Your privacy is very important to us. Accordingly, we have developed this Policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate and make use of personal information. The following outlines our Privacy Policy.
When accessing our Website, SteveOSullivan.com* will learn certain information about you during your visit.
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” (see explanation below, “What Are Cookies?”) and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our website, and the websites visited just before and just after our website, and your IP address.
Collection of Personal Information
SteveOSullivan.com partners and sponsors: Some products and services may be offered to visitors and members in conjunction with an affiliate, independent contractor seller or non-affiliated partner. To provide visitors and members some of these products and services, the partner may need to collect and maintain personal information.
If you order services or products directly from SteveOSullivan.com, we use the personal information you provide to process that order. We may share this information with outside parties that we do business with.
Online Advertisements: SteveOSullivan.com may display our advertisements online. In those cases we share information about our visitors and members collected through the registration process as well as through online surveys and promotions with these advertisers.
Additionally, in some instances, we use this information to deliver tailored advertisements or joint ventures. For instance, an advertiser or joint venture company tells us the audience they want to reach and provides us an advertisement tailored to the audience. Based upon the information we have collected, we may then display or send the advertisement to the intended audience. SteveOSullivan.com may share personal information about its visitors or members with these advertisers or joint venture companies.
By visiting SteveOSullivan.com, you are consenting to our policy of collecting and using your data. If you do not want to consent to our policy of collecting and using your data you can “opt out” of our social network and Facebook.com Website Custom Audience Ads advertising policy by notifying SteveOSullivan.com in the following manner (see the following statements):
Social networks and Facebook Website Custom Audience Ads (WCA):
A Custom Audience on Facebook.com is a list of people SteveOSullivan.com would like to show our ads to on Facebook, who have shown interest in our products and services, with ads we believe would be of interest to them. This audience consists of people, whose information and email addresses SteveOSullivan.com already has, because they have already subscribed to receiving SteveOSullivan.com’s emails.
If you no longer have an interest in our products and services, you can opt-out of seeing SteveOSullivan.com’s Facebook.com Website Custom Audience Ads. Unsubscribing from SteveOSullivan.com’s email list will remove you from SteveOSullivan.com’s internal email database list and stop future emails from SteveOSullivan.com, but not from being shown Facebook’s Website Custom Audience Ads. The Facebook Website Custom Audience Ads external database, is different from SteveOSullivan.com’s internal database and requires the following Opting-out request.
Opting-out of Facebook Website Custom Audience Ads:
To opt out of SteveOSullivan.com’s Facebook Custom Audience Ads, send an email, from the email address you are opting out, to SteveOSullivan.com using our email address provided in our contact information below. Put “Opting Out of Facebook Website Custom Audience Ads” in the subject line of the email. In the body of the email include your name and email address. Our staff will forward your name and email address to Facebook with a request to delete you from all of SteveOSullivan.com’s Facebook Website Custom Audience Ads.
Retargeting Ad Campaigns
SteveOSullivan.com may utilize various types of advertising that appear on SteveOSullivan.com sites and services including ads on third party sites and services. SteveOSullivan.com may utilize categories of information, including names and email addresses, collected from users on our sites and services, as well as third party sites and services, in connection with the ads that are served. This advertising may include, but not limited to, contextual advertising, cookies, anonymous cookies, pixels (including Facebook Retargeting Pixels), persistent identifiers, geolocation information, email opt in, search engine terms, behavioral advertising and/or retargeting advertising.
This type of advertising is a form of targeted advertising, to the specific individual who is visiting the SteveOSullivan.com. These advertisements appear on websites or other media, including display ads, pop up ads and ads displayed in mobile browsers. Those advertisements are selected and served by automated systems based on the interests relevant to the user from the content displayed to the user, based on what the user is viewing.
SteveOSullivan.com does not conduct inquiries into the information collection practices of third parties that may collect information from users that leave our Web site. SteveOSullivan.com may share customer information with third parties to process orders, for third party analytics and for marketing and advertising purposes.
Responses to Email Inquiries: When visitors or members send email inquiries to SteveOSullivan.com, the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry we receive.
Voluntary Customer Surveys: We may periodically conduct both business and individual customer surveys. We encourage our customers to participate in these surveys because they provide us with important information that helps us to improve the types of products and services we offer and how we provide them to you.
