Privacy Policy:
Our website www.gardenofcompassion.org and Garden of Compassion Counseling & Consultation (“we”, “us” or “our”) values its visitors’ privacy. This privacy policy summarizes what information we might collect from a registered user or other visitor (“you”), and what we will and will not do with it. By using our website, you consent to our website privacy policy.

Please note that this privacy policy does not govern the collection and use of information by companies that gardenofcompassion.org does not control, nor by individuals not employed or managed by gardenofcompassion.org. If you visit a website that we mention or link to, we suggest you review its privacy policy before providing the website with information.

Personally Identifiable Information That We May Collect
We may collect personally identifiable information from you when you register on our website, fill out a form, place an order, request a service, respond to a survey, or subscribe to our newsletter. We only collect this information if you choose to provide it to us. The personally identifiable information we collect may include your name, e-mail address, address, phone number, credit card information or any other personally identifiable information you provide us.

How We Use Information We Collect
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in the following ways:

• to personalize your experience (your information helps us to better respond to your individual needs);

• to improve our website or use in marketing efforts (we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you);

• to improve customer service (your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs);

• to fulfill an order, provide a product or service;

• to administer a contest, promotion, survey or other website feature;

• to send periodic emails.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.

Third Party Personally Identifiable Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to third parties your personally identifiable information except as required for us to operate our website, conduct our business, or provide you with goods and services. An example of this would be providing your name and address to the United States Postal Service to mail you a package. Our website may utilize other third party services and providers that collect personally identifiable information from you. These third party services may collect personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across different websites. We may also release your personally identifiable information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our website policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety. However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or any other uses.

Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect and process visitor data and analyze traffic on our website. This information helps us improve our website and refine our marketing. You can learn more about how Google uses data by visiting this link: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/. Depending on your web browser, you may also use the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics. The Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on is available by visiting this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Cookies and Other Tracking and Data Storage Methods
Our website uses cookies and may use other tracking identifiers and data storage methods as well. Our website may utilize third party services, which may also use cookies, other tracking identifiers and data storage methods that span multiple websites. Cookies are small amounts of data that a website or its service provider transfers to your computer through your web browser. Cookies allow websites or service providers to recognize your web browser and store and later retrieve information from the cookie. Other tracking identifiers and data storage methods may also be used to store and later retrieve information from your computer via your web browser or web browser plugins. Other tracking identifiers and data storage methods may also be used to recognize your web browser or web browser plugins. Many web browsers settings allow you to block, disable or clear cookies and possibly other tracking identifiers and data storage methods as well. Please refer to your web browser’s manufacturer for help with your settings.

Do Not Track Signals
Our website is not designed to respond to web browser “do not track” signals or other mechanisms that provide consumers the ability to exercise choice regarding the collection of personally identifiable information about an individual consumer’s online activities over time and across third-party websites or online services. However, third party services that we may utilize on our website may handle these signals and mechanisms differently.

Third Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer links to third party products or services on our website. These third party websites may have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked websites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our website and welcome any feedback about these websites.

Information Collected From Children
Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13 years old. You must be at least 13 years old to use this website and any related services. We do not knowingly collect information from children under the age of 13 years old.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act.

Online Privacy Policy Only
This online privacy policy applies only to information collected through our website and not to information collected offline.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy and Effective Date
This privacy policy was first effective as of March 14, 2019.  If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes and the date of modification on this page.

This policy was last modified on March 23, 2022

Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
Garden of Compassion Counseling & Consultation
P O Box 1241
Corvallis, OR 97339
(541) 714-3640
amy@gardenofcompassion.org