The University of Yourself is a very small business owned and operated by Ron Masa, Ph.D. His significant other, Debbie Hart helps run many aspects of the business and participates with Ron most of the time in providing the products and services that the University of Yourself offers.
At the University of Yourself, we respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy pertains to your use of www.universityofyourself.com, including any content and services offered on or through www.universityofyourself.com, whether you’re just visiting this website or you choose to contact us to request or exchange information and/or to order one or more of our services.
This Privacy Policy provides the details regarding the data we might collect about you and how we use it. Please read it carefully in its entirety before you start using this website. By browsing and using this website, you are accepting and agreeing to be bound by this privacy policy.
Children Under Age 13
This website is not intended for children under age 13. We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you’re under 13, do not use any information or features on this website or provide any information about yourself to us. If we find out that we’ve received personal information from a child under 13 without proof of consent from that child’s parent(s), we’ll delete that information. If you think we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at info@universityofyourself.com.
Information We Collect About You
To simplify our efforts to comply with data privacy laws, we’ve made a good faith effort to edit this website so that, to the best of our knowledge, it currently does not provide any places such as contact forms for users to provide information. To the best of our knowledge, we also currently do not collect any information through automatic data collection technologies like Google Analytics. However, we reserve the right to add these types of functionality if we see fit at some point in the future. If and when we do, we’ll update this privacy policy accordingly.
If you email us or otherwise contact us, we use information you provide to give you the information you request and/or to discuss, schedule, arrange payment for, and/or provide any services you request. Note that our payment processor is PayPal (a third party), so you will be able to pay us through your PayPal account without giving us your credit card information or other financial information. PayPal’s use of your personal information will be governed by their own privacy policies, and we cannot be responsible for how they may use your personal data. Note that you should never send credit card or other such information via email since email is not a secure communication medium.
Note also that if you buy online courses from us through Udemy and/or Skillshare, the transaction(s) will be carried out on these respective third-party platforms. (Please also see the “Use of Cookies by Third Parties” section below.) Udemy’s and/or Skillshare’s use of your personal information will be governed by their own respective privacy policies, and we cannot be responsible for how they may use your personal data.
We recommend that you consult all of these third parties’ privacy policies before using their websites and/or services. If you have any questions about these third parties’ use of your personal data, you should contact these third parties directly.
Our Use of Cookies
Like most websites, our website uses cookies and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Currently, to the best of our knowledge, these cookies are only used when a user (to the best of our knowledge, only us) logs into our website’s WordPress back end to administer the website. For example, the login page uses a cookie that checks whether the user’s web browser is set to allow or reject cookies. When users log in, cookies are used to store their authentication details, their identity, when they’re logged in, the pages they visit or edit, and are used to customize their view for the admin console and interface use.
A cookie is a tiny text document that serves as your “online ID card” and contains various information about your visit to a website such your preferences and settings for using that website. Often, when you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file on your computer to improve your future experience on that site. Each website can send its own cookies to your browser if your browser’s preferences are set to allow it. However, your browser only lets a website access the cookies it’s already sent you, not cookies that other websites have sent you. A cookie can’t be executed as code or disseminate viruses, and it doesn’t let the website that sent it access any other files on your hard drive.
Although, to the best of our knowledge, our website does not currently use any other cookies than what we’ve specified above, we reserve the right to modify our website to use other cookies or similar technology if we see fit at some point in the future. If and when we do, we’ll update this Privacy Policy accordingly.
Use of Cookies By Third Parties
Our website includes some links to third party websites. If you click on these links, these third parties may use cookies and/or other tracking methods to collect information about you, including personal information, and they may track your online activities over time across multiple websites to provide you targeted advertising based on your interests.
We don’t control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used, and we are not responsible for how they may be used. We recommend that you check these third parties’ privacy policies to see what data they collect before using their websites. If you have any questions, you should contact these third parties directly.
