Renee Thomas Privacy Policy, Disclaimer and Disclosure
last updated November 25, 2021
This Privacy Policy and Disclaimer is the policy of Renee Thomas [RT]. We are professional e-zine / blog sites / book publishers / events planners that may receive compensation from the companies whose products we review or sell.
Presentations of the aforementioned companies on the world wide web include links to sites that collect, use, store, and disclose data collected from visitors. In cases where the age of site visitors is most crucial or must legally be displayed, our age policy will be posted on each page of said site, in a visible, conspicuous manner. Third party linked sites, to Etsy, may serve content and/or advertisements and collect information directly from visitors and may place tracking devices, such as, but without limitation to, cookies on visitors' browsers at the request of and on behalf of RT and its aforementioned affiliate companies.
Cookies
Cookies are typically small text files, given ID tags that are stored on your computer's browser directory or program data subfolders. Cookies are created when you use your browser to visit a website that uses cookies to keep track of your movements within the site, help you resume where you left off, remember your registered login, theme selection, preferences, and other customization functions. Cookies are an integral and everyday part of normal website use. The website stores a corresponding file (with same ID tag) to the one they set in your browser and in this file they can track and keep information on your movements within the site and any information you may have voluntarily given while visiting the website, such as email address. Files that are stored on your web-enabled client (such as your web browser or mobile device) are used to improve your experience when seeing web and mobile advertisements and ensure that when you click on an ad, you are sent to the correct click-through destination.
To learn more about cookies and about how to remove them, refer to the following links:
For Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/cookies-information-websites-store-on-your-computer
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=95647&p=cpn_cookies
Cookies cannot erase your hard drive, install programs, or collect PII from your browser or device.
You also can opt-out of certain cookies using the following link:http://optout.networkadvertising.org. You can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. Some features of the Websites may not work properly without cookies. To learn more about cookies generally, visit www.allaboutcookies.org and http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN.
Some web browsers (including Safari, Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome) incorporate a “Do Not Track” (“ DNT”) or similar feature that signals to websites that a User does not want to have his or her online activity and behavior tracked. If a website that responds to a particular DNT signal receives the DNT signal, the browser can block that website from collecting certain information about the browser’s User. Not all browsers offer a DNT option and DNT signals are not yet uniform. For this reason, many website operators, including RRM do not respond to DNT signals.
Why does AGE use cookies and other tracking technology?
Some cookies are required for the Websites to operate. Other cookies enable us to track the interests of Users, to enhance the experience of the Websites and to target advertising.
The types of cookies used on the Websites and why they are used is as follows:
“Strictly necessary” cookies are required to allow us to deliver the Websites to you.
“Performance” or “Analytics” cookies help us to collect information about how Users interact with the Websites and help us analyze and improve the Websites. Performance or analytics cookies remain on your computer after you close your browser until you delete them.
“Advertising” cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They help to display advertisements that are based on your inferred interests, prevent the same ad from appearing too often and ensure that ads are properly displayed.
Pixels and similar data collection technology enable RT or Etsy to monitor the traffic patterns of visitors from one page of the Website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you visit the Websites after seeing our online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve performance of the Websites and to measure the success of our email marketing campaigns.
Etsy may serve targeted advertisements on the Websites. Etsy may use information about your visits to the Websites to provide relevant advertisements on other websites about goods and services that may interest you. Etsy may deploy technology that the effectiveness of advertisements by using cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to the Websites and other websites to provide relevant advertisements on other websites about goods and services that may interest you. The information collected through this process does not enable us or the third parties to identify your name, contact details or similar directly-identifying details unless you choose to provide them.
Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”)
Personally Identifiable Information or PII is information that can be linked to an identifiable individual person. This type of data includes things like full name, home address, telephone number, or email address. Some of the links on this site may lead to internet pages that host web forms that can be used by visitors to or users of that site to request that they be contacted with more information about the site on which the form resides. Each link's site is managed separately from this site and will have a separate privacy policy that will govern the use and collection of information on that site.
California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)
Notice for California Consumers
Overview
The California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) becomes effective on January 1, 2020 and creates a variety of privacy rights for California consumers. We share the same information about our practices with everyone but use this notice to make disclosures required by the CCPA.
