Last Updated: Mar 2, 2025
Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how Chalking Up Success (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and protects your personal information when you visit our website, chalkingupsuccess.us (the “Site”).
Information We Collect
We may collect personal information from you in a variety of ways, including:
- Information You Provide Voluntarily: This includes your name and email address when you subscribe to our newsletter, leave a comment, or contact us directly via email.
- Information Collected Automatically: When you visit our Site, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity. This includes your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and information about the pages you visit on our Site. This information is collected using cookies and similar tracking technologies.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by the Site. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Site. You have the option to accept or decline cookies using your browser settings.
How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for several purposes:
- To operate and maintain the Site.
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings.
- To respond to your comments or inquiries.
- To track and measure advertising and user engagement on the Site.
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Third-Party Use of Information
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to do so. Additionally, the Site may use third-party service providers for various aspects of the Site. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
- Google Analytics: This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Affiliate Program Participation
Chalking Up Success is an affiliate marketing blog, which means we may engage in affiliate marketing. This is done by embedding tracking links into the Site. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Your Rights
You have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- Opt-out: You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails.
- Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to [email protected].
- Amend: You may contact us at [email protected] to amend or update your personal information.
- Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to [email protected].
Children’s Information
The Site does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Site has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at [email protected] and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at [email protected].