Privacy and Terms Details
Feel free to reach out with questions about our privacy policies, terms, disclaimers, content or partner relationships.
Privacy and Terms Details
Feel free to reach out with questions about our privacy policies, terms, disclaimers, content or partner relationships.
Our website address is: https://www.influencingdesign.org.
Privacy Policy | Cookie Policy | GDPR | CCPA | LGPD
Who we are
Thank you for your interest in Influencing Design. If you ever have questions about your privacy please contact us. We answer phone calls and emails quickly. For fastest service email [email protected].
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Account Details
When you order a service from Influencing Design we collect pertinent account details including addresses, names, logins, and passwords. This information is never shared with others, and only used on the websites for which the data is needed to gain access to setup and/or monitor one of your accounts. You may change your passwords at any time and restrict further access. When a customer is no longer working with Influencing Design, all passwords are deleted, and must be furnished again for any new contract.
Payments
We use PayPal and aweber to accept all payments from PayPal accounts and credit cards. Their services are encrypted, and meet all data collection and safety standards. We NEVER have access to your credit card details and do not manage or retain any aspect of the payment process other than the creation of the invoices and subscriptions that allow you to pay via embedded pay buttons on our website that link directly to their platform. We are able to see and manage your subscriptions and payments but our data is limited to your name, phone number, address, and email.
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.
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.
Contact forms
Our contact forms are GDPR and CCPA compliant and allow you to opt out of data collection via a checkbox.
Cookies
We use a GDPR and CCPA cookie compliance bar at the bottom of our website so visitors can easily reject cookies.
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.
Google analytics is used to identify and analyze website traffic.
Amazon, Blue Host, PayPal, Mail Chimp, Wix, and additional 3rd party affiliates will save a cookie to your browser to allow tracking of purchases.
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.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect information about visits to our site. This includes your IP address, pages visited, time on our website, and other details related to your use of our website and completion of transactions such as a form fill, product order, or other interaction.
Who we share your data with
We don’t share your data with 3rd parties or strangers with the exception of when you give us permission by ordering a product, then furnishing information that allows us to create or log into accounts as a part of a service we are performing.
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.
When you leave our services, all passwords are deleted, but your core account information is retained for one year to ease the process of helping you again. Please let us know if you’d also like your entire account details deleted, we are happy to do so immediately upon satisfaction of outstanding work or payments.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Since our site collects very little data and is designed as a brochure to sell services, instead of a site that the public interacts with in a deeper transactional way, email and IP addresses are the most common and likely type of data that we have retained about your visit.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. PayPal is used for financial transactions and will receive your data directly via their checkout process without our interaction.
Our contact information
You may reach us via the following contacts for any privacy or data related concerns.
[email protected]
919-322-9719
Additional information
How we protect your data
We protect your data first and foremost by collecting very little via our website, and offering a secure browsing experience via SSL. Google Analytics, our mail client, and our affiliate links are the only places where your data would be collected. We maintain email lists, and are able to see a dashboard of affiliate activity but are not also keeping copies of those data points in another version. Reports are anonymized.
What data breach procedures we have in place
A data breach would mean that your email addresses were accidentally shared or stolen. We would notify customers as soon as this was brought to our attention. All other data is in the hands of large 3rd party corporations like Google, Mail Chimp, and PayPal.
What third parties we receive data from
Our seo auditing tools give us insights available to anyone with an Internet connection and are not in any way data that is not already publicly available. We don’t collect user data from advertising agencies. Google, Mail Chimp, and PayPal collect data needed to manage your account, and keep our website up to date.
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
There is no automated decision making tool being used on our website.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirement
We not individually or as an entity part of or party to any regulatory body, or required to have additional disclosures.
MISC & TERMS OF USE INFORMATION
Please take the time to read through our terms of service. Our website is designed to be used as a source of information and products related to improving website performance. Please use our website as it is intended and do not attempt to spam our audience, or in any way detract from our core mission.
We appreciate your consideration of our mission in all that you do on our site.
Sales pitches, links to external websites, disingenuous offers, or misguidance of any kind will result in your profile being flagged for removal.
