RETREATBOSS™ PRIVACY POLICY
We take your privacy very seriously and are committed to being transparent with how we use your information. This website and any of our services and sites directing you to this Privacy Policy are controlled by RetreatBoss™. (collectively “we” or “us”).
Our Privacy Policy explains:
- What information we collect and why we collect it.
- How we use that information.
- The choices we offer, including how to access and update information.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: welcome@retreatboss.com
RetreatBoss™ (“Company”, “we”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of RetreatBoss.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through RetreatBoss.com (the “Website”), whether as a guest or a registered user.
When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email between you and the Website.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website.
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, respond to a survey, or fill out a form. When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology. As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
We use Facebook Pixel tracking software on our website for retargeting purposes when advertising our products and services through Facebook.
We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
To personalize your experience
Your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs.
To improve our website
We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To improve customer service
Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs.
To process transactions
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature
To send periodic emails
The email address you provide for order processing, may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc.
Note: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order or enter, submit, or access your personal information.
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our Payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be kept on file for more than 60 days.
Your Rights:
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Do we use cookies?
Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Third Party Use of Cookies:
We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our behalf except to help us conduct and improve our business.
Third Party Links:
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Email Policies:
All e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
Children’s’ Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance:
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Online Privacy Policy Only:
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.
Your Consent:
By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by our online Privacy Policy.
Changes to our Privacy Policy:
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page.
This policy was last modified on 07/15/2021
Contacting us:
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us at welcome@retreatboss.com
TERMS OF USE This website grants you a limited, personal, non-exclusive, non-transferable license to use our resources provided (in exchange for an email address) for your own personal or internal business use. You have no right to modify, edit, copy, reproduce, create derivative works of, alter, enhance or in any way exploit any of this content in any manner. It also may not be sold or redistributed without the express written consent of the Company.
If you would like to share (or link to) our content, please be sure to give credit where credit is due. If you share our content, include our company name RetreatBoss™ (or Instagram handle @Retreat_Boss™). If you share an excerpt, include our full company name and a link back to the original page or post.
Information security: We work hard to protect our users from unauthorized access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure, or destruction of information we hold however not website is entirely secure. You should protect the account information in your possession as well.
Third-Party Sites: Our Privacy Policy does not apply to services offered by other companies or individuals, including products or sites that may be displayed to you on this site. We also do not control the privacy policies and your privacy settings on third-party sites, including social networks.
Enforcement We regularly review our compliance with our Privacy Policy. When we receive formal written complaints, we will contact the person who made the complaint to follow up.
OUR WEBSITE IS HOSTED IN QUEBEC CANADA AND OPERATED UNDER THE FEDERAL RULES OF CANADA
RETREATBOSS™ PRIVACY POLICY
RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss is an all-in-one community platform for retreat professionals, retreat support professionals and retreat seekers and brands that helps match with others through discussions, memberships, reservations, events and content. The platform also offers support through content, courses, events, job opportunities, reservations and discussions. These Terms of Service (these “Terms”) are a binding contract between you and RetreatBoss. (“we”, “us”, “our”, “Company”, or RetreatBoss). The Terms apply to your access to, and your use of our website at retreatmatch.com (our “Website”),and our other online products or services that link to these Terms (collectively, the “Services”) through our Website or App. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any other data gathered or used by RetreatMatch by RetreatBoss including data collected through websites that do not link to this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of this Privacy Policy at any time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the policy and, in some cases (for example if we plan to use your information in a way that materially differs from this Privacy Policy), we will provide you with additional notice (such as adding a statement to our website homepage or sending you a notification).
We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy whenever you access the Website, App, or Services or otherwise interact with RetreatMatch by RetreatBoss to stay informed about our information practices and the choices available to you.
When our customers and their admins use our Websites, App, or Services to set up accounts for their users, or submit, manage, or otherwise use content relating to our customers’ data (“Customer Data”), we have contractually committed ourselves to only process such information on behalf of and under the instruction of the respective customer. Where applicable, this means that the customer is the “data controller” or “business” and we use such information as a “processor” or “service provider”. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such processing, and we recommend you read the privacy policy of the respective customer if their processing concerns your personal information.
When you use the Website, App, or Services, we may collect the following types of information from and about you. Some of this information may be considered “personally identifiable information” (“PII”) or “personal information” (“PI”), meaning it reasonably identifies you or your device or could reasonably be linked or associated with you.
