Privacy Policy

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Introduction

A Scholarly Skater Art History and Alexandra Kiely (“we”, “us”, and “our”) operate ascholarlyskater.com (“This Website”, “A Scholarly Skater”). This Privacy Policy informs you of our policies regarding our collection, use, and disclosure of your personal information when you visit This Website or join Our Email Newsletter (collectively “Our Services”). By using Our Services, you agree to our collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy.

Please note that this Privacy Policy does not apply to our Etsy store, which has its own privacy policy; Etsy’s own privacy policy applies there as well.

This Privacy Policy was originally written in English (US). In the event of a conflict between a translated version and the English version, the English version will control.

If any part of the Policy is unlawful, void, or unenforceable, that part is severable from the Policy, and does not affect the validity or enforceability of the rest of the Policy.

Data We Collect

When you use Our Services, we may collect some information about you, your device, and your behaviors, including personally-identifiable information such as your name, email address, and IP address. However, we collect only the data we truly need to run This Website and provide Our Services to you.

We do not sell your information.

Comments

When you leave a comment on a post, we collect your name, email address, and comment as you have provided them to us in the comments form, as well as the date and time of your comment and some information about your web browser and device. If you submit a comment while logged into a WordPress account, we may also collect the url of your WordPress website.

If it is approved, your comment and name will be publicly visible on This Website, so do not include any personal or sensitive data about yourself or others.

Checking the box within the comments form will enable cookies that remember your name and email address for future comment submissions. Allowing these cookies is not required to submit a comment.

Analytics

We use analytics to record visits to This Website but do not use cookies, share data with third parties, or save personally identifiable information. To count unique visitors and collect geographical data, our analytics software uses your IP address to get an approximate location, then hashes the IP and User Agent string (information automatically provided by your web browser) to create an anonymous ID, which is stored to recognize future visits. We then use tracking scripts to follow your behavior without it being personally identified to you and without storing your IP address. For added privacy, the tokens used to do this are updated every 24 hours.

When you interact with This Website or Our Email Newsletter, we may also collect non-personal information provided by your web browser, such as your browser type and version, device type, email service, the pages you visit, links you click, the date and time of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Server Logs

In addition, our server logs record the IP addresses of those who visit our website, alongside non-personal information provided by your web browser.

Cookies

We use cookies to facilitate some functions on This Website and to save users’ preferences. For more information about cookies and to set your preferences, please see our cookie policy. When you save your consent preferences, a record of your consent will be kept along with a masked form of you IP address and a unique user ID. This record of consent is necessary so that we can prove compliance with various data privacy laws, and the information is used solely for that purpose.

We do not sell or share personal data acquired through the use of cookies.

Email Newsletter

When you sign up for Our Email Newsletter, the information collected includes your email address, IP address, location (inferred from IP), and what type of device and email client you open our emails from. In order to show compliance with anti-spam laws (to prove we aren’t emailing anyone who didn’t opt in), we record details about the date, time, source, and IP address from which you sign up and opt in. We may also use technologies like tracking pixels/web beacons to record details about your interactions with our emails, such as when and how often you open email and which link(s) you click on. Finally, we may manually or automatically tag your subscription with attributes based on your behavior, such as where and when you signed up for our list.

Other Information

We may also collect whatever information, including personal information, that you directly and voluntarily submit to us by other means, such as by email. If you choose to share (either directly or by inference) private or sensitive information such as political views, sexual orientation, or religious affiliation, you do so at your own risk and discretion, because we do not have safeguards in place to protect such sensitive information that we do not seek to collect.

Minors and Data Collection

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under age 18 and will delete such information if we become aware of it.

Data Retention

We generally retain collected information indefinitely unless asked to delete it.

Who we share data with

We never sell your data to anyone. We only share data with a few third-party businesses and individuals we have hired to facilitate Our Services and help us conduct various functions of Our Services. These third parties have access to your personal information only to the degree necessary to perform these tasks and are contractually obligated to keep it confidential and process it via industry-standard secure methods.

We may, however, share more widely aggregated and depersonalized data, such as traffic statistics, that does not include individual or identifiable information about any user.

When you leave a comment on a post, your comment and the name or username you provided are shared publicly on the associated post. If you do not consent to having your comment shared publicly, you can choose not to leave a comment or to ask for the deletion of your existing comment.

