By visiting the website located at https://wisdomstirring.com/, you are consenting to the following Internet Privacy Policy.
Internet privacy policy
This website is owned and operated by Nikki Stokes of Wisdom Stirring and will be referred to as “we”, “our” and “us” in this Internet Privacy Policy (“privacy policy”).
By using this site, all visitors, referred to as “user”, “you” and “your”, agree to the privacy policy of this website (“the Site”), which is set out on this page.
This privacy policy governs the manner in which your personal information that you may supply to us through your use of our site will be collected, stored, used and dealt with.
Your privacy is important to us. It is our policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across this website, and other sites we own and operate.
We recognise the importance of protecting the privacy of information collected about visitors to our website, in particular information that is capable of identifying an individual (“personal information”).
This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, and date of birth), your devices, payment details, and even information about how you use a website or online service.
This privacy policy will be reviewed periodically. We reserve the right, at our discretion, to modify or remove portions of this privacy policy at any time.
This privacy policy is in addition to any other terms and conditions applicable to the website.
We do not make any representations about third-party websites that may be linked to the website. In the event our site contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies.
After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site.
We welcome your comments and feedback.
1. Categories of information
Information we collect falls into one of two categories: “voluntarily provided” information and “automatically collected” information.
“Voluntarily provided” information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions.
“Automatically collected” information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of accessing our products and services.
2. Personal information
Personal information about visitors to our site is collected only when knowingly and voluntarily submitted.
We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason for doing so. In which instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.
For example, we may need to collect such information to provide you with further services or to answer or forward any requests or enquiries.
We may ask for personal information — for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter or when you contact us — which may include one or more of the following:
- Name
- Phone/mobile number
- Business details
It is our intention that this policy will protect your personal information from being dealt with in any way that is inconsistent with applicable privacy laws in Australia.
2.1 Collection and use of information
We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:
- Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels
- Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content
- Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies
- When you mention us on social media
We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and personal information will not be further processed in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:
- to provide you with our platform’s core features and services
- to enable you to customise or personalise your experience of our website
- to contact and communicate with you
- for advertising and marketing, including to send you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you
- to enable you to access and use our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms
- for internal record keeping and administrative purposes
- for security and fraud prevention, and to ensure that our sites and apps are safe, secure, and used in line with our terms of use
We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources.
For example, our marketing and market research activities may uncover data and insights, which we may combine with information about how visitors use our site to improve our site and your experience on it.
Personal information that visitors submit to our site is used only for the purpose for which it is submitted or for such other secondary purposes that are related to the primary purpose unless we disclose other uses in this Internet Privacy Policy or at the time of collection.
Copies of correspondence sent from the website, that may contain personal information, are stored as archives for record-keeping and backup purposes only.
2.2 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 anonymised 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.
Visitor comments may also be checked through an automated spam detection service.
When you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
2.3 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.
2.4 Embedded content
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles from other sites, etc.). Embedded content from other websites may behave in the exact same way as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking and monitor your interaction with their embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website (e.g. Facebook).
We have no control over or insight into how other sites may collect or use your information.
2.5 Credit card details
Credit card details are not stored on our site and are only used by our trusted third-party payment processors for the processing of payments and will be deleted from their systems as soon as your payment is processed.
3. Collecting information from users
3.1 Log data
When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit.
Additionally, if you encounter certain errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors, even in the moment they occur, that they have occurred, or what the nature of the error is. This data may be used to assist with the diagnosis of problems or support issues with our services.
Much of this information is gathered in aggregate form only and cannot be traced to an individual user.
However, please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.
3.2 Device data
When you visit our website or interact with our services, we may automatically collect data about your device, such as:
- Device type
- Operating system
- Device settings
- Device model
- Screen resolution
- Browser,
Data we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.
3.3 Cookies
Please refer to our Cookie Policy for more information on how we make use of cookies on our website.
4. Collecting information on registered members
As part of registering with us (if and where this option is available), we collect personal information about you in order for you to take full advantage of our services.
To do this it may be necessary for you to provide additional information to us as detailed below.
Registration is completely optional. Registration may include submitting your name, email address, address, telephone numbers, option on receiving updates and promotional material and other information.
You may access this information at any time by logging in and going to your account.
When users register on our website, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile.
All registered users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except for their username. Website administrators can also see and edit this information.
If you are a registered user, we may save a history of your activity on the site, such as creating, updating and deleting posts and comments.
5. Security
We strive to ensure the security, integrity and privacy of personal information submitted to our sites, and we review and update our security measures in light of current technologies.
Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be totally secured. Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure and no one can guarantee absolute data security.
However, we will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to protect the personal information you may transmit to us or from our online products and services.
Once we receive your transmission, we will also make our best efforts to ensure its security on our systems.
When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorised access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by us.
However, we will not be held responsible for events arising from unauthorised access to your personal information.
You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your own information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensuring you do not make your personal information publicly available via our platform.
6. Storage of information
We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This time period may depend on what we are using your information for, in accordance with this privacy policy.
