Privacy Policy

The (‘site or website’) is provided by LoveThrive™ (‘we’/’us’/’our’). In doing so, we may be in a position to receive and process personal information relating to you. As the controller of this information, we’re providing this Privacy Notice (‘Notice’) to explain our approach to personal information. This Notice forms part of the Terms and Conditions/Terms of Use/Guideline, which governs the use of our website.

We intend to process personal information fairly and transparently as required by data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In particular, before obtaining information from you (including through the use of cookies), we intend to alert you to this Notice, let you know how we intend to process the information (including through the use of cookies), and (unless processing is necessary for at least one of the five reasons outlined in clause two below) we’ll only process the information if you consent to that processing. The GDPR also defines certain ‘special categories’ of personal information that are considered more sensitive. These categories require a higher level of protection, as explained below.

Of course, you may intend and/or attempt to browse parts of this website without providing any information about yourself and without accepting cookies. In that case, it’s unlikely we’ll possess and process any information relating to you. We make no implied promises or promises as to the technical usability of our website if you choose not to provide consent or information about yourself.

We’ll start this Notice by setting out the conditions we must satisfy before processing your data. The Notice also explains some of the security measures we may be taking to protect your personal information and tells you certain things we will or won’t do. You should read this Notice in conjunction with the Terms and Conditions.

Sometimes, when you take a new service or product from us or discuss taking a new service or product but decide against it, we might wish to provide you with further information about similar services or products by email or other written electronic communication. In that situation, we shall endeavor to allow you to refuse to receive that further information, and you can change your mind at any point to (opt-out) electronically. We’ll endeavor to remind you of your right to opt out on each occasion that we provide such information.

1. Identity and contact details

1.1 LoveThrive™ – This a d d r e s s is for GDPR , privacy, and r e t ai l purposes only (we do not accept unauthorized m a i l or p a c k a g e s) : 

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1.2 You can use our online contact form to send us a general message if you have any questions. 

1.3 You can use our online contact form to send our Data Protection Officer (DPO) messages. In the body of the message, clarify it is a: Data Protection Request (required). Only messages with the clarification written that it is a “Data Protection Request” will be responded to by the DPO.

2. When allowed to collect information from you

We’ll collect personal information relating to you if one of the following conditions has been satisfied:

2.1 You have told us that it is okay for us to collect that information for a certain purpose or purposes that we will have specified.

2.2 The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract that we have with you.

2.3 The processing is necessary so that we can comply with the law.

2.4 The processing is necessary to protect someone’s life.

2.5 The processing is necessary for the performance of a task that’s in the public interest.

2.6 The processing is necessary for our or another’s legitimate interest – but in this case, we’ll balance those interests against your interests.

3. How to consent

3.1 At the point of collecting the information, we will endeavor our best to explain how we intend to use the information and which of these purposes apply. If we rely on consent, we’ll provide you with the opportunity to tell us that you opted in to provide the information.

3.2 If at any point in time, you change your mind and decide that you don’t consent, please let us know, and we’ll endeavor to stop processing your information in a specified manner; you may choose to delete your data (in account settings and/or membership settings), or as a last resort, you may request us to help you delete your data if there’s no continuing reason for possessing it.

3.3 If you don’t consent to a particular bit of website and/or third-party processing, we’ll endeavor to ensure that the website and our service continue to operate without the need for that information. However, you agree to and fully acknowledge and understand that we do not make any conclusive agreements with you and/or promises that our website and/or third-party processing will work technically as intended.

Sensitive information

Certain information we collect may be considered to be in special categories of personal information. In particular, articles written and/or any content shared and/or content engagement (such as but not limited to comments made by you) in any way or manner may:

• Reveal political opinions
• Reveal religious or philosophical opinions
• Relate to your sex life or sexual orientation

If we do collect such information as specified in clause 5.1, it’s completely voluntary information submitted by you that we collect, and the additional reasons for processing outlined in Article 9 of the GDPR apply.

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5. Information we expect to collect from you

5.1 We envision asking for the following types of information from you:

Information type

Legal ‘real’ name, email, address, and/or other information when completing your profile in the “Create Your Profile” phase that may identify you personally to provide our website services.

Purpose and related details

We ask for this to ensure you are who you say you are in our magazine community and for the legitimacy of users who choose to use our website services. We also ask for this to ensure we cooperate with legal authorities should the request arise for any legal purposes to comply with laws.

Special categories:

• This is in a special category of data stated in clause 3.3. Sensitive data we may collect when you share content or engage in content on our website.

Justification

Lawful basis:

• It is necessary to pursue a legitimate interest by you

Justification for special categories:

• We’ll ensure that one of the additional special category justifications: criminal 

5.2 We may collect personal information about you from several sources;

5.2.1 From you when you agree to take a service or product from us, in which case this may include your contact details, how you will pay for the product or service, and/or your bank details.

5.2.2 From you when you contact us with an inquiry or in response to a communication from us, in which case, this may tell us something about how you use our services.

5.2.3 From you when signing up to use our website services.

5.2.4 From third parties to whom you have provided information with your consent to pass it on to other organizations or persons – when we receive such information, we may or may not let you know as soon as is reasonably practicable.

