Privacy Policy | Montessori Wellness

Privacy Statement

This Privacy & Cookies Statement describes how MontessoriWellness.com (the “Site”) collects, uses, shares, and otherwise processes Personal Data (defined below) about:

Visitors to our websites, mobile applications, and other online properties
Contact persons for our clients and/or prospective clients
Contact persons for suppliers of goods and services to the Site
Any other individuals about whom the Site obtains Personal Data

In this Privacy & Cookies Statement, “Personal Data” means information that (either in isolation or in combination with other information held by the Site) enables you to be identified as an individual or recognized directly or indirectly.

The Site is owned and operated by:

CS Kids LLC d/b/a Montessori Wellness
Address: 2333 Brickell Ave #201, Miami, FL 33129
Email: hello@montessoriwellnes.com

Collection of Personal Data

We collect the following categories of Personal Data about Site visitors, clients, prospective clients, suppliers and other third parties:

Basic data: Name, title, organization, job responsibilities, phone number, mailing address, email address, and contact details.
Special categories of data: None.
Registration data: Newsletter requests, event/seminar registrations, dietary preferences (excluding special categories of data), subscriptions, downloads, and username/passwords.
Client service data: Personal Data received from clients in respect of employees, customers or other individuals known to clients, invoicing details and payment history, and client feedback.
Marketing data: Data about individual participation in conferences and in-person seminars, credentials, associations, product interests, and preferences.
Transaction data: Personal data contained in documents, correspondence or other materials provided by or relating to transactions conducted by our clients.
Device data: Computer Internet Protocol (IP) address, unique device identifier (UDID), cookies and other data linked to a device, and data about usage of our Sites (Usage Data).

We collect Personal Data from a number of sources, either directly from the data subjects, or from clients, colleagues and publicly available sources. Where the Site receives data from its clients about employees, customers or other individuals, the client is responsible for ensuring that any such data is transferred to us in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

Use of Personal Data

The purposes for which we use Personal Data, and the legal bases for such processing, are as follows:

To provide the Site services and respond to inquiries we use basic data, registration data, client service data, and device data. We need to process your information in this way in order to perform our obligations under our contracts with our clients.
To manage our business operations and administer our client relationships we use basic data, registration data, marketing data and client service data. This processing is necessary in order to perform our obligations under our contracts with our clients (e.g. issuing and processing invoices) and suppliers (e.g. managing the supply of goods and services to the Site).
To make our Sites more intuitive and easy to use we use device data. It is necessary for our legitimate interests to monitor how our Sites are used to help us improve the layout and information available on our Sites and provide a better service to our Site users.
To protect the security and effective functioning of our Sites and information technology systems we use basic data, registration data, transaction data, and device data. It is necessary for our legitimate interests to monitor how our Sites are used to detect and prevent fraud, other crimes and the misuse of our Sites. This helps us to ensure that you can safely use our Sites.
To provide relevant marketing such as providing you with information about events or services that may be of interest to you including our services, Montessori community updates, client conferences or networking events, and groups of specific interest (e.g. specific types of networking groups) we use marketing data, basic data, registration data, client service data, and device data. It is necessary for our legitimate interests to process this information in order to provide you with tailored and relevant marketing, updates and invitations.

Sharing of Personal Data

We may share Personal Data with the following categories of recipients:

Suppliers and service providers: We share Personal Data with suppliers and service providers to enable such parties to perform functions on our behalf and under our instructions in order to carry out the purposes identified above. These include: infrastructure and IT services providers, for example, the providers of our client intake system, our finance systems and our customer relationship management databases; third party consultants who provide us with support in respect of business analytics and marketing campaigns; and the providers of external venues where we host conferences and events. We require such parties by contract to provide reasonable security for Personal Data and to use and process such Personal Data on our behalf only.
Financial institutions: We share Personal Data with financial institutions in connection with invoicing and payments.
Corporate purchasers: We may share Personal Data with any corporate purchaser or prospect to the extent permitted by law as part of any merger, acquisition, sale of Site assets, or transition of service to another provider, as well as in the event of insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership in which Personal Data would be transferred as an asset of the Site.
Mandatory disclosures and legal claims: We share Personal Data in order to comply with the Site’s tax reporting obligations, comply with any subpoena, court order or other legal process, to comply with a request from our regulators, governmental request or any other legally enforceable demand. We also share Personal Data to establish or protect our legal rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others, or to defend against legal claims.

If you have questions about the parties with which we share Personal Data, please contact us as specified below.

Marketing Choices

You have control regarding our use of Personal Data for direct marketing. The site will seek your consent before sending you any marketing communications and you can choose to not receive such communications at any time. If you no longer wish to receive any marketing communications, remain on a mailing list to which you previously subscribed, or receive any other marketing communication, please follow the unsubscribe link in the relevant communication or contact us as per below.

