Who we are
Hello and welcome to The Personal Developent Cafe. Our website address is: http://thepdcafe.com and is the property of The Personal Development Cafe Limited.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you visit our website, you will be presented with different downloads, offers and /or services. If you decide to access certain sections of The Personal Development Cafe that requires special access, (such as a lead-gen offer or paid product), you will be asked to type in your email address and agree to receive relevant communications. If you don’t grant the requested consent, accessing the special offers may not be possible.
Any information stored by The Personal Development Cafe is treated as confidential. All information is secured and accessed only by authorized personnel, with appropriate security measures in place to protect against breach or loss.
Contact forms
We may collect the following personal data from you in various ways including:
Transactions: Your name, email address, billing information and payment source.
To process a purchase you make with us. We will collect your information as part of a legal contractual transaction.
Submitting Comments & Questions: Your name, email address, and question.
We have an allowed legitimate interest in providing a response to your questions and need to use your data to do so. We will not use the data for any other purposes.
Opt-In To Email Course: Your name, and address.
Required in order to deliver your course via email. We will ask for your consent first.
Newsletter: Your name and email address.
Required to deliver your newsletter via email. We will ask for your consent first.
Automated unsubscribe
At the bottom of every subscription email sent by The Personal Development Cafe, you’ll find a friendly ‘unsubscribe’ link. When you click on it, you’re automatically removed from that specific list.
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 anonymised 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 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.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Payments
Payments are processed through Paypal, who follow privacy laws with strong security. View their policies here.
Credit card information is never processed by the Personal Development Cafe itself.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise 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 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.
Our Commitment To Children’s Privacy
Protecting the privacy of the very young is especially important. For that reason, our website will never collect or maintain information at our website from those we actually know are under 18.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Privacy Policy Modifications and Updates.
As with any of our administrative and legal notice pages, the contents of this page can and will change over time. Accordingly, this page could read differently as of your very next visit. These changes are necessitated, and carried out by The Personal Development Cafe Limited, in order to protect you and The Personal Development Cafe website.
We may update and modify this Privacy Policy at any time. If this page is important to you, you should check back frequently as no other notice of changed content will be provided either before or after the change takes effect.
Acceptance of these conditions
We have the right to assume all visitors have carefully read this policy, particularly when they are explicitly agreeing to its terms. If someone does not agree with this policy, they should refrain from using our websites or offers.
