Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is effective as of October 24, 2025
PLEASE REVIEW THIS POLICY CAREFULLY
Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) operates the www.drkarenbrown.com website (the “Service”).
Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC (“Company,” “we,” “our,” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and Sites (certain third-party service providers acting on our behalf, Our social media pages, Mobile applications operated by us or certain third-party service providers acting on our behalf, and email messages) the choices you have associated with that data.
This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of www.drkarenbrown.com, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.drkarenbrown.com (the “Website“), and its sub-domains and affiliated sites, as well as Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC pages and accounts on Twitter®, Facebook®, LinkedIn®, Google Plus®, Instagram® and YouTube® (the “Sites) whether as a guest or a registered user.
If you ever have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at the information below. Please also review our full Terms and Conditions of Use, which also govern your use of the Sites. By using this Website and Sites, you are consenting to this Privacy Policy.
When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website, We use your data to provide and improve the Service.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website (the “Service”) or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, accessible from www.drkarenbrown.com.
Definitions
Service
Service is the www.drkarenbrown.com website operated by Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC.
Personal Data
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller
Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processors (or Service Providers)
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject (or User)
Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.
Information Collection and Use
How and Why We Collect Information
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you. When you access the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you during your visit.
Information You Provide To Us. The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, communicating with us via contact forms, email opt-ins, search queries on our search feature, responding to surveys, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product or service via the Website. If you register to download a book, resource, sign up for blog or vlog announcements, and/or purchase a product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to download resources and/or register for services that you are required to provide information.
If you are outside the European Union and opt to receive any free and/or paid resources, participate in any free and/or paid training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, or purchase any products or services sold by the Company on this Website, we will automatically enroll you to receive our free email newsletter. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every marketing email we send. You may opt-out of receiving email marketing communications from us by replying STOP or UNSUBSCRIBE, or by following the link provided at the bottom of marketing emails you receive from us, or by contacting us at karen@occumath.com. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to karen@occumath.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
If you are in the European Union and opt to receive any free and/or paid resources, participate in any free training programs, register for a webinar, register for a live event, or purchase any products or services sold by the Company on this Website, we will only enroll you to receive our free email newsletter if you affirmatively consent to it. If you do not wish to receive this newsletter, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to karen@occumath.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us? The Company collects your information to be used either now or in the future, in order to present our Website and its contents to you, and to record and support your participation in the activities you select. We use collected data and information you choose to provide us in order to provide you with information, us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to provide and maintain our Service, to monitor the usage of our Service, to gather analysis or valuable information to improve our overall performance and Service, to detect, prevent and address technical issues, for troubleshooting, to allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so, to provide customer support and customer service, to notify you about changes to our Service, and to provide you with information related to news, to send you communications related to offers for products or services that we believe might be of interest to you, promotions, your subscriptions, and your products,to process transactions, to identify preferences in content and advertising, and general information about other goods, products, services, and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless you have opted not receive such information, and for carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers. While we believe these services may enhance your time spent at the Sites, you will at all times have the option and ability to opt-out from receiving these communications by specifically choosing to do so via a link that will be provided within emails that we send to you. From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information. From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology. When you visit our site and as you navigate through our Website, some information about your computer hardware and software is inherently automatically collected through the use of automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will automatically collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, domain name, your browser type, access time and referring website addresses. The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website, troubleshooting purposes, and to improve our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.
How Do We Protect Your Information, Data, and Secure Information Transmissions?
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to employ commercially reasonable methods to protect your Personal Data, the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication and for this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email. The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas. For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
How We Retain Your Information and Data
Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods. You have the right to request access to the information we have for you. You can do this by contacting us at karen@occumath.com. We will make sure to provide you with a copy of the data we process about you In order to comply with your request, we may ask you to verify your identity. We will fulfill your request by sending your copy electronically unless the request specifies a different method. If you believe that the information we have about it is incorrect, or if you wish to remove your private information (such as an email address provided in an opt-in), you may contact us at karen@occumath.com. Any data that is no longer needed for the purposes specified herein will be deleted.
Transfer of Your Information and Data
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside the United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that you are sending information to the United States where our servers are located. We transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that the collection, storage, and use of your data is continue to be governed in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Disclosure Of Your Information and Data
As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action to any merchant, advertiser or web publisher. Under certain circumstances, Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC may be required to disclose your Personal Data for law enforcement if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities as needed to comply with the law or a legal process (e.g. a court or a government agency), cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons violating the law, in connection with the sale of part or all of Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC or its affiliates’ assets, or to enforce my Terms of Use. Please keep in mind that if you disclose personally identifiable information in a public manner through the Sites, this information may be collected and used by others accessing those portions of the Sites. I do not monitor information you disclose publicly on the Sites nor do I accept any liability associated with your voluntary disclosure of the same.
Legal Requirements
Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to to comply with a legal obligation, to protect and defend the rights or property of Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC, to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, to protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, and to protect against legal liability. We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you. We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company. We may provide your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets and/or business. We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.
Types of Data Collected
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), European Union (EU), you have special rights under the GDRP. Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Cookies and Usage Data
If you do choose to provide your personal information, I will not willingly share your information with companies outside my organization, except as described in this Privacy Policy. We may process and use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information related to our products and services that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the “unsubscribe” link or instructions provided in any email we send. We may process your Personal Data for various reasons because you have given us permission to do so, the processing is in our legitimate interests and it’s not overridden by your rights, to perform a contract with you, for payment processing purposes, and to comply with the law.
