Privacy Policy

Buckets and Barrels™ · brainbarrels.com

PLEASE READ THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY AND IN ITS ENTIRETY BEFORE USING BRAINBARRELS.COM (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS THE "SITE").

This Privacy Policy is here to better serve those who are concerned with how their information is used online. The following describes what type of information we collect, what it is used for, and the measures we take to protect it.

IMPORTANT NOTE: By using the Site and/or purchasing, viewing, downloading, or otherwise signing up to receive Mind Measures LLC email list newsletter, social media posts, blog posts, courses, coaching services, guides, eBooks, forms, worksheets, workbooks, website materials, Clarity Guides, the Bottleneck Finder, the Fill Finder Questionnaire, the Pattern of Strengths and Weaknesses result, Bucket Hollow character videos and cards, printable materials, and/or the AI Tutor (hereinafter collectively referred to as the "Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products"), you voluntarily agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact Rhonda Austin at rhonda@brainbarrels.com.

If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy, do not use or browse the Site.

1. Definitions

"Company", "We", "I", "Our", or "Us" means Mind Measures LLC and www.brainbarrels.com.

"Content" means any and all written, visual, video, or audio information contained on the Site, including, but not limited to, any and all emails received from Rhonda Austin, Mind Measures LLC, or brainbarrels.com, and any and all written or downloadable material purchased, viewed, or otherwise offered on brainbarrels.com, such as blog posts, graphics, designs, documents, information, templates and materials.

"Personal Information" means information that can be used on its own or in conjunction with other information to identify, contact, or locate a person, or to identify an individual in context. For example, personal information includes, among other things, your name, address, email address, telephone number, credit card information, site behavior, etc.

"Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products" means brainbarrels.com, Content, email list, social media posts, blog posts, courses, coaching services, guides, eBooks, forms, worksheets, workbooks, website materials, Clarity Guides, the Bottleneck Finder, the Fill Finder Questionnaire, Bucket Hollow character videos and cards, printable materials, and/or the AI Tutor available on the Site.

"Site" means brainbarrels.com and any and all of the Company's associated pages, tabs, landing pages, forms, or sub-pages.

"You" or "Your" means the user, customer, or viewer of the Site.

2. Company Statement

The Site and its Content are owned by Mind Measures LLC.

Mind Measures LLC is committed to protecting your Personal Information. We will only collect or use your Personal Information in accordance with the Privacy Policy herein.

3. What Kind of Personal Information Do We Collect?

Personal Information You Provide

When using the Site, and in filling out forms, purchasing products, providing comments, or contacting us, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, website address, mailing address, payment or credit card information. We use this information to deliver the product purchased, or information requested, to improve the performance and applicability of the Site, and to provide you with educational content, newsletters, promotions, and special offers.

Personal Information Automatically Collected

We do not run Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, or any other analytics or advertising tag on the Site. Like every website, our hosting provider keeps standard server records of requests made to the Site, which include your IP address, the pages requested, the approximate geographic region that address resolves to, and the browser and device type. Those records are kept by our host to run and secure the Site.

The Site loads its typefaces from Google Fonts. That request tells Google your IP address and browser, in the same way any request to any web server does. Google Fonts is the only third party involved in loading a page of this Site.

We collect this information for statistical purposes only and to improve the viewer experience.

4. What If the Personal Information We Have About You Is Incorrect or You Want to Update It?

If the Personal Information we have collected about you is incorrect or incomplete in any way, or you would like to update what we have, please contact Rhonda Austin at rhonda@brainbarrels.com. We will make the appropriate corrections when notified, as long as the corrections requested to be made are not incorrect or fraudulent in any way.

5. When Do We Collect Personal Information?

We collect Personal Information from you when you purchase, order, or sign up on and for the Site, Courses, Services, and Products, download our freebies or resources, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, browse the Site, view Content, make purchases, request or book a consultation, enter any of your Personal Information on the Site, engage Rhonda Austin or Mind Measures LLC in any of our service areas, and/or contact us directly by email. If you are just viewing the Site, you will not be required to provide personal information to browse.

The questionnaires do not send us anything. The Fill Finder Questionnaire, the Fill Finder for Kids, the Bottleneck Finder and the Individual Profile run entirely inside your own web browser. Your entries are held in your browser's local storage so that you can stop and come back, and they are never transmitted to us or to anyone else. They carry no name. You can erase them at any time with the tool's "Start over" control or by clearing your browser data.

