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Welcome to our Privacy Policy

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  Your privacy is critically important to us here at Kairen Alaina. The site is owned and operated by Karen Hawkins, who is also the data controller.

Contact can be made through: karen@whimsika.com

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  This Privacy Policy applies to www.kairen-alaina.com (hereinafter referred to as "us", "our","we", or "kairen-alaina.com")

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  We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Website.       

We have adopted this privacy policy to explain what information may be collected on our Website, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information we collect through the Website and does not apply to our collection of information from other sources.

   This Privacy Policy, together with the Terms and conditions posted on our Website, set forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Website. Depending on your activities when visiting our Website, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.

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- Consent

 By using this site, users agree that they consent to the conditions as set out by this Privacy Policy.

The fact that you have given consent to process your information is on a legal basis. If you withdraw this consent, it does not make our previous processing unlawful. You can withdraw your consent by emailing:  chatwith@kairen-alaina.com

   If you are a subscribed user of kairen-alaina.com 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 kairen-alaina.com and our products. We primarily use our blog to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.

- Legal Basis for Using Your Personal Data

   We will only use your data in a legal manner. This includes

 * Compliance with law

 * Fufilling our legitimate business interests so long as it does not harm your privacy or rights

 * Effectively provide you with our website and services

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- Newsletters

  Promotional News and Blog Post Notifications.                                                                                 These are sent to users who consent to provide data as subscribers to this site

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- Website Visitors

   Like most website operators, we 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. Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how kairen-alaina.com's visitors use its website. From time to time, we may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

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- Plain english of your personal information that we collect and how we use it.

  We directly collect your name and email address when you subscribe to kairen-alaina.com. Information about location, clicked links and content viewed is collected automatically. The information collected is used to process any offers, to provide contact information for newsletters and to streamline your navigation of our website. i.e communication and statistics.

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- Security

   The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

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- Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

   At kairen-alaina.com, we disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that

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(i)  need to know that information in order to process it on kairen-alaina.com's behalf.

(ii) have agreed not to disclose it to others.

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  Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using kairen-alaina.com's website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Kairen-alaina.com 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, Kairen-Alaina.com discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of kairen-alaina.com, third parties or the public at large.

  We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

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- Links To External Sites  

   Our Service may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

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- GDPR and Fair Information Practices

  For European Users, we adhere to the Regulations (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliment and of the Council of 27 April 2016 and the regulations of the UK Data Protection Act 2018 including notifying users, within 4 business days of any security breach

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-Changes and access to data collected 

You can exercise your rights under the GDPR at any time. This would include accessing, modifying, deleting or general inquiries into your personal collected data. To do so, we would have to take extensive steps to prove your identity. Email inquiries to: karen@whimsika.com

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- CalOPPA

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  To align with the requirements of the Californian Online Privacy Protections Act, we agree to the following practices

  * Users can visit our site anonymously.

  * Provide a link to our Privacy Policy on our home page.

  * Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.

  * You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page

  * Our site allows annonymous visitors

  * We have no third party tracking

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- COPPA

 While the site is dedicated to childrens books, we do not directly market to children under 16

We will not knowingly use or collect personal data from a child under 16. We will immediately delete data if found to be from a child under 16. Parents or guardians are to contact us at karen@whimsika.com if they suspect their child has provided personal information to us.

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- Aggregated Statistics

  Kairen-alaina.com may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its website. We may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, we will not disclose your personally-identifying information.

 

- Affiliate Disclosure

   This site may sometimes use affiliate links and does earn a commission from certain links. This does not affect your purchases or the price you may pay.

 

- Cookies

   To enrich and perfect your online experience, kairen-alaina.com uses "Cookies", similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.

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. We use cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage ofkairen-alaina.com and their website access preferences.

Site visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website, with the drawback that certain features may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

By continuing to navigate our website without changing your cookie settings, you hereby acknowledge and agree to kairen-alaina.com's use of cookies.

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- How long we keep your data

  Personal Information is kept for as long as is needed, according to the reason it was collected. When the data is no longer needed it will be deleted

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- Privacy Policy Changes

   Although most changes are likely to be minor, kairen-alaina.com may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Karen Hawkins sole discretion. Major updates will be notified by way of email or on the website however, 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. The most recent version of this policy is effected as of the date at the bottom of this page. 

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- Complaints

 Any complaints about how we process your personal data can be directed to:

karen@whimsika.com, where we will strive to resolve your issue. If unsatisfied with our resolution you may contact a supervisory authority. 

 

  If you no longer wish to receive emails from kairen-alaina.com, please click the unsubscribe button in newsletter emails or contact me at: karen@whimsika.com with the subject heading ‘unsubscribe’

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 You should also review our Terms and Conditions page before using our site