Privacy Policy

Michelle Geskey Speaks respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide through MichelleGeskeySpeaks.com, including its related pages, forms, programs, products, and services.

This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when we may share it, and the choices available to you.

In this Privacy Policy, “Michelle Geskey Speaks,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to Michelle Geskey Speaks. “Website” refers to MichelleGeskeySpeaks.com. “Services” refers to the speaking, coaching, training, consulting, educational, and related services offered through the Website.

By accessing or using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you use the Website.

Information You Provide

You may provide personal information when you:

• Submit a contact or inquiry form.

• Request information about speaking, coaching, training, consulting, or other services.

• Register for an event, webinar, workshop, course, program, or membership.

• Schedule a consultation or appointment.

• Download a guide, workbook, checklist, or other resource.

• Subscribe to an email list or newsletter.

• Purchase a product or service.

• Complete a survey, questionnaire, assessment, or application.

• Submit a review, testimonial, comment, or other content.

• Communicate with us by email, phone, text message, social media, or another method.

This information may include:
 

• Your name.

• Email address.

• Telephone number.

• Business name.

• Job title or professional information.

• Mailing or billing address.

• Information about your business, goals, interests, or service needs.

• Appointment and scheduling information.

• Event or program registration information.

• Messages, questions, comments, and other information you choose to provide.

• Payment and transaction information.

Please do not submit Social Security numbers, financial account passwords, medical records, or other highly sensitive information through general Website forms.

Payment Information

When you purchase a product, program, ticket, membership, or service, payment information may be collected and processed by a third-party payment processor.

We generally do not receive or store your complete credit card number. Payment processors may provide us with limited transaction information, such as your name, billing details, payment status, transaction date, and the product or service purchased.

Your payment information is also governed by the privacy policy and terms of the applicable payment processor.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, pixels, server logs, analytics tools, and similar technologies.

This information may include:

• Internet Protocol address.

• Browser type.

• Device type.

• Operating system.

• Approximate geographic location.

• Referring website or source.

• Pages viewed.

• Links or buttons clicked.

• Date and time of visits.

• Time spent on the Website.

• Website navigation and interaction data.

• Cookie identifiers and similar technical information.

This information helps us understand how visitors use the Website, maintain security, identify technical problems, and improve the Website and our marketing.

Information from Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party platforms and service providers when you interact with our content or services through those platforms.

These may include:

• Website hosting and management providers.

• Scheduling platforms.

• Email marketing providers.

• Payment processors.

• Event-registration platforms.

• Customer relationship management systems.

• Social media platforms.

• Advertising and analytics providers.

• Video conferencing and webinar platforms.

• Business partners or referral sources.

The information available to us depends on your settings, the permissions you grant, and the third party’s privacy practices.

2. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Respond to questions and inquiries.

• Provide information about our services.

• Evaluate speaking, coaching, consulting, or training requests.

• Schedule consultations, meetings, events, and appointments.

• Register you for programs, workshops, webinars, courses, or events.

• Process purchases and transactions.

• Deliver products, services, downloads, and program materials.

• Manage customer, client, member, and participant relationships.

• Send administrative notices, confirmations, reminders, and service updates.

• Send educational, promotional, or marketing communications when permitted.

• Personalize content and recommendations.

• Improve the Website, programs, products, services, and customer experience.

• Analyze traffic, engagement, advertising, and marketing effectiveness.

• Maintain the security and proper operation of the Website.

• Detect or prevent fraud, abuse, unauthorized activity, or security incidents.

• Maintain business and tax records.

• Enforce our agreements, policies, and legal rights.

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, and legal obligations.

• Complete another purpose disclosed when the information is collected.
  
   

3. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Website may use cookies and similar technologies.

Cookies are small files stored on your browser or device. They help websites operate, remember preferences, measure performance, understand visitor activity, and support advertising or marketing.

The Website may use:

Essential Cookies

These cookies support basic Website functions, security, navigation, forms, account access, and payment processing. The Website may not function correctly without them.

Functional Cookies

These cookies remember choices and preferences, such as language, login information, or display settings.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies help us understand how visitors find and use the Website, which pages are viewed, and how the Website performs.

Advertising and Marketing Cookies

These cookies and similar technologies may be used to measure campaigns, deliver relevant advertising, limit repeated advertisements, or understand activity across websites and platforms.

You may be able to accept, reject, or manage nonessential cookies through the Website’s cookie banner or your browser settings.

Disabling cookies may affect certain Website features.


4. How We Share Information

We do not sell personal information for monetary payment.

We may disclose information in the following circumstances:

Service Providers

We may share information with companies that help operate our business and Website, including:

• Website hosting providers.

• Email and communication providers.

• Scheduling platforms.

• Payment processors.

• Customer relationship management providers.

• Analytics providers.

• Advertising providers.

• Event and webinar platforms.

• Cloud-storage providers.

• Information technology and cybersecurity providers.

• Accountants, attorneys, consultants, and other professional advisers.

These providers may access personal information only as necessary to provide services to us or as otherwise allowed by their agreements and applicable law.

Business Partners

Information may be shared with a business partner, event organizer, sponsor, referral source, venue, contractor, or program collaborator when reasonably necessary to fulfill your request, administer an event or service, or complete a purpose disclosed to you.

We will not give another organization permission to independently market to you using your personal information unless you have consented or the disclosure is otherwise permitted by law.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or legal process.
Respond to a government or law-enforcement request.
Protect our legal rights, property, safety, clients, users, or the public.
Investigate fraud, security incidents, abuse, or suspected illegal activity.
Enforce an agreement, policy, or contractual obligation.
Business Transactions

Information may be transferred as part of a merger, acquisition, financing, sale of assets, restructuring, bankruptcy, or similar business transaction.

Any successor may use the information subject to this Privacy Policy unless you are notified otherwise.

With Your Direction or Consent

We may disclose information when you request, authorize, or consent to the disclosure.


5. Your Privacy Rights and Choices

Depending on where you live and the laws that apply, you may have the right to:
 

• Request access to personal information we maintain about you.

• Request correction of inaccurate information.

• Request deletion of certain personal information.

• Request a portable copy of certain information.

• Object to or restrict certain processing.

• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.

• Opt out of marketing communications.

• Opt out of certain targeted advertising or data-sharing activities.

• Request information about categories of information collected, used, or disclosed.

• Appeal the denial of an applicable privacy request.

• Submit a complaint to an applicable data-protection authority.

These rights are not absolute. We may deny or limit a request when permitted by law, including when information must be retained for legal, contractual, fraud-prevention, security, accounting, or other legitimate purposes.

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information in the “Contact Us” section below.

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We will use information provided during verification only to confirm identity and process the request.

You may use an authorized agent where permitted by law. We may require proof of the agent’s authority and may also verify your identity directly.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.