Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Please also read our Terms and Conditions of Use.

Purpose

BrittChemlaJones.com (hereinafter “we,” “our,” “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining a quality online experience for our website viewers. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, handle, store, and protect personal information about you as a visitor and/or user of our website; your rights in relation to your personal information; and how you can contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have questions about how we handle your personal information.

Privacy Policy Consent

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and in its entirety before using BrittChemlaJones.com. You, as a visitor and/or user of our website, agree to the following Privacy Policy, and your access and/or use of our website, products, and/or services constitutes your voluntary acceptance to be bound by its terms, whether you have read it or have had the opportunity to read it and have chosen not to. Your use of our website, and any information that you contribute or provide to us, is subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA)

This website and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 18. 

We prohibit children under the age of 18 from using any and all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out forms, or otherwise submitting information. A child’s parent or guardian should contact us if we have inadvertently collected any information or content from that child without the parent or guardian’s authorization, so that we may delete that information from our records.

CAN-SPAM Act of 2003

We have taken the necessary steps to ensure that we are in compliance with the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAM) Act of 2003 and will not send misleading information. 

Personal Information We Collect

The type of personal information we collect depends on how you are interacting with us.

The personal information we may collect directly from you consists of the following:

• Name and contact data, such as, first and last name, email address, postal address, phone number, and other similar contact data;
• Payment information, such as, payment card number (credit or debit card), and the security code associated with your payment instrument, if you make a payment; 
• Comments, feedback, questions and other information you provide to us.

We automatically collect personal information when you:

• Visit, interact with, or use our website;
• Access, use, or download content from us; and
• Open emails or click links in emails from us.

We collect personal information from third party advertisers that use cookies on our website to provide online behavior advertising. See the Use of Cookies section below.

How We Use the Information You Provide/Lawful Basis

We process personal information about you:

• To perform a contract; 
• With your consent;
• For our legitimate interests;
• To comply with the law;
• To protect someone’s life; and/or
• Public task.

We will not sell or trade your personal information and have not done so in the last 12 months. 

We may transfer your personal information to a third party in the event of a bankruptcy, dissolution, merger, sale, acquisition, or change of control.

We may transfer your personal information to a third party if we need to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and/or enforce our agreements.

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you to: 

• Process and fulfill an order, download, subscription, or other transaction;
• Respond to your requests, inquiries, comments and concerns; and 
• Send marketing emails.

We also process personal information to: 

• Provide online behavioral advertising;
• Inform you of and administer promotions, contests, sweepstakes or surveys;
• Help us address problems with and improve our website; 
• Protect the security and integrity of our website; and 
• Contact you for other business reasons, if necessary. 

Use of Cookies

“Cookies” are small text files that are placed on a computer or other device and used to identify the user or device and to collect information when you visit a website. 

We use absolutely necessary cookies, which allow you to move around our website and use its features. 

You can disable cookies through your web browser’s settings, but disabling this function may diminish your experience on our website as some features may not work as intended. 

A cookie consists of a reduced set of data transferred to your browser from a web server and it can only be read by the server that made the transfer. This is not executable code and does not transmit viruses.

Cookies do not record or store any Personal Data. If you want, you can prevent the use of cookies, but then you may not be able to use our Website as we intend. To proceed without changing the options related to cookies, simply continue to use our Website.

Technical cookies: Technical cookies, which can also sometimes be called HTML cookies, are used for navigation and to facilitate your access to and use of the site. They are necessary for the transmission of communications on the network or to supply services requested by you. The use of technical cookies allows the safe and efficient use of the site.

You can manage or request the general deactivation or cancelation of cookies through your browser. If you do this though, please be advised this action might slow down or prevent access to some parts of the site.

Cookies may also be retransmitted by an analytics or statistics provider to collect aggregated information on the number of users and how they visit the Website. These are also considered technical cookies when they operate as described.

Temporary session cookies are deleted automatically at the end of the browsing session – these are mostly used to identify you and ensure that you don’t have to log in each time – whereas permanent cookies remain active longer than just one particular session.

Third-party cookies: We may also utilize third-party cookies, which are cookies sent by a third-party to your computer. Permanent cookies are often third-party cookies. The majority of third-party cookies consist of tracking cookies used to identify online behavior, understand interests and then customize advertising for users.

Third-party analytical cookies may also be installed. They are sent from the domains of the aforementioned third parties external to the site. Third-party analytical cookies are used to detect information on user behavior on our Website. This place anonymously, in order to monitor the performance and improve the usability of the site. Third-party profiling cookies are used to create profiles relating to users, in order to propose advertising in line with the choices expressed by the users themselves.

Profiling cookies: We may also use profiling cookies, which are those that create profiles related to the user and are used in order to send advertising to the user’s browser.

When these types of cookies are used, we will receive your explicit consent.

Support in configuring your browser: You can manage cookies through the settings of your browser on your device. However, deleting cookies from your browser may remove the preferences you have set for this Website.

For further information and support, you can also visit the specific help page of the web browser you are using:

– Internet Explorer: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies

– Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-us/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

– Safari: http://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/

– Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en

– Opera: http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/

Log Data: Like all websites and mobile applications, this Website also makes use of log files that store automatic information collected during user visits. The different types of log data could be as follows:

– internet protocol (IP) address; – type of browser and device parameters used to connect to the Website; – name of the Internet Service Provider (ISP); – date and time of visit; – web page of origin of the user (referral) and exit; – possibly the number of clicks.

