The Telling Room places a high priority on protecting your privacy. The below policy explains what types of information is collected by The Telling Room website, www.tellingroom.org, and how this information is used.
Updated 3/7/2021
What Personally Identifiable Information is Collected
Individuals that sign up to receive electronic communications from The Telling Room voluntarily provide us with contact information (such as an e-mail address). We may use this information for specific, limited purposes. You may always "opt out," either now or at any time in the future, if you do not wish to receive our messages.
Basic Account information: If you place an order with The Telling Room or sign up for our email list, we collect your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.
Payment information: If you order a book through the Site, we collect your payment information, your name, address, phone number and e-mail address.
Communications with us: If you contact us via e-mail or social media, this information is collected.
IP addresses
The Telling Room may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our server, to administer www.thetellingroom.org, and for statistical metrics used to track website visitor traffic.
Cookies
From time to time, The Telling Room may use "cookie" messages to automatically help provide better services. They remind us who you are and your preferences for our website based on what you've done and told us before. The "cookie" is placed in your computer and is read when you come back to our website. Cookies allow this website take you to the information and features you're particularly interested in.
They also let us track usage of www.thetellingroom.org so we know which parts of our sites are most popular. You can reject cookies or cancel them by instructing your Web browser accordingly.
Note: The only third party source we collect information from is Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies to enable analysis of your use of the website.
You can disable Google Analytics tracking completely by using the Google Analytics Opt-out browser add-on.
How Your Information May Be Used
We may use your personal information to provide you with personalized service; to send e-mail alerts to you; to answer your requests; to process orders; etc. You may choose to opt out at any time, which will cease all communications from us. We may also use your information to track visitor of our website. This lets us see which of our features are the most popular so we can better serve our users' needs. It also lets us provide aggregate data about our traffic (not identifying you personally, but showing how many visitors used which features, for example) to outside parties.
Email Privacy
The Telling Room does not provide, sell, or rent email addresses to anyone outside the organization.
External Links
www.tellingroom.org includes links to external websites. These links do not fall under the www.tellingroom.org domain, and The Telling Room is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of external websites. Your use of any linked website is solely at your own risk.
Modifications
We may amend this privacy policy from time to time; please review it periodically. We maintain the option to modify this privacy at any time by electronic notice posted on our website. Your continued use of our website after the date that such notices are posted will be deemed to be your agreement to the changed terms.
Thirteen and Under
The Telling Room does not solicit personal information from children. Visitors who are 13 years of age and under must have their parent or guardian submit any personal information to The Telling Room,
Security
The security of your personal information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.