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Home Made Our Way’s Privacy Policy

Thank you for choosing to be part of our community at Home Made Our Way (Hereafter, “Website”, “Site”, “Company”, “we”, “us,” “our”). Protecting your personal information is of utmost importance to us. If you have any questions, comments or concerns after reviewing this Privacy Policy agreement, please contact us at [email protected]

When you visit and use (register, answer surveys, fill out a form, contact us through a form) our Website and services, this means you trust us with your personal information. Therefore, this privacy policy describes how we use the information we collect from you when you use our Website and services and what rights you have in relation to your information.

If you disagree with any terms in this privacy policy, please discontinue your use of our Sites and services.

This privacy policy applies to all the information collected through your use of our Website and services and other third-party tools. By using our Website and/or services, or by clicking “Agree” or “Accept” to the Terms of Use when this option is explicitly made available to you, you acknowledge, accept and agree to be bound by the Privacy Policy terms and to abide by them.

Information We Collect

Personal Information You Disclose to Us

In general, you can visit our website without telling us who you are and without revealing any information about yourself.

During your visit and use of our Website and services, we collect certain data that you provide to us when you fill out opt-in forms, contact forms, and surveys, when you purchase products and/or services, and when you enter your information for giveaways and/or competitions.

The personal information that you provide to us can be your name, email address, and location. Moreover, if you are purchasing products, then you are also providing us with payment and address information. (However, your payment information is not stored in our system because purchases are processed through payment processors.) Therefore, should you have any questions about payment activities and/or information, contact the specific payment processor directly.

Outside of the European Union (“EU”)

If you are outside of the EU and enter your information to receive a freebie, make a purchase, respond to survey, register for free training, or participate in a webinar, then we will automatically enroll you to receive our newsletter and updates.

If you do not wish to receive any communications from us, you can opt-out by clicking on the unsubscribe link located at the bottom of the emails.

In the European Union (EU)

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a new EU regulation aimed at helping to strengthen data protection for EU citizens and residents both within the EU and the wider world and will be effective May 25th, 2018.

If you are in the EU and opt to receive a freebie or participate in free training, register for a webinar or live event, or purchase a product, your email address will not be added to the email list to receive our newsletter and updates unless you affirmatively consent to it.

If you change your mind at any point and do not want to receive electronic communication, simply unsubscribe.

If you have trouble unsubscribing by clicking the link at the bottom of the email, simply email us at [email protected] com and request to be unsubscribed from future emails.

Information Collected Through Third-Party Sources

During the time you visit and use our Site, certain limited data are collected from public databases, marketing partners, social media platforms, and analytics sources.

The types of data collected about you from other sources are your location, your computer system, which pages you have visited on our Site, how long you spend on each page, your IP address, your country, and possibly even your social media profiles and referrals.

Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

How We Use Information Collected From You and Third Party Sources

Information Collected from You

We use the information we collect from you to send you targeted marketing and promotional communications. If at any time you indicated an interest in a particular field related to our Site, then we and/or our third-party marketing partners may use this relevant information to send you additional communication regarding similar products/services.

If you do not want to receive any marketing and/or promotional communication, you can opt-out at any time by UNSUBSCRIBING from either a particular list or topic or from all the emails coming from us by clicking on the unsubscribe button located at the bottom of every email you receive.

Payment Information

Your credit card or other payment method and billing information will only be used to pay for the products you have requested.

We only use payment services that have agreed not to share your financial information with us so we will never see or handle your financial information. This also applies to payment information stored at the site of the payment processors for the convenience of future purchases.

For security reasons, we strongly recommend that you do not send credit card numbers by standard email but use the secure facility provided via this website. We endeavor to take all reasonable steps to protect your personal information.

Adding a Blog Comment

Should you choose to add a comment to any posts or pages, you may leave your email address for the purpose of receiving comment replies. Any name or email address you enter will be saved to our site’s database along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment.

This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section and is not passed on to any of the third-party data processors. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website although if the supplied email address is linked to a Gravatar account, your Gravatar photo will also be displayed.

Your comment and its associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either:

Remove the comment or
Remove the blog post

Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email me using the email address that you commented with and we will remove the comment.

If you are under 16 years of age, you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

Information Collected from Third-Party Apps and Tools

Google Analytics

When someone visits HomeMadeOurWay.com we use a third-party service, Google Analytics. They gather anonymous standard internet log information and details of visitor behavior patterns, for example, data of how people are using our site and then provide us with the visitor statistics, details of page views, etc.

