Privacy Policy
Effective Date: September 1, 2026
Last Updated: September 1, 2026
Wisdom Share ("Wisdom Share", "we", "us", or "our") respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, store, and protect information when you visit or use https://www.wisdomshare.org/ (the "Website").
This Privacy Policy is intended to provide transparency regarding our privacy practices and to address applicable privacy requirements, including requirements that may apply under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), applicable European privacy and electronic communications laws, and the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended (CCPA/CPRA), where applicable.
Information We Collect
Depending on how you use the Website, we may collect the following categories of information.
A. Information You Voluntarily Provide
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
- Contact us
- Submit a comment
- Provide feedback
- Communicate with us
- Participate in Website features
- Otherwise provide information through the Website
This information may include your name, email address, message content, username, or other information you choose to provide.
Please do not provide sensitive personal information unless it is specifically necessary and requested for a legitimate purpose.
B. Automatically Collected Information
When you visit the Website, certain technical information may be collected automatically by us or by third-party services.
This may include:
- IP address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Language preferences
- Approximate geographic location derived from IP address
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Links clicked
- Date and time of visits
- Time spent on pages
- General interaction information
- Diagnostic and performance information
- Other technical information made available through your browser or device
Some of this information may constitute personal information or personal data under applicable privacy laws.
Cookies and Similar Technologies
Wisdom Share uses cookies and similar technologies.
Our current Website cookie-consent system identifies several categories, including:
Essential Cookies — required for Website functionality.
Analytics Cookies — used to understand Website usage and performance.
Experience Cookies — used to support Website functionality and user experience.
Advertising Cookies — which may be used in connection with personalized advertising, including Google AdSense.
The Website's current consent interface allows visitors to accept, reject, or customize certain cookie preferences.
Cookies may be used to:
- Remember preferences
- Maintain Website functionality
- Understand how visitors use the Website
- Measure Website performance
- Improve user experience
- Measure advertising effectiveness
- Deliver advertising
- Personalize advertising where permitted by applicable law and where appropriate consent has been obtained
You can manage applicable cookie preferences through the Website's cookie-consent controls.
Google AdSense and Advertising
Wisdom Share may use Google AdSense to display advertisements.
Google and its advertising partners may use cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device information, or similar technologies to collect information associated with advertising activity.
This information may be used for purposes including:
- Serving advertisements
- Limiting repetitive advertisements
- Measuring advertising performance
- Detecting invalid advertising activity
- Reporting
- Creating advertising audiences
- Personalizing advertisements where permitted
- Improving advertising products
Google's publisher policies require publishers to disclose that third parties may place and read cookies on visitors' browsers or use web beacons or IP addresses as a result of advertising being served on a website.
Where required under Google's EU User Consent Policy and applicable law, Wisdom Share will seek the necessary consent from users in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, and Switzerland before using cookies/local storage or personal data for personalized advertising.
Google specifically requires valid consent and an ability for users to revoke that consent.
For additional information about how Google uses data when you use partner websites, you may review Google's information regarding its use of data from websites and applications that use Google services.
Analytics
Wisdom Share may use analytics technologies to understand how visitors interact with the Website.
Analytics information may include:
- Pages viewed
- Visitor interactions
- Approximate geographic information
- Browser and device information
- Referral sources
- Website performance information
- Aggregated usage statistics
Analytics information is used to understand Website performance, identify technical problems, improve content, and improve the visitor experience.
Where required, analytics cookies will be subject to the visitor's consent preferences.
Comments and User-Submitted Information
If you submit a comment or other information to the Website, the information you provide may be processed for purposes including:
- Displaying your comment
- Moderating content
- Preventing spam and abuse
- Communicating with you where necessary
- Maintaining the Website
Comments may be publicly visible.
You should therefore avoid including personal information that you do not want publicly displayed.
How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate and maintain the Website
- Provide Website features
- Respond to inquiries
- Manage comments and feedback
- Prevent fraud, spam, abuse, and security incidents
- Analyze Website performance
- Understand visitor behavior
- Improve content and functionality
- Maintain Website security
- Comply with legal obligations
- Enforce our Terms and Conditions
- Administer advertising
- Measure advertising performance
- Personalize advertising where permitted by applicable law and based on applicable consent
Legal Bases for Processing — GDPR
Where the GDPR applies, we may process personal data on one or more of the following legal bases:
Consent
Where required, we may process personal data based on your consent.
You may withdraw consent at any time through available consent-management mechanisms or by contacting us, although withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before withdrawal.
Legitimate Interests
We may process information where necessary for our legitimate interests, such as Website security, fraud prevention, technical administration, maintaining and improving the Website, and defending legal rights, provided those interests are not overridden by your rights and interests.
Contractual Necessity
Where applicable, processing may be necessary to provide a service or respond to a request made by you.
Legal Obligations
We may process information where necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests.