Additionally, we will retain and disclose information about our visitors when required to do so by law, subpoena, court order, or governmental request, as well as when we believe in good faith that doing so is reasonably necessary to protect the rights and property of ourselves, our users, and others. We may also share or transfer user information as part of the sale, merger, transfer, or bankruptcy of this business if any of these events should ever occur.

Data Storage

Our Email Newsletter data is processed and stored by MailerLite, a third-party provider, which will collect and process your data using industry-standard technologies to help us facilitate, monitor, and improve Our Email Newsletter. MailerLite processes and stores your data in the EU. You can learn more about how MailerLite handles your data in their Data Processing Addendum.

Cookie Consent records are processed by CookieYes and stored on AWS (Amazon Web Services) servers. Learn more in CookieYes’s Data Processing Addendum.

Other data, such as comments and their associated metadata, is stored by Hostinger in the United States. When Hostinger transfers data outside the EU, it uses GDPR-compliant methods of transmission as outlined in its Data Processing Addendum.

Our third-party providers sometimes employ third-party sub-processors in various countries to facilitate their services. These sub-processors are held to standards of security and confidentiality similar to those described in this section. Data transfers to these sub-processors are as described below.

Data Transfers

Your data may be processed and stored outside your country, including in countries with data privacy laws that are different or less comprehensive then in your own. We have Data Processing Agreements in place with all of our data processors to ensure that they use secure and data privacy law-compliant methods (specifically the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses) to transfer data internationally. Additional information about this can be provided upon request.

Security

We, our data processors, and their sub-processors take industry-standard and data privacy law-compliant measures to protect the security of your data, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Thus, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. When you transmit information to us, you do so at your own risk.

Why We Collect Data

We collect information about our visitors to provide and improve Our Services, communicate with users, understand how visitors find and interact with This Website, protect Our Services, measure and improve our marketing efforts, and facilitate website functionality.

For European Users

Our usage of your data falls under several of the legal grounds for processing personal information as defined by the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK’s GDPR.

  • The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments, agreements, and contractual obligations to you, including those spelled out in our Terms of Service.
  • The use is necessary to comply with legal obligations.
  • The use is necessary to protect the vital interests of ourselves, you, or a third party.
  • We have a legitimate business interest in using the information. Examples of this legitimate interest include (but are not limited to) providing, updating, improving, and safeguarding Our Services; communicating with users; understanding how people find and use Our Services; measuring and improving our marketing efforts; and preventing and correcting problems within Our Services.
  • You have given us your consent, such as when you allow cookies via the cookie consent banner. You can withdraw this consent at any time.

For Canadian Users

We may process your information if you have given us permission to do so or in situations where such permission can be inferred. You can withdraw your consent any time by contacting us and by rejecting cookies. In some exceptional cases, we may be legally permitted to process your information without consent.

Third Parties

This privacy policy does not apply to the practices of any third-party services we do not own or control. In particular, this site contains many external links to other websites not affiliated with A Scholarly Skater. If you click these links, these websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interactions. We are not responsible for the content or privacy policies of external websites in any way, so you should consult their own privacy policies and cookie policies to find out more about how they collect and use your data.

Additionally, This Website may occasionally also contain content embedded from other websites. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website, regardless of whether you click on it.

Etsy Store

If you wish to purchase a product from us, you will be directed off-site to Etsy.com (a third party we do not own or control) to complete your purchase. Etsy will process your payment and collect the data needed to facilitate the transaction in accordance with its own privacy policy and terms of use. We receive very little data from Etsy in these cases, and our use of that data is outlined in the shop policies section of our Etsy store.

A Note for WordPress Users

If you visit, leave comments on, or otherwise interact with this website while logged into a WordPress account, Automattic (the company who owns WordPress) may collect additional data about you and associate it with your WordPress account. We do not own or control Automattic, nor do we receive any of this data. You should refer to Automattic’s privacy policy for more details.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you are located in certain parts of the world, including some US states, Canada, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and countries that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information.

These include the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data;
  • Request a copy of your personal data;
  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data;
  • Request to not be subject to automated decision making; and
  • Request portability of your personal data.

Click here for more information about how to exercise these rights.

You also have the rights to make a complaint to a government supervisory authority and to be notified of a data breach within 72 hours from when we become aware of it, unless the breach is unlikely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons. In situations where all the relevant information about a data breach is not available within 72 hours, our initial notification will contain the available information, and then further information will be provided as it becomes available.

Publicly-available information is not covered by these rights.

