Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://destroydisease.org.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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.

Contact forms

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

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 profile. 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.

Your contact information

 

Additional information

What third parties we receive data from

Data we Collect in More Detail

We’ve broken this down into sections to make it easy to understand what data we collect:-

  1. As a visitor
  2. Signing up to our newsletter
  3. Contacting us through our contact form
  4. Becoming a member of Destroy Disease University
  5. Purchasing a product
  6. Signing Up as an Affiliate
  7. As a Visitor

You’re a “visitor” if you browse the DestroyDisease.org website but don’t submit any personal information about yourself.

For example, if you visit this website and take a look through our blog content, our sales pages and knowledge base without signing up for anything, then you’re a visitor.

As a visitor, the website uses several third party services that act in order to provide you with a better experience and allow us to optimize our content.

The following third parties have limited access to some of your data:-

  • Google Analytics (privacy policy)
    • We use Google analytics to gain an overview of how our site is being used, how to improve user experience, what content to create and similar decisions all focused on improving the experience for our visitors.
    • We also integrate Google Analytics with Google Adwords so that we can measure the performance of our paid advertisements.
  • Facebook
    • We use Facebook conversion tracking to understand how our Facebook ads are performing.
  • Affiliate tracking
    • If you visit our site through a link of an affiliate of ours, then we track this information through a cookie so that the affiliate can be compensated for referring the sale.
  • HotJar for heatmaps
    • We may send anonymous data to HotJar to understand how our visitors interact with certain pages in our site so that we can improve them.
  • Social sharing tools
    • Some of the content on the site includes social sharing widgets to quickly allow you to share content with your network.  We currently use Facebook, Twitter and Google Plus.  Some of these services gather data about you, if you are logged in to these social networks while visiting our website. Please see the privacy policies of the social networks for further information.
  1. Signing Up to Our Newsletter

On this site, we display various forms that allow you to sign up to our newsletter.  When you sign up through one of our forms, we’ll commonly ask you for the following data:-

  1. Name
  2. Email address

We’ll also collect the following:-

  • Which form you filled out
  • Referrer URL (the URL that you led you to the page that you signed up through)
  • Your IP address

We store this data on our site for the following reasons:-

  1. Compliance – to keep a record of where our leads came from
  2. Testing – to optimize and improve the newsletter sign up forms that we display
  3. Relevance – we try not to show a form that you’ve already signed up for

The data that you submit is also added to a third party service called InfusionSoft.  InfusionSoft is a tool that many businesses use to send emails to customers and allows us to send you product or service announcements, further training resources and links to our blog content.

These emails are designed to enhance your experience with us, but you can opt out at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email.  This will remove you from our list so that you don’t receive any further emails from us.

This is a tool that we use to send email communications to you.

  1. Contacting us through our Contact Form

If you want to contact us, you can use our contact form here.

When you send us a message through our contact form, a user account will be automatically created on our site.

When you submit a message to us, we keep the following data:-

  • Email address
  • First name
  • Last name
  • Content of any messages that you send to us

This allows our team to reply to the message that you’ve sent us through our support system.

You will never received marketing related messages by contacting us through our contact form unless it specifically relates to the message that you’ve sent us.

Please note that the message you send is private and only available to team members at DestroyDisease.org.

  1. Becoming a Member of Destroy Disease University

We have a whole section of our site dedicated to providing training resources.  Some of the courses are free, and some are only for our premium members (those that have an active Journey Membership).

When you sign up for a Journey University account we keep a record of the following data:-

  • Name
  • Email address
  • The ID of the content that you signed up through (there are multiple entry points to Journey University)
  • Infusionsoft by Keap Tag

The name and email address are necessary to create the account through which the coursers are delivered to you.

When you sign up to Journey University we will send your name, email address and infusionSoft tag data to a third party service called InfusionSoft.  InfusionSoft is a tool that many businesses use to send emails to customers and allows us to send you product or service announcements, further training resources and links to our blog content.

These emails are designed to enhance your experience with us, but you can opt out at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email.  This will remove you from our list so that you don’t receive any further emails from us.

  1. Purchasing a Product from Us

When purchasing a product from us, we collect the following data:-

  • First name
  • Last name
  • IP address
  • Email address
  • Billing address
  • Country of residence
  • Post code
  • Affiliate ID (of the affiliate that referred you)
  • Tax evidence (required for Digital VAT payments)
    • IP address
    • Geo-location of IP address
    • VAT number
    • Billing country
    • If you declared that you’re a resident of a country other than your billing country and your IP address country.  (For instance, you might be purchasing a product from Portugal, but you’re a French citizen.  In this case, you can manually declare that you’re a French citizen on our checkout page).

Please note that this data is captured when you submit an order on our checkout page regardless of whether you complete the purchase of the product through our payment processor, PayPal.