5.3 If you refuse to provide the information requested, then if that information is necessary for a service we provide to you, we may need to stop providing that service.

5.4 At the time of collecting information, by whichever method is used, we’ll endeavor to alert you and inform you about our purposes and justification basis for processing that information, as well as whether we intend to share the information with anyone else or send it outside of the European Economic Area for processing website services outside of the USA. If at any point we invite you to provide information without explaining why feel free to object and ask for our reasons.

6. Using your personal information

6.1 Data protection, privacy, and security are important to us, and we shall use your personal information for specified purposes and shall not keep such personal information longer than is necessary to fulfill these purposes. The following are examples of such purposes. We have also indicated below which GDPR justification applies. However, it will depend on the circumstances of each case. At the time of collection, we will provide further information, and you may always ask for further information from us.

6.1.1 To help us to identify you when you contact us. This will normally be necessary for the performance of our agreement and/or contract.

6.1.2 To help us identify accounts, services, and/or products that you could have from us or selected partners from time to time. We may do this by automatic means using a scoring system, which uses the personal information you’ve provided and/or any information we hold about you and personal information from third-party agencies (which may or may not include credit reference agencies). We will only use your information for this purpose if you agree to it.

6.1.3 To help us to administer and to contact you about improved administration of any accounts, services, and products we have provided before, do provide now or will or may provide in the future. This will often be necessary, in which case we will ask whether you agree.

6.1.4 To allow us to carry out marketing analysis and customer profiling (including transactional information) and conduct research, including creating statistical and testing information. This will sometimes require that you consent but will sometimes be exempt as market research.

6.1.5 To help to prevent and detect fraud or loss. This will only be done in certain circumstances when we consider it necessary or the law requires it.

6.1.6 To allow us to contact you by written electronic means (such as email, text, or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us or third parties we work with. *We do not rent or sell your information.

6.1.6.1 These products are similar to those you have already purchased from us,

6.1.6.2 You are allowed to opt out of being contacted by us at the time your personal information was originally collected by us and at the time of our subsequent communications with you, and

6.1.6.3 You have not opted out of us contacting you.

6.1.7 To allow us to contact you in any way (including mail, email, telephone, visit, text, or multimedia messages) about products and services offered by us and selected partners where you have expressly consented to us doing so.

6.1.8 To keep you up to date with our member benefit scheme under which, as part of your membership benefits, we will give you membership information and details of discounts and offers we negotiate from time to time on behalf of our members. You may opt out by deleting your profile and stop using our website if you disagree.

6.1.9 If deemed necessary, we may monitor and record communications with you (including phone calls, messages, and emails) for quality assurance and/or security compliance.

6.1.9.1 Before doing that, we will always tell you of our intentions and the specific purpose of making the recording. Sometimes such recordings will be necessary to comply with the law or to improve our services. Alternatively, sometimes the recording will be necessary for our legitimate interest, but in that case, we’ll only record the call if our interest outweighs yours. This will depend on all the circumstances, in particular, the importance of the information and whether we can obtain the information in a less intrusive way.

6.1.9.2 If we think the recording would be useful for us but that it’s not necessary, we’ll ask whether you consent to the recording and will provide an option for you to tell us that you consent. In those situations, if you don’t consent, the call will either automatically end or will not be recorded.

6.1.10 When it’s required by law, we’ll check your details with fraud prevention agencies. If you provide false or inaccurate information and we suspect fraud, we intend to record this.

6.2 We will not disclose your personal information to any third party except under this Notice, particularly in these circumstances:

6.2.1 They will be processing the data on our behalf as a data processor (where we’ll be the data controller). In that situation, we’ll always have a contract with the data processor as set out in the GDPR. This contract provides significant restrictions as to how the data processor operates so that you can be confident your data is protected to the same degree as provided in this Notice.

6.2.2 Sometimes, it might be necessary to share data with another data controller. Before doing that, we’ll always tell you. Note that if we receive information about you from a third party, then as soon as reasonably practicable afterward, we’ll let you know; that’s required by the GDPR.

6.2.3 As users of our website, we may offer certain services that require sending your information to a third party. By using our website, you give us your consent, and permission to retain and utilize third-party services that support our objective of providing efficient services and/or enhancing your experience on our website. We will do our best to require that third-party providers do not rent or sell any information provided to them while conducting business. When you use our website and services, you understand and agree that we are not responsible for any violations caused by third-party entities. It is essential to understand that digital and electronic methods are employed to handle data on the Internet. As a result, we cannot be held liable for any technical systems, security gaps, or security breaches that are operated or exploited by third-party entities, their affiliates, or partners. You agree and understand that you provide personal information at your own risk, acknowledging that the Internet is not completely secure and may have vulnerabilities.

6.3 Where you give us personal information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that you have provided them with the information set out in this Notice and that they have not objected to such use of their personal information. You also agree and duly understand that we are not legally responsible or legally liable for any personal information acquired on behalf of someone else who is under the age of 18. You agree solely to cooperate with us and the full extent of the law if the information is made public and the information was supplied without legal consent via the terms of this Notice. We will cooperate with the law, including retaining documentation on behalf of someone else in accordance to assist them as legally necessary if their rights were violated in any way.