US Privacy Laws

Laws in some US states require us to provide residents with additional information about the categories of personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it. You’ll find that information in this section.

If you are a California resident, please note that this is the Notice at Collection we are required to provide you under California law.

In the last 12 months, we have collected the following categories of personal information and disclosed them to third-party service providers, depending on the services used:

  • Identifiers (like your name, address, email address, IP address, and device and online identifiers);
  • Personal Information as defined in the California Customer Records statute (name and contact information);
  • Protected classification characteristics under state and federal laws (gender);
  • Commercial information (like your billing information and purchase history);
  • Internet or other electronic network activity information (such as your usage of our Services);
  • Geolocation data (such as your location based on your IP address);
  • Sensitive personal information (account logic information and debit/credit card numbers)

We have not sold any personal data within the past twelve months.

Please note that we do not necessarily collect data in all these categories currently, but we have done so in the past 12 months. You can find more information about what information we currently collect, how and why we collect it, how we share it, and how long we retain it within this Privacy Policy.

In some US states you have additional rights subject to any exemptions provided by your state’s respective law, including the right to:

  • Request a copy of the specific pieces of information we collect about you;
  • If you’re in California, to know the categories of personal information we collect, use, and share; the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting, using, and sharing it; the categories of sources from which the information came; whether we sell or share your information; and the categories of third parties we share it with;
  • Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain;
  • Request correction of personal information we collect or maintain;
  • Opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information;
  • Receive a copy of your information in a readily portable format; and
  • Not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights.

Continue reading below for more information about exercising these rights.

This section spells out your options for revoking your consent about having your data collected and processed. To exercise your rights over your data, please contact us. You can only revoke your consent to future data collection, not retroactively. In some cases, we may still be able to collect and process your data when we have other legal grounds to do so beyond consent.

Please be aware that revoking consent or requesting deletion of your data may make it impossible for you to use some of Our Services. For example, we cannot send you Our Email Newsletter if you do not allow us to collect and retain your email address and opt-in information.

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any rights over your data.

Identity Verification

We will have to verify that you are who you say you are before disclosing or deleting any information. This may require you to submit more information to us, which we will use only to verify your identity. If we are unable to verify your identity, we may have to decline your request.

Cookies

Visit our Cookie Policy and click the “Cookie Settings” link to revise your cookie consent preferences. On that page, you’ll also find information about how to delete and block cookies in various common web browsers. You can also access Cookie Settings via the Cookie Consent Banner or by clicking the blue cookie icon on the bottom left of this website.

Data Deletion Requests

You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Anonymous and aggregated data that cannot be used to identify any individual is not covered by data deletion requests. Under no circumstances will we attempt to re-personalize depersonalized data for the purposes of deleting it. The data deleted is subject to some exceptions according to law.

Since comments are displayed publicly where anyone can capture them (via screenshot, for example), we cannot guarantee that deleting your comment data from our servers means it is totally gone from the internet.

Unsubscribing

You can unsubscribe from Our Email Newsletter at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link provided at the end of each Newsletter. Unsubscribing does not result in the deletion of your data by default, but you can request that we delete your data any time after unsubscribing.

Online Course Accounts

If you created an account at Teachable and/or WordPress to access an online course on this website, you will need to contact those respective companies to exercise your data privacy rights regarding those accounts because we do not have access to that information. Please refer to the Teachable privacy policy and Automattic (WordPress) privacy policy.

Contact Information

Contact us with questions, concerns, or to exercise your rights over your data:

A Scholarly Skater Art History
Alexandra Kiely
51 Dumont Place
Morristown, NJ 07960 USA
alexandra@ascholarlyskater.com

Changes to Privacy Policy

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time, so users are advised to check this page periodically. The date of the most recent update will appear at the top of this page, and changes are effective as soon as they are posted. If the changes, in our sole discretion, are material, we may notify you through a banner on our home page. By continuing to use this website after changes to the Privacy Policy, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Policy.

Credits

Automattic made their Privacy Policy available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license; we used some language from that policy in our own, so we’re doing the same. You’re more than welcome to copy them, adapt them, and repurpose them for your own use, too. Just make sure to revise them so that they reflect your actual practices. Also, if you do use this Policy template, Automattic would appreciate a credit and link to Automattic somewhere on your website. (We’ve chosen to do so in this very paragraph!)

Parts of this Privacy Policy were created with the help of Termly’s Privacy Policy Generator.