Privacy Policy

Scrupulosity.com Privacy Policy

Effective date: 14 July 2021

We respect your right to privacy and make sure that your personal data is collected and used in compliance with the highest data protection standards.

Please read this privacy policy carefully because it explains in detail how we collect, use and disclose your personal data, and what choices you have with respect to your personal data.

  1. General information
  2. Types and purposes of personal data
  3. Non-personal data
  4. Commercial communication
  5. How long do we keep your data?
  6. How do we share and disclose data?
  7. International transfers of personal data
  8. Protection of personal data
  9. Your rights regarding personal data
  10. Term, termination and amendments
  11. Contact us

1. General information

In this section, you can find general information about Scrupulosity.com, its owner, and this privacy policy.

 

1.1 About the Privacy Policy

This Scrupulosity.com Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) governs the processing of personal data collected from individual users (“you” and “your”) through the website https://scrupulosity.com, the related domain names like https://academy.scrupulosity.com, and the related spiritual coaching services (collectively, “Scrupulosity.com”). This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third-party websites, applications or software that integrate with Scrupulosity.com or any other third-party products and services.

1.2 Data controller

Scrupulosity.com is owned and operated by Jaimie Eckert having a business address at 3927 Blackburn Lane, Burtonsville, MD, 20866, the United States of America (“we”, “us”, or “our”) who is also responsible for the processing of your personal data. We act as a data controller with regard to your personal data collected through Scrupulosity.com.

1.3 What is Scrupulosity.com?

Scrupulosity.com is a spiritual coaching service that provides information about powerful biblical secrets for escaping the obsessive-compulsive cycle, allows ordering scrupulosity recovering courses (the “Courses”) and booking coaching sessions (the “Coaching Sessions”).

1.4 Your consent to the Privacy Policy

Before you submit any personal data through Scrupulosity.com, you are encouraged to read this Privacy Policy that is always available on Scrupulosity.com. In some cases, we may seek to obtain your consent for the processing of your personal data. For example, we may seek your prior consent if: we intend to collect other types of personal data that are not mentioned in this Privacy Policy; we would like to use your personal data for other purposes that are not specified in this Privacy Policy; or we would like to transfer your personal data to third parties that are not listed in this Privacy Policy.

1.5 Minors

Scrupulosity.com should not be accessed and used by persons under the age of 18. Therefore, we do not knowingly collect personal data of persons under the age of 18.

1.6 Cookies

We use cookies on Scrupulosity.com. For detailed information about our cookies, please refer to our cookie policy available at https://scrupulosity.com/cookie-policy/.

2. Types and purposes of personal data

We collect only a minimal amount of personal data that is necessary for ensuring your proper use of Scrupulosity.com. We use your personal data for specified and limited purposes. In this section, we explain what personal data we collect from you, for what purposes we use that data, and on what legal bases we rely when processing your personal data.

 

2.1 Types of personal data

We comply with data minimisation principles. Thus, we collect only a minimal amount of personal data that is necessary for your use of Scrupulosity.com. The list of the types of personal data that we collect from you is provided in section 2.3 below.

2.2 Purposes of personal data

We process your personal data only for specified and legitimate purposes explicitly mentioned in this Privacy Policy. In short, we will use personal data only for the purposes of enabling you to use Scrupulosity.com, booking your Coaching Sessions or enrolling you to the Courses, providing the requested services, maintaining and improving Scrupulosity.com, conducting research about our business activities, and replying to your enquiries. We will not use your personal data for any purposes that are different from the purposes for which your personal data was provided.

2.3 Overview of types and purposes of your personal data

The list below provides a detailed description of the types of personal data that we collect, the purposes for which we use it, and the legal bases on which we rely when processing your personal data.

