PRIVACY POLICY – Effective May 25, 2018.
We, at The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC, care about your privacy.
We will collect only the personal information that is needed and necessary to deliver our services and we will handle it responsibly.
If you have any questions, concerns or comments, please contact us using the information in the “Contacting Us” section at the bottom of this page.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth our current privacy practices with regard to the information we collect when you or your computer/smartphone/tablet interact with our website. By accessing theinseasonlifestyle.com, you acknowledge and fully understand The IN SEASON Lifestyle’s and Wordcastle Publications LLC’s Privacy Policy and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Policy and in the Terms and Conditions for the website you are on.
PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES
Related services and offerings with links from this website, including vendor sites, have their own privacy statements that can be viewed by clicking on the corresponding links within each respective website. Online merchants and others who participate in The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC’s services are encouraged to participate in industry privacy initiatives and to take a responsible attitude towards consumer privacy. However, since we do not have direct control over the policies or practices of participating merchants and other third parties, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or contents of those sites. We recommend and encourage that you always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before you provide any personal information or complete any transaction with such parties.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT
The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC collects certain information from and about its users in four ways: using Google Analytics, directly from our Web Server logs, the user, and with Cookies.
1. Google Analytics
The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC uses features of Google Analytics. Google Analytics does not store any visitor specific data and we will not use visitor specific data in any way related to Google Analytics. We use this information to better understand our users and do not at this time use any targeted advertising. Statistics such as IP Address, pages visited, demographics, location and other basic user information is reported for us to better make informed decisions about how to make our site more relevant and easy to navigate for our users. Google offers an opt out installation that works with your browser if you do not want your data reported through Google Analytics: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/ and we encourage anyone using our site to opt out if they are so inclined.
2. Web Server Logs.
When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site and analyze its usage. Examples of information we may track include:
• Your Internet protocol address.
• The kind of browser or computer/smartphone/tablet you use.
• Number of links you click within the site.
• State or country from which you accessed the site.
• Date and time of your visit.
• Name of your Internet service provider.
• Web page you linked to our site from.
• Pages you viewed on the site.
3. Use of Cookies
The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. A cookie is a small 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. For example, if you personalize a web page, or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies the process of delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by providing and saving your preferences and login information as well as providing personalized functionality.
The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value.
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 reject cookies by changing your browser settings then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website.
4. Personal Information Users
Visitors to our website can register to purchase products from Amazon and other affiliations or to purchase freelance writing services or to obtain information that our website offers to our readers such as our monthly Newsletters and/or special promotions or events or free offers and/or digital downloads for the purchase of our books and/or uniquely created information or products and/or conferences and events specific to our community. When you register for certain services and/or purchases, we will request some personal information such as name, address, email, telephone number or facsimile number, account number and other relevant information. If you are purchasing a service, we will request financial information. Any financial information we collect is used only to bill you for the services you purchased. If you purchase by credit card, this information may be forwarded to your credit card provider. For other types of registrations, we will ask for the relevant information. You may also be asked to disclose personal information to us so that we can provide assistance and information to you. For example, such data may be warranted in order to provide online freelance writing services and technical support and troubleshooting for such services.
We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission except to the extent necessary including:
• To fulfill your service requests for services.
• To protect ourselves from liability,
• To respond to legal process or comply with law, or
• In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.
USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILES
The IN SEASON Lifestyle blog and Wordcastle Publications LLC web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.
Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or emails and compile anonymous information in relation to those page views, which in turn enables us and our service providers to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC prohibits Web beacons from being used to collect or access your personal information.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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 our 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.
Contact forms
Any information that you enter into a contact form that is submitted is saved into our website database and is emailed to our help desk system in order to communicate with you via email.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our 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.
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, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
ACCESSING WEB ACCOUNT INFORMATION
We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information in your web account file is correct and current. You may review this information upon request by sending an email to our support attendant at wordcastlepublications@gmail.com.
CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT
The IN SEASON Lifestyle and Wordcastle Publications LLC has the discretion to occasionally change this privacy statement at any time without notice. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the top of this Privacy page; such changes shall then be effective immediately. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of the service constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.
Companies We Use That Holds Our Prospect And Customers Data
ShoppingCart
Leadpages
Google Drive (Docs, Spreadsheets etc.)
Survey Monkey
Bluehost
ManageWP
WPEngine
Siteground
Google Voice
Google Email
Authorize.net
PayPal
Gravatar
WP Notepad Plugin
WordPress
Mail Chimp
Optin Monster
CONTACTING US
If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to this Privacy Statement and/or our general practices, please contact us by emailing us here: wordcastlepublications@gmail.com.
or send your comments to:
Wordcastle Publications LLC
Home of The IN SEASON Lifestyle
Attention: Privacy Statement
3685 Pine Lane
Birmingham, Alabama 35242
Wordcastle Publications LLC and/or The IN SEASON Lifestyle will try to promptly respond and resolve any problem or question.