Last Updated: January 2, 2025
At A Good Community, we are dedicated to protecting your data and privacy.
We recognize that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use A Good Community, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.
A Good Community strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our customers' and online visitors' privacy on our website.
A cookie is a string of information that [website] stores on your computer, which your browser provides to A Good Community each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.
A Good Community uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
A Good Community uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.
If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse A Good Community's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.
A Good Community has not sold any personal information from visitors to the site in the past 12 months. Nor will we ever sell any.
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website; currently we only use ads that are served by Google. These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.
You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.
Some third-party advertisements are served by Google, which provides further information here: https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/9012903. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google advertising settings page.
This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.
You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or to notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.
If you choose to refuse A Good Community's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience all interactive features of the site.
The search box on this web site is powered by DuckDuckGo. In a nutshell, they don’t track you, but see their official privacy policy.
A Good Community may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:
A Good Community may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit our site, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our site.
Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and will require your email address.
This site lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. Below are links to the privacy policies of each one we make it easy for you to use.
Facebook and Messenger-- https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
X (formerly Twitter)--https://x.com/en/privacy
Pinterest-- https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Instagram-- https://www.instagram.com/legal/privacy/
A Good Community offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. We provide links for easy access to My Yahoo! and Feedly. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, review its privacy policy.
Yahoo--https://legal.yahoo.com/us/en/yahoo/privacy/index.html
Feedly--https://feedly.com/i/account/privacy
You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.
If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.
We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.
[Website] contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website.
Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.
We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.
This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must have a parent or guardian provide consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.
In the remote event that we sell A Good Community, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through our website of that change in control and practices, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.
Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 310 de Murano, Suite 204, Sainte-Julie, Quebec J3E 0C6 Canada..
We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to update that information or have it deleted from our records, click on this link.
You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.
A Good Community reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information we collect and how we use it.
If you purchase an ebook from us, we will collect your name and email address. Our third-party providers of the download and payment, E-Junkie and PayPal, will have access to your billing address and credit card number. The privacy policy for E-Junkie is found here, and the privacy policy of PayPal is here. If you use the Contact Us form and we agree to make other arrangement for payment and transmission of the ebook file, of course these companies will not have access to any of your information.
If you decide to use our link to the Amazon Kindle Store to purchase the Kindle edition of an e-book, your data will be subject to Amazon's privacy policy.
If you do not agree to A Good Community's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.
Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.
Last updated: January 2, 2025
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