This notice includes the following parts:
Transparency: We are transparent about how your personal information is collected, used, shared and sold.
Control: We put you in control of your personal information, including accessing and deleting your personal information.
Benefits to You: We use your personal information to benefit you and to make your experiences better.
Transparency
What Personal Information We Collect
You have the right to know what kinds of personal information RT is collecting and our business purposes for that collection.
We make this information available to consumers in the Personal data we collect section on our Privacy Statement.
How We Use Your Personal Information
You have the right to know how personal information is obtained, how it is used, and our business purposes for that use.
We make this information available to consumers in the Personal data we collect section on our Privacy Statement.
How We Share Your Personal Information
You have the right to know if your personal information is shared with any third parties. We may share personal information to have Service Providers, as defined by the CCPA, perform services specified by written contract. In addition, we may share personal information with third parties for other notified purposes, as permitted by the CCPA.
We make this information available to consumers in the Reasons we share personal data section on our Privacy Statement.
We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information
You have the right to know whether your personal information is being sold. Your personal information is sold when it is shared with a third party for monetary or other valuable consideration for a purpose that is not a “business purpose” as set forth in the CCPA.
RT does not sell your personal information.
Control
Right to Know, Right to Receive, Right to Delete
You have the right to:
Know what specific pieces of personal information AGE has collected and retained about you over the previous 12 months.
Receive a copy of your personal information.
Delete your personal information.
RT makes it easy for you to exercise your rights. Using our websites, you can log into your account [if the particular website offers the ability to create one] and view, download or delete the specific pieces of personal information we have collected.
If you do not have an account, or have a more detailed inquiry, you can submit a request to us at colette@anointedgroove.com or call our US number, 1-770-897-3735. Before helping you with your inquiry, we may ask to verify your identity or the identity of your authorized agent.
Right to “Opt-out” of “Sale”
RT does not sell your personal information, so we do not offer an opt out.
Benefits to You
Financial Incentives
The CCPA allows businesses to offer consumers financial incentives for sharing personal information. For example, a business can offer a rewards program or provide a premium service to consumers as compensation for their personal information. Where RT offers these programs, your participation is optional. If you choose to participate, your participation will be subject to any applicable terms, and you may withdraw at any time.
Non-Discrimination
The CCPA prohibits businesses from discriminating against you for exercising your rights under the law. Such discrimination may include denying a good or service, providing a different level or quality of service, or charging different prices. The CCPA permits businesses to provide differing levels or quality or different prices where the business can demonstrate that the difference is reasonably related to the value to the business of the consumer’s personal information.
Cross-border Transfers
Section Overview: Your user information may be transferred to, and processed in, countries other than the country in which you are resident in connection with your use of the Site. These countries may have data protection laws that are different from the laws of your country. Specifically, if you access or use the Site outside of the United States, your user information will be transferred to our servers in the United States.
However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that your personal information will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Statement. RT is compliant with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. Though not certified with the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, RT is committed to familiarity with it and subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, respectively, in reliance on each Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework's applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce's Privacy Shield List at https://www.privacyshield.gov/list. RT is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under each Privacy Shield Framework, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf. RT complies with the Privacy Shield Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, the United Kingdom and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions With respect to personal data received or transferred pursuant to the Privacy Shield Frameworks, RT is subject to the regulatory enforcement powers of the U.S. Federal Trade Commission. In certain situations, RT may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. If you have an unresolved privacy or data use concern that we have not addressed satisfactorily, please contact us at colette@anointedgroove.com. Under certain conditions, more fully described on the Privacy Shield website at https://www.privacyshield.gov/article?id=How-to-Submit-a-Complaint, you may invoke binding arbitration when other dispute resolution procedures have been exhausted.
We have implemented similar appropriate safeguards with our third party service providers and partners and further details can be provided upon request.
Interaction with Children
RT websites do not provide content to children and do not collect personally identifiable information from these visitors. Therefore, the requirements of the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) are not incorporated in this privacy policy.
Logos and Trademarks
RT is a trademark of Renee Thomas or its affiliates.
Additionally, and to reiterate, the name of our business is Renee Thomas. Any other business names and logos used on these sites are trademarks of said company or its affiliates.
For more information about internet use, please refer to the U S Department of Commerce or the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
