Privacy Policy

The South Carolina Spa & Wellness Association, organizer of World Wellness Weekend, South Carolina (collectively, “South Carolina Spa & Wellness Association”, “SCSWA”, “we”, “our”, or “us”), based in Charleston, South Carolina, United States of America, provides this website and related applications available to visitors, sponsors, exhibitors, and members located throughout the world. Our website includes, without limitation, scwellness.org and any related pages or subdomains we operate (collectively, our “Sites”). Our Sites are controlled and operated from the United States and are subject to United States law.

The South Carolina Spa & Wellness Association respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Sites and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

• On our Sites.
• In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and our Sites, including sponsorship inquiries, RSVP submissions, and newsletter sign-ups.
• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

• The South Carolina Spa & Wellness Association offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by any third party; or
• any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Sites.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is to not use our Sites. By accessing or using the Sites, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of the Sites after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children Under the Age of 13

Our Sites are not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Sites. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on the Sites or on or through any of its features. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at: Dayleann@LuxwellSolutions.com

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Sites, and usage details. We collect this information automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies.

Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Sites may include:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Sites, including sponsorship and exhibitor inquiries, room rental requests, and our RSVP & updates sign-up form (name, email address, phone number, organization, and message). We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Sites.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Sites, we may use automatic data collection technologies, including Google Analytics, to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Sites, including traffic data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Sites.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically may include personal information or we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Sites and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Sites according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Sites.

No mobile details or personally identifiable information (PII) will be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes.

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Sites and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, including sponsorship details, event updates, and RSVP confirmations.
• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered between you and us, including for billing and collection related to sponsorships and room rentals.
• To notify you about changes to our Sites or any products or services we offer or provide through it.
• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
• For any other purpose with your consent.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

• To our affiliated organizations and event partners.
• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business, including payment processing (Authorize.Net), email delivery, and event coordination services.
• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other transfer of some or all of the South Carolina Spa & Wellness Association’s assets, in which personal information held about our Sites users is among the assets transferred.
• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the South Carolina Spa & Wellness Association, our members, sponsors, or others.

Cookies and Tokens

We use tracking technologies, such as cookies, local storage, and pixel tags as described further below.

Cookies. Cookies may be set and accessed on your computer. Upon your first visit to our Sites, a cookie will be sent to your computer that uniquely identifies your browser. “Cookies” are small files containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer’s browser and stored on your device when you visit a website. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent; however, if you reject cookies, you may not be able to take full advantage of our Sites. Additionally, if you clear all cookies on your browser, you may need to reset any privacy settings in your browser which are stored in cookies.

Our Sites use the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below:

You can find more information about cookies and how to manage or delete them at allaboutcookies.org and youronlinechoices.com.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us:

• Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
• Email Communications. If you sign up for updates via our RSVP form or newsletter and later wish to stop receiving communications from us, contact us at the email below and we will remove you from our list.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Sites home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for periodically visiting our Sites and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at Dayleann@LuxwellSolutions.com.