At Wellness Roots, we understand the importance of your privacy and are committed to protecting it. This Privacy Statement outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you visit and interact with our website. Please read this statement carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://wellnessroots.net.
About Personal Information
- Collection of Personal Information: We may collect various types of personal information when you visit and use our website, including but not limited to your name, email address, contact information, and demographic details. We collect this information in order to provide you with a personalized and enhanced user experience.
- Use of Personal Information: We may use the personal information we collect for the following purposes: a. To respond to your inquiries and provide the services you request. b. To personalize and improve your experience on our website. c. To send you relevant marketing communications, updates, and promotional offers, if you have provided your consent to receive them. d. To analyze website usage and trends, and to gather statistical information to improve our website’s functionality and performance. e. To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, as required by law.
- Sharing of Personal Information: We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and delivering our services. These service providers are contractually bound to use your personal information solely for the purposes of providing the requested services and are obligated to maintain the confidentiality and security of your data.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We may use cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience and collect information about how you use our website. These technologies may collect information such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and browsing behavior. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
- Data Security: We take reasonable measures to safeguard your personal information and protect it from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.
- Third-Party Links: Our website may contain links to third-party websites, products, or services. These third-party sites have their own privacy policies, and we encourage you to review them. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these external sites.
- Children’s Privacy: Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without parental consent, we will take steps to remove the information promptly.
- Updates to this Privacy Statement: We may update this Privacy Statement from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the updated Privacy Statement on our website or by other means.
- Contact Us: If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding our privacy practices or this Privacy Statement, please contact us using the information provided on our website.
Further Information
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.
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 visit our login page, 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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.
Who do we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
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 your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Last Updated: [12-06-23]