The website https://kristencora.com is a personal website where books will be sold and information will be shared.
Generalized Policy
The privacy of visitors to kristencora.com is very important to us. This policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared. When you visit and interact with kristencora.com, you agree to the terms of the privacy policy.
As a general policy, we use personal information for internal purposes only. We do not publish, sell, or rent information about you. kristencora.com will never send spam emails.
We will not disclose personal information to third parties without your consent, except as explained in this Privacy Policy and to comply with applicable laws and regulations or to respond to subpoenas, search warrants, or other lawful requests.
kristencora.com reserves the right to update this privacy policy at any time in order to comply with operational, legal, or regulatory purposes or to reflect any changes to the practices within our website. Even if the policy changes, users are still subject to the new policy if they continue to visit and interact within the website.
After reading the Privacy Policy, you will find our Cookies Policy.
Information You Give Voluntarily and What We do With it
When visitors leave comments or replies on the site, use the contact card, sign up for giveaways or downloads, subscribe to the site or newsletters, make a payment or purchase, we collect the data such as email address, name, and also the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection. We use this information for various purposes including:
- create a secure login to access your account, if applicable
- provide support and answer your questions through email
- send order details or links to purchased or free digital downloads
- read through or moderate and approve comments for spam and to publish and respond to comments
- inform winners of giveaways
- understand what products or articles are of interest to our users
- send electronic newsletters or to notify our visitors of any new resources or products. This is optional, and you can opt out at any time
We use a third-party provider, Convertkit, to send electronic communications to our subscribers, which may process your data using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our newsletter. You can find Convertkit’s privacy policy here.
Online Store & Payment Details
The information shared with a payment provider to process payments includes:
- Name
- Address
- Phone
- City/State/Zip
- Unique payment identifier
- Payment provider identifier
Currently, kristencora.com uses Stripe to process payments. You can find Stripes Privacy Policy here. In addition to Stripe, kristencora.com also gives users the option to use Paypal to process payments. You may find Paypal’s Privacy Policies here.
When you make an online purchase from our website, you will be asked to submit a billing address and payment details (in addition to the above). This information will be used to:
- Calculate shipping, if applicable
- Answer requests and questions, including refunds – if applicable, and complaints
- Send information to you about your account and order
- Satisfy legal obligations such as the calculating taxes
- Process payments and deter fraud
Username and Password
You may have the option of setting a unique username and password to create a secure account to log into to access your orders and downloads. You can also change your password at any time by logging into your account.
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. 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 or reply, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Usage and Analytics Data
Usage and analytical information collected may include items such as your web browser type or operating system; IP address; what pages you viewed; how long you visited the site; and other information relating to site usage.
We collect and use usage and analytics data from Google Analytics in order to see how you access and use our site. This is important information for our website for various reasons, which include helping us to improve our site’s functionality and review the impact of any marketing campaigns. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here.
Like most websites, we too gather certain information and store it in log files. The information gathered allows us to look for trends and improve our website. The information collected includes IP addresses; operating system; country; demographics; browser type; internet service provider; referring and exit pages and sources; pages and files viewed; date and time stamp and click-stream data.
Cookies
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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices.
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.
Storage, Retention, and Protection of Your Data
We have data and security measures in place to help protect your personal information against unauthorized access; however as you know, the transmission of information over the internet is never 100% secure. Even though we have taken steps to protect the security of your personal information, any transmission is at your own risk.
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are kept forever. This is so we can recognize and approve any additional comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website, if applicable, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their own personal information at any time however they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Information collected by kristencora.com may be processed, transferred, or stored in other jurisdictions. If sent to another jurisdiction, it may be accessible to courts, law enforcement, and national security authorities.
We will store your voluntarily provided email addresses until you ask us to remove you from our mailing lists.
Published comments will remain on our site until you ask that they be deleted.
Cookies stored in your browser can be deleted; to learn how, read the Cookie Policy below.
We only keep your other personal information for as long as we need it or until you ask that it be deleted. How long we need your personal information depends on what we are using it for an example would be in order to provide services to you such as sending out newsletters to you.
How You can Control Your Data
If applicable, if you request a password reset.
As a user, you can request access to your personal information, update that information, or unsubscribe from communications.
At any time, you may opt-out of receiving electronic communications by clicking the unsubscribe button at the bottom of any email.
To opt-out of cookies, including those used for analytics, please read the Cookies Policy below.
If you have an account on this website or have left comments, you can ask to receive an exported file of the personal data that we may have about you. You can also request that we erase any personal information we may have about you. This does not include any information we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Cookie Policy
A cookie file, which is small pieces of text sent to your browser by the website you visit, is stored in your web browser and allows a website or a third-party to recognize you and make your next visit to the website load faster.
How KristenCora.com uses First-Party Cookies
When you visit and interact with this website, we may place a number of cookie files in your web browser.
We use cookies to reduce spam in the comments. Comments may be held for review until approved. Once a user has had a comment approved for the first comment, a cookie is stored to remember that user so that any future comments will be instantly approved. You may also have the option to check a box when making a comment that will save your name, email, and optional website for any future comments.
Third-Party Cookies
We may use third party advertisements on kristencora.com to support our site. Some of these advertisers may use technology such as cookies or web beacons when they advertise on our website. This will also send these advertisers, such as Google through the Google AdSense program, information including your IP address, ISP, the browser you used, and to see if you have Flash installed. This is commonly used for geotargeting purposes. An example of geotargeting would be showing an ad for a specific state to someone living in that specific state.
We use Google Analytics in order to improve our website for our visitors. We use tracking to provide us with information such as which browser you used to visit our site, the length of time you spent on our site, and which pages you visited. This helps us to know what our visitors are interested in so we can improve our content.
Social icons, sharing, and Pin It buttons might add on cookies that can be used to track sites you visit and to show you ads of interest.
Currently, KristenCora.com is not a participant in any affiliate program.
How to Change Your Cookie Settings
If you do not wish to have your name, email, and optional website saved for future comments, do not check the box to save them.
To opt-out of cookies stored by Google Analytics, users can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
You can choose to disable or turn off select cookies within your web browser or by managing preferences in programs such as Ad Blockers or your security software program. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies, and how to clear your browser’s cache. Please note that disabling cookies may impact how a user can interact with our website.
