Thank you for visiting our web site, www.JenniferSwanson.com, owned by Jennifer Swanson LLC. This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at this site. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. These practices may change, so you are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

What information do we collect, and how do we use it?

Newsletter/Ezine. If you wish to subscribe to our newsletter(s), we will use your name and email address to send the newsletter to you. Out of respect for your privacy, we provide you a way to unsubscribe. Please see the “Choice/Opt-out” section. You have the option to provide demographic information (such as your home state/country) to us; we encourage you to submit this information so we can provide you a more personalized experience in our communications.

Orders. If you purchase a product or service from us, we request certain personally identifiable information from you on our order form. You must provide contact information (such as name, email, and shipping address) and financial information (such as credit card number, expiration date). We use this information for billing purposes and to fill your orders. If we have trouble processing an order, we will use this information to contact you. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organization, other than as necessary to fulfill your request (e.g., to process your credit card or to ship an order). These parties are not allowed to use personally identifiable information except for the purpose of providing these services. All PayPal payments will be processed through PayPal’s secure server. Unless you ask us not to (see “Choice/Opt-Out”), we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about specials, new products or services, or changes to this privacy policy.

Customer Service. Based upon the personally identifiable information you provide us, we will send you a welcoming email to verify your newsletter/ezine subscription. We will also communicate with you in response to your inquiries, to provide the services you request, and to manage your account.

Surveys or Contests. From time to time, we may provide you the opportunity to participate in contests or surveys on our site. If you participate, we will request certain personally identifiable information from you. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and you therefore have a choice whether or not to disclose this information. The requested information typically includes contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code). We use this information to notify contest winners and award prizes and to improve the site and/or newsletters. We may use a third party service provider to conduct these surveys or contests; that company will be prohibited from using our users’ personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We will not share the personally identifiable information you provide through a contest or survey with other third parties unless we give you prior notice and choice.

Tell-A-Friend. If you choose to use our referral service to tell a friend about our site, we will ask you for your friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send your friend a one-time email inviting him or her to visit the site. Jennifer Swanson LLC does not store this information.

Do we share your information with outside parties?
We share personally identifiable information with third parties only when necessary to serve you. These third parties are prohibited from using your personally identifiable information for any other purpose. We use a payment processing company (PayPal, www.PayPal.com) to bill you for goods and services and various shipping companies (e.g., post office, UPS). We use Constant Contact to manage our newsletter/ezine subscriptions and contact information. You may find their privacy policies here: http://ui.constantcontact.com/roving/CCPrivacyPolicy.jsp and http://www.constantcontact.com/privacy_guarantee.jsp

We share aggregated (non-personally identifiable) demographic information about our user base with our partners and advertisers. This information does not identify individual users. For example, we may provide advertisers with a list of general demographic information about our website users and/or newsletter/ezine subscribers.

Legal Disclaimer: We reserve the right to disclose your personally identifiable information as required by law and when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process served on our Web site.

How does one Opt Out of communications or make changes to information?
We provide you the opportunity to ‘opt-out’ of having your personally identifiable information used for certain purposes. For example, if you purchase a product/service but do not wish to receive any additional marketing material from us, you can indicate your preference in the “comments” section on our order form. If you no longer wish to receive our newsletter and promotional communications, you may opt-out of receiving them by following the instructions included in each newsletter or communication or by contacting us at the contact information listed below.

If your personally identifiable information changes, you may update or deactivate it by visiting the “Update Profile/Email Address” link at the bottom of each newsletter/ezine or by contacting us by through our website, telephone or postal mail at the contact information listed below.

What web technologies do we use?

Log files. As is typical of most Web sites, we gather certain information automatically and store it in log files. This information includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system, date/time stamp, and clickstream data. We use a third-party web hosting service (www.BitRelay.net) that uses log files to track non-personally identifiable information about visitors to our site in aggregate form. We use this information, which does not identify individual users, to analyze trends, to administer the site, to track users’ movements around the site and to gather demographic information about our user base as a whole. We do not link this automatically-collected data to personally identifiable information, and we do not track visitors after they leave our site.

Cookies. A cookie is a small text file that is stored on a user’s computer for record-keeping purposes. While we do not create and use cookies on this site, some of some of our business partners (e.g., advertisers, shopping cart service providers) do. This privacy statement covers the use of cookies by www.JenniferSwanson.com only and does not cover the use of cookies by any agents or advertisers. We have no access to or control over these cookies. (See “Third Party Advertisers.”) You can delete or block some or all cookies by changing the settings in your browser. To find out how to do this, check your browser’s Help file. If you reject cookies, you may still use our site, but your ability to use some areas of our site, such as contests or surveys or shopping carts, will be limited.

Clear GIFs. Some of our third party advertising partners employ a software technology called clear GIFs (a.k.a. web beacons), that help us better manage content on our site and newsletters/ezines by informing us what content is effective. Clear GIFs are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to track the online movements of Web users. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, clear GIFs are embedded on Web pages and are about the size of the period at the end of this sentence. When we send you emails, we may include a single-pixel GIF to allow us to determine the number of people who open our emails. When you click on a link in an email, we record this individual response to allow us to gauge the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns and to customize our services. If you would like to opt-out of these emails, please see the Opt-Out section above.

For more information about our third-party advertisers’ uses of web technology, please see www.constantcontact.com, associates.amazon.com, www.cj.com, www.linkshare.com, www.performics.com, www.share-a-sale.com, and www.google.com/privacypolicy.html.

What about links to other sites?
This privacy statement applies only to information collected by this Web site. This Web site contains links to other sites that are not owned or controlled by Jennifer Swanson LLC. Please be aware that we, Jennifer Swanson LLC, are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every Web site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security
The security of your personal information is important to us. We follow generally accepted industry standards to protect the personal information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. No method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure, however. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. If you have any questions about security on our Web site, you can reach us at the contact information listed below.

Business Transitions
In the event Jennifer Swanson LLC goes through a business transition, such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of its assets, your personally identifiable information will likely be among the assets transferred. You will be notified via email and/or prominent notice on our Web site for 30 days of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.

Changes in this Privacy Statement
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our website so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. We reserve the right to modify this privacy statement at any time, so please review it frequently. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here, by email, or by means of a notice on our home page.

Terms and Conditions
Please also visit our Terms and Conditions section establishing the use, disclaimers, and limitations of liability governing the use of our website.

Contact Us
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us at:

Jennifer Swanson LLC
17410 Minnetonka Blvd. #200
Minnetonka, MN 55345
(952) 949-0018
www.JenniferSwanson.com/contact.htm