(last updated June 4, 2018) We sincerely care about your privacy. You should feel comfortable with and clear about the personal data we collect from you and how we utilize and protect it.
The information we collect is used for the sole purpose of providing the best customer service and website experience possible. Rest assured, we will NEVER sell your personal information to a third party.
In order to comply with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (effective May 25, 2018) and give visitors to our website more transparency and control over their personal data and information, we have provided the privacy policy below. Please read it carefully.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.kristilynndavis.com.
What personal data we collect
When you access our website, we learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit. This is also true when you correspond by email with this website and its associated email address.
Visitors to our website have the option to leave a comment on our blog page, to contact us through our contact form, to email us directly, and/or to opt-in to our newsletter. When you voluntarily engage with us in this way, we collect the data you have entered. This data may include your name, email address, website, comments, and/or inquiries. You may, however, visit our site anonymously, if you choose not to enter your information.
As you navigate through our website, we may use 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 may collect data about the type of computer you use, your internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.
Why we collect this data
When visitors leave a comment on our blog page, contact us through our contact form, email us directly, and/or to opt-in to our newsletter, we collect the information visitors have voluntarily provided in order to fulfill their requests or inquiries and to provide excellent customer service.
We also collect information for analytics purposes, so that we are able to better understand whether or not our website, products, services, and free content are engaging and helpful to our visitors. We aim to utilize analytics to continually improve our business and visitor experience.
The information we collect from you may be used in one or more of the following ways:
- To personalize your experience and help us respond to your individual needs
- To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of our website
- To improve customer service and respond to your inquiries and requests
- To process transactions
- To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature
- To send periodic emails (if you are voluntarily engaged in email correspondence with us or have opted-in to our newsletter)
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
If you attempt to contact us through our contact form, the personal data we capture from you may include your name, the message you wrote to us, and your return email address if you subsequently commence email correspondence with us.
We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes only, and do NOT use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Google Analytics also uses cookies to report on visitor interactions with our website. Please refer to https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 for more detailed information on Google Analytics’ use of cookies and identifiers as well as Google’s privacy policy.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
You may disable cookies through your internet browser if you so choose.
Embedded content from and links to other websites
Pages or blog posts on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) or links to other websites (e.g. amazon.com, smashwords.com, longlegstalltales.com) or social media platforms (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google+, YouTube). Embedded content from other websites and links to other websites behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Please review the respective privacy policies for those specific websites.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track user engagement with our website content in order to determine how to best serve our users and provide relevant and useful content, products, and services.
Please refer to https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245 for detailed information on Google’s privacy policy and Google Analytics’ use of cookies and identifiers.
If order to be compliant with the European Union’s data laws and GDPR, we have installed the MonsterInsights EU Compliance Addon (a plugin add-on that allows us to easily add, customize, and manage the Google Analytics website tracking services on our WordPress website). Automated configuration changes include:
- Automatically anonymize IP addresses on all Google Analytics hits, eCommerce hits, and form tracking hits
- Automatically disable the Demographics and Interests Reports for Remarketing and Advertising tracking on Google Analytics hits
- Automatically disable UserID tracking on Google Analytics hits, eCommerce hits, form tracking hits, and the UserID dimension in the Custom Dimensions addon
- Automatically disable author tracking in the Custom Dimensions addon
- Automatically enable the ga() compatibility mode
Responses to Email Inquiries
When sending email inquiries to us, the return email address is used to answer the email inquiry we receive. We do not use the return email address for marketing unless you have given us your consent.
How to opt-out of the newsletter
If you have opted-in to our newsletter and later decide to opt-out from receiving additional emails from us, you can make this change at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe option embedded in each of our emails.
Who we share your data with
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties (e.g. Google Analytics, MonsterInsights, and MailChimp—our email newsletter and marketing service provider) who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agrees to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ right, property, or safety.
How long we retain your data
We will only retain your information for as long a necessary to fulfill the purpose we collected it for, including for the purpose of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for our information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of our information, the purpose for which we process our information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
In some circumstances we may anonymize information about you (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use and retain this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time to ensure the best possible user experience on our website and to make appropriate updates for our benefit and yours. Please review this policy on a regular basis.
Our contact information
If you require additional assistance regarding this privacy policy, please email us at kristi@kristilynndavis.com.
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