Privacy Policy
Updated: June 2022
It is the policy at the Family Consulting Network to never share your personal private information with any third party under any conditions ever.
We value your trust in our professionals to assist your family and we would never betray that trust by sharing any information or data with any third party under any circumstances.
This Policy applies to information we collect on www.familyconsultingnetwork.com about:
- Visitors to our website (the “Site”); and
- People who subscribe to any of our lists, be it membership or mailing,
OVERVIEW
In order for us to operate our business and provide our services to you, it is sometimes necessary for us to collect or process information about you. In general terms, this information will take one or more of the following forms:
- Information that you provide to us directly, such as in the situation where you complete an online form or send us a message;
- Information that is automatically sent to us by your computer’s internet browser when you visit our Site, such as your computer’s technical address (or ‘IP address’) or information about which particular internet browser you are using and so on;
- Information about how you use our Site or our services, such as which pages you visit, how frequently you visit the Site and so
This privacy policy sets out the detail of what information we collect, as well as how that data is used and protected.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE
When you visit us, we may monitor the use of this Site through the use of cookies and similar tracking devices. This information helps us to build a profile of our users. Please see the section on “Cookies and Similar Technologies” below for further information.
INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM USERS WHO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR LIST(S)
When you submit your email address to become a member, contact us, etc. you are also subscribing to our mailing list. As such, we may send you additional information or email newsletters. We may also contact you about products and services we think may be of interest to you.
You can unsubscribe from the mailing list at any time by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email.
By submitting your email address, you consent to the use of that email address as set out in this policy.
TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED
– TECHNICAL DATA (SUCH AS ‘IP ADDRESS’)
When you visit our Site, our systems will log a record of your visit in our server logs, and typically this record will include the technical ‘IP’ address that is associated with your device and the browser type and version that you are using.
Such server logs are extremely common practice, and are used to monitor technical resources, monitor high-level server activity, and importantly to detect and prevent malicious or fraudulent activity on our systems. This data can also be used, if required, to diagnose reports of technical issues. The storage of IP addresses, allow us to identify patterns of behavior (such as repeated malicious attempts to access a system).
IP addresses, in and of themselves, do not allow us in any way to identify you as an individual, especially given that it is very common for IP addresses to be dynamically allocated by your service provider, and will therefore often routinely change.
Furthermore, we do not and will not use the content of server access logs to attempt to determine an identifiable individual. We therefore do not consider that data held within server logs falls within the scope of ‘personal data’, and accordingly we do not seek your consent to collect it.
– COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We have included cookies, web beacons and similar technologies into one section because they all perform similar functions even if, from a technical perspective, they work slightly differently.
All of these technologies allow us to better understand how users are using our Site and other related services. They can also be an essential part of providing certain online functionality. They are all essentially small data files placed on your computer (or other device) that allow us to tell when you have visited a particular page, or performed a particular action (such as clicking a particular button) on our Site.
These technologies are used by most websites as they provide useful insight into how the services are being used, as well as improving speed, performance and security, and enabling us to improve our personalization of your experience.
Cookies are small text files placed in the memory of your browser or device when you visit a website. Cookies allow a website to recognize a particular device or browser. There are several types of cookies:
- Session cookies expire at the end of your browser session and allow us to link your actions during that particular browser
- Persistent cookies are stored on your device in between browser sessions, allowing us to remember your preferences or actions across multiple
- First-party cookies are set by the site you are
- Third-party cookies are set by a third-party site separate from the site you are
There are a number of ways that you can influence how cookies are used on your particular device. Most commercial browsers (such as Chrome, Safari, Edge, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.) allow you to set preferences for whether to allow or block website cookies.
They will also provide tools that allow you to remove any cookies that have already been set. Using the ‘Help’ functionality of your browser, or an internet search, will help you to understand how to use these features for your particular browser.
Our uses of cookies and similar technologies fall into the following general categories:
- Essential. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that are necessary to the operation of our Site, services, applications, and tools. This includes technologies that allow you access to our Site, services, applications, and tools; that are required to identify irregular site behavior, prevent fraudulent activity and improve security; or that allow you to make use of our functions such as shopping carts, saved search, or similar functions;
- Performance Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our Site, applications, services, and tools, including as part of our analytic practices to help us understand how our visitors use our Site, determine if you have interacted with our messaging, determine whether you have viewed an item or link, or to improve our Site content, applications, services, or tools;
- Functionality Related. We may use cookies, web beacons, or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our Site, services, applications, or tools. This may include identifying you when you sign into our Site or keeping track of your specified preferences, interests, or past items viewed so that we may enhance the presentation of content on our Site;
- Marketing Related. We may use first-party or third-party cookies and web beacons to deliver content, including ads relevant to your interests, on our Site or on third-party sites. This includes using technologies to understand the usefulness to you of the advertisements and content that has been delivered to you, such as whether you have clicked on an advertisement.
HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION
We are committed to maintaining the security of your personal information. We have put in place appropriate security procedures and technical measures to safeguard your personal information, such as contact information that you have submitted to us.
NON-DISCLOSURE
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to third parties your personal information under any circumstances, ever.
LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Our Site contains links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this Site, so when you visit other websites you should read their privacy policies.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
If we change our privacy policy we will post the changes on this page, so that you will be aware of the information we collect and how we use it.