Privacy Policy

Lucy Carol operates the website, www.lucycarol.com, which provides information related to the author Lucy Carol. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personally identifiable information in accordance with our website. The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personally identifiable information, (PII) should you decide to subscribe to our newsletter, or enter any sponsored contests. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own, or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context.



WHAT PERSONAL INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

When commenting or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, website address, or other details to help you with your experience. If you choose to sign up for Lucy Carol's newsletter or enter sponsored contests, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation with this policy. We collect information from you when you fill out a form or enter information on our site, including when you leave a comment. The personal information that we collect are used for providing information and updating subscribers/contestants only. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this privacy policy.



WHAT LOG DATA DO WE COLLECT?

Whenever you visit Lucy Carol's website, the information your browser sends to us is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocal ("IP") address, browser version, pages of Lucy Carol's website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. This data will not be used by anyone other than Lucy Carol.



HOW DO WE USE YOUR INFORMATION?

To deliver newsletters, or messages, or to follow up with you after correspondence (i.e. comments, or email inquiries, or respond to a survey) we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name or email address.



COOKIES, AND THIRD-PARTY SERVICE PROVIDERS:

A cookie is a small data text file that is sent from a website or service provider to your browser for the purpose of identifying the user and allows access to portions of the website. We use cookies in order to provide you with improved user experience on our site, and to compile data about site traffic and site interaction. If you choose to refuse our cookies you may not be able to use some portions of our website. We may also use trusted third-party services such as Google Analytics, MailerLite, MailChimp, Genius Links, or Facebook that track this information on our behalf. We want to inform our visitors that these third parties have access to your personal information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.



SECURITY:

We value your trust in providing us your personal information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Additionally, our website may contain to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the privacy policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites. We do not give away, sell, rent or lease any users' personally identifiable information to any merchant, advertiser or web publisher. However, non-personally identifiable user information (such as usage pattern, browser type, or computer) may be shared with third party businesses or advertisers with which we have a business or contractual relationship. We reserve the right to disclose personal information when needed to comply with the law or a legal process, cooperate with investigations of purported unlawful activities, to identify persons violating the law, in connection with the sale of part or all of Lucy Carol or affilates assets, or to enforce our terms of use.



CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY:

We may update our privacy policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.