Privacy Policy

Last updated: [07/24/2018]

Summary:

This policy explains how we collect and treat any information you give us. You won’t find any complicated legal terms or long passages of unreadable text.

We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.

We don’t share your personal information with anyone except while working with you as a client, replying to inquiries from our webform or to protect our rights.

We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Mary Hansen Design Inc. (“Mary Hansen Design”) operates only this website (maryhansendesign.com). It is Mary Hansen Design’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Mary Hansen Design collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Mary Hansen Design’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mary Hansen Design’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Mary Hansen Design may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Mary Hansen Design also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Mary Hansen Design only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Mary Hansen Design’s websites choose to interact with Mary Hansen Design in ways that require Mary Hansen Design to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mary Hansen Design gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. If you inquire about Mary Hansen Design’s services via email, we collect your emails. In each case, Mary Hansen Design collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Mary Hansen Design. Mary Hansen Design does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Mary Hansen Design may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Mary Hansen Design may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Mary Hansen Design may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Mary Hansen Design does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Mary Hansen Design discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Mary Hansen Design’s behalf or to provide services available at Mary Hansen Design’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Mary Hansen Design’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Mary Hansen Design will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Mary Hansen Design discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Mary Hansen Design believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Mary Hansen Design, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Mary Hansen Design website and have supplied your email address, Mary Hansen Design may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Mary Hansen Design and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Mary Hansen Design takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Mary Hansen Design uses cookies to help Mary Hansen Design identify and track visitors, their usage of Mary Hansen Design website, and their website access preferences. Mary Hansen Design visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Mary Hansen Design’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Mary Hansen Design’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Mary Hansen Design, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Mary Hansen Design goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Mary Hansen Design may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Comments and Spam

Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Mary Hansen Design may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Mary Hansen Design’s sole discretion. Mary Hansen Design encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.