Our Privacy Policy

The All About Marathon Training Website (https://allaboutmarathontraining.com) and the All About Marathon Training Shop (https://shop.allaboutmarathontraining.com) (“Website”) is governed by the following Privacy Policy.

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website.

BY AGREEING TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOU ARE AGREEING TO RECEIVE EMAILS FROM ALL ABOUT MARATHON TRAINING FOR PRODUCT UPDATES, WEEKLY NEWSLETTERS, AND MARKETING PROMOTIONS.

This website uses cookies to collect some data about your activity. This data doesn't personally or directly identify you in any way, and I'm the only person who gets to see it. If you proceed browsing this website, I'll assume you're okay with it. Otherwise, you can review the following privacy policy.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. In addition, we may ask you to create a user profile, which would allow you to create a username and password. We will store the username, but your password will not be visible in our records.

• Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, if you use a third-party software through the site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
• Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked.
• Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. 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 Website.
• Email marketing: We may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion. Signing up for an account on our Website also transfers your email address to MailerLite and is used for delivery of product updates and newsletters.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

• To operate and maintain the Website;
• To create your account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
• To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
• To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
• To respond to your comments or inquiries;
• To provide you with user support;
• To track and measure advertising on the Website;
• To process payment for purchases you make through the Website; or,
• To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.

Our shop is hosted by Shopify. They provide us with the e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our product/services to you.

Your data is stored through Shopify's data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall. How Shopify uses your personal information is subject to Shopify's Privacy Policy and their Privacy for Customers Policy.

If you make a purchase on our site, we use a third party payment processor such as Shopify Payments or Paypal. Payments are encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our site and related courses and its service providers.

For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify's Terms of Service or Privacy Statement.

Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. When you click on links on our Website, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements. The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

• 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. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.
• Stripe – this service is used to serve our eCommerce platforms. At no time is your banking information passed to the Website. We receive only information used for order fulfillment.
• PayPal – this service is used to serve our eCommerce platforms. At no time is your banking information passed to the Website. We receive only information used for order fulfillment.
• MailerLite – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. How MailerLite uses your personal information is subject to MailerLite’s Privacy Policy.
• Facebook Pixel – this service is used to track your actions on this website for purposes of promotional retargeting via Facebook and Instagram ads. You may opt-out of behavioral advertising with the Facebook Pixel here.
• Pinterest Tag –this service is used to track your actions on this website for purposes of promotional retargeting via Pinterest ads. You may opt-out of behavioral advertising with the Pinterest Tag here.
• Google Drive – this service may collect your name, email address, location (city and state), and IP address when you fill out any Google Form, Google Doc, or Google Sheet on this site. How Google uses your personal information is subject to Google's Privacy Policy.
• Zapier – this service connects information shared through the platforms listed above with each other for order fulfillment and to fulfill normal business operations. How Zapier uses your personal information is subject to Zapier's Privacy Policy.
• HotJar – this service is a behavior analytics and user feedback service that helps us understand the behavior of our website users. How HotJar uses your personal information is subject to HotJar’s Privacy Policy.
• Thrivecart Learn – this service is our eCommerce platform used for digital downloads and digital course delivery hosted at. When you enroll as a student or subscriber (“learner”) on our site or related courses, as part of the enrolling process, we collect and store your name, username, email address, and password for purposes of delivering your paid digital content. Your password will not be visible in our records. We may send you emails about our site and related course(s), registration, course content, your course progress or other updates. We may also use your email to inform you about changes to the course, survey you about your usage, or collect your opinion. Signing up for an account on the All About Marathon Training Thrivecart’s course site also transfers your email address to MailerLite and is used for delivery of product updates and newsletters.
• ThriveCart – this service is our eCommerce platform used for processing orders of online courses. We receive only information used for order fulfillment. Purchasing a digital product through ThriveCart may transfer your name email address to Zapier and MailerLite and is used for product delivery, product updates, and regular newsletters from All About Marathon Training. How ThriveCart uses your personal information is subject to ThriveCart's Privacy Policy.
• ConvertBox - this service may collect your name and email address if you select to enter it and transfers your email address to ConvertKit and is used for delivery of product updates and newsletters. How ConvertBox uses your personal information is subject to ConvertBox's Privacy Policy.

This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ADVERTISING

Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, Instagram, or Pinterest in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone's past visits to the Website.

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here

Instagram: Opt-out of Instagram remarketing here

Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here

Pinterest: Opt-out of Pinterest remarketing here

Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. 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.

All About Marathon Training is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

Last updated: April 25, 2023

When you browse:

When you browse this website, the following tools collect data about your activity:

• Google Analytics
• Statcounter

The collected data doesn’t personally or directly identify you in any way.

I’m the only person who gets to look at this data, and I do that to see how you’re liking my content and what I can do for you to like it even more.

Hate the idea of Google Analytics collecting your data? Install and activate this add-on in your browser, and it will be like visiting my website wearing an invisibility cloak.

When you sign up to my email list:

When you sign up for my email list, updates or download a PDF file, the only thing I’ll ask you for is your email address, which will forever stay between us and won’t be shared with anyone else.

I’ll use your email address to send you the emails I told you I would before you signed up. If you would like to stop receiving them at some point, you can unsubscribe any time by using an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email.

Display Ads:

The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and location to serve personalized ads.  If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The "help" feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

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