Official Company Name: InLight Connection
Email Address: help@dougaddison.com
Postal Address: PO Box 7049 Santa Maria, CA 93456

Your Privacy

Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy, we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. By using our website, and/or signing up for services such as partnership, online schools, membership areas, community groups or our newsletter, you affirm that you are at least 18 years of age and consent to the information practices outlined in our Privacy Policy.

To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our home page and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested.

For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, use of the term “InLight Connection” refers to all websites, mobile applications or other digital site(s) associated with, owned or maintained by InLight Connection, Doug Addison, Spirit Connection, Doug Addison blogs, podcasts, and webcasts, digital products, partner portals, membership sites with Doug Addison.

Our Commitment to Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important. For that reason, InLight Connection and the associated Doug Addison websites and mobile applications will never knowingly collect or maintain information at our website from those we know are under 18.

No part of our website is structured to attract anyone under 18. If you believe that we have received information from a person under 18, please contact us by email at help@dougaddison.com and we will take appropriate action.

Collection of Personal Information

As a visitor to this website, you can enjoy many free resources such as blogs, podcasts and webcasts without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to download resources and/or purchase products that you are required to provide personal information.

In cases where information is provided to us, it is important that you understand the following:
We will not release your name, email address or any other personal information to anyone outside of InLight Connection without your consent, unless we are under a legal order to do so, or there is an emergency involving danger to a person or property.

We will not provide advertisers or anyone else outside of InLight Connection with any information specific to you unless we have your consent.

InLight Connection collects your information in order to record and support your participation in activities you have selected or requested. We use these records to note your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have expressed interest in, purchased or asked to receive information about. We may also use this information to refer any related products and/or services that may be of interest to you.

We may also collect personal information about you via registration for newsletters, webinars, online events, live events, conferences, online training programs, comments, donations, product purchases, membership sites and other areas that require specialized access to our products and services.

We may use your collected information to improve our marketing and promotional efforts, to statistically analyze site usage, to improve our content and product offerings and to customize our website content, layout and provide service specifically for you.

We may also use your information to provide technical support to you, or to improve the delivery of our goods and services, to resolve disputes or to enforce agreements with us.
Where you have an opportunity to supply information about yourself, you may choose not to provide requested information but, in such cases, you may not be able to use certain functions or access products on InLight Connection websites.

Only authorized InLight Connection employees, contractors or consultants with a legitimate business need to handle their responsibilities are allowed access to personal information about you. Any employee or contractor who violates our privacy and security policies is subject to disciplinary action.

When visiting InLight Connection, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather broad demographic information for internal use. It may also be used to provide technical support to you when requested.

Security

InLight Connection uses a number of security methods designed to prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure correct use of information. Your personal data will be stored within a database that is located behind a firewall for added security and is only accessible to those InLight Connection staff and contractors who have a legitimate business need to access this information.

No data transmission over the internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be secure. As a result, while we try to protect your personal information, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. We are not liable for the illegal acts of any third party.

We do not encrypt normal web sessions, however any transmission to the InLight Connection store website or service of credit card information uses SSL encryption to help protect the data.

Data Storage

Our shopping cart solution is hosted and managed by Infusionsoft and/or WooCommerce. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Infusionsoft’s data storage, databases and the Infusionsoft application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall. You can learn more about Infusionsoft’s privacy policy here: https://www.infusionsoft.com/legal/privacy-policy

Your data may also be stored in our member portal, hosted on InLight Connection web servers. This is how you access the digital products and services you have purchased from InLight Connection.

Participation in Forums and Community Groups

InLight Connection may require personal payment information to process your payments for products, services and/or donations. InLight Connection will share your payment information with banks or vendors relevant to the transaction in order to enable transactions to be completed.

If you choose a direct-payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Infusionsoft and/or Easy Pay Direct and/or PayPal stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

All direct-payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.

Storage of payment information inside of Infusionsoft is monitored and managed by Infusionsoft, and you can read their terms of service, privacy policy and PCI Compliance information by visiting their site at: http://www.infusionsoft.com/legal

InLight Connection shall not be liable to you or any other person for any damages that might result from unauthorized use, publication, disclosure or any other misuse of payment information, including credit card information.

Data Retention

InLight Connection will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements.

When deciding what the correct time is to keep the data for, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, the processing purposes and if these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.

Certain federal laws require us to keep basic information about our members, partners and customers (including contact, identity, financial and transaction data) for at least six years after they stop being active members, partners and customers.

