Privacy Policy:
The Crafty Musician ("The Crafty Musician") operates thecraftymusician.com and may operate other websites. It is The Crafty Musician's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, The Crafty Musician collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. The Crafty Musician's purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how The Crafty Musician's visitors use its website. From time to time, The Crafty Musician may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
The Crafty Musician also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on thecraftymusician.com blogs/sites. The Crafty Musician only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to The Crafty Musician's websites choose to interact with The Crafty Musician in ways that require The Crafty Musician to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that The Crafty Musician gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at thecraftymusician.com to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with The Crafty Musician are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, The Crafty Musician collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor's interaction with The Crafty Musician. The Crafty Musician does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Aggregated Statistics
The Crafty Musician may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. The Crafty Musician may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, The Crafty Musician does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
The Crafty Musician discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on The Crafty Musician's behalf or to provide services available at The Crafty Musician's websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using The Crafty Musician's websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. The Crafty Musician will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, The Crafty Musician discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when The Crafty Musician believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of The Crafty Musician, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an The Crafty Musician website and have supplied your email address, The Crafty Musician may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what's going on with The Crafty Musician and our products. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. The Crafty Musician takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor's computer, and that the visitor's browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. The Crafty Musician uses cookies to help The Crafty Musician identify and track visitors, their usage of The Crafty Musician website, and their website access preferences. The Crafty Musician visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using The Crafty Musician's websites, with the drawback that certain features of The Crafty Musician's websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If The Crafty Musician, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that The Crafty Musician goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of The Crafty Musician may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by The Crafty Musician and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, The Crafty Musician may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in The Crafty Musician's sole discretion. The Crafty Musician encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a thecraftymusician.com account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Additional Information:
Who we are
In this section you should note your site URL, as well as the name of the company, organization, or individual behind it, and some accurate contact information.
The Crafty Musician Blog is a website dedicated to providing free resources for musicians, independent artists, and singer/songwriters looking to launch a full-time career. We provide templates, calendars, articles, courses, and more to help any artist at whatever stage of his or her career get ahead without the help of a label.
This website is ran by Anitra Jay, a full-time singer/songwriter. Full contact information for Anitra can be found here.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Data this website may collect consists of personal data, such as name, email address, personal account preferences; transactional data, such as purchase information; and technical data, such as information about cookies.
Personal data is not just created by a your interactions on this site. Personal data is also generated from technical processes such as contact forms, comments, cookies, analytics, and third party embeds.
This is a WordPress powered site. By default WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users. However some of the plugins used on this site such as PostMaster, MailerLite, Sumo, and any other data processing systems may collect personal data such as name and email addresses.
This data is collected to send personal correspondence to users of this site, follow-up emails, as well as any other forms and processes you give The Crafty Musician Blog consent to.
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
Personal data is captured when someone submits a contact form, and this data can be stored indefinitely. However, data submitted through contact forms is not used for marketing purposes.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
The Crafty Musician Blog uses Google Analytics to decipher clicks, visits, and general activity on our website. Click here to find out how Google collects browser data and how you can opt out.
Who we share your data with
Most of the data we collect on The Crafty Musician Blog is shared with third-party partner services such as…
- MailerLite, Sumo, Wishpond for the purposes of providing a cohesive marketing experience to visitors.
- PayPal for the purposes of providing a smooth, quick and easy payment processing experience. Name, address, phone number, email address, and payment information is shared securely with Paypal to facilitate the payment transaction process. Click here to view PayPal’s Privacy Policy.
By default WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone.
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.
If you sign up to our mailing list, the information your provide there may be retained indefinitely.
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. If you submit your email address on any of the various sign up forms, that information is stored in our MailerLite archives. Refer to the MailerLite link above for their privacy policy.
Our Contact Information
If you have any data privacy or protection concerns, reach out to Anitra Jay at anitrajay@thecraftymusician.com or use the contact form listed here.
How we protect your data
Your data is protected and safeguarded in accordance with WordPress and MailerLite standards.
What data breach procedures we have in place
In the case of a data breach all users who we have contact information for will be contacted and we will make it our priority to work with our host and WordPress to minimize damage done and correct errors on our part.
What third parties we receive data from
This website may use data from advertisers such as Google AdSense.
Google advertising Cookies
Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying Google ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a Google partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser.
- Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to your website or other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet.
- Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)
The cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on our site..
- Such as CJ Affiliate, or Viglink, Fiverr, Amazon Affiliates.
- Provide links to the appropriate vendor and ad network websites.
- Users may visit these websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalized advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, you can opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalized advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.
