Terms
This website, samuelstepsforward.com, is subject to the following terms and conditions. By accessing the Website, you agree to comply with these terms and conditions, as well as all applicable laws and regulations, and acknowledge that it is your responsibility to adhere to any relevant local laws. If you do not agree to any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing the Website. The content on this Website is protected under applicable copyright and trademark laws.
FTC Earnings Disclaimer
By using this website, you acknowledge and agree to the following terms:
Affiliate Partnerships and Compensation Disclosure
In compliance with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) regulations, please be aware that any merchants, products, services, or links featured on samuelstepsforward.com may be part of our affiliate partnerships (such as amazon affiliate). This means that if you (the user) choose to make a purchase through any of the links provided on our site, we may receive compensation in the form of monetary rewards, services, or complimentary products. This compensation helps us cover the operational expenses associated with maintaining and running the website. Importantly, it does not affect the price of any products or services you purchase. You can be assured that making a purchase through these affiliate links will not result in any additional costs for you.
Our website is not liable for any transactions between readers and merchants. For order cancellations or changes, please contact the merchant’s customer service directly. We do not engage in or resolve disputes between consumers and merchants.
We will never share your personal information or any inquiries you send to us with third parties or merchants. Your email address and other personal details are exclusively used to facilitate communication between our website and its visitors. Rest assured that your information remains confidential and is only utilized for interactions within our community.
Third-Party Partners, Advertisers, and Affiliates
samuelstepsforward.com expects that our partners, advertisers, and affiliates will honor the privacy of our users. However, please be aware that third parties—including our partners, advertisers, affiliates, and other content providers accessible through our site—may have their own distinct privacy and data collection policies and practices. For example, during your visit to samuelstepsforward.com, you might click on links or view content embedded within our pages that are actually created or hosted by third parties. Additionally, through samuelstepsforward.com, you may encounter or gain access to information, websites, features, contests, or sweepstakes offered by other organizations. samuelstepsforward.com is not responsible for the actions or policies of these third parties. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of those third parties when providing information on any feature or page they operate.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies by third parties: While using our site, our advertisers, promotional partners, or other third parties may utilize cookies or other tracking technologies to identify some of your preferences or gather information about you. For instance, some of our advertisements are served by third parties and may include cookies that allow the advertiser to determine whether you have previously seen a specific advertisement. Other features on our site may offer services operated by third parties that use cookies or other technologies to collect information. samuelstepsforward.com does not control the use of these technologies by third parties or the information they collect, and we are not responsible for their actions or policies.
Public Sharing of Personal Information
Please also be aware that if you voluntarily share Personally Identifiable Information on message boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and may be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge. This could potentially result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third parties. Such activities are beyond the control of samuelstepsforward.com and this policy.
External Links
Our Services include links to external websites, such as through banner advertisements, to provide you with convenience and information. These external sites may be managed by companies that are not affiliated with us, and we are not liable for the content or privacy practices of those websites. Each linked website may have its own terms of use and privacy policies, and we encourage you to review those policies whenever you visit these sites.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We gather, collect, and store any information you provide through the Services or share with us via other methods. Additionally, we collaborate with our third-party service providers (including those managing content, advertising, analytics, shipping, and payment processing) to automatically collect specific data from your device or browser each time you interact with the Services. This information is obtained through various channels, including:
Email Subscriptions: When you subscribe to receive our emails, we collect your email address.
Analytics: We utilize third-party service providers to monitor and evaluate how our Services are used. Each time you access the Services, we and our third-party partners automatically collect details such as your Internet Protocol (IP) address, device identifier or other unique identifiers, browser and device type, access times, the webpages you navigated from and to, and your interactions with the Services. Specifically, we use Google Analytics, a tool provided by Google to measure and report website traffic. Google uses this data to monitor and analyze the usage of our Services. If you wish to opt out of Google Analytics tracking across all websites, you can do so by visiting this link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Comments: Visitor comments may be reviewed using an automated spam detection service.
User Accounts: To access certain features of our Services, such as our online courses and forums, you may need to create an account. When you register for an account, we collect your name, email address, and password.
Purchases: When you make a purchase or place an order through the Services, our third-party service providers will collect your shipping and payment information to process and fulfill your order.
Social Media Features: Our Services incorporate various Social Media features and widgets, including single sign-on options like “Facebook Connect” or “Google Sign-In,” as well as buttons such as “Facebook Like” and “Share this,” along with other interactive mini-programs (“Social Media Features”). These Social Media Features may collect information like your IP address or the specific pages you visit on our Services.
How We Use Your Information
We utilize the information we collect in the following ways:
- Facilitating Your Use of Services: To provide you with seamless access to and utilization of our Services, efficiently process the information you supply, and manage your transactions effectively.
