Privacy Policy
Welcome!
At Shining Star Consulting, Inc., we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website https://www.shiningstarconsulting.com/, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website, or mobile application related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).
Information We Collect
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We may collect personal information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:
Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address.
Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site.
Mobile Device Data: Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and information about the location of your device, if you access the Site from a mobile device
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How We Use Information
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We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:
By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Site to:
Provide services
Improve website performance
Analyze traffic and user behavior
Respond to inquiries
Prevent fraud and abuse
Comply with legal obligations
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Cookies and Tracking Technologies
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This website collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. We also provide this information with Google for storage.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
Consent to Cookies and Tracking
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California Privacy Rights
Data Security
Sale of your information
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Third-Party Links
Do Not Track
Children’s Privacy
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Changes to This Policy
Contact Us
Your rights
Right to know: Ask what personal data a company collects and shares.
Right to delete: Request that businesses erase the data they collected from you.
Right to opt-out: Tell companies to stop selling or sharing your data.
Exercising your rights
Cookie banners: Use preference centers on popups to reject tracking cookies instead of clicking "Accept All"
Browser controls: Turn on Global Privacy Control or block third-party cookies in your web browser settings.
Submit requests: Contact Shining Star Consulting, Inc. (See “Contact Us” below) to submit a formal privacy request.
If you are a California resident, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), including rights to:
Know what personal information we collect
Request deletion
Correct inaccurate information
Limit certain data uses
Opt out of sale or sharing
To exercise your rights, contact us at:
Email: operations@shiningstarconsulting.com
Phone: (510) 633-3205
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.
We have implemented the following measures to protect and safeguard your personal information:
Limiting the amount of personal information that we collect to strictly necessary only
Using SSL encryption or other secure technologies when receiving or sending personal information beyond internal networks
Performing regular risk assessments
Mitigating risks by following a risk treatment plan
Having comprehensive written security policies and procedures
Screening (e.g. performing background checks) all employees with access to personal information
Training our employees on best security practices
We do not sell your personal information.
Please see the “Your Rights” section above for more information about exercising your privacy rights
regarding sales of your personal information.
This Website may contain hyperlinks to websites operated by parties other than us. We provide such hyperlinks for your reference only. We do not control such websites and are not responsible for their contents or the privacy or other practices of such websites. It is up to you to read and fully understand their Privacy Policies. Our inclusion of hyperlinks to such websites does not imply any endorsement of the material on such websites or any association with their operators.
We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a preference you can set on your browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can either enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your browser.
We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 13. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 13, please contact us using the contact information provided below.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically. Changes become effective upon posting. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
Shining Star Consulting, Inc.
1831 Solano Ave. #8058
Berkeley, CA 94707
(510) 633-3205