Off-Center Design’s Privacy Policy
Not sure what happens to the information you share with Off-Center Design via our contact form? Would you like to know if any information you don’t voluntarily share is used in any way? And what happens to that email address you share to signup for the newsletter? If these are burning questions you want answers to, then you’ve come to the right page.
We put this Privacy Policy together so you can understand how your Personally Identifiable Information (PII) is being used by Off-Center Design. PII 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. This Privacy Policy covers how we use and protect your information.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
We only ask for some personal information when you are filling out the contact form on the contact page, or when signing up to receive regular email newsletters.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, or enter information on our site.
How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you fill out the contact form or when you sign up for our newsletter in the following ways:
- To allow us to better serve you in responding to your customer service requests.
- To send periodic emails regarding the service we are providing.
- To send periodic newsletter emails with free helpful content.
How do we protect your information?
To keep your information secure, we implement a variety of security measures.
For starters, we use regular malware scanning to ensure the information you share on our website is as secure as possible. We also do our best to keep hackers out by regularly updating the website plugins and platform.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers. To further ensure the protection of your information, a third-party PCI-compliant service handles all transaction processing. That’s why we invoice you and accept payment through the portal on Wave.
Do we use ‘cookies’?
We do not use cookies for tracking purposes. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies through your browser settings. As every browser is different, take a look at the browser’s Help Menu to learn how to do that.
If you turn cookies off, it won’t affect your web browsing experience.
Third-party Disclosure
We do not sell, share or hand over your Personally Identifiable Information to third parties unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our customers. But only so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. Which they have.
When appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ right, property or safety, we may release information to appropriate authorities.
Non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third-party Links
We do not include or offer affiliate links on our website.
We use Google Analytics on our website. This means we use Google who uses first-party cookies to compile data regarding user interactions with the website to better refine the user experience on Off-Center’s website.
Opting out:
You can choose to opt-out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser add-on.
California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law reaches well beyond California in its requirements to any person or company in the United States that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared. Learn more about this law here.
Anonymous Browsing & Privacy
Users can visit our site anonymously.
This Privacy Policy is easy to find. It’s at the bottom of our homepage, and our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’.
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page
Can change your personal information:
- By emailing us
- By updating their preferences via the link at the bottom of each newsletter email
How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?
We honor Do Not Track signals by not tracking, not planting cookies, or using advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
We do not allow third-party behavioral tracking.
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, we put parents in control of that. We do not market to children under the age of 13 years old. Parents and children are in charge of supervising their children while they browse the internet.
Fair Information Practices
Here’s what we’re doing in order to be in line with Fair Information Practices should a data breach occur: We will notify you via email within 30 days of receiving the notification of a data breach.
And as in accordance with the Individual Redress Principle, we also agree that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
CAN SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is one of our favorite laws ever. The law sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations. Basically, the law says you can’t try to sell people stuff via email unless they’ve consented to receive that kind of communication from you.
At Off-Center Design, we collect your email address. We do that in order to:
- Send you requested information
- Respond to inquiries
- Honor your subscription to our newsletter by sending monthly emails with helpful content
In accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to:
- Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses
- Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way if it is indeed an advertisement
- Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters
- Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used
- Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly
- Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at annie@offcenterdesign.co. Or you can follow the instructions at the bottom of each email newsletter you receive. And we will promptly remove you from all correspondence.
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.
Off-Center Design
2429 Four Mile Road
Washington, Missouri 63090
United States
annie@offcenterdesign.co
Last Edited on 2018-12-31
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