Neither Influencing Design™ nor any providers of information make any warranties, express or implied, as to results to be obtained from use of such information, and make no express or implied warranties of merchant ability or fitness for a particular purpose or use. Neither Influencing Design™ nor any of providers of information shall have any liability for the accuracy of the information contained in the service, or the contents of any advertisements, or for assertions or omissions therein.
No party shall be liable to any other party or any third-party for third-party claims or losses of any nature, including, but not limited to, lost profits, punitive or consequential damages. Influencing Design™ reserves the right to remove any content, comments, listings, or advertisements for any reason. In no case shall Influencing Design™ be liable for any costs or events that occur beyond its control including, but not limited to, network outages, Internet connectivity problems and client side browser issues.
The following disclaimer and terms of use apply generally to all postings to the Influencing Design™ site. It is hereby also understood that any person posting to Influencing Design™ will have been presented with this disclaimer and terms of use prior to doing so and, as such, be subject to its terms as indicated below.
CONDITIONS OF USE
You are entirely responsible and liable for all postings to Influencing Design™. Listed below are some, though not all, violations which may result in Influencing Design™ deleting your postings. You agree not to do any of the following while posting or listing on Influencing Design™.
• impersonate in Influencing Design™ any business or person, living or dead, famous or not;
• intentionally or unintentionally violate any applicable local, state, national or international law, including but not limited to any regulations having the force of law while using or accessing Influencing Design™ or in connection with your use of Influencing Design™ in any manner.
• harass, threaten, embarrass or slander any person or entity;
• transmit via Influencing Design™ any information, data, text, files, links, software, chat, communication or other materials that Influencing Design™ considers to be unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
Note, what you are uploading to our website is not original or owned by you once uploaded. You agree that you will not upload or transmit any Content to Influencing Design™ that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights (“Rights”) of any party. By submitting Content to Influencing Design™ you automatically grant — or warrant that the owner of such Content has expressly granted – Influencing Design™ the royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive right and license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such Content (in whole or part) worldwide and/or to incorporate it in other works in any form, media, or technology now known or later developed for the full term of any Rights that may exist in such Content.
NON-COMPETE
You may not copy, share or otherwise infringe upon the strategies or content shared on this website, in emails, or via social media accounts by Influencing Design™. You may not duplicate for yourself or another party any service offered by Influencing Design™ that you were not expressly offering prior to your interaction with Influencing Design™.
CONTENT
You must evaluate, and bear the risk associated with, the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any Content. If you follow a link from this website to any other website you do so at your own risk, and with the understanding that the website you visit will have it’s own Terms of Use policy that you should refer to should you have any questions about content or purpose.
By uploading a file or other content or by making a comment, you represent and warrant to us that (1) doing so does not violate or infringe anyone else’s rights; and (2) you created the file or other content you are uploading, or otherwise have sufficient intellectual property rights to upload the material consistent with these terms. With regard to any file or content you upload to the public portions of our site, you grant Influencing Design™ a non-exclusive, royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable worldwide license (with sublicense and assignment rights) to use, to display online and in any present or future media, to create derivative works of, to allow downloads of, and/or distribute any such file or content. To the extent that you delete any such file or content from the public portions of our site, the license you grant to Influencing Design™ pursuant to the preceding sentence will automatically terminate, but will not be revoked with respect to any file or content Influencing Design™ has already copied and sublicensed or designated for sublicense. Also, of course, anything you post to a public portion of our site may be used by the public pursuant to the following paragraph even after you delete it.
Influencing Design™ shall not be responsible for any Content. Influencing Design™ does not pre-screen or monitor Content as a matter of policy, but Influencing Design™ shall have the right, but not the responsibility, to remove Content which is deemed in sole discretion harmful, offensive, or otherwise in violation of this Agreement or any rules Influencing Design™ has in place at the time. Influencing Design™ may elect at its sole discretion to monitor some, all, or no areas of Influencing Design™ for adherence to this Agreement or rules. The opinions and content posted on the website are always consistent with the views of it’s creators.
