Your privacy is very important to me. This is our privacy policy. It is subject to change as our business grows, for example, if we add affiliate marketing or join the Amazon affiliates program. However, your identity and privacy are safe; we will never sell your identifying information to any third party. Please read through the legalese following, or you can cut to the chase here.
InkOnMyElbows.com (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy.
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website. This Website may contain third-party links to other websites which are not governed by this policy.
What Information Do We Collect and How Is This Information Used?
- We may receive and store information that you voluntarily submit through the Website for the purpose of subscribing to the Website to receive newsletters, for the purpose of leaving comments on blog posts, or administering sweepstakes, contests or promotions. Examples of information collected for this purpose are your name, email address and website URL. This information is only captured when you voluntarily enter or opt-in and enter this information for collection.
- We may receive and store certain types of usage-related information when you interact with the Website, including but not limited to, your computer’s IP address and browser information. The information we collect is used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor.
- The Website uses Google Analytics to track statistics regarding our audience and Website traffic. No personally identifiable information is transferred from the Website to Google Analytics. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.
- The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described above.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
The Website may provide personal information to an applicable third party in order to provide services. Currently, the Website uses the services of MailChimp® for delivery of email updates and newsletters. MailChimp’s use of your personal information is subject to MailChimp’s privacy policy.
Your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications.
Information that does not identify you personally may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Will We Share the Personal Information It Collects?
We will not sell, distribute, or reveal users’ email addresses or other personal information without their consent. This does not include third-party partners, such as those listed above.
Modification or Deletion of Personal Information
You can decline to submit personal information at any time. If you decline, we may not be able to continue to provide service to you. You may request deletion of your personal information by sending an email to admin@inkonmyelbows.com, but in some cases, we may be required to keep your information by law. In such a case, it would no longer be active and would be kept separately in an archive.
How Cookies are Used
Cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our website and WordPress blog. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the website and blog, where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited.
OK, Let’s Cut to the Chase
I don’t like the idea of people making money off of my browsing habits, and if you’re reading this, you probably don’t either. This is a website where I share my love of paper-crafting and hope that you gain inspiration and enjoy your time here. If you sign up to receive email updates and newsletters, that’s what your info will be used for. Period. It will never be sold. If you sign in and purchase premium content or products from me, your information will be used to facilitate that transaction and deliver your product to you. I use Google Analytics to understand, at an anonymous level, how my website is used and–at an anonymous level–where those users are. There may be cookies used to track website usage, but I don’t have access to that information. And if I did, I sure don’t know how to find it! I’m too busy playing with my craft supplies. This website uses third-party plugins to block evil people with malicious intent from stealing my website or infiltrating it to cause harm to you or to me. There may be anonymous data captured there (ie IP address) in order to perform that service. This website also uses technology to identify people who post spam comments. I’d much rather read your compliments than have you or I have to read thinly-veiled ads for performance-enhancing substances (or worse!). There may be cookies used to facilitate that security, but it’s not data that I have access to. In the event that I eventually show Ads by Google or participate in an affiliate-sharing program (you know, to make a little extra cash to pay for all this crafty goodness), I’ll update this section and will clearly tell you when affiliate sharing links are supplied within each page. I hope after all this, you enjoy the content on this website and feel comfortable that I’ve tried to protect you and I while you’re here, and that I don’t do anything with data that is collected during your visit here–unless you give explicit consent.
