Bright New Beginnings

Last updated on March 12, 2025.

We may change this privacy notice from time to time–when we do, we will inform you by posting it on this webpage.  

Our website address is: https://brightnewbeginnings.blog.

Please carefully read the following Privacy Policy of Bright New Beginnings LLC and all of its subsidiaries, successors in interest, and assigns (collectively, “Bright New Beginnings”, “us”, “we”) before using: http://www.BrightNewBeginnings.blog, all related websites, products, services and related mobile applications (the “Services”), (collectively, the “Site” or “Website”).  By using the Website you consent to this Privacy Policy. This means that you accept, agree to be bound, and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to the Privacy Policy, cease use of this Website immediately.  

Your privacy is very important to us. Our Privacy Policy spells out Bright New Beginning’s commitment to respecting the privacy of the members and visitors to our Site. We reserve the right to change this policy at any time, which we’ll do through online posting. We are very careful with what we do with your information. This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of www.BrightNewBeginnings.blog, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through this Website whether as a guest or a registered user. This Privacy Policy also describes how Bright New Beginnings collects and uses the personal information you provide to us on our Site. It also describes the choices available to you regarding our use of your personal information and how you can access and update this information.

Collection and Use of Personal Information

We collect personal information from you to provide an efficient, meaningful and customized experience for you on the Site.

We collect the following personal information from you:

• Contact information such as your name, email address, and any other information you supply such as phone number;
• Unique identifiers such as user name;
• Any information provided when you leave a comment on our site or subscribe to our newsletter.

As is true of most websites, we automatically gather information about your computer and browsing behavior, such as:

• Your IP address
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring/exit pages
• Date and time of visit
• Device information (such as model and OS version)
• Location data derived from your IP address

We may log this information for: system administration and improvement, security monitoring, analytics, and website improvement.

We use this information to:

• Administer our website
• Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities
• Improve user experience and website functionality
• Protect against fraudulent, unauthorized, or illegal activity
• Comply with legal requirements
• Fulfill your order
• Send you an order confirmation
• Administer your account
• Send you a newsletter
• Send you marketing and promotional communications
• Respond to your questions and concerns
• Improve our website and marketing efforts
• Conduct research and analysis
• Display content based upon your interests

Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect information about your browsing activity. Cookies are small text files stored on your device to help personalize your experience.

Types of cookies used:

• Essential Cookies: Necessary for website functionality
• Analytics Cookies: Help track usage patterns to improve our website
• Advertising Cookies: Enable personalized ads (if applicable)
• Social Media Cookies: Allow content sharing on social media platforms

You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. For more details, refer to Automattic’s Cookie Policy.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will 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 will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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 1 day.

When you use our site we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our site. Cookies are small text files of information stored by the Internet browser on your computer or device. For example, we may use cookies to collect browsing data to keep track of your preferences and profile information and to collect general usage and volume statistical information. Our cookies do not collect personal or confidential information and are not spyware. Some of our cookies are served by us, and some are served by third parties who are delivering services on our behalf. Bright New Beginnings LLC has no influence on the processing of Personal Information by these providers.

You may set your Internet web browser to refuse cookies or to remove cookies from your hard drive. You can also learn more about cookies by visiting www.allaboutcookies.org which includes additional useful information on cookies and how to block them using different browsers. By blocking or deleting cookies used on our website and mobile application, you may not be able to take full advantage of our services.

We reserve the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. We reserve the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see 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.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

How Do we Protect Your Information and Secure Information Transmissions?

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically, including:

• Secure transmission methods
• Firewalls and encryption
• Secure access controls
• Using standard security protocols ,and
• working only with reasonably reputable third-party vendors.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your Personally Identifiable Information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk.

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 (if any), 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.

Information Sharing

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information.

However, we will share your personal information with third parties only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy. We may share personal information with certain third parties in the U.S. that perform services on our behalf. The services provided by those third parties may include: operating the website, hosting the website, authorization and processing of your payments, serving advertisements to you, marketing and promotional material distribution (including direct mail marketing).  Those third parties are not authorized to use or disclose personal information you provide to us on or through this website for any purpose other than to perform the services designated by us.

