Books For Littles

Comments

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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.

When making comments, you may opt to sign up for email notifications when people respond to your comment. In this case, this site does store your email and any information you submitted in the request, for the purposes of sending you the updates you’ve requested.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Sometimes phones will automatically add this kind of location tag to your photos. For your safety, you should disable that! (A Google search can help you do that.) Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact, Feedback & Suggestion forms

If you fill out a feedback form, your feedback gets stored on the digital space where you submitted it (example: Website comments get stored in the same digital space where my website lives. Google form responses stay in the space where Google stores responses.)

Honestly this is all confusing to me too – where even does stuff on the internet live?

Cookies

If you leave a comment on this site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year, which is pretty impressive.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in as a member, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices so you don’t have to log-in repeatedly because. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

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Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This website is hooked up to google analytics to track visitor stats, but I’ll be honest the analytics website is super confusing and I don’t know google analytics tracks. Normal basic free-version google analyics stats, I guess.

Affiliate links

I track clicks, orders, and revenue from Amazon, Bookshop, and Bonfire.

Newsletter

I keep a private email subscriber list based on people who have opted in to receiving our newsletter or participated in Raising Luminaries programs.

For time-limited events and programs, I may keep a separate list for folks who have registered or joined a waitlist for this program.

I store your email address in the database of the email client where you signed up (Substack, Mailerlite), and if I know your first name, that too.

I do not sell or share your email address or contact information with anyone.

Memberships / Registration

When you register for a Raising Luminaries program, this creates a membership account on our website. Your data, including your username, name, contact information, and address, are stored privately in a database I maintain.

I do not share or sell this information with outside parties.

Some Raising Luminaries programs organize small-group cohorts where members are responsible for connecting and organizing personal chat groups. I share your contact information with the other members of your cohort only asking for your explicit consent, for the purposes of coordinating these cohorts only.

Credit Card information

At registration checkout, I may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to my payment gateway to process your purchase (I don’t see it). The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are saved by the site to use for reference and to send you an email if your credit card will expire before the next recurring payment.

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