Sharing of Information
We may share information with third parties where reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
These parties may include:
- Hosting and infrastructure providers
- Website service providers
- Analytics providers
- Advertising providers
- Spam and security providers
- Technology providers
- Professional advisers
- Legal or regulatory authorities where required
- Other service providers that assist us in operating the Website
Third-party providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and contractual obligations.
Google and Third-Party Advertising Providers
Third-party advertising providers may collect or receive information through cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, device identifiers, or similar technologies.
Google's policies require publishers to disclose data collection and use associated with Google products and services.
The specific advertising technology providers used on the Website may change over time.
Where applicable, the Website's consent mechanism may identify advertising technology providers and request consent for relevant purposes.
International Data Transfers
Some service providers used by Wisdom Share may process information outside Canada or outside the country in which you reside.
As a result, your information may be transferred to and processed in other jurisdictions, including jurisdictions where privacy laws may differ from those in your home country.
Where required by applicable law, we will take appropriate measures concerning international transfers of personal data.
Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:
- Provide Website functionality
- Maintain business and technical records
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
- Prevent fraud and abuse
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect legitimate business interests.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the purpose for which it was collected.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, misuse, or destruction.
However, no Internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Accordingly, we cannot guarantee absolute security.
Children's Privacy
Wisdom Share is not intended to knowingly collect personal information from children in circumstances where parental consent is legally required.
We do not knowingly use Google personalized advertising based on activity of users known by Google or us to be under the applicable minimum age where such advertising is prohibited.
Google's publisher policies impose specific restrictions concerning personalized advertising and children under 13 in circumstances covered by COPPA.
If you believe a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where it should not have been collected, please contact us.
GDPR Rights
If the GDPR applies to you, you may have rights including:
- The right to access your personal data
- The right to correct inaccurate personal data
- The right to request deletion
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to object to certain processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to withdraw consent
- The right to object to certain automated decision-making or profiling, where applicable
- The right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority
Requests may be submitted using the contact information provided below.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
California Privacy Rights — CCPA/CPRA
If you are a California resident and the CCPA/CPRA applies to Wisdom Share, you may have certain rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the right to:
- Know about personal information collected about you.
- Request access to certain personal information.
- Request deletion of personal information, subject to applicable exceptions.
- Request correction of inaccurate personal information.
- Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information, where applicable.
- Limit certain uses or disclosures of sensitive personal information, where applicable.
- Receive equal treatment when exercising applicable privacy rights.
- Appeal certain decisions concerning privacy-rights requests where applicable.
California law requires covered businesses to provide appropriate notices concerning collection, use, retention, sale, and sharing of personal information and to provide applicable privacy rights.
Sale or Sharing of Personal Information
Where applicable under California law, certain advertising technologies may constitute "sharing" of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
Wisdom Share's cookie-consent mechanism provides California visitors with the ability to reject applicable marketing/advertising cookies.
If Wisdom Share engages in a sale or sharing of personal information that is subject to the CCPA/CPRA, California residents may exercise their applicable right to opt out.
You may also contact us using the information below to submit an applicable privacy request.
Notice at Collection
Where required by applicable California law, the categories of personal information that may be collected include:
- Identifiers
- Internet or other electronic network activity information
- Approximate location information
- Information voluntarily submitted by users
- Device and browser information
- Other categories reasonably necessary to operate the Website
The purposes for collection may include:
- Operating the Website
- Responding to communications
- Security and fraud prevention
- Analytics
- Improving Website functionality
- Advertising
- Advertising measurement
- Personalization where permitted
- Compliance with legal obligations
California privacy law requires covered businesses to provide information about categories collected, purposes of use, retention, and applicable sale/sharing practices.
Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information
California residents may have a right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising.
Where applicable, Wisdom Share will provide an appropriate method for exercising this right.
Our cookie-consent mechanism currently provides California visitors with the ability to reject marketing cookies.
Privacy Choices and Consent Withdrawal
You may change applicable cookie and privacy preferences through the Website's available consent-management controls.
Where a consent-management tool is available, you may use it to:
- Accept cookies
- Reject optional cookies
- Customize cookie categories
- Withdraw or modify certain consent choices
- Manage advertising-related preferences
For EEA, UK, and Swiss users, Google requires users to have a way to revoke consent after it has been given.
Third-Party Links
The Website may contain links to third-party websites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party websites.
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of every third-party website you visit.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in:
- Website functionality
- Technology
- Advertising services
- Analytics services
- Applicable law
- Privacy requirements
- Our privacy practices
The "Last Updated" date at the beginning of this Privacy Policy indicates when it was most recently revised.
Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise an applicable privacy right, please contact us.
Website: https://www.wisdomshare.org/
Email: jesse.nuytten@ninebyninedesign.com
Business/Operator Name: Jesse Nuytten
When submitting a privacy request, please provide sufficient information for us to understand and respond to your request.
We may request reasonable verification of your identity where permitted or required by law.
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