Information You Provide to Us:
When you open an account with us through the Services (“Account”), we may ask you to provide us with identifiers and contact information such as your name, email address, and any other information you may provide. We may also collect identifiers when you participate in any interactive features of the Services (like send us a message through the Services), fill out a form, publish statements on our platform, participate in a contest or promotion, make a purchase, apply for a job, communicate with us via third-party social media sites, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us.
When you pay for our Services, we ask for your credit card information. Your credit card is passed directly to our payment processor. We do not store this information on our servers. We do store a record of the payment transaction, including the last 4 digits of the credit card number, for account history, invoicing, and billing support. We also store your billing address, to maintain records that may be used for investigations of potentially fraudulent credit card transactions, and to print on your invoices. We may collect commercial information such as your purchase history, including records of products or services you have purchased, provided, returned, or are considering purchasing from us.
Finally, we may collect other content and information you share through the Services when you submit information or content, such as by commenting on a blog or participating in online communities, or when you otherwise interact with our Services. When you interact with other users, our customers, their admins and their online communities on our Website, App or Services, they may collect any content or information you share with them. RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss may also collect any content or information you share with others through the Website, App or Services.
Information That May Be Collected Automatically Through Our Website, App, or Services:
When you access or use the Website, App, or Services or transact business with us, we and our third-party partners may automatically collect information you provide to us, information about how you access and use the Services and information about the device you use to access the Services, including:
Device Identifiers: Identifiers, such as your IP address, Internet service provider (“ISP”), the type of mobile device you use, the temporary or persistent unique device identifiers (sometimes called UDID), and identifiers associated with browser cookies, web beacons and similar technologies we deploy on our Website, App, or Services;
Internet or Other Electronic Network Activity Information: We and our third-party partners may collect information about the devices and computers you use to access our Services, such as browser type, language, operating system, the referring web page, pages visited, and hyperlinks clicked. When you use our Services, we may collect usage information sent to us by your computer, mobile, or other access device that tells us how you are using the Website, App, or Services and other information about your internet activity (“Usage Information”), including the pages you visit, the links you click, the ads you view and click on, videos you watch, purchase information and your checkout process, your location when you access or interact with our Services, and other similar actions. We may also use third-party tools to collect Usage Information you provide to us or information about how you use the Service and may record your mouse movements, scrolling, clicks and keystroke activity on the Service and other browsing, search or purchasing behavior. These tools may also record Usage Information you enter when you interact with our Services or engage in chat features through our Services.
Commercial Information such as your purchase history, including records of products you have purchased or are considering purchasing from us, services you have provided or have had provided to you, such as transactional information when you make a purchase, we collect information about the transaction, such as services provided, product details, purchase price, and date and location of the transaction.
Geolocation Information. We may derive the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We may combine this information with other location-based information, such as your billing or postal code. You have the ability to stop the collection of precise location information at any time (see “Your Choices” below for details).
We (and our third-party partners and service providers) use different technologies to collect information, including cookies, embedded scripts, mobile SDKs, location-identifying technologies and web beacons. For reference, cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in device memory that help us improve our Services and your experience, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, and count visits and web beacons (also known as “pixel tags” or “clear GIFs”) are electronic images that may be used in our Services or emails and help deliver cookies, count visits, and understand usage and campaign effectiveness. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, see our Cookie Policy.
Information Collected from Third Parties:
We may also obtain information about you from other sources. For example, we may collect information about you from third parties, including but not limited to mailing list providers and publicly available sources. When you interact with our customers, their admins, online communities and other users on our Website, App or Services, we may collect from them any content or information you choose to share or provide. We may also obtain information about you from other sources, including but not limited to social media platforms, marketing partners, and other third parties. For example, if you connect your social media account to your Account or create or log into your Account through a social media site, certain information from your social media account will be shared with us, which may include information that is part of your profile or your friends’ profiles. In addition, we may supplement the information that you provide us and/or the information we collect from you with demographic, social, and other information about you that we receive from other sources. Once we combine information from other sources with your information collected pursuant to this policy, we apply this policy to the combined information as long as it is combined.
