Last updated: September 5, 2026
Dana Cole, doing business as Sparks & Swoons Coaching (“Sparks & Swoons,” “Company,” “I,” “we,” or “us”), respects your privacy.
This Privacy Policy explains how information may be collected, used, and protected when you visit www.sparksandswoons.com (the “Website”) or communicate with us directly.
The Website may contain links to separate services used for scheduling, payments, email subscriptions, forms, or other business functions. Those services aren’t hosted within the Website and are governed by their own privacy policies.
Information Collected Through the Website
Information You Provide
The Website may collect information you voluntarily provide, such as:
- Your name and email address
- Information included in a contact form or direct message
- Questions, comments, or other communications you send
- Feedback you choose to provide
Please provide only the information reasonably necessary for your inquiry.
The Website itself doesn’t collect or store:
- Appointment-booking information
- Coaching intake information
- Newsletter subscriptions
- Payment or credit-card information
- Information submitted through external forms or service platforms
If you follow a link to an external service, any information you provide there is collected and processed by that service according to its own privacy policy.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, the Website host or technical services may automatically collect limited information such as:
- Your Internet Protocol address
- Browser and device type
- Operating system
- Referring website
- Pages viewed
- Dates and times of visits
- General geographic region
- Cookie or similar device identifiers
This information may be collected through server logs, cookies, or analytics tools used to operate, secure, and understand Website traffic.
How We Use Information
Information collected through the Website may be used to:
- Operate and maintain the Website
- Respond to questions or inquiries
- Provide requested information
- Understand how visitors use the Website
- Improve Website content and performance
- Protect the Website from misuse, fraud, or security threats
- Maintain appropriate business records
- Comply with legal obligations
- Enforce our agreements and policies
We won’t use information submitted privately as a public testimonial, case study, or marketing story without separate permission.
Coaching Services—Not Therapy
Sparks & Swoons provides personal and creative coaching for writers. Coaching isn’t psychotherapy, counseling, medical treatment, crisis intervention, or mental health treatment.
Visiting the Website, reading its content, or submitting an inquiry doesn’t create a therapist-client or coach-client relationship.
A coaching relationship begins only after the required intake process has been completed and both parties have entered into a separate coaching agreement.
Information submitted through an external coaching application, intake form, scheduling service, or communication platform isn’t collected through this Website. Its handling may be governed by the external provider’s privacy policy and the separate coaching agreement.
External Scheduling, Forms, Payments, and Email Services
The Website may provide links directing you to external services where you can:
- Schedule an appointment
- Complete an application or intake form
- Make a payment
- Subscribe to an email list
- Access another product or service
These functions don’t occur within the Website. Once you follow an external link, information you provide is handled by that third-party service.
Sparks & Swoons doesn’t collect or store complete payment-card or banking information through the Website.
Please review the external provider’s privacy policy before submitting personal or payment information.
Cookies
The Website may use cookies necessary for basic operation, security, performance, and visitor preferences.
Cookies are small files stored on your device when you visit a website. Depending on the Website’s configuration, cookies may help:
- Keep the Website functioning properly
- Remember basic preferences
- Understand Website traffic
- Identify technical problems
- Protect against misuse
You can manage or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how certain Website features function.
Where legally required, nonessential cookies will be used only after appropriate consent.
Website Analytics
If analytics tools are enabled, they may collect general information about Website traffic, such as pages viewed, device type, approximate location, referral source, and time spent on the Website.
This information is used to understand Website performance and improve the visitor experience.
Analytics providers may process information according to their own privacy policies. Where applicable, you may manage analytics cookies through the Website’s cookie settings or your browser.
Social Media
The Website may include links to Sparks & Swoons social-media accounts. These are external links rather than embedded social-media services.
If you follow a link to or interact with us on a social-media platform, that platform may collect and process information according to its own privacy policy.
Information you post publicly on social media may be visible, collected, or shared by others. Avoid sharing private, sensitive, or confidential information through public posts or comments.
External Email Marketing
Email subscriptions and marketing emails are managed outside the Website.
