Privacy & Cookies Policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their 'Personally identifiable information' (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog or website?

We collect information from you when you fill out a form or sign up for our contests, newsletters, or other information.

When registering for a service our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to provide your: name, e-mail address, mailing address or phone number. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

  • To personalize user's experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
  • To improve our website in order to better serve you.
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
  • Newsletter sign up: To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and services.

How do we protect visitor information?

Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.

We use regular Malware Scanning.

We do not use an SSL certificate.

We never ask for personal or private information like credit card numbers.

Use of Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Cookies are small files saved to the user's computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user's interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google's privacy policy for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs or sponsored links. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

How to see individual cookies and withdraw your consent to the use of cookies and similar technologies

Cookies change and their names and descriptions are not very user-friendly for most people, so we haven't listed them individually. If you want to see the cookies currently used on the Sites, they should be visible through your browser. (Please see below for instructions.)

To give or withdraw your consent to the use of cookies, please use the cookie banner on the Site and after that, please adjust your browser settings.

There are different browsers and manufacturers upgrade them frequently. The best way to get the right instructions is to go to the manufacturer's support page. The following support/privacy pages (for some of the more common browsers) are correct as at April 2018.

If you have problems with these pages, can't see individual cookies or want find out more about how cookies are handled within your browser, please go to the manufacturer's site and search for the browser name and your cookie query.

Flash cookies

To disable flash cookies (local shared objects) go to the Global Storage Settings panel of the online Settings Manager at Adobe's website at http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager03.html. This places a permanent flash cookie on the device, informing all other websites that you do not want flash cookies stored on your device.

Online advertising cookies

We use cookies and similar technologies for online advertising. To find out more and withdraw your consent, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices.

You may prevent Google’s collection of data generated by your use of the Sites (including your IP address) by downloading and installing a browser plugin available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Local and session storage

You can delete local storage, session storage and database storage in the same way that you delete cookies.

Pixels

You cannot delete pixels but you may be able to disable them by disabling cookies or by using browser add-ons or extensions. Some pixels in emails can be disabled by selecting an option in your email application not to download images.

Please be aware that restricting cookies and similar technologies may impact on the functionality of our site.

Further information

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies and other technologies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

Storage

This section describes the period for which Personal Information will be stored, or if that is not possible, the criteria used to determine that period.

The period for which we will store Personal Information is based on our need to fulfil our legitimate business needs, comply with applicable law, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

For website visitors, if you consent to cookies through our cookie banner, the consent cookie is valid for 1 year. Other cookies (most of which are for site analytics or newsletter settings) last 30 days or less. You can shorten each cookie's storage period by deleting the cookie before the expiry date. Please see the section on Cookies above for information on how to delete cookies and adjust your browser settings.

Third Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree 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' rights, property, or safety.

Third Party Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These links are provided as a convenience. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Facebook

ErinKellison.com collects data via Facebook to collect visitor data and analyze traffic on this site. This information helps us understand customer interests and helps us improve our website. This information is collected for traffic analysis only and does not contain personal details. Depending on the browser that you use, you can set your preferences to block/ refuse cookies, and/ or notify you before they are placed. ErinKellison.com does not sell, give, or trade the statistics they store to any 3rd parties for data-mining or marketing purposes.

Please visit www.Facebook.com for their privacy policy.

California Online Privacy Protection Act

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law's reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. Read more about CalOPPA here.

According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:

  • Users can visit our site anonymously.
  • Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.
  • Our Privacy Policy link includes the word 'Privacy', and can be easily be found on the page specified above.

Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page.

Tracking

We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place. We do not allow third party behavioral tracking.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation's consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online. We do not specifically market to children under 13.

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:

We will notify the users via in site notification as soon as such beach is brought to our attention, as appropriate.

We also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

CAN-SPAM Act and Email Newsletters

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

This website operates an email newsletter program, used to inform subscribers about products and services supplied by this website. Users can subscribe through an online automated process should they wish to do so but do so at their own discretion. Some subscriptions may be manually processed through prior written agreement with the user.

Subscriptions and all personal details relating to subscriptions are taken and held securely and in compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act.

Email marketing campaigns published by this website or its owners may contain tracking facilities within the actual email. Subscriber activity is tracked and stored in a database for future analysis and evaluation. Such tracked activity may include; the opening of emails, forwarding of emails, the clicking of links within the email content, times, dates and frequency of activity [this is by no far a comprehensive list].

This information is used to refine future email campaigns and supply the user with more relevant content based around their activity.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act subscribers are given the opportunity to un-subscribe at any time through an automated system. This process is detailed at the footer of each email campaign. If an automated un-subscription system is unavailable clear instructions on how to un-subscribe will by detailed instead.

Your Consent

By using our site, you consent to our website's privacy policy.

Individual rights

The existence of the right to request access to and rectification or erasure of Personal Information or restriction of use concerning the individual or to object to use as well as the right to data portability

You have rights to make a request to us:

  • for access to your Personal Information
  • for rectification or erasure of your Personal Information
  • for restriction of processing concerning you
  • to object to our processing which is based on legitimate interests

To exercise your rights, please contact us via the Contact page on this website.

Withdrawal of consent

Where the use is based on consent (for Personal Information), the existence of the right to withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of use based on consent before its withdrawal

You have a right to withdraw any consent you give us at any time.

This will not affect the legality of our consent-based use before you withdrew consent.

To exercise your right to withdraw, please contact us via the Contact page on this website.

Contacting Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us via the Contact page on this site.

Disclaimer

All data and information provided on this site is for informational purposes only. Erin Kellison, her team, associates, etc. makes no representations as to accuracy, completeness, currentness, suitability, or validity of any information on this site & will not be liable for any errors, omissions, or delays in this information or any losses, injuries, or damages arising from its display or use. All information is provided on an as-is basis.

Links on the site may take you to third party sites. We have no control over their content or accuracy. We do not know if they are affiliates of any vendor/site and make no claims in support of them.

Erin Kellison is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to ErinKellison.com and all additional domains that point to ErinKellison.com.