Privacy Policy

Welcome to the Clever Jenny (“Clever Jenny,” “cleverjenny.com,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) website, (https://cleverjenny.com) which is owned by (Clever Jenny Books). It is Clever Jenny Books’ policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://www.cleverjenny.com, and social networking profiles we own and operate. In addition, if you choose to access a third-party social networking service, your interactions are governed by the social networking company’s privacy policy. By using this website, you acknowledge that you read and understood the terms of this Privacy Policy. Personal information is any information about you that can be used to identify you. This includes information about you as a person (such as name, address, email address, and date of birth), your devices, and even information about how you use a website or online service. In the event our site contains links to third-party sites and services, please be aware that those sites and services have their own privacy policies. After following a link to any third-party content, you should read their posted privacy policy information about how they collect and use personal information. This Privacy Policy does not apply to any of your activities after you leave our site. This policy is effective as of January 16, 2023.

Information We Collect

Information we collect falls into two categories: “voluntarily provided” information and “automatically collected” information.

“Voluntarily provided” information refers to any information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our services and promotions.

“Automatically collected” information refers to any information automatically sent by your devices while accessing our products and services.

Log Data

When you visit our website, our servers may automatically log the standard data your web browser provides. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, and other details about your visit. Additionally, if you encounter specific errors while using the site, we may automatically collect data about the error and the circumstances surrounding its occurrence. This data may include technical details about your device, what you were trying to do when the error happened, and other technical information relating to the problem. You may or may not receive notice of such errors that have occurred, or what the nature of the error is. Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying, it may be possible to combine it with other data to identify individual persons personally.

Device Data

When you visit our website or interact with our services, we may automatically collect data about your device, such as device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, device settings, and geo-location data. The data we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device or software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.

Personal Information

We may ask for personal information — for example, when you subscribe to our newsletter or contact us. This information may include one or more of the following: name, address, date of birth, and email address.

Legitimate Reasons for Processing Your Personal Information

We only collect and use your personal information when we have a legitimate reason. In this instance, we only collect personal information that is reasonably necessary to provide our services to you.

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

Sign up to receive updates from us via email or social media channels

Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content

Contact us via email, social media, or any similar technologies

When you mention us on social media

We may collect, hold, use, and disclose information for the following purposes, and will not further process personal information in a manner that is incompatible with these purposes:

to provide you with our platform's core features and services

to contact and communicate with you

for analytics, market research, and business development, including operating and improving our website, associated applications, and associated social media platforms

for advertising and marketing, including sending you promotional information about our products and services and information about third parties that we consider may be of interest to you

for internal record-keeping and administrative purposes

to attribute any content (e.g., posts and comments), you submit that we publish on our website

We may combine voluntarily provided and automatically collected personal information with general information or research data we receive from other trusted sources. For example, our marketing and market research activities may uncover data and insights, which we can combine with information about how visitors use our site to improve it and your experience.

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain it, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification. Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. You are responsible for selecting any password and its overall security strength, ensuring the security of your information within the bounds of our services. For example, ensure you do not make your personal information publicly available via our platform.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as we need to. This period may depend on what we are using your information for.  For example, suppose you have provided us with personal information such as an email address when contacting us about a specific inquiry. In that case, we may retain this information for the duration of your inquiry and for our records so we may effectively address similar inquiries in the future. If your personal information is no longer required for this purpose, we will delete it or make it anonymous by removing all details that identify you. However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation or for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes.

Children’s Privacy

This website is not directed at children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information about children under the age of 13. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using this website without supervision from a parent/guardian. We recommend that a child over 13, gain permission from a parent or guardian before sending personal information over the internet. If you believe a minor has submitted personal information to our website, please inform us using the website “Contact” page.

For children located within the European Economic Area, we advise you to comply with the age limits of your applicable member state.