6.4 In connection with any transaction which we enter into with you:

6.4.1 We may carry out one or more credit card compliance checks where you have given us your express consent by purchasing on our website.

6.4.2 We may carry out one or more fraud prevention checks with licensed fraud, debit, and credit card fraud prevention agencies.

6.4.3 We and they may keep a record of the search. Information held about you by these agencies may be linked to records relating to other people living at the same address with whom you are financially linked. These records may also be taken into account in your debit or credit card and fraud prevention checks. Information from your account’s application and payment details will be recorded with one or more of these agencies. It may be shared with other organizations to help make debit and credit card decisions about your household members with whom you are financially linked and for debt collection and fraud prevention. This includes those who have moved house and who have missed payments.

6.4.4 If you provide false or inaccurate information to us and we suspect fraud, we will record this and may share it with other people and organizations for legal reasons. We, and other debit and credit card processors, may also use technology to detect and prevent fraud.

6.4.5 If you need details of those debit, credit card, and fraud prevention agencies from which we obtain and with which we may record information about you, please write to your debit and credit card company directly, as all information we process is typically dictated by them to process the transaction. You may endeavor to contact our Data Protection Officer as detailed in clause 1.3, but we may respond that we may have limited information as to how the debit and credit card companies prevent fraud.

6.4.6 We may need to transmit the payment and delivery information provided by you during the order process to obtain authorization from your bank and/or from PayPal and/or if we use a third-party debit or credit card payment processor.

6.5 We may allow other people and/or third-party organizations to use the personal information we hold about you in the following circumstances:

6.5.1 If we, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired or are in the process of being acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.

6.5.2 If we have been legitimately asked to provide information for legal or regulatory purposes or as part of legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings.

6.5.3 We may employ companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf, and we may disclose your personal information to these parties for the purposes set out above, for example, for fulfilling orders, delivering packages, sending postal mail, and email, removing repetitive information from customer lists, analyzing data, providing marketing assistance, providing search results and links (including paid listings and links), processing credit and debit card payments and providing customer service. Strict contractual provisions will bind those parties with us and will only have access to personal information needed to perform their functions, and they may not use it for any other purpose. Further, they must process the personal information under this Notice and as permitted by the GDPR. From time to time, these other people and organizations to whom we may pass your personal information may be outside the European Economic Area. While we do not yet have an office in the European Economic Area, we will take all reasonable and law-abiding compliance necessary to ensure that your personal information is treated securely and per this Notice and the GDPR.

7. Protecting information

7.1 We have implemented to the best of our professional website team’s knowledge security measures to protect personal information. We endeavor to do ongoing security audits and to correct them (patch up technical issues or bugs) when we find vulnerabilities to the best of our ability. But that doesn’t mean that the website is bug-free or has no modifications or interruptions.

For us to provide our website services, you understand and agree that we may process, transfer, and store information about you in the USA and if/when we launch our website in other countries. If we process information about you in other countries, you understand and agree that you may not have the same rights and protections as you do under USA and local laws.

7.2 We use third-party security and have also created security measures to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to encrypt the information you input.

Disclaimer: Third parties we use may also use secure and/or use their own proprietary or encrypted methodologies to transmit information that we may pass along to them as well. You understand, acknowledge, and agree that we are not liable or responsible for how third parties transmit information directly or indirectly and we are not directly or indirectly responsible for how they secure that information. We do endeavor to work with third parties when feasible to meet professional standards; we may opt from time to time to do security audits to ensure that they keep information transmitted to/from them secure. However, we make no expressed guarantees. We firmly believe that no organization, including us, can 100% guarantee or 100% promise that electronic information at any time cannot be electronically or technically compromised. Based on this — You agree that you and you solely assume this risk when you are using our website or website services or when accessing our website from the Internet. While we try our best, we also cannot agree to 100% assume all the data protection risk(s), and we do not promise to assume all the data protection risk(s) because there is no way to 100% guarantee this when/if the Internet itself has so many technical parameters; from the browser used to the electronic third parties used has too many variables to make 100% guarantees. You may choose (opt-in) to use our website or not based on this disclaimer. It is assumed that if you continue to use our website, you (not us) will assume this risk as stated in the disclaimer.

7.3 Depending on the type of debit and credit card processors used, we may only reveal the last four or five digits of your credit card numbers when confirming an order. Of course, it may be necessary and required by processors to transmit the entire debit and credit card number to the appropriate debit and credit card company during order processing.

7.4 We endeavor to maintain electronic and procedural safeguards in connection with the collection, storage, and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. Our security procedures mean that we may occasionally request proof of identity before we disclose personal information to you. We do not disclose our safeguard procedures or third parties we use because it may open up more vulnerabilities and security issues that are not controlled by us or by malicious actors attempting to use that information for fraudulent means.

