Privacy Policy

Who we are

Simple Living Global is an organisation established to bring awareness to humanity, through the provision of professional services in the sphere of well-being, and via this website.

You can contact us by emailing us via our contact form here.

Personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments and contact forms

When you leave comments on the site or contact us through the contact form, we collect the data shown in the form. We also collect the visitor’s IP address, cookie information and certain software and hardware attributes. You can use your browser settings to control the data it automatically shares.

An anonymised ‘string’ or ‘hash’ created from your email address may be provided to a service called Gravatar, to see if you are using it to show your image next to your comments. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here.

If you are under the age of 16, check with a parent before posting personal details.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How we use your information

We may use your personal data:

  • to publish your contribution and administer this site
  • to process and respond to your enquiries
  • for compliance with our legal obligations
  • for our legitimate operational purposes

to contact you about our work and related activities.

Sharing and looking after your data

We will look after personal data you provide to us, in accordance with good industry practice and security standards. We will never sell your data.

We may disclose your personal data if we are required to do so by law or pursuant to legal process or our legitimate interests. If we are not prevented from doing so, we will endeavour to tell you when we need to make such disclosures.

Like many websites, we use analytics and third party services to provide the site to you, to understand our visitor base and to improve the quality of what we offer. The third party providers we use for this are:

  • Google Analytics
  • Google Search Console
  • Google Recaptcha
  • Social Media Share buttons

We may receive information about you from other sources, for example, analytics providers and search information providers may provide us with pseudonymised information about you, such as confirming how you found our website.

How long we retain your data

If you post a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can host the content on the site and recognise and approve any follow-up comments.

The rights you have over your data

You have the right to access a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to request the correction or deletion of such data. These rights can be exercised in accordance with relevant data protection legislation, by emailing us via our contact form here.

Where we send your data

The data we collect from you may be processed by our administrators outside the European Economic Area.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Links to other websites

The articles on this site may contain links to other websites. Please note that those websites will have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility for them. You will want to check those policies before you submit any personal data to such websites.

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.  These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this page.  Please check back here to see such updates.