Lynda Hoffman operates under the business name of Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching (“us”, “we”, or “our”) and operates lyndahoffman.com website www.lyndahoffman.com

1. Who We Are

Lynda Hoffman (Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching) collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you.

2. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act

Our website and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 18. Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 18 years of age. Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching prohibits children under the age of 18 from using all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out forms, or otherwise submitting information. Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. If Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching learns it has any information or content from anyone under the age of 18, it will delete that information.

3. The Personal Information We Collect and Use

A. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching may collect, use, and is responsible for certain personal information that you provide when you voluntarily sign up for e-mails or free gifts, register for a class or presentation, order a service or product, fill out any type of form, or otherwise contact Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching via an online form or e-mail. The information collected may include your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information. You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to merely access or visit this website.

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching may collect domain information and “cookies” (small files saved on your hard drive by your web browser) to analyze website performance, track user patterns, save information from your previous visits and customize your experience. We will ask for your consent to allow us to use cookies. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching or it’s third-party vendors may collect non-personal information through the use of these technologies. Non-personal information might include the browser you use, the type of computer you use and technical information about your means of connection to this website such as the operating systems and the Internet Service Providers utilized and other similar information. Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching’s systems may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit and search terms you use on this website and about the links you may select from within this website to other areas of the Internet. Currently we’re only using Google Analytics.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulations which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as controller of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.

B. HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching uses the collected data for various purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our Service
  • To deliver services and products
  • To complete customer transactions
  • To notify you about changes to our Service
  • To provide customer support
  • To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
  • To monitor the usage of our Service
  • To detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • To provide you with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about unless you have opted not to receive such information

The purpose of collecting this information is to provide and improve our Service to you.

C. WHO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching respects your privacy and will never sell, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties (beyond what is necessary for fulfilling a customer transaction or the basic functionality of an online service) without your consent.

We do, however share your name and email address details with our third-party suppliers, including our email marketing software. This data sharing enables them to deliver the products you order and the content you subscribed to directly to you. To our knowledge, those third-party recipients are not based outside the European Economic Area – for further information including on how we safeguard your personal data when this occurs, see Transfer of your information out of the EEA.

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching may release personal information to enforce its Website Terms and Conditions of Use, other Terms and Conditions, manage its business, protect users or the general public, or to otherwise comply with legal obligations.

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to comply with a legal obligation, to protect and defend the rights or property of Lynda Hoffman, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public and to protect against legal liability.
If you give Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching your permission, it may also use personal identification information for internal or external marketing and promotional purposes.

On occasion, Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching may collect personal identification information from you in connection with optional contests, special offers or promotions. Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching will share such information with necessary third parties for the purpose of carrying out the contest, special offer or promotion. We will ask for your consent to such disclosure and use of such information, prior to your participation in the contest, special offer or promotion.

We will not share your personal information with any other third party.

D. WHETHER INFORMATION HAS TO BE PROVIDED BY YOU AND WHY

We do not require you to provide any personal data in order to access the public information on our website. We will inform you when we collect it whether you are required to provide the information to us.

E. HOW LONG YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WILL BE KEPT

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

4. Use and Transfer of Your Information Out of the EEA

This website is operated in Canada and third parties with whom we might share your personal information as explained above are also located in the province of Quebec, Canada. If you are located in the EEA or elsewhere outside of Canada, please be aware that any information you provide will be transferred to Canada. By using this website, participating in any of its services and/or providing your information, you consent to this transfer.

These countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. While the European Commission has not given a formal decision that such countries provide an adequate level of data protection similar to those which apply in the United Kingdom and EEA, any transfer of your personal information will be subject to an appropriate and relevant safeguard of the General Data Protection Regulation that are designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.

If you would like further information, please contact us at info@lyndahoffman.com. We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the United Kingdom or EEA or to any organization (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

5. Your Rights

As explained above, you have the right to opt-out of receiving marketing communications from us. In addition, to the extent permitted by the laws of your country, you may have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If your objection is not to direct marketing in general, but to direct marketing by a particular channel e.g. email or telephone, please specify the channel you are objecting to.

Further, to the extent permitted by the laws of your country, you may also have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict, be forgotten, or object to processing of, or request data portability of the personal data collected about you subject to some conditions and exceptions. You can find out more about these rights in the EU by reading the General Data Protection Regulation here: http://www.eugdpr.org/the-regulation.html. In the EU you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection regulator there.

If you wish to inquire about any of those rights or would like to submit a request then please send us your request by any of the following ways:

If you want to unsubscribe from receiving e-mails from Lynda Hoffman, you may do so at any time. Each e-mail from Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching includes instructions for unsubscribing from these e-mail communications.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulations, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

  • Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
  • Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
  • Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
  • Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
  • Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
  • Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
  • Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
  • Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
    Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

You may also have the right to claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulations, available at: http://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/ .

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please

  • E-mail call, or write to us
  • Provide us enough information to identify you (e.g., e-mail address, user name, registration details)
  • Provide us proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)
  • Provide us with the information to which your request relates including any account or reference numbers, if you have them

6. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable authorities of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Please note that any comments or information that you post on the website, including the Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching social media pages, Facebook Messenger Customer Chat; YouTube video widget; Google reCAPTCHA; Google Tag Manager; Google Fonts; Font Awesome; Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel); Meta Events Manager; Google Analytics with anonymized IP; Google Analytics 4; Selling goods and services online, become public and third parties may use your information. Lynda Hoffman, Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching is not responsible for any unauthorized uses by third parties in such context. You disclose such information at your own risk.

7. Links To Other Sites

You may see advertising or other content on this website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors or other third parties. Any products or services reached through a third-party link are subject to separate privacy policies. Lynda Hoffman Life Coaching is not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party websites.

8. How to Complain

We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you raise about our use of information.

If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulations, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

9. Changes to This Privacy Notice

This policy is effective as of January 23, 2023. We may change, modify, or update this Privacy Policy at any time. Please be sure to visit this page to stay apprised of any changes.

10. How to Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the information we hold about you, or you wish to change your personal information in our records, please contact owner Lynda Hoffman at info@lyndahoffman.com

11. Do You Need Extra Help?

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