Privacy Policy for Anamaria.org

Last updated: 20th September, 2023

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Ana Maria Ltd (“Company”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer interact with our website. By accessing www.anamaria.org, you acknowledge and fully understand our Company’s Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement.

PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES

Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in Company services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

Company collects certain information from and about its users in a number of ways: directly from our Web Server logs, Cookies, the user, including in response to surveys and questionnaires and voluntarily shared in forums, and correspondence services and/ or applications to collaborate / correspond.

a. Web Server Logs & Google Analytics

When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyse its usage. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data. Examples of information we may track include:

Your Internet protocol address.
The kind of browser or computer you use.
Number of links you click within the site.
State or country from which you accessed the site.
Date and time of your visit.
Name of your Internet service provider.
Web page you linked to our site from.
Pages you viewed on the site.

b. Use of Cookies (click here to read the full legal document)

Company may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web Server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality. We have minimised the usage of cookies for service safety and comfort, but rely on them for website elements, such as commerce processes and payments.

Company reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies (i.e. http://www.faithinchange.com), but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into anamaria.org a site that relies on third-party cookies).

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.

How do we use cookies?

Where strictly necessary. These cookies and other technologies are necessary to enable the Website and services to provide the features you have requested, such as remembering you have logged in.

For functionality. These cookies and similar technologies remember the choices you make, such as language or search parameters. We use these cookies to provide you with an experience more appropriate to your selections and make your use of the Website more tailored.

For performance and analytics. These cookies and similar technologies collect information on how users interact with the Website and to improve how the Website operates. For example, we use Google Analytics cookies to help us understand how visitors arrive at and browse the Website to identify areas for improvement, such as navigation, user experience, and marketing campaigns.

Targeting Cookies or Advertising Cookies. These cookies collect information about your browsing habits to make advertising relevant to you and your interests. These cookies remember websites you have visited, and that information is shared with other parties such as advertising technology service providers and advertisers.

Social media cookies. These cookies are used when you share information using a social media sharing button or “like” button on our websites, or you link your account or engage with our content on or through a social media site. The social network will record that you have done this. This information may be linked to targeting/advertising activities.

c. Geolocation (this Website)

This Website may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services. Most browsers and devices provide tools to opt out from this feature by default. If explicit authorization has been provided, the User’s location data may be tracked by this Website.

Personal Data processed: geographic position.

d. Payment, Processing & Shipping

All orders are processed with the help of WooCommerce Marketplace (woocommerce.com), who explicitly state that they do not generally store your information. They offer that, paying via Stripe or PayPal, may result in data being passed to the respective third party, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and The Customer’s billing information.

In order to print and ship any material products to The Customer, The Company will need to share certain personal information with The Ingram Content Group, including, but not limited to, Customer’s name and address.

e. SPAM Protection

This type of service analyzes the traffic of this Website, potentially containing Users’ Personal Data, with the purpose of filtering it from parts of traffic, messages and content that are recognized as SPAM.

f. Google reCAPTCHA (Google Inc.)

Google reCAPTCHA is a SPAM protection service provided by Google Inc. The use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google privacy policy and terms of use.

Personal Data processed: Cookies; Usage Data.

g. Personal Information of Users

Visitors to our website may be permitted to register for certain services, such as, a monthly email or correspondence service. When you register, we will request some personal information such as name, address, email and other relevant information. When you purchase merchandise or other services provided by the vendor, your payment details (such as card number, address and security codes) will not be stored by the Company, nor shared with third parties.

We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:

To fulfil your service requests for products or services.
To protect ourselves, our customer or our vendors from liability or to defend our rights, including investigations of fraud or misconduct.
To third parties who have agreed in writing to maintain such information in confidence and use such information solely in performance of services to us (when agreed by consumer in writing).
To respond to legal process or comply with law, including subpoenas.
To entities under common ownership or control with us or to our owners, or;
In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.

f. Newsletter Partnership

When you subscribe to our mailing list your information is automatically shared with MailPoet (Automattic Inc.), our affiliate Newsletter Broadcasting service. This type of service makes it possible to manage a database of email contacts, phone contacts or any other contact information to communicate with the User. These services may also collect data concerning the date and time when the message was viewed by the User, as well as when the User interacted with it, such as by clicking on links included in the message.

