Privacy Policy
Personal Data
Personal data privacy is very important to us. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the ‘GDPR’). Personal data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable living individual. Different pieces of information, which collected together can lead to the identification of a particular person, also constitute personal data.
Data Controller
The owner of Chronically Ill Kat, (Kathryn Stone) is the sole data controller. For any questions regarding this privacy policy please contact me.
GDPR obligations
The owner ensures that personal data is:
- Kept up to date
- Stored and destroyed securely
- Not collected or retained unnecessarily or excessively
- Protected from loss, misuse or unauthorised access and disclosure.
This fulfils the obligations under the GDPR.
Personal data usage
Personal data is used for the following reasons:
- Provide, operate, and maintain the services on the website
- To keep records of subscribers and be able to contact them
- Understand and analyse how you use the website
- To promote the interests of the organisation;
- Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
- Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for promotional purposes
- I use Google Analytics, a third party service, in order to monitor and log information about your use of the website. This means that it is not possible to identify any user.
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with others with your consent. We will only share your data with third parties with your consent.
Please do not express personal data or contact details in blog comments, as these are displayed publicly on the site.
Your personal data will only be held as long as you are a subscriber. When you unsubscribe your personal data will be destroyed.
Third Party Privacy Policies
Chronically Ill Kat’s Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.
I use the third party servie Mail Chimp. This only occurs with consent when a user signs up to receive the newsletter. This logs clicks and openings in order to help improve the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any point from this newsletter. For more information please read MailChimp’s privacy notice [https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/].
Other third party services used are engaged for the purpose of providing you services on our behalf. I ensure that all of these services are GDPR compliant.
Cookies
You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
User rights under GDPR:
We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
- The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
- The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.
- The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact me.
Cookies and Web Beacons
Like any other website, Chronically Ill Kat uses ‘cookies’. These cookies are used to store information including visitors’ preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users’ experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors’ browser type and/or other information. For more information about cookies and how to remove them please visit www.aboutcookies.org.
Our Partners
Some of partners on our site may use cookies and web beacons. Our advertising partners are listed below. Each of our advertising partners has their own Privacy Policy for their policies on user data. For easier access, we hyperlinked to their Privacy Policies below.
Notification of changes
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on the this website.
External links
We are not responsible for the availability or content of external sites that may be linked to, from the site. If you find a broken link or if you have any questions or concerns about a link, please contact us.
Contact us
If you have any questions or comments about the privacy policy please contact Kathryn Stone on Chronicallyillkat@gmail.com or through the contact me page on the website.