Privacy Policy

Amelie Summer operates the Amelie Summer company, which provides the SERVICE. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information if anyone decides to use our Service. If you choose to use our Service, then you agree to the collection and use of information in relation to this policy. The Personal Information that we collect is used for providing and improving the Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. The terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions, which is accessible at Amelie Summer Webdesign and Photography unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy.

 

Who will treat my data?

Your data will be treated, as Data Controllers, by Amelie Summer. Amelie Summer is also the person in charge of the Protection of Personal Data that can be contacted at the address of the Data Controller or through the “Contact” page on this website. Responsible for processing in relation to the management of the contractual relationship with the customers of Amelie Summer in several jurisdictions and controls for compliance with international regulations  is Amelie Summer

 

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience, while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you. We may ask you your personal data through four different kinds of forms:

  • The contact form
  • The new newsletter form
  • The comment form
  • The shop order form

The data obtained by the contact form will be not stored on our server and will not be forwarded to anyone. The contact form processor will only send us an email including your name and your email at the moment of the sending, and the information you’ve provided in the contact form text area. After not more than 6 months your email will be deleted. In the newsletter form, you can provide us with your name and email. This information will be sent by the newsletter form processor to Mailchimp, which is our newsletter provider. MailChimp is a service in the US that we also use to send our newsletters. The use of MailChimp on this website essentially ensures that emails are sent reliably and, above all, that they are more likely not to end up in your spam filter. We will not store the newsletter form data on our server or in any other archive than the Mailchimp archive located in the MailChimp server. MailChimp after receiving the data from our server will send you an email to give you the possibility to confirm your subscription to our newsletter. After confirming your subscription your data will be stored in the MailChimp server. Clicking on the confirmation link that MailChimp will send you, will get your IP address and some log data. Looking at the MailChimp Dashboard and looking on your profile, we will have access to the following data:

  • Your Email
  • Your Name
  • Your activities regarding our newsletter (newsletter receipt, opening and clicking)
  • Your Language
  • Your Location
  • Your Favorite email client

  • Your Preferred email format

At any time you will be able to cancel your subscription by clicking on the link that MailChimp will include in every newsletter you will receive. At any moment you can ask us to cancel your subscription also contacting us at Contact, and we will do it for you.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s masked IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. Before collecting the visitor IP address the comment processor will replace the last digits with 999, 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. At any moment you can ask us to delete your comment and the related data from our server. We need the shop order form to collect your name, surname, address, phone number, order data, and notes to create your invoice. These data will be stored in our server, they will not be given to third parties. On this site, we will never collect any data related to credit or debit cards. We use only PayPal or bank account transfer for the payments. Your PayPal data and your bank data will not be stored on our server and not be given to anyone. You can ask us to delete your data related to your orders at any moment by contacting us at Contact

 

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

 

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, your browser sends us so-called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics. We don’t directly collect this information but cause this site loads Google Fonts from https://fonts.googleapis.com, your browser may send log data to Google, including your IP address. We invite you to read the Google Privacy Policy

IP address This website does not store complete IP addresses of users who visit the website, for more than 30 seconds. After submitting the contact forms that you find on this website, your IP address will be stored for 30 seconds to avoid that the same user having the same IP address try to submit the same form several times. In this way, we reduce malicious intents against our website. If you post a comment on this website, your IP address will be transformed replacing the last digits with 999 before to collect it. Fortunately, we have other efficient methods to contrast spammers. As explained in the Google Analytics section, we have activated the function IP anonymization on this website.

Cookies

Cookies are files with a small amount of data that are sent to your browser from the website that you visit and are stored on your computer’s hard drive. Some cookies expire after a session which means after you close your browsers, and others after different times depending on the cookie. Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. It will follow a list of cookies that may be written in your browser navigating this site, including their category, description, provider, and expiration time.   Category: Necessary (2) Necessary cookies help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies.

  • JSESSIONID:  Preserves user’s states across page requests. Provided by nr-data.net. It expires after a session.
  • PHPSESSID:  Preserves user session state across page requests. Provided by app.acuityscheduling.com. It expires after 5 years.

