My website address is https:\\www.KimTurnerMcCulley.com

Your privacy is very important to me. At Kim Turner McCulley I have a few fundamental principles that I follow:

• I don’t ask you for personal information unless I truly need it.
• I don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop my products, or protect my rights.
• I don’t store personal information on my servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Kim Turner McCulley operates KimTurnerMcCulley.com. It is Kim Turner McCulley’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information I may collect while operating my website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Kim Turner McCulley 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. Kim Turner McCulley’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kim Turner McCulley’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Kim Turner McCulley may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Kim Turner McCulley also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Kim Turner McCulley 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 Kim Turner McCulley’s websites choose to interact with Kim Turner McCulley  in ways that require Kim Turner McCulley to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Kim Turner McCulley gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, I ask visitors who comment on my blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Kim Turner McCulley updates via email, I collect their emails. In each case, Kim Turner McCulley collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Kim Turner McCulley. Kim Turner McCulley 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

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

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Kim Turner McCulley 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 Kim Turner McCulley’s behalf or to provide services available at Kim Turner McCulley’s website, 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 Kim Turner McCulley’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Kim Turner McCulley 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, Kim Turner McCulley discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Kim Turner McCulley believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kim Turner McCulley, third parties or the public at large. Kim Turner McCulley 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. Kim Turner McCulley uses cookies to help Kim Turner McCulley identify and track visitors, their usage of Kim Turner McCulley website, and their website access preferences. Kim Turner McCulley visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Kim Turner McCulley’s website, with the drawback that certain features of Kim Turner McCulley’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

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.

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.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Affiliates and Outside Links

In order to defray blogging costs, I have a number of affiliates, and frequently link to these affiliates and to other content I think you will find useful. These entities may use cookies. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Kim Turner McCulley and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Google Analytics

I use Google Analytics to assist in the efficient operation of my site, as well as to assist in procuring affiliate accounts to pay for the operation of this site. Google Analytics uses cookies in their operation. You can find Google Analytics privacy policy here.

Business Transfers

If Kim Turner McCulley, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, 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 Kim Turner McCulley may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kim Turner McCulley may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Kim Turner McCulley’s sole discretion. Kim Turner McCulley 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.

Your Rights Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding your data, please contact me at kimturnermcculley@gmail.com