About Metaphysical Hypnosis

Metaphysical Hypnosis is a web site dedicated to promoting personal enlightenment, empowerment, spiritual development, self-help and education. Our focus is on providing resources related to metaphysics and hypnosis. Metaphysical Hypnosis is owned and operated by Advancing Ideas ^LLC, whose mission it is to provide hypnosis and NLP educational materials to the public.

We have been providing hypnosis related services and products since 1999 and have been on the Internet since that time.

Privacy Policy

Your e-mail address is never rented, traded or sold... period.

We will only collect personal information with your permission.

1. Newsletter: If a user wishes to subscribe to our newsletter, we ask for contact information such as first name and email address. All newsletter or promotional materials will include clear instructions for "opting out". All such requests will be honored.

2. Live Training: When people request information regarding a live training or seminar, that information may be forwarded only to those responsible for organizing the training. This information will not be shared with other organizations and will only be used for the purposes of the seminar - communicating information about the training, mailing certificates, billing and other seminar related activities.

3. Order Forms: We request information from the user on our order forms.  Here a user must provide contact information (such as name and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date).  This information is used for billing purposes and to fill customer’s orders.  If we have trouble processing an order, this contact information is used to get in touch with the user. We may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes.

We may, from time to time, offer informational articles and tips as well as products or services related to this web site's subject matter. Clear instructions for removal from any future offers will be provided and all removal requests will be honored.

Chargebacks: Fraud is a big problem for Internet merchants. Many times fraud takes the form of a chargeback. A chargeback is when a credit card holder contests a charge that appears on their credit card statement. A chargeback is not a refund. Sometimes, criminals order a product and then claim to have not received it.

While we give refunds promptly and courteously. Should you initiate chargeback proceedings however, we proceed in a different manner.

1. We may report your name, address and credit card number as having been used in a fraudulent transaction to our local law enforcement agency as well as law enforcement agencies in the area to which the package was shipped.

2. We may share your information with other Internet merchants and databases that keep track of people and credit card numbers that have been used in a fraudulent transaction.

Our actions with regard to chargebacks may result in your not being able to use your credit card, a lower credit score, being unable to purchase items from other Internet or brick and mortar merchants and criminal charges.

If you have had your credit card (or credit card numbers) stolen and they have been used without your permission, these actions will help protect you. If you have simply decided you don't want to pay for something you've ordered, you will create a tremendous amount of trouble for yourself by starting chargeback proceedings.

Cookies: A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user.  Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information while on our site. We use cookies for aggregate purposes - not for the collection of personal data.

We use Log Files and IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use.  IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information.

Links: This web site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that We are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Referral Program: We may ask a user to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site. In this process we ask them for the friend’s name and email address.  We will automatically send the friend a one-time email inviting them to visit the site. We store this information briefly for the sole purpose of sending this one-time email.  The friend will be informed that no further emails will be sent and no records kept of the contact information unless the friend actively responds to the offer.

Security: This website takes every precaution to protect our users’ information.  When users submit sensitive information via the website, the information is protected both online and off-line. Currently, all payments for Advancing Ideas LLC are being handled by an outside credit card processing company. A link providing detailed security information is provided on each order/registration form. Advancing Ideas LLC will only use third party credit card processors who use SSL - the best encryption software in the industry.  You will know you're on an SSL protected page when the lock icon on the bottom of Web browsers such as Netscape Navigator and Microsoft Internet Explorer becomes locked, as opposed to un-locked, or open, when you are just ‘surfing’.

While our credit card processor uses SSL encryption to protect sensitive information online, we also do everything in our power to protect user-information off-line.  All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices.  Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure office, with no public access.

Privacy Policy Changes: Any changes to this policy will be posted on this page. All information collected before the changes will be subject to the original privacy policy.

Advancing Ideas LLC is the sole owner of information collected at this web site.

Spam: Metaphysical Hypnosis/Advancing Ideas ^LLC do not spam. All of our newsletters are run on what's called a "double opt-in" basis. That means, if you request communication from us by signing up through a form on one of our web pages, we will send an email to your address asking you to confirm your subscription. You must confirm you want it before you receive any additional messages.

In addition, each email contains an unsubscribe link that works. Even though we take these precautions to ensure you only receive email you want to receive, occasionally someone will hit the "report as spam" button in their email program. In some cases, competitors of ours will sign up for one of our newsletters in order to falsely report us as spam and attempt to get our newsletter "blacklisted" with Internet service providers. For this reason, if anyone reporting one of our newsletters as spam, gives up all rights to privacy and contact information provided upon sign up.

In short: We don't spam and each email contains a working unsubscribe link. If you are to lazy to click on that link or too stupid to know the difference between "unsubscribe" and "report as spam," don't sign up.