Terms of Use and applicable law. This may include developing tools and algorithms that help us prevent violations.
To protect the rights and safety of our authors, as well as our own.
To meet legal requirements like complying with court orders, valid discovery requests, valid subpoenas, and other appropriate legal mechanisms.
To provide information to representatives and advisors, like attorneys and accountants, to help us comply with legal, accounting, or security requirements.
To prosecute and defend a court, arbitration, or similar legal proceeding.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
We love eating cookies. That’s about as technical as we get in terms of understanding how to effectively benefit from any other type of cookie… However…
This website is run on Square Space. They definitely use cookies. Cookies are used to collect general usage and volume statistical information that does not include personal information.
Square Space (and Google Analytics) may place cookies on your computer to collect non-personally identifiable information to compile aggregated statistics for us about visitors to our site.
Links to Other Web Sites
Our Site might someday include links to other websites whose privacy practices may differ from ours. If you submit personal information to any of those sites, your information is governed by their privacy statements. We encourage you to carefully read the privacy statement of any website you visit.
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. When you enter sensitive information on our forms, we encrypt the transmission of that information using secure socket layer technology (SSL).
We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you have any questions about security on our website, you can contact us by writing or email us at wfbnewleaf@gmail.com.
Correcting and Updating Your Personal Information
To review and update your personal information to ensure it is accurate, contact us by writing or email us at wfbnewleaf@gmail.com.
Notification of Privacy Statement Changes
We may update this privacy statement to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we may notify you by email (sent to the e-mail address you provided) prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.
Contact Information
You can contact us about these terms of use and privacy policy by writing or emailing us at:
Turning a New Leaf
Email: wfbnewleaf@gmail.com