Privacy Policy

Effective Date: May 30, 2025
Notice Version: 3.0

Data Controller Contact Information

Data Controller: Paul Donovan
Email: PonderingPoster@gmail.com
Website: https://ponderingposter.blog/

Data Protection Officer (DPO): If required under GDPR Article 37, DPO contact details will be provided here.

EU Representative: If required under GDPR Article 27 for non-EU controllers, representative contact details will be provided here.

This document governs the privacy policy of our website https://ponderingposter.blog/.

Our privacy policy tells you what personal data (PD) and non-personal data (NPD) we may collect from you, how we collect it, how we protect it, how we may share it, how you can access and change it, and how you can limit our sharing of it. Our privacy policy also explains certain legal rights that you have with respect to your personal data. Any capitalized terms not defined herein will have the same meaning as where they are defined elsewhere on our website.

This privacy policy applies to residents of the European Union (under GDPR), residents of US states with comprehensive privacy laws (including California under CCPA/CPRA, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and others), and residents of Canada (under PIPEDA), as well as all other users of our services worldwide.

Your Rights

When using our website and submitting personal data to us, you may have certain rights under various privacy regulations including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA/CPRA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA), Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and other applicable laws. Depending on your location and the legal basis for processing your personal data, you may have some or all of the following rights:

Universal Rights (Available to Most Users)

The right to be informed: You have the right to be informed about the personal data we collect from you, and how we process it.

The right of access: You have the right to get confirmation that your personal data is being processed and have the ability to access your personal data.

The right to rectification/correction: You have the right to have your personal data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete.

The right to erasure/deletion (right to be forgotten): You have the right to request the removal or deletion of your personal data if there is no compelling reason for us to continue processing it.

The right to restrict processing: You have a right to ‘block’ or restrict the processing of your personal data. When your personal data is restricted, we are permitted to store your data, but not to process it further.

Additional Rights for EU Residents (GDPR)

The right to data portability: You have the right to request and get your personal data that you provided to us and use it for your own purposes. We will provide your data to you within 30 days of your request.

The right to object: You have the right to object to us processing your personal data for certain reasons including processing based on legitimate interests, direct marketing (including profiling), or processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics.

Rights related to automated decision-making and profiling: You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.

Additional Rights for US State Residents (CCPA/CPRA and State Laws)

Right to Know: You have the right to know what personal information is collected, used, shared, or sold about you.

Right to Opt-Out: You have the right to opt-out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.

Right to Limit Use of Sensitive Personal Information: You have the right to limit the use and disclosure of your sensitive personal information (under CCPA/CPRA).

Right to Non-Discrimination: You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your privacy rights.

Right to Correct: You have the right to request correction of inaccurate personal information.

Additional Rights for Canadian Residents (PIPEDA)

Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw consent for the collection, use, or disclosure of your personal information, subject to legal or contractual restrictions.

Right to Challenge Compliance: You have the right to challenge our compliance with PIPEDA by contacting our accountable person or filing a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

The right to file a complaint

You have the right to file a complaint with supervisory authorities if your information has not been processed in compliance with applicable privacy regulations. If the supervisory authorities fail to address your complaint properly, you may have the right to a judicial remedy.

Definitions

• ‘Non-personal data’ (NPD) is information that is in no way personally identifiable.
• ‘Personal data’ (PD) or ‘Personal Information’ means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’). This includes information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, email address, IP address, device identifiers, and other online identifiers. Under different laws, this may be called “personal data” (GDPR), “personal information” (CCPA/CPRA, PIPEDA), or similar terms.
• ‘Sensitive Personal Information’ includes personal information that reveals racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, health data, data concerning sex life or sexual orientation, social security numbers, financial account information, precise geolocation data, and other categories defined by applicable law.
• A “visitor” is someone who merely browses our website.
• A “member” is someone who has registered with us to use or buy our services and products.
• The term “user” is a collective identifier that refers to either a visitor or a member.
• “Sale” or “Sell” includes exchanging personal information for monetary or other valuable consideration (as defined under applicable state privacy laws).
• “Share” or “Sharing” means providing personal information to a third party for cross-context behavioral advertising.

Categories of Personal Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

Identifiers

Name, email address, postal address, phone number, IP address, device identifiers, and other similar identifiers.

Customer Records

Personal information categories listed in applicable customer records statutes, such as name, signature, address, telephone number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information.

