Please read this page thoroughly before interacting with the site https://serenityandoak.com.
Who we are
This is the Serenity & Oak website and blog. Our website address is https://serenityandoak.com. The Serenity and Oak website is provided by Belinda Poree.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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 information to help with spam detection and prevention.
If you use a Gravatar account, a hash (sting of information) created using your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment is approved to be posted, your Gravatar profile picture will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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. Please be mindful of the security of the data your media uploads may contain.
Contact forms & Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our member login page, 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 or is saved as indicated by your browser or operating system. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
Information Collection, Use, Sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on this site. We only have access to/collect the information you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contacts from you. We will not sell or rent this information to anyone.
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding your comments, questions concerns or any other reason for which you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request, e.g. to process a payment or ship an order.
Unless you reach out to us and ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.
Pinterest Pins
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Twitter Tweets
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
Linked-in Share
We use a Linkedin Share widget at our website to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Google+ Share
We use a GooglePlus widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Google’s servers for you to be able to share our webpages using your GooglePlus account. These requests make your IP address visible to Google, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Facebook Like, Recommend, Share
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Your Control Over Your Information
You may opt-out of any future contacts from us at any time. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the contact form accessed through the link at the bottom of the page or via the email address we send our newsletter from.
- You can see the data we have for you; if any
- Change or correct the data we have for you
- Have data deleted
- Reach out to us with any concerns you have about our usage of your data.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments on our site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you; if any, 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.
Embedded content from other websites
The blog posts/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.
Analytics
Who we share your data with and 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.
The Security Of Your Data
We diligently take precautions to protect your data. When you submit sensitive information through the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
When we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), the information will be encrypted and transmitted to us securely. 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.
Should we use a third-party credit card processing company for transactions made on this site, their policy will be included on our shop page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information.
The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.
Contact information
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy, please contact us immediately via the email address in our newsletter communications to you or the contact form on the page linked below.
www.serenityandoak.com/contact
Effective as of 1/1/23