The CoEqual Network Privacy Policy | Updated July 16, 2023

This policy explains what information we collect when you use The CoEqual Network’s sites (including The Choice Wisdom Podcast subpages), services, and content. It also has information about how we store, use, transfer, and delete that information. Our aim is not just to comply with privacy law. It’s to earn your trust.

Information We Collect & How We Use It

The CoEqual Network and The Choice Wisdom podcast don’t make money from ads, so we do not collect data in order to advertise to you. Any tracking done on our website(s) is to enhance the user experience. Some of this information, you actively tell us (such as your email address, which we use to track your account or communicate with you). Other information, we collect based on actions you take while using our website(s), such as what pages you view (including how much of a given page and for how long) and your use of product features (follows, likes, and comments ). This information includes records of those interactions, your Internet Protocol address, information about your device (such as device or browser type), and referral information (how you got to a particular page).

We use this information to:

provide, test, improve, promote and personalize our Services
fight spam and other forms of abuse
generate aggregate, non-identifying information about how people use our Services

Information Disclosure

We won’t transfer information about you to third parties for the purpose of providing or facilitating third-party advertising to you. We won’t sell information about you to a third-party.

We may transfer your account information with third parties in some circumstances, including: (1) with your consent; (2) to a service provider or partner who meets our data protection standards; (3) with academic or non-profit researchers, with aggregation, anonymization, or pseudonymization; (4) when we have a good faith belief it is required by law, such as pursuant to a subpoena or other legal process; (5) when we have a good faith belief that doing so will help prevent imminent harm to someone.

If we are going to share your information in response to legal process, we’ll give you notice so you can challenge it (for example by seeking court intervention), unless we’re prohibited by law or believe doing so may endanger others or cause illegal conduct. We will object to legal requests for information about users of our services that we believe are improper.

Public Data

The CoEqual Network uses third-party vendors and hosting partners. By using the Services, you authorize us to transfer, store, and use your information in the United States and any other country where we operate.

Tracking & Cookies

We may use browser cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you return to our Services. We use them in various ways, for example to log you in, remember your preferences (such as default language), evaluate email effectiveness, allow our paywall and meter to function, and personalize content and other services.

Some third-party services that we use, such as Google Analytics, may place their own cookies in your browser. This Privacy Policy covers use of cookies by The CoEqual Network only and not the use of cookies by third parties.

Emails & Modifying or Deleting Your Personal Information

When you interact with an email sent from The CoEqual Network or The Choice Wisdom Podcast (such as opening an email or clicking on a particular link in an email), we may receive information about that interaction.

You may unsubscribe from any of our email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of our email communications. If you wish to have all of your personal data removed from our systems, please use our Contact form on the website to submit your request. You may expect to receive a response within seven business days.

Business Transfers

If we’re involved in a merger, acquisition, bankruptcy, reorganization or sale of assets such that your information would be transferred or become subject to a different privacy policy, we’ll notify you in advance so you can opt out of any such new policy by deleting your account before transfer.

Changes to this Policy

The CoEqual Network may periodically update this Policy. We’ll notify you about significant changes to it. The most current version of the policy will always be posted to the website.

Questions

We welcome feedback about this policy at ggoodman@coequalnetwork.com.

Under EU law you have the right to lodge a complaint regarding the processing of your personal data by this site with the dedicated Supervisory Authority of your EU member state.

Consumer Privacy for California Users

If you are a California resident, the processing of certain personal data about you may be subject to the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and other applicable California state privacy laws. Beginning January 1, 2020, the CCPA gives you certain rights with respect to the processing of your personal data (known as “personal information,” as described in the CCPA).

This section provides additional privacy disclosures and informs you of key additional rights as a California resident:

Right to Know Request

Under the CCPA, you have a right to request information about our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information over the prior 12 months, and ask that we provide you with the following information:

Categories of and specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Categories of sources from which we collect personal information.
Purposes for collecting, using, or selling personal information.
Categories of third parties with which we share personal information.
Categories of personal information disclosed about you for a business purpose.
If applicable, categories of personal information sold about you and the categories of third parties to which the personal information was sold, by category or categories of personal information for each third party to which the personal information was sold.

To make a verifiable request for information about the personal information we have collected about you, please email us at ggoodman@coequalnetwork.com.

Right to Delete Request

Under the CCPA, you also have a right to request that we delete personal information, subject to certain exceptions. You may exercise your right to delete by contacting us through the Contact form on our website.

Household Requests

We do not knowingly collect household data. If all the members of a household makes a Right to Know or Right to Delete request, we will respond as if the requests are individual requests.

General Requests under CCPA

Because we do not create account data, we may not have enough information about you to verify your Right to Know and Right to Delete requests since we do not keep sufficient information to reidentify and link you to a prior visit to The CoEqual Network. You may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information twice per 12-month period. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights under the CCPA.

Requests made through Agents

You may designate, in writing or through a power of attorney document, an authorized agent to make requests on your behalf to exercise your rights. Before accepting such a request from an agent, we will require that the agent provide proof you have authorized them to act on your behalf, and we may need you to verify your identity directly with us.

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the last 12 months, The CoEqual Network has not disclosed personal information to any outside parties.

No Sale of Personal Information

Under the CCPA, a “sale” means providing to a third party personal information for valuable consideration. Since The CoEqual Network and The Choice Wisdom Podcast do not make money from ads, we don’t collect data to facilitate nor enable third parties to advertise to you. At this time and pending final regulations and guidance interpreting the CCPA, we don’t believe any of our data practices constitute a “sale” under the CCPA.

You may contact us by emailing us at ggoodman@coequalnetwork.com.