Privacy Policy

SHINE Formation Series website is owned by SHINE Formation Resources, which is a data controller of your personal data.

We have adopted this Privacy Policy, which determines how we are processing the information collected by SHINE Formation Series, which also provides the reasons why we must collect certain personal data about you. Therefore, you must read this Privacy Policy before using SHINE Formation Series website.

We take care of your personal data and undertake to guarantee its confidentiality and security.

Personal information we collect:

Our hosting provider may process technical information, including your IP address, requested pages, browser information and the time of a request, to deliver and protect the website. Optional Google Analytics measurement is separate and starts only after you accept analytics in our privacy choices panel. The details of that measurement are set out below.

When you contact SHINE Formation Resources, we receive the contact details and other information you choose to send us. Purchases reached through links on this website are handled on the retailer’s website under its own privacy terms.

Why do we process your data?

We process the information needed to operate and secure the website and to respond to enquiries. Our legitimate interests include maintaining a reliable website and communicating with people who contact us. Optional Google Analytics measurement relies on your consent, as described below.

You can read the website and follow its book and sample links without accepting analytics or sending us your contact details. To ask about the information we process, contact contact@shineformation.com.

Google Analytics and your cookie choices

Analytics and cookie information updated: 16 September 2026.

With your consent, we use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google, to understand how people use the SHINE website and to improve its pages and resources. Measurement may include pages viewed, visit duration, referring websites or campaign links, browser and device information, approximate location, clicks on links to other websites and clicks on sample download links. These statistics do not tell us whether you complete a purchase on Amazon.

Google Analytics uses cookie identifiers to distinguish browsers. This is pseudonymous information and may constitute personal data. We do not intentionally send your name, email address or payment details to Analytics. For visitors in the United Kingdom, European Union or Switzerland, Google states that Analytics derives approximate location from IP addresses before discarding them, without logging or storing those addresses. The website tag disables Google signals and advertising personalisation and keeps advertising consent denied.

Analytics is optional

We use an opt-in approach for all visitors. Before you accept analytics, this website does not load its Google Analytics library, set its analytics cookies or send analytics measurements to Google. Selecting Decline analytics keeps this measurement off. Simply continuing to browse does not grant consent.

You can change or withdraw your choice through Cookie settings in the footer of any page. Withdrawing consent stops further measurement from this installation, removes its accessible analytics cookies and reloads the page to unload the Google library. Withdrawal does not undo processing that took place while consent was given.

What is stored on your device

shine_analytics_consent_v1 is a local-storage entry used to remember your accepted or declined choice for up to 180 days. It records the choice, its date, its expiry and the consent-notice version. It does not contain a visitor identifier and is not sent to Google. This storage supports your privacy choice.

After you accept, the first-party cookies _ga and _ga_8M3179M8XV help Google Analytics distinguish browsers and maintain session information. This website configures an expiry of up to 180 days from creation, without extending that expiry on each visit. Your browser may remove them sooner. These cookie lifetimes are separate from retention of data already received by Google Analytics.

Your choice applies to this browser on this website. Clearing browser storage, using another browser or reaching the end of the 180-day period may cause the privacy choices panel to appear again. When browser storage is unavailable, your choice may apply only to the current page.

Google, retention and your rights

Analytics information is processed by Google and may be processed outside the United Kingdom or European Economic Area under the safeguards described in Google’s applicable data-processing terms. Event-level information is subject to the retention settings in our Analytics property; aggregated reporting can remain available for longer. Please contact us for information about the current settings or to raise a data-protection enquiry.

Further information is available in Google’s privacy policy, its explanation of data from sites that use Google services, and the Google data-processing terms.

Change analytics choice

Your rights:

If you are a European resident, you have the following rights related to your personal data:

• The right to be informed.

• The right of access.

• The right to rectification.

• The right to erasure.

• The right to restrict processing.

• The right to data portability.

• The right to object.

• Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling.

If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

The legal basis for processing depends on its purpose: consent for optional Analytics, and the relevant contractual or legitimate-interest basis for other processing described in this policy. Additionally, please note that your information might be transferred outside of Europe, including Canada and the United States.

Links to other websites:

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not owned or controlled by us. Please be aware that we are not responsible for such other websites or third parties' privacy practices. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our website and read the privacy statements of each website that may collect personal information.

Information security:

We secure information you provide on computer servers in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorised access, use, or disclosure. We keep reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorised access, use, modification, and personal data disclosure in its control and custody. However, no data transmission over the Internet or wireless network can be guaranteed.

Legal disclosure:

We will disclose any information we collect, use or receive if required or permitted by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, and when we believe in good faith that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, protect your safety or the safety of others, investigate fraud, or respond to a government request.

Contact information:

If you would like to contact us to understand more about this Policy or wish to contact us concerning any matter relating to individual rights and your Personal Information, you may send an email to contact@shineformation.com