Privacy Policy

The Keele Deal takes your privacy seriously. This privacy policy describes what personal information we collect and how we use it.

This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. Even though the owners of this blog may receive compensation for posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://thekeeledeal.com.

At The Keele Deal, we take the privacy of our visitors seriously. This privacy policy details how The Keele Deal uses and protects the personal information you may share while visiting our site (https://thekeeledeal.com)

Basic Information

All web servers track basic information about their visitors. This information includes but is not limited to IP addresses, browser details, timestamps, and referring pages. None of this information can personally identify specific visitors to this site. The information is tracked for routine administration and maintenance purposes.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We use the data collected to make improvements to Our Site, ensure it remains user-friendly, and keeps providing the information you want to see. If you chose to subscribe to Our Site, you may receive our newsletter, as well as periodic emails about the information we feel will be of interest. We do not pass any of your data on to third parties except in the extremely rare event that we are required by law to do so.

GDPR Compliance

The following Terms of Use constitute an agreement between Adreonna Keele and you that governs your use of this website and all of its associated services, content and functionality. This policy applies to the website located at https://thekeeledeal.com.

Your use of the website (thekeeledeal.com) constitutes your acceptance of, and agreement to, the following Terms of Use. The Keele Deal reserves the right to modify, alter, amend or update its Website, policies ad these Terms of Use. These are subject to change without notice. If you do not agree with or do not accept any part of these Terms of Use, you must not use the Website.

YOUR RIGHTS

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

DATA RETENTION
When you place an order through the Site, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

Purchase Policies

On the Website, you may purchase digital products created by Adreonna Keele. These products are delivered in electronic format and all purchases are serviced by Shopify.

Refund Policy

Because the products are in electronic format, no refunds are available.

What Personal Data We Collect and How We Use It.

Information you voluntarily submit to the website: The website may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the website by leaving a comment, subscribing to a newsletter, or submitting information in a contact form.

Automatically – Collected Information: The Website automatically collects certain information about you and the device with which you access the website. For example when you use the website, the website will log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed and the date and time you accessed the website. The Website may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website such as links you clicked.

Cookies: The Website may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the website. The website may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the website.

HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We use the Order Information that we collect generally to fulfill any orders placed through The Keele Deal (including processing your payment information, arranging for shipping, and providing you with invoices and/or order confirmations).

Additionally, we use this Order Information to:

Communicate with you;
Screen our orders for potential risk or fraud; and
When in line with the preferences you have shared with us, provide you with information or advertising relating to our products or services.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. For example, we use Shopify to power our online store–you can read more about how Shopify uses your Personal Information here: https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you. For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You can opt out of targeted advertising by:

FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.

DO NOT TRACK
Please note that we do not alter our Site’s data collection and use practices when we see a Do Not Track signal from your browser.

More Details

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.

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.

Contact Forms

We use the MailChimp, Mediavine Grow and Shopify services to gather e-mails to keep you up to date on what’s happening on the blog. The information given to us on these forms will never be shared or sold. We simply use it as a way to contact you. This information is stored on the MailChimp server, Mediavine or Shopify.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google analytics to track the number of website visitors and website performance.

Controlling Your Privacy

You can change your browser settings to disable cookies if you have privacy concerns. Disabling cookies for all sites is not recommended as it may interfere with your use of some sites. The best option is to disable or enable cookies on a site by site basis. Check your browser documentation for instructions on how to block cookies and other tracking mechanisms.

How Your Information May Be Used and Who we share your data with

The Website may use the information collected in the following ways:

To operate and maintain the Website;
To fulfill orders placed on the Wbsite;
To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
To send you administrative communications, such as emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
To respond to your comments or inquiries;
To provide you with user support
To track and measure advertising on the Website;
To protect, investigate and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.

Visiting the website

We use Google analytics and other WordPress plugins to monitor traffic to our website. All analytics information is stored on their secure server.

Subscribers

We also use MailChimp to contact our subscribers. If you chose to enter your information into one of our subscription forms your contact information will be stored on MailChimp’s secure servers.

Shopping

Through this website, you will be able to purchase The Keele Deal products. We ask for information such as your name, billing and shipping address, email address, and payment card information in order to process your purchase, confirm your order and ship the items to you. if you elect to be added to The Keele Deal email list, we may use your contact information to communicate with you about our products, services, and promotions.

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
Location, IP address, and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, phone number, and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

Send you information about your account and order
Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
Process payments and prevent fraud
Set up your account for our store
Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
Improve our store offerings
Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 3 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address, and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews if you choose to leave them.

If you create an account, we will store your name, address, email, and phone number, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

Processing your Payment

All payments are made through Shopify.

After you place an order on our website you will need to make payment for the goods or services you have ordered. In order to process your payment, we use a third-party payment processer (Shopify payments) and a fraud gateway to ensure that your order is not fraudulent.

Shopify Payments collects, uses and processes your information, including payment information, in accordance with their privacy policies. You can access their privacy policy via the following link. Shopify Payments Privacy Policy.

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We will not share your data with any other companies.

How long we retain your data

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.

What rights you have 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.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Subscribers information is sent and stored in MailChimp.

Your contact information

As mentioned above if you give us your contact information it will be stored in MailChimp.

We use MailChimp as our marketing automation platform. By clicking below to submit this form, you acknowledge that the information you provide will be transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance with their Privacy Policy and Terms.

Additional information

How we protect your data

Your data will be stored on secure servers and can be deleted upon request.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If a data breach happens. We will notify you by email within 72 hours.

