Last updated:
26-02-2026
Who I am:
The ‘Art of Nature Connection’ (ABN 35202381501) trading as ‘Touched by Nature’ (Touched by Nature, I, me, mine)
My website address is: https://touchedbynature.earth.
My email address is: [email protected]
I recognize that your privacy is important to you and I value the privacy of every individual who visits my website, including those who access some of our Services but do not have accounts (“Visitors”), those who may purchase products and/or pay a service fee to subscribe to the Service (“Members”) and those who engage in coaching services (“Clients”). I am committed to the protection of personal data. My Privacy Policy, set out below, complies with applicable privacy laws in processing personal data including the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) and The Australian Privacy Principles.
It also complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) (which gives certain rights to individuals who are based in the European Union (“EU”) during their interactions with us).
My Privacy Policy explains in simple terms how I collect, use, disclose and otherwise manage personal information about you. I invite you to check my website regularly for any updates to the Privacy Policy which will reflect any changes to the manner in which I operate our website and changes in legislation.
- What kinds of personal information will I collect and hold?
Visitors: when you visit or leave my website, I receive the URL of both the site that you came from and the one you go to and the time of your visit. I also get information about your network and device (e.g., IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, cookie IDs and/or ISP, or your mobile carrier). If you visit my website from a mobile device, that device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings.
I use Google Analytics to get an understanding of how this website is being used. When you visit the site some or all of the data described above is automatically sent to Google. Google aggregates this data to provide anonymised insight in usage patterns, which helps me to create a better experience for my users. If you’d like to learn more about Google’s privacy policy and terms of use or if you want to opt out of the collection of data by Google Analytics, visit https://policies.google.com/ for more information.
If you choose to subscribe to my email list, I will collect and hold your personal data contained in your subscription application, being your name and email address.
If you use the enquiry form on this website to make an enquiry, I will collect and hold your personal data that you supply as part of your enquiry, being your name and email address.
To provide email communication for this website, I am using the email provider MailPoet. For their Privacy Policy, refer to https://automattic.com/privacy
Members: I collect and hold your personal data contained in your purchases, being: your name, address, email address. I do not collect or store credit card details. To process payments of courses and coaching packages I use the services from SureCart who, as they state on their website, “pass credit card details directly to the payment gateway in an encrypted session”, please refer to their privacy policy here: https://surecart.com/privacy-policy/. To process bookings and payments of Discovery Sessions and Clinical EFT Sessions I use the services of Calendly, please refer to their privacy policy here: https://calendly.com/legal/privacy-notice.
Clients: additionally to the above, I collect personal data via an intake form, using Google Forms. Please refer to Google Privacy & Terms here: https://policies.google.com/. Furthermore, I will find out personal information relating to you during our sessions and coaching process, some of this information will be stored in session notes. (Please refer to the Confidentiality Clause in my Terms & Conditions)
Furthermore, when you purchase my services I will maintain your ongoing activity history as an enrolled member, including assessment records, progress and completion information, enquiries and complaints.
To help me improve my services, I may collect your responses to surveys and details about how, when and why you access my services. I may collect and store personal or other information that you voluntarily supply to me online while using my website.
When you make a comment on this website, the website will automatically try and use the profile picture of any of your accounts that you are currently logged in to (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google). The service I use to try and include that profile picture is called Gravatar. 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 their services. 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.
To make sure my website performs well and is secured against common threats on the internet, I use the content delivery network services from Cloudfare, that acts as an intermediary between you and our website. As traffic to my website is directed through the Cloudfare network, they provide me with detailed analytics on the use of my website. Please refer to their privacy policy here: https://www.cloudflare.com/en-gb/privacypolicy/
2. How will we collect and hold this personal information?
I use reasonable and appropriate physical, electronic, cryptographic and administrative safeguards to protect personal data from loss, misuse and unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration and destruction; taking into account the nature of the personal data and risks involved in processing that information.
Your personal details such as your name and email address may need to be passed to service providers who perform or implement some of our support and technical services. Information collected at this website may be disclosed to third parties where functions are being outsourced. I may also be required to disclose personal information to law enforcement agencies, government agencies, courts or external advisors where permitted or required by law.
However, I confirm that your information will not be used for purposes unrelated to the provision of my services without your consent.
I give you my assurance that in no circumstances I will sell, lease, rent or in any other manner deal with your personal data for direct financial gain without your consent.
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your personal information available for viewing by third parties online – for example on the forum, through email, or in chat areas – that information can be seen, collected and used by others besides us. I cannot be responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.
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.
3. What are the purposes for which we will collect, hold, use and disclose personal information?
I use the data that I have about you to provide and personalize my services to make your visit to our website a more enjoyable experience. This may include the use of automated systems so that our services (including ads if applicable) can be more relevant and useful to you and our other visitors and members.
The main purposes for which I collect, hold, use and disclose personal information is to identify you, to communicate with you about my products and services and to provide my services to you. You can opt out of receiving these communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link that is included in my email communication or by contacting me via the contact page.
Are there special measures for children’s data?
We do not knowingly collect or store any personal data about children under the age of 13.
Who has access to your data within my organisation?
Within my organization, access to your data is limited to those persons who require access in order to provide you with the Products and Services you purchase from me, to contact you, and to respond to your inquiries.
4. How may you access personal information about you that is held by me and how do you seek the correction of such information?
For any access to the personal information that I hold about you, or any correction of such information, please send your request on: [email protected]
I will provide a reply within 30 days on receipt of your request.
5. How may you complain about an alleged or suspected breach of the Australian Privacy Principles and how will I deal with such a complaint?
For any complaints or concerns that you may have regarding my use of your personal data, please contact me directly on: [email protected]
I give you our assurance that I will provide a reply within 30 days of receipt of your request or within such other reasonable time as the circumstances may require.
6. Am I likely to disclose personal information to overseas recipients?
I will not disclose personal information from visitors or subscribers to my website to any overseas recipients, other than in the circumstances identified in paragraph 1 hereof, and only for that purpose.
COOKIES POLICY
Like most other websites, our website utilizes this standard technology called “cookies” and web server logs to collect information about how our website is used. Information gathered through cookies and web server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at my website, and the websites visited just before and just after my website.
These cookies allow me to count visits and traffic sources so that I can measure and improve the performance of my website. They help me to know which pages are the most and the least popular and to see how visitors move around the website.
All the information that these cookies collect is aggregated and is therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, I will not know when you have visited our site and we I not be able to monitor its performance.
Also, without the use of these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.
EMBEDDED CONTENT FROM OTHER WEBSITES
Posts on this site may include embedded content (for instance, videos, images, articles and the like) from other websites. This content appears as part of posts on our website. Embedded content behaves in the exact same way as if you had visited the other website yourself.
As a consequence, 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.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so I can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on my website, I 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.
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 I hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. You can also request that I erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Under the European GDPR, you have the following rights over your data and its use:
- The right to be informed about what data I am collecting on you and how I will use it
- The right of access – you can ask to see the data I hold on you
- The right to rectification – you can ask that I update or correct your data
- The right to object – you can ask that I stop using your data for a particular purpose
- The right to erasure – you can ask me to delete the data I hold on you
- The right to restrict processing – you can ask that I temporarily stop using your data while the reason for its use or its accuracy are investigated
- Though unlikely to apply to the data we hold and process on you, you also have rights related to portability and automated decision making (including profiling)
All requests related to your rights should be made through our Contact page. We will respond within one month.
