Disclosure & Privacy Notice
Disclosure & Privacy Notice
Effective Date: May 25, 2018
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for myself, Kristen Koster, and my website; https://www.kristenkoster.com/. This privacy notice applies solely to information collected by this website and for my mailing list, except where stated otherwise. It will notify you of the following:
What information we collect;
With whom it is shared;
How it can be corrected;
How it is secured;
How policy changes will be communicated; and
How to address concerns over misuse of personal data.
Information Collection, Use, and Sharing
I am the sole owner of the information collected on this site. I only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give via email or other direct contact from you. I will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
I will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted me. I will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g., to ship an order.
Unless you ask me not to, I may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Your Access to and Control Over Information
You may opt out of any future contacts from me at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number provided on our website:
See what data we have about you, if any.
Change/correct any data we have about you.
Have us delete any data we have about you.
Express any concern you have about our use of your data
Site Registration & Comments
In order to use this website, users are not required to first complete the registration form. You may choose to complete a registration form if you like for your convenience. During registration a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on my site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.
In order to leave a comment on this website, users are required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information may be used to contact you directly if necessary.
Orders
I do request information from you on the order form. To buy from me, you may be asked to provide contact information (like name and shipping address) and financial information (like credit card number, expiration date). This information is used for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If I have trouble processing an order, I’ll use this information to contact you.
Sharing
We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any personal information that can identify any individual person.
And/or:
I may use an outside shipping company to ship orders, and a credit card processing company to bill users for goods and services. These companies do not retain, share, store or use personally identifiable information for any secondary purposes beyond filling your order.
And/or:
I may partner with another party to provide specific services. When a user signs up for these services, I will share names, or other contact information that is necessary for the third party to provide these services. These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services.
Security
I take reasonable precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever I collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the top or bottom of your web browser, or looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While I use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, I also protect your information offline. Only employees (Hey, it’s just me right now!) who need the information to perform a specific job (e.g. billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers on which I store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Cookies
I do not currently use “cookies” on this site. A cookie is a piece of data stored on a site visitor’s hard drive to helps improve your access to our site and identify repeat visitors to a site. For instance, when a cookie is used to identify you, you would not have to log in a password more than once, thereby saving time while on our site. Cookies can also enable tracking and targeting the interests of users to enhance their experience on a site. Usage of a cookie is in no way linked to any personally identifiable information on our site.
Some of my business partners may use cookies on my site (e.g., advertisers). However, we have no access to or control over these cookies.
Links & Affiliate Links
This web site and my mailing list contain 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 this site or my newsletter and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
This website is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com. Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com. Generally if a link on the kristenkoster.com site leads to amazon.com, it will be an affiliate link.
Surveys & Contests
From time-to-time I may request information via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you may choose whether or not to participate and therefore disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.
Notification of Changes
Whenever material changes are made to this privacy notice, it will be updated here and sent out through my mailing list as well as a blog post announcing said changes.
Other Provisions as Required by Law
The California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), is frequently amended and includes a disclosure requirement for “Do Not Track” signals.
How I Handle Do Not Track (DNT) Signals
I do not knowingly treat consumers whose browsers send a DNT signal differently from those without one. If I do receive a DNT signal, the only personally identifiable information about a consumer’s browsing activities over time and across third-party web sites or online services is what you, the consumer, voluntarily provide in one of the manners described above.
Any collected personally identifiable information about consumers with a DNT signal as they move across other sites or services, will not be used in any manner except as described above as those are the only ways consumers would be voluntarily providing said information to be stored.
If you feel that I am not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact me via email at CONTACT (AT) KRISTENKOSTER (DOT) COM or contact me through regular mail at
Kristen Koster
12463 Rancho Bernardo Road, #556
San Diego, CA 92128-2143