Information Usage
We use the information we collect about you for a variety of business and commercial purposes, including, but not limited to:
- provide, maintain, and improve the Website, App, or Services and to enhance and personalize your experience;
- process, complete, and maintain records on transactions;
- provide our users, our customers and their admins, and the online communities with the Website, App or Services. Other users, our customers and their admins may use your personal information for their own purposes, such as to provide you with content, discussions, events and memberships;
- send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages;
- respond to your comments, questions, and requests, and to provide customer service;
- communicate with you about products, services, offers, promotions, rewards, and events offered by RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss and others, and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you;
- monitor and analyze trends, usage, effectiveness and activities in connection with our Website, App, or Services, including our offers, advertising, communications features, and customer service;
- detect, investigate and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities and protect the rights and property of RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss;
- facilitate contests, sweepstakes and promotions and process and deliver entries and rewards;
- link or combine with information we get from our Website, App, or Services and from others to help understand your needs and provide you with better service;
- maintain appropriate records for internal administrative purposes;
- carry out any other purpose described to you at the time the information was collected or permitted by law.
Information Sharing
We may share information about you, including personal information, as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy.
With Service Providers or Customers. We may disclose your information to vendors, consultants and other service providers under contract who help with our business operations or who we provide services to (such as web hosting and operations of the App, IT, to process opt-out requests, to assist us in responding to consumer requests for access, deletion, or correction of information, direct mail and email distribution, site analytics, operations or legal and compliance services, and customers purchasing services from RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss). With your permission, we may also disclose your information to our customers.
With Data Analytics and Aggregation Vendors. We may share aggregated information that does not include your PII or PI, and we may otherwise disclose non-identifying information such as general (non-specific) geographic location, device/browser technology, onsite behavior, population data, user segmentation, survey results, and log data, with third parties for data analysis, demographic profiling, and other purposes. Any aggregated information shared in this manner will not contain your personal information.
With Other Users of the Website, App, or Services. If you provide or share information with other users on the Website, App or Services, they may use it for their own purposes. If you post information or content, such as by posting photos, commenting on a blog, or participating in online communities, or when you interact with the Website, App, or Services through social media sites, plug-ins or other
applications, depending upon your privacy settings, this information may become public on the Internet. We cannot prevent further use of this information. You can control what data you share through privacy settings available on some social media sites. Please refer to those third-party sites’ privacy policies and terms of use to learn more about their privacy practices, which we do not control.
With Legal and Law Enforcement. We may share information collected about you with law enforcement, governmental agencies, or authorized third parties, in response to a verified request relating to a criminal investigation or alleged illegal activity or any other activity that may expose us, you, or any other Website, App, or Services user to legal liability or if we believe disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
In Connection with a Change of Control. We may transfer or disclose your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company.
With your Consent. Where applicable, we may share your information with your consent or at your specific direction.
Children’s Privacy
Our App and Services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. No one under the age of 18 is authorized to provide any personal information through the Website, App, or Services. We do not knowingly collect personal information from our Website, App, or Services from users in this age group. If we learn that we have collected or received personal information from a child under the age of 18, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at the email address below.
Social Sharing Features
The Website, App, or Services may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools, which let you share actions you take on our Website, App, or Services with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.
Links to Third-Party Sites
Our Website, App, or Services may contain links to other websites, including our affiliated or co-branded web sites. Other websites may also reference or link to our Website, App, or Services. These other websites may not be controlled by us. We encourage our users to read the privacy policies of every website or mobile application that collects PII or PI. We do not endorse, screen or approve, and are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of other websites or mobile applications. Visiting these other websites is at your own risk.
Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Others
We may allow third-party partners and tools to provide analytics services and serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and in the Website, App, or Services. These partners may automatically collect Device Identifiers and Usage Information through technologies such as cookies and web beacons, including mouse clicks and movements, page scrolling and any text keyed into website forms and other browsing, search or purchasing behavior. These tools may also record information you enter when you interact with our Services and other websites and applications. This information may be used by RetreatMatch by RetreatBoss and our third-party partners to, among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our Website, App, or Services, and better understand your online activity. Please see our Cookie Policy for more information about these practices and any choices you may have regarding cookies.
Transfer of Information to Canada from Other Countries
RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss is based in the Canada and we may process and store information in Canada and other countries. Therefore, we and our service providers may transfer your information to, or store or access it in, jurisdictions that may not provide equivalent levels of data protection as your home jurisdiction.
Your Choices
Account Information:
You may update and correct certain Account information you provide to us at any time by logging into your Account. If you wish to delete or deactivate your Account, you may email us at hello@retreatboss.com, but note that we may retain certain information as required by law or for legitimate business purposes. We may also retain cached or archived copies of information about you for a certain period of time.
Location Information:
If you initially consent to our collection of this location information through the Website, App, or Services, you can subsequently stop the collection of this information at any time by changing the preferences on your computer or device. If you do so, certain features may no longer function properly.