Email Information and Policies
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may keep the content of your email messages along with with your email address and our own email responses using our standard email providers. We provide the same protections for email that we use in maintaining information we may receive by mail and/or telephone using standard postal and telephone services.
We’re committed to keeping your email address confidential. We don’t sell, rent, or lease your information to third parties, and we won’t deliberately disclose your email address to any third parties except as specified in the “Disclosure of Your Information” section below. We will maintain the information you send via email in accordance with applicable federal law.
How And Why We Collect and Use the Information You Provide Us
As a visitor to this website, you can predominantly browse the site’s contents without providing any personal information. It is only if you contact us to request or exchange further information, or to order any services from us, that you are required to provide personal information. In this case, we collect your information in order to keep a record of and provide support for your participation in the services we offer.
We use this information to correspond with you in order to provide you with information you request, to give you information about the services you order, to arrange any necessary scheduling and/or payment for these services, to carry out any contract between you and us, to administer our business activities, and to provide customer service.
Disclosure Of Your Information
In general, we don’t sell or otherwise share or transfer any information we collect from you.
We may share your personal information with our subsidiaries, affiliates and service providers in order to provide our services to you.
We may disclose your personal information to a third party like a collection agency or lawyer when necessary to enforce any agreement between you and us.
In the event that we sell or transfer some or all of our business or business assets (for example, as part of a merger, reorganization, dissolution or other such business sale or transfer) to a successor in interest, we may provide your information to that successor in interest.
We may disclose information when we believe, in good faith, that we are required to do so by law or to protect our legal rights or when a court or other governmental body requires us to do so.
Control of Your Personal Information on Third Party Websites We Use to Conduct Our Business
Please note that if you give out any personal information while participating on an email discussion board, telephone conference, or social media page or group associated with or run by us, that this information can be collected and used by third parties, and we are not responsible for its protection. Although we strive to protect our users’ privacy, and we tell and expect members in good faith who use our group-based services to maintain the confidentiality and anonymity of other members’ personal information, we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of information you provide on these third party venues. You provide this information at your own risk.
How Do We Protect Your Information?
To the best of our knowledge, we employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us. Although we do our best to keep your communications with us confidential, neither email, telephone, nor postal mail are recognized as secure mediums of communication. Therefore, we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of your personal information via any of these communication channels. For example, we cannot be responsible for any data breaches involving our email provider or other such events or situations that are beyond our control. For these reasons, any information you provide us via email or postal mail or share over the phone is at your own risk.
GDPR Rights of Visitors in the EU
If you’re in the European Union, you have certain rights and are entitled to certain information under the General Data Protection Regulation. These rights are as follows:
- We’ll keep the information you give us until 1) you ask us to delete it, 2) we decide to stop using our current data providers, or 3) we decide that the costs of keeping this data outweigh the value of keeping it, whichever of these happens first.
- You have the right to request access to your data, to ask what personal data of yours is being used, why, and where.
- You have the right to correct, revise, or erase your personal data.
- You have the right to ask for restrictions on the use of your data.
- You have the right to object to the use of your data.
- You have the right to the portability of your data.
- If you’ve given consent to use your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, but your withdrawal of consent won’t affect the lawfulness of the use of your data based on the consent you gave prior to withdrawing your consent.
- You have the right to file a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over GDPR-related issues.
- We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We won’t require you to provide consent for any unnecessary use of your information as a condition of entering into a contract with us.
Policy Policy Changes
We will post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make changes to this privacy policy, we’ll notify you through a notice on the website home page. We’ve listed the date this privacy policy was last revised at the bottom of the page. It is your responsibility to visit our website periodically and review this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information for Questions or Comments
If you have any questions or comments regarding this Privacy Policy, feel free to contact us using the contact information below:
Email Address: info@universityofyourself.com
University of Yourself
511 Cypress Street #9
Fort Bragg, CA 95437
Effective as of March 12, 2021