  • When you subscribe to our newsletter, we collect your email address. We use your email address to provide you with access to our free video training and deliver you our newsletter. The legal basis that we rely upon is ‘your consent’.
  • When you leave a reply under our blog posts, we collect your name, email address, website, and any information that you decide to provide us in your comment. We use such personal data to feature your comment, prevent abuse and scam, analyse our business and contact you (if necessary). The legal bases on which we rely are ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to analyse and improve our business and prevent abuse) and ‘your consent’.
  • When you complete a quiz, we collect your email address. We use your email address to send you your quiz results, provide you with access to our free video training, and deliver you our newsletter. Please note that we may match your email address with your quiz results in order to deliver you relevant advertising (see section 4.5 for more information). The legal bases that we rely upon are ‘your consent’ and ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to promote our business).
  • When you order the Coaching Session, we collect your name, email address, phone number, and payment information (name on your card, card number, and expiration date). We use such data to schedule your appointment, process your payment, send you a reminder, provide you with the requested services, contact you (if necessary), and keep our business records. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘performing a contract with you’, ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to administer our business) and ‘your consent’ (for optional personal data).
  • When you subscribe to our Scrupulosity Academy, we collect your email address and payment information (card number). We use such data to process your payment, provide you with the requested services, contact you (if necessary), and keep our business records. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘performing a contract with you’ and ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to administer our business).
  • When you apply for a recovery program, we collect your name, email address, phone number, age, and other scrupulosity-related information that you decide to provide. We use such data to enrol you to the program, contact you (if necessary), and keep our business records. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘performing a contract with you’, ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to administer our business) and ‘your consent’ (for optional personal data).
  • When you contact us by email, we collect your name, email address, and any information that you decide to provide in your message. We use such data to respond to your enquiries and provide you with the requested information. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to grow and promote our business) and ‘your consent’ (for optional personal data).
  • When you browse Scrupulosity.com, we collect your cookie-related data. For more information about the purposes for which we use cookies, please refer to our cookie policy available at https://scrupulosity.com/cookie-policy/. The legal bases on which we rely is ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to analyse and promote our business) and ‘your consent’.
  • When you contact us through Facebook chat available on Scrupulosity.com, we may see your Facebook account data like your name and profile photo. When chatting with us, you may also provide us with other information about yourself that you deem to be necessary. We use such data to respond to your enquiries and provide you with the requested information. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘pursuing our legitimate business interests’ (i.e., to grow and promote our business) and ‘your consent’ (for optional personal data).

2.4 Sensitive data

When you use Scrupulosity.com, we may collect special categories of personal data (“sensitive data”) from you. For example, you may decide to share with us your health-related information, opinion about your religious and political beliefs, racial origins, membership of a professional or trade association, or information about your sexual orientation. You do not have to provide the said sensitive data if you do not wish to do so – the provision of such sensitive data is optional and you may choose what sensitive data you would like to share during your sessions. Your sensitive data will be kept in strict confidentiality and used only for the sole purpose of providing you with the requested services. The legal bases on which we rely are ‘your consent’ and ‘performing a contract with you’.

2.5 Failure to provide personal data

If you decide not to provide us with your personal data when we ask to, we may not be able to perform the requested operation and you may not be able to use the full functionality of Scrupulosity.com, receive the services provided through Scrupulosity.com, or get our response. Please contact us if you think that any personal data that we collect is excessive.

2.6 Confidentiality of communication

When you participate in our Coaching Sessions, you communicate directly with us. We put reasonable efforts to ensure that any communication data transmitted through Scrupulosity.com remains confidential and properly protected. Moreover, we do not intentionally and directly access, manage, correct, delete, share, or disclose any information that you communicate to us during the Coaching Sessions.

3. Non-personal data

When you use Scrupulosity.com, we collect some technical data about your device and visits. In this section, we inform you what non-personal data we collect from you and for what purposes we use that data.

 

3.1 What non-personal data do we collect?

In order to analyse Scrupulosity.com, we use website analytics service Plausible (https://plausible.io) that automatically collects certain technical non-personal data about your use of Scrupulosity.com. Such non-personal data does not allow us us to identify you. The non-personal data collected Plausible includes the following information:

  • The operating system that you use;
  • The device type that you use;
  • The browser that you use;
  • URL address clicked from com; and
  • Your country.

3.2 Your feedback

If you contact us, we may keep records of any questions, complaints, recommendations, or compliments made by you and the response, if any. Where possible, we will de-identify your personal data (i.e., we will remove all personal data that is not necessary for keeping such records).

3.3 How do we use non-personal data?

We will use non-personal data for the following purposes:

  • To analyse what kind of users visit and use Scrupulosity.com;
  • To examine the relevance, popularity, and engagement rate of the content available on Scrupulosity.com;
  • To investigate and help prevent security issues and abuse;
  • To develop and provide additional features to Scrupulosity.com; and
  • To personalise Scrupulosity.com for your specific needs.

3.4 Aggregated and de-identified data

In case your non-personal data is combined with certain elements of your personal data in a way that allows us to identify you, we will handle such aggregated data as personal data. If your personal data is aggregated or de-identified in a way that it can no longer be associated with an identified or identifiable natural person, it will not be considered personal data and we may use it for any business purpose.

