Hi there, I am Suzanne Perazzini, owner of the Strands of My Life website. Welcome to my privacy policy.
Protecting your private information is my priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to [https://strandsofmylife.com] and Strands of My Life and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Strands of My Life include [https://strandsofmylife.com] and Strands of My Life. By using the Strands of My Life 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 my site, Strands of My Life may collect personally identifiable information, such as your email address and first name.
If you purchase Strands of My Life’s products and services, I collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Strands of My Life’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
I 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 me when you elect to use certain products or services available on the site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on my site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by me or one of my partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending me an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on my site. To wit, I will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. I also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
Strands of My Life collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Strands of My Life may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Strands of My Life.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Strands of My Life does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Strands of My Life 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) is not transferred to the third party. Strands of My Life may share data with trusted partners to help fulfil orders, send you email shipping updates, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Strands of My Life, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Strands of My Life 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 Strands of My Life or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Strands of My Life; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Strands of My Life, or the public.
Tracking User Behaviour
Strands of My Life may keep track of the websites and pages my users visit within Strands of My Life, in order to determine what Strands of My Life services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Strands of My Life to customers whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Strands of My Life. 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 Strands of My Life website.
Use of Cookies
The Strands of My Life website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Strands of My Life pages, or register with Strands of My Life site or services, a cookie helps Strands of My Life to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Strands of My Life website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Strands of My Life features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Strands of My Life services or websites you visit.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website, one of which is https://www.gourmetads.com. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that I am not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. I encourage my users to be aware when they leave my site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
Strands of My Life secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Strands of My Life uses SSL Protocol method for this purpose.
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
I strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while I strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond my control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and me through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Children Under Thirteen
Strands of My Life 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.
Disconnecting your Strands of My Life Account from Third Party Websites
You will be able to connect your Strands of My Life account to third party accounts. BY CONNECTING YOUR STRANDS OF MY LIFE ACCOUNT TO YOUR THIRD PARTY ACCOUNT, YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE CONSENTING TO THE CONTINUOUS RELEASE OF INFORMATION ABOUT YOU TO OTHERS (IN ACCORDANCE WITH YOUR PRIVACY SETTINGS ON THOSE THIRD PARTY SITES). IF YOU DO NOT WANT INFORMATION ABOUT YOU, INCLUDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION, TO BE SHARED IN THIS MANNER, DO NOT USE THIS FEATURE. You may disconnect your account from a third party account at any time.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Strands of My Life 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 my Services, I may receive a notification when you open an email from Strands of My Life or click on a link therein.
I retain your personal information for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you, and to comply with my legal obligations. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Strands of My Life, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
If you’re a user or visitor in the European Economic Area these rights also apply to you:
For the purposes of applicable EU data protection law (including the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”), I am a ‘data controller’ of your personal information.
How you can access your personal information
You are also entitled to ask me to port your personal information (i.e. to transfer in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, to you), to erase it, or restrict its processing. You also have rights to object to some processing that is based on my legitimate interests, such as profiling that I may perform for the purposes of direct marketing, and, where I have asked for your consent to process your data, to withdraw this consent as more fully described below.
These rights are limited in some situations – for example, I can demonstrate that I have a legal requirement to process your personal information. In some instances, this means that I may retain some data even if you withdraw your consent.
Where I require your personal information to comply with legal or contractual obligations, then provision of such data is mandatory: if such data is not provided, then I will not be able to manage my contractual relationship with you, or to meet obligations placed on me. In all other cases, provision of requested personal information is optional.
If you have unresolved concerns you also have the right to complain to data protection authorities. The relevant data protection authority will be the data protection authority of the country: (i) of your habitual residence; (ii) of your place of work; or (iii) in which you consider the alleged infringement has occurred.
Changes to this Statement
Strands of My Life reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. I will notify you about significant changes in the way I treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on my 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
Strands of My Life welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Strands of My Life has not adhered to this Statement, please contact me at support@strandsofmylife.com
Privacy policy :
This privacy policy sets out how Strands Of My Life uses and protects any information that you give while using www.strandsofmylife.com
Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
Strands Of My Life may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from february 2019
What we collect
We may collect the following information:
contact information including email address
demographic information such as zip code, preferences and interests
other information relevant to customer surveys and/or offers
What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, and in particular for the following reasons:
We may use the information to improve our products and services.
We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers or other information which we think you may find interesting using the email address which you have provided.
From time to time, we may also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax or mail. We may use the information to customise the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website, one of which is https://www.gourmetads.com. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited, to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, your operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. The use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies by these advertising service vendors is subject to their own privacy policies, not ours, and Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection therewith.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling your personal information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes
if you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.
We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
Opt Out
For information about opting out of Gourmet Ads and ad serving partners please visit https://www.gourmetads.com/about/privacy-policy
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please contact us.
