Privacy Policy
At Megan Lois Whitehill, accessible from www.meganloiswhitehill.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Megan Lois Whitehill and how we use it.
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Megan Lois Whitehill. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Free Privacy Policy Generator.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.
Information we collect
The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.
If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.
How we use your information
We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:
- Provide, operate, and maintain our website
- Improve, personalize, and expand our website
- Understand and analyze how you use our website
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
- Send you emails
- Find and prevent fraud
Log Files
Megan Lois Whitehill follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users’ movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Megan Lois Whitehill uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information.
For more general information on cookies, please read the Cookies article on TermsFeed website.
Plugins and Third Parties
We will not ever sell your information to a third party.
We us the WordPress website/blog platform which does include plugins by third parties. Plugins allow us to customize our site and make it more appealing and convenient to you. However, we cannot be held responsible for any actions of any third party plugin developers and any info they may gather from or through our website.
We may also use Google Analytics. Google’s spider bots crawl our site regularly and give us reports on how people are using Megan Lois Whitehill, such as what pages they are visiting, what websites they are coming from, etc. If you have a Google account, Google does potentially provide stripped-down, basic information about your demographics and browsing habits, but never your personal identifying information. We use this vital data to help improve my website experience for future visitors, as does virtually every website on the Internet.
We cannot be held responsible or liable for any actions or damages performed by third party plugin creators, services, or vendors. The same goes for any hacking or hacking attempts that may happen to our site.
Affiliate Policy
We may use affiliate links on this website for our books and recommended products, services, apps, or other things that we deem useful or entertaining for my readers and visitors of this site. If you click those links and make a purchase (ie. on Amazon), we may receive a small commission from the vendor. This occurs at no cost to you.
While we do our best to disclose affiliate links whenever possible, it is not always an option due to the way our website is set up and the plugins we use to sell our books.
Affiliate income helps us pay for the hosting of this website as well as support Megan Lois Whitehill’s growing author business. If you click these links to support us, we can’t thank you enough! If not, thank you for your understanding.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Megan Lois Whitehill’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)
Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:
Request that a business that collects a consumer’s personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.
Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.
Request that a business that sells a consumer’s personal data, not sell the consumer’s personal data.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
GDPR Data Protection Rights
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
Children’s Information
Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
Megan Lois Whitehill does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.