Privacy notice.

Effective Date: February 13th, 2024

Last Edited: February 15th, 2024.

Notice Version: 1.0

Your privacy matters to us at Katy Rose Marketing. We are committed to safeguarding your data and respecting your privacy by complying with all applicable laws and regulations regarding the personal information we might collect through our website and any other websites we own and operate.

This privacy document outlines what, how, and why we collect information. It explains what we will do with the information we collect including how we share, protect, and store information.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Notice, or think something should be added to this Notice, please contact us at:

Data Controller Contact Information

Katy Rose Marketing

hello@katyrosemarketing.com

DEFINITIONS

The terms “we”, “us”, “our”, and the “Company” refer to the owner of the website https://www.katyrosemarketing.com.

This document governs the privacy policy (“Privacy Notice” or “Notice”) of the website https://www.katyrosemarketing.com (“Katy Rose Marketing”) and any other websites we own and operate. The Notice describes our privacy practices for the activities outlined in this document and how we collect, access, store, and process data. The Notice does not govern the privacy policies of third-party websites we do not own or operate, even though we may use or be associated with such third-party websites.

Personal data (or “PD”) refers to information that can identify an individual either on its own or in combination with other data. Sensitive personal data (“SPD”) is information that can identify an individual either on its own or in combination with other data AND must be treated with an extra level of security. “Non-personal data” (“NPD”) refers to information that is not identifiable on its own nor in combination with other data.

The general term “data” or “information” may be used to refer to one or more types of information data (PD, SPD, or NPD) and does not necessarily mean all three collectively nor a single one exclusively. Rather, the term “data” may be used in a general sense to refer to any type of information data. The data we collect refers to all information you knowingly participate in providing to us when using our website or participating in our services and promotions AND information automatically sent by your devices when you engage in these activities.

The term “IP address” refers to a device’s Internet Protocol address which is a unique address that can identify a device accessing the internet or local network.

USE AND COLLECTION OF PERSONAL DATA

We may collect, use, store, and disclose PD and SPD when reasonably necessary and for legitimate reasons such as:

  • Improving our website design and functionality

  • Providing you with a tailored or customized experience

  • Improving our services

  • Improving your experience with our website

  • Contacting and communicating with you

  • Advertising and marketing purposes including: sending promotions, newsletters, and third-party information we think may be relevant to you

  • Administrative duties and maintaining record keeping

PD and SPD will not be collected, used, stored, or disclosed in a way that is incompatible with legitimate reasons. We may combine data we collect with data received from trusted sources and/or general information.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We may ask for personal information (PD) including:

  • Name

  • Email

  • Business name

  • Your location

  • Social media profiles

  • Phone number

Our website may collect PD from you when you:

  • Access our content using a web browser or mobile device

  • Sign up to receive updates, promotions, or freebies from us

  • Contact us

  • Mention us on social media

  • Submit information to our website via webform (please see “Form Block Submissions” section)

  • Comment or interact with blogs or articles

SQUARESPACE ANALYTICS

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.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log PD provided by your web browser or mobile device to power our website analytics. This PD includes:

  • Information about your browser type and version, network, and device

  • The time and date of your visit

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. Although this information can not be used to identify individuals on its own, it is possible to identify individuals by combining it with other data.

GOOGLE ANALYTICS

We use Google Analytics, a third-party platform. With your consent, Google Analytics collects PD (cookies and your IP address) to create insightful reports on how users interact with our website. This Data helps us analyze our website so we can improve its design and functionality.

Due to our use of Google Analytics, by using our website you are subject to Google’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Service. If you wish to prevent Google Analytics from using your information, you may opt out using the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

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. Cookies help us understand how you use our website and assist us in providing content to you based on your personal preferences. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit this link: https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/360001264507-The-cookies-Squarespace-uses.

  • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

You have the right to opt in or opt out of our use of cookies when you visit our website. You can express your cookie preference via the cookie banner found each time you access our website. If you have trouble locating this banner, you can get in touch with us using the contact information found in this document.

FORM BLOCK SUBMISSIONS

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

We only share information you submit via webform to Mailchimp when you subscribe to our newsletter using the appropriate form blocks to subscribe. We share this information with Mailchimp for storage purposes and sending marketing emails. We do not share other form block submissions with Mailchimp. You can unsubscribe from our marketing emails at any time using the link at the bottom of these emails.