Participation in Forums and Community Groups

Any information you share in public areas, such as the InLight Connection blog comments, community forums for online schools, our community Facebook groups, or similar public access areas, becomes public information automatically and therefore this Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you choose to post in those areas and make public.

We encourage visitors to InLight Connection to be cautious about what they disclose and that they do not post any personal information that they expect to keep private.

Personally Identifiable Information is information that can be used to contact you or determine your specific identity. If other information is linked to this information, it also becomes Personally Identifiable Information.

Third-Party Services

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.

For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies, so you can understand how your personal information will be handled.

Additionally, we may have included links on this site to third-party websites for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own.

Transfer of Data

Certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located within a different jurisdiction than either you or us. In some cases, your information, including personal information, may be transferred to computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction and the data protection laws may be different than those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside of the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we may transfer the information, including personal information, to the United States and process it there.

If you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy and providing us with your information represents your agreement to such transfers.

Email Use

Email is not recognized as a secure method of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private or sensitive information to us by email. If you choose to do so, you acknowledge that you are doing so at your own risk. Credit card, banking information or other sensitive data should never be transmitted via email.

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your messages, email address and our responses to you. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.

InLight Connection handles your email address with confidentiality. We do not sell, rent or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not provide your email address to any third parties unless required by law.

We will maintain the information you send via email in accordance with applicable federal law.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emails sent from InLight Connection will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender.

Opt-Out

Emails from InLight Connection provide users the opportunity to modify or manage their email subscriptions, choose which emails they prefer to receive or opt-out of receiving communications from us altogether by following the Safe Unsubscribe instructions or opt-out-completely option located at the bottom of any email they receive.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

You can safely unsubscribe and select which emails you wish to continue receiving, or you can opt out completely.

If you choose to opt out completely, then you may no longer receive email communication about updates or changes to products or services you have previously purchased.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, which often includes an anonymous, unique identifier that is sent to your browser from a website’s server and stored on your computer. Each website can send its own cookies to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) most browsers only permit a website to access the cookies that the same website has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

InLight Connection may use cookies to identify you as a repeat visitor or customer of the website, to maintain session information for logged-in users, and to track usage trends and patterns in order to better understand and improve areas of our website.

You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but you may not be able to take full advantage of our site’s features.
We do not and cannot use cookies or IP address tracking to retrieve personal information from your computer.

Third-Party Analytics

We use third-party analytics services, such as Google Analytics and social media pixels, to evaluate your use of InLight Connection websites, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyze performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to the web, mobile and internet usage.

These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide us the data. By accessing and using our websites, you consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.

Google, as a third-party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet.

To opt out of these cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through these cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies.

Other third-party ad servers, social media sites or ad networks may also use cookies to track user activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, InLight Connection has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third-party advertisers.

Participation in Forums, Social Media and Community Groups

Any information you share in public areas, such as the InLight Connection blog comments, community forums for online schools, our community Facebook groups, social media pages or similar public access areas, becomes public information automatically and, therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to any information you choose to post in those areas and make public.

Any information you share on a Doug Addison or InLight Connection social media page hosted on a third-party social media platform (such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, etc.) are not subject to this Privacy Policy. Users of social media platforms should refer to the privacy policies of the individual platforms they use to understand how their personal information is used on individual social media sites.

We encourage visitors to InLight Connection to be cautious about what they disclose and that they do not post any personal information that they expect to keep private.
“Personally Identifiable Information” is information that can be used to contact you or determine your specific identity. If other information is linked to this information, it also becomes Personally Identifiable Information.

European Union

If you are in the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, participate in any free programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar or conference call or purchase any products sold by InLight Connection, we will only enroll you to receive our free email communication, if you consent to it.

If you do not wish to receive this communication, you can unsubscribe at any time using the safely unsubscribe or opt-out-completely options at the bottom of every email we send. If you need assistance with this, you can send an email to: help@dougaddison.com and one of our team members will assist you.

If you choose to opt out completely, you will no longer receive emails or updates regarding products you have previously purchased.

GDPR Rights

If you are within the European Union (EU) then you have certain rights as provided in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
You can review those rights here: https://gdpr-info.eu/chapter-3

Should you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact our support team by emailing us: help@dougaddison.com

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion.

If you have any questions regarding the Privacy Policy of InLight Connection, then you may contact us at help@dougaddison.com

Last Updated: May 30, 2018