Privacy Policy

At Leadership-Tools.com, our privacy policy is written with your safety and security in mind. We recognize that your privacy is of the utmost importance.

Nobody enjoys signing up for a newsletter and then finding their inbox full of mail from companies they've never heard of. That doesn't happen here. We don't sell email addresses, we don't rent them, and we don't hand them to partners.

This page explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. We've written it in plain language.

Cookies and Consent

A cookie is a small piece of information a website stores in your browser. We use them to understand how people find and move through the site so we can make it better.

When you first visit, you'll see a consent notice. Nothing optional is set until you respond to it. You can change your mind later through your browser settings, described further down.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics 4 to see which pages get visited, which tools get downloaded, and roughly where in the world our readers are. It tells us that a few hundred people opened the performance appraisal page last month. It doesn't tell us who they were.

Google stores this data on its servers and processes it under its own privacy policy, at https://policies.google.com/privacy. 

If you'd rather not be counted, Google offers a browser opt-out at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/.

Furthermore where we use Google's Search Box on Leadership-Tools.com, we are required to post the following from Google:

Leadership-Tools.com uses information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. We use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to our website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your usage of it.

In order to do a year to year comparison on any data collected by Google Analytics, we have set our Data Retention settings at Google Analytics to 38 months, after which Google will automatically delete the data.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on via this link:  https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Google Fonts

The site's typefaces load from Google's font service. That means your browser makes a request to Google on each page, and your IP address is visible to Google as part of it. We don't receive that information and we don't use it.

Advertising Cookies

We use the following third-party advertising companies to serve ads on our website:

• Google Adsense
  

These companies use cookies and web beacons in their ads to ascertain how many times you've seen an advertisement. We share this information with these companies, but do not provide them with any personally identifiable information for cookie or web beacon use, so they cannot personally identify you with that information from our website.

You may opt out of personalized ads for over 125 different ad networks. Click here to do that.

Some third-party advertisements are served by Google. Google's cookie enables it to serve ads to our visitors based on their visits to other sites on the Web. You may opt out of personalized ads by visiting the Google ad opt-out page

This link from Google provides more information about how Google manages data in its ad products.

Affiliate Links

We receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on Leadership-Tools.com.

The affiliate services platforms we currently use are Amazon and Sitesell.

Clicking one of those links sets a cookie from that company so they can attribute the referral. It costs you nothing extra, and it never affects what we recommend. Their privacy policies are below.

• Amazon privacy policy
• Sitesell privacy policy

Social Sharing Buttons

Our pages include sharing buttons provided by ShareThis, which lets you post a page to Facebook, X, Pinterest, and elsewhere. ShareThis sets its own cookies and operates under its own privacy policy at https://www.sharethis.com/privacy/. We don't receive any data from it.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to block cookies, accept them selectively, or warn you before one is set. Check your browser's help section for instructions.

Blocking cookies won't stop you reading the site or downloading any tool. A few interactive features may not behave normally.

California Consumer Privacy Act Statement

Leadership-Tools.com has not sold or shared the personal information of site visitors in the past twelve months, and we have no plans to. California residents have the right to know what personal information we hold, to request its deletion, and not to be treated differently for exercising those rights. To make a request, write to richard@leadership-tools.com.

Information You Give Us

We only collect what you hand us directly.

• Newsletter signup: your first name and email address. That's it.
• Contact or feedback forms: your name, email address, and whatever you write in the message.
• Nothing else. We don't require registration to download tools, and we never ask for a payment method.

We use your email address to send the newsletter, to let you know when new or improved tools are published, and to reply if you've written to us. Every email carries an unsubscribe link at the bottom, and unsubscribing takes one click.

You can read this entire site and download every tool without giving us anything at all.

If you complete a form, we will require your name and your email address, and will ask for information relevant to the purpose of the form.

If you submit content to us, we will ask for your name and email address. Photos you include with your submission, or details in your submission, may personally identify you.

If you request to be notified about comments on any content you submit to us, or request to be notified when others submit content, we will require your first name and your email address.

If you purchase a product or service from us, we will collect your name, email address, billing address and credit card number.

You can always refuse to supply personally identifiable information and visit our site anonymously. However, it may prevent you from engaging in certain site-related activities.

If we make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, we will inform you by placing a notice on our site. We will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only and will not sell it or provide it to third parties.

We also collect each visitor's IP address, which helps us combat spam and fraud. We do not use IP addresses for any other purpose.

Leadership-Tools.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have clicked on them and leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Donations

If you choose to support the site through the donation link, the transaction is handled entirely by PayPal. Your card details go to PayPal, never to us. We see only that a donation arrived and the name PayPal passes along. PayPal's privacy policy is at https://www.paypal.com/us/legalhub/privacy-full.

Information Collected Automatically

Like most websites, we log technical details when you visit: browser type, operating system, device category, referring page, and IP address. IP addresses help us identify spam and abuse. We don't use them for anything else and we don't try to connect them to individuals.

Children's Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Sharing Your Information

We don't sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We share it only in these situations:

• With the service providers who run the site and send our email, described in the next section.
• If the law requires it, or to protect our rights or someone's safety.
• If Leadership-Tools.com is ever sold, your information may transfer to the new owner so the newsletter can continue. We'd post notice on the site and make reasonable efforts to see that opt-out requests are honored.

Where Your Data Is Stored

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

Correcting or Removing Your Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through our website and would like to review that information, click on GDRP Review 

Next, you can also request to edit, download or delete any of your information from the servers, just click on GDRP Request

Privacy Policy Updates

When we change this policy, we'll update the date below. Material changes to how we collect personal information will also be posted on the site.

Revised 8-16-26