Forms on the Site are handled by our website hosting provider's built-in form service, which receives and stores your submission on its servers on our behalf. This includes the email address you provide when joining our list.

If you become a client. Information you provide once you engage us for professional services is handled under the terms of your written client agreement and the professional and legal obligations that apply to those services. This Privacy Policy governs the Site. It does not govern client records, and nothing in it should be read as describing how professional service records are created, kept, released, or destroyed.

If you are outside of the EU: if you sign up to receive any freebies, downloads, webinars, recordings, courses, or services from the Company, or purchase any products or services from us, you will automatically be added to our email list to receive free email messages from us. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking "UNSUBSCRIBE" at the bottom of each email. If you have any questions, or difficulty unsubscribing from those emails, email Rhonda Austin at rhonda@brainbarrels.com to be unsubscribed from future messages.

If you are IN the EU: if you sign up to receive any freebies, downloads, webinars, recordings, courses, or services from the Company, or purchase any products or services from us, you will only be added to our email list to receive free email messages from us if you affirmatively consent to receiving such messages. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking "UNSUBSCRIBE" at the bottom of each email. If you have any questions, or difficulty unsubscribing from those emails, email Rhonda Austin at rhonda@brainbarrels.com to be unsubscribed from future messages.

6. How Do We Use Your Personal Information?

When using the Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products, we may use the Personal Information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication (typically by email), browse the Site, or use certain other Site features in the following ways:

• To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
• To improve our Site in order to better serve you.
• To allow us to better serve you in response to your customer service requests.
• To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other Site feature.
• To quickly process your transactions on and for the Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products.
• To send periodic emails regarding the Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products.
• To tailor social media (i.e., Facebook, Instagram, etc.) advertisements to you.

7. Do We Share Your Personal Information With Anyone?

In general, we do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside (third) parties your Personal Information for marketing or advertising purposes, except for the following purposes:

• In order to comply with an investigation, law enforcement inquiry, government entities, courts, or other third parties as required or allowed by applicable law, such as for legal and/or safety purposes.
• Third-party service providers that provide products, tools, platforms or services to us, such as website hosting and form handling, email-list building, payment processing, scheduling and booking, customer service, account maintenance, and performing other activities and services related to the management and running of our company.

We may disclose your Personal Information to our subsidiaries, contractors, subcontractors, assigns, affiliates or successors in interest when necessary to carry out our business functions. This may include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, email service, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.

We do not provide visitor information, personally identifiable or otherwise, to any party for marketing or advertising purposes. If you make your personal information available to third parties through our Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products, Mind Measures LLC is not responsible for any unauthorized use by that third party.

It is also important to note that we do not allow third-party behavioral tracking.

8. How Do We Protect Your Personal Information?

We aim to make your visit to our Site as safe as possible. The Site uses commercially acceptable methods of security protection to protect your information.

We also use an SSL certificate and never transmit your credit card information by email.

Your Personal Information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the Personal Information confidential. By viewing, using, or purchasing on or from the Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products, you acknowledge that Mind Measures LLC and its staff and independent contractors may access your Personal Information.

In addition, all sensitive credit card or payment information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order to maintain the safety of your Personal Information. All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

9. Do We Use Cookies or Social Media Pixels?

Cookies. The Site does not set cookies. No page of brainbarrels.com writes a cookie to your device, for advertising, analytics, or any other purpose.

Local storage. The interactive tools use a browser feature called local storage to hold your place. This is not a cookie: it stays on your own device, it is never sent to us, and it is not readable by any other website. It is used only to:

• Remember your progress or entries within an interactive Site tool so that you do not lose your place.

You can erase it at any time using a tool's "Start over" control, or by clearing your browsing data in your browser settings. Nothing else on the Site depends on it, so clearing it will not break anything.

Pixels. The Site does not use social media pixels or any other advertising tracker. There is no Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, YouTube, TikTok, or LinkedIn tracking code on any page. If that ever changes, this Policy will be updated before it does.

10. Third-Party Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products, services, or links to articles, blogs, or sites on our Site. These third-party sites may or may not have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites and/or their privacy policy (or lack thereof). Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our Site and welcome any feedback about any issues you experience with linked-to sites by emailing us at rhonda@brainbarrels.com.

