The Privacy Policy is important information about how we obtain and use your personal information.
Last Updated: November 12, 2020
Who we are
Sarahdawn Tunis is the owner and creator of sarahdawntunis.com and the Dreaming, Believing, Becoming blog. Our website address is https://www.sarahdawntunis.com. If you would like to learn more about Sarahdawn Tunis or the mission of sarahdawntunis.com you can do so here.
Please read the following information on how we use your personal information. By vising or using the sarahdawntunis.com website you acknowledge that you accept these practices and policies.
This website and blog are published by Good Vibes Publishing, LLC.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Your privacy is very important to us. At sarahdawntunis.com we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
It is Sarahdawn Tunis’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating this website.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Sarahdawn Tunis collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Sarahdawn Tunis’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Sarahdawn Tunis’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Sarahdawn Tunis may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Sarahdawn Tunis also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on my blog. Sarahdawn Tunis only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Sarahdawn Tunis’s websites choose to interact with Sarahdawn Tunis in ways that require Sarahdawn Tunis to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Sarahdawn Tunis gathers
Aggregated Statistics
Sarahdawn Tunis may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Sarahdawn Tunis may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Sarahdawn Tunis may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Sarahdawn Tunis does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Media
If you upload images to the 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
All contact forms on sarahdawntunis.com collect information needed to respond to your question, comment or feedback. This information includes your name and e-mail address. All other information is determined by you. Your comments are sent to a personal e-mail address monitored by Sarahdawn Tunis and any employees or assistants approved by Sarahdawn Tunis. These e-mails are kept confidential, but not encrypted. Although Sarahdawn Tunis does everything we can on our part to ensure any information sent to us by contact form is kept safe we cannot guarantee confidentiality outside of our control. Such as in cases of hackers or someone looking at the form from your side. Please use these forms responsibly and informatively at your own risk.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Sarahdawn Tunis uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of sarahdawntunis.com, and their website access preferences. Sarahdawntunis.com visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using sarahdawntunis.com, with the drawback that certain features of the website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If you leave a comment on sarahdawntunis.com you may opt-in to
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links
Sarahdawntunis.com contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
Analytics
Sarahdawntunis.com uses Google Analytics in order to gain an understanding of how users interact with this site. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect anonymous personal information to track website usage behavior. This information may include your IP address, what country you are in, what date and time you visited and what pages you visit and for how long. Sarahdawn Tunis uses this information in order to determine what content is relevant and important to you (the user) and for marketing and SEO purposes.
If you would like more information on how Google uses your IP address and other personal information you can read the Safeguarding Your Data article included in the analytics help section. If you would like to prevent Google from collecting your personal data for analytics you can use this browser add-on. You can also set your browser to always block 3rd party cookies. Either way, the content of the websites will not be affected and your information will not be sent to a 3rd party.
To learn more about how Google uses information from sites or apps that use their services you can do so here.
Business Transfers
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Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Sarahdawn Tunis and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Google’s Adsense uses DoubleClick cookies which enables them and their partners to show you ads based on past websites you have visited. If you want to opt out or otherwise control the way Google uses your information to show you
Orders
When you make a purchase or order a product from sarahdawntunis.com personal information necessary to complete the order will be collected such as your name, e-mail address for digital orders and mailing address for physical products along with your credit card information. This information is only used for billing and shipping purposes. If we have trouble processing an order, we’ll use this information to contact you.
Who we share your data with
Sarahdawn Tunis discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Sarahdawn Tunis’s behalf or to provide services available at Sarahdawn Tunis’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others.
Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Sarahdawn Tunis’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Sarahdawn Tunis will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Sarahdawn Tunis discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Sarahdawn Tunis believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Sarahdawn Tunis, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of a Sarahdawn Tunis website and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with sarahdawntunis.com and our products. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
Sarahdawn Tunis takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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.
For those who send e-mails to sarahdawntunis.com or use a contact form on the website, I may keep our communications for as long as I feel is necessary to be able to respond to your questions and ensure I give you a personalized response based on our past communications. If you would like for me to erase/delete these communications at any time please let me know by e-mail at sarah@sarahdawntunis.com.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
I will never use your information in a way that violates your rights or privacy. You and your sense of safety are extremely important to me. Visitor comments may be checked through Akismet or other automated spam detection service. Other than that, I only send your information to services that are necessary to carry out our agreed upon services. Such as the postal service to deliver any products you have ordered.
Your contact information
In accordance with Universal Law Sarahdawn Tunis will never use your personal information in a way that is unnecessary or potentially harmful to you or anyone else. Your contact information is kept confidential and secure and is only used to send you information Sarahdawn Tunis believes may be relevant or of interest to you.
Additional information
How we protect your data
Sarahdawn Tunis takes precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever Sarahdawn Tunis collects sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a lock icon in the address bar and looking for “https” at the beginning of the address of the Web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only Sarahdawn Tunis has access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment and password protected.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In order to prevent any breaches of data, Sarahdawn Tunis has security monitors in place to prevent unauthorized users from accessing the backend of sarahdawntunis.com. The administration section of sarahdawntunis.com is password protected and uses programs to prevent hackers and other unauthorized users from any access to your personal information.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Sarahdawn Tunis may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Sarahdawn Tunis’s sole discretion. Sarahdawn Tunis encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, you should contact us immediately at sarah@sarahdawntunis.com.