This data is required for the following reasons:-

  1. Compliance – we have a duty to understand what country you are resident of so that we can charge the correct VAT amount.  We must also keep a record of this data for tax audit purposes.
  2. Integration with our payment processor – we collect address personal data such as your name, email and address to integrate with PayPal (the service we use to collect payments)
  3. Product delivery – In order to give you access to the products that you purchase and to our support team, we need to create an account using your name and email address.

When you purchase a product from us, we use a third party service called SoftOwl to help us comply with digital tax regulations.  Integrating with SoftOwl allows us to:-

  1. Get up-to-date VAT rates for all countries around the world
  2. Stay compliant by keeping a log of purchases
  3. Efficiently pay our VAT obligations at the end of each quarter

We send the following data to SoftOwl about your purchase:-

  • Total amount of purchase
  • Tax amount of purchase
  • Invoice number
  • Address
  • Full name
  • Email address
  • Order number
  • Location Evidence

We also send your name, email address and product tag to our email service provider called InfusionSoft.

This allows us to send you emails about product updates (such as new features that have been released), training courses and any other information related to the product that you’ve purchased.

These emails are designed to improve your product experience but you can opt out at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email you receive.

  1. Signing Up as an Affiliate

DestroyDisease.org may operate an affiliate program. Registered affiliates can refer customers and receive a commission.  This affiliate system operates independently of the processes described above.

To clarify: you won’t be signed up for our affiliate program unless you submit a request to do so.  Each application is review manually.  If your application is reviewed, we’ll add the data that you’ve provided to our system.  The signup page for our affiliates is here.

We hold the following data about our affiliates:-

  • First name
  • Email address
  • Company name
  • Family name
  • Date of signup
  • Company tax ID
  • Full Billing address
  • Web site URL
  • Paypal email address
  • Description of how you promote DestroyDisease.com
  • Yes/No as to whether you accept our terms and conditions
  • YouTube channel (if applicable)

We hold this data for the following reasons:-

  1. Payouts – the PayPal email address, company details and personal details are needed to pay our affiliates and produce invoices
  2. Compliance – We need your YouTube channel URL, website details and method of promotion so that we verify that the quality of  referrals meet our criteria for eligibility.

We also manually add your name and email address to InfusionSoft.  This is an online tool that allows us to let you know about any updates to the program.  For example, if we make a change to the commission levels, we’ll let you know about it through email.

As with all emails from us, you can opt out at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any email.

We also store data about the referrals that you make as an affiliate.  We’ll keep a traffic log of all the visitors that arrive through your affiliate link, all sales that you generate, and internal order numbers associated with those sales.   This data is necessary to keep in order to track commissions and ensure that you’re rewarded for sales that you make.

Automated Decision Making From your Data

We have automated processes in place that are designed to improve the relevancy of the communication we send to you and the content on our site.

For example:-

  1. If you’re a DestroyDisease.org member, we will send you a notification that you’re membership is due to expire 10 days before your renewal date.
  2. If you purchase a product from us, we will send you information to help you get up and running with the product that you’ve purchased
  3. If you take a Journey University course, we will send you information to support the course that you’re taking.
  4. If you purchase an individual product but don’t become a member, we will show an advertisement to highlight the benefits of becoming a full member.

These rules are designed to enhance the experience and interactions that you have with DestroyDisease.org

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We have automated processes in place that are designed to improve the relevancy of the communication we send to you and the content on our site.

For example:-

  1. If you’re a DestroyDisease.org member, we will send you a notification that you’re membership is due to expire 10 days before your renewal date.
  2. If you purchase a product from us, we will send you information to help you get up and running with the product that you’ve purchased
  3. If you take a Journey University course, we will send you information to support the course that you’re taking.
  4. If you purchase an individual product but don’t become a member, we will show an advertisement to highlight the benefits of becoming a full member.

These rules are designed to enhance the experience and interactions that you have with DestroyDisease.org

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

Privacy Policy: Summary

  • We don’t sell your data to any company for further processing, marketing, profiling or any other reason
  • We integrate with certain third party services for the purpose of improving the overall user experience and to optimize certain business processes.
  • Any data we hold about you, we do so for necessary and legitimate business reasons
  • You can request to view, modify and delete any data that we hold about you.

Policy Changes

We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time with or without notice. However, please be assured that if the Privacy Policy changes in the future, we will not use the personal information you have submitted to us under this Privacy Policy in a manner that is materially inconsistent with this Privacy Policy, without your prior consent.

We are committed to conducting our business in accordance with these principles in order to ensure that the confidentiality of personal information is protected and maintained.

If you have any concerns or questions about anything in this policy, then let us know and we’ll get back to you shortly.

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