Privacy Policy

 Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine

Privacy Policy

The Chestnut School of Herbal Medicine (the “School”) is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of our website. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) discloses the School’s information privacy practices for the website and is intended to inform users of the School’s data collection and use practices.

Your Consent. By using the School’s website and any affiliated websites, message boards, bulletin boards, blogs, or public or private forums (collectively, “affiliated forums”), you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

How and What Information We Collect. In order to use certain services associated with the website, you may register with the School. When you register as a website user and/or student of the School, the School may collect certain personally identifiable information from you. This information may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, age, gender, and other information volunteered by you, such as information provided through responses, registration, reviews, emails, postings, messages, and other electronic submissions sent by you to the School or any affiliated forums. You should not provide the School with any personally identifiable information (or submit any personally identifiable information to the School or any affiliated forums) unless you would like that information to be used by the School in accordance with this Policy. The School may also automatically collect information from you when you access the website, including but not limited to your Internet Protocol (“IP”) Address.

What We Do With Your Information. The School will NOT share your personally identifiable information with any third parties, including individuals, businesses, or government entities, without your consent. The School will share your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law, court order, subpoena, or other legal process or in the event you violate our Website Terms and Conditions. The School may use your information to notify you about recent or upcoming classes, workshops, events, activities, and sales sponsored by or occurring at the School; to contact you for marketing purposes, such as to offer information about products and services provided by and/or at the School that may interest you; and to improve the website and our affiliated forums.

A Note for Parents.  The website and any other affiliated forums, are not directed to children under eighteen (18) years of age. The School does not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under eighteen (18) years of age.

This website, including the information contained within the website and programs made available through the website, are intended for use by adults. You must be at least 18 years of age to use this website. By using the website, you warrant and represent that you are at least 18 years of age.

To the extent you are a parent desiring to share this website with your child, you may do so only as long as you abide by the following requirements:

  1. You may not share this website with children under the age of 13.
  2. You must not provide any personally identifiable information about any individual other than yourself. This includes that you shall not provide any personally identifiable information about your child.
  3. If, at the request of the School or otherwise, you send certain specific submissions …. (collectively, “comments”), the comments submitted must be your own work and not written by your child. To the extent which comments are submitted through a social media platform (e.g., Facebook), only your social media account shall be permitted access.
  4. In the event that your child is not of legal age to purchase or consume alcohol, the School recommends that you refrain from offering alcohol to your child.

Other Websites and Their Privacy Policies. Third-party websites may be accessible through our website and/or affiliated forums. These third-party websites have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. The School is not responsible for any actions or privacy policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through linked websites.

Security. To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow industry precautions and standards and best practices.

Cookies. “Cookies” are commonly used pieces of information in the form of small files that are placed on a computer hard drive to enable you to more easily communicate and interact with certain websites. The School may use cookies on its website, although none of the cookies contain any personally identifiable information.

Some of the cookies collected on our website may be used for creating audiences for advertising on Facebook. View and edit your Facebook Ad Preferences.

Visitors’ GDPR Rights. 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 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.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy. Changes to the School Privacy Policy will be posted on the website. Such changes will be effective when posted to the website, so please check this page periodically. Your continued use of the website and/or affiliated forums, constitutes your acceptance of any changes to the Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at support (at) chestnutherbs.com.

Last revised: {5/24/2018}