7.5 In using our website, you understand that we are not responsible or liable for any security breaches on your electronic system, technology device, or any digital technological system when transmitting from your device to us. We are not responsible or liable for any third party’s use of their devices, such as but not limited to computer, mobile phone, tablet, or laptop, when/if you transmit your information from their electronic system to us or from them to you. You agree and acknowledge that you are solely responsible for protecting against unauthorized access to your sensitive information such as, but not limited to, password(s) on your computer, mobile phone, tablet, laptop, and/or any electronic devices accessed and/or used by you and/or shared with you; even if that information transmitted electronically is known or unknown by you at the time the information is/was transmitted. We strongly suggest signing off when you finish using any shared electronic devices, regardless if you know whose electronic system or device you are using or not.

Modifications and Interruptions: We reserve the right to change, modify, or remove the content of our website and services at any time for any reason at our sole discretion without notice. However, we have no obligation to update any information on our website or services. We also reserve the right to modify or discontinue all or part of the services without notice at any time. We will not be liable to you or any third party for any modification, price change, suspension, or discontinuance of the Services.

We cannot guarantee the website and services will be available at all times. We may experience hardware, software, or other system problems or need to perform maintenance related to the website or services provided, resulting in interruptions, delays, or errors. We reserve the right to change, update, suspend, discontinue, or otherwise modify the website and services at any time or for any reason without notice to you. You agree that we have no liability whatsoever for any loss, damage, or inconvenience caused by your inability to access or use the website or services during any downtime or discontinuance of the website and services. Nothing in these Legal Terms of Use will be construed to obligate us to maintain and support the website or services or to supply any corrections, updates, or releases in connection herewith, even if you are a free or paid premium user.

7.6 You agree to and understand by using our website services, that the lawful basis of collecting this information is based on the legally binding assumption that you have voluntarily read and familiarized yourself with our Terms and Conditions/Terms of Use and/or our other Guidelines in its entirety when you signed up or logged in to our website. You explicitly consented when you signed up or logged in to use our website. You also acknowledge and agree that if you signed up or logged in on behalf of another (third party), they read this Notice, and they fully agree to the statements presented in these Terms. We will try our best to cooperate with the prosecution to the full extent of the law for any and all fraudulent use of our website by malicious actors. Disclaimer: You and [they] understand and agree we are not a party to any actions or discussions leading up to you or them providing personal information, knowingly or unknowingly, personal information that is collected to use on our website. And therefore, we are not liable in any way if someone else’s information is used on our website. Even if the information was obtained and used for fraudulent purposes. We can work with the party (victim) to remove fraudulent or malicious information ASAP and also work to support the law as applicable. There may be a fee for our time if we are requested to do this. 

8. The Internet

8.1 If you communicate with us using the Internet, we may occasionally email you about our services and products. When you first give us personal information through the website, we will normally allow you to opt-in to our email lists. Some emails are required as part of notifications when using our website, and you cannot opt out of those. You can use our contact form to send us a message if you have any questions.

8.2 Please remember that communications over the internet, such as emails and webmail (messages sent through a website), are not secure unless encrypted. Even with the best of encryptions, personal information may be compromised. It’s the nature of the Internet. Although we are based in the USA, your communications may go through several countries before they are delivered — this is the nature of the Internet. Disclaimer: While we endeavor to do the best we can professionally, the Internet can be complicated in how it handles communications. Therefore, we cannot accept 100% responsibility for any authorized or unauthorized access or loss of personal information or your data. You agree that we are excluded from any liability for informational losses, piracy, or fraud that you may incur when interacting with any third-party integrations, including but not limited to APIs, third-party plugins, custom-built code, software, digital, electronic devices, advertising, marketing Internet-based engagements or communications on our website or when using these third-party websites, even if you’ve consented to its use on our website in accordance with this privacy notice.

9. Cookies and other internet tracking technology

9.1 When we provide services, we want to make them easy, useful, and reliable. This sometimes involves placing small amounts of information on your computer, which is sent back to us at a later time. These are called ‘cookies’. These cookies are listed in the table in clause 9.5. Some websites don’t use cookies but use related technology for gaining information about website users, such as JavaScript, web beacons (also known as action tags or single-pixel gifs), and other technologies to measure the effectiveness of their ads and personalize advertising content. Multiple cookies may be found in a single file, depending on which browser you use.

9.2 Where applicable, this section of the Notice also relates to that technology, but the term ‘cookie’ is used throughout.

9.3 Some of these cookies are essential to the services you’ve requested from us, whereas others are used to improve services for you, for example (but not limited to) the following;

9.3.1 Letting you navigate between pages efficiently

9.3.2 Enabling a service to recognize your computer or electronic device so you don’t have to give the same information during one task

9.3.3 Recognizing that you may have already given a username and password, so you don’t need to re-enter it for every web page requested

9.3.4 Measuring how many people are using services, so they can be made easier to use and that there is enough capacity to ensure they are fast

9.4 To learn more about cookies, you may wish to visit: www.allaboutcookies.org, www.youronlinechoices.eu or www.google.com/policies/technologies/cookies/

9.5 This website uses or allows the use of the following cookies:

Category 2 – performance First party: when we place a Persistent cookie. The information may also be sent to third parties for processing. This information may be transferred outside of the USA for processing of third-party data;

• There are guidelines in place to safeguard the data
• It’s subject to a standard contractual clause that’s been approved by the European Commission
• Processing of the data is controlled by an approved code of conduct or certification system to ensure that the data is processed fairly
• After we explained the possible risks due to the lack of safeguards, you explicitly consented to this transfer
• The transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at your request
• The transfer is necessary for the performance of a contract made in your interests
• The transfer is necessary to protect the vital interests of a person who’s incapable of giving consent or of defending legal claims or is in the public interest

Consent needed

Yes;

9.6 The distinctions referred to in the above table are as follows:

9.6.1 First-party versus third-party cookies – we set first-party cookies ourselves; third-party cookies are set by other entities via our website.