USE OF SHARE BUTTONS

This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this site to the following third-party services including:

  • Pinterest

If you click a share button, these third-parties may receive your personal data, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

USE OF BLOG COMMENTS

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal data when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (optional, to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal data when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third-parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Marketing

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from at any time by clicking the link at the bottom of marketing emails. We share your contact information with Squarespace (our hosting platform) and Mailchimp (our email marketing provider) so they can send these emails on our behalf.

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We do our best to take commercially reasonable and acceptable precautions and use encryption techniques to protect any PD and SPD we collect, use, or store against:

  • Loss or theft

  • Unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification

Despite our best efforts, no means of storage or electronic transmission is completely secure. By using our website, you acknowledge and accept that we can not guarantee absolute data security against loss, theft, unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification of your information. In the event of a security or data breach, we will comply with applicable laws.

You are responsible for what or how much information you choose to actively share with us and can ensure the security of your PD and SPD by limiting what you share.

HOW LONG WE STORE DATA

We store your PD and SPD for as long as necessary at our own discretion and in accordance with this Privacy Notice. When we no longer are using or need your information, we will delete it or remove all identifiable features.

We may retain your information for legal, administrative, compliance, or reporting obligations.

HOW WE SHARE AND DISCLOSE PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THIRD-PARTIES

We may disclose personal information to:

  • Existing or potential business partners, employees, contractors, subcontractors, affiliates, sponsors, or promoters

  • Third-party service providers for the purposes of technical support, storage, web hosting, advertising, or analytics

  • Law enforcement officers, courts, or other regulatory authorities as required by law or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA

Information we collect may be stored or processed where third-party entities maintain facilities. We advise that the locations of these facilities may not be governed by the same data protection laws as the original country in which the information was provided, received, or collected.

CHILDREN’S POLICY

Our products and services are not intended for children and we do not market our products or services to children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect any data for children under the age of 13.

YOUR RIGHTS

We respect your rights for controlling your personal information. By using our website you acknowledge and accept that we may collect, use, store, and disclose PD, SPD, and NPD as governed by this Privacy Notice. We will protect any personal information you provide and information provided by your browser, mobile device, and third-parties as outlined in this Notice.

Third parties providing PD and SPD of any individual agree that they have the consent to provide such information to us.

You can, at any time, exercise your rights to withhold and withdraw personal information from us at any time without facing discrimination. If you decide to withhold or withdraw information you understand your experience of our website, services, and products may be impacted.

You always retain the right to:

  • Request a copy of your data or require us to delete your data

  • Opt in or opt out of our use of cookies when you visit our website. You can express your cookie preference via the cookie banner found each time you access our website

  • Prevent Google Analytics from using your information

  • Opt out of communications and unsubscribe from our email-database

  • Ask that we correct any information you feel is inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, irrelevant, or outdated

We are available to answer any questions and handle requests and complaints. You can reach us by using the contact information found in this document.

To confirm your identify and process any requests, we may need to ask you for specific information.

SCOPE AND LIMITS

This document governs the Privacy Notice of the website https://www.katyrosemarketing.com and any other websites we own and operate. The Notice describes our privacy practices for the activities outlined in this document and how we collect, access, store, and process data.

The Notice does not govern the privacy policies of third-party entities such as websites, applications, services, products, platforms, or otherwise, that we do not own or operate. Although we may use, be associated with, or link to third-party entities, we do not have control over the privacy or information collection practices of such entities. We advise that third-parties are governed by their own privacy policies and, therefore, their privacy and information collection practices may differ from that of Katy Rose Marketing. Individuals should review these separate privacy policies.

Since our Notice does not apply to any third-party websites, applications, services, products, platforms, or otherwise, we cannot accept liability or responsibility for their privacy practices or the way your information is handled.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Notice at our discretion to update current acceptable practices, reflect legislative/regulatory changes, and in accordance to business updates and changes to our processes.

Changes to this Notice will be posted here in this document and can be found using the same URL link by which you are currently viewing this Notice.

When required by law and within reason, we will request your permission and/or provide you with an opportunity to opt out of new uses of your personal information.

CONTACT US

Please contact us if you have questions, requests, or concerns regarding your privacy or this Privacy Notice, or if you think something should be added to or is missing from this Privacy Notice. You may contact us to make a complaint in the event you feel we have breached a pertinent data protection law. We will promptly investigate any and all questions, requests, concerns, and complaints and respond to you in writing with the (i) outcome of our investigation, (ii) steps we will take, and (iii) resolution if applicable. You have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority as well.

You may contact us using the following details:

Data Controller Contact Information

Katy Rose Marketing

hello@katyrosemarketing.com