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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective date: July 31, 2026
Websites covered:

Operator: Success Technology LLC (including affiliated sites and services)

1. Our approach to privacy

  • We only collect personal information when it’s truly needed to provide a service.
  • We don’t sell or rent your personal information.
  • We don’t share your personal information except to:
    • comply with the law,
    • operate and improve our services, or
    • protect our rights, your rights, or the safety of others.
  • We store personal information only when necessary for the ongoing operation of our services.
  • We aim to make it easy for you to control what is public, what is private, and what is deleted.

2. Information we collect

a. Non-personal information (all visitors)

Like most websites, we automatically collect non-personal data such as:

  • Browser type and language
  • Referring site (where you came from)
  • Pages visited and timestamps

We use this to understand how our sites are used and may publish aggregated, non-identifying statistics (e.g., usage trends).

b. Potentially personal information

For logged-in users and commenters (e.g., on WordPress.com blogs), we may collect:

  • IP addresses
  • Username and email (when you sign up for a blog, member site, or newsletter)
  • Additional information needed to process transactions (e.g., purchases, access to services)

We collect only what is necessary to fulfill the specific purpose of your interaction (e.g., providing access, processing payment, sending a newsletter). You can always refuse to provide personal information, but some features may not work without it.

3. How we use and disclose information

We disclose potentially personal and personal information only to:

  • Our employees, contractors, and affiliated organizations who:
    • need it to operate or provide our services, and
    • have agreed to keep it confidential.

Some of these people or services may be located outside your country; by using our sites you consent to this transfer.

We may also disclose information:

  • When required by law
  • When we believe in good faith it’s necessary to protect our rights, your rights, or public safety

We do not rent or sell your personal information.

We may occasionally email registered users about:

  • New features
  • Requests for feedback
  • General updates about our services

We try to keep these emails minimal and use our blogs as the primary communication channel.

If you send us a request (e.g., via support email or a feedback form), we may publish it (without unnecessary personal details) to help clarify or respond to your request or assist other users.

4. Aggregated statistics

We may collect and analyze aggregated data about visitor behavior, such as:

  • Most popular blogs or pages
  • Patterns in spam detected by our anti-spam service

We may display or share these aggregated statistics publicly or with third parties, but they will not identify you personally.

5. Security

We take reasonable measures to protect against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of personal information. No method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, but we implement industry-standard safeguards appropriate to the data we handle.

6. Cookies

  • A cookie is a small text file stored on your device that your browser sends back to us on subsequent visits.
  • We use cookies to:
    • Recognize returning visitors
    • Track usage patterns
    • Remember your access preferences

You can configure your browser to refuse cookies, but some features of our sites may not function properly without them.

7. Ads and third-party cookies

Ads on our websites may be delivered by advertising partners who may set their own cookies. These cookies allow ad networks to:

  • Recognize your device over time
  • Build profiles to deliver targeted ads

This policy covers only our use of cookies, not those set by advertisers or other third parties. Their own privacy policies govern how they use that data.

8. Comments and anti-spam service

  • Comments and related content sent to our anti-spam service are not stored on our servers unless flagged as false positives.
  • We retain such data only as long as needed to improve spam detection and reduce future false positives.

9. Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time at our discretion. We encourage you to check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of our websites after any change means you accept the updated policy.

10. Your rights and contact information

If you have questions about accessing, correcting, or deleting your personal data, or about this Privacy Policy generally, please contact us:

Email: pdavis@oh-wise-grasshopper.com
Subject suggestion: “Privacy Policy Inquiry”

11. License and attribution (for others reusing this policy)

This Privacy Policy is made available under a Creative Commons ShareAlike license. Others may reuse and adapt it, provided they:

  • Include clear references to:
    • Success Technology LLC
    • Colle Davis
    • Phyllis Davis
  • Include a link back to https://oh-wise-grasshopper.com (or another Success Technology LLC site) somewhere on their site.

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