Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to Victoria Lynn Schmidt’s www.VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com, and Victoria Lynn Schmidt and governs data collection and usage. Victoria Lynn Schmidt is the copyright owner. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Victoria Lynn Schmidt include VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com. The Victoria Lynn Schmidt website is an Online Education and Publishing site. By using the VictoriaLynnSchmidt website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
Collection of your Personal Information
In order to better provide you with products and services offered, VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
– First and Last Name
– Mailing Address
– E-mail Address
– Phone Number
If you purchase VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:
– Age
– Gender
– Religion
– Household Income
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from VictoriaLynnSchmidt and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
TheGracefulMethod.com may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to TheGracefulMethod.com, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com, or the public.
The developer of the Recipe app we use, does not have access to any of the data collected by the plugin. This is all stored in your local database and not communicated back to us. Take note of the following topics for your own privacy policy.
RECIPE APP – What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When comment ratings are enabled we store the rating a user has given to a recipe along with the personal data WordPress core stores.
Cookies
When user ratings are enabled we store a cookie (with %recipe% the ID of the recipe) that contains the rating this user has given to a particular recipe. This cookie is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
IP Address
When user ratings are enabled we store the IP address upon voting. This is used as (one of the) measures to prevent rating spam.
Their own manually input information
With the Recipe Submission feature personal data can be collected, depending on the fields that were added to the form. This can include the user email and name. When using the reCAPTCHA feature you will be agreeing to their terms of use and privacy policy.
How long we retain your data
Our cookies are stored for 30 days. User submitted data is stored indefinitely in the local database.
END RECIPE APP
Tracking User Behavior
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com, in order to determine what VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com website.
Website Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Website (“Website Providers”), provide the Website on our behalf, perform Website-related Websites or assist us in analysing how our Website is used. These third parties may have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Use of Cookies
The VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com pages, or register with VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com site or services, a cookie helps VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com services or websites you visit.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Security of your Personal Information
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com uses the following methods for this purpose:
– SSL Protocol
– Firewalls
This site utilizes caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site. All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor. Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.
Right to Deletion
Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:
• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.
Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:
• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.
Your Data Protection Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete or limit the use of your Personal Data. If you wish to be informed about what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.
Children Under Thirteen
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com, you may opt out of such communications by Clicking unsubscribe.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Changes to this Statement
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact Information
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com has not adhered to this Statement, please contact VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com at:
VictoriaLynnSchmidt.com
Email Address:
Also use the contact form on the site.
Effective as of Jan 1, 2024