Effective Date: October 6, 2024
1. Introduction
Welcome to Mental Beacon (“we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your personal information and your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://mentalbeacon.com (the “Site”). If you have any questions or concerns about our policy or practices regarding your personal information, please contact us at Support@MentalBeacon.com.
2. Information We Collect
2.1 Personal Data
While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). This includes:
- Name
- Email Address
- Phone Number (if applicable)
- Any other personal information you choose to provide
2.2 Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the Site is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site you visit, the time and date of your visit, and other diagnostic data.
2.3 Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Site and hold certain information.
- Cookies: Small data files stored on your device.
- Web Beacons: Electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data for various purposes:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Service: Including monitoring the usage of our Site.
- To Manage Your Account: To manage your registration as a user of the Site.
- To Contact You: To respond to inquiries, support requests, or other communications.
- To Send Promotional Communications: With your consent, we may send newsletters, marketing materials, or other information.
- To Improve Our Site: Including testing, research, and analytical purposes.
- To Protect Our Site: For fraud monitoring and prevention.
4. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information
We process your Personal Data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: You have given us permission to process your personal information for one or more specific purposes.
- Contract Performance: Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
- Legal Obligations: Processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
- Legitimate Interests: Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
5. Sharing Your Information
We may share your information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: To monitor and analyze the use of our Site.
- For Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
- Legal Requirements: To comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend our rights or property, prevent wrongdoing, or protect the personal safety of users.
6. Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, some parts of our Site may become inaccessible or not function properly.
For more information on how we use cookies and how you can manage your preferences, please visit our Cookie Policy.
7. Your Privacy Rights
7.1 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following data protection rights:
- Access: Request access to your personal data.
- Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Erasure: Request deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction: Request restriction of processing your personal data.
- Portability: Request transfer of your personal data.
- Objection: Object to processing of your personal data.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at Support@MentalBeacon.com.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
- Comments: If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely.
- Registered Users: For users that register on our Site, we store the personal information provided in their user profile.
9. Security of Your Information
We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
10. International Data Transfers
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to—and maintained on—computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction.
11. Children’s Privacy
Our Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you become aware that a child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.
12. Third-Party Links
Our Site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
13. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on our Site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with the embedded content.
14. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
- Effective Date: The date this Privacy Policy becomes effective.
- Revisions: Any updates will be indicated by an updated “Effective Date.”
15. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
- Email: Support@MentalBeacon.com
