Creating Wellness in a World of Stress

Introduction

Gravity Speakers, LLC (“Company”,“We”, or Us”), respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.gravityspeakers.com (“Website”) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Company is the data controller for information processed through the Website.

This policy applies to information we collect:

On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or
any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. This policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy). Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

Children

Our Website is not intended for nor targeted towards children as defined by applicable law. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you are younger than the age of consent in your jurisdiction, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features 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 you believe we might have any information from or about a child under the applicable age of consent, please contact us at Privacy@gravityspeakers.com and we will delete it.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information”);
that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as organization, company or comments you may provide; and/or
about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

We collect this information:

Directly from you when you provide it to us.
Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
From third parties, for example, our business partners.

Information You Provide to Us.

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.
Records and copies of your correspondence with us (including email addresses).
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.
Your search queries on the Website.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies.

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically can be associated with other personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
Speed up your searches.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection include:

Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies. For information about managing your privacy and security settings for Flash cookies, see International Data Transfers
When you use the Website and provide information to Company through the Website, your information may be transferred to a destination outside your jurisdiction, including to the United States. The United States has not received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. Company has executed agreements between its affiliates and subsidiaries in accordance with Article 46 of the GDPR. Company also relies on derogations for specific situations set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR in order to transfer personal information across international borders outside of Company, its affiliates, and subsidiaries. In particular, Company transfers personal information across international borders only: with your consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of Company in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.
Web Beacons. Pages of the Website and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To present our Website and its contents to you.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose to fulfilll our legitimate interests or with your consent.

For more information, see International Data Transfers

When you use the Website and provide information to Company through the Website, your information may be transferred to a destination outside your jurisdiction, including to the United States. The United States has not received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. Company has executed agreements between its affiliates and subsidiaries in accordance with Article 46 of the GDPR. Company also relies on derogations for specific situations set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR in order to transfer personal information across international borders outside of Company, its affiliates, and subsidiaries. In particular, Company transfers personal information across international borders only: with your consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of Company in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms.

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated anonymized information about our users without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Company’s assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by Company about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Use and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Company, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

International Data Transfers

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

Tracking Technologies and Advertising. Our website does not respond to “Do Not Track” signals. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.
Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out by checking the relevant box located on the form on which we collect your data or at any other time by sending us an email stating your request to Privacy@gravityspeakers.com. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions.

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”) on the NAI’s website: https://www.networkadvertising.org/.

Your Rights

To the extent required by law, Company provides you with (i) reasonable access to the personal information collected through the Website, and (ii) the ability to review, correct, export, and delete such personal information. Please contact us using any of the methods identified in the “Contact Information” section if you would like to exercise your individual rights and for information on any fee required to obtain copies of your personal information. We may need to obtain or confirm certain personal information in order to accommodate your request. We will not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

Your California Privacy Rights

California Civil Code Section § 1798.83 permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to Privacy@gravityspeakers.com or write us at: 570 El Camino Real, #150-250, Redwood City, CA 94063, Attn: General Counsel.

Data Security

We use commercially reasonable measures to secure information collected through the Website. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

We retain your information for as long as needed: (i) to conduct business with you; (ii) as needed for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy; (iii) as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce any agreements.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page with a notice that the privacy policy has been updated on the Website home page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address provided by you or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

570 El Camino Real, #150-250, Redwood City, CA 94063, Attn: General Counsel

Email: Privacy@gravityspeakers.com

European Union: Company’s Data Protection Officer is Nausheen Razzak, and can be contacted using the information above. You can request copies of Company’s GDPR Article 46 agreements from the Data Protection Officer. Please contact the Data Protection Officer if you believe Company has processed your information in a manner inconsistent with your privacy rights. You also have the right to contact a supervisory authority if you believe Company has processed your information in a manner inconsistent with your privacy rights.

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Creating Wellness in a World of Stress

December 13, 2021 9:55 PM

Featured Author:

Jonas Koffler Creating Wellness in a World of Stress

In a world of constant change and new demands, entrepreneurs, creatives, and employees are experiencing constant stress and this is creating a lack of wellness that is permeating our society. When people think of wellness they often think of health, but by many definitions, wellness has a number of contributing factors beyond health. Reaching our human potential individually and collectively requires us to deal with stress and not being torn down by it. Most agree there are 6-7 elements of wellness: physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, environmental, and occupational. Physical wellness is only one part of a larger ecosystem. In a world that seems to constantly evolve and move faster with more demands, finding or creating wellness may seem like an impossibility. The good news is it isn’t. I recently got to talk to Jonas Koffler, bestselling author of Hustle, speaker, co-founder of Radical Wellness Inc and The Mental Wellness Summit, and social innovator about the epidemic of our time which is a lack of wellness.