Protected Classifications

Characteristics of protected classifications under state or federal law (collected only when voluntarily provided).

Commercial Information

Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.

Internet or Electronic Network Activity

Browsing history, search history, information on your interaction with our website, applications, or advertisements.

Geolocation Data

Physical location or movements (approximate location only, unless you specifically consent to precise location tracking).

Audio, Electronic, Visual Information

Audio recordings if you contact us by phone, visual information if you provide profile photos.

Professional or Employment Information

Current or past job history or performance evaluations (only if you apply for employment with us).

Education Information

Information that is not publicly available personally identifiable information as defined by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (only if relevant to our services).

Inferences

Profiles reflecting your preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.

Information We Collect

Generally, you control the amount and type of information that you provide to us when using our website.

Automatic Information

We automatically receive information from your web browser or mobile device. This information includes:

• The name of the website from which you entered our website, if any
• The name of the website you’ll visit when you leave our website
• The IP address of your computer/the proxy server you use to access the Internet
• Your Internet service provider’s name
• Your web browser type
• The type of mobile device
• Your computer operating system
• Data about your browsing activity when using our website

We use all this information to analyze trends among our users to help improve our website and enhance your experience.

When Entering and Using Our Website

When you enter and use our website and agree to accept cookies, some of these cookies may contain your PD.

At User and Member Registration

When you register as a user or member, we collect your:

• Name
• Email address
• And other information as needed for the specific services requested

When Buying Products or Services

If you buy products or services from us, we collect:

• First and last name
• Email address
• Physical address
• Credit card or other payment information
• Phone number
• And other information necessary to complete the transaction

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.

Collecting Your Location Information

When you use our services, we may collect and process information about your actual physical location. We use several technologies, like GPS and IP tracking, to determine your location. These technologies may also provide us with information about nearby cell towers, Wi-Fi access points, and other devices.

Website Chat Software or Contact Forms

Our website may contain chat software or contact forms that enable visitors to communicate with us online or via email. When you use our chat software or contact forms, we may collect some or all of the following information:

• Email address
• First name
• Last name
• Location
• Any other information you willingly choose to provide to us

You should limit the information you provide to us to what is necessary to answer your questions.

Social Login and Third-Party Plugin Data Collection

Social Login Features

If you use our social login features, we collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar or the social profile avatar itself in the case of Facebook and LinkedIn login. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time from your profile page at our website or by sending us an email.

Third-Party Plugin Data Processing

Our plugins and add-ons are compatible with GDPR. We do not track any user data via our plugins. However, if our plugin depends on any third-party service, they might track user data in the following ways:

Embedded Widgets: Some of our plugins have features to integrate embedded widgets from third-party services (like Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Twitter Tweet official buttons). These widgets may collect your IP address, browser information, and other data.

Third-party API Connections: Our plugins send requests to third-party APIs via your web browser to fetch information (like social shares, social comment count). This request made by your web browser may include your IP address, which can then be seen by the third-party service.

We do not store any data fetched by our plugins on our servers, neither do we share that data with any third party. Our plugins run on your website and store the data in your website’s database.

Facebook Comments

If you use Facebook Comments features, we embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comments at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Social Media Widgets

Facebook Like/Share/Recommend Buttons: We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Twitter Tweet Button: We use a Twitter/X Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter/X’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter/X account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter/X, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

LinkedIn Share Button: We use a LinkedIn Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on LinkedIn. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Pinterest Save Button: We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy

Our Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data

We rely on the following legal bases for processing your personal data:

Performance of a Contract

Our legal basis for collecting and processing your personal data when you buy our products or services is based on the necessity for the performance of a contract or to take steps to enter into a contract.

Consent

Our legal basis for collecting and processing your personal data when you sign up for our newsletter and information about our products and services through our website opt-in forms is based on consent. Under CCPA/CPRA and other US state laws, we also rely on consent for certain processing activities.

Legitimate Interests

In some cases, we may process your data based on our legitimate interests, such as to improve our services, prevent fraud, or ensure network security. When we rely on legitimate interests, we ensure our interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.

Legal Obligation

We may process your personal data to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject.

Notice and Purpose Limitation (PIPEDA)

Under Canadian law (PIPEDA), we collect, use, and disclose personal information only for purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate in the circumstances and only for the purposes for which it was collected, except with your consent or as required by law.