9.6.2 Session versus persistent cookies – session cookies only persist for the duration of that visit; persistent cookies last for longer

9.6.3 Identifying information removed – just because we’ve done this, they will still be personal information if the relevant information can be reassembled

9.6.4 Categories 1-4 are found in the ICO UK Cookie guide, as explained below. Category 1 cookies don’t require the user’s consent, though you must still tell them about the cookies. Categories 2-4 do require specific and informed consent.

Category 1  –  Strictly necessary

These cookies are essential to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the website. Without these cookies, services you have asked for, like shopping baskets or e-billing, cannot be provided. We include in this category cookies that are used only for electronic communication. (The ICO doesn’t refer to these cookies, but the law is the same.)

Note that cookies for which another person is the controller will never be necessary for a service requested of you. On the other hand, if you’ve asked another person to send a cookie on your behalf for an essential feature of your website, that would be category 1.

Category 2  –  Performance

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often and get error messages from web pages. This information is used to improve how a website works.

Category 3  – Functionality

These cookies allow the website to remember choices you make (such as your user name, language, or the region you are in) and provide enhanced, more personal features. For instance, a website may provide you with local weather reports or traffic news by storing in a cookie the region in which you are currently located. These cookies can also be used to remember changes you have made to text size, fonts, and other parts of web pages that you can customize. They may also be used to provide services you have asked for, such as electronic support.

Category 4  –  Targeting and advertising

These cookies are used to deliver adverts more relevant to you and your interests. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement and help measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaign. They are usually placed by advertising networks with the website operator’s permission. They remember that you have visited a website, and this information is shared with other organizations, such as advertisers. Quite often, targeting or advertising cookies will be linked to site functionality provided by the other organization.

9.7 As with any other information we may collect from you, we’ll work to protect the security of your information during transmission by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software to encrypt the information you input.

9.8 The Website may include third-party advertising and links to third-party websites. We endeavor to limit providing any personally identifiable customer personal information to these third-party advertisers or third-party websites except where you’ve consented under this privacy notice; however, as to cookies, please see the above clause Cookies and other internet tracking technology. Please note that as a user of our website, you are solely responsible for any potential risks that may arise when using our services, whether known or unknown to you or us at the time of opting in.

10. Further information

10.1 If you would like to leave any general comments about this Notice, please use the online contact form to reach us as detailed in clause 1.3. While we can only agree to respond to data removal from our website, we cannot respond to every comment unless there’s some level of known risk communicated by you to us at the time of correspondence. For Data issues/requests, please include your legal name in the subject e m a i l line put: Data Protection Request, and the information you’d like us to look into the body of your message when reaching out to us.

10.2 Please note that we may have to amend this Notice on occasion, for example, if we change the cookies that we use. If we do that, we will publish the amended version on the website. It will be your responsibility to check back regularly to determine whether this Notice has changed.

10.3 This Notice applies to the personal information we hold about individuals. It does not apply to information we hold about companies and other organizations.

10.4 Personal information that we hold about you is contained in secure databases managed by a third-party hosting. We are not responsible for hosting, site data breaches, or leaks. If you wish to see the database information that we hold about you,  you can do this by requesting via our online contact form to send us a message if you have any questions. The first request may be free; please be advised it may also take us up to 7-10 business days to complete. Please keep in mind your request may be in a queue with others, or we may have staff on vacation. For subsequent requests, or if the request is an unfounded, repetitive, or excessive request, we may request a $20 USD minimum to $60 USD maximum service fee, or we may simply refuse to comply with your request. You may also ask us to send the personal information we hold about you to another controller. Fees may be applicable for any urgent requests (within 3 business days or less).

10.5 You technically control the information you submit to us. This is primarily a User-Generated Platform (UGC). You have control over the information you input into our website. We do request that it be either your legal or verifiable information. We aim to keep the personal information we hold about you accurate and up to date. If you tell us that we’re holding any inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you, you can correct this information yourself. If we complete or amend the information for you, we may charge a small fee. You can use our online contact form to send us a general message if you require us to update any of your personal information.

10.6 Our website provides the full option to delete the personal information that we hold about you if we relied on your consent in holding that information or if it’s no longer necessary. Check your account’s “Profile” section. If you would like to restrict or object to our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, you can do this by using our online contact form to send us a general message if you have any questions. We can alternatively exercise the option to remove you from our system and not comply and/or if it interferes at all with our website.

10.7 We will try our best to keep you informed if there is a known breach, or a likely breach, of your data protection rights. It is your responsibility to keep your contact information current if it’s in our system so we may do our due diligence. You are responsible for checking your SPAM filter regularly in case our attempt to contact you ends up in your SPAM folder.

