Privacy Policy

 

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to Curating4Connection and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Curating4Connection include the Curating4Connection website and its products and services. By using the Curating4Connection website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, Curating4Connection may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

 – First and Last Name

– Mailing Address

– Email Address

– Phone Number

 

If you purchase Curating4Connection’s products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. 

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

Curating4Connection collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

Curating4Connection may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Curating4Connection and its affiliates.

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Curating4Connection does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

Curating4Connection 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 Curating4Connection, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

Curating4Connection 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 edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Curating4Connection or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Curating4Connection; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Curating4Connection, or the public.

Use of Communication Services

The Site may contain bulletin board services, chat areas, news groups, forums, communities, personal web pages, calendars, and/or other message or communication facilities designed to enable you to communicate with the public at large or with a group (collectively, “Communication Services”). You agree to use the Communication Services only to post, send and receive messages and material that are proper and related to the particular Communication Service.

By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using a Communication Service, you will not: defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others; publish, post, upload, distribute or disseminate any inappropriate, profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topic, name, material or information; upload files that contain software or other material protected by intellectual property laws (or by rights of privacy of publicity) unless you own or control the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents; upload files that contain viruses, corrupted files, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of another’s computer; advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any business purpose, unless such Communication Service specifically allows such messages; conduct or forward surveys, contests, pyramid schemes or chain letters; download any file posted by another user of a Communication Service that you know, or reasonably should know, cannot be legally distributed in such manner; falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is uploaded; restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Communication Services; violate any code of conduct or other guidelines which may be applicable for any particular Communication Service; harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including e-mail addresses, without their consent; violate any applicable laws or regulations.

Curating4Connection has no obligation to monitor the Communication Services. However, Curating4Connection reserves the right to review materials posted to a Communication Service and to remove any materials in its sole discretion. Curating4Connection reserves the right to terminate your access to any or all of the Communication Services at any time without notice for any reason whatsoever.

Curating4Connection reserves the right at all times to disclose any information as necessary to satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, or to edit, refuse to post or to remove any information or materials, in whole or in part, in Curating4Connection’s sole discretion.

Always use caution when giving out any personally identifying information about yourself or your children in any Communication Service. Curating4Connection does not control or endorse the content, messages or information found in any Communication Service and, therefore, Curating4Connection specifically disclaims any liability with regard to the Communication Services and any actions resulting from your participation in any Communication Service. Managers and hosts are not authorized Curating4Connection spokespersons, and their views do not necessarily reflect those of Curating4Connection.

Materials uploaded to a Communication Service may be subject to posted limitations on usage, reproduction and/or dissemination. You are responsible for adhering to such limitations if you upload the materials.

 

Tracking User Behavior

Curating4Connection may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Curating4Connection, in order to determine what Curating4Connection services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Curating4Connection to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

 

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Curating4Connection. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Curating4Connection website.

 

Use of Cookies

The Curating4Connection website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is 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.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Curating4Connection pages, or register with Curating4Connection site or services, a cookie helps Curating4Connection to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Curating4Connection website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Curating4Connection features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Curating4Connection services or websites you visit.

 

Links

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.

 

Security of your Personal Information

Curating4Connection secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Curating4Connection 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 exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

 

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

 – Delete your personal information from our records; and

– Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records. 

 

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

 – Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

– Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

– Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

– Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

– Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

– Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

– Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

– Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

– Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 

Children Under Thirteen

Curating4Connection 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, Curating4Connection 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 Curating4Connection or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Curating4Connection, you may opt out of such communications by Customers may unsubscribe from emails by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE link..

 

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

 

Changes to this Statement

Curating4Connection 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 prominent 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

Curating4Connection welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Curating4Connection has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Curating4Connection at:

 

Curating4Connection:

renee@curating4connection.com

Effective as of January 1, 2021

Last Updated January 16, 2021