For more information on Google’s Privacy Policy, click here.

WordPress

This website is built on WordPress, a website content management system. This service may collect anonymous information about users’ activity on the website, for example, the number of users viewing pages on the site, to monitor and report on the effectiveness of the site and help us improve it.

WordPress requires visitors that want to post a comment, to enter a name and an email address. If you submit a comment on a blog post or page published on this website or if you submit a contact form, some personal information will be stored in this website’s database.

These are the only occasions where personal data will be stored on this website. For more information about WordPress processes, please see Automattic’s privacy notice.

Shopify

When someone visits Home Made Our Way’s Shopify store, Shopify will gather information and details of visitor behavior patterns, for example, cart abandonment and product views and then provide us with such information.

For Shopify’s privacy policy, click here.

Information collected from these third-party tools and any others that we may use in the future is used only for statistical and analytical purposes and for evaluating and making improvements to our Site. If we add any third-party tools that collect this type of information, we will try to provide you with their name and their privacy policies.

This automatically-collected information will not include personal information data. Information such as demographics may be collected to:

to personalize your experience and allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
to provide technical support for our online products.
to inform you of news, events, sales, and courses.
to send you newsletters and information about products, services, promotions, and administrative messages relating to our business.
to improve our website in order to better serve you.
to allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
to administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
to quickly process your transactions.
to maintain our own tax accounts and records.
to ask for ratings and reviews of services and products.
to follow up with them after correspondence.
to prevent fraud or potentially illegal activities (including copyright infringement) on our site.

The Sharing of Your Information

We respect your privacy and the value of your information. We do not share, disclose, sell, lease or rent your information to anyone or any third party without your express consent.

Only under limited circumstances will necessary information be shared with third parties. Here are the situations in which we will share your information:

You gave us express consent to do so;
You entered into a contract for recurring payments—for this reason, your information will be processed on an as-needed basis to uphold the agreement;
Performance of a contract—if you are obligated to pay or perform an action, and you fail, we reserve the right to share necessary information with a third-party company, such as a collection agency or an attorney;
Mandated by law—if legal proceedings are initiated, and there is a subpoena (unlikely, but better to be prepared than surprised).

Protecting Your Information

We will protect your personal information by implementing a variety of security safeguards against loss or theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification.

We do our due diligence and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to make sure that the consumer data and private information we collect is safe and secure.

Here are the security practices we have in place to protect consumer data:

● All the systems containing consumer information (such as our email service provider) are password protected. The passwords are considered strong and are not easy to figure out. Only 1 person knows the password.

● Our computers are protected from third-party access by having an additional password layer before a user can start working on the computer.

● In addition to the statements above, we take reasonable precautions on a daily basis to protect consumer information from unauthorized use, modification, destruction, and disclosure.

Cookie Policy

We use cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information.

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 also 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.

We use cookies to:

help remember and process the items in the shopping cart.
understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
keep track of advertisements.
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. Please look up your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off, some features will be disabled. However, you will still be able to navigate all posts and pages on our site as well as place orders.

EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS & POLICIES

If you decide to contact us through email, we reserve the right to retain the content of your email messages, your email address, and our responses.

Your privacy is important to us. Therefore, your email address will never be shared, sold, or leased to any third-party members.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, any and all communications sent from our Company or Website will clearly state who the email is from, who the email is for, and how to contact the sender.

Furthermore, should you wish to not receive any more emails, you can click on the “Unsubscribe” link located at the bottom of the email.

When you sign up for an email newsletter, we use a third-party provider, Convertkit.com, to deliver it. Convertkit gathers statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our emails.

For more information, please see Convertkit’s privacy policy.

Your email address, name, and any other information you provide us with are held in strict confidence. Your information is only kept so that HomeMadeOurWay.com, whose email list you subscribed to, can email you. We do not sell or share your information with anyone else.

Don’t forget, if you have previously subscribed to our mailing list and want to unsubscribe, you can click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email or email me at [email protected]

Affiliate Disclaimers

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 and activities of these linked sites.

Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Children’s Privacy and Data

This Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We and this Website do not knowingly and intentionally collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13.

If you are under 13 years of age, please do not use or provide any information on this Website. Do not use any third parties that might have links present on this Website. Do not provide your name, address, phone number or any payment information.

If a parent or guardian believes that this Website unknowingly collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 13 in its database, please contact us at once at [email protected], and we will do our best to immediately remove any and all such information from our database.

