Privacy policy

Thank you for your curiosity.

Protecting your data is important to us. We appreciate your interest in our data privacy and protection policies. Please contact us if you still have questions after reading this policy.

Our contact details:

Name: Karen Hansis

E-mail: info@9elementscoaching.com

 Privacy Policy:

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  •  Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

 This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  •  Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

 We share this information with Squarespace, and Google, our website analytics providers. Paperbell is our online booking and payment platform you link to from this site.

You can read Squarespace’s Privacy Policy HERE

You can read Google’s Privacy Policy HERE

You can read Paperbell’s Privacy Policy HERE

 When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google for storage and [with Zapier for data porting].

When you schedule an appointment by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Details relating to your appointment (for example, who referred you)

  • Files you uploaded

 We share this information with Squarespace, our scheduling service provider so that they can provide online booking services to us.

 Virtual private coaching, training, or workshop sessions will be delivered over HIPAA-compliant Zoom or Google Meet platforms. You can find out more about Zoom’s privacy and security protections here. You can find out more about Google Meet’s privacy and security protections here.

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your journal design preference)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

When you submit information to this website via web form, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google for storage and with Zapier for data porting.

When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable your member areas access. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your subscription

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

 We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider so that they can provide exclusive member area hosting services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

 Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

This website includes share buttons that enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third party services: Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn. If you click a share button, these third parties may receive your personal data, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

 This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

 This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

 If you create a customer account on this website, we collect personal information to improve our checkout experience and customer service.

  • This information may include your:

  • Billing and shipping address(es)

  • Details about your orders (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

 We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can provide website services to us. You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

  • You enter your email address at checkout, or are logged into your customer account.

  • You add a product that is in stock to your shopping cart.

  • You close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

 You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email. The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve created a customer account

  • Your customer account password has been reset or updated

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

 It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

 When you schedule an appointment by booking on this website, we collect personal information from you to complete the booking. We may collect information like your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Phone number

  • Details relating to your appointment (for example, who referred you)

  • Files you uploaded

We share this information with Paperbell, our scheduling service provider so that they can provide online booking services to us.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit here.

You can find out about the functional and required cookies that are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you here.

Some analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge and click “accept” our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. You can find out more about these cookies here.

You can disable Squarespace analytics and performance cookies at any time. Disabling Squarespace analytics and performance cookies doesn’t disable cookies placed by third-party services connected to this site, such as Facebook Pixel or Google Analytics.

I do not sell your information. I do not share your information with anyone else without your express permission.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) the lawful bases I rely on for processing this information are:

  • Your consent

  • A contract (if you are a client for coaching)

  • legitimate interest

Personal Information Storage Policy:

Squarespace:

Squarespace stores its own analytics and cookies. It is not possible to delete individual analytics records. We are unable to remove cookies from your computer or devices. Here is more information about Squarespace cookies. We will delete your personal data on Squarespace upon customer/visitor request via email to info@9elementscoaching.com.

Paperbell:

Paperbell stores its own analytics and cookies. It is not possible to delete individual analytics records. We are unable to remove cookies from your computer or devices. Here is more information about Paperbell cookies. We will delete your personal data on Paperbell upon customer/visitor request via email to info@9elementscoaching.com.

Communications and scheduling:

Our email marketing software stores your email address and information about your interactions with our newsletters. You may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every newsletter. We will be able to see your historical activity unless you contact us at info@9elementscoaching.com and ask to be removed from the email marketing software entirely.

We maintain a list of contacts for our email and calendar/appointment booking services. Contact information may include your name, phone number, and/or email address. This information may be used for appointment scheduling.  You may contact us at info@9elementscoaching.com and ask to be removed as a contact and have our email correspondence deleted. In the event we must retain emails for our records, we will tell you what emails we are keeping and why.

We prefer to use email to communicate with Clients and Visitors. We will also use secure internet messaging or text if clients/customers express an explicit preference via email and provide the contact information to communicate that way. Some personal information may be stored there. We will delete your personal information if we receive your request via email to info@9elementscoaching.com.

Business Operations:

Business operations are managed in workflow management software. Your name, email address, and phone number may be stored on electronic cards or folders in the software. You may contact us at info@9elementscoaching.com and ask to have your personal data removed.

We use a secure electronic file storage system. Folders and files are stored in this system to prevent unauthorized access. We use a strong password maintained in a secure password manager and multi-factor authentication. We may at times create shared folders with you in Google or Paperbell. You may delete your shared folder at any time. You may contact us at info@9elementscoaching.com and ask to have the client folder with your personal data and session information deleted from electronic locations and local devices.  In the event we must retain certain content of the folder for our records, we will tell you what content we are keeping and why.

All websites, communications, and other online platforms used by the business, along with related hardware, software, and devices are password-protected by strong passwords stored in a cloud-based secure password manager and multi-factor authentication. All reasonable measures have been taken to protect and secure your personal information.

Unless otherwise notified by you via email to info@9elementscoaching.com requesting your data and all related information to be deleted, we keep your information indefinitely.

Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on where you reside, you have data protection rights. For information about your rights under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), please click here.  State of Oregon residents, information about your data protection rights can be found here. If you have questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at info@9elementscoaching.com.

For those not living in the European Union or the State of Oregon, please contact the data privacy regulatory body for your place of residence for more information about your data privacy rights and responsibilities.

Date of Privacy Policy: 1 January 2024