At Living Kairos, we believe the privacy of our visitors is extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information that is collected and recorded by Living Kairos and how we use it.
This policy applies to the website administered by Living Kairos, located at https://www.livingkairos.com. For the purposes of this document, “you” represents the user and/or visitor to https://livingkairos.com. “We” and “the website” represents Living Kairos and its entities.
Information We Collect and How It’s Used
Information You Voluntarily Submit to Us
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily submit to us such as your name and/or email address. Example: you may voluntarily submit information to the website by leaving a comment, subscribing to our newsletter, or submitting a contact form. Additionally, for certain purchases, we may ask you to create a user profile, which would allow you to create a username and password. We store the username, but your password is not visible to us.
Information We Collect from Others
We may receive information about you from other sources. Example: if you use a third-party software through our site, they may transfer information to us for fulfillment.
Automatically-Collected Information
We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the website so we can improve the performance of our website. Example: when you use the website, we may collect your internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/timestamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the website. We may use them to store information about your preferences, record user-specific information on which pages you accesses or visit, and personalize or customize our web page content based upon your browser type or other information that you send via your browser. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.
If you leave a comment at Living Kairos, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so 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 Living Kairos, 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 one day.
Comments
When you leave comments at Living Kairos, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your 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
Living Kairos saves your name and email address when you complete the contact form found at https://livingkairos.com/contact/. Completing this contact form does not subscribe you to any newsletter list. It is just for the purpose of you submitting feedback.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on Living Kairos 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track certain information about you and the device with which you access the website so we can improve the performance of our website. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
How Your Information May Be Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways to:
- Operate and maintain the website
- Send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will contain information on how to opt out of future mailings
- Send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, and security alerts
- Create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website for your account
- Provide you with user support
- Respond to your comments or inquiries
- Process payment for purchases you make through the website
- Protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
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.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to do so. Additionally, we may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. We currently uses the following third-party service providers:
- Drip – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications.
- Google – this service is used to display targeted ads. Google’s use of cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon your visit to Living Kairos and other sites on the Internet.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time at our sole discretion.
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. Living Kairos’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. You may find a comprehensive listing of these privacy policies and their links here: Privacy Policy Links.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Cookies
We use cookies to store your preferences, record user-specific information on what pages you access or visit, ensure that you are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize website content based on your browser type, or other information that you send. You may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies by the website by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies.
Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if you deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable. If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Advertising
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on Living Kairos and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
Living Kairos has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Affiliate Marketing
Living Kairos may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the website. This means that if you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. We may make a small commission on your purchase at no additional cost to you. We will always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products we recommend.
Google Advertising
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on Living Kairos. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to Living Kairos and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Newsletter
On the website, you may choose to subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. Any and all newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the website to adapt the content of future newsletters to your interests. This behavior is for our purposes only.
Rights Related to Your Personal Information
You have certain rights in regards to your personal information:
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at brianna@livingkairos.comto be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to brianna@livingkairos.com.
Amend – You may contact us at brianna@livingkairos.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to brianna@livingkairos.com. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the website in any way including the comments, email, or forms. This includes your social security number (SSN), information regarding race or ethnicity, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, and trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it is subject to this privacy policy.
Children’s Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in, and monitor and guide their online activity. Living Kairos does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of sixteen (16). If a parent or guardian believes that we have personally identifiable information of a child under the age of sixteen (16) in our database, please contact us immediately at brianna@livingkairos.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Restricted Areas
Access to certain areas of the website may be restricted. Living Kairos reserves the right to restrict areas of the website at its sole discretion.
Some restricted areas of the website may be made available to you as a registered user. To register, you are required to create a user profile, which may include a username and password. You agree to keep your username and password confidential. If you suspect your password has been compromised, you must notify Living Kairos immediately at brianna@livingkairos.com. Living Kairos will not be liable for any loss caused by the unauthorized use of your account; however, you may be liable to Living Kairos or other third parties for any losses incurred due to such unauthorized use.
Living Kairos may disable your username and password at its sole discretion. Living Kairos reserves the right to modify methods for registration and access levels of registered users from time to time.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there. This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Tuesday, June 5, 2018.
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.