- Improving Our Services: To conduct comprehensive statistical, demographic, and marketing analyses of our user base, along with other internal business activities, all aimed at enhancing and refining our Services.
- Providing Requested Information and Services: To deliver the specific information, products, or services that you have requested from us in a timely and accurate manner.
- Personalizing Your Experience: To customize and tailor the content, recommendations, and advertisements that we and our third-party partners present to you, both within our Services and across various other online platforms, ensuring a more personalized user experience.
- Compliance: To ensure that we adhere to and fulfill all applicable regulatory and legal obligations, maintaining our commitment to lawful and ethical operations.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
A “cookie” is a small data file stored on your computer. We and our third-party service providers utilize various types of cookies:
Essential Cookies: These are necessary for the Services to operate correctly and ensure that the Services remain secure and safe to use.
Analytics Cookies: These help us monitor and evaluate the performance, functionality, and effectiveness of the Services.
Personalization Cookies: These enable our Services to remember your preferences and settings, providing a more personalized experience and preventing the need to re-enter information each time you visit.
Social Media Cookies: Third-party social media platforms may use these cookies when you share content using social media buttons or “like” buttons on our Services or interact with our Services through social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, or Google+.
Advertising Cookies: Third-party advertisers that display ads through our Services may use these cookies to track your browsing behavior, allowing us to present advertisements that are more likely to interest you.
Other Cookies: If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Disable Cookies: To provide you with the best possible service, this website will place and access our cookies on your computer. If you do not wish to accept cookies, you can set your browser’s privacy settings to high to refuse the placement of cookies. However, doing so may result in certain website features not functioning properly.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
We do not sell, trade, or lease your personal information to third parties.
When you utilize specific features of our Services—such as subscribing to our email newsletters, completing surveys, or participating in our online forums—we share your information with third-party service providers to facilitate these functionalities.
- Comply with applicable laws or regulations, or if legally mandated;
- Establish, protect, or enforce our legal rights, or defend against legal claims;
- Safeguard the safety or essential interests of another individual.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
We do not control the retention of third party cookies or links, the retention time is subjected to their policy, for more information read their policy.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Depending on where you reside, you may have specific legal rights concerning the personal information we gather about you. These rights could include accessing, updating, deleting, or limiting the use of your personal data.
No Warranty
This website is offered “AS IS” without any warranties, either express or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, implied warranties of merchantability, satisfactory quality, and fitness for a specific purpose or use. No warranties apply to this website, whether they arise from legal statutes, established business practices, course of dealing, course of performance, trade usage, or any other source.
Use at Your Own Risk
This website is for general informational purposes and no professional advices are made. You should not relied on the information in this website but to consult industry specialist, such as physicians, financial analyst or other industry expert, for more specific advice. By voluntarily using the information provided in this website, you are assumed to acknowledge your risk for any potential damage or loss.
Errors and Omissions
There may be errors, inaccuracies or even omissions in the informations or products in this website. We reserve the right to correct the errors or inaccuracies. We may also experience delay on updating information in this website. The inclusion of any services or products on this website does not necessarily considered as an endorsement or recommendation by us.
The website would not be responsible for the errors and omissions for the informations, or the result from the use of the information.
Limitation of Liability
Samuel Wong is not liable for any direct, indirect, punitive, incidental, special, or consequential damages that may arise from your interaction with, use of, or inability to use this website. This includes, but is not limited to, any dependence on the opinions or information available on this site; any issues arising from computer viruses, software, or information; third-party websites that you may link to or access through this site; and any products or services you acquire through this website. These limitations apply no matter the legal theory under which a claim is brought, including negligence, contract law, torts, strict liability, consumer protection laws, or any other legal framework, even if Samuel Wong has been informed about the possibility of such damages.
Security
We have established comprehensive security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, or disclosure. However, it is important to understand that no method of data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be entirely secure. While we make every effort to safeguard the personal information you provide through our Site, you acknowledge that any personal data you choose to share may be accessed or modified by third parties. By using our Site, you agree that we are not responsible for any information that is intercepted and shared without our consent or knowledge. Additionally, you release us from any and all claims related to the unauthorized use of such intercepted information.
Children’s Privacy
Our Website caters to a broad audience and does not offer services specifically for children. If we receive personal information from anyone we identify as under 18 years old, we will exclusively use that information to inform the child that they are not permitted to access or use this Website.
LiteSpeed Cache
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary. We may use QUIC.cloud services to process & cache your data temporarily.Please see https://quic.cloud/privacy-policy/ for more details.
Updates to This Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy whenever necessary. When changes are made, the revised date will be updated at the bottom of this page. We recommend that you regularly visit this page to stay informed about any updates and understand how we continue to protect your personal information. By using our services, you agree that it is your responsibility to periodically review this privacy policy and stay aware of any changes.