Privacy Policy

Last Modified: 13 June 2024

Introduction

Welcome to https://muscularminds.com (hereinafter referred to as "we", "our", "us"). Your privacy is something that we take very seriously. This Privacy Policy describes how we gather, utilize, and safeguard your personal information when you visit, access and/or browse our website, subscribe to our feed, or buy items from our swag shop. This Privacy Policy covers any and all users of our website, whether a seller, buyer, a company, an individual, a non-profit, a governmental organization, other legal entities, among other things.

2.Information and Data We Collect/ Gather

2.1 Data You Supply to Us

Email Addresses: When you subscribe to our blog, podcast updates, or newsletters, we collect your email address. Additionally, if you create an account with us, we will also gather your email address. In certain cases, we may gather some other data you provide to us such as phone number, name, among others.

Personal Data for Purchases: If you buy products from our swag shop, we might collect your name, shipping address, as well as email address. MuscularMinds.com is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

Payment Processing: When purchasing services and products through our website, our payment processing service providers handle your personal information and keep it absolutely safe and secure. If your payment information is shared with us, it is only for administration purposes.

2.2 Data Gathered Automatically

Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information.

Cookies are used by our website to enhance your experience. Hence, in this section we will describe our cookie policy, how we use them, and the options available to you. A web server stores little text files called ‘cookies’ on your device whenever you visit our website. Both "session" and "persistent" cookies are possible. Please note that cookies do not allow us to get control of your PC or device in any way, shape or form.

Cookies are used by us for the following reasons:

Essential Cookies: To make our website function at its core.

Functional Cookies: To improve our website's personalization and functionality. Thus, to improve your overall user experience on our website.

Analytical Cookies: Used to examine usage trends and website traffic.

Through the settings of your browser, you may control your cookie choices. However, certain features of our website might not work properly if you disable cookies.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding our cookie policy, and/ or any suggestions regarding how we utilize cookies, feel free to send us an email at the following Email Address: admin@muscularminds.com

Apart from cookies, we may also get data such as your IP address and other data related to your website usage.

3.Use of Your Data

We utilize the gathered data for the following purposes:

To Deliver and Uphold Our Service: This includes informing you of any modifications to our offerings. This also includes understanding your demands and requests as a user of our website more thoroughly. As a result, we can improve our services and the overall user experience of our website.

To Stay in Touch: Sending you marketing or promotional materials, newsletters, and other information that might be of interest. This also includes sending you certain optional surveys or other forms that you may be interested in. From this, we can also obtain valuable feedback that would, again, help us improve our services and the overall user experience of our website.

To Manage Purchases: Using Printful, a third-party POD plugin, to facilitate and manage orders. This also includes managing and successfully processing payments regarding our swag shop.

4.Third-Party Services

4.1 Printful

Order processing for our swag shop is handled by Printful, a third-party print-on-demand (POD) provider. Printful is an independent data controller that gathers and uses personal data. To learn more about Printful's data practices, we advise reading their privacy statement and other legal documents that they may have featured on their site.

If you click on third party links from our website, such as Printful, you will be directed to their own website, and you are acting as such at your own sole and absolute risk. Other third-party links are beyond our reasonable control and hence, we suggest that you read and check their legal documents such as their own privacy and cookie policies prior to proceeding.

4.2 Email Marketing Services

We handle and distribute emails and updates using services provided by third parties, such [MailChimp]. It's possible that their servers will hold your email address. To learn more, kindly read and acknowledge their privacy statement as well as other legal documents featured on their website. As aforementioned, we cannot be liable for the actions, or omissions, of third-party links.

5.Data Sharing and Disclosure

We take your data seriously and hence, your personal information is never sold, traded, or otherwise transferred to unaffiliated third parties, unless specifically stated in this privacy statement.

Service Providers: We might give your information to companies who do tasks for us, such as sending emails and completing orders. We will collaborate with such third parties in order to be able to supply our services and offerings to you.

Legal Requirements: If mandated by law or in response to legitimate requests from public authorities, we may be obliged to release your personal data.

6.Data Security

We take the security of your personal data seriously and use trusted third-party services to host our website and manage our email communications. Specifically:

Website Hosting: Our website is hosted on Wix, which implements appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data.
Email Services: We use Mailchimp for our email communications, and they also implement stringent security measures.

For more detailed information on their data security practices, please refer to Wix’s Privacy Policy and Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy.

You further understand that we are unable to provide a 100% secure transmission via the internet or electronic storage solution. Additionally, we cannot be held liable in the event of any leaks to your personal information and data. You are responsible for having adequate antivirus software on your devices and we cannot be held responsible for any potential hackings or other malicious viruses entering your devices, as it is beyond our reasonable control.

Regarding any potential users within the European Union (EU), we shall ensure that the use of your personal information and data is fair, legitimate, accurate, not too broad, as well as not maintained within our systems for longer than necessary in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which is an EU regulation regarding personal data collected by websites. Additionally, by using our services, offerings and website, you are hereby notified and informed of our handling, gathering and using your personal information and data and thus, by using our website, you consent to it.

7.Your Rights

You may be entitled to the following rights about your personal data, depending on where you live:

Access: The ability to see and get a copy of your personal information.

Rectification: The ability to have any incomplete or outdated personal information corrected.

Erasure: The ability to ask for your personal information to be erased.

Restriction: The ability to ask that the processing of your personal information be stopped.

Right to object: You have the right to object to the use of your personal information.

Data portability: The ability to ask for your personal information to be transferred.

If you would like to exercise any of the aforementioned rights, feel free to contact us at the following email address: admin@muscularminds.com to let us know. We will act upon your request at our earliest convenience.

Note: For data processed by third parties such as Wix, Mailchimp, and Printful, we recommend contacting them directly to exercise your rights regarding the data they hold.

8.Amendments to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the sole and absolute right to modify, amend, delete and/or add anything to this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our website will indicate acceptance and your consent to such modifications, amendments, additions, and/or deletions.

Therefore, it is your sole and exclusive responsibility to periodically review and check this Privacy Policy for any such changes.

9.Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to get in touch with us at:

Email: admin@muscularminds.com