Privacy Policy, Terms of Use

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement applies to this website and associated newsletters and Facebook lead ads.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.tracilovelot.com.

Use of I/me/my refers to Traci Lovelot, the author and publisher. Use of we/us refers to Traci Lovelot and any vendors, contractors, and service providers I work with.

Terms

This is a binding agreement. By using the Internet site located at https://www.tracilovelot.com (the “Site” or “Service”) or any services provided in connection with the Site, you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy, Terms, and Conditions of Use, applicable laws, and regulations, and their compliance. If you disagree with any of the stated terms and conditions, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this site are secured by relevant copyright and trade mark law.

Use License

1. Permission is allowed to temporarily download one duplicate of the materials (data or programming) on Traci Lovelot’s site for individual and non-business use only. This is just a permit of license and not an exchange of title, and under this permit you may not:
   1. modify or copy the materials;
   2. use the materials for any commercial use;
   3. use the materials for any public presentation (business or non-business);
   4. attempt to decompile or rebuild any product or material contained on Traci Lovelot’s site or in her books;
   5. remove any copyright or other restrictive documentations from the materials; or
   6. transfer the materials to someone else or even “mirror” the materials on other server.
2. This permit might consequently be terminated if you disregard any of these confinements and may be ended by Traci Lovelot whenever deemed. After permit termination or when your viewing permit is terminated, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your ownership whether in electronic or printed form.

Disclaimer

Traci Lovelot has not checked on the majority of the websites or links connected to its website and is not in charge of the substance of any such connected webpage. The incorporation of any connection does not infer support by Traci Lovelot of the site. Utilization of any such connected site is at the user’s own risk.

The materials on Traci Lovelot’s site are given “as is” without warranty of any kind. You assume the risk of any and all damage or loss from use of, or inability to use, the site or the service. To the maximum extent permitted by law, we expressly disclaim any and all warranties, express or implied, regarding the site, including, but not limited to, any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or noninfringement. We do not warrant that the site will meet your requirements or that the operation of the site will be uninterrupted or error-free.

You agree to indemnify, defend, and hold harmless Traci Lovelot, affiliates, employees, consultants, agents, and representatives from any and all third party claims, losses, liability, damages, and/or costs (including reasonable attorney fees and costs) arising from your access to or use of the Site or content herein, your violation of these Terms of Use, or your infringement, or infringement by any other user of your account, of any intellectual property or other right of any person or entity.

If, for whatever reason, a court of competent jurisdiction finds any term or condition in these Terms of Use to be unenforceable, all other terms and conditions will remain unaffected and in full force and effect. No waiver of any breach of any provision of these Terms of Use shall constitute a waiver of any prior, concurrent, or subsequent breach of the same or any other provisions hereof, and no waiver shall be effective unless made in writing and signed by an authorized representative of the waiving party.

Compliance with Intellectual Property Laws

When accessing the Site, you agree to obey the law and to respect the intellectual property rights of others. Your use of the Site is at all times governed by and subject to laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property. You agree not to upload, download, display, perform, transmit, or otherwise distribute any information or content (collectively, “Content”) in violation of any third party’s copyrights, trademarks, or other intellectual property or proprietary rights. You agree to abide by laws regarding copyright ownership and use of intellectual property.

Limited Liability

Traci Lovelot’s liability to you is limited. To the maximum extent permitted by law, in no event shall we be liable for damages of any kind (including, but not limited to, special, incidental, or consequential damages, lost profits, or lost data, regardless of the foreseeability of those damages) arising out of or in connection with your use of the site or any other materials or services provided to you herein. This limitation shall apply regardless of whether the damages arise out of breach of contract, tort, or any other legal theory or form of action.

Service Providers, Affiliates, Third Parties

I may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

• To facilitate my business;
• To provide the business-related services on my behalf; or
• To perform business-related services.

These third parties have access to your Personal Information to perform the tasks assigned to them on my behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

Examples of these services may include:

• Managing my mailing list and/or inbox
• Managing my website, creating website content, and/or moderating comments made by visitors
• Managing my social media accounts on my behalf
• Creating and managing ads on my behalf

I have no control over, and no liability for any third party websites or materials. I work with a number of partners and affiliates whose Internet sites may be linked with the Site. Because I have no control over the content and performance of these partner and affiliate sites, I make no guarantees about the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of the information provided by such sites, and I assume no responsibility for unintended, objectionable, inaccurate, misleading, or unlawful content that may reside on those sites. Similarly, from time to time in connection with your use of the Site, you may have access to content items (including, but not limited to, websites) that are owned by third parties. You acknowledge and agree that I make no guarantees about, and assume no responsibility for, the accuracy, currency, content, or quality of this third party content, and that, unless expressly provided otherwise, these Terms of Use shall govern your use of any and all third party content.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

If you choose to sign up for my newsletter or enter sponsored contests, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. The Personal Information that I collect is used for providing information, reaching you, marketing my products and services to you (including via Facebook lead ads and other advertisements), and updating subscribers/contestants only. I will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. Personal Information collected via Google Drive, Survey, Docs, or Sheets will be deleted once the contest winner(s) has/have been contacted. If you enter a contest managed via this website, you will not be added to a mailing list unless you opt in.