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies

What Are Cookies

A cookie is a small piece of data or a text file that is downloaded to your computer or mobile device when you access certain websites. Cookies may contain text that can be read by the web server that delivered the cookie to you. The text contained in the cookie generally consists of a sequence of letters and numbers that uniquely identifies your computer or mobile device; it may contain other information as well.

Cookie Consent

By clicking “Accept All Cookies” on our cookie consent banner, you are giving us, and third parties we partner with, permission to place, store, and access some or all the cookies described below on your computer. You can change your preferences at any time by clicking on “Cookie Settings” in the footer of our website.

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 visit our login page, 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.

Types of Cookies We Use

Strictly Necessary Cookies: These cookies are necessary for proper functioning of the website, such as displaying content, logging in, validating your session, responding to your request for services, and other functions. Most web browsers can be set to disable the use of cookies. However, if you disable these cookies, you may not be able to access features on our website correctly or at all.

Performance Cookies

These cookies collect information about the use of the website, such as pages visited, traffic sources, users’ interests, content management, and other website measurements.

Functional Cookies

These cookies enable the website to remember a user’s choices – such as their language, user name, and other personal choices – while using the website. They can also be used to deliver services, such as letting a user make a blog post, listen to audio, or watch videos on the website.

Media Cookies

These cookies can be used to improve a website’s performance and provide special features and content. They can be placed by third parties who provide services to us or by our company.

Advertising or Targeting Cookies

These cookies are usually placed and used by advertising companies to develop a profile of your browsing interests and serve advertisements on other websites that are related to your interests. You will see less advertising if you disable these cookies.

Session Cookies

These cookies allow websites to link the actions of a user during a browser session. They may be used for a variety of purposes, such as remembering what a user has put in their shopping cart as they browse a website. Session cookies also permit users to be recognized as they navigate a website so that any item or page changes they make are remembered from page to page. Session cookies expire after a browser session; thus, they are not stored long term.

Persistent Cookies

These cookies are stored on a user’s device in between browser sessions, which allows the user’s preferences or actions across a site (or, in some cases, across different sites) to be remembered. Persistent cookies may be used for a variety of purposes, including remembering users’ choices and preferences when using a website or to target advertising to them.

Embedded Content from Other Websites

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.

Third-Party Tracking Technologies

Google Analytics

Our website uses Google Analytics to collect information about the use of our website. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit our website, what pages they visit, and what other websites they have used before coming to our website. We use the information we get from Google Analytics to analyze traffic, remarket our products and services to users, improve our marketing, advertising, and to improve our website.

Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit our website, not your name or other personally identifying information. We do not combine the information collected using Google Analytics with personally identifiable information.

You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this website by disabling cookies on your browser or using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Google Ads and Remarketing

Our website may use Google Ads remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to previous visitors to our site. You can opt out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads

Google Privacy Policy Reference

For more information about how Google collects and processes data through our use of Google Analytics and other Google services, please see “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” at https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners/

Meta (Facebook) Tracking

Our website may use Meta (Facebook) Pixel and other tracking technologies. You can opt out of Meta’s collection and use of information for ad targeting by visiting your Meta account settings or following the instructions at: https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217

How Your Information Is Used

We use the information we receive from you to:

• Provide our products and services you have requested or purchased from us
• Personalize and customize our content
• Make improvements to our website
• Contact you with updates to our website, products, and services
• Resolve problems and disputes
• Contact you with marketing and advertising that we believe may be of interest to you
• Prevent fraud and abuse of our services
• Comply with legal obligations

Data Retention Periods

We retain information that we collect from you (including your PD) only for as long as we need it for legal, business, or tax purposes. Your information may be retained in electronic form, paper form, or a combination of both. When your information is no longer needed, we will destroy, delete, or erase it.

Specifically: Account information: We retain your account information for as long as your account is active and for a period thereafter as required for legal purposes or to resolve disputes. Transaction information: We retain transaction information for as long as necessary to complete the transaction and for a period thereafter as required for legal, tax, and accounting purposes (typically 7 years for tax purposes). Communication information: We retain information collected through forms, chat, or emails for up to 2 years to ensure we can respond to any follow-up questions or concerns. Marketing information: If you have consented to receive marketing communications, we retain this information until you opt out or request to be forgotten, after which we maintain a record only of your preference not to be contacted. Comments: 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. User profiles: For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

International Data Transfers

Your personal data may be stored and processed in Canada, the United States, or any other country where we or our service providers maintain facilities. If we transfer information from the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom to a country that has not received an adequacy decision from the European Commission, we will implement appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law.

