We may earn commissions if you shop through the links below. 1. Your Privacy Your privacy is important to us. To better protect your privacy we provide this notice explaining our online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, we make it available on our homepage and at every point where personally identifiable information may be requested. 2. Information about PaddlingLight,com This site is operated and owned by Bryan Hansel Address: PO Box 149, Grand Marais, MN 55604 3. What does this policy cover? This policy applies only to this website. We have included links on this site for your use and reference. We are not responsible for the privacy policies on these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from our own. 4. Collection of Personal Information The General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) defines personal data as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’ Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. This many include your name, email address, billing and physical address and telephone number or any number of electronic identifiers. When visiting PaddlingLight.com, the IP address used to access the site will be logged along with the dates and times of access, the browser and operating system as well as other information. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track users movement and gather broad demographic information for internal use and to improve the service. Most importantly, any recorded IP addresses are not linked to personally identifiable information. 5. Rights of the data subject under GDPR Section 1 – Transparency and modalities Article 12 – Transparent information, communication and modalities for the exercise of the rights of the data subject Our note: This privacy policy should provide you with everything you need to know, but if you have questions, please, see below on how to contact us. Section 2 – Information and access to personal data Article 13 – Information to be provided where personal data are collected from the data subject Article 14 – Information to be provided where personal data have not been obtained from the data subject Article 15 – Right of access by the data subject Our note: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Section 3 – Rectification and erasure Article 16 – Right to rectification Article 17 – Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) Article 18 – Right to restriction of processing Article 19 – Notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing Article 20 – Right to data portability Our note: If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. Section 4 – Right to object and automated individual decision-making Article 21 – Right to object Article 22 – Automated individual decision-making, including profiling Our note: We don’t even know what this really means, but we don’t do it. 6. What Personal Data Do We Collect? Depending on how you use this site, we may collect some or all of this: Name Address Email address Telephone number Business name Payment information IP address Web browser type and version Operating system Referring URLs, links you visit and where you go Your preferences and interests When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. Please, note that we use several Third-Party Services and they also collect data and have their own privacy policies. You can see the Appendix of this policy to see information that the Third-Party Services have provided us about their policies. 7. How Do We Use Your Personal Data? Providing and managing your Account and access to our website. Supplying our products and services to you. Your personal details are required in order for us to fulfill the order. Communicating with you via email or social media. Emailing newsletters and posts to you when you have opted-in. You can opt-out using the link in the email. Analyzing your use of this website so we can improve it. We may market to you as well using your personal data. Send you information about your account and order Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints Process payments and prevent fraud Set up your account for our store Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes Improve our store offerings Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them 8. How long do we keep your data? We keep it as long as we need to keep it. If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information. We keep order information indefinitely unless you request for us to delete it to allow downloads in the future. 9. Where and how do we keep your data? We store your data on a server maintained by the hosting company we use. They have their own privacy policies as well. If you want more details about that company, please, contact us below. 10. How do we share your data? Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We accept payments through PayPal. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to PayPal, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information. Please see the PayPal Privacy Policy for more details. We also share your data with Third-Party Services by allowing them to collect data on this website. You can see the Appendix of this policy to see information that the Third-Party Services have provided us about their policies. 11. How we use Cookies Cookies are small text files that are written to your computer. There are two types of cookies that you’ll get from our website: First-Party and Third-Party. First-Party Cookies are the ones this website puts on your computer. Third-Party are those placed on your computer that Third-Party Services that we use. We use Third-Party Services for numerous purposes. You can see the Appendix of this policy to see information that the Third-Party Services have provided us about their policies. If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day. Articles on this site 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. 12. How do you contact us? You can contact us by email or by the United States Postal Service. Email us at: publisher@paddlinglight.com Mail us at: PaddlingLight, PO Box 149, Grand Marais, MN 55604 13. Changes to this Privacy Statement The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at our discretion. If you have any questions regarding the privacy policy of PaddlingLight.com then you may contact us at publisher@paddlinglight.com. Appendix Google Adsense and the DoubleClick DART Cookie Google, as a third party advertisement vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on this site. The use of DART cookies by Google enables them to serve adverts to visitors that are based on their visits to this website as well as other sites on the internet. To opt out of the DART cookies you may visit the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following url http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html Tracking of users through the DART cookie mechanisms are subject to Google’s own privacy policies. Other Third Party ad servers or ad networks may also use cookies to track users activities on this website to measure advertisement effectiveness and other reasons that will be provided in their own privacy policies, PaddlingLight.com has no access or control over these cookies that may be used by third party advertisers. Users can opt out of some, but not all, of these cookies in one location at the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out website at www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp. WooCommerce We collect information about you during the checkout process on our store. What we collect and store While you visit our site, we’ll track: Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order! We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site. When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to: Send you information about your account and order Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints Process payments and prevent fraud Set up your account for our store Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes Improve our store offerings Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email and phone number, which...