To deliver newsletters and author-related messages, I may require you to provide me with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name and email address. The information that I collect will be used to contact or identify you. My mailing list is not shared with or sold to third parties such as other authors, my publicist, my publishers, or agents.

Newsletters

On this Website, you may subscribe to various newsletters, which may be used for advertising purposes. Doing so also expressly grants me the right to market to you via email marketing as well as advertisements such as Facebook Lead Ads. Email newsletters 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 newsletter and which links within the email you click. This allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters, ads, and this Website to the interests of the user. See data tracking technologies below.

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. Other visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you use a contact form, sign up form, or other forms on this site, I may require you to provide me with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your first name and email address. The information that I collect will be used to contact or identify you. You will not be added to a mailing list unless you opt in.

Cookies

Cookies are a technology usually that can be stored on or access a user’s computer, mobile device, or other electronic devices. Cookies may be used to remember the choices or preferences of a user on a website, to support user login, or to analyze traffic to a website.

The Website may use cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described herein.

Users 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 users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.

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 visit the 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.

If 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.

Data tracking technologies

This website uses tracking pixels that will collect information about you from here and elsewhere on the internet. Collected data is used to measure ad campaign effectiveness and to target ads. This data allows us to improve our advertising efforts in the hopes of making ads of greater interest to you for a better experience and to reach you later through the use of Facebook custom audiences.

You can opt out of Facebook tracking you in this way here and from Google tracking you in this way here as of May 2022. Links are subject to change, but please note you must go to their websites to opt out.

Analytics and Log Data

I use Google Analytics, Facebook Analytics, and other WordPress plugs to monitor an aggregated view of visitors to this site.

I may also collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, country of residence, browser type, device type, pages of the website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

This information may be used to create ads based on those who visit this website.

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.

If you sign up to my email list, your personally identifying information, including but not limited to name and email address, will be held indefinitely, even after you unsubscribe, in order to identify you should you sign up again. If you wish for your data to be deleted entirely, please contact me.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can 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. You may access the personal information we have about you by contacting me. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Analytics may be provided by Google and Facebook.

Subscriptions to various newsletters on this site will be sent to MailerLite and potentially other newsletter providers to better ensure deliverability of emails you opted to receive.

Information may also be provided to Facebook and other advertising platforms so that I can reach you for marketing purposes with regards to my products and services.

Security

I value your trust in providing me your Personal Information, thus I am striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Children’s Privacy

The site is intended only for users aged 18 or older. Individuals under the age of 18 are strictly prohibited from using the site and the accounts for any such person shall be terminated upon discovery. My Services do not address anyone under the age of 13. I do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case I discover that a child under 13 has provided me with personal information, I immediately delete this from the servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided me with personal information, please contact me immediately so that I can delete their information from my servers.

Ads and Affiliate Marketing

I may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above. From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

I may earn a small commission for my endorsement, recommendation, testimonial, and/or link to any products or services from this website.

TraciLovelot.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and other Amazon websites. This program may utilize cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases you make on Amazon. This does not change the cost you pay.

Changes, Amendments, and Errata

I may update my Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, I advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. I will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately once they are posted on this page.

I may update these terms of utilization for its website whenever without notification. By utilizing this site you are consenting to be bound by the then current form of this Privacy Policy, Terms, and Conditions of Use.

The materials showing up on Traci Lovelot’s site could incorporate typographical, or photographic mistakes. Traci Lovelot does not warrant that any of the materials on its site are exact, finished, or current. Traci Lovelot may roll out improvements to the materials contained on its site whenever without notification. Traci Lovelot does not, then again, make any dedication to update the materials.

Contact Me

If you have any questions or suggestions about my Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact me.

These Terms shall be construed in accordance with and governed by the laws of the United States and the State of North Carolina, without reference to their rules regarding conflicts of law. You hereby irrevocably consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of the state or federal courts in Charlotte, North Carolina in all disputes arising out of or related to the use of the site.