Privacy Policy

At gewood.com we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy. This page covers our privacy policy.

We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use gewood.com, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

At gewood.com, we strive to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.

Privacy Policy Information About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that gewood.com stores on your computer, which your browser provides to gewood.com each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

Gewood.com uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Gewood.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on ... https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse gewood.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

California Consumer Privacy Act Statement

Gewood.com has not sold any personal information from visitors to the site in the past 12 months.

Personally Identifiable Information

Gewood.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service.
• To help us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalize your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site.
• To improve our products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

Gewood.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.

Specifically, if you subscribe to a newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Gewood.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website.

Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell gewood.com, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to download and review that information, click on this link.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

Gewood.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.

Last updated: May 1, 2023

The Underpinning of Respect

In building a professional Coaching business, we have purposed that our privacy policy conform to the Canadian Standards Association (CSA) Model Code for the Protection of Personal Information (CAN/CSA - Q830-06). You can visit their website to investigate further. The code consists of ten interrelated principles which we have drawn from.

The Ten Privacy Principles

Principle 1 - Accountability

G.E.Wood and Associates is responsible for all personal information under its control. Personal information disclosed via our website is processed by third parties who maintain their own strict standards of privacy. G.E.Wood does everything possible to comply with the following principles.

Principle 2 - Identifying Purpose

G.E.Wood and Associates will identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected. Personal information will not be used for a purpose not previously identified without further individual consent, unless the new purpose is required by law.

Principle 3 - Consent

The knowledge and informed consent of the individual are required for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information, except where inappropriate.

Principle 4 - Limiting Collection

The collection of personal information shall be limited to that which is necessary for the purposes identified by G.E.Wood and Associates in its Privacy Policy. In the case of our ‘Contact forms’ and ‘Newsletter Subscription form' we require a full name and email address in order to reply back to you. Any further information is given at your discretion.

Principle 5 - Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention

Personal information will not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected under the Privacy Policy, except with the consent of the individual or as required by law. Personal information shall be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes and will be deleted at the request of the individual.

Principle 6 - Accuracy

Personal information shall be as accurate, complete, and up-to-date as is necessary for the purposes for which it is to be used.

Principle 7 - Safeguards

G.E.Wood and Associates protects personal information with safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.

Principle 8 - Openness

G.E.Wood and Associates will discuss with interested individuals, specific information about its personal information management policies and practices.

Principle 9 - Individual Access

Upon request, G.E.Wood and Associates will inform individuals of the existence, use, and disclosure of their personal information and shall be given access to that information. An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of their information, and may request that it be amended, as appropriate.

Principle 10 – Challenging Compliance

G.E.Wood and Associates will respond to complaints or inquiries about practices relating to the handling of personal information.

We are committed to keeping personal information accurate, confidential, secure and private. We respect your privacy choices and concerns. We understand the influence the Internet can have on a person, both for good and harm. If a person’s personal privacy is breached, that good is at risk. Therefore:

We collect personal information about you only when you make the choice to provide it, and we will not share or otherwise profit from the distribution of personal data beyond the use you entrusted it to us to fulfill.

We do not share personally identifiable information (name, address, and/or email address) about you with anyone unless you give us permission to.

Remember that your information travels to us via a secure third party processor. We have endeavored to work with third party processors who maintain strict standards.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to gewood.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.