What third parties we receive data from

We occasionally host 3rd party adverts, banner ads, and side banners that may have cookies placed by the advertiser, and may use ad service vendors to present advertisements on our site. These adverts may use cookies, web beacons, or similar to tailor adverts to you. These cookies may collate data including your browser type, web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, and other clickstream data. The Keele Deal cannot be held liable for third party cookies.

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

IP Address
Operating System type
Operating System version
Device Type
Language of the website
Web browser type
Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

Third-Party Use of Personal Information

The website may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information. Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies. The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:

Website Plugins

We use a number of different plugins to help our website function. Some of these plugins may collect data and information to help the user experience.

Google Analytics

This service tracks website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, end user location, search history, YouTube history, and data from sites that partner with Google—and is used to provide aggregated and anonymized insights into users’ cross device behaviors.

Data may be accessed and/or deleted by end users via My Activity in your google account.

Mediavime

This service is used to manage our display advertisements. To provide personalized advertising options, Mediavine may track your IP address or location. This information is not stored on the Website.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce will collect information about you during the checkout process on our store. You can see what other information WooCommerce uses by reading the making a purchase section above.

Smush

Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes the transfer of EXIF data. The EXIF data will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.

Smush uses the Stackpath Content Delivery Network (CDN). Stackpath may store web log information of site visitors, including IPs, UA, referrer, Location and ISP info of site visitors for 7 days. Files and images served by the CDN may be stored and served from countries other than your own. Stackpath’s privacy policy can be found here.

Smush uses a third-party email service (Drip) to send informational emails to the site administrator. The administrator’s email address is sent to Drip and a cookie is set by the service. Only administrator information is collected by Drip.

Influencer Networks

From time to time, as described herein, the Website may post sponsored content which contains tracking pixels for Influencer Networks. These tracking pixels may capture information such as your IP address to evaluate the effectiveness of the marketing campaigns. This information is not stored on the Website.

PayPal

This service is used for payment processing on eCommerce products through WooCommerce. At no time is your banking information passed to the Website. We receive only information used for order fulfillment and reporting.

Except when required by law we will not sell, distribute or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent.

Anonymous Data

From time to time we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.

Cookies

The Keele Deal uses cookies when necessary to store information about a visitor’s preferences and history in order to better serve the visitor and/or present said visitor with customized content.

Advertising partners and other third parties may also use cookies, scripts, and/or web beacons to track visitors to our site in order to display advertisements and other information. This tracking is done directly by the third parties through their own servers and is subject to their own privacy policies.

Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your internet browser, not all functions of our website may be entirely usable.

Advertising

Display Ads – The Website uses Mediavine to manage all third-party advertising on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. Mediavine may collect IP addresses and locations to serve personalized ads. If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp.

Retargeting Ads – From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here

Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here

Sponsored Content Tracking Pixels – This Website may engage in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content is duly disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. From time to time, these sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (aka web beacons), which may contain cookies to collect data regarding usage and audience. This information is collected by the sponsoring company to track the results of the campaign. As stated above, these pixels may capture your IP address on behalf of the content sponsor. No personally identifiable information collected by the Website is used in conjunction with these tracking pixels.

Affiliate Program Participation – The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.

The Keele Deal is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.

Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, The Keele Deal may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows The Keele Deal to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.

Rights Related To Your Personal Information

Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at adree@thekeeledeal.com to be removed from our mailing list.

Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to adree@thekeeledeal.com.

Amend – You may contact us at adree@thekeeledeal.com to amend or update your personal information.

Forget – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to adree@thekeeledeal.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

Sensitive Personal Information

At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children’s Information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at adree@thekeeledeal.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Affiliate Marketing

The Website engages in affiliate marketing. This means that if you use an affiliate link to make a purchase, the Website will receive a commission on that purchase. All efforts are made to ensure that affiliate links are disclosed in accordance with the FTC.

FTC Disclosure

From time to time, the Website may post sponsored content from an advertiser. This means that an advertiser, which may be a brand, agency, or influencer network, will contract with The Keele Deal to create content featuring certain messages or product placement. Pursuant to the FTC’s requirements, all such advertisements on the Website are clearly and conspicuously disclosed.

Even though compensation (cash, free product, services) is received for in exchange for this sponsored content placement, The Keele Deal gives its honest opinion, findings, believes, or experiences in such content. All views expressed on the Website are those of the content creator. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider, or party in question.

Disclaimer

The Keele Deal has made every effort to ensure that all information on the Website have been tested for accuracy. The Keele Deal makes no guarantees regarding the results that you will see from using the information provided on the Website.

Use of The Website

Unless otherwise stated, The Keele Deal owns the intellectual property and rights to all content and material on the Website, and in the Digital Products. Subject to the license below, all intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download (for caching purposes only), and print pages for your personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these Terms of Use.

The following uses are not permitted:

Republication of content from the Website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for republication;
Sale, rental or sub-license of any content from the Website;
Reproduction or duplication of any content on the Website for commercial purposes;
Modification of any content on this website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for modification;
Redistribution of content of the Website, unless content is specifically and expressly made available for redistribution. Users are permitted to share content on social media channels, as long as a link to the Website is included.

From time to time, the Website will utilize various plugins or widgets to allow sharing of content via social media channels, email, or other methods. Use of these plugins or widgets does not constitute any waiver of The Keele Deal’s intellectual property rights. Such use is a limited license to republish the content on the approved social media channels, with full credit to The Keele Deal.

Copyright

Unless otherwise noted, the design, content, and all components of the Website are copyrights owned by The Keele Deal or third parties and are protected by the United States and international copyright laws and should not be reused or republished without express written permission.

CHANGES

We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.

CONTACT US

For more information about our privacy practices, if you have questions, or if you would like to make a complaint, please contact us by e-mail at adree@thekeeledeal.com.