If you choose to subscribe through an external sign-up page, the information you provide will be handled through the email provider’s service and according to its privacy practices.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link included in the message or contacting sparksandswoons@gmail.com.
Unsubscribing from marketing emails won’t prevent necessary service-related messages, such as responses to inquiries or communications concerning something you purchased or scheduled.
We don’t sell or rent our email list.
Third-Party Links
The Website may link to third-party websites or services for scheduling, forms, payments, email subscriptions, social media, products, resources, or other purposes.
We don’t own or control those websites. Once you leave the Sparks & Swoons Website, this Privacy Policy no longer governs how information is collected or used.
Third-party services are responsible for their own:
- Privacy practices
- Data collection
- Cookies and tracking technologies
- Security
- Payment processing
- Terms and policies
We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any external service before providing personal information or completing a transaction.
How We Share Website Information
We may share information collected through the Website with limited service providers that help us host, maintain, secure, or analyze the Website.
We may also disclose information:
- When required by law, subpoena, court order, or valid governmental request
- When reasonably necessary to protect our rights, property, Website, or safety
- To investigate suspected fraud, misuse, or unlawful activity
- In connection with a sale, merger, restructuring, or transfer of the business
- With your direction or consent
We don’t sell personal information for money.
Certain analytics activities may legally be considered “sharing” in some jurisdictions even when no money is exchanged. Where applicable, we will provide legally required choices.
Data Retention
Information collected through the Website is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- Respond to an inquiry
- Operate and secure the Website
- Maintain appropriate business records
- Fulfill legal or contractual obligations
- Resolve disputes
- Enforce agreements
When information is no longer reasonably necessary, it may be deleted, anonymized, or securely disposed of, subject to applicable law.
Information submitted to external services is retained according to those providers’ policies and any agreements governing the service.
Data Security
We use reasonable administrative and technical measures intended to protect information collected through the Website.
However, no website, internet transmission, or electronic-storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.
If you believe information you submitted through the Website has been compromised, contact sparksandswoons@gmail.com.
International Visitors
If you access the Website from outside the United States, limited Website information may be transferred to or processed in the United States or another country where the Website host or technical providers operate.
Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live. Where required, legally recognized safeguards will be used.
Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information held about you
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of certain information
- Restrict or object to certain processing
- Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent
- Request a portable copy of certain information
- Opt out of certain selling, sharing, or targeted advertising
- Lodge a complaint with an appropriate privacy regulator
These rights aren’t absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions.
To submit a request concerning information collected through the Website, email sparksandswoons@gmail.com with the subject line Privacy Request.
For information submitted to an external provider, you may also need to contact that provider directly.
European Privacy Rights
Where European privacy laws apply, personal information may be processed based on:
- Your consent
- Steps requested before entering a contract
- Performance of a contract
- Compliance with a legal obligation
- Legitimate business interests that don’t override your rights
- Another legally permitted basis
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent. Withdrawal doesn’t affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.
You may also have the right to complain to the data-protection authority in your country.
California Residents
California privacy laws apply only when their legal requirements are met.
Where applicable, California residents may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, and certain uses or disclosures of their personal information.
Sparks & Swoons doesn’t sell personal information for money.
To submit a request, email sparksandswoons@gmail.com with the subject line California Privacy Request.
Do Not Track and Privacy Signals
Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there isn’t a universally accepted standard for responding to these signals, the Website may not respond to traditional Do Not Track requests.
Where legally required and technically supported, recognized browser-based privacy signals will be processed according to applicable law.
Children’s Privacy
The Website and Sparks & Swoons services are intended for adults who are at least 18 years old.
We don’t knowingly collect personal information from children through the Website. If you believe a child has submitted information, contact sparksandswoons@gmail.com so we can review and, when appropriate, delete it.
Changes to This Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated when the Website, business practices, technology, or legal obligations change.
The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date.
Contact
For questions, concerns, or privacy requests, contact:
Dana Cole
Sparks & Swoons Coaching
Email: sparksandswoons@gmail.com
Website: www.sparksandswoons.com