‘Just-in-time’ Notices

Privacy notice about necessary information

We have asked for personal information from you. This information is necessary for one of the reasons specified in the General Data Protection Regulation.

For more information, please read our full privacy notice at https://lovethrive.org/terms-and-conditions/.

Cookie Notice

This website makes use of cookies. Some cookies (like marketing and advertising cookies) we use are not strictly required for a service you’ve requested from us, though we intended for them to have the potential to enhance your experience:

You have the opportunity to set your web browser to a) accept all or some cookies, b) notify you when a cookie is issued, or c) receive no cookies at any time. Option c) means that this website can’t provide personalized services, and you may not be able to take full advantage of all of its features. Refer to your web browser’s Help/Support section for specific guidance on how it allows you to manage cookies and how you may delete cookies you wish to remove from your computer.

For more information about the cookies we use and our approach to the processing of personal information, please read through our privacy notice at: https://lovethrive.org/terms-and-conditions/.

Cookie Policy

This is the Cookie Policy for LoveThrive™, accessible from https://lovethrive.org/terms-and-conditions/.

What are Cookies

As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it, and why we sometimes need to store these cookies.

For more general information on cookies, see the Wikipedia article on HTTP Cookies.

How We Use Cookies

We use cookies for a variety of reasons, detailed below. In most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are unsure whether you need them for a service you use.

Disabling Cookies

You can prevent cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in disabling certain functionality and features of this site. Therefore, it is recommended that you do not disable cookies. When you choose to disable functional cookies while using our website, we may choose to opt to cancel your membership. Functional cookies are needed to give you the experience our website intended.

The Cookies We Set

Account related cookies

If you create an account with us, then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out; however, in some cases, they may remain afterward to remember your site preferences when logged out.

Login related cookies

We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. These cookies are typically removed or cleared when you log out to ensure that you can only access restricted features and areas when logged in.

Email newsletter-related cookies:

This site offers newsletter or email subscription services, and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications that might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

Survey related cookies

From time to time, we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights and helpful tools or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.

Forms related cookies

When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

Site preferences cookies

To provide you with a great experience on this site, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. To remember your preferences, we need to set cookies so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page that is affected by your preferences.

Third-Party Cookies

In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third-party cookies you might encounter through this site.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web, to help us understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.

For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics page.

Third-party analytics are used to track and measure the usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

From time to time, we test new features and make subtle changes to the way that the site is delivered. When we are still testing new features, these cookies may be used to ensure that you receive a consistent experience while on the site while ensuring we understand which optimizations our users appreciate the most.

As we sell products, we need to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site make a purchase, and as such, this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This is important to you as it means that we may better accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price.

The Google AdSense service we use to serve advertising uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.

For more information on Google AdSense, see the official Google AdSense privacy FAQ.

We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways.

More Information

However, if you are still looking for more social media information with the sites we are on, then you can contact the social media sites through one of their preferred contact methods. Go here to this page for all updates: Terms and Conditions, Terms of Use, Cookie Policy, Privacy Policy

California Residents:

The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) grants privacy rights to individuals (as opposed to a corporation or other business entity), residing in California, regardless of their citizenship or residency status.

We want to assure you that we do not rent or sell your personal information to any third party. In fact, we only obtain information that you voluntarily provide to us through user-generated content on our website or website services. We do not scrape or collect your information from the Internet. If you require assistance, here’s the link to the CCPA’s FAQ, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the types of requests that can be made before contacting us.

If you have a CCPA request, we are available in USA Pacific time, except on weekends or US Holidays. You can use our online contact form to send us a CCPA request or if you have any questions. To fulfill the requirements of CCPA, we may ask for legally identifying information in order to ensure that we are processing the request of the right user and not mistaking you for someone else with a similar name. This is done to verify your identity and make sure that we are complying with the law. 

Please clarify in your message that it’s a CCPA request.

DISCLAIMER

LoveThrive™ endeavors to ensure that the information published on this website is accurate at the time of posting; it does not warrant this is the case and will not accept responsibility for any errors, omissions, inaccurate descriptions, or subsequent amendments that may be necessary.

LoveThrive™ reserves the right to remove, alter, amend content, or take down the website at any time without prior notice. This website may occasionally, from time to time, be linked to other third-party websites; however, LoveThrive™ does not necessarily endorse these third-party websites and/or their content or accept any liability for any loss or damage suffered, howsoever arising, in respect of the content or operation of any such linked external third party websites.

In the event you wish to comment or complain about material on this site, please contact LoveThrive™ on our general form.

This website may occasionally be linked to other third parties, such as but not limited to others’ content and/or websites, to provide relevant or further information. However, LoveThrive™ does not endorse such third-party content and/or websites and/or the content found therein, nor will we accept any responsibility for any loss or damage suffered as a result of using any information published on any of the pages within the linked third-party websites. While every effort is made to ensure downloadable content is devoid of viruses, LoveThrive™ cannot accept liability for damages resulting from a virus or malware infection. You understand and agree to this when using our website.

