Privacy Policy

At The Zone we highly respect your privacy, we created this privacy policy to explain how we use the personal data we collect from you when you use our website and sign up for the newsletter.
Important things first. By accessing the site, utilizing any of the services, and registering with us, you signify that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by this policy, including our terms of service and terms of use, as applicable, which are incorporated herein by reference.

We would not be The Zone, if we would not break the Privacy Policy down for you.

Topics

What data do we collect?
How do we collect your data?
How will we use your data?
How do we store your data?
Marketing
What are your data protection rights?
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
How to manage your cookies?
Privacy policies of other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
How to contact us
How to contact the appropriate authorities

What data do we collect?
At The Zone, we collect the following data:

Personal Information
The Zone may ask you for some or all of the following types of information which may be identifiable to you when you register to the email or other services, access various content or features, directly contact the Site, or otherwise engage or interact with us in person or electronically: (i) contact information, such as your email address and name; (ii) your age; and (iii) information for the purpose of authenticating yourself or your account if we have reason to believe, in our sole discretion, that you may be violating site policies or for any other reason we deem necessary (collectively, “Personal Information”). We do not collect Personal Information from you when you use the Site or services unless you provide it voluntarily. You are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of all Personal Information you submit to The Zone.
[We also collect and store Personal Information you voluntarily submit to us through registering with us or uploading or posting User Content through the Site or Services. If you are signed into your Twitter or Facebook account and you “like” or “comment” on The Zone Content (such as the articles found on our blog) or other User Content, your Twitter or Facebook username will be displayed and available to the public. You agree that your username, likes, feedback, and any associated comments may become public information; we therefore urge you to exercise caution when deciding to disclose any Personal Information on the Site or through the Services.]

In addition, if you choose to purchase or subscribe to a feature or Services of The Zone that requires a Fee, you will be required to provide us with your billing information, including, without limitation, bank account numbers, credit card or debit card numbers, account details, ACH information, and similar data (Collectively, “Billing Information).

Non-Personal Information
The Zone may collect additional information that you provide to The Zone voluntarily through the Platform or when you otherwise engage or interact with us in person or electronically, such as household income range, personal interests, and any of your product or service preferences (“Other Information”).

Information collected automatically. We automatically receive and collect information such as your IP address, the URLs of websites you arrive at The Zone from or leave The Zone to go to, your type of browser and language, access times, the content of any undeleted cookies that your browser previously accepted from us, your operating system, your mobile provider, your mobile device, and your ISP. We may use such information to better understand how The Zone visitors use the Site and the Platform, to analyze trends, administer the website, prevent fraud, and gather broad demographic information.

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide The Zone with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Register online for any of our products or services
Voluntarily complete a customer survey or provide feedback on any of our message boards or via email
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies

The Zone may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

How will we use your data?

Our primary purpose in collecting information, both Personal Information and any other information, is to provide you with a safe, smooth, efficient, and customized experience. You agree that we may use your information to: provide the Services and customer support you request; troubleshoot problems and prevent potentially prohibited or illegal activities; customize, measure and improve our Site, the Platform, our Services, content and advertising; tell you about and administer our Site, Platform, or Services, targeted marketing, service updates, contests, sweepstakes, rewards, and promotional offers based on your communication preferences; monitor and enforce our Terms of Service; communicate with Users about third-party products and/or services you may be interested in; verify eligibility to use the Site or the Platform.

Our Disclosure of Your Information
The Zone is committed to maintaining your trust and we want you to understand when and with whom we may share information collected about you. We may disclose Personal Information, Billing information and Non-Personal Information to respond to legal requirements, enforce our policies, respond to claims that a listing or other content violates the rights of others, or protect anyone’s rights, property, or safety. Such information will be disclosed in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

We may also use and/or share your Personal Information, Billing Information and Non-Personal Information, with and you authorize us to use and/or share this information with:

