Our Intentions

Your privacy is important to us. We value your trust, and we promise to be open about what we do with the data we collect. It is our intention to treat your data with care, and this policy outlines our commitment to our customers to treat their information the way we treat our own. This is how we gather, store, and use data with the greatest possible integrity, fairness, and transparency.  We know it is important to you to understand what happens to your data.

This policy applies to anyone whose information is collected by us or our site. This includes customers, vendors such as those who process financial transactions, and others working on our behalf who need occasional data access, such as our web host and email servers.

Data We Collect

In order to run our site, we need to gather information. Some of this information is used by us, and some we collect because it is legally required. This information includes any identifying online or offline information, including names, IP addresses or other digital footprints, physical or mailing addresses, usernames, photographs, and financial information. Most of this information must be provided by you, the user, with the exception of IP addresses. Those are collected when you sign up for our email list to comply with anti-spam laws. (We don’t like spam either, and will do our best not to send you any.) If you leave a comment on our site, the data in the comment will be collected, as well as the IP address and browser user agent string to help us avoid spam comments. Comments may be checked by an automated spam detection service. We like to keep the spam to a minimum.

We use this information only for conducting operations and maintaining legal compliance. While we do need to collect some data in order for the site to work as intended, we collect and store the data we acquire safely and fairly. (In order to protect our intellectual property and your access to your purchases, for example, our site needs to recognize your login.) We will not use your data for purposes other than those stated, sell it to third parties, or communicate it to third parties who do not also have accessible data protection policies. Except where required by law, your data will not be distributed to any party other than those agreed upon by you when you provide the data. We will comply with legitimate requests from law enforcement authorities.

You may at any time request that we correct, change, remove, or reduce data we have previously collected. We are not responsible for what happens to data you have submitted to third parties, and you will need to address data revision requests to them directly.

When users register on our site, we store any personal identifying information they provide. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, with the exception of changing their username. Website administrators can also see and edit user information if required.

In addition to requesting your data be removed or updated, if you have an account or have left comments, you can send a written request to receive an exported file of your personal data we have collected, including any data you have provided to us. This does not include any data we are required to keep to maintain legal compliance, carry out administrative purposes, or maintain site security.

If at any time we are informed of a data break affecting your data, we will notify you at the email address associated with your account.

To request an update, removal, or change to your collected data, send an email to alyssa@alyssasyellowhouse.com with the subject line “DATA UPDATE” so we can process your request as quickly as possible.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app, to provide you with the best experience. Many of these are used by our vendors and third parties, the most common of which is Squarespace. Click here to see information about the cookies used by Squarespace. Some of these are functional cookies and are always used, allowing Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. Others are analytics and performance cookies, enabled when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data. This allows us to track what content our visitors enjoy so we can provide the most useful information on our site.

Visitor Data

When you subscribe and purchase a membership on this website, we collect personal information from you to enable your member areas access. We may collect information like your:

·         Billing and shipping address

·         Details relating to your subscription

·         Email address

·         Name

·         Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so that they can provide exclusive member area hosting services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

·         Information about your browser, network and device

·         Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

·         Web pages you view while on this website

·         Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

·         You’ve created a customer account

·         Your customer account password has been reset or updated

·         You’ve made a purchase

·         Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

Embedded Content

Pages 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.

If you upload any images to the website, avoid images that include embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors to the website can access location data from images on the site. We are not responsible for this information.

Third-Party Services We Use

By interacting with our site, you may provide information to third-party services in order to conduct payment processing, receive emails from us, or access content on our site. The third-party services we use to maintain our site are listed here, along with links to their privacy policies.

Payment processing is conducted through PayPal, so we don’t have access or maintain records of your financial information. You can read their privacy policy here.

Our email list relies on ConvertKit, and you can read their privacy policy here.

Our site uses Squarespace, and you can read their privacy policy here.

Our site uses SiteGround, and you can read their privacy policy here.