Service is “As Is” – Disclaimer

Some locations don’t allow the disclaimers in this paragraph, so they might not apply to you. LoveThrive™ endeavors to give you a super, awesome website and services, which also means that there are some things we simply can’t 100% guarantee. You acknowledge and agree that your use of our website and website services (including services such as but not limited to; provided by third parties, partners, sponsors, and advertisers, etc.) is at your sole risk. You understand that our website and website services and any content posted or shared by users (personally and/or commercially) on the website for services are provided “as is” and “as available” without warranties of any kind, either expressly stated or implied, including implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, title, services or product(s) purchased and non-infringement. In addition, LoveThrive™ doesn’t represent or warrant that our website is accurate, complete, reliable, current, or error-free.

LoveThrive™ does not make any warranties or representations beyond what is expressly stated in this paragraph. Please note that any content, advice, or information obtained from LoveThrive™ or through our website and services is subject to certain limitations. Additionally, we may provide Third Party Content, which refers to products, services, activities, or events offered by third parties through our website or services. Please be aware that we are not directly or indirectly responsible for this content and it is provided “as is” with no warranties or representations.

We do not control or endorse, and we make no representations or warranties regarding, any Third Party Content. You understand that you access and use third-party content at your own risk. Depending on the legal situation, and where applicable, we may find that it’s necessary to comply with the law to support the prosecution of fraudulent and malicious actors who break the law if it’s found that some users are intentionally attempting to violate the Terms and Conditions of our website. At our sole discretion, they may be blocked, permanently banned, and reported to local legal officials without notice.

Indemnification

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, you will indemnify, defend and hold harmless LoveThrive™, employees, contractors, officers, directors, agents, partners, sponsors, advertisers (individually and collectively, the “LoveThrive™ Parties”) from and against any losses, liabilities, claims, demands, damages, expenses or costs (“Claims”) arising out of or related to your violation, misappropriation or infringement of any rights of another (including intellectual property rights or privacy rights) or your violation of the law. You agree to promptly notify LoveThrive™ Parties of any third-party Claims, cooperate with LoveThrive™ Parties in defending such Claims, and pay all fees, costs, and expenses associated with defending such Claims (including attorneys’ fees, document filing, and legal court fees). Furthermore, you agree that the LoveThrive™ Parties shall have full control of the defense or settlement, at LoveThrive™’s sole option, of any third-party Claims, no matter the statutory limits outlined by local and/or USA law.

License

Unless otherwise stated, LoveThrive™ and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights for all material on LoveThrive.org. All intellectual property rights,  trademarks, and copyrights are reserved. You may access this from LoveThrive.org for your own personal or business use, subject to restrictions set in our Terms and Conditions; rules, policies, and guidelines.

Limitation of Liability

LoveThrive™ currently operates and serves the USA and USA territories, as noted in previous sections. We don’t exclude or limit our liability to you where it would be illegal to do so; this includes any liability for the gross negligence, fraud, or intentional misconduct of LoveThrive™ or third parties working with LoveThrive™ to provide our website services. If you attempt to access our website via VPN or through other countries outside of the USA where the following types of exclusions aren’t allowed, we’re not responsible to you for losses and damages that are maybe construed as a reasonably foreseeable result of failure to use reasonable care and skill or the breach of our contract with you. This paragraph doesn’t affect USA-based consumer rights that can’t be waived or limited by any contract or agreement.

If users in countries outside of the USA attempt to access our website where exclusions or limitations of liability are allowed, LoveThrive™ and LoveThrive™ Parties won’t be liable for:

(a) Any indirect, consequential, exemplary, incidental, punitive, or special damages, or any loss of use, data, or profits, under any legal theory, even if LoveThrive™ or the other LoveThrive™ Parties have been advised of the possibility of such damages.

(b) Other than for the types of liability we can’t limit by law (as described in this section), we limit the total liability of LoveThrive™ and the other LoveThrive™ Parties for any claim arising out of or relating to these Terms and Conditions, regardless of the form of the action, to the maximum limit of (zero dollars and zero cents) $0.00 USD for use of our website’s Free services or the reimbursement amount paid by you including taxes if you purchased any of our paid website services.

We cannot be held responsible for any loss or damage incurred while using our website or services, whether they are offered for free or as part of our premium paid options.

Copyright

Unauthorized republishing of content is strictly prohibited without written consent from the copyright owner. Unless ownership is otherwise attributed or stated, LoveThrive™ owns the material and intellectual property on its website, including trademarks and copyrighted material. Our content is solely intended for the purposes of LoveThrive™’s website and website services, whether for personal or commercial use. If you wish to use our content, you can contact us via our online contact form to request written permission. As LoveThrive™ is the licensee, we reserve the right to restrict the use of our content and sell licenses depending on the use case.

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Content or Commenting on the Website: Please read these guidelines and rules carefully

The rules outline what LoveThrive™ considers acceptable and unacceptable content and inform our approach to moderating our online presence. We may update the rules from time to time, so please read them before posting content or any comments.

By posting on our site, you agree to abide by these rules. LoveThrive™ embraces open and collaborative social media, user-generated content, and content as an online magazine community, platform, and networking environment. Your content and comments are welcome on our site as long as they comply with our Terms of Use, and we look forward to exchanging knowledge and ideas with you.