Service providers under contract who help with our business operations. We employ these companies and people to perform tasks on our behalf and need to share your information with them to provide products and services to you.
We will share your Billing Information with a third party service provider as necessary to process your payments. The third party service provider stores your Billing Information; we do not store this information. Storage by the third party service provider of your Billing Information is subject to the privacy policies and practices of the third party service provider and is not subject to the terms of this privacy policy. By providing your Billing Information, you acknowledge and agree to use of such information by the third party service provider for purposes of processing your payment to us.
Certain of The Zone’s program participants under confidentiality agreement, as we in our sole discretion believe necessary or appropriate in connection with an investigation of fraud, intellectual property infringement, piracy, or other unlawful activity.
Our affiliates and promotional partners, so they can offer you special products, services, discounts, tickets, and other items or services. Likewise, we may receive information from such affiliates and promotional partners to offer our Users special items or services.
We may combine your information with information we collect from other companies and use it to improve and personalize our services, content and advertising.
We may sell or rent your information to third parties for marketing purposes without your explicit consent.
In an ongoing effort to better understand our Users, we may analyze certain Non-Personal information in anonymized and aggregate form in order to operate, maintain, manage, and improve the Site, the Platform, The Services and/or such products and services. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. We may share and/or license this aggregate data to our affiliates, agents, business and promotional partners and other third parties. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics in order to describe the Services and these products and services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
We may share some or all of your information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other companies under common control with us.
As we develop our businesses, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the information may be part of the transferred assets.

Third Parties
Except as otherwise expressly included in this Policy, this document addresses only the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. If you disclose your information to others Users or Instructors on the Website, Platform or other sites throughout the internet, different rules may apply to their use or disclosure of the information you disclose to them. We do not control the privacy policies of those third parties, and you are subject to the privacy policies of those third parties where applicable. We are not responsible for any information we do not collect. We encourage you to ask questions before you disclose your Personal Information or Other Information to others.

Note that instructors are third parties and not employees of The Zone, and as such, The Zone is not in control of any information that you voluntarily provide to Instructors, and any such provision of information to Instructors will be governed by any agreements entered into by you with such Instructor.

Children
Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important to us. For that reason, The Zone does not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Information through the Site without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 1e has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us, and we will endeavor to delete that information from our databases.

How do we store your data?
The Zone securely stores your data at our Amsterdam offices. The Zone will keep your data for as long as you are subscribed. Once you unsubscribe from The Zone, we will delete your data.

Marketing
If you do not wish to receive marketing communications from us or participate in our ad-customization programs, simply indicate your preference or by following the directions provided with the communication or advertisement.

What are your data protection rights?

The Zone would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access - You have the right to request The Zone for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification - You have the right to request that The Zone correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request The Zone to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure - You have the right to request that The Zone erase your personal data, under certain conditions. The right to restrict processing - You have the right to request that The Zone restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing - You have the right to object to The Zone’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability - You have the right to request that The Zone transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: thezone@thezonenewsletter.com

What are cookies?
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.

For further information, visit www.allaboutcookies.org

How do we use cookies?

The Zone uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

Keeping you signed in
Understanding how you use our website

We may utilize cookies and other technologies, such as, web beacons (also known as “clear gifs” and “pixel tags”) to recognize you, customize your experience, and serve advertisements. Cookies allow us to count the number of visitors to The Zone and distinguish repeat visitors from new visitors. They also allow us to save User preferences and track User trends. We may also enable advertisers and ad servers to promote third-party products and/or services by placing advertisements on The Zone. These advertisers and ad servers may use cookies and/or web beacons to monitor information related to served advertisements. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This policy covers the use of cookies by The Zone and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. If you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you can still use the Site and the Services although your ability to use some of the features may be affected.

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Functionality - The Zone uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

Purpose, type, and duration

_acloggedin

Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account.
Cookie
January 1, 2025

_client_acloggedin

Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account.
Cookie
January 1, 2025

algoliasearch-client-js

Adds auto-populated suggestions to address fields in Scheduling to help clients complete forms faster.
localstorage
Persistent

AWSALB, AWSALBCORS

Improves performance in Scheduling by using one server for the duration of the session.
Cookie
1 week

Crumb

Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF).
Cookie
Session

Locked

Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password.
Cookie
Session

RecentRedirect

Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO.
Cookie
30 minutes

siteUserCrumb

Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users.
Cookie
3 years

SiteUserInfo

Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account
Cookie
3 years

SiteUserSecureAuthToken

Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account
Cookie
3 years

squarespace-announcement-bar

Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
localstorage
Persistent

squarespace-likes

Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post.
localstorage
Persistent

squarespace-popup-overlay

Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it
localstorage
Persistent

ss_sd

Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.
Cookie
Session

Test

Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.
Cookie
Session

Allows a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences.
localstorage
Persistent

Advertising - The Zone uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address. The Zone sometimes shares some limited aspects of this data with third parties for advertising purposes. We may also share online data collected through cookies with our advertising partners. This means that when you visit another website, you may be shown advertising based on your browsing patterns on our website.

Cookie Name

Duration

Purpose

ss_cid

2 years