11. Password Privacy

While using the Site, Courses, Services, and/or Products, you may create a username and/or password for login. It is your responsibility to keep the username and password safe. You are also responsible for any actions which occur through the use of your username or password, whether completed by you directly or through the use of your account. You shall notify us immediately by email at rhonda@brainbarrels.com of any unauthorized use of your login information or any other security breach. Please log out at the end of each session to prevent any unauthorized use of your account or login information.

You may not share your username, password, or login information with anyone other than yourself. We are not responsible or liable for any loss or damages as a result of your failure to protect your login information or your unauthorized sharing of same.

12. Google Ads and Analytics

We do not use Google Ads on the Site, and we do not run Google Analytics. Demographics and Interests Reporting is not enabled, because there is no analytics property to enable it on. We do not use the DoubleClick cookie or any other advertising identifier, and we do not participate in remarketing or interest-based advertising of any kind.

If we ever add advertising or analytics to the Site, this Policy will be updated first, and this section will say plainly what was added and how to opt out of it.

13. California Online Privacy Protection Act ("CalOPPA")

CalOPPA stretches well beyond California to require any person or company that operates websites collecting Personal Information from California viewers or consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared.

Pursuant to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

• Users can visit our site anonymously.
• There is a link to this Privacy Policy in the footer of every page of the Site.
• Our Privacy Policy link does include the word "Privacy" and can easily be found on the page specified above. It is titled "Privacy Policy" very clearly.

You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page (see the "Updated On" date at the bottom).

14. Children's Online Privacy Protection Act ("COPPA")

We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13. Please stop and do not use, view, purchase, or otherwise browse the Site, Courses, Services, or Products if you are under 13 years old. If you are younger than 13, you are not permitted to enter any Personal Information on this Site.

Materials on the Site that feature illustrated characters, videos, or activities intended to be shared with a child are designed to be used by an adult with a child, and are not an invitation for a child to register, subscribe, purchase, or submit any Personal Information.

If we learn that a child under the age of 13 has submitted Personal Information to us, we will delete it promptly. You do not need to ask us to, and we will not require a parent to explain or justify the request.

If you are a parent and you believe your child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us immediately to have it removed by emailing us at rhonda@brainbarrels.com.

15. Fair Information Practices

In order to comply with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify you via email within seven (7) business days of any known breach.

16. CAN-SPAM Act of 2003

The CAN-SPAM Act is a U.S. law which establishes rules for commercial email messages, gives you the right to stop certain commercial emails from being sent to you, and outlines certain penalties for commercial entities or persons who violate the law.

We collect your email address and name so we can:

• Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
• Process orders and send information and updates pertaining to orders of a course, product, or service.
• Send you additional information related to your course, product, and/or service.
• Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to you after the original transaction has occurred.
• Email you a newsletter with free information and advertising certain Products, Services, and/or Courses we offer.

In accordance with the CAN-SPAM Act, we agree to the following:

• We will not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
• We will identify the email message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
• We will include our business mailing address and/or physical address in our emails.
• We will monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance. We use a third-party email marketing platform to send our emails to you.
• We will honor opt-out and unsubscribe requests quickly.
• We will allow users to unsubscribe by using the appropriate link at the bottom of each email.

To unsubscribe: If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at rhonda@brainbarrels.com or follow the instructions at the bottom of any email you receive from us and we will promptly remove you from future correspondence. However, unsubscribing from one list or set of emails may not unsubscribe you from receiving all future emails from us. If you experience any problems unsubscribing, please email rhonda@brainbarrels.com and we will promptly handle your removal.

17. Your General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") Rights

If you are located within the European Union ("EU"), you are entitled to certain rights under the GDPR. You have the right to:

• Know how long we will keep your information. We will keep your personal information until the earlier of: (1) you ask us to delete your information, or (2) the Company decides it no longer needs the data and the cost of retaining it outweighs the value of keeping it.
• Access, rectify, or erase your personal information.
• Withdraw your consent to the Company's processing of your data, which shall have no effect on the lawfulness of the processing of your personal information prior to your withdrawal.
• Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over GDPR issues.
• Provide only your personal information which is reasonably required to enter into a contract with us. The Company will not ask for your consent to provide unnecessary personal information on the condition of entering into a contractual relationship with the Company.

18. Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this Privacy Policy, you may contact us using the following information:

Updated on 14 August 2026