Privacy Policy
Parent Differently and it’s owner, Stef Tousignant, know that you care about how the information we receive from you is used and shared, and we take our readers privacy seriously. This Privacy Policy describes our privacy practices in relation to information that we collect through our website from which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, located at https://parentdifferently.com and all related websites and through our social media pages, as well as through HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy (collectively, including the Domains, and the Social Media Pages, the “Sites”). “You” or a “user” refers to any individual who visits or otherwise uses the Sites. By using the Sites, you are accepting and agreeing to the practices outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with the data practices described in this Privacy Policy you should not use our Services. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any third party applications or software that integrate with the Services through our Site (“Third Party Services”) or any other third party products, services, or businesses.
What Types of Information Does Parent Differently Receive From its Users?
Personal Information. “Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual, including: name, title, company name, job function, expertise, postal address, telephone number, physical address, email address, content you post on our Site(s) (text, images, photographs, messages, comments or any other kind of content that is not your e-mail address). It can also include transaction information, such details about purchases you make through the Site(s), registrations you make through our Site(s), and billing details as well as usage information, such as information about how you use our Site(s) and interact with us. If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Site(s), you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Other Information. “Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual. This might include, for instance, browser and device information; information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies; demographic information and other information provided by you; or aggregated information. We use this information to facilitate our operation of the Sites and for other purposes described below.
How do we collect this information?
Parent Differently uses a web analytics service, currently Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies and similar technologies to analyze how users use the Domains. The information generated about Domain usage (including your shortened IP address) is transmitted to Google in the U.S. This information is used to evaluate visitors’ use of the Domain, compile statistical reports on Domain activity, and provide other services related to the Site and Internet use. Google may also collect information about Domain visitors’ use of other websites. For more information about Google Analytics, or to opt out of Google Analytics, please go to:https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Pixel tags. We may also use pixel tags (which are also known as web beacons) on our Site(s) to track the actions of users on our Site(s). Unlike cookies, which are stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website, pixel tags are embedded invisibly on webpages. Pixel tags measure the success of our marketing campaigns and compile statistics about usage of the Site, so that we can manage our content more effectively. The information we collect using pixel tags is not linked to our users’ personal information.
How Does Parent Differently Use Personal Information?
To operate, maintain, administer, and improve our Site(s).
To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests, including to track and administer services you have required and to send you newsletters.
To send administrative information to you, for example, to confirm orders or notice of a license or subscription expiration.
To communicate with you, better understand your needs and interests, personalize our experience with the Site(s), and provide you with related customer service.
To send you marketing communications, including via email in compliance with applicable laws, that we believe may be of interest to you.
To personalize your experience on the Sites by presenting products and offers tailored to you.
To provide support and maintenance for the Site(s) and our services.
For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Sites and services, sending you service announcements, technical notices, updates, security alerts, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and operating and expanding our business activities.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our Affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our Affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may disclose or use aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose. For example, we may share aggregated or de-identified information with prospects partners, or sponsors for business or research purposes, such as when we analyze and report on demographic trends to measure our objective of having healthy diversity ratios across our programs.
How Will Parent Differently Share Personal Information It Receives?
Information about our users is an integral part of our business. We only share your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Parent Differently Social Media Pages:
Personal Information may also be disclosed by you through the Sites, chat, and profile pages to which you are able to post information and materials. This information may appear in public ways, such as through search engines or other publicly available platforms, and may be “crawled” or searched by third parties. Please do not post any information that you do not want to reveal to the public at large.
Business Transfers:
Parent Differently may disclose Personal Information to a third party in the event of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
Protection of Parent Differently and Others:
We may release Personal Information when we believe that release is necessary or appropriate (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce or apply our conditions of use and other agreements; (e) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of you or others and operations or those of any of our Affiliates; (f) to protect, investigate, and deter against fraudulent, harmful, unauthorized, unethical or illegal activity; (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain; and (h) to protect the rights, privacy, property, or safety of Parent Differently, our employees, our users, or any other person or entity.
How Does Parent Differently Use and Disclose Other Information?
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information.
In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information (such as combining your name with your geographical location). If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information for as long as it is combined.
We have implemented organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. While we take reasonable steps to secure your Personal Information from loss, misuse, interference and unauthorized access, modification and disclosure, you should be aware no security procedures or protocols are ever guaranteed to be 100 percent secure from intrusion or hacking, and there is therefore always some risk assumed by sharing Personal Information online. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Questions, Concerns and Complaints” section below.
How Does Parent Differently Secure Personal Information About Me?
How Can I Correct or Remove Information About Me?
If you feel that any Personal Information about you that has been collected and stored by Parent Differently is incorrect, or if you would Personal Information about you removed from our systems, please notify us at parentdifferently+privacy@gmail.com so that we may consider and respond to your request in accordance with applicable law. You may also request access to your Personal Information held by Parent Differently, by sending a written request to parentdifferently@gmail.com.
For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable, subject to applicable law.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting such change or deletion.
Other Privacy Concerns
How Long Will Parent Differently Retain My Personal Information?
We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes for which collected and as outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
What Choices Do I Have?
You can always opt not to disclose information. However, if you elect to do so, we may be limited in responding to your inquiry or providing services to you.
You may opt-out of receiving marketing messages from Parent Differently by sending an email to parentdifferently@gmail.com by unsubscribing through the unsubscribe or opt-out link in an email. We will try to comply with your request(s) as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt-out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages.
Third Party Sites
The Sites may permit you to link to other websites on the Internet through direct links or through applications such as “share” or “Like” buttons, and other websites likewise may contain links to the Sites. The information practices or content of such other websites is governed by the privacy statements of those websites and not by this Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the privacy policies found on such other websites, services, and applications to understand how your information may be collected and used.
Sensitive Information
We ask that you not send us or disclose any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers) on or through the Sites or via other means.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices. If we make material changes to this Privacy Policy we will communicate that a change has been made to the policy in a reasonable manner which may include posting a notice on our web page, blog, specific announcement on this page, and/or posting the new Privacy Policy here.
Any modifications to this privacy Policy will be effective upon our posting of the new terms and/or upon implementation of the new changes on the Site(s) (or as otherwise indicated at the time of posting). In all cases, your continued use of the Site(s) and/or our services after the posting of any modified Privacy Policy indicates your acceptance of the terms of the modified Privacy Policy.
Children’s Privacy.Our Products, Services, and Site(s) are not directed to children under the age of 13, and we do not intentionally gather personal information from visitors who are under the age of 13 and such individuals are prohibited hereby from providing personal information, without their parental or guardian’s consent. If a parent or guardian becomes aware that his or her child has provided us with information without their consent, he or she should contact us at the contact information provided above. We will delete such information from our files as soon as reasonably practicable.
Questions, Concerns or Complaints: Contact Us. Your privacy is important to us. If you have any questions, concerns, or complaints regarding the way we collect and handle your information, please contact us by email at parentdifferently@gmail.com or by mail at Parent Differently 4 Tartan Rd Mill Valley CA 94941, ATTN: Customer Service – Privacy. Because email communications are not secure, please do not include credit card information or other sensitive information in your emails to us.
Parent Differently will take any privacy complaint seriously and any complaint will be assessed by an appropriate person with the aim of resolving any issue in a timely and efficient manner. We request that you cooperate with us during this process and provide us with any relevant information that we may need.