SERVICE RENDERED – LIABILITY CLAUSE

The Company accepts zero responsibility for any loss or damages allegedly incurred as a result of engaging with service provision, resources, or writings, some of which have been designed specifically to uncover the parts of yourself that are difficult to see/deal with. Please refer to the Health and Safety page for a wider view of how important this is for the consumer to understand and take responsibility of. This is a part of the package and the Consumer is responsible for their own wellbeing and for protecting themselves from harmful engagement. They may ask for help, but the Company is neither liable nor responsible for your world and life as it is, or any impact of the work YOU CHOOSE to engage with, under full awareness of your autonomy and the responsibility you have to yourself. All services are provided as outlined, and the author, publisher and third parties deliver products, services, and free resources, with the understanding that all parties are not engaged in rendering psychological, financial, legal, or other professional aid.

Please note: timing is everything and when things get too much we suggest taking some time to rest and recover before re-engaging with your journey of healing and recovery, if this is the road you are on. Everything is designed with the intent to delve deeper and/or support recovery efforts from conditions such as depression, anxiety trauma and possibly other complex ailments. However, this is not a medical treatment platform, and the ‘self-help’ nature of the service enforces that YOU are responsible for self-monitoring any risk of decline, as well as for the accessing of your own treatments and therapies, at 100% your own expense. Thus, it is important that the responsible consumer partakes in therapy and seeks their own medical treatment pathway when required, as well as other avenues of societal support if and when needed.

ACCESSING WEB ACCOUNT INFORMATION

We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information in your web account file is correct and current, that is if we have any data relating to you at all. You may review this information by contacting us by sending an email to our support attendant – contact@anamaria.org.

DO NOT TRACK

We have not implemented any technology that would effectively recognize ‘do not track’ signals and note that some content available on our Site is made available through relationships with third party providers who we do not control and who may collect and/or disclose personally identifiable information.

HOW TO CORRECT OR UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

To update this information made available to us, please contact us at:

contact@anamaria.org

HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION

We use commercially reasonable procedures to protect the personal information that we collect from you against loss, theft and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. We have developed and implemented and continue to maintain and monitor a written information security program applicable to all records containing personal information. This security program is appropriate to the size, scope and type of our business, the resources available to us, the amount of stored data and the need for security and confidentiality of the personal information we store. No security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the security during transmission to us of the information you supply over the Internet. You can help us by taking precautions to protect your personal information when you are on the Internet and only disclose information that you want made public. Change your passwords often using a combination of letters and numbers and make sure to use a secure web browser.

For the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, personal information may be transferred to, processed, stored and accessed by us, our affiliates and third parties in the United Kingdom and in other jurisdictions where we or they operate. Courts and other authorities in these jurisdictions may, in certain circumstances, be entitled to access your personal information. By using the Website, you consent to this transfer, processing, storage and accessing of your personal information in and/or outside of the jurisdiction in which you reside.

AGGREGATE DATA

We may share and publicize aggregate and/or de-identified information shared with third parties and the public.

CHILDREN UNDER 13

We do not specifically market to or knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 for marketing purposes. Because some information is collected online, it may not appear to be the personal information of a child under 13. If a child under 13 submits personal information to us and we learn that the personal information is the information of a child under 13, we will attempt to delete the information as soon as possible. If you are under 13, please do not register for any of our services or provide us any information about yourself (such as your name, email address or phone number).

UK – DATA PROTECTION ACT 2021 UPDATED VERSION (POST-BREXIT)

As required by The Data Protection Act (2021), this Privacy Policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable information that we collect through our website about individual consumers who use or visit our website and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom such personally identifiable information may be shared.