Personal Growth Has an Enemy

It’s hard to get ahead if stress is pushing you backwards. As Jonas and I started talking about stress, we realized how connected it is to so many problems in our lives. He is a high performing entrepreneur and nobody is immune to the effects of stress, if anything, high performance increases stress. All 7 of the wellness categories are damaged or disrupted by stress. The feeling of not being well itself is a form of stress and affects our state of mind. The combination of stress across various areas of our lives can cause depression. Physical and mental factors compound to create more stress and this can create a downward spiral. In an article from Prevention titled 30 scary ways stress can mess with your body, we get a glimpse into the multitude of ways stress can impact your health. The fact is stress piles up and erodes your well being at every turn. Some people may experience a lack of happiness as a result of any one of these factors, let alone multiple factors. How can we outpace stress and even hope to find wellness and happiness to be the best version of ourselves?

Look Before You Hustle

In a fast-paced world, people want to run first and think second. Wellness is the fuel of holistic growth and success. Starting with an awareness of what it takes to be well is key. Wellness requires more than going to the gym or eating kale every day. As Jonas pointed out, “Wellness requires awareness first, this is really the problem of our time.” Just understanding the facets of wellness can help you to start to notice sources of stress and the categories they are affecting. This is key to managing stress as it is hard to fight what you cannot see. When someone experiences a health issue, they go to a doctor to identify it so they can find a way to resolve it, but for many wellness issues people just keep living with them and then wonder why they are not happy, or why they struggle to succeed. This can multiply the problem so awareness is a key first step to reducing stress.

Managing Environments of Stress

Running into the fire. Many people who have high levels of stress are getting it from their environment. This could be work, it could be the lighting, the noise, people’s attitudes, distractions, and even expectations you have on yourself or others have for you. For entrepreneurs, leaders, and creatives this is like running into a fire. This is a bad idea unless you have the right equipment to counteract your environment. Our environment is filled with so many stressors that we couldn’t possibly name them all. Our bodies and minds are built to adapt to stress, but there is a threshold where it starts to have negative impacts on us. Take a moment and evaluate all the factors of your home environment, work environment, and even the people in your lives. Do they add stress or reduce it? For most people, there are way more things that add stress to their daily lives than take it away.

Get equipped to deal with stress. Many organizations are now designing workplaces to reduce stress and encourage wellness. This is a great thing for the workforce because we often spend so much time at work. Even simple changes can have a big impact on productivity, employee retention, and company culture. As Jonas stated to me, “There is also an equal amount of responsibility each individual has when it comes to managing stress and even being aware of the stress they may be causing others.” We all work and live together and each person is responsible for their impact on themselves and others around them. Talk with your employer or if you are an employer make sure you bake into your environment things that eliminate stress and create joy. This is why you see organizations with quiet areas, foosball tables, and gyms. Individuals can even practice breathing, moments of silence, connecting with loved ones, and many other micro strategies to counter stress.

Finding Your Stress Triggers

Know your buttons. When it comes to stress, many things can trigger you to get into deeper levels of stress. Keeping a journal of your stressful moments can help you find these triggers. Are there certain people or situations that constantly put you in a state of stress? Before you can fix these issues you have to be able to identify them. Is it work or certain people that you instantly feel tense around? Start evaluating your day by measuring your moments of stress and write them down. This will help you also deal with them externally instead of internally. As Jonas talked about in an interview on The Truth about Hustle and Mental Health,”We have to learn to adapt to handle new stresses in life.” Jonas suffered a stroke in his 20s working in a startup and it really opened his eyes to the connection of wellness and high performance as well as mental wellness and how it ties to physical wellness.

Create Habits of Wellness

It is often the little things that make a big difference. When it comes to stress, the daily moments can either work for you or against you, you have to be proactive. Our bodies have ways of dealing with moments of stress, but chronic stress is the accumulation of smaller stresses that can have a negative impact on us long-term. Jonas suggests you start by looking at ways you can reduce or eliminate those stress triggers and also proactively create habits of wellness. Find ways to alter your environment to reduce stress. Jonas pointed out that people have used breathing and meditation for thousands of years across cultures with great results, it isn’t something new yet many organizations are adopting it. I recently read an article about how they replaced detention in some schools with meditation and had great results.

Find and replace stress causing habits with better ones. We may not be able to remove all stress from our lives, but we can certainly reduce it substantially. We can also find many ways to mitigate it. Journalling, mindful breathing, and positive self-talk are all very useful in the moment. It’s time everyone takes a personal assessment of their overall wellness in each category. Be proactive about your wellness, your entire experience in life depends on it. Huge thanks to Jonas for the amazing discussion on this very important topic. April was Stress Awareness Month and May is Mental Health Awareness Month and both are great times to evaluate each of our wellness, and the wellness of those around us. If you would like to have Jonas speak at your event contact us, and remember to build wellness.

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