California Privacy Protection Act (CPPA Policy)

California Consumer Privacy Act (hereafter, “CCPA”) is a California privacy law that is effective as of January 1, 2020.

This notice applies solely to website users, visitors and customers (purchasers) who reside in the State of California (hereafter, “consumer”, “consumers”, “you”).

Under CCPA, California consumers have several added rights and privileges that serve to protect their personal information from being used in a way that the consumer does not agree with. This notice is in place to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) of 2018 that went into effect as of January 1, 2020.

A consumer has the right to request and know what categories of information and what personal information we collect, how we collect it, and for what purpose we collect it.

CONSUMER’S RIGHT TO DEMAND DISCLOSURE

You have the right to demand that we disclose what categories of information we have or are collecting about you and what personal information we have collected or are collecting about you.

In an effort to maintain full compliance, we are disclosing the categories of information that we generally collect from and/or about consumers.

As a consumer, you are free to request disclosure of your information at no extra charge to you if you make such requests no more than twice (2) during a 12-month period.

General Information We Collect

We generally collect personal information, as listed under CCPA, in the form of a name, email address, and location.

We collect the consumer information stated above when you fill out opt-in forms, contact forms, and surveys. We also collect information through Google Analytics, our Shopify store, and the WordPress platform.

You have the right to request disclosure of the personal information we collected about you by contacting us at [email protected]

CONSUMER’S RIGHT TO REQUEST DELETION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under CCPA, a consumer has the right to contact the business that collected personal information about the consumer and request deletion of that information.

There are certain limited circumstances under which the business does not have to comply and delete the information, as follows:

To provide and complete the transaction for which the information was collected in the first place (for example, selling and delivering goods and services);
To be in compliance with a legal obligation;
To carry out and be compliant with another legal requirement;
and To keep the information for internal use that is reasonable to the consumer.

CONSUMER’S RIGHT TO DEMAND DISCLOSURE IN CASE OF SALE

As a consumer, you have the right to request full disclosure if a business sells or transfers your personal information for a business purpose. You have the right to know what specific information has been sold or transferred, to whom, and for what business purpose.

We do not sell the personal information we collect from consumers.

However, in the event we do so within the next 12 months, you will be given the option to opt-out if you do not wish for your personal information to be sold.

The consumer has the right to request that we disclose what category of information we sold, the specific pieces of information we sold, to whom we sold it, and for what business purpose we sold it. Consumers can make this request by contacting us at [email protected]

CONSUMER’S RIGHT TO REQUEST THAT A BUSINESS DOES NOT SELL THEIR INFORMATION

Under CCPA, a consumer has the right to request that a business that collected personal information about the consumer does not sell that information to anyone.

In our efforts to comply with the CCPA, you can find a “Do Not Sell My Personal Information” link in the footer of our website. If there is a field asking for your email address, please be sure to include the same email you opted in with.

If and when you select “Do Not Sell My Personal Information,” you will be marked as an opt out. Therefore, you can be sure that your personal information and other general data collected about you will never be sold.

OUR BUSINESS WILL NOT DISCRIMINATE AGAINST ANY CONSUMER

If you choose to exercise your right and request that we never sell your information, in accordance with CCPA, we will not and cannot discriminate against you for choosing to exercise your right.

You will have access to the same services at the same prices as everyone else. The quality and conditions of products and services you receive will be the same as everyone else, regardless of your choice to exercise your CCPA right to forbid the selling of your information.

SECURING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under CCPA, a business that collects or receives personal information about a consumer must implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices.

If a business experiences a data breach, then it will be held liable if it did not implement and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices.

We do our due diligence and maintain reasonable security procedures and practices to make sure that the consumer data and private information we collect is safe and secure.

Here are the security practices we have in place to protect consumer data:

● Our computers are protected from third-party access by having an additional password layer before a user can start working on the computer.

● In addition to the statements above, we take reasonable precautions on a daily basis to protect consumer information from unauthorized use, modification, destruction, and disclosure.

Contacting Us Regarding CCPA

If you wish to exercise your rights under CCPA and make requests for disclosure or deletion of your personal information or disclosure about the sale of information, you can contact us directly and make such requests. You can also contact us at any time if you are not happy about the way we are handling your data.

We will respond as quickly as reasonably possible. Please keep in mind that we do not have to comply with requests if you make them more than twice during a 12-month period.

Make your requests by contacting us at [email protected]

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on March 29, 2020. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me at [email protected]

Home Made Our Way’s Privacy Policy