Chrissy H. Studios Privacy Policy

Chrissy H. Studios: PRIVACY POLICY – COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY

Thank you for using the www.chrissyhstudios.com (“Site”) Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us.  Chrissy H. Studios, LLC (“Company”, “CHS” “we” or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. At CHS, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of www.chrissyhstudios.com (“Site”), including any content, functionality and services offered on or through www.chrissyhstudios.com

Because we gather certain types of information about our users and want to comply with the new General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union (“GDPR EU”), we feel you should fully understand our policy and the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.

INFORMATION CHS GATHERS AND TRACKS

When you visit the Site, the Company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Site and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website and/or the Company.

Please, read this Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, by using the Site, you expressly consent to the collection, storage, disclosure and use of your information as we have outlined in this Privacy Policy and you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must NOT access or use the Website.

We will occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices and services. When we make any changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in accordance with our User Agreement. If we make any material changes we will notify you by email or by means of a notice on this Site prior to the change becoming effective. We also encourage you to check back, from time to time, and review this Privacy Policy so that you always will know what personally identifiable information we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it. Your continued use of the Site will be subject to the then current Privacy Policy.

Children Under the Age of 13

If you are under 13, you may not use this site. Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.

CHS gathers two types of information about users:

• Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. This can include voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys 
• Information CHS gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to readers’ needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because CHS derives its revenue from selling its own products, affiliate products and some posible sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our website and certain services free to users.
  

CHS Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:

Optional Voluntary Information

We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users such and for:

• When you email the Company directly at chrissyh@chrissyhstudios.com
• order products or services from the Site directly
• request customer support or ask for a custom or special request for invitations, matching stationery product and other products produced by CHS directly or created by CHS and produced and shipped by a third party like Zazzle, Inc
• sign up for newsletters, email alerts, and special offers
• enter sweepstakes or contests
• sign up for, or redeem, future special offers

Such information may include your name, email address, billing address and shipping address. You may also provide us with information about other people, when you ask the Company to contact someone. For example, if you want CHS to create a baby shower card for your niece, but you want her approval and want the Company to contact her directly.

We use the information given to us by you as a way to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance and to provide you with offers, promotions and information with your permission.

1. Electronic newsletters policy (Dispatches)

We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. CHS gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration (Currently there is no registration process on this Site).

2. “E-mail this to a friend” policy

Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking “e-mail this to a friend”. The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.

3. Polling

We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. CHS may use a system to “tag” users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.

4. Surveys

CHS may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technology

As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies like StatCounter to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and traffice patterns throughout our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection your masked IP address, your operating system and your browser type. Please, note the Company does not see your complete IP address.

The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our website, product and service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.

CHS tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. CHS does break down overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser).

CHS sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.

Information collected by Cookies:

We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. CHS uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.

You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.

Chrissy H. Studios, LLC uses cookies on the Site to improve the quality of our Site and services to you. A cookie is a small text file on your computer which a website sends to your computer to allow the website to store information which uniquely identifies our users. Chrissy H. Studios cookies do not collect or store personally identifiable information. Rather, the cookie stores a token which uniquely identifies a particular user at a particular time. You can always delete the cookies and reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to display a message when a cookie is being sent. If you reset your browser, some of the Site features and functionality may not be available to you and you may not be able to take advantage of all the features on the Site. Cookies cannot be executed as code or deliver viruses.

We may work with other companies like Zazzle, Inc. who use cookies or web beacons for the marketing purposes of products with artwork created by Chrissy H. Studios, LLC because the end product is manufactured and shipped through their site. We do not have access or control over these cookies. These companies provide you with additional products and services (for example, they print and ship the product with the Company’s artwork on it). They are subject to their own legal restrictions.

Certain functionalities related to the provision of additional products and services require marketers to share website usage information about visitors to the Site, who have received a targeted promotional campaign, with a reputable third-party advertising company for the purpose of targeting future campaigns and upgrading visitor information used in reporting statistics. Third party tools may make a note of some of the pages you visit on the Site, and you may opt-out by clicking here.