We may take the information we receive from individuals responding to our Customer Surveys and combine (or aggregate) it with the responses of other customers we may have, to create broader, generic responses to the survey questions (such as gender, age, residence, hobbies, education, employment, industry sector, or other demographic information). We then use the aggregated information to improve the quality of our services to you, and to develop new services and products. This aggregated, non-personally identifying information may be shared with third parties.
Special Cases: It is SteveOSullivan.com’s policy to use or share the personal information about visitors or members in ways described herein without additional notice or means to opt out except as noted herein, or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.
Also, we may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members, or information regarding your use of the services or websites accessible through our services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so, including: credit agencies, collection agencies, merchant database agencies, law enforcement, or to satisfy laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, the Child Online Privacy Act, regulations, or governmental or legal requests for such information; to disclose information that is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be violating our Acceptable Use Policy or Terms Of Service, or other user policies; to operate the Services properly; or to protect SteveOSullivan.com and our Members.
Google.com Analytics
SteveOSullivan.com uses Google Analytics tracking code to support Display Advertising, and enable Google Analytics to collect data about your traffic via the DoubleClick cookie in addition to data collected through the standard Google Analytics implementation. Display Advertising lets us enable features in Analytics that aren’t available through standard implementations, like Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.
SteveOSullivan.com may use Remarketing with Google Analytics to advertise online:
This allows third-party vendors, including Google, to show your ads on sites across the Internet. SteveOSullivan.com and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone’s past visits to our website.
SteveOSullivan.com may implement Google Display Network Impression Reporting or the DoubleClick Campaign Manager:
SteveOSullivan.com and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) together to report how your ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services that are related to visits to your site.
SteveOSullivan.com may implement Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting: The data from Google’s Interest-based advertising or 3rd-party audience data (such as age, gender, and interests) with Google Analytics allows us to serve ads to you based on this data.
Opting-out of Google Analytics’ For The Web and Google Analytics for Display Advertising:
Users can opt-out of Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Using the Ads Settings, users can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads at https://www.google.com/settings/personalinfo
Notice to California Residents – Your California Privacy Rights
Under California Law SB 27, California residents have the right to receive, once a year, information about third parties with whom we have shared information about you or your family for their marketing purposes during the previous calendar year, and a description of the categories of personal information shared. To make such a request, please send an email to SteveOSullivan.com, to the email address provided in our contact information and please include the phrase “California Privacy Request” in the subject line, the domain name of the Web site you are inquiring about, along with your name, address and email address. We will respond to you within thirty days of receiving such a request.
Advertisers and partners may also use their own cookies. We do not control use of these cookies and expressly disclaim responsibility for information collected through them.
What Are Cookies?
A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.
Deleting Cookies: If you don’t want SteveOSullivan.com’s cookies on your computer, to be used for the purposes stated herein, they are easy to delete. Simply go to http://www.aboutcookies.org/how-to-delete-cookies/ for instructions.
IP Addresses
IP addresses are used by your computer every time you are connected to the Internet. Your IP address is a number that is used by computers on the network to identify your computer. IP addresses are automatically collected by our web server as part of demographic and profile data known as “traffic data” so that data (such as the Web pages you request) can be sent to you.
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail and telephone.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us?
Broadly speaking, we use personal information for purposes of administering our business activities, providing customer service and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.
SteveOSullivan.com* will not obtain personally-identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us, nor will such information be sold or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties without the approval of the user at the time of collection.
We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights.
A Special Note About Children
Children are not eligible to use our website and services and we ask that minors (under the age of 13) do not submit any personal information to us. If you are a minor, you can use this site only in conjunction with permission and guidance from your parents or guardians.
How Do We Protect Your Information and Secure Information Transmissions?
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information is never transmitted via email.
SteveOSullivan.com* may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, SteveOSullivan.com uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
Policy Changes
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.
We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.
Contact
If you have any questions regarding this Policy, or your dealings with our website, please contact us.
SteveOSullivan.com
810 Campbell St., Suite B
Prescott, AZ 86301
steve@steveosullivan.com
* From here on in, SteveOSullivan.com includes but is not limited to, Steven B. O’Sullivan, DoorJamb Productions, Social Marketing Planet, Steve O’Sullivan, their heirs, and associates.