Privacy Policy

Effective Date March 1, 2022

This privacy policy explains how Samantha Ensinger and this Website (samanthakaymedia.com) uses and protects any information that you give while using samanthakaymedia.com. By accessing and using this Website, you agree to be bound by these Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. This policy may change without notice. You should periodically check this page to stay up to date with the latest policy. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.

terms of use

no warranty

Samantha Ensinger of Samantha Kay Media does not make any warranties of any kind.

The Website is provided on an “as is” and “as available” basis. Samantha Ensinger disclaims all warranties, express and implied. We make a reasonable effort to provide accurate information, but cannot warrant that any information provided is accurate, complete, reliable, or current. We provide no warranty or assume liability for any information on the Website.

what information do we collect?

Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:

To personalize your experience
To improve our website: we continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you.
To operate and maintain the Site
To allow comments on the Site
To send you promotional information such as newsletters
To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies or security alerts
To respond to your comments or inquiries
To provide you with user support
To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.
To send periodic emails.

We collect information from you when you subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form (such as the “book now” form, enter information on our site, or simply browsing the site.

We may collect personal information from you that you’ve voluntarily submitted to us, such as your name or email address. You may voluntarily submit information to this website when signing up for newsletters or submitting a comment or submitting an inquiry via our contact form. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind, however your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.

Our servers may automatically collect derivative data or anonymous information when you access the Site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. Anonymous information consists of non-personally-identifiable data. When you use our website, we can log your IP address, the device you are using, operating system, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, time spent on our site, when you came to our site. We may also collect information on actions you take while visiting our website, such as what links or buttons you clicked on.

do we use cookies?

Yes. A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies.

We use cookies for the following purposes:

to keep track of data about site traffic and site interaction, such as browser type & operating system
to track the number of visitors to this site, and a visitor’s demographics
to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website
to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials
to protect our website and services generally
to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services;

Cookies also help us to understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved user-experience.

You have the option of subscribing to our newsletter. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel embedded in emails allows an analysis of the success of our email marketing campaign. These tracking pixels allow us to see when you opened the email, if you opened the email, and what links you clicked in the email. This behavior is strictly confidential and will not be passed onto third parties.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies with a randomly generated Client ID on your browser. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting is in use on this website. Collected aggregate data (such as age, gender and interests) is used to guide content in order to better serve visitors. It may also be cited in media kits and referenced in discussion with potential partnerships.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences (Firefox);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and

(f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).

Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our website. Some features of this website may cease to be available to you.

interest-based advertising

Advertising Privacy Statement

This website is not affiliated with any ad network at this time.

rights to your information

Email Addresses

Opt-out: you may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe link in all our emails. You may also email us at samanthakaymedia@gmail.com to be removed from our mailing list at any time.

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. This may occur if you sign up to receive an email newsletter, leave a comment, or enter a promotion. We will use your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us. You may opt out of such email communications at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button at the bottom of the email.

Your email address may also be shared with the technology provider we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it. We use SquareSpace and MailChimp to deliver our email newsletters. Information provided is transferred to MailChimp for processing in accordance to their Privacy Policy.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

comment, registration, and account data

As you use the Site, we collect other data that you provide voluntarily. For example, if you leave a comment, the Site will record your name as provided. We may also collect information about you through other voluntary methods, including research surveys. We may use your personally-identifying information for a variety of our internal business purposes, such as creating a better user experience for the Site, diagnosing and troubleshooting malfunctions on the Site, better understanding how the Site is used, and making personalized recommendations to you.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section below entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

additional rights of eea (european economic area) residents

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

(i) access your personal data

(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data

(iii) the right to have us delete your personal data

(iv) the right to restrict further processing of your personal data, and

(v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us addressed to the following: savorthespoonful@gmail.com

additional rights of california residents

If you are a resident of California, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the California Consumer Protection Act (“CCPA”). Throughout this policy, we have disclosed what information we collect, how it is used, and the types of third parties that may receive your information. Under CCPA, you also have the following rights:

Right to Access – You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal information we collect and how it has been used over the past 12 months. After we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose the following:

The categories of your personal information we collected;
The categories of your personal information we sold;
The categories of any third parties to whom we have sold your personal information;
A list of which categories of your personal information we sold to each party; and,
The categories of your personal information we disclose for business purposes.

Right to Deletion – You have the right to request that we delete your personal information.

Please note that this right does not apply when we need to retain your personal information in order to do the following:

Provide goods or services to you;
Detect or resolve security or functionality-related issues;
Comply with the law;
Conduct research in the public interest;
Safeguard the right to free speech; or,
Carry out any actions for internal purposes that you might reasonably expect.

Right to Non-Discrimination – You have the right not to be discriminated against for exercising your rights under CCPA. In particular, we may not:

Deny you goods or services;
Charge you different prices for goods or services, whether through denying benefits or imposing penalties;
Provide you with a different level or quality of goods or services; or,
Threaten you with any of the above.

To exercise these rights, you must submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us at savorthespoonful@gmail.com

Please note that only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a request on behalf of a minor child.

You may only make a request under these rights twice in a twelve-month period.

copyright

You may have the opportunity to download ebooks or other digital products from our Website or newsletter. If you decide to do this, we grant you a limited, non-exclusive, personal, non-transferable license to use the product(s). You agree that you are not allowed to modify, distribute, sell, share, republish, or create derivative content from any information or imagery provided to you without expressed written consent from Samantha Ensinger.

You do have our limited permission to use a link to our Website from your website. You may use one photo or excerpt (up to 200 words) from any post, with a mandatory do-follow link back to the post on our Website where it originated. We do not allow re-posting an entire page or more than one paragraph of a post. We do not authorize using entire galleries of photos or using a photo without linking back, or presenting any of our content as your own. Any distribution of content from Samantha Ensinger or Samantha Kay Media beyond what is described herein constitutes copyright infringement and can be punished in a court of law.

You may view and print any content displayed on the Website for personal, non-commercial use, provided that all copyright and attribution notices remain intact. You agree not to reproduce, publish, transmit, distribute, sell, license, modify, or create derivative content from this Website or any part of it, without prior written consent from Samantha Ensinger.

advertisements & third party links

We do not currently use third party service providers on samanthakaymedia.com.

We do not currently display ads.

children's information

The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 13 in its database, please contact us immediately at samanthakaymedial@gmail.com and we will try to promptly remove such information from our records.

changes to the privacy policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time we obtained that information. By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. We will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.

contacting us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this Site, please contact us at samanthakaymedia@gmail.com.