PRIVACY POLICY
Last modified: April 10, 2024
Maneuvering The Middle, LLC (“MTM”, “Company”, “We”, “Us”) respects your privacy, and we are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website maneuveringthemiddle.com (our “Website“) or use our materials, content, and other products (“Resources”) through our Website or our owned platform (“MTM Platform”), and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
- When you visit, interact with, or provide information on this Website or on the MTM Platform.
- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website or the MTM Platform.
- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, such as Facebook.
It does not apply to information collected by:
- Us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or
- Any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or through the Website; or
- Any third party website (i.e. any website other than our Website or the MTM Platform) that may offer our Resources for purchase or download.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance to those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.
Children Under the Age of 18
We provide educational resources via our Website and our MTM Platform to parents, teachers, and other educational instructors. Our Website is not intended for children, and no children may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children, and children should not use or provide any information on this Website or through any of its features, register on the Website, or make any purchases through the Website. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child, please contact us at contact@maneuveringthemiddle.com.
While our customers and their authorized users are permitted to use the Resources for educational purposes and instruction of minor children, including those under the age of thirteen, at no time will MTM collect, use, or disclose personal information of minor children, including those under the age of thirteen, via use of the Resources.
Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It
We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information by which you may be personally identified (such as your name, mailing address, email address, telephone number) (“personal information“); information that is about you but individually does not identify you (such as how you interact with our system); and information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
We collect this information directly from you when you provide it to us or automatically as you navigate through the Website or the MTM Platform.
The information we may collect directly from you may include information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website or the MTM Platform such as when you register to use our Website or subscribe our services; records and copies of your correspondence if you contact us; details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders; your search queries on the Website; and any other information that you directly provide to use through the Website or the MTM Platform. We use a third party (Stripe) for all credit card payments and MTM does not collect or retain any credit card information. The Stripe privacy policy is available here: https://stripe.com/privacy.
As you navigate through and interact with our Website or the MTM Platform, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including details of your visits to our Website or the MTM Platform (such as traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data) and information about your computer and internet connection (such as IP address, operating system and browser type). This helps us to improve our Website and the MTM Platform so that we may deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to estimate our audience size and usage patterns, store information about your preferences, speed up your searches, recognize you when you return to our Website or the MTM Platform.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information: to present our Website and our MTM Platform to you; to provide you with the Resources and information, products, or services that you request from us; to fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it; to provide you with notices about your account or subscription, including expiration and renewal notices; to carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection; to notify you about changes to our Website and our MTM Platform; to allow you to interact with our Website and our MTM Platform; in any other way we may describe when you provide the information; and for any other purpose with your consent.
We may use service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Website and our MTM Platform. We use Google Analytics, which is a web analytics tool that tracks and reports the use of our Website and our MTM Platform. This data is shared with other Google services, and Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. You can opt-out of having your activity on our Website and our MTM Platform by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. For more information on Google’s Privacy Policies, please visit their website: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
We use QuickBooks (privacy policy available here) and Stripe (privacy policy available here) for payment processing.
We use Directus for aspects of our Website and MTM Platform (privacy policy available here). We also use TechSurgeons to support our Website (privacy policy is available here).
We may also use your information to contact you about our products that may be of interest to you. If you do not want us to use your information in this way, please check the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data, adjust your user preferences in your account profile, or adjust your browser settings. You can also unsubscribe to emails at any time.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and de-identified information, without restriction.
We may disclose personal information that we collect, or that you provide, to our subsidiaries and affiliates; to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business; to a buyer or other in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of MTM’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by MTM about our Website users is among the assets transferred; to fulfill the purpose for which you provide it; for any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information; or with your consent.
We may also disclose your personal information to comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request; to enforce or apply our terms of use; or if we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our customers, or others.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
- Email Marketing. You willingly opt-in (subscribe) to email marketing when you complete a form or make a purchase through this Website and you can opt-out (unsubscribe) at any time. To opt-out, please click the “unsubscribe” button found in the footer of the email.
- Targeted Advertising. We use targeted advertising via Meta If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements via Meta, you can opt-out in your Meta account by navigating to your Accounts center and adjusting your ad preferences.
We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.
Accessing and Correcting Your Information
You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page.
You may also send us an email at contact(at)maneuveringthemiddle.com to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.
Residents of certain states may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Your State Privacy Rights (below) for more information.
Your State Privacy Rights
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Montana, Oregon, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia provide (now or in the future) their state residents with rights to confirm whether we process their personal information; access and delete certain personal information; correct inaccuracies in their personal information, taking into account the information’s nature and processing purpose (excluding Iowa and Utah); data portability; opt-out of personal data processing for targeting advertising (excluding Iowa), sales, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects (excluding Iowa and Utah); and either limit (opt-out of) or require consent to process sensitive personal data.
The exact scope of these rights may vary by state. To exercise any of these rights please contact us at contact(at)maneuveringthemiddle.com.
Data Security
MTM implements measures designed to secure Users’ personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. The safety and security of Users’ personal information depends on our Users as well. Where passwords may be required for our Users, our Users are responsible for keeping their passwords confidential. Unfortunately, transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. MTM uses best efforts to protect personal information and privacy, but cannot guarantee the security of information.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you thought a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Contact Information
To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at contact(at)maneuveringthemiddle.com.