Privacy Policy
Last Updated: 10/9/2024
At Higher Ground Digital Marketing, we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, https://highergrounddigital.com (the “Site”). By using the Site, you consent to the data practices described in this policy.
1. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://highergrounddigital.com.
2. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information, including:
- Personal Information: Your name, address, phone number, email address, birthday, and payment information.
- Automatic Data: Information about your device, browsing actions, and usage patterns, such as your IP address, browser type, access times, and pages viewed.
- Comments: When visitors leave comments on the Site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
3. Media
If you upload images to the Site, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the Site.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze traffic, and understand how users interact with the Site. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Specific uses of cookies include:
- Comments: If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies for your convenience. These cookies will last for one year.
- Login: If you visit our login page, we set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we set up cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days. If you log out, the login cookies will be removed.
- Article Editing: If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after one day.
5. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
6. Data Sharing
We do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share your information with trusted service providers who assist us in operating our business, such as payment processors, marketing platforms, or analytics services. These service providers are contractually obligated to keep your information confidential and use it only for the purposes specified by us. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
7. How Long We Retain Your Data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
8. Your Rights
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
9. International Users
If you are accessing the Site from outside the United States, including the European Union or Canada, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the United States. By using the Site, you consent to the transfer of your data to the U.S. and its processing in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
10. Data Security
We use reasonable security measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security. You acknowledge that you provide your personal information at your own risk.
11. Limitation of Liability
To the fullest extent permitted by law, Higher Ground Digital Marketing, its affiliates, directors, employees, and agents shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from:
- Your access to or use of or inability to access or use the Site;
- Any conduct or content of any third party on the Site;
- Any content obtained from the Site; and
- Unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your transmissions or content.
In no event shall our aggregate liability for all claims related to the Site exceed the amount you paid us, if any, during the twelve (12) months prior to the claim.
12. Disclaimer of Warranties
The Site and all content and services provided through the Site are provided “as is” and “as available” without any warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including, but not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. We do not warrant that the Site will be available, secure, error-free, or that any defects will be corrected.
13. Where Your Data Is Sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page, and your continued use of the Site after such changes constitutes your acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy.
15. Contact Information
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].