The Optimal Life Privacy Policy

Introduction

Here at The Optimal Life, we know your personal information and its protection is crucially important to you. We take this topic very seriously. The details of how we approach this topic and what we do about this topic is articulated below. By using the The Optimal Life website (herein referred to as "The Site"), you are agreeing to these terms and practices. The Site provides a collection of questions, exercises, and videos provided in the form of training called Cognitive Response Therapy (CRT) and ARAEt Method certification programs (referred to herein as "The Training"). The Training also includes algorithms that take your provided information and produces that information in a new way to provide additional information to you. The Site also provides other forms of information outside of The Training. This and The Training is collectively referred to herein as The Services.

What Personal Information About Customers Does The Optimal Life Collect?

All the information we collect at The Site is provided by you, the user of The Site with a few exceptions such as but not limited to: your last login date, pages of The Site you have visited, support questions, feedback, and number of visits. This information is used to improve our ability to provide content, answer questions, and help guide you in using The Services.

The nature of The Site as the platform that delivers The Training is to collect information from you to provide you the ability to learn about yourself. This is information you provide by answering questions and engaging in exercises and is therefore the sole purpose of providing the value The Training is meant to provide. Other information that is collected is your email and name.

What do you do with my information?

Your email is used to communicate with you for the purposes of providing important information or promotions for The Site and is used as your login username, allowing you access to the membership areas of The Site. Your name is used for identification with The Site only.

The information you provide in the form of feedback and questions are used to provide answers to you to help improve your experience at The Site.

The information you provide in The Training is for your own usage only. The algorithms of The Training manipulate, collate, and connect your provided information to other information you provide to provide additional information to you. All of this is for you and only your information.

Do you share my information?

Your information is never shared with 3rd parties of any kind. We will never share, sell, or otherwise distribute your information to anyone outside of The Site. We may be required to disclose personal information that we handle in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.

What privacy do I have at The Site and what control do I have over my information?

You have control over what information is shared to other members and users of The Site and The Training. That control is provided in the Privacy Settings area of your Profile at The Site. No other visitors or members of The Site can see any information you provide to The Site without you explicitly allowing it.

You can remove some or all of your information you have provided to The Site at any time. You have the option of removing your account which fully deletes all the personal information you have provided. You can do this at any time through your profile page of The Site.

Access to the personal information you provide is obfuscated to employees of The Optimal Life with the exception of your name and email which is necessary to communicate to you appropriately. Your provided information is yours alone and used for your own growth while going through The Training.

How secure is my information?

The Optimal Life is committed to protecting your information. Our approach:

• aligns with industry recognized frameworks
• includes security safeguards reasonably designed to protect the confidentiality, integrity, availability, and resilience of our Users' data
• is appropriate to the nature, size, and complexity of The Optimal Life's business operations
• includes incident response and data breach notification processes
• complies with applicable information security-related laws and regulations in the geographic regions where The Optimal Life does business

In the event of a data breach that affects your personal Information, we will act promptly to mitigate the impact of a breach and notify any affected Users without undue delay. Transmission of data related to The Site is encrypted using SSH, HTTPS (TLS). The Site resides within secure cloud hosting environments which provide high standards of security and data protection.

Cookies

We use Cookies to setup your user session and allow you to gain access to the membership areas of The Site only. These Cookies are limited to session information only and don't contain any personal information about you. We recognize your browser and create a session ID to provide you with a membership experience for The Site.

California Consumer Privacy Act Disclosures

These additional disclosures are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act:

1. Categories of personal information collected. The Optimal Life collects personal information including names, email addresses, and training-related responses that you voluntarily provide to us.
2. Categories of personal information disclosed for a business purpose. We do not disclose personal information for business purposes to third parties.
3. Right to Request Access to or Deletion of Personal Information. You may have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act to request information about the collection of your personal information by The Optimal Life, or access to or deletion of your personal information. If you wish to do any of these things, please visit your profile at The Site or contact us. Depending on your data choices, certain services may be limited or unavailable.
4. No sale of personal information. The Optimal Life has not sold and does not sell any personal information of consumers, as those terms are defined under the California Consumer Privacy Act.
5. No Discrimination. The Optimal Life will not discriminate against any consumer for exercising their rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act.

Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us.