Disclosure Policy — Postcards from a Planner

This policy is UPDATED AS OF January 1, 2024.

Postcards from a Planner is a personal blog found at https://www.postcardsfromaplanner.com (the "Blog"). The Blog is written and edited by Cari Janssen (the "Owner"). For questions regarding the Blog or its contents, please contact the Owner at cari at postcardsfromaplanner dot com. The Blog is governed by the following privacy policy ("Privacy Policy").

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 only applies to this Blog.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Blog: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Blog by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting a contact form.

Information We Collect from Others: We may receive information about you from other sources. For example, the Blog may utilize the Facebook commenting system, so if you choose to comment on a Blog post, your profile picture will appear.

Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Blog. For example, when you use the Blog, we will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the Blog. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Blog, such as links clicked.Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Blog. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Blog.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Blog;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To track and measure advertising on the Blog; or
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Blog may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Blog. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.

The Blog currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Google Analytics – This service track Blog usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Blog. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Convertkit – This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Convertkit's privacy policy for further information.
Squarespace and Acuity - This service is used for Blog maintenance, analytics, and online calendar scheduling.

At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Blog’s sole discretion.

Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Blog to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.

ANONYMOUS DATA

From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION

If you leave a comment on the Blog, certain information may be publicly visible. Your email address will never be available publicly.

COOKIES

The Blog uses 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 Blog 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 Blog, 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 Blog may be entirely usable.

ADVERTISING AND COLLABORATIONS

Display Ads

We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Blog, which may use cookies, as noted above.

Retargeting Ads

From time to time, the Blog may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Blog. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Blog.

Affiliate Program Participation

The Blog may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Blog. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions. The Blog and the Owner may accept certain forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation in exchange for word-of-mouth marketing. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics, or posts made in the Blog. Any such content will be clearly identified as sponsored content.

The Owner of this blog may be compensated to provide their opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Despite any compensation received by the Owner of the Blog for posts or advertisements, all opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on topics or products will always be honest and of the Owner own volition. The views and opinions expressed on the Blog are purely the Owner's own. Any product claim, statistic, quote, or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question. The Owner make no warranty or representation with respect to any product discussed.

The Blog does not contain any content that might present a conflict of interest.

The Blog 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 links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Blog will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Newsletters

On the Blog, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent 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 and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Blog to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at cari at postcardsfromaplanner dot com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to cari at postcardsfromaplanner dot com.

Amend – You may contact us at cari at postcardsfromaplanner dot com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to cari at postcardsfromaplanner dot com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Blog. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

The Blog does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Blog has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at cari at postcardsfromaplanner dot com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.