DISCLAIMER RELATED TO SERVICES PROVIDED
Influencing Design™ does it’s best to provide high quality, white hat, actionable marketing and web maintenance steps and services to help business owners get found. The world of online marketing is an especially fluid one, and almost every aspect of ranking and performance is ultimately in the control of large corporations providing visibility services like search engines and databases. Influencing Design™ provides services to website owners and managers but in no way guarantees SEO performance, legal compliance, or other performance measures outside it’s area of control. Influencing Design™ is not responsible for errors, omissions, data loss, website technical difficulties, loss of revenue, reputation scores, or any other aspect of a customer’s business as the result of using an SEO or website maintenance related service. Large 3rd party corporations own and control almost all aspects of an Internet experience and are not liable to anyone or any site for a particular ranking or displayed results. This aspect of doing website maintenance and SEO is completely out of Influencing Design™ control, and that of all other support organizations as well.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTIES
Influencing Design™ makes no warranty that Influencing Design™ will be timely, secure, error free, or meet your requirements; nor does Influencing Design™ make any warranty as to the results that may be obtained from the use of Influencing Design™ or as to the accuracy or reliability of any information obtained through Influencing Design™. No advice or information, whether oral or written obtained by you from Influencing Design™ shall create a warranty not expressly made herein.
You expressly agree that use of Influencing Design™ is entirely at your own risk. Influencing Design™ shall not be responsible to you or any other for any content found on Influencing Design™. Influencing Design™ expressly disclaims all warranties of any kind, whether implied warranties of merchant ability, fitness for a particular purpose, and non-infringement. You understand and agree that any content downloaded or otherwise obtained through the use of Influencing Design™ is done at your own discretion and risk and that you will be solely responsible for any damages to your computer or loss of data that results in the downloads of such content. To the full extent permissible under the applicable law, Influencing Design™ shall not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special or consequential damages resulting from the use or inability to use Influencing Design™ or for the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods or services purchased or obtained through your use of the Influencing Design™ system.
If you believe that content available by means of the website infringes one or more of your copyrights, please notify us by providing a written notice (“Infringement Notice”) containing the information described below to the designated agent listed below.
A copyright infringement claim based on a U.S. work can only be filed if the work has been registered (http://www.copyright.gov/eco/). Registration currently takes about seven months.
If InfluencingDesign.org™ takes action in response to an Infringement Notice, it will make a good faith attempt to contact the party that made such content available by means of the most recent email address, if any, provided by such party to InfluencingDesign.org™.
Your Infringement Notice may be forwarded to the party that made the content available or to third parties. Please be advised that you will be liable for damages (including costs and attorneys’ fees) if you materially misrepresent that a product or activity is infringing your copyrights. Thus, if you are not sure content located on or linked-to by the Website infringes your copyright, you should consider first contacting an attorney.
Because a high percentage of DMCA takedown notices are not valid, Influencing Design™ reserves the right to ignore DMCA notifications based on unregistered works.
Send your complaint to our designated agent.
Email: dmca@InfluencingDesign.org
InfluencingDesign.org™
PO Box 933 Morrisville NC 27560
Attn: 919-322-9717
You must include the following:
A statement that the information in your notice is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are the owner (or authorized to act on behalf of the owner) of the exclusive copyright right that is allegedly being infringed;
A physical or electronic signature of the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf;
Identification of the copyrighted work claimed to have been infringed;
A description of the nature and exact location of the content that you claim to infringe your copyright, in sufficient detail to permit InfluencingDesign.org™ to find and positively identify that content;
A link to the specific page that contains the content and a description of which specific portion of the page (an image, a link, the text, etc) that your complaint refers to;
–Your name, address, telephone number and email address;
–A statement that you have a good faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; and
–A statement that the information in the notification is accurate, and under penalty of perjury, that you are either the copyright owner or a person authorized to act on their behalf.
Please note that a copy of your infringement notice, including any contact information you provide (address, telephone number, and email address), will be forwarded to the user who uploaded the content at issue. Thank you.
Influencing Design™ may be an affiliate for some products that are recommended.
If you purchase those items through the links on our site a commission may be earned by Influencing Design™. You will not pay more when buying a product through a link on Influencing Design™, and you will never pay more than a regular visitor and you will sometimes pay less as we have worked to negotiate special offers whenever available. Sometimes these occur in the form of a discount for our users, a bonus upon purchase, or access to marketing or business building how-to not available from other providers.
In addition we are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Certain content that appears on this site comes from Amazon Services LLC. This content is provided ‘as is’ and is subject to change or removal at any time.
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