The aforementioned information is processed in an automated form and collected in an exclusively aggregated manner in order to verify the correct functioning of the site, and for security reasons. This information will be processed according to the legitimate interests of the Data Controller.

For security purposes (spam filters, firewalls, virus detection), the automatically recorded data may also possibly include Personal Data such as IP address, which could be used, in accordance with applicable laws, in order to block attempts at damage to the Website or damage to other users, or in the case of harmful activities or crime. Such data are never used for the identification or profiling of the user, but only for the protection of the Website and our users. Such information will be treated according to the legitimate interests of the Data Controller.

 “Do Not Track” (DNT) Signals

Some browsers transmit Do Not Track (DNT) signals to websites. 

Due to the lack of a common interpretation of DNT signals throughout the industry, we do not currently alter, change, or respond to DNT requests or signals from these browsers. 

How the Information is Shared and Stored

Depending on how you interact with us, we share information with our third-party service providers, agents and representatives, including, but not limited to, eCommerce platform providers, payment processing providers, email service providers, IT service providers, security and software service providers, in order to process the information as necessary to complete a transaction, fulfill your request, or otherwise on our behalf based on our instructions and in compliance with this Privacy Policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures.

We also will disclose your personal information if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to:

• meet any applicable law, regulation, legal process or other legal obligation;
• detect, investigate and help prevent security, fraud or technical issues; and/or
• protect the rights, property, or safety of BrittChemlaJones.com, our users, employees or others.

Our current third-party service providers include:

• GreekGeeks, ConcertKit, PayPal, Stripe

Information Retention

We retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the transactions you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, maintaining business and financial records, resolving disputes, maintaining security, detecting and preventing fraud and abuse, and enforcing our agreements, or until such time as you let us know you would like for us to delete it or unsubscribe from our marketing contacts.

Information Protection and Security 

Our website uses commercially acceptable security measures to prevent your personal information from being lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We use a Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate and never transmit your credit card information via email. If you receive an email from us that appears to be a request for personal information, do not respond because it may be a phishing scam designed to steal your personal information.

We cannot guarantee that your personal information will always be secure. Should there be a data breach, we will notify you when we are legally required to do so. 

Your Rights to Control Your Information 

You can unsubscribe from our e-newsletters or updates at any time through the unsubscribe links found in the communications you receive from us.

CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA)

The CCPA provides Californian residents with the following rights with respect to their personal information:

• Right to request disclosure: to know the personal information collected about you and the purpose for its collection.
• Right to request a copy: to make a personal information request twice in a given 12-month period
• Right to deletion: to have your personal information deleted upon a verifiable request.
• Right to say “no” to sale: to opt out of the sale of your personal information.
• Right to not be discriminated against: the right to equal service and price even if you exercise your rights under the CCPA.

In the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information: 

• Identifiers: Name, email address

For more details about the personal information we collect, see the Personal Information We Collect section above. We use this personal information for business and commercial purposes as described in the How We Use the Information You Provide/Lawful Basis section above. We share this personal information with the third parties outlined in the How the Information is Shared and Stored section above.

If you are covered by the CCPA and would like to make a personal information request, see the Contact Us section below. We will respond within 45 days of receiving the request provided that we are able to verify your identity.

GENERAL DATA PROTECTION REGULATION (GDPR)

If you are covered by the GDPR, you have the following rights under European laws, and may have similar rights under the laws of other countries:

• Right of access: to make a written request for access to and a copy of your personal information
• Right to rectification: to have your inaccurate personal information corrected or removed
• Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’): to have your personal information erased
• Right to restriction of processing: to limit the purposes that your personal information may be used for
• Right to object: to object to the processing of your personal information in cases where our processing is based on direct marketing, processing for scientific/historical research and statistics, legitimate interest processing, and processing in regards to the performance of a public interest or official authority task
• Right to data portability: to have your personal information transferred to you or a third party in machine-readable format
• Right to withdraw consent: to withdraw your consent that we handle your personal information at any time. The withdrawal of your consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on your consent before its withdrawal

These rights are not absolute and they do not always apply in all cases. We will honor your rights under applicable data protection laws.

Use and Transfer of Your Information Out of the European Economic Area (EEA)

This website is operated in the United States and the third parties with whom we might share your personal information (as explained above) are also located in the United States or other countries located outside the European Economic Area. 

If you are located outside of the United States, please be aware that any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. By using this website, participating in any of its services and/or providing your information, you consent to this transfer. 

Filing a Complaint

If you are covered by the GDPR, and you are not content with how we manage your personal information, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you are a resident, work, or where the alleged infringement of data protection laws took place.

Contact Us

If you would like to “opt out” or have any questions, comments, complaints, or suggestions in relation to data protection or this Privacy Policy, or any other concerns about the way in which we process information about you or you wish to delete or change your personal information in our records, please contact us by email: britt@brittchemlajones.com

Please be sure to specify which right you want to exercise and provide us with enough information to verify your identity. If we cannot verify your identity, we may not be able to fulfill your request.

Changes to this Privacy Notice 

This policy is effective as of February 10, 2022. We may change, modify, or update this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify you of any such changes by email (if you have provided your email to us) and/or by a prominent notice displayed on our website and updating the effective date of our Privacy Policy. We recommend that you check the Privacy Policy when you visit our website to be sure that you are aware of our most current policy.