Privacy Policy for Whimsical Black Girl

 

At Whimsical Black Girl, accessible from www.whimsicalblackgirl.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by Whimsical Black Girl and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Whimsical Black Girl. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

​

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

​

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

​

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

​

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

​

• Provide, operate, and maintain our webste

• Improve, personalize, and expand our webste

• Understand and analyze how you use our webste

• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality

• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the webste, and for marketing and promotional purposes

• Send you emails

• Find and prevent fraud

​

How we protect your information

We take commercially reasonable steps to protect your information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction, taking into account the risks involved in processing and the nature of such data, and in compliance with applicable laws and regulations.  Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the Information that you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Websites may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.  

​

Third-party disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conduct our business, or serve our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

​

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

​

Retention of Personal Information

We will retain your personal information in a form that identifies you only for as long as it serves the purpose(s) for which it was initially collected as stated in this Privacy Policy, subsequently authorized, or as allowed under applicable law.

​

Log Files

Whimsical Black Girl follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information. Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator and the Privacy Policy Template.

 

Payment Information

When you initially provide or update your payment information, we transmit it via an encrypted connection to our Payment Processor, Wix Payments and Paypal. Wix Payments uses and processes your payment information in accordance with their Privacy Policies.  PayPal uses and processes your payment information in accordance with their Privacy Policies.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of Whimsical Black Girl.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Whimsical Black Girl, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that Whimsical Black Girl has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

​

Third Party Privacy Policies

Whimsical Black Girl's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

​

Privacy Policy Links.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites. 

​

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

​

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

​

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

​

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

​

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

​

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

​

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

​

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

​

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

​

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

​

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

​

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

​

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

​

Social Media

Whimsical Black Girl may collect information from you if you interact with us via social media such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and other such services. You may be given the option to register for webinars, take advantage of special offers, receive mailings, newsletters or the like, via your social media account. The information we receive or collect from such social media, and our ability to collect it, may depend on the social media site, its policies, and its requirements or its technology. We may collect the information you provide from these social media interactions and may use it for various purposes to improve our services or your experience, or to contact you regarding the reason you connected with us or with additional offers in the future. You have the opportunity to opt-out at any time provided we do not require a means of contacting you to fulfill your request.

​

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

​

We collect your email address in order to:

      • Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions

      • Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.

To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:

      • Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.

      • Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.

      • Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.

      • Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.

      • Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.

      • Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can do so by following the instructions at the bottom of each email and we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.

​

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act) - Collecting Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

​

Whimsical Black Girl does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.