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This policy explains how Balance Integration Group LLC handles information through the current website. It reflects the site’s present forms and email systems and includes the adults-only BIG Universe Founding Guest Pilot.
Last updated: October 20, 2026
This website is operated by Balance Integration Group LLC (“BIG”). The primary website is BalanceIntegrationGroup.org. This policy describes information handled through the current website, including Contact, the BIG Reader List, The Inner Walk™ Companion Pack, and related site functions.
When you contact BIG, you may provide your name, email address, category, subject, and message. When you join the BIG Reader List, you provide an email address and may provide a first name. When you request The Inner Walk™ Companion Pack, you provide an email address and may provide a first name. Additional information should be supplied only when it is genuinely necessary for your request. In the adults-only BIG Universe Founding Guest Pilot, volunteers provide a preferred name or nickname, email, preferred participation type, and optional brief story idea. We also record adult-status confirmation, permission to contact them about this pilot, acknowledgment of the participation terms, and acknowledgment of this policy. The first inquiry does not request photographs, legal names, physical addresses, or information about children.
The BIG Reader List and Companion Pack use confirmation-based signup flows. BIG may temporarily store signup information, confirmation tokens, timestamps, and related consent or security records needed to verify that the email owner requested the subscription and to prevent abuse. Confirmation links expire after a limited period. Guest-pilot participation is separate from newsletter subscriptions and does not add someone to marketing lists. Registration alone does not authorize publication of a person's name, recognizable likeness, or identifying biography. Selected participants will be asked for separate written permissions before any such use.
Contact-form submissions may be stored in WordPress and sent by email to Balance Integration Group LLC. The form may also record technical submission metadata such as date, time, page URL, browser/user-agent information, and IP address for operational, troubleshooting, abuse-prevention, and security purposes. Guest-pilot submissions are stored as private WordPress administrative records and are reviewed only by authorized BIG personnel. An administrator notification is sent without submitted names, emails, or story ideas. These submissions are not automatically published, provided to Amazon KDP, or transferred into BIG's marketing systems.
BIG uses personal information to provide requested resources, confirm subscriptions, send the Reader List or Companion Pack messages you requested, respond to inquiries, maintain records of consent, protect the site, prevent abuse, troubleshoot problems, improve website operations, and comply with legal obligations. In the guest pilot, submitted information is used to consider brief story ideas and optional fictional guest participation, and to contact the adult about the specific opportunity when appropriate. Registration does not promise publication, payment, royalties, or a place in a published story. Separate permission is required for recognizable portrayals; any later reference photographs require private handling and confirmation of likeness and relevant photographer rights.
After a subscription is confirmed, BIG may send confirmed subscriber information to its email-service provider, currently Blastable, so the requested email sequence or Reader List can be delivered. Email messages may contain standard delivery and engagement data used to operate the mailing service, such as delivery status, opens, or link interactions where supported by the provider and applicable settings.
BIG uses WordPress and related hosting, security, caching, and infrastructure services to operate the site. Cloudflare services, including Turnstile on protected forms, may process technical information needed to distinguish legitimate visitors from automated abuse and to protect the website. Service providers process information under their own terms and privacy practices.
The site may use cookies or similar technologies that are necessary for WordPress administration, logged-in sessions, security, form protection, caching, preferences, and basic site operation. Third-party embedded content, if present, may set its own cookies or collect information as though you visited that third party directly. BIG should disclose any future advertising or nonessential tracking practices before enabling them where required.
Pages may link to or embed content from third-party services. Those services may collect information under their own privacy policies. BIG does not control the privacy practices of external websites, retailers, media platforms, or other third parties.
BIG keeps information only as long as reasonably necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, for operational and consent records, for security and troubleshooting, or where retention is required by law. Contact messages, confirmed email records, and technical logs may have different retention periods. BIG's Founding Guest Pilot retention procedure calls for deleting unselected inquiries within 90 days of submission and invited inquiries that do not proceed within 12 months, unless an applicable legal obligation or renewed interest calls for longer retention. Longer retention of separately signed rights and publication agreements may be necessary. Reviews and deletions are managed manually; no automatic deletion of guest inquiries is currently represented as active.
You may unsubscribe from marketing or Reader List emails using the unsubscribe link or method provided in those messages. You may also contact BIG to ask about personal information you have provided through the website, request correction where appropriate, or request deletion subject to legal, security, consent-record, and operational retention requirements. Founding Guest Pilot participants may request correction or withdrawal of an unpublished inquiry through BIG's Contact page. If an individual has separately authorized a published portrayal, any withdrawal rights or limitations are explained in that agreement.
The website is intended for a general audience and is not designed to knowingly collect personal information from children through mailing-list or contact forms without appropriate authorization. If you believe a child has submitted personal information inappropriately, contact BIG so the issue can be reviewed. The Founding Guest Pilot is restricted to adults at least 18 years old. Any future children's-story participation will require a separate parent- or guardian-managed process and additional privacy review before information about children is collected.
Balance Integration Group LLC does not sell personal information to advertisers. If future website functionality materially changes how personal information is used or shared, this policy should be updated before or when that change becomes effective.
This Privacy Policy may be updated as the website, email systems, security tools, workshops, media, or future commerce capabilities change. Material revisions will be reflected by the updated date shown above.
Use the Contact page if you have a question about information you submitted through the website or want to request an appropriate correction or deletion.
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