4. Commercial communication

From time to time, you may receive promotional messages from us. In this section, we explain when you may receive notices from us and what you can do to decline our commercial communication.

 

4.1 Marketing messages

To keep you updated about the latest developments related to Scrupulosity.com, our new services, additional features of Scrupulosity.com, and special offers, we may send you our newsletters. Our newsletters will be sent only if:

  • We receive your express (“opt-in”) consent to receive marketing messages (please note that your voluntary subscription for our newsletters substitutes such consent); or
  • We decide to send you marketing messages about our new services that are closely related to the services already used by you.

4.2 Opting-out

You can opt-out from receiving marketing messages at any time free of charge by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link contained in any of the newsletters sent to you or by contacting us directly.

4.3 Informational notices and service updates

From time to time, we may send you important informational notices, such as service-related, technical or administrative emails, information about your bookings and payments, your privacy and security, and other administrative matters. Please note that we will send such notices on an “if-needed” basis and they do not fall within the scope of direct marketing communication that requires your prior consent.

4.4 Personalised advertising

After visiting Scrupulosity.com, you may encounter targeted interest-based ads that are generated on the basis of your use of Scrupulosity.com. You can control how such advertisements are shown to you or opt-out from targeted advertising by consulting the guide powered by the Digital Advertising Alliance available at https://youradchoices.com. For more information on opting-out from advertising features on your device, please visit https://www.networkadvertising.org

4.5 Facebook Lookalike and Custom Audiences

If you submit us your email address for marketing purposes, we may use it for generating Facebook Lookalike Audiences offered by Facebook, Inc. Facebook Lookalike Audiences is an advertising and behavioural targeting service that allows us to reach people who may be interested in scrupulosity.com and show targeted advertising to potential customers that share similar interests and demographics as our current customers. To ensure privacy, Facebook irreversibly hashes (encrypts) email addresses and do not use them for other purposes (see https://www.facebook.com/business/help/112061095610075/ for more information). We do not have access to the personal data of persons belonging to the members of Facebook Lookalike Audience, unless they decide to click on our ad. You can opt out from ad personalisation by visiting https://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN or adjusting your Google settings (see https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated). Before obtaining your email address for Facebook Custom Audiences, we will inform you about our use of automated marketing strategies and, if necessary, we will obtain your consent for such purposes. Your consent can be revoked at any time.

5. How long do we keep your data?

We store your personal data only if it is necessary for its specific and limited purposes. In this section, we specify the time period for which we keep your personal and non-personal data in our systems.

 

5.1 Retention of personal data

We will store your personal data in our systems only until such personal data is required for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or you request us to delete your personal data, whichever comes first. After your personal data is no longer necessary for its purposes and there is no other legal basis for storing it, we will immediately securely delete your personal data from our systems.

5.2 Retention of non-personal data

We may retain non-personal data pertaining to you for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This may include keeping non-personal data after you have deactivated your user account for the period of time needed for us to pursue legitimate business interests, conduct audits, comply with (and demonstrate compliance with) legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.

5.3 Retention as required by law

Please note that, in some cases, we may be obliged by law to store your personal data for certain period of time (e.g., for accountancy purposes). In such cases, we will store your personal data for the time period stipulated by the applicable law and delete the personal data as soon as the required retention period expires.

6. How do we share and disclose data?

We may need to cooperate with external service providers and share some personal data with them. In this section, you can find information about third parties that have access to your personal data and the instances when we make data transfers.

 

6.1 Do we disclose your personal data?

If necessary, we will disclose your personal data to the service providers with whom we cooperate (our data processors). For example, we may share your personal and non-personal data with entities that provide certain technical support services to us, such as hosting and email distribution services. We do not sell your personal data to third parties.

6.2 When do we disclose your personal data?

The disclosure of your personal data is limited to the situations when such data is required for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring the proper operation of Scrupulosity.com;
  • Ensuring the delivery of the services requested by you;
  • Providing you with the requested information;
  • Pursuing our legitimate business interests;
  • Enforcing our rights, preventing fraud, and security purposes;
  • Carrying out our contractual obligations;
  • Law enforcement purposes; or
  • If you provide your prior consent to such a disclosure.

6.3 With what data processors do we share your personal data?

We will share your personal data only with the data processors that agree to ensure an adequate level of protection of personal data that is consistent with this Privacy Policy and the applicable data protection laws. The data processors that will have access to your personal data are:

6.4 Sharing of non-personal data

Your non-personal data may be disclosed to third parties for any purpose. For example, we may share it with prospects or partners for business or research purposes, for improving Scrupulosity.com, responding to lawful requests from public authorities or developing new products and services.

