Who We Are
Back Porch Chats and Now Sober respects your privacy. This policy applies to the use of our websites, https://nowsobercoach.com, https://nowsoberacademy.com, https://nowsoberlife.com, and https://backporchchats.com. We are committed to protecting your private information and make every attempt to comply with obligations under privacy laws. Information collected by Now Sober may be used in accordance with this policy.
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.
Collection of Personal Information
Now Sober only collects and stores the personal information that you enter on this Website. This includes (but isn’t limited to) your first and last name, address, phone number, email address, community interactions (Now Sober Academy), and comments to blog posts. When payment information is required, you will do it via a third-party such as Stripe or PayPal, not Now Sober. Other information collected includes, but is not limited to, device identifier, IP address, gender, age, country, and state. This information is collected via third-party services such as Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics for the purpose of gathering website visitor statistics.
Now Sober limits the amount of personal information gathered in order to further protect your privacy.
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.
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.
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.
Who We Share Your Data With
Now Sober will never sell your personal information, however, it is sometimes shared with third parties for the purpose of fulfilling and shipping orders, content management, email service, product and service payment, data analytics, and social networking.
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 profiles. 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.
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.
Where We Send Your Data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.