Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to http://www.katemcolby.com and Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) include http://www.katemcolby.com. The Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) website is an entertainment site. By using the Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– First and Last Name
– Mailing Address
– E-mail Address
If you purchase Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press)’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:
– Age
– Gender
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press)’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press), and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press); and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press), or the public.
Tracking User Behavior
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press), in order to determine what Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press). This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) website.
Links and Embedded Content From Other Websites
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Children Under Thirteen
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
If you opt into the author newsletter by providing your email, Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) or click on a link therein.
We use MailerLite to manage our email marketing subscriber list and send emails to our subscribers. MailerLite is a third-party provider, which may collect and process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. MailerLite’s privacy policy is available at https://www.mailerlite.com/privacy-policy.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press), you may opt out of such communications by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any email received from Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) or by emailing kate@katemcolby.com to request that you be unsubscribed from the list.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
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.
Changes to this Statement
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press) at:
Kate M. Colby (DBA Boxthorn Press)
375 Pinehill Road
Hillsborough, California 94010-6612
Email Address:
kate@katemcolby.com
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Effective as of March 21, 2019