For European Union and UK data subjects, we utilize:

• Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission
• Supplementary measures as recommended by the European Data Protection Board
• Adequacy decisions where available
• Binding Corporate Rules where applicable

By using our website, services, or products, you agree to the transfers of your personal data described in this section.

Sharing Your Information

Service Providers and Contractors

We may share your personal data with third-party service providers who help us provide services, such as payment processors, email delivery services, hosting services, customer service, and marketing assistance. These parties are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the specific services they provide to us.

Business Transfers

If our company is sold or merges with another company, your information may be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchasers and their advisers, and will be passed on to the new owners of the company.

Legal Compliance and Protection

We may disclose your information when legally required to do so:

• To comply with a subpoena or court order
• To cooperate with law enforcement or other government agencies
• To establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims
• To protect our property, services, and legal rights
• To protect the safety of our users or others

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Sale or Sharing for Advertising (US Residents)

We do not sell your personal information for monetary consideration. However, under some US state privacy laws, sharing personal information with third parties for targeted advertising may be considered a “sale” or “sharing.” If this applies to our practices, you have the right to opt out of such sales/sharing.

With Your Consent

We may share your personal data with third parties when you have consented to such sharing.

Aggregate or Anonymous Information

We may share aggregate or anonymous information about users with third parties for marketing, advertising, research, or similar purposes. This information does not identify individual users.

No Sale to Data Brokers

We do not sell your personal information to data brokers or other third parties for their own marketing purposes.

Your Choices and Opt-Out Rights

Communication Preferences

You can opt out of receiving promotional emails from us by following the instructions in those emails. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional emails, such as those about your account or our ongoing business relations.

Cookie Preferences

Most web browsers allow you to manage your cookie preferences. You can set your browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. These features are not yet uniform, so we do not currently respond to such signals.

Data Access and Correction

You may access, update, or correct the personal data we have about you by logging into your account or by contacting us using the information provided at the top of this privacy policy.

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.

How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise any of your rights, you can:

• Contact us using the information at the top of this privacy policy
• Use our Data Subject Access Request form (if available)
• Send us an email at PonderingPoster@gmail.com with your request

Identity Verification: We may need to verify your identity before processing your request to protect your personal information from unauthorized access.

Response Time: We will respond to your request within one month of receipt under GDPR, within 45 days under most US state laws, or as otherwise required by applicable law. In some cases, we may extend this period where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests.

No Fee: We do not charge a fee to process your requests unless they are excessive or repetitive, in which case we may charge a reasonable fee.

Authorized Agents: For US residents, you may authorize another person or entity to submit requests on your behalf. We may require proof of authorization.

Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information (US Residents)

If you are a resident of California, Virginia, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, or other US states with applicable privacy laws, you have the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information.

To opt out, you can:

• Contact us at PonderingPoster@gmail.com with “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” in the subject line
• Use browser settings to enable Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals
• Adjust your cookie preferences using our cookie banner (if available)

We will honor opt-out preference signals such as the Global Privacy Control (GPC) when technically feasible.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

EU Residents: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the EU member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or place where the alleged infringement occurred. You can find contact information for EU data protection authorities at: https://edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en

Canadian Residents: You can file a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada at: https://www.priv.gc.ca/en/report-a-concern/

US Residents: You may file complaints with your state’s attorney general or consumer protection agency.

Data Deletion

You may request deletion of your personal data by contacting us using the information provided at the top of this privacy policy. We will respond to your request within the timeframes specified above.

Statutory or Contractual Requirements

In some cases, the provision of personal data may be a statutory or contractual requirement, or necessary to enter into a contract. We will inform you whether:

• You are obliged to provide the personal data
• The personal data is necessary for entering into a contract
• The possible consequences of failing to provide such data

Automated Decision-Making and Profiling

We do not engage in automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal effects or similarly significantly affects you. If this changes in the future, we will update this policy and provide meaningful information about the logic involved, significance, and envisaged consequences of such processing.

Additional Disclosures for US State Residents

Retention Period: We retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this privacy policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Specific retention periods are detailed in the “Data Retention Periods” section above.

