Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Effective Date: 9/5/2023

This privacy policy will help you understand how I use and protect the data you provide when you visit and use this website.

I reserve the right to change this policy at any time. You will be updated as soon as any policy changes have been made. If you’d like to remain updated with the latest policy changes, you can also visit this page frequently.

What User Data I Collect

When you visit this website, I may collect the following data:

  • Your IP address

  • Your contact information and email address

  • Other information such as interests and preferences

  • Data profile regarding your online behavior, including comments or likes made on the blog

Why I Collect Your Data

I collect your data for several reasons:

  • To better understand your needs

  • To improve my services and products

  • To send you promotional emails containing the information I think you will find interesting

  • To contact you to fill out surveys and participate in other types of market research

  • To customize my blog according to your online behavior and personal preferences

Additional details can be found below, in the section titled “More About Why I Collect Your Data.”

Safeguarding and Securing Data

This website is built through Squarespace. The Squarespace platform implements and maintains technical and organizational security measures to protect your assets and data from everyday security threats. Learn more about Squarespace’s security measures and how it uses these measures to protect your data. 

Cookie Policy

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit the cookies Squarespace uses.

Once you agree to allow this website to use cookies—by accepting or declining through the cookie banner at the bottom of the screen—you also agree to use the data it collects regarding your online behavior.

The data I collect through cookies is used to customize my website to your needs. Please note: cookies don't allow me to gain control of your computer in any way. They are strictly used to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not, so that I can provide a better experience for you.

If you want to disable cookies, you can do it by accessing the settings of your internet browser. You can visit https://www.internetcookies.com, which contains comprehensive information on how to do this on a wide variety of browsers and devices.

Additional information on cookie usage can be found below in the section titled “More About Why I Collect Your Data.”

Links to Other Websites

My blog contains links, including affiliate links, that lead to other websites. (Affiliate links allow me to earn a commission by promoting a specific product or service. For example, as an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases.)

If you click on any these links, I will not be held responsible for your data and privacy protection. Visiting those websites is not governed by this privacy policy agreement. Make sure to read the privacy policy documentation of any website you visit directly from my website.

Restricting the Collection of Your Personal Data

At some point, you might wish to restrict the use and collection of your personal data. You can achieve this by doing the following:

If you have filled out a contact form or signed up for an email newsletter, and would like me to remove your account and personal information from my site, feel free to contact me via email and I will be more than happy to change this for you.

I will not lease, sell, or distribute your personal information to any third parties, unless I have your permission.

If you agree to this privacy policy, your personal information will be used when I need to send you promotional materials.

More About Why I Collect Your Data

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

I share this information with Squarespace, my website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Squarespace Cookies

Website Visitors

As mentioned previously, this website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Form Submissions

When you submit information to this website via web form, the site collects the data requested in the web form in order to track and respond to your submissions. This information is shared with Squarespace so that they can provide website services to me.

Blog Comments

My blog allows you to like posts and comment on them. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts, which enables you to “like” a post. My website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Marketing Emails

I may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. I share your contact information with Squarespace, my email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on my behalf.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address