Who we are
Our website address is: https://www.smalltownhumanist.org. Protecting your private information is our priority. This statement of privacy applies to www.smalltownhumanist.org and The Small Town Humanist and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this privacy policy, unless otherwise stated, all references to The Small Town Humanist include www.smalltownhumanist.org and The Small Town Humanist. The Small Town Humanist website is meant to be both informational and educational. There will also be an E-commerce element added at a later date. By using The Small Town Humanist website you consent to the data practice is described in this statement.
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 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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
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
In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our site, The Small Town Humanist may collect personally identifiable information such as your:
First and Last Name
Email Address
Mailing Address
Phone Number
Collection of your Personal Information
If you purchase The Small Town Humanist‘s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.
The Small Town Humanist may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:
Gender
Age
Race
Religion
Household Income
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through The Small Town Humanist‘s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the site, these may include: (a) registering for an account on our site, (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners, (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties, (d) sending us an email message, (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
Use of your Personal Information
The Small Town Humanist collects and uses your personal information to operate its website and to deliver the services you have requested. The Small Town Humanist may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products and services available from The Small Town Humanist and its affiliates.
Cookies
The Small Town Humanist website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie as a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a Web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you. 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 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 or links from other websites
This website 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.
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. The Small Town Humanist is not responsible for any action taken by our users as a result of clicking on embedded content from other websites or by unknown embedded third party elements.
Security of your personal information
The Small Town Humanist secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Small Town Humanist uses the following methods for this purpose:
– SSL protocol
When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.
We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchange between you and us through this site cannot be guaranteed.
Who we share your data with
As of the date that this privacy Policy is created and put into effect, June 6th, 2019, The Small Town Humanist not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
The Small Town Humanist may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third-party. The Small Town Humanist may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to The Small Town Humanist, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. The Small Town Humanist may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edict of the law or comply with legal process served on The Small Town Humanist or the site, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Small Town Humanist, and/or (c) act under circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Small Town Humanist, or the public.
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.
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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Children under thirteen
The Small Town Humanist does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
E-mail communications
From time to time, The Small Town Humanist may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our services we may receive a notification when you open an email from The Small Town Humanist or click on the link there in. If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from The Small Town Humanist, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the link to unsubscribe and follow the directions to proceed with updating your subscription status.
Changes to this statement
The Small Town Humanist reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a permanent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the site and/or services available through this site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
Contact information
The Small Town Humanist welcomes your questions or comments regarding this statement of privacy. If you believe that The Small Town Humanist has not adhere to this statement, please contact The Small Town Humanist at:
jason@smalltownhumanist.org
Revision and effective date:
Revised and effective as of June 6th, 2019