Terms of service

Last updated June 8, 2021

At Blue Thread® Coaching & Editing Services, we respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy is designed to explain how we collect, use, share, and protect the personal information you provide to us when you access our website, purchase our services, or engage with us on social media, as well as your own rights to the information we collect. We will alert you to any changes to this Policy by changing the “last updated” date at the top of this Policy. Any changes become effective immediately upon publication on our website, and you waive specific notice of any changes to the Policy by continuing to use and access our site. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically. You are deemed to have accepted any changes to any revised Privacy Policy by your continued use of our website after the revised Privacy Policy is posted.

Terms of use

We take your investment seriously, and we’d appreciate it if you took our investment of time and resources into your success seriously too. By purchasing book coaching services from Blue Thread® Coaching, you are granted one revocable, worldwide, non-exclusive license to the services you have purchased. If you violate this license by giving or selling a copy of our book blueprint to anyone other, or if you imply that anyone who gets access to our blueprint has the right to use it for his/her/its commercial purposes, we reserve the right to invoice you for the licenses you have gifted to others and revoke your access to the blueprint permanently.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY (IP) OWNERSHIP

You retain the IP to any documents you submit to us. We will not disclose information related to your story, nor will we claim ownership of your story.

LAW & JURISDICTION 

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Terms and Conditions of Use. If you require any more information or have any questions about our Terms and Conditions of website use, or our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us using the contact form on the FAQs page.

We collect a variety of information from you when you visit our website or interact with us on social media. By accepting this Privacy Policy, you are specifically consenting to our collection of the data described below, to our use of the data, to the processing of this data, and to our sharing of the data with third-party processors as needed for our legitimate business interests.

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The information we collect may include: 

Personal Data: Personal Data is information that can be used to identify you specifically, including your name, shipping address, email address, telephone number, or demographic information like your age, gender, or hometown. You consent to give us this information by providing it to us voluntarily on our website or any mobile application. You provide some of this information when you register with or make purchases from our website. You may also provide this information by participating in various activities associated with our site, including responding to blogs, contacting us with questions, or participating in training. Your decision to disclose this data is entirely voluntary. You are under no obligation to provide this information, but your refusal may prevent you from accessing certain benefits from our website or from making purchases.

Derivative Data: Derivative data is information that our servers automatically collect about you when you access our website such as your IP address, browser type, the dates and times that you access our website, and the specific pages you view. If you are using a mobile application, our servers may collect information about your device name and type, your phone number, your country of origin, and other interactions with our application.

Financial Data: Financial data is data that is related to your payment methods, such as credit card or bank transfer details. We collect financial data in order to allow you to purchase, order, return or exchange products or services from our website. We do not store your financial data. Financial data is transferred to our payment processor, Stripe or PayPal, and you should review these processors’ Privacy Policy to determine how they use, disclose and protect your financial data.

Social Networking Data: We may access personal information from social networking sites and apps, including Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, Twitter, or other social networking sites or apps not named specifically here, which may include your name, your social network username, location, email address, age, gender, profile picture, and any other public information. If you do not want us to access this information, please go to the specific social networking site and change your privacy settings.

Mobile Device Data: If you use our website via a mobile device or app, we may collect information about your mobile device, including device ID, model and manufacturer, and location information.

Other Data: On occasion, you may give us additional data in order to enter into a contest or giveaway or to participate in a survey. You will be prompted for this information and it will be clear that you are offering this kind of information in exchange for an entry into such a contest or giveaway.

HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

Your information allows us to offer you certain products and services, including the use of our website, to fulfill our obligations to you, to customize your interaction with our company and our website, and to allow us to suggest other products and services we think might interest you. We do not share your data with any other parties. 

WHY WE DISCLOSE YOUR INFORMATION

To Protect Our Company: We may use your information to protect our company, including to investigate and remedy any violations of our rights or policies. We may also disclose your information as reasonably necessary to acquire and maintain insurance coverage, manage risks, obtain financial or legal advice, or exercise or defend against legal claims.

