Use of this website, including all materials presented herein and all online services provided by Reading on Strawberry Lane, is subject to the following Privacy and Cookie Policy. These policies apply to all site visitors, customers and all other users of this website.
Privacy Policy
At Reading on Strawberry Lane, your privacy is my ultimate priority. I am consistently committed to protecting your privacy at all times, in all situations. I will never collect and share names, email addresses, home addresses, or phone numbers. Your name and email address information is used only to communicate with you and will be kept strictly confidential. Your information will never be used, sold, rented, disclosed, loaned or traded.
Any information collected is for the sole purpose of Reading on Strawberry Lane blog. Some information on how data is sometimes collected from you includes:
- Blog Posts: Your name and email address are collected on comments. The purpose of collecting this information is to display to other viewers to identify you as the person who left the comment. This allows for open dialogue and conversation between commenters. Your name and WordPress profile (if logged in) will be displayed, but your email address will not. The email is saved in case we need to contact you directly about the comment you left. You can choose to comment on the blog as a guest and only your name will be required. If you’d like your comment to be deleted, please contact me to request this action.
- Newsletter Signup: Your name and email address are collected if you wish to sign up for my free newsletter. This information is used to send you updates, tutorials, discounts, special promotions, etc., emails. If you’d like to unsubscribe and have all data erased, you can do so by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any email from Reading on Strawberry Lane, or by contacting me. Reading on Strawberry Lane uses MailChimp for delivery of the emails. Please refer to MailChimp’s privacy policy for further information.
- Contact Forms: When you fill out any contact form on my site, your email address and name are collected when you submit the form to get in touch with me. This data is collected so that I can answer any questions you have, and to initiate a conversation about any of the services that you’re interested in. Reading on Strawberry Lane uses Contact Form 7 for all contact forms. Please refer to Contact Form 7’s privacy policy for further information.
Security
I am committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorized access or disclosure, I have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information that is collected.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
This website and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 13. does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13 years of age. Reading on Strawberry Lane prohibits children under the age of 13 from using all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out forms, or otherwise submitting any information. Reading on Strawberry Lane will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If Reading on Strawberry Lane learns it has any information or content from anyone under the age of 13, it will delete that information immediately.
Cookie Policy
What are cookies anyway? Basically, cookies are small bits of data stored on a user’s computer. They’re designed to help provide information to the website owner about visits and activity to help create a better user experience.
Reading on Strawberry Lane uses Google Analytics for cookies on this website. The information collected via this process is used for HISTORICAL RESEARCH ONLY and provides anonymized tracking within this site only. Your IP address is not linked to any personal identifiable information as it does not personally identify you on its own. In short, your IP address is only tracked to log your browser type and version, the pages you visit and the order in which you view them, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and where you are coming from. None of this information collected is sold, rented, disclosed, loaned or traded. This is only a tool for me to better my business. Google Analytics has security and privacy principles in place to keep your data protected. The Google Analytics Privacy Policy can be accessed here.
On the very bottom of this website, there is a note about website cookies, how to find out more about my privacy policy and button that says “I Agree”. If you do not click on I Agree, sensitive cookies will not be collected. If you choose to click on I Agree, this website may record information in relation to your use of this site as described above. This information is anonymous and only used for market research. If you would like to revoke the usage of cookies, you can either open this website in incognito mode which doesn’t allow cookie usage, or you can close out of it, delete your browser’s cookies and reopen the website without clicking on the “I Agree” button on the bottom of this website.
You may prefer to disable cookies on this website and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. I suggest consulting the Help section of your browser or taking a look at the About Cookies website which offers guidance for all modern browsers.
If at any time after you have given cookie consent, you wish to have your data deleted, please contact me and I’ll be happy to delete your data via the Data Deletion tool in my Google Analytics account.
Updates and Changes to these Policies
You acknowledge and agree that you have reviewed this Site and this Privacy and Cookie Policy and that you will continue to review to be aware of any modifications. Any changes to these policies will be updated on this page.
