Privacy policy

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This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit or make a purchase from www.maddiejamesbooks.com (the “Site”).

Your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy informs you of policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information on these websites in regard to blog comments and subscriptions, newsletter sign-ups, social media interactions, participation in list-building and giveaway events, completion of surveys and forms, and any other associated activity with third-party sites that may collect your personal information on behalf of the author brands, business brands, or websites identified above. If you elect to participate in these types of digital engagements, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy.

Pursuant to the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (adopted in April 2016, implemented on May 25, 2018), you have the right to be forgotten, right to object, right to rectification. To be removed from our data stores, subscriptions, or to change your information, please contact us using the information at the end of this policy statement, or click the provided “update” or “unsubscribe” links, as appropriate.

What personal information do we collect from website visitors? When registering on our site or making a direct purchase, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, credit card information, or other details to help you with your experience.

When do we collect information? We collect information from you when you register on our site, comment on our blog, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, or enter other information on our site.

How do we use your information? We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or comment on blog posts, to personalize your experience, share a promotion, survey or feature, process your transactions, and/or to communicate with your regarding your experience on our sites.

Newsletter. To deliver newsletters and other business-related messages, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name and email address. The information that we collect will be used only to contact or identify you.

Additionally when you make a purchase or attempt to make a purchase through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name, billing address, shipping address, payment information (including credit card numbers, email address, and phone number.) We refer to this information as “Order Information”.

When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Order Information.

Turquoise Morning, LLC DBA Jacobs Ink, LLC, is compliant with the CAN-SPAM act and other guidelines from the FTC. The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

An “unsubscribe” or “update” option is located at the bottom of all emails. Additionally, you may manually request to be removed from our data stores, subscriptions, or to change your information. If you want to change your email address or if you no longer wish to continue receiving our newsletter, please click on the “unsubscribe” or “update” links as appropriate

We collect your email address in order to:
· Send information or respond to inquiries or requests
· Process orders and send information and updates about orders
· Send additional information related to products and/or services
· Market to our mailing list, clients, and subscribers, to share new information about products and/or services

To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:
· Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses
· Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way
· Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters
· Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance
· Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
· Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email

Log Data. Whenever you visit the identified websites, we collect information your browser sends to us called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, specific website pages that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies. Cookies are files with small amount of data commonly used as an anonymous unique identifier. These are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Our website uses “cookies” to collect information and to improve our service. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.

We use cookies to:
· Help remember and process the items in the shopping cart
· Understand and save user's preferences for future visits.
· Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If users disable cookies in their browser. If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.

Third-Party Service Providers. We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:
· to facilitate our business
· to provide the business-related services on our behalf
· to perform business-related services
· to assist us in analyzing how our website is used.

The third-party applications utilized by this site (including but not limited to social media sites, MailChimp, search term tracking) have adopted protocols that make them GDPR compliant. These third parties applications will have access to your personal information in order to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf.

Third-party disclosure. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.

Links to Other Sites. Our website may contain links to other sites. Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites.

Amazon & Affiliate links. Turquoise Morning LLC is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associate Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Some links on the identified websites may include affiliate links for other retailers. It is also important to know that all associated social media advertisements have tracking programs, often referred to as ‘pixels’ and ‘cookies’ attached to them. Third parties, including Facebook, may use cookies, web beacons, and other technologies to collect or receive information from this website for measurement services and targeting ads. All programs like Facebook and Twitter allow you to OPT OUT of advertisements. You can opt-out of collection and use of information in the US http://www.aboutads.info/choices and EU http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/

We may also, along with third-party vendors such as Google, use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

· Opting out. Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act). When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States' consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children's privacy and safety online. We do not market products to children under the age of 18 years old.

The Site and content herein is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 years.

Security. We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. Remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Fair Information Practices. The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur: We will notify you via email within 1 business day.

We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

SHARING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store--you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site -- you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

BEHAVIORAL ADVERTISING
As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. These targeted advertisements may be offered via your search or social media feeds, such as on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, Google, or others. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by using the links below:
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
- Google: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
- Bing: https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads\
- You can opt out of email newsletter delivery or update your email delivery preferences by visiting the preferences link at the bottom of every marketing email. Transactional emails do not contain opt-out links.

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

MINORS
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 years.

CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e‑mail at maddie@maddiejames.net or by mail using the details provided below:

Maddie James Books
[Re: Privacy Compliance Officer]
PO Box 20, New Holland OH 43145, United States

Updated December 10, 2022