Effective Date: 11/01/2024

Thank you for visiting krissauter.com ("we", "us", "our"). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your personal information when you visit our website and interact with us. By using our website, you agree to the practices described in this policy.

1. Information We Collect

Website Visit Data

When you visit krissauter.com, our website host Squarespace may collect certain information about your visit, including:

• Information about your browser, network and device (for example — browser type, operating system, screen resolution)

• Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website and pages you view while on the site

• Your IP address

• Clicks, internal links, pages visited, time stamps, scrolling behavior

This data is collected to help us operate and improve the website, understand activity, and secure the site. (Based on sample text from Squarespace’s guidance.) Squarespace Help

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies when you access our website. These may include:

• Necessary cookies that allow Squarespace to securely provide the website and its core functionality.

• Analytics/performance cookies (and other optional cookies) that may be used only after you acknowledge a cookie banner (if such a banner is implemented).
  You can view and manage cookies on your device. For more information, see the “Cookies” section below. (Adapted from Squarespace sample text.) Squarespace Help

Form Submissions / Communications

If you submit a contact form, sign up for a newsletter, or otherwise provide us with your personal data, we may collect:

• Your name

• Your email address

• Any other information you choose to provide (for example a message, topic of interest, etc.)
  We store and use this information to respond to your inquiry and to keep you informed about services or content you’ve requested (if you’ve opted in). We use Squarespace (and possibly other third-party integrations) to host and process these form submissions.

Email Marketing

If you opt in to our mailing list, we will use your email address (and any other data you provide) to send you marketing communications about our services or content. You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of each email.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for the purposes described below:

• To operate, maintain, secure and improve our website.

• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill any requests you make.

• To send you newsletters, updates or marketing (only if you’ve opted‐in).

• To analyze website usage, to understand how visitors use our site and to improve its design and content.

• To comply with legal obligations, protect rights, and enforce our policies.

3. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information

We may share your personal information in the following circumstances:

• With our website host Squarespace, so that they can provide us web-hosting and related services.

• With third-party service providers we use for marketing, analytics, email campaigns, form handling, etc. (for example: email-marketing platform, analytics provider).

• When required by law or to respond to lawful requests (e.g., subpoenas, government requests).

• To protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, or others.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

4. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

Our site uses cookies and similar technologies:

• Necessary cookies: always used to provide and secure our site’s core features.

• Analytics/performance cookies: we may use these only after you opt in (via a cookie banner).
  You can manage or disable cookies via your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may limit your ability to use certain features of our site.

5. Third-Party Services and Embedded Content

Our website may include functionality or links to third-party services (for example embedded videos, maps, social-share buttons). If you interact with such embedded features, your data may be shared with those third parties under their privacy policies. We encourage you to review those third-party policies for details.

6. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to help protect your personal information from loss, theft, misuse and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration and destruction. However, no website or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your information.

7. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected (for example, to maintain our relationship, to provide services you requested, or to comply with legal obligations). Where appropriate, we anonymize or delete data when it is no longer needed.

8. Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including:

• The right to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal data.

• The right to object to or restrict certain processing of your data.

• The right to withdraw consent (where processing is based on consent).

• The right to data portability.
  If you wish to exercise any of those rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below.

9. International Transfers

Our website is operated from the United States. If you are visiting from outside the U.S., please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the U.S. by us and our service providers.

10. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we make material changes, we will update the “Effective Date” at the top. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or wish to exercise your data-protection rights, please contact us here.

Thank you for visiting krissauter.com and for trusting us with your information.