External Links: Our website may include hyperlinks to other websites not controlled by us. We suggest you exercise caution when clicking on a hyperlink. Although we use reasonable care in including a hyperlink on our own web page, we do not regularly monitor the websites of these third parties, and we are not responsible for any damage or consequences you suffer by using these hyperlinks. We are not bound by the Privacy Policies of any third-party website that you access by a hyperlink, nor are they bound by ours. We encourage you to read the Policies of those third-party websites before interacting with them or making purchases. They may collect different information and by different methods than we do.

Other purposes: We may disclose your personal data as necessary to comply with any legal obligation or to protect your interests, or the vital interests of others or our company.

TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Cookies, Log Files and Web Beacons: Like many other Web sites, we make use of log files. These files merely log visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. We also use cookies—small text files sent to us by your computer—and web beacons to store certain information. We may use cookies to authenticate your identity, to determine if you are logged onto our website, for personalization, for security, for targeted advertising, or for analysis of the performance of our website and services. For example, cookies allow us to recommend blog posts to you based on what you have read on our site in the past. We use cookies that are not specific to your account but unique enough to allow us to analyze general trends and use and to customize your interaction with our website. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. However, this may affect your ability to use our website. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS

We may partner with third-party analytic companies, including Google Analytics. The analytic companies may also use cookies or other tracking technologies to analyze visitors’ use of our website or mobile app to determine the popularity of the content and better understand online activity. We do not transfer personal information to these third-party vendors. However, in order to access our website, you must consent to the collection and use of your information by these third-party analytic companies. You should review their Privacy Policy and contact them directly if you have questions.  

GENERAL PROVISIONS 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Email: adele@bluethreadcoaching.com

Address: Vista de Santo Tomás D-10, Santa Lucia Milpas Altas, Sacatapéquez, 03001, Central America 

We (Adele Booysen DBA Blue Thread® Coaching) make no income/financial claims, nor a guarantee of any kind regarding the potential income that can be generated through our communications or your participation in the purchase of any of our products or participation in our affiliate program. Past results are not an indication or promise of your results. There is no guarantee you will earn any money using any of our materials, and your revenue is dependent solely on you and your actions or non-actions.

Your use of our website and any associated services may sometimes be subject to interruption or delay. Due to the nature of the Internet and electronic communications, we and our service providers do not make any guarantee that our websites or any associated services will be error-free, without interruption or delay, or free from defects in design. We will not be liable to you should our websites or the services supplied through our websites become unavailable, interrupted, or delayed for any reason.

Although we endeavor to prevent the introduction of viruses or other malicious code (together, “malicious code”) to our websites, we do not guarantee or warrant that our websites, or any data available therein, do not contain malicious code. We will not be liable for any damages or harm attributable to malicious code. You are responsible for ensuring that the process you employ for accessing our websites does not expose your computer system to the risk of interference or damage from malicious code.

Your use of our websites and content is voluntary. You shall indemnify us and our affiliates, distributors, licensors, and agents and all of our and their directors, employees, and agents against, holding all harmless from any and all lawsuits, claims, expenses (including reasonable legal fees), settlements, damages, judgments and the like arising from your use of our websites and content or your failure to maintain the confidentiality or security of your password or access rights.

We reserve the right to amend this Usage Agreement and Disclaimer as needed from time to time. You are bound by any changes made to this Agreement and your acceptance of any income through or due to the Affiliate Program will be regarded as acceptance by you of any changes to this Agreement. We will endeavor to inform you of any changes made to this Agreement via email.

If you provide us any feedback about our websites or any products, you grant us the right to use that feedback for the purpose of improving our websites, programs, or Affiliate Program (and for any other purpose we deem necessary or desirable) without being obliged to pay you any compensation in respect of our use of that feedback. If you do send us unsolicited ideas, such ideas will be deemed non-confidential, and we will not be required to provide any acknowledgment of their source.

If at any time we feel you have violated these Terms and Conditions, then we shall immediately terminate your use of our website and any related communications as we deem appropriate. It is within our sole discretion to allow any user’s access to our website, and we may revoke this access at any time without notice, and if necessary, block your IP address from further visits to our site. 

All rights not expressly granted in this Agreement are reserved by us.

If you do not see a usage scenario here that applies to your intended usage, or for any questions about our branding guidelines, contact us using the contact form on the FAQs page.

Should we update, amend or make any changes to this license, terms and conditions of use, or privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.