The company reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Company reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of various social media sites.

Privacy Policy Use

How the information you gather is used if relevent.

USE OF INFORMATION

CHS uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.

As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls and surveys. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. CHS never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.

Email Information

If you choose to correspond with us through email, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protection for online communication as we do for mail and telephone. We do not sell, rent or lease your email information or subscriptions lists to third parties except as allowed in the section entitled “Disclosure of Your Information”

In compliance with the CAN_SPAM Act, all emails sent from the company will clearly state whom the message is from and how to contact the sender. You can also inform the company at any time when you no longer want us to contact you. Normally, the company will email you back and forth until a custom or special request is complete.

If you sign up to receive a future newsletter or promotional emails from us, we will include an unsubscribe button within the email for you to opt out at any time. If you have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to chrissyh@chrissyhstudios.com and ask to be unsubscribed from future emails.

How Do We Use the Information That You Provide to Us

We use personal information to present the Site and its contents to you. We provide information and provide you with offers for products and services, provide you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service and making other items and services to our customers and prospective customers hopefully better.

Most of the products on this website are are products with artwork created by Chrissy H. Studios, LLC that is produced, printed and shipped by a third party. In this case, Chrissy H. Studios, LLC would receive payment in a form of a commission for directing a sale to that third party site in addition to receiving payment for the product for sale. If you purchase something from that third party site like Zazzle, Inc for example, they will receive your information.

From time to time, we may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that match your personal tastes, interests and activities.

When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don’t track which terms a particular user enters.

CHS creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don’t track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you. In addition, the information you enter when making a purchase or an online donation will be shared with payment processors, financial gateways, your credit card company, or your Paypal account to complete the payment. Such information may also be shared with necessary third parties solely for the purpose of carrying out the transaction.

We may disclose your personal information to third party, including a collection agency or lawyer, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company.

We may also disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.

In the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets and/or business, we may provide your information to any successor in such an event.

CHS uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience’s demographics. This is essential to keeping our website free for perusal. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.

OPT-OUT POLICY

We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:

• Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters or any promotional emails.

In Regard to Social Media and Other Third Party Websites Used by Chrissy H. Studios, LLC to promote Its Business

Please, be aware that if you give out your personal information online (including your name, contact information, and personal preferences or details about anything about you, links to your personal social media sites, your online activity, etc) while posting on a site, discussion board, social media platform associated or run by Chrissy H. Studios, LLC, that information can be collected and used by third parties and the Company is not responsible for its protection. Although we do our best to protect the users of our site, products and services, we cannot guarantee the security of the information you post on third party venues (like Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, etc.) You disclose such information at your own risk.

Other Recommended Product and Services Not Owned by Chrissy H. Studios, LLC

This site includes links to other websites, that may offer products and services that you may find useful. Some product include artwork created by Chrissy H. Studios, LLC used on items they sell on their websites. These sites may then request or collect information from you. In this case, the privacy policy of these websites will be governed by their own privacy policies. We strongly recommend that you read through their specific privacy policies and terms of service since we have no control over their content, products, links on their site and services and how they handle your personal information.

Protection of your Information

We do our best to ensure the security of the information you provide to us voluntarily and the information we obtain automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third party vendors.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. It is allowed, but you will be doing this at your own risk. Credit card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted through email.

The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission of the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

European Union Visitors

If you are within the EU, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and those rights include the following:

1. We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier or a) you asking us to delete the information, b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or c) the company decides that hte value in retaining date is outweighed by the costs or retaining it.
2. You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores adn rights to either rectify or erase your personal data
3. You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data
4. You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data
5. To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent
6. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the GDPR
7. We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into contract with us

By using our Site, you agree that you have read and agreed to our Privacy Policy.

If you still have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please, contact us at chrissyh@chrissyhstudios.com

Chrissy H. Studios, LLC

YOUR CONSENT

By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by CHS. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.