Depending on the visitor’s activity at our website, certain “data protection principles” (as that term is defined in The Data Protection Act) may be respectfully adhered to, in addition to information set forth in other sections of this document. For purposes of the Data Protection Act, the term “data protection principles” ensures the following;

That all data is:

used fairly, lawfully and transparently.
used for specified, explicit purposes.
used in a way that is adequate, relevant and limited to only what is necessary.
accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date.
kept for no longer than is necessary.
handled in a way that ensures appropriate security, including protection against unlawful or unauthorised processing, access, loss, destruction or damage.

Any information collected from an individual may include the following, as requested by online forms: (1) a first and last name; (2) a home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town; (3) an email address; (4) a telephone number; (5) any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual; and (6) information concerning a user that the web site collects online from the use, and maintains in personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this Privacy Policy.

Full Disclosure Agreement – Amendment to Data Release for Specificity:
Any information shared in correspondence with The Company, be that in audio format, visual, text, or other, will become the property of The Company, and can be used for publishing, or other unspecified purposes once the time-lapse period has expired, for example: artistic creation, film media, documentary and other similar creative mediums. It is maintained herein that The Company, the author, publisher, or other third parties, are not liable nor responsible for any loss, damages or injury, allegedly resulting from any engagement with this platform or related publications and research. Specifically, for each correspondence channel, we make things 100% clear below:

Ask A Question – When you submit a question you give The Company permission to publish that question and the related answer to anamaria.org with immediacy, as well as in print or for use with other mediums, including art. You can opt to keep the question from the blog by copying and pasting the following phrase into your submission form: *I would rather my question remain private and not be posted anonymously to the blog. Thank you. However, take note that after 5 years that declaration becomes null and void, and your question can be posted in total anonymity to anamaria.org, as well as it becoming free to print in text, ebook, audio format, and other visual mediums (see paragraph directly above).

Quotes can be used, your stories retold and used especially for teaching purposes, and the aim of it all is to expand your lesson/ line of inquiry into a wider lesson that can have greater impact and serve/ benefit the public. Should you disagree with any future publishing uses, please use another service, as there can be no retrospective changing of one’s mind. Once your question is submitted, your correspondence can either be posted with immediacy to this platform, or used for other purposes after 5 years, and any question submission must be submitted in full awareness of that being the case. If you do not declare immediate non-disclosure preference, your submission is available to The Company to use as they wish, within predictable reason.

Pen-Pal Service – When you correspond with Ana Maria by using the Pen-Pal Service (or any other service), every single correspondence is stored both online under the email server, as well as offline, all communications being collected for research and publication purposes. Although anonymity is 100% maintained, you do permit, by commencing your engagement with the service, to all information disclosed being used in later publications and/or in various creative mediums, and for all other relevant research purposes. However, please rest safe in the knowing that your anonymous information cannot be published in its entirety until the year 2040, by which time the delicate nature of such an event impacting your sense of safety should be predictably minimised. Know that all locations, names, and even familial/ relational details will be omitted or changed entirely for public safety. You are permitting these publications and research projects by engaging from your first submission here.

Please note, from the date of your submission, should a caption, phrase or general inquiry route produce creative inspiration, that section of your submission may be quoted directly, with changes to place, people, and theme, all to protect your anonymity and preserve safety, especially when your story presents as high-risk in terms of exposure to an external person of threat. We do know that people need to stay safe and we align with that need. The reason for this ‘quoting’ clause and option, is to ensure that your work with The Company can simply be used to aid other people in need, and where this is the case, you automatically permit the ‘helping of you’ to be transformed into a format that may help another in a similar situation/ living a similar thread of story in life.

We are in this together, and you will always be informed of such an instance so as to ensure there are no ‘surprise reactions’ you have to live through. When we do inform you via the given email address, you will have 10 consecutive days to respond; although by engaging you cannot stop the use of anything you have written to The Company, at The Company’s discretion, we may mediate to a comfortable outcome for both parties, should you not want to have your words used in any way. For specificity in regard to volume of ‘data’ available for use by The Company, only 1 email submission, out of context, can be utilised per month. In other words, should you write 10 emails to The Company within 30 days, and one can be used to illustrate to others how to survive something, or do something in a new way, you will be informed beforehand, invited to welcome the experience, or not, and things will be taken from there. To confirm, we cannot use an entire month’s dialogue to help others, only an example from a single email address. This way, we do hope to minimise risk of exposure and any anxiety on the part of The Client. Further to that, generally speaking, if a person really hates the idea of it all, although our right to do so, we are likely to respect the needs of the client over the needs of The Company and cease with present usage, perhaps pegging it for a later date.

