The following Privacy Policy relates to how your data is used whenever you visit EleniVardaki.com, work with me, or consume any of my other related websites, guest blog articles, interviews, or social media pages.
Please read this policy carefully and come back here to catch up on updates of how I use your data. Be aware that this policy can change at any time, in order to respect any new privacy policy laws or regulations. Check back here if you’d like to stay updated on any changes.
As a user of this website and/or as a consumer of my content anywhere else on the web, you consent to this Privacy Policy.
Personal Data Collection: I will never sell or trade your e-mail address or any information that you submit to me. If decide to sign up to my e-mail list and you decide that you want to stop receiving e-mails from me, all you need to do is to scroll down to the bottom of the newsletter e-mail. There, you will find the word that says “Unsubscribe”. Click on “Unsubscribe”, and you will automatically be removed from my mailing list.
When you sign up to my newsletter or hire me, you’ll receive relevant information about how you, your child, or your school can change their habits to change their life, by focusing more, stressing less and motivating themselves. The personal data I collect during the process of working together one-to-one is done to provide you with services that are customized to your goals, interests, and needs. I do sometimes also use client case studies or stories as examples in the free content I create online and on social media. I made a decision back in 2018 to always use pseudonyms in the articles and videos I create where I share examples from my work, and to do whatever it takes to make sure the personal identity of my clients is protected (even when my clients have told me they are happy for me to use their name and go public). In very rare cases, only with the written (and on-going) consent of a client, will I share a person’s real name.
One of the reasons why I create free content that sometimes includes client success stories is for marketing purposes, so that the people who need help and think my services would be a good fit can have a better understanding of the kind of work I do. The second reason is that I’m keen to help bridge the gap between mainstream education and the well-being skills students need to thrive in the 21st century. There are issues in mainstream education, both in schools and in universities, that I am keen to help raise awareness off through my articles, videos and my guest writer article series, as well as any other guest speaker or writer appearances I agree to do on the internet. I believe we need to start talking about the elephants in the room in education if we are to help co-create the structural, systemic change that we want to see in mainstream education.
Children’s Privacy Statement: As a personal mentor, I mostly work with families who want to hire me to help their child focus more, stress less, or motivate themselves. I also work with undergraduate university students and recent graduates who are experiencing a stressful first work or internship-related situation that they would like my professionals support in navigating to better manage their stress and/or anxiety. As part of my practice of continued professional development and self-reflection, I always invite the youths I work with, and my clients (their parents) to fill in a review form after the intervention. The data I publish on my website is through consent, and with respect to the parent’s or youth’s desire to be anonymous (through the use of a pseudonym), if they wish to protect identity.
As a matter of principle, I always use pseudonyms in my educational and marketing material wherever I share an anecdote or a success story/review from one of my young clients, unless my clients opt-in to wanting to go by their real name, or have a photo uploaded next to their testimonial.
With regards to my newsletter, I do not knowingly allow children under 17 to sign up to my newsletter. Given that the content I share on my blog is focused on helping pre-university students (ages 17-19), and their supporters (parents, teachers, school leaders) work towards their goals with more ease and joy, the focus of any free educational content I create for school age exam students is to become more emotionally and mentally prepared for the academic challenges they face by developing their well-being skills.
GDPR: If you live in the EU, know that you have the right to request deletion of any personal data you shared with me via my website, one-to-one services, or contact forms under the “right to be forgotten”. As an EU resident, you also have the right to find out what personal data I have stored in my systems, which you can do by getting in touch with me at eleni@elenivardaki.com
Exercise Your Rights: You may, as a visitor to our website, choose not to provide me with personal information. You may also, at any time, request to know what personal information I have in my system, and to correct or delete certain personal information about you by contacting me at eleni (at) elenivardaki.com. You also have the right to obtain from me the erasure of personal data about you in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. In addition, you may decide not to opt–in, either when you first provide elenivardaki with any personal information. Please be aware that even if you update or remove personal information that you have provided to us, your personal information may be retained in our backup files and archives for a reasonable period of time for legal purposes.
Last update: November 2022