We and our third party service providers in the U.S. may also disclose your personal information:

• As required or permitted by law such as to comply with a subpoena, in response to a search warrant or other legally valid inquiry, order or similar legal process, or to protect our rights;
• To investigate both in the case of a breach of an agreement or contravention of law;
• When we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, establish, exercise or defend a legal claim, investigate fraud or respond to a government request;
• With trusted third parties that help operate our website (e.g., hosting services, analytics providers, payment processors);
• If we undergo a merger, acquisition, or sale of assets, your information may be transferred to the new entity; or
• To any other third party with your prior consent to do so.

If Bright New Beginnings LLC engages in a joint promotion with an affiliate and/or partner, we may share your contact information with our affiliate and/or partner to be used in relation to the promotion.

We may share non-personal information (such as the number of daily visitors to a particular web page or the size of an order placed on a certain date) with third parties such as advertising partners. This information does not directly identify you or any user by name.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Third Party Websites

Our Site may contain links to third party websites. When you click on a link to any other website or location, you will leave our Site and go to another site, and another entity may collect personal information from you. We have no control over, do not review, and cannot be responsible for, these outside websites or their content. Please be aware that the terms of this Privacy Policy do not apply to these outside websites or content, or to any collection of your personal information after you click on links to such outside websites. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of every website you visit. The links to third party websites or locations are for your convenience and do not signify our endorsement of such third parties or their products, content, or websites.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). 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 that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Use of Social Plugins

Bright New Beginning’s Website/Applications may use social media plugins (“plugins”) from social networks like Meta/Facebook, Google+ and Twitter (“Social Network”). The Plugins are identified by the respective social media logo or the respective suffix (the “Button”).

If you visit a page on the Bright New Beginnings’ website that contains Plugins, your browser will establish a direct connection to the Social Network server and load the Button from there, At the time the Social Network will know that the respective page on the Bright New Beginnings website has been visited. If you click on a Button, you establish a direct connection to the respective Social Network. By clicking the applicable Button, you accept and consent to the transmission of your data to the Social Network, it can also associate your visit to the Bright New Beginnings Website.

If you do not wish your data to be transmitted to the applicable Social Network via Bright New Beginning’s Website,  ensure that you are not logged into the Social Network before visiting the Bright New Beginning’s Website, and do not click on any Plugins while on the website for Bright New Beginnings.

For information about the scope and purpose of data collection by these social media companies, and your rights and the settings you can configure to protect your privacy, please refer to their privacy policies.

Children Under the Age of 16

This Site is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. Our policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. 

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at ana@brightnewbeginnings.blog.

Bright New Beginnings does not knowingly collect or use any Personal Information from online visitors under the age of 16.  Bright New Beginnings does not knowingly allow visitors under the age of 16 to participate in any promotions or contests made available on Bright New Beginning’s Website from time to time.

Email Policies

We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Information Sharing.

We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from such that you will be able to contact the sender.  In addition, you may respond to any e-mail message to request that you be removed from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us. 

Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by emailing ana@brightnewbeginnings.blog.  You will be unsubscribed after a reasonable amount of time after your request is reviewed..

Notification of Privacy Statement Changes

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes, we will notify you by email (sent to the email address specified in your account) or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We encourage you to periodically review this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

Non-United States Visitors

If you are a non-U.S. user of the Site, by visiting the Site and providing us with data, you acknowledge and agree that your personal information may be processed for the purposes identified in the Privacy Policy. In addition, your personal information may be processed in the country in which it was collected and in other countries, including the United States where laws regarding processing of personal information may be less stringent than the laws in your country and where your personal information may be accessed by the courts, law enforcement and national security authorities as required under the laws of those jurisdictions. By providing your data, you consent to such transfer.

GDPR

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:

• We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.
• You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data. 
• You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.
• You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data. 
• To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.
• You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.
• We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us. 

For further information on each of these rights (including the circumstances in which they may apply), see the guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individual rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

• We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information. The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.

Exercising your Privacy Rights & Contact Information

If you would like to exercise any of your rights as described in this Privacy Policy, please e-mail us at:

Bright New Beginnings
ana@brightnewbeginnings.blog

We are not obligated to make a data access or data portability disclosure if we cannot verify that the person making the request is the person about whom we collected information, or is someone authorized to act on such person’s behalf.

Any personal information we collect from you to verify your identity in connection with you request will be used solely for the purposes of verification.