6.5 Legal requests

If requested by a public authority, we will disclose information about the users of Scrupulosity.com to the extent necessary for pursuing a public interest objective, such as national security or law enforcement.

6.6 Successors

In case our business is sold partly or fully, we will provide your personal data to a purchaser or successor entity and request the successor to handle your personal data in line with this Privacy Policy.

7. International transfers of personal data

Your personal data may be transferred outside the country where you reside. In this section, we explain when we transfer personal data abroad and what safeguards we implement to ensure that your personal is properly protected.

 

Some of our data processors listed in section 6 of this Privacy Policy are located outside the country in which you reside. For example, if you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), we may need to transfer your personal data to jurisdictions outside the EEA. In case it is necessary to make such a transfer, we will make sure that the jurisdiction in which the recipient third party is located guarantees an adequate level of protection for your personal data or we conclude an agreement with the respective third party that ensures such protection (e.g., a data processing agreement based pre-approved standard contractual clauses).

8. Protection of personal data

We put our best efforts to keep your personal data safe and secure. In this section, we inform you about our technical measures that help us to protect your personal data.

 

8.1 Our security measures

We implement organisational and technical information security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access, and disclosure. The security measures taken by us include secured networks, SSL protocol, strong passwords, limited access to your personal data by our staff, and anonymisation of personal data (when possible). In order to ensure the security of your personal data, we kindly ask you to use Scrupulosity.com through a secure network only.

8.2 Handling security breaches

Although we put our best efforts to protect your personal data, given the nature of communications and information processing technology and the Internet, we cannot be liable for any unlawful destruction, loss, use, copying, modification, leakage, and falsification of your personal data caused by circumstances that are beyond our reasonable control. In case a serious breach occurs, we will take reasonable measures to mitigate the breach, as required by the applicable law. Our liability for any security breach will be limited to the highest extent permitted by the applicable law.

9. Your rights regarding personal data

You have the right to control how we process your personal data. Below, we list the rights that you can exercise with regard to your personal data and explain how you can exercise those rights.

 

9.1 What rights do you have?

Subject to any exemptions provided by law, you may ask us to:

  • Get a copy of your personal data that we store;
  • Get a list of purposes for which your personal data is processed;
  • Rectify inaccurate personal data;
  • Move your personal data to another processor;
  • Delete your personal data from our systems;
  • Object and restrict processing of your personal data;
  • Withdraw your consent, if you have provided one; or
  • Process your complaint regarding your personal data.

9.2 How to exercise your rights?

If you would like to exercise any of your rights listed in section 9.1, please contact us by email at info@scrupulosity.com and explain in detail your request. In order to verify the legitimacy of your request, we may ask you to provide us with an identifying piece of information, so that we would be able to identify you in our system. We will answer your request within a reasonable time frame but no later than 2 weeks.

9.3 How to launch a complaint?

If you would like to launch a complaint about the way in which we handle your personal data, we kindly ask you to contact us first and express your concerns. After you contact us, we will investigate your complaint and provide you with our response as soon as possible. If you are not satisfied with the outcome of your complaint, you have the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority.

10. Term, termination and amendments

This Privacy Policy may be changed or terminated at any time. In this section, we explain for how long this document is valid and how you will be informed about any changes.

 

10.1 Term and termination

This Privacy Policy enters into force on the effective date indicated at the top of the Privacy Policy and remains valid until terminated or updated by us.

10.2 Amendments

The Privacy Policy may be changed from time to time to address the changes in laws, regulations, and industry standards. The amended version of the Privacy Policy will be posted on this page and, if we have your email address, we will send you a notice about all the changes implemented by us. We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy to stay informed. For significant material changes in the Privacy Policy or, where required by the applicable law, we may seek your consent. If you disagree with the changes to the Privacy Policy, you should cease using Scrupulosity.com.

11. Contact us

You can contact us at any time to receive further clarifications. Our contact details are specified below.

 

Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, our privacy and security practices, or if you would like to exercise your rights listed in section 9 of the Privacy Policy. You may contact us by using the following contact details:

Email: info@scrupulosity.com

Contact form: https://scrupulosity.com/contact/

Postal address for communication: Scrupulosity.com, 3927 Blackburn Lane, Burtonsville, MD, 20866, the United States of America