Source of Personal Information: We collect personal information directly from you, from your devices, from third parties with your consent, and from publicly available sources.

Business or Commercial Purpose: We collect and use personal information for the business and commercial purposes described in the “How Your Information Is Used” section of this policy.

No Discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your privacy rights, including by denying goods or services, charging different prices, or providing different levels of quality.

Financial Incentives: We do not currently offer any financial incentives for the collection, sale, or deletion of personal information. If we do so in the future, we will provide separate terms describing such programs.

Additional Disclosures for Canadian Residents (PIPEDA)

Accountability: We are accountable for personal information under our control and have designated Paul Donovan as the individual accountable for our compliance with privacy principles.

Consent: We obtain meaningful consent before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information, except where inappropriate (such as for legal compliance or fraud prevention).

Accuracy: We make reasonable efforts to ensure personal information is accurate and complete for the purposes for which it is used.

Safeguards: We protect personal information with security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.

Openness: This privacy policy describes our practices concerning the management of personal information.

Individual Access: You have the right to access your personal information and be informed of how it is being used and to whom it has been disclosed.

Challenging Compliance: You may challenge our compliance with these principles by contacting us directly or filing a complaint with the Privacy Commissioner of Canada.

Protecting the Privacy of Minors

Our website is not designed for use by anyone under the age of 16 (or 18 in some jurisdictions). We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under the applicable age of digital consent in their jurisdiction. If you are a parent or guardian and believe that your child is using our website, please contact us. Before we remove any information, we may ask for proof of identification to prevent malicious removal of account information. If we discover that a child is accessing our website, we will delete their information within a reasonable period of time.

Additional Protections for Minors: In compliance with applicable laws, we provide enhanced protections for minors, including restrictions on the sale or sharing of personal information of users under 16 (California) and opt-in consent requirements for certain processing activities.

Security Measures

We have implemented reasonable security measures designed to protect your personal data from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. These measures include:

• Encryption of sensitive information
• Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology
• Firewalls and network security measures
• Access controls and authentication procedures
• Regular security assessments

Despite these measures, no Internet or email transmission is ever fully secure or error free. In particular, email sent to or from us may not be secure. Therefore, you should take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.

Data Breach Procedures

In the event of a data breach, we will:

• Assess the nature and scope of the breach
• Implement measures to contain and mitigate the breach
• Notify affected individuals without undue delay when required by applicable law (within 72 hours under GDPR for high-risk breaches, as soon as practicable under US state laws)
• Notify relevant regulatory authorities within 72 hours when required by applicable law (GDPR), or as required under other applicable laws
• Take steps to prevent future breaches

Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. These websites are not under our control and are not subject to our privacy policy. These websites will likely have their own privacy policies. We have no responsibility for these websites and we provide links to these websites solely for your convenience. You acknowledge that your use of and access to these websites are solely at your risk. It is your responsibility to check the privacy policies of these websites to see how they treat your personal data.

Email Policies

Marketing Emails

You can always opt out of receiving further marketing email correspondence from us or our affiliates by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any marketing email we send you.

Transactional Emails

We may send you emails related to your transactions, account, or services you have requested. These emails are necessary for the maintenance of your account and providing the services you have requested.

Email Security

We will not sell, rent, or trade your email address to any unaffiliated third party without your permission except in the sale or transfer of our business, or if our company files for bankruptcy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change this privacy policy at any time. If our company decides to change this privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so that our users and customers are always aware of what information we collect, use, and disclose.

Notice of Material Changes: If at any time we decide to disclose or use your personal data in a method materially different from that specified at the time it was collected, we will provide advance notice:

• EU residents: We will obtain your consent where required by GDPR
• US residents: We will provide notice as required by applicable state law (typically 30 days advance notice)
• Canadian residents: We will obtain consent except where inappropriate under PIPEDA
• Other jurisdictions: We will provide notice in accordance with applicable local laws

Effective Date: Any changes to our privacy policy will become effective upon posting of the revised policy on our website, unless a later effective date is specified. By continuing to use our website, services, or products following any changes to this privacy policy, you accept the revised privacy policy.

Review Frequency: We recommend that you review this privacy policy periodically to stay informed of our privacy practices.

Questions About Our Privacy Policy

If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please contact us using the information at the top of this privacy policy.

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Last Updated: May 30, 2025
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