Rule 1:
We welcome respectful and healthy debate. We do not wish to prevent people from discussing topics about which they are passionate, but we do ask users to find ways of sharing their views that do not appear hostile or contentious. You can express a strong opinion, but do not forget that you are legally responsible for what you submit and consider how others could receive your comment.

Rule 2:
We acknowledge a critical comment. We welcome your opinion on articles that are published but will not allow persistent misrepresentation of LoveThrive™ to be published by LoveThrive™ on its social media platforms. We will distinguish between constructive arguments and smear tactics.

Rule 3:

You must not encourage or share comments that may be harmful.

Rule 4:

You must not use our sites for the following:

• Inserting links to websites or submitting content that would be an infringement of copyright;
• Promotion of any products or services or for any other paid commercial purpose that’s not currently authorized use on our site;
• Use our site for unauthorized sponsorship, advertising, petition, campaign, scheme, research, or investigation that violates our Terms and Conditions
• Republish any content and/or material from LoveThrive.org
• Sell, rent, or sub-license material from LoveThrive.org
• Reproduce, duplicate, or copy material from LoveThrive.org
• Reverse engineer any parts of our site electronically, technically, or by any other means with the intent of distributing and/or using any intellectual ideas or concepts to repurpose or reuse somewhere else on or offline or to “sell” or “resell” or “market” a concept or idea or variation thereof
• Redistribute content from or to LoveThrive.org *without written consent by the original author or in writing as granted by us as the licensee
• You may not cache, store, or export any map content from our website;
• You may not attempt to redistribute any map content from our website, including from a cache, by proxying or by using a screenshot or other static image or video or electronic device, instead of directly accessing via our APIs and other sources of licensed data dissemination;
• You may not resell or re-syndicate our website or services to any third party (e.g., act as a reseller or service bureau) except with express written permission from LoveThrive.org to do so
• Transmit viruses, malware, keylogging, trojan horses, or any other malicious code or program; or
• Engage in any other activity reasonably deemed by us to conflict with the spirit or intent of these Terms and Conditions.
• Use the website services to develop, test, validate, and/or improve any service or dataset that is a substitute for, or substantially similar to, our website, our services, or our intellectual property (including any portion thereof).

LoveThrive™ will only support commercial requests where the offer made is of genuine interest to LoveThrive™. LoveThrive.org’s website is primarily based on a SaaS, AI-run (artificial intelligence), self-service model for the majority of users who want to post content. However, we reserve the right, even in the self-service model, to remove posts or content from either individuals and/or organizations offering products and/or services we deem to be inappropriate or violate the intended use of our website in any way, even if it’s been paid for. If the content had been paid for before we removed it or took it down at the time that we exercised our right to remove it, the individual or the organization represented may or may not be offered a credit only for similar or equal value services (deemed solely by us at our discretion), as long as our Terms and Conditions of use are met. No refunds will be given in this case for violating or not adhering to our Terms and Conditions.

Rule 5:
Keep content and comments relevant. If the content or comment is about something unrelated to the original topic, repetitive, or offers little to no value to the overall context, it may be removed by Admins and Moderators. Multiple inflammatory attempts to argue, incite arguments, contentious debate, name-calling, disrespectful behavior towards one another, etc., can result in the immediate removal of our site and your content without warning.

Reminder: The intended purpose of our website is we’re here to help one another and foster care for people, the planet, and prosperity for all. We are here to foster dialogue with one another. If/when such conduct is deemed to violate our Terms and Conditions of Service and/or Terms of Use, your content may be removed even if you paid for the content. We may opt to (at our sole discretion) give you a credit for similar or equal services. You will not receive a refund for such infringements or violations. Our website does not offer refunds for any infringements or violations, regardless of whether they are actual or presumed.

Rule 6:
Respect others’ privacy. You may only submit confidential or private information voluntarily if it’s your own. For example, you cannot, must not upload telephone numbers, email addresses, or other personal or identifiable contact details of any person, brand, or company other than yourself or who you legally represent. We have the right from time to time to do audits and request that information is verified legally, or your account may be suspended, removed, or banned without warning or notice. Currently, we do not have an appeal or review policy. All decisions by Admins are final.

Rule 7:
Comments or content that violate these rules and our guidelines may be removed. Our administrative team’s decisions are currently final. We do not have an appeal or review policy at this time, but we may consider implementing one later.

Rule 8:
We reserve the right to block, remove, delete, and/or suspend at our sole discretion. Some of the reasons we may do so:

• Persistent violation of these rules
• Abusive content or comments
• Fraud will not be tolerated
• Sexually explicit and overtly sexualized suggested content
• Fake or fraudulent unverifiable “fact-checked” or contains lack of “science-based” from reputable and reliable information sources with the intent to make money, deceive (knowingly or unknowingly),  unrealistic, or  claims.
• It is strictly prohibited to use any proxies, spoof accounts, celebrity imposters, or fan accounts within our magazine community. If you intend to engage in any such activities, we kindly advise you to visit social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, TikTok, etc.
• Self-driven, narcissistic rants, selfies, or attempts to get attention with repetitive (more than 2) postings of the same content on our website, on different groups, forums, etc.
• Abusive conduct: hate-speech, violence, racial, homophobic, transphobic, religious, defamation of any kind.