Confessions – Because of the nature of the service and the risk to the individual should their confession go public, even anonymously, there is a 50 year non-disclosure clause, which begins automatically from the time and date of your submission. In other words, submit your confession on 3rd April 2023, it cannot be published in full until 4th April 2073. This protects those confessing from exposing themselves in a way that feels unsafe or uncomfortable. Please note, if Ana Maria Santuario dies, this service is likely to continue, and it must be understood that when one ‘confesses’, they confess to The Company, and not Ana Maria Santuario (although, while alive, she will be the one to read them, after that, we have yet to determine the trajectory ahead, which must be known by the writer). They must also comprehend, that no matter what, this confession does still become the property of The Company, and it will be potentially published partially in print, used in video work, audio, research and documentary series before the 50 year marker, yet the confession in its entirety will not be published until those 50 years have been marked and confirmed.

At all times, The Foundation and any third parties are obliged to conduct themselves under The Journalist’s Code of Conduct, with regard to this area of the website only.

Source of following information, The National Union of Journalist’s website, (National Union of Journalists (NUJ): Code of conduct).

“The code of conduct has set out the main principles of UK and Irish journalism since 1936. The code is part of the rules of the union. The code’s purpose is to advise members, and other journalists, on how to carry out their work ethically. It has been used by journalists over the decades to challenge unethical instructions and produce content that is “honestly conveyed, accurate and fair”. The code has been democratically agreed by NUJ members. The current code was updated in 2011 and forms part of the union rules as Appendix A.

The Code of Conduct instructs that a journalist:

At all times upholds and defends the principle of media freedom, the right of freedom of expression and the right of the public to be informed.
Strives to ensure that information disseminated is honestly conveyed, accurate and fair.
Does her/his utmost to correct harmful inaccuracies.
Differentiates between fact and opinion.
Obtains material by honest, straightforward and open means, with the exception of investigations that are both overwhelmingly in the public interest and which involve evidence that cannot be obtained by straightforward means.
Does nothing to intrude into anybody’s private life, grief or distress unless justified by overriding consideration of the public interest.
Protects the identity of sources who supply information in confidence and material gathered in the course of her/his work.
Resists threats or any other inducements to influence, distort or suppress information and takes no unfair personal advantage of information gained in the course of her/his duties before the information is public knowledge.
Produces no material likely to lead to hatred or discrimination on the grounds of a person’s age, gender, race, colour, creed, legal status, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation.
Does not by way of statement, voice or appearance endorse by advertisement any commercial product or service save for the promotion of her/his own work or of the medium by which she/he is employed.
A journalist shall normally seek the consent of an appropriate adult when interviewing or photographing a child for a story about her/his welfare.
Avoids plagiarism.”

All website users are hereby made aware that this is not an emergency response service, nor a crisis support service. Neither is it a complaints channel or a service that can show up to advocate for you within any given timeframe. The project outcomes have been made clear throughout the website, but we reiterate them here for clarity:

To collect national level qualitative data regarding The UK’s more vulnerable demographics.
To utilise all data collected in a formal collective advocacy role, which may include, but not become limited to: organising collective/class-action law suits; presenting the data to government in a review/summary document.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

The Company has the discretion to occasionally update this privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.

TRANSLATIONS

This Privacy Policy is executed in English. You agree and acknowledge that you have reviewed this Privacy Policy in English. To the extent that any translations of this Privacy Policy are provided, they are solely for convenience and is of no binding effect. The English language version of this Privacy Policy shall control.

CONTACTING US

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us at admin@anamaria.org.

The company will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.

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