TERMS USED IN THIS POLICY
ELEMENTS - Any resource governed by the PARENT SITE's URL (alisakmichaels.com) which includes, but not limited to audio, video, content, links, source-code, or images.
EXTERNAL SITE - Any website not hosted by the PARENT SITE which has links originating from the PARENT SITE, or any site which has links to the PARENT SITE or its content. This may include, but not limited to, eCommerce platforms (i.e. Amazon / Barnes & Noble), Social Media (i.e. Twitter / YouTube / Facebook), embedded links copied from the PARENT SITE and/or via emails originating outside the PARENT SITE.
PARENT SITE - This site, or the originating site the VISITOR visits--in this case, alisakmichaels.com--which includes individual pages governed by the direct URL of alisakmichaels.com providing the site is not embedded within the URL shell of another EXTERNAL SITE. Any ELEMENTS of the PARENT SITE (i.e. embedded shared Videos or Links) used on EXTERNAL SITES are no longer governed directly by the PARENT SITE (alisakmichaels.com) and those EXTERNAL SITES may have policies governing their TERMS OF USE which you may have to adhere to. Any of these ELEMENTS may have been altered from the PARENT SITE (i.e., video playback options, sound, size, behavior, etc.), and usage of these EXTERNAL SITES used ELEMENTS fall under the responsibility of and the discretion of the VISITOR of any EXTERNAL SITE which may be sharing ELEMENTS of the PARENT SITE.
URL - URL, or Uniform Resource Locator, is also known simply as a web address. It consists of a scheme, such as http / https, a web site domain name, and a page. Often it also includes a longer path and sometimes a query as well. A URL is both an initialism and an acronym as it is occasionally verbally pronounced as a word instead of letters.
VISITOR - The end-user who visits any pages of the Parent site: alisakmichaels.com directly (entering the site's address), Bookmarks, external links, or via Social Media.
POLICY & CONDITIONS
What type of information do we collect?
We receive, collect, and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. In addition, we collect the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information. We do not sell products or services directly from our site. This is provided via links to external market-places i.e. Amazon and Barnes & Noble, or potentially future markets. These sites are wholly owned, operated and governed by their perspective licensing, and note that they will have their own policies one must adhere to and are not connected to the parent site: alisakmichaels.com.
VISITOR's choice to follow any internal links from the Parent Site (alisakmichaels.com) to any EXTERNAL SITE (i.e. Amazon.com) is completely governed by the will of the VISITOR and these sites may collect your the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet; login; e-mail address; password; computer and connection information and purchase history. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page. We also may collect personally identifiable information (including name, email, password, communications); comments, feedback, product reviews, recommendations, and personal profile.
How do you collect information?
When you conduct a transaction on our website, in the PARENT SITE's capacity of commenting on BLOG posts, or in the event of Polls, Give-a-Ways, Promotions, etc., as part of the process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.
How do we store, use, share and disclose your personal information?
The PARENT SITE (alisakmichaels.com) does NOT share any personal information provided willingly or through the use of Cookies on this site. Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases, and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
How do we communicate with Visitors?
We may contact you to notify you regarding your account, to troubleshoot problems with your account, to resolve a dispute, to poll your opinions through surveys or questionnaires, to send updates about our information, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes, we may contact you via email, telephone, text messages, and postal mail depending on your contact information provided and retained.
Privacy Policy Updates
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.