For example, if you have provided us with personal information such as an email address when contacting us about a specific enquiry, we may retain this information for the duration of your enquiry remaining open as well as for our own records so we may effectively address similar enquiries in future.
If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you.
However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific, or historical research purposes or statistical purposes.
7. International transfers of information
The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in Australia, or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities.
The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information.
If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law; and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.
Where the disclosure of your personal information is solely subject to Australian privacy laws, you acknowledge that some third parties may not be regulated by the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act.
You acknowledge that if any such third party engages in any act or practice that contravenes the Australian Privacy Principles, it would not be accountable under the Privacy Act, and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.
8. Disclosure of information
Apart from where you have consented or disclosure is necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was submitted, personal information may be disclosed in special situations where we have reason to believe that doing so is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against anyone damaging, injuring, or interfering (intentionally or unintentionally) with our rights or property, users, or anyone else who could be harmed by such activities.
Also, we may disclose personal information when we believe in good faith that the law requires disclosure.
We may engage third parties to provide you with goods or services on our behalf. In that circumstance, we may disclose your personal information to those third parties in order to meet your request for goods or services.
We may disclose personal information to:
- a parent, subsidiary or affiliate of our company
- third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, ad networks, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing or advertising providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators
- our employees, contractors, and/or related entities
- our existing or potential agents or business partners
- credit reporting agencies, courts, tribunals, and regulatory authorities, in the event you fail to pay for goods or services we have provided to you
- courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights
- third parties, including agents or sub-contractors who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you
- third parties to collect and process data
- an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business
Third parties we currently use include:
- Google Analytics
- Facebook Advertising
9. Advertising services
This website may use remarketing and analytics services from Google and Facebook.
These services collect data about your activities that does not personally or directly identify you when you visit our website, the website of entities for which we serve advertisements (our “Advertisers”), or the websites and online services where we display advertisements (“Publishers”).
This information may include the content you view, the date and time that you view this content, the products you purchase, or your location information associated with your IP address.
These services also provide us with audience data such as age, gender and interests to help us better understand the behaviour of our customers.
These services also collect information about where people see the ads we serve and what ads they click on our behalf.
These services use cookies to store this data and to serve ads to people. This information is used by these services to serve you more relevant advertisements (referred to as “Retargeting”) as well as to display advertisements to people with similar interests to you.
This may take the form of an advertisement on the Google search results page, on a site in the Google Display Network, or in the Facebook news feed.
Any data collected is used in accordance with the privacy policies of the respective services.
We do not have access to this information, except in anonymous, aggregated form as provided by these services.
You can opt out of these services by visiting the following pages:
You may also opt out of the automated collection of information by third-party ad networks for the purpose of delivering advertisements tailored to your interests, by visiting the consumer opt-out page for the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioural Advertising at http://www.aboutads.info/choices/
10. Access to and control of your information
We will endeavour to take all reasonable steps to keep any information which we hold about you accurate and up to date.
In addition, our employees and the contractors who provide services related to our information systems are obliged to respect the confidentiality of any personal information held by 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.
Your choice
By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us, however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.
Information from third parties
If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.
Marketing permission
If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.
Unsubscribe
To unsubscribe from our email database or opt-out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy, or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.
Access
You may request details of the personal information you have shared through our site.
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. Please contact us for more information.
Correction
If at any time you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.
Non-discrimination
We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer (for example providing user support), we will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.
Notification of data breaches
We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.
Complaints
If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.
11. Children
To access or use the Site, you must be 18 years old or older and have the requisite power and authority to enter into this Privacy Policy.
We do not aim any of our products or services directly at children under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly collect or solicit data online from or market online to children under the age of 18.
12. External sites
We provide links to websites outside of our website, as well as to third-party websites that are not operated by us.
The content and policies of these linked sites are not under our control, and we cannot accept responsibility or liability for the conduct and privacy practices of such companies linked to from our website.
Before disclosing your personal information on any other website, we advise you to examine the terms and conditions of using that website and its privacy statement.
13. Business transfers
If we or our assets are acquired, or in the unlikely event that we go out of business or enter bankruptcy, we would include data, including your personal information, among the assets transferred to any parties who acquire us.
You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any parties who acquire us may, to the extent permitted by applicable law, continue to use your personal information according to this policy, which they will be required to assume as it is the basis for any ownership or use rights we have over such information.
14. Problems or questions
If we become aware of any ongoing concerns or problems with our web sites, we will take these issues seriously and work to address these concerns.
If you have any further queries relating to our Privacy Policy, or you have a problem or complaint, please contact us.
For more information about privacy issues in Australia and protecting your privacy, visit the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s web site at https://www.oaic.gov.au
15. Updates
You acknowledge and agree that you have reviewed this site and this Privacy Policy and that you will continue to review it to be aware of any modifications.
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy, from time to time, at our discretion, to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes.
If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.
If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.
By continuing to use the site after we post any such changes, you accept the new privacy policy with the modifications.
Effective date: May 1, 2023
Last reviewed: March 25, 2025