At CaroldeGiere.com we are committed to protecting your privacy.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://caroldegiere.com. Physical address: 10 Library Place #909, Bethel, CT 06801
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
If you voluntarily contact us for information or a newsletter we collect only your name and email address. We will not disclose this information to third parties or give or sell your e-mail address to other companies. if you order a book, we will retain your address for purposes of mailing the book. We do not disclose this information to any third party. This information is retained indefinitely for business record keeping purposes.
If you subscribed to the blog, there is an unsubscribe link at the bottom of each mailing, which you may use. The data is stored and processed by mailing list company for the sole purpose of email distribution. No data is shared elsewhere.
If you “Like” a related Facebook page or twitter feed, the privacy is governed by Facebook’s or Twitter’s rules. We do not store any data from you, although we can reply to messages sent there.
Policy on ‘cookies’ and Third-Party Advertisers
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We do not actively make use of cookies for material generated by us.
The only advertising involved in this website is Amazon.com’s affiliate program and private sale of signed books. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases when you voluntarily click through a link provided. They may send cookies to your browser from their servers if you visit a page on this site where their content appears, and if you choose to follow a link, you may get more cookies. Your web browser may have controls that allow you to control whether you accept cookies or not; allow you to delete existing cookies; and control for which web sites you may allow or disallow cookies. Note that some web sites will not function correctly with cookies turned off. Some of our pages may contain small blank images on linked to an advertiser’s web site. They use this image to tell if a page containing their advertisement has been accessed.
As explained above, if you order a book, we will retain your address for purposes of mailing the book. We do not disclose this information to any third party. This information is retained indefinitely for business record keeping purposes.
Computer Logs
We occasionally look at computers logs of this web site which give us a general idea of how many people visit this site, what pages are visited and so forth. This information does not contain any personal information about you, but it may contain the IP (Internet Protocol) address you used to access this site. For example, if you accessed this site from home, the log would record the address your Internet Service Provider has assigned to you. If you accessed this site from work, it would record the IP address of that business; from a public library, the library’s IP address. We do not use this data except to analyze usage of our site.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles linked to on this blog 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.