Privacy Policy

Happiness Circle™ is founded by Nevriye Yesil and operates from Lakewood Ranch, Florida, United States. For any privacy question or request, contact us through our contact page. Happiness Circle is the controller of the personal information described here.

• Information you give us: name, email address, phone number (optional), city or location, subject and message content when you use a form, join a waitlist, subscribe to the newsletter, or apply to become a facilitator.
• Facilitator information: where you are listed publicly as a circle facilitator, your name, city and the contact details you provide are shown on the public directory and map with your consent.
• Technical information: IP address, browser type, device type, pages viewed, referring page and approximate location derived from your IP, collected automatically when you visit.
• Cookies and similar technologies: see our Cookie Policy.

We do not knowingly collect special categories of data (such as health or religious information) and we ask you not to submit them through our forms.

• To respond to your enquiries and provide the information you request.
• To add you to a city waitlist and tell you when a circle opens near you.
• To send you our newsletter and community updates where you have opted in.
• To review and process facilitator certification applications.
• To operate, secure, maintain and improve the website.
• To comply with legal obligations and to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

• Consent: newsletter, marketing emails, non-essential cookies, public facilitator listings. You may withdraw consent at any time.
• Contract: handling your facilitator application or participation in a circle.
• Legitimate interests: running and securing the site, answering messages, understanding how the site is used.
• Legal obligation: record keeping and responding to lawful requests.

We do not sell or rent your personal information and we do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising. We share it only with:

• Service providers who host the site, store our database, and deliver email on our behalf, under contract and only for those purposes.
• Local circle facilitators, where you ask to join a circle in their city.
• Authorities or advisers where required by law or to protect our rights and the safety of our community.
• A successor entity in the event of a merger, acquisition or reorganisation.

We are based in the United States and our providers may process data in the United States and other countries. Where information is transferred out of the EEA or the UK, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses.

We keep personal information only as long as needed for the purposes above: newsletter and waitlist data until you unsubscribe or ask us to delete it, contact messages for up to 24 months, facilitator application records for up to five years, and longer only where law requires.

We use encryption in transit, access controls and row level database security to protect your information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to:

• Access a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
• Correct information that is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Delete your information (right to be forgotten).
• Restrict or object to certain processing, including direct marketing.
• Receive your information in a portable format.
• Withdraw consent at any time, without affecting processing already carried out.
• Not be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights (California residents).

To exercise any right, contact us through the contact page or use the unsubscribe link in any email. We respond within 30 days (45 days for California requests, extendable where permitted). EEA and UK residents may also complain to their local supervisory authority.

In the past 12 months we have collected identifiers, contact details and internet activity information as described above. We have not sold or shared personal information as those terms are defined by the CCPA/CPRA, and we do not knowingly process the personal information of anyone under 16.

The website is intended for adults. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child has provided us information, contact us and we will delete it.

Our site links to third party platforms such as Skool, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok and YouTube. Their privacy practices are their own and we encourage you to read their policies.

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it last changed, and material changes will be highlighted on the site.