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
Tracking Cookies Data
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked. You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
Examples of Cookies we use:
Session Cookies. We use Session Cookies to operate our Service.
Preference Cookies. We use Preference Cookies to remember your preferences and various settings.
Security Cookies. We use Security Cookies for security purposes.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Use of Cookies And Pixels
Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address. A cookie is a data text document file, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites. Cookies may also be used for the purpose of identifying the user and allowing access to portions of the website, thus alleviating the need to continually log in with your username and password. Cookies may be stored within your system. To the extent we use cookies, we can only access information from a cookie sent by one of our Sites, not other websites. The company may use cookies to personalize your visit to our Sites because tracking usage allows us to determine the needs of our customers and advertisers. The Company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media sites.
Third Party Service Providers and Third Party Use Of Cookies
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.
We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.
We may use remarketing services to advertise on third party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. You are responsible for reviewing the privacy statements and policies of other websites you choose to link to or from the Sites, so that you may understand how those sites collect, use and store your information. I am not responsible for the privacy statements, policies or content of any other websites. Websites containing co-branding (referencing my name and a third party’s name) contain content delivered by the third party and not me. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217
Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
Pinterest remarketing service is provided by Pinterest Inc.
You can opt-out from Pinterest’s interest-based ads by enabling the “Do Not Track” functionality of your web browser or by following Pinterest instructions: http://help.pinterest.com/en/articles/personalization-and-data
You can learn more about the privacy practices and policies of Pinterest by visiting their Privacy Policy page: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Payments
We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g. payment processors).
We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
The payment processors we work with are:
PayPal
Their Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
Email Information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.
Email Policies
We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists or any users’ personally identifiable information to any third parties, merchant, advertiser or web publisher, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information. We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law. In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us. Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at any time. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service and Website is not intended for any individual under the age of 18 (“Children”). No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 18. We do not sell products or services intended to anyone known to be under the age of 18, and no part of this website is designed to attract anyone under the age of 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we discover or are otherwise notified that we have received or collected any such information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent and in violation of this policy, we will take steps to remove and delete that information. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data or believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at karen@occumath.com
Policy Changes
We may update and modify this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes and modifications to this Privacy Policy are effective immediately when they are posted on this page. We will take steps to notify users of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and update the “effective date” on the top of this Privacy Policy page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of this Privacy Policy page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and you are advised to periodically visit our Website to review this Privacy Policy to check for any changes and modifications. When updates are made to this Privacy Policy, the date of revisions will be noted at the top of the Policy. Your continued use of our Website following any changes means you accept and agree to any changes. For your convenience and future reference, the date of the Privacy Policy is included so that you can compare any different versions of the Privacy Policy to determine any changes made to the Privacy Policy.
Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of or within the European Union and/or the European Economic Area (EEA), you are entitled to certain information and have certain data protection rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us. Under certain circumstances, your data protection rights include: We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) to ask us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it. You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data. You have the right of rectification of your data and the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete. You have the right of restriction and right to request that we restrict the processing of your data and personal information. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data. You have the right to the portability of your data and the right to be provided with a copy of the information we have on you in a structured, machine-readable and commonly used format. To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent to process your personal information at any time, and any withdrawal of consent does not apply to data collected lawfully prior to such consent. Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. You may contact us at karen@occumath.com. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority containing jurisdiction over GDPR related issues. We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).
Notice Of Privacy Rights To California Residents
California law requires that we provide you with a summary of your privacy rights under the California Online Privacy Protection Act (the “Act”) and the California Business and Professions Code. As required by the Act, you have the right to know whether your personal information is being collected; the right to request the specific categories of information a business collects upon verifiable request; the right to know what personal information is being collected about you; the right to say “no” to the sale of personal information, the right to delete your personal information, the right to equal service and price, even if you exercise your privacy rights. We will provide you with the categories of personally identifiable information that we collect through this website and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom such personally identifiable information may be shared for direct marketing purposes at your request. California law requires us to inform you, at your request: (1) the categories of personally identifiable information we collect and what third parties I share that information with; (2) the names and addresses of those third parties; and (3) examples of the products marketed by those companies. The Act further requires us to allow you to control who we can and cannot share that information with. To obtain this information, please send a request by email or standard mail to the address found below. When contacting us please indicate your name, address, email address, and what personally identifiable information you do not want us to share with third parties. Please allow thirty (30) days for a response. Also, please note that there is no charge for controlling the sharing of your personally identifiable information or requesting this notice.
Limitations
By using our Website and Sites you agree that Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC is not responsible for: (i) any disclosure of your personal information made by you to a third party through your use of the Sites; (ii) any disclosure of your personal information obtained illegally from us; or (iii) any accidental disclosure of your personal information made by us.
Contact Us
This website is operated by Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC and welcomes your questions, comments, or feedback regarding the Privacy Policy, technical support, and other communications relating to the Website should be directed to: Occumath Teaching Methods, LLC at the following email: karen@occumath.com
This privacy policy is effective as of October 24, 2025
