Privacy policy.
Last modified: September 23, 2020
Sarendipity Designs, LLC is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our website or otherwise correspond with us, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information. Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.
I. Your Consent and Choice
By accessing or using our website, you agree to this Policy. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our website. This website is intended to be used in the United States. If you access this website while outside of the United States, your information will be transferred to the United States, and processed and stored under United States privacy standards. Privacy laws in the United States may be less stringent than the laws in your country. By accessing the website and providing information to us, you consent to such transfer to, and processing in, the United States.
II. Collection of Information
When you visit our website, you may browse without providing any personal information. However, our website may ask for all or only some of the following personal information if you contact us:
Name
Physical address
Email
Telephone number
Additional information described to you when collected or pursuant to your consent
This website also collects data to run our website and power its analytics, which does not personally identify you to us, but which you may consider personal, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
Squarespace uses the data about your browser, network, and device; the web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address to run our website and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes this data in a de-personalized form. This information and the details about your use of our website is also gathered using Squarespace Analytics, Google Analytics and Google Ads, and Facebook Pixel so that we may learn about our website’s traffic, activity, and other data. Information is gathered using cookies, pixel tags, and similar technologies. Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. A pixel tag (also known as a tag, web beacon, web bug, or clear GIF) is a clear image that is often used in conjunction with a cookie to track navigation through websites.
For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device by Squarespace visit the cookies Squarespace uses.
These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are also used on this website.
For more information on Google Analytics, please visit how Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.
We utilize Google Ads and Facebook Pixel to display advertisements for our services on those platforms to those who have visited our website as well as those who have shown interest in specific topics or products by other websites they have visited. With the tags and cookies applied by Google Ads and Facebook Pixel, we are able to track the effectiveness of our ads for marketing and statistical purposes. Google and Facebook also use the information for their own market research and advertising purposes. The data collected remains anonymous to us. For more information on how Google may use the information, see the Google link above, and to opt out of Google’s ad targeting and related data collection visit Google’s ad settings. For more information on how Facebook may use the information, see https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy. To opt out from Facebook’s ad targeting and related data collection visit https://www.facebook.com/help/568137493302217.
For an additional methods of opting out of interest-based advertising, see http://www.aboutads.info/choices and https://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1. Most browsers also allow you to set your cookie preferences but note that not accepting cookies may impair your ability to use our website.
III. Use of Information
We may use the information collected on our website for a variety of purposes, including:
Providing you with the information or services you request
Developing, enhancing, improving, or modifying our services
Security
As otherwise described to you at the point of collection or pursuant to your consent
IV. Disclosure of Information
As noted above, information may be shared with third parties who help us manage our website and that perform analytic services on our behalf. We may disclose any type information necessary to protect the legal rights, safety, and/or security of ourselves or of third parties. If we sell, reorganize, or merge all or part of our business, any type of information may be transferred as part of these asset transfer(s). And, we may share any type of information with your consent.
V. Children’s Privacy
Our website and services are not directed toward minors under the age of 18 and we do not knowingly solicit personal information from minors with our website. If a parent or guardian discovers his or her child has provided us with information without that parent or guardian consent, please contact sarah@sarendipitydesigns.com so that we may delete the information.
VI. Personal Data Retention and Deletion
Your information will be retained for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and to meet our legal obligations. To request that your information be deleted, please email sarah@sarendipitydesigns.com.
VII. Information Security
We have reasonable security to help us protect the information we collect and maintain. However, no method of transmitting or storing information over the internet is 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your information and privacy, we cannot guarantee the security of information disclosed or transmitted to us online, and therefore the use of our website is at your own risk.
VIII. Links to Third-Party Websites
Our website may link to other websites that we do not control or own. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of third-party websites outside of ours. We encourage you to review the privacy statements of these websites because their privacy practices may be different from ours.
IX. Privacy Policy Effective Date and Changes
This Policy is effective as of the date stated above and may be amended. Your continued use of our website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes.
X. Governing Law
This Policy and your use of our website is governed by the law of the State of Maine, U.S.A., without regard to its conflict of laws provisions.
XI. How to Contact Us Regarding Privacy Questions
For questions regarding this Policy please contact:
Sarendipity Designs, LLC
sarah@sarendipitydesigns.com