Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Samantha North we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We don’t like services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
- It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Who we are
The Samantha North website is owned and operated by Digital Émigré Ltd (“Digital Émigré”), a company based in the United Kingdom.
How to contact us
You can contact us at hello@samanthanorth.com
Website visitors
Like most website operators, Samantha North collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Samantha North’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Samantha North’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Samantha North may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Samantha North also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Samantha North only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of personally-identifying information
Certain visitors to our websites choose to interact with Samantha North in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. We collect their emails of those who wish to receive our updates via email,.
In each case, Samantha North collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. Samantha North does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated statistics
Samantha North may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, we may monitor the most popular pages on the Samantha North site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Samantha North may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Samantha North does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of certain personally-identifying information
Samantha North discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Samantha North’s behalf or to provide services available at Samantha North’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using our websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
Samantha North will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Samantha North discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Samantha North believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Samantha North, third parties or the public at large.
If you are a registered user of our websites and have supplied your email address, we may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Samantha North and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Samantha North takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Samantha North uses cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of the Samantha North website, and their website access preferences. Samantha North visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our websites, with the drawback that certain features of our websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies. You can read our full Cookie Policy here.
Business transfers
If Digital Émigré, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Digital Émigré Ltd goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Digital Émigré Ltd may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy policy changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and at our sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.