Privacy Policy

Kara Elyse, LLC (“Kara Elyse, LLC,” “Kara Elyse” “karaelyse.com” “we” or “us”) values privacy and is committed to implementing appropriate safeguards necessary to protect sensitive information and adhere to compliance efforts regarding the protection of personal information.

As a general rule, Kara Elyse does not collect your personal information unless you choose to provide that information to us. When you choose to provide us with your personal information, you are giving Kara Elyse your permission to use that information for the stated purposes listed in this privacy policy. If you choose not to provide us with that information, it might limit the features and services that you can use on this website.

Generally, the information requested by Kara Elyse will be used to provide a website feature or service to you, such as commenting, support, or providing future content better tailored to your interests. A description of Kara Elyse’s intended use of that information, how that information is collected, security measures Kara Elyse takes to protect that information, and how to grant or revoke consent for collection and use of that information will be fully described in the ‘Privacy Notice’ section of this privacy policy.

Privacy Notice

Some of the services on this website allow you to send us an email. We will use the information you provide, such as email address or phone number, only to respond to your inquiry. Keep in mind that email transmissions are not encrypted by default, so we suggest you do not send sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, credit card numbers, or bank account information via such contact forms.

If such information is required, it will be via a web page that clearly states the page and its transmission of information is secure and encrypted. All electronic messages received from visitors are deleted when no longer needed.

Third-Party Websites and Applications

We use commenting, social media plug-ins, and have chosen to partner with additional responsible third parties. We use third-party services to interact with visitors and to build our community on social media. We also use these third-party services to measure the number of visitors to our website, to interact with visitors on the site, and to make our website more useful to visitors.

In such cases, the third-party application may request an email address, username, password, internet protocol (IP) address, and geographic location for account registration or sign-in purposes. Kara Elyse does not use those third-party websites or services to collect personal information from individuals. Any personal information collected by the third-party website will not be stored or transmitted by Kara Elyse. Kara Elyse has no control over or access to specific login information or any other sensitive personal information provided to third-party websites.

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. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

The business policies of these third-party websites may include different privacy policies and practices than those in use at Kara Elyse. Please be aware that when you choose to utilize the services or web functionality provided by these third parties our privacy policies no longer apply and that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these other sites. We encourage you to review the policies of each site you use. To that end, we have provided links to their privacy statements below:

• https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
• https://automattic.com/privacy/

Information for Tracking and Customization (Cookies)

Kara Elyse uses cookies to provide a customized user experience on the site. A cookie is a small file that a website transfers to your computer to allow your browser to remember information about your last session on that website. Your computer only shares information in the cookie with the specific website that provided it, and no other website can request that information. Kara Elyse also uses third-party analytics services (Google Analytics) to gather this information for analysis.

Kara Elyse collects and temporarily stores certain information about your visit to help us to better align our content and the website design with your needs. The information these cookies collect includes:

1. The domain you access our website from
2. Your computer’s IP address
3. The date and time you accessed the site
4. The operating system of your computer
5. The browser you’re using to access our site
6. The Universal Resource Locators (URLs) of the pages you visit on our website
7. Your username, if you’ve logged into the site
8. The URL of site you came from, if you clicked a link there that brought you to our website

We may share this information internally with Kara Elyse employees or third-party contractors as needed. This information is only used to improve the website and enhance our visitors’ experience. Raw data logs are only retained temporarily site management purposes.

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.

Security

Kara Elyse takes the security of your personal information very seriously. We take precautions to ensure that the information we collect is secure and inaccessible by anyone outside of our organization. These precautions include advanced access controls to limit access to that information to only internal personnel who require access to that information. We also use numerous security technologies to protect all data stored on our servers and related systems. Our security measures are regularly upgraded and tested to ensure they are effective.

We take the following specific steps to protect your information:

1. Use internal access controls so only limited personnel have access to your information.
2. Anyone with access to user information is trained on all relevant security and compliance policies.
3. Servers that store visitor information are regularly backed up to protect against loss.
4. All information is secured through modern security technologies like secure socket layer (SSL), encryption, firewalls, and secure passwords.

All access safeguards described above are in place to prevent unauthorized access by outsiders to information stored on or transmitted by our systems.

Choice, Access, and Redress

You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our website:

1. Ask for a list of personal information we have about you, if any.
2. Request a change, correction, or deletion of your personal information.
3. Request that we avoid collecting anything in the future (opt-out).

If you do not wish to have cookies stored on your machine, you have the option to turn cookies off in your browser. However, keep in mind that turning off cookies may impact how this website functions. Disabling browser cookies will also impact how other websites you visit store browser cookies as well.

Whenever, and if ever we collect any sensitive information (such as social security numbers or credit card information), the information is encrypted and securely transmitted. You are able to confirm this by looking for the ‘lock’ icon in the browser address bar, and also confirm that the URL link starts with ‘https.’

If you believe at any point that we are not following this privacy policy as stated, please contact us immediately via the appropriate email, as provided on the contact page.