Category: Targeting (10)   Sub-category: Statistics (4) Statistic cookies help website owners to understand how visitors interact with websites by collecting and reporting information anonymously. Because we implement Google Analytics as web traffic monitoring, the following cookies will be written in your browsers:

  • _ga which is used to identify unique users and expires after 2 years
  • _gid which is used to identify unique users and expires after 24 hours
  • _gat which is used to throttle the request rate and expires after 1 minute

These cookies are set on the earthspirals.com domain. The users will be tracked also across sub-domains of earthspirals.com. Because we embed videos from vimeo.com, the following cookie may be written in your browser:

  • vuid: Collects data on the user’s visits to the website, such as which pages have been read. It’s provided by vimeo.com. It expires after 2 years

Sub-category: Marketing (6) Marketing cookies are used to track visitors across websites. The intention is to display ads that are relevant and engaging for the individual user and thereby more valuable for publishers and third-party advertisers.

  • collect:  Used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. Tracks the visitor across devices and marketing channels. It’s provided by google-analytics.com . It expires after a session.
  • fr:  Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third-party advertisers. It’s provided by facebook.com. It expires after 3 months.
  • tr:  Used by Facebook to track user behavior. It’s provided by facebook.com. It expires after a session.
  • PREF:  Registers a unique ID that is used by Google to keep statistics of how the visitor uses YouTube videos across different websites. It’s provided by youtube.com. It expires after 8 months.
  • VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE: Tries to estimate the users’ bandwidth on pages with integrated YouTube videos. It’s provided by youtube.com. It expires after 179 days.
  • YSC: Registers a unique ID to keep statistics of what videos from YouTube the user has seen. It’s provided by youtube.com. It expires after a session.

Category: functionality (4) Because this website includes an online shop, To keep track of cart data, we use the following 3 cookies:

  • woocommerce_items_in_cart: it contains information about the cart and helps the processor to know when the cart data changes. It’s provided by earthspirals.com. It expires after a session.
  • woocommerce_cart_hash: it contains information about the cart and helps the processor to know when the cart data changes It expires after a session.
  • wp_woocommerce_session_: it contains a unique code for each customer so that it’s possible to find the cart data in the database for each customer.  It expires after 2 days

On the blog page, the user can switch between the classic list and the masonry layout. To remember your choice we need the following cookies:

  • eos_blog_type: it saves the preference of the users about the blog page layout. It’s provided by earthspirals.com. It expires after 3 months.

At any moment you can decide what cookie categories you want to deactivate clicking on Cookie Settings

Service Providers We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • To facilitate our Service;
  • To provide the Service on our behalf;
  • To perform Service-related services; or
  • To assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.

We want to inform our Service users 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. We are employing Google Analytics to monitor our web traffic and Mailchimp to manage our newsletter.

 

Google Analytics

This website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies (see Cookies section for more details about cookies). The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We have interest in analyzing user behavior in order to optimize this website and the marketing. We have activated the function of IP anonymization on this website. As a result, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address provided by Google Analytics as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

 

Mailchimp

Almost all e-mails are sent automatically, or e-mails that are not addressed to you individually as for example newsletters are sent via MailChimp. Read the section “Information Collection and Use” of this policy to know how your data will be collected and sent to Mailchimp.   Security We value your trust in providing us with your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. This site is used, for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as a site operator, an SSL encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by changing the address line of your browser from “http: //” to “https: //” and looking at the lock symbol in your browser line. Having SSL enabled, the data you submit to us will be encrypted and can not be read by third parties. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

 

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links 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.

 

Children’s Privacy

Our Services do not address anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 16. In the case we discover that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to take the necessary actions.

 

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. If you have given us your email, any change to this privacy policy will be also sent to the email you have provided.

 

Consent

By consenting to this policy you are giving us permission to process your personal data. Consent is required by Amelie Summer to process personal data, but it must be explicitly given. You can withdraw consent at any time by contacting us on our Contac page.

 

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us. At any moment you can ask us to know what data we are collecting about you and what we are doing with this data. At any moment you can ask us to delete your data from our server and archives. Doing so you may lose some services we are providing to you. For all it concerns your data you can contact us by going on Contact