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

We may disclose personal information to:

a parent, subsidiary, or affiliate of our company

third-party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, including (without limitation) IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, analytics, error loggers, debt collectors, maintenance or problem-solving providers, marketing providers, professional advisors, and payment systems operators

our employees, contractors, and/or related entities

our existing or potential agents or business partners

courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

third parties, including agents or sub-contractors, who assist us in providing information, products, services, or direct marketing to you

third parties to collect and process data

an entity that buys, or to which we transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business

Third parties we currently use include:

Squarespace Analytics, MailChimp, and Google Analytics.

International Transfers of Personal Information

The personal information we collect is stored and/or processed in the United States or where we or our partners, affiliates, and third-party providers maintain facilities. The countries to which we store, process, or transfer your personal information may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided the information. If we transfer your personal information to third parties in other countries: (i) we will perform those transfers in accordance with the requirements of applicable law, and (ii) we will protect the transferred personal information in accordance with this privacy policy.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Your choice: By providing personal information to us, you understand we will collect, hold, use, and disclose your personal information in accordance with this privacy policy. You do not have to provide personal information to us; however, if you do not, it may affect your use of our website or the products and/or services offered on or through it.

Information from third parties: If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy. If you are a third party providing personal information about somebody else, you represent and warrant that you have such a person’s consent to provide the personal information to us.

Marketing permission: If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us using the details below.

Access: You may request details of the personal information that we hold about you.

Correction: If you believe that any information, we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

Non-discrimination: We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights over your personal information. Unless your personal information is required to provide you with a particular service or offer (for example, giving user support), we will not deny you goods or services and/or charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties, or provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services.

Notification of data breaches: We will comply with laws applicable to us regarding any data breach.

Complaints: If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority concerning your complaint.

Unsubscribe: To unsubscribe from our email database or opt out of communications (including marketing communications), please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy or opt-out using the opt-out facilities provided in the communication. We may request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on the preferences you have specified.

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may link to external sites that we do not operate. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

Changes to This Policy

We may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to modify this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy. If required by law, we will get your permission or allow you to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.

Additional Disclosures for Australian Privacy Act Compliance (AU)

International Transfers of Personal Information

Where the disclosure of your personal information is solely subject to Australian privacy laws, you acknowledge that the Privacy Act and the Australian Privacy Principles in the Privacy Act may not regulate some third parties. Further, you acknowledge that if any such third party engages in any act or practice that contravenes the Australian Privacy Principles, it would not be accountable under the Privacy Act, and you will not be able to seek redress under the Privacy Act.

Additional Disclosures for General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Compliance (EU)

Data Controller / Data Processor

The GDPR distinguishes between organizations that process personal information for their own purposes (known as “data controllers”) and organizations that process personal information on behalf of other organizations (known as “data processors”). We, Clever Jenny Books, located in the State of Arizona, are a Data Controller with respect to the personal information you provide to us.

Legal Bases for Processing Your Personal Information

We will only collect and use your personal information when we have a legal right to do so. In this case, we will collect and use your personal information lawfully, fairly, and in a transparent manner. If we seek your consent to process your personal information, we require that you are over 18 years of age.

Our lawful basis depends on the services you use and how you use them. This means we only collect and use your information on the following grounds:

Consent From You

You give us consent to collect and use your personal information for a specific purpose. You may withdraw your consent at any time using the facilities we provide; however, this will not affect any use of your information that has already taken place. You may consent to provide your email address for the purpose of receiving marketing emails from us. While you may unsubscribe at any time, we cannot recall any email we have already sent. If you have any further inquiries about how to withdraw your consent, please feel free to contact us using the details provided in the “Contact” section of this privacy policy.

Performance of a Contract or Transaction

Where you have entered into a contract or transaction with us, or in order to take preparatory steps prior to our entering into a contract or transaction with you. For example, if you contact us with an inquiry, we may require personal information such as your name and contact details in order to respond.

