Privacy Policy
Last updated September 20, 2024
Who We Are
This Privacy Policy for Totally Historic, LLC describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share your personal information when you visit our website at www.totallyhistoric.com.
Reading this Privacy Policy will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our website. If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact us at diane@totallyhistoric.com.
What Information Do We Collect?
Personal Information You Disclose to Us
Totally Historic, LLC collects personal information you voluntarily provide us when you register for our newsletters, comment on our website, or contact us. The personal information we collect includes names, email addresses, and contact preferences. As a business, we collect data in several ways, including:
- Newsletter subscriptions: Your name, email address, and subscription preferences
- Contact form: Your name, email, and comment/message
- Comments: Your name, email, website (if applicable) and comment
Information Automatically Collected
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate our website. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our website or other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our website and for our internal analytics.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on Totally Historic’s website 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.
Our site uses Akismet Anti-spam service, which collects information about visitors who comment. The information collected typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
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.
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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (Totally Historic, LLC) are called “first-party cookies.” Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies.” Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
We use first-and-third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience of our site. Third parties serve cookies through our website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes.
You may refuse cookies through your web browser controls. This varies from browser to browser, but you can visit the links below to manage cookies for your specific browser:
Please note that if you do not accept cookies some functions of the website may not be available.
Analytics and customization cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our website for you.
If you leave a comment on Totally Historic 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.
We may use cookies to gather information when you interact with our site. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our site, save your preferences, and assist with basic site functions.
Google Analytics
We also permit third parties and service providers to use online tracking technologies for analytics and advertising. We may share your information with Google Analytics to track and analyze your use of our site. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the site, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaptout. You can out of of Google Analytics Advertising Features through Ads Settings and Ad Settings for mobile apps. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms Page.
How Do We Process Your Information?
We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our website, communicate with you, send you marketing and promotional communications, request feedback, deliver targeted advertising to you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and UK GDPR
If you are located in the EU or UK, this section applies to you.
We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e. legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.
What Rights Do You Have Over Your Data?
In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada) you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right (i) to request access and obtain a copy of your personal information, (ii) to request rectification or erasure; (iii) to restrict the processing of your personal information; (iv) if applicable, to data portability; and (v) not to be subject to automated decision-making. In certain circumstances, you may also have the right to object to the processing of your personal information. You can make such a request by contacting us at diane@totallyhistoric.com.
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.
If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us at diane@totallyhistoric.com.
Opting out of marketing and promotional communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing and promotional at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails that we send, or by contacting us at diane@totallyhistoric.com. You will then be removed from the marketing lists. However, we may still communicate with you – for example, to send you service-related messages that are necessary for the administration and use of your account, to respond to service requests, or for other non-marketing purposes.
You may also opt out of interest-based advertising by advertisers on our website.
When and With Whom Do We Share Your Data With?
Totally Historic, LLC may share your information with third-party service providers or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf an require access to such information to do that work. We are committed to safeguarding your information, which means these third parties cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. The categories of third parties we may share personal information with are data analytics services, ad networks, affiliate marketing programs, and performance monitoring tools.
We may also need to share your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your personal information or email addresses without your consent.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments are checked through the Akismet Anti-spam service, which collects information such as the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).
Third-Party Websites
We are not responsible for the safety of any information that you share with third parties that we may link to or who advertise on our website, but are not affiliated with, Totally Historic, LLC.
How Long Do We Retain Your Data?
We only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. If you provided your information for our newsletters, we will keep your personal information for the time you have an account with us. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such information.
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.
How Do We Keep Your Information Safe?
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our website is at your own risk. You should only access the website within a secure environment.
Updates to this Policy
We reserve the right, at our sole discretion, to modify or replace this Privacy Policy at any time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised” date at the top of this Policy.