Privacy Policy

Privacy policy for PLF3.org Here’s the non-legalese (no nonsense) privacy policy: (the one that humans can read)

On our site you have the option of giving us your email address and possibly your phone-number in exchange for information.

A) we will NEVER intentionally rent, share, sell or disclose your email address or phone-number with anybody else.
B) we promise only to send you useful information.

regarding A):

you may have noticed that we said “intentionally”, sounds a bit like we’re keeping some back-door open, right? As you’ll find in the legalese down below, we have to guard ourselves against being hacked. A real bummer, but a reality.

Our business lives (and dies) with our reputation. So we want keep that flying high and squeaky clean. You give us your email address and phone-number in good faith, and that’s the way we’ll treat it. And should we get hacked (actually, it’s not us, it’s aweber.com, the list-hosts where we keep our list, and so far they have a squeaky clean track-record, because they too depend on the trust people put in them), then we’ll kick aweber’s butt on your behalf.

regarding B)

This is a subject of often heated debate: when you give us your email address, you typically do this because you want to receive some useful information in return. This we will send to you.

Then we normally continue to send you other, related useful information, most of it pure content but also from time to time promotions we believe to be a) related and b) of interest to you.

Yes, like you, we have a business to run and we make a living by selling stuff.

There are two schools of thought on this

:

one says that if you pitch your list often and hard enough you make a lot of money (and if you don’t pitch relentlessy, then you leave a lot of money on the table)

whereas the other says that

if you build an awesome relationship with your list by providing a world-class customer experience, then you are probably leaving a lot of money on individual tables, but through all the goodwill those indviduals will recommend you to so many others, that the number of tables is so big that the total scope of win-win and goodwill makes up big time for the ‘left on table’ amount.

We believe that places like Amazon or Zappos are probably onto something, so we join them in the second school of thought.

So:

expect to get lots of awesome content (which when you put it into practice will make you a lot of money straight away) and also to get the odd commercial promotion (so you spend some of that ‘lotsa money’ with us) — we do this because we really think that you’ll get value out of it far in excess in what it would cost you to invest in it.

Should this not be the case, let us know — there are real people on this end. And if you really don’t want to hear from us anymore, there is an unsubscribe option in every single email from us. Just scroll to the bottom and click the happy unsubscribe link and we part as friends.

Here is the legal speak version of the above (the one that lawyers can read)

Introduction

The site editor takes your right to privacy seriously, and wants you to feel comfortable using this web site. This privacy policy deals with personally-identifiable information (referred to as “data” below) that may be collected by this site. This policy does not apply to other entities that are not owned or controlled by the site editor, nor does it apply to persons that are not employees or agents of the site editor, or that are not under the site editor’s control. Please take time to read this site’s Terms of use.

1. Collection of data

We communicate with our visitors primarily by email. There will be a number of opportunities where you can provide us with an email address to which we can send the information you are requesting.
You will have to provide a valid email address.
This email address will never be stored on our servers, but instead on Aweber servers who host our lists for us. Aweber have a stellar reputation and so far there are no incidences of email/identity theft from their servers.
We use the double-optin process to ensure that it is really you who is providing an email address when requesting information from us such as our newsletter, the dial-in-details for seminars etc.
You are not required to provide any other information if you do not want to.
The double-optin process requires you to visit a confirmation link inside a confirmation email we send to you whenever you sign up. If you do not visit this link, we will have to assume that the email-address was NOT provided by you and we will hence not send you any further information.

There is one other opportunity for you to disclose your email address, and that is in comment below blog-posts. We do NOT use these email addresses except if we want to reply to you personally to a comment you posted. However, these addresses may be publically visible, so others may be able to email you. Please be aware of this when posting comments.

Please be aware that the e-mail address you provide and any other information you enter may render you personally identifiable, and may possibly be displayed on this web site intentionally (depending on choices you make during the registration process, or depending on the way in which the site is configured) or unintentionally (subsequent to a successful act of intrusion by a third party). As on many web sites, the site editor may also automatically receive general information that is contained in server log files, such as your IP address, and cookie information. Information about how advertising may be served on this site (if it is indeed the site editor’s policy to display advertising) is set forth below.

2. Use of data

Data may be used to customize and improve your user experience on this site. Efforts will be made to prevent your data being made available to third parties unless (i) provided for otherwise in this Privacy Policy; (ii) your consent is obtained, such as when you choose to opt-in or opt-out for the sharing of data; (iii) a service provided on our site requires interaction with a third party, or is provided by a third party, such as an application service provider; (iv) pursuant to legal action or law enforcement; (v) it is found that your use of this site violates the site editor’s policy, terms of service, or other usage guidelines, or if it is deemed reasonably necessary by the site editor to protect the site editor’s legal rights and/or property; or (vi) this site is purchased by a third party, in which case that third party will be able to use the data in the same manner as set forth in this policy. In the event you choose to use links displayed on this web site to visit other web sites, you are advised to read the privacy policies published on those sites.

3. Cookies

Like many web sites, this web site sets and uses cookies to enhance your user experience — to remember your personal settings, for instance. Advertisements may display on this web site and, if so, may set and access cookies on your computer; such cookies are subject to the privacy policy of the parties providing the advertisement. However, the parties providing the advertising do not have access to this site’s cookies. These parties usually use non-personally-identifiable or anonymous codes to obtain information about your visits to this site.

4. Minors

The site editor might not allow persons who are aged 18 or younger to become members of this site. For more information, please contact the site administrator.

5. Editing or deleting your account information

You will have the option of removing your email address from our database at any time, all you need to do is visit the ‘unsubscribe’ button in any of our emails and your email address will be deleted from our files immediately and permanently. This does not prevent your from re-subscribing at a future date.
You can request that your user account be deleted; to do so, please contact the site administrator. Content or other data that you may have provided, and that is not stored within your user account, such as articles published, may continue to remain on the site at the site editor’s discretion, even after your user account is deleted. Please contact the site administrator for further information.

6. Changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy was last updated on 16 November 2009. Changes may be made to this policy from time to time. You will be notified of substantial changes to this policy either by through the posting of a prominent announcement on the site, and/or by a mail message sent to the e-mail address you have provided, which is stored within your user settings.

7. NO GUARANTEES

While this privacy policy states standards for maintenance of data, and while efforts will be made to meet the said standards, the site editor is not in a position to guarantee compliance with these standards. There may be factors beyond the site editor’s control that may result in disclosure of data. Consquently, the site editor offers no warranties or representations as regards maintenance or non-disclosure of data.

8. Contact information

If you have any questions about this policy or about this web site, please feel free to contact the site administrator through the support pages: http://support.caligaconsulting.com