Our Legitimate Interests

Where we assess whether it is necessary for our legitimate interests, such as providing, operating, improving, and communicating our services. We consider our legitimate interests to include research and development, understanding our audience, marketing and promoting our services, measures taken to operate our services efficiently, marketing analysis, and measures taken to protect our legal rights and interests.

Compliance with Law

Sometimes we may have a legal obligation to use or keep your personal information. Such circumstances may include (but are not limited to) court orders, criminal investigations, government requests, and regulatory obligations. If you have any further inquiries about how we retain personal information to comply with the law, please feel free to inquire using the details provided in the “Contact” section of this privacy policy.

International Transfers Outside of the European Economic Area (EEA)

We will ensure that any transfer of personal information from countries in the European Economic Area (EEA) to countries outside the EEA will be protected by appropriate safeguards, for example, by using standard data protection clauses approved by the European Commission or the use of binding corporate rules or other legally accepted means.

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

Restrict: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information if (i) you are concerned about the accuracy of your personal information; (ii) you believe your personal information has been unlawfully processed; (iii) you need us to maintain the personal information for the purpose of a legal claim; or (iv) we are in the process of considering your objection in relation to processing based on legitimate interests.

Objecting to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information based on your legitimate interests or public interest.  If this is done, we must provide compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that overrides your interests, rights, and freedoms, to proceed with processing your personal information.

Data portability: You may have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you. Where possible, we will provide this information in easily readable machine formats. You may also have the right to request that we transfer this personal information to a third party.

Deletion: You may have a right to request that we delete the personal information we hold about you at any time. We will take reasonable steps to delete your personal information from our current records. If you ask us to delete your personal information, we will let you know how the deletion affects your use of our website or products and services. There may be exceptions to this right for specific legal reasons, which, if applicable, we will set out for you in response to your request. Please be aware that search engines and similar third parties may still retain copies of your personal information that has been made public at least once, like certain profile information and public comments, even after you have deleted the information from our services or deactivated your account.

Disclosure for Nevada Residents (US)

The laws of Nevada give consumers the right to request that company not sell their personal information for monetary consideration to specified other parties. This right applies even if their personal information is not currently being sold. If you are a Nevada consumer and want to exercise this right, you can contact us per this policy.

Disclosures for California, Connecticut, Virginia, and Colorado Compliance (US)

The laws of California, Connecticut, Virginia, and Colorado grant some or all the following rights to consumers who reside in those states: the right to request information collected about the customer in 12 months preceding the request, the right to receive information in a readily usable format, the right to opt out of “sales” of personal information to third parties, the right to correct and update any personal information that is incorrect, the right to be free from discrimination based on your exercise of privacy rights.

To make such a request, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy with “Request for California, Connecticut, Virginia, and Colorado privacy information” in the subject line. You may make this request once every calendar year. We will email you a list of categories of personal information we revealed to other organizations for their marketing purposes in the last calendar year.

Do Not Track

Some browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that lets you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. Currently, we do not respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals. Instead, we adhere to the standards outlined in this privacy policy, ensuring we collect and process personal information lawfully, fairly, transparently, and with legitimate, legal reasons for doing so.

Cookies and Pixels

You may always decline cookies from our site if your browser permits. In addition, most browsers allow you to activate settings on your browser to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. Accordingly, your ability to limit cookies is based only on your browser’s capabilities.

Shine the Light

If you are a California resident, in addition to the rights discussed above, you have the right to request information from us regarding how we share certain personal information as defined by California’s “Shine the Light” with third parties and affiliates for their direct marketing purposes. To receive this information, send us a request using the contact details provided in this privacy policy. Submissions must include “California Privacy Rights Request” in the first line of the description and include your name, street address, city, state, and ZIP code.

Contact Us

We cannot respond to your request to access or delete information unless we are able to verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. For any requests regarding your privacy, you may contact us using the “Contact” section of this website.

Clever Jenny Books at https://www.cleverjenny.com/contact