Cookies:
For more information about our and our third-party partners’ use of cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically, and any choices you may have in relation to cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Communications with RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss:
We want to communicate with you in ways you want to hear from us. Examples include email, which may contain special offers and new product announcements. To the extent that you are receiving marketing communications from the Website, App, or Services you may unsubscribe or opt-out of future communications as follows: If you no longer wish to receive emails you may click on the hyperlink titled “Unsubscribe” at the bottom of any marketing related email RetreatMatch and RetreatBoss sends to you, and then follow the directions to unsubscribe from email, or you can modify your preferences in your Account settings. Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional communications from us, we may still send you transactional communications, including emails about your account or purchases.
Additional Notice to European Residents
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom (“UK”) or Switzerland, or otherwise engage with our European operations, please see the European Privacy Policy for additional European-specific privacy information, including what constitutes your personal data, the lawful bases we rely on to process your personal data, how we use cookies when you access our Website from the EEA, UK or Switzerland, and your rights in respect of your personal data.
We only use or disclose sensitive information for the following purposes, where such use or disclosure is necessary and proportionate for those purposes: for performing services you have requested, to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, for detecting security incidents, fraud and other illegal actions, to ensure the safety of natural persons, to perform services on behalf of the business, or for solely internal purposes, consistent with our Privacy Policy and any other expectations we’ve set with you. We only collect and process sensitive information without the purpose of inferring characteristics about a consumer.
We do not sell any of your information, and we do not process or otherwise share sensitive information for the purpose of targeted advertising.
Information Usage. As described in the Information Usage section of our Privacy Policy, we use personal information for business and commercial purposes, such as fulfilling the purpose for which you provided the information, and to improve our Services and customer support.
Deidentified Information. We may at times receive, or process personal information to create, deidentified data that can no longer reasonably be used to infer information about, or otherwise be linked to, a particular individual or household. Where we maintain deidentified data, we will maintain and use the data in deidentified form and not attempt to reidentify the data except as required or permitted by law.
Information Sharing. In the previous 12 months, we have disclosed the following categories of personal information to third parties for a business purpose:
- All of the categories of personal information we collect, explained above.
The categories of third parties to whom we disclose your personal information for a business purpose include those described in the Information Sharing section of our Privacy Policy
Sale and Sharing of Personal Information. As is common practice among companies that operate online, we do allow certain advertising networks, social media companies and other third-party businesses to collect and disclose your personal information directly from your browser or device through cookies and related technologies when you visit or interact with our websites and otherwise engage with us online. For example, they may collect Internet/Network information, such as a cookie or device ID, browsing history and website usage, geolocation data, and Inferences generated from your browsing history and interactions with our service as well as other sites and services.
These third parties use this personal information to serve relevant ads on other websites or mobile apps, or on other devices you may use, or to personalize content and perform other advertising-related services such as reporting, attribution, analytics and market research. These third-party businesses may use such information for their own purposes in accordance with their own privacy statements, which may include reselling this information to additional third parties, including other advertising networks. Please see the Advertising and Analytics Services Provided by Others section of our Privacy Policy for more information about how third parties use cookies and related technologies to collect information automatically on our websites and other online services, and the choices you may have in relation to those practices.
We do not sell the personal information any of our consumers or share the personal information of consumers we know to be less than 18 years of age.
Verification. Please note, we will take steps to verify your identity before fulfilling any of the above requests. If you maintain an Account with us, we will verify your identity through existing authentication practices for the Account (e.g., login and password). If you are not a registered Website, App, or Services user, we will verify your identity by matching two or three data points that you provide with data points that we maintain and have determined to be reliable for the purposes of verification.
Authorized Agents. In certain circumstances, you may permit an authorized agent to submit requests on your behalf. The authorized agent must provide a letter signed by you confirming the agent has permission to submit a request on your behalf, or must provide sufficient evidence to show that the authorized agent has been lawfully vested with power of attorney.
Retention of Personal Information. We retain personal information only for as long as is reasonably necessary to fulfil the purpose for which it was collected. However, if necessary, we may retain personal information for longer periods of time, until set retention periods and deadlines expire, for instance where we are required to do so in accordance with legal, tax and accounting requirements set by a legislature, regulator or other government authority.
To determine the appropriate duration of the retention of personal information, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the personal information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of personal information and if we can attain our objectives by other means, as well as our legal, regulatory, tax, accounting and other applicable obligations.
Contact Us
If you have any questions, comments or concerns about our Privacy Policy, you may email us at hello@retreatboss.com. Please do not email any confidential, sensitive or personal information to this email.