We use and engage certain providers to use cookies, web beacons, and similar tracking technologies (collectively, “cookies”) on our Sites.

What are cookies?
Cookies are small amounts of data that are stored on your browser, device, or the page you are viewing. Some cookies are deleted once you close your browser, while other cookies are retained even after you close your browser so that you can be recognized when you return to a websites. More information about cookies and how they work is available at All About Cookies.

How do we use cookies?
We use cookies and allow certain third parties to place cookies on our Sites, in order to provide the Sites and services, gather information about your usage patterns when you navigate the Sites in order to enhance your personalized experience, and to understand usage patterns to improve our Sites, products, and services.

We use Google Analytics to perform most of these functions on our Sites. We also use functional cookies through our web hosting provider, Wix, in order to operate the Site. We also use social media cookies on the Site. These cookies are set by a range of social media services that we have added to the site to enable you to share our content with your friends and networks. They are capable of tracking your browser across other sites and building up a profile of your interests. This may impact the content and messages you see on other websites you visit. If you do not allow these cookies you may not be able to use or see these sharing tools.

What are your options if you do not want cookies on your computer?
To manage cookie settings generally, visit the following knowledge article which will provide information depending on your computer and browser settings:

https://allaboutcookies.org/how-to-manage-cookies

To opt out of the Google Analytics cookie, specifically, visit:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Data Security

We have implemented technical and organizational measures in an effort to safeguard the Personal Data in our custody and control. While we endeavour to always protect our systems, sites, operations and information against unauthorized access, use, modification and disclosure, due to the inherent nature of the Internet as an open global communications vehicle and other risk factors, we cannot guarantee that any information, during transmission or while stored on our systems, will be absolutely safe from intrusion by others.

You also have an important role in protecting Personal Data. You should not share any username, password or other authentication data provided to you with anyone, and we recommend that you do not re-use passwords across more than one website or application. If you have any reason to believe that your username or password has been compromised, please contact us as detailed below.

California Consumer Privacy Act 2018

If you are a California resident, you have the following privacy rights:

The right to know what personal information we have collected about you, including the categories of personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you. You may only exercise your right to know twice within a 12-month period.
The right to delete personal information that we have collected from you, subject to certain exceptions.
The right to correct inaccurate personal information that we maintain about you.
The right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information by us. We do not sell or share for cross-context behavioral advertising any of the categories of personal information that we collect about California residents.
The right to limit our use and disclosure of sensitive personal information to purposes specified in subsection 7027(l) of the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes other than those specified in subsection 7027(m) of the California Consumer Privacy Act Regulations.
The right not to receive discriminatory treatment by the business for the exercise of privacy rights conferred by the CCPA, in violation of California Civil Code § 1798.125, including an employee's, applicant's, or independent contractor's right not to be retaliated against for the exercise of their CCPA rights.

To exercise your rights, please email hello@montessoriwellnes.com.

Other

What are the consequences of not providing Personal Data?
You are not required to provide all Personal Data identified in this Privacy & Cookies Statement to use our Sites or to interact with us offline, but certain functionality will not be available if you do not provide Personal Data. If you do not provide Personal Data, we may not be able to respond to your request, provide legal services to you, or provide you with marketing that we believe you would find valuable.
Do we engage in automated decision-making without human intervention?
We do not use automated decision-making without human intervention, including profiling, in a way that produces legal effects concerning you or otherwise significantly affects you.
Do the Sites honor do not track ("DNT") signals sent via browsers?
Given the divergent practices of organizations that offer browsers and the lack of a standard in the marketplace, we generally do not respond to DNT signals at this time.
How long do we retain Personal Data?
We typically retain Personal Data related to marketing activities for as long as you accept marketing communications from us, and we will securely delete such data in accordance with applicable law upon request. For Personal Data that we collect and process for other purposes, we will typically retain such Personal Data for as long as it is necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy & Cookies Statement and as otherwise specified in applicable record retention policies and procedures.
Are third party websites governed by this Privacy & Cookies Statement?
The Sites may contain links and references to other websites administered by unaffiliated third parties. This Privacy & Cookies Statement does not apply to such third party sites. When you click a link to visit a third party website, you will be subject to that website's privacy practices. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the privacy and security practices of any linked third party websites before providing any Personal Data on that website.
How will we handle any changes to this Privacy & Cookies Statement?
We may update this Privacy & Cookies Statement from time to time as our services and privacy practices change, or as required by law. The effective date of our Privacy & Cookies Statement is posted below, and we encourage you to visit our Sites periodically to stay informed about our privacy practices. We will post the updated version of the Privacy & Cookies Statement on our Sites and ask for your consent to the changes if legally required.

If you have questions or comments regarding this Privacy & Cookies Statement or our privacy practices, please contact us by email at hello@montessoriwellnes.com.

Effective date: October 2023