Effective as of November 2023

The Your Work Friends podcast values your privacy, and we believe transparency around the data we collect is important.

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to yourworkfriends.com, and Your Work Friends and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Your Work Friends include yourworkfriends.com and Your Work Friends. The Your Work Friends website is a Podcast site. By using the Your Work Friends website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, Your Work Friends may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

 -          First and Last Name

 -          E-mail Address

 -          How they found the site, feedback, and personal stories

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information

Your Work Friends collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

Your Work Friends may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Your Work Friends and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Your Work Friends does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Your Work Friends may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Your Work Friends, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Your Work Friends may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Your Work Friends or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Your Work Friends; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Your Work Friends, or the public.  

Tracking User Behavior

Your Work Friends may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Your Work Friends, in order to determine what Your Work Friends services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Your Work Friends to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

·       Information about your browser, network, and device

·       Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·       Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

·       Clicks

·       Internal links

·       Pages visited

·       Scrolling

·       Searches

·       Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Simple Likes

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device

• Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

• Your IP address

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

• Information about your browser, network, or device

• Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

• Your IP address

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Your Work Friends. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Your Work Friends website.

Use of Cookies

The Your Work Friends website may use "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Your Work Friends pages, or register with Your Work Friends site or services, a cookie helps Your Work Friends to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Your Work Friends website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Your Work Friends features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Your Work Friends services or websites you visit.

For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

Your Work Friends secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Your Work Friends uses the following methods for this purpose:

 -          SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.  

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

•     Delete your personal information from our records; and

•     Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

•     Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

•     Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

•     Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

•     Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

•     Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

•     Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

•     Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

•     Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

•     Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

Your Work Friends does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Your Work Friends may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Your Work Friends or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Your Work Friends, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

Form Submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google Drive for storage.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

Your Work Friends reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

Your Work Friends welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Your Work Friends has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Your Work Friends at:

Email Address:

friend@yourworkfriends.com

Effective as of November 19, 2023