Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy details how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit our blog. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

This blog will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party, nor do we store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies. See Do Not Sell My Personal Data for more information.

A. Types of Information we collect and why we collect it:

CASUAL BROWSING: if you are just browsing the website, we collect the basic information that enables us to provide you with a smooth browsing experience. This includes the visitor’s browser type, language preferences, referring site, Internet Protocol (IP) addresses, and data of date and time of visit.

NEWSLETTER SIGN-UP: Personal information collected through forms are used to subscribe to email updates for blog content only. We do not share your personal information with any 3rd party sites. We Respect Your Privacy & You Can Unsubscribe Any Time. To assist with sending you requested information, we use Squarespace Newsletters to collect and store your email address. You may opt out of the collection of your data by unsubscribing (we will remove your data).

B. Who we share your data with

Service Providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to, application development, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, payment processing, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;

Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services;

Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared;

Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us;

Merchants and payment processors; and

Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence to: comply with legal process; respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements; protect our operations; protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.

We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.

C. Cookies:

STRICTLY NECESSARY COOKIES: These cookies are necessary for the website to function and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in or filling in forms. You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will then not work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

FUNCTIONALITY & PERFORMANCE COOKIES: These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance. Without these cookies, certain functionality may become unavailable.

ADVERTISING/TRACKING COOKIES: These cookies are used to display relevant advertising to visitors, as well as to track the volume of visitors. They track details about visitors such as the number of unique visitors, number of times particular ads have been displayed, the number of clicks the ads have received, and are also used to measure the effectiveness of ad campaigns by building up user profiles. These are set by trusted third party networks, and are generally persistent in nature. You can opt-out of the collection and use of Web viewing data for interest-based advertising and other applicable uses on this browser by following this link: Your Web Choices: DAA . Advertising is restricted on how it uses certain unique identifiers and other data. Advertisers on this site only shows non-personalized ads to eligible users in California. Non-personalized ads are based on contextual information, such as the content of this website and not on Personal Information.

D. Analytics

We use Google analytics and Squarespace Analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is anonymized (meaning all information is anonymous and not links to any one individual) and sent to Google Analytics for analysis.

Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. Learn more

In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.

Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).

See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data.
See this page for Squarespace GDPR compliance information.

E. How long we retain your data:

Google Analytics data is retained for 26 months. Contact forms and comments’ cookies are held for one year unless necessary to continue service. We will retain your Personal Data for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or allowed by law. Newsletter sign-up names and email information are retained until specified by user by unsubscribing.

F. Third Party Advertisers and Affiliate Links:

This website includes Google AdSense ads. Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to our website or other websites. Google uses cookies to help serve the ads it displays on the websites of its partners, such as websites displaying AdSense ads or participating in Google certified ad networks. When users visit a partner’s website, a cookie may be dropped on that end user’s browser. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. Google does not sell your personal information to anyone. You can find out more information about how Google uses data at their Ads and Data Page. 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 http://www.aboutads.info.)

Also, for advertising included on this website, Google restricts how it uses certain unique identifiers and other data. Google only shows non-personalized ads from Google demand to eligible users in EEA, the UK, and California in compliance with GDPR and CCPA regulations. Non-personalized ads are based on contextual information, such as the content of this website and not on Personal Information. If you opt out of use of your personal data, you'll still see ads by Google – they just won't be based on topics that you like, your visits to advertisers' websites or demographics. Instead, they'll be based on factors such as the content of the page or your general location.

We may include third-party advertising and links to other websites. Third-party advertising partners may collect information from you when you interact with their content, advertising, and services. To opt-out of collection of cookies please visit Web Choices: DAA

G. What rights you have:

PERSONAL DATA: You may have a right to request access to the data held on you, to ask for a copy of this data, to request that it's amended, or ask for your data to be deleted entirely. Following any such request, we will take reasonable steps to provide, modify or delete your Personal Information as soon as is practicable, but some information may remain in archived/backup copies for our records or as otherwise required by law.

USER CONTENT: You may request removal of your User Generated Content (such as user comments). Please note, removal may not encompass all possible locations such as back-ups or content shared by other users prior to removal.

MARKETING: Users will never be discriminated against for opting out of personal data marketing. To opt-out of collection of marketing cookies please visit Web Choices: DAA. If you have any questions about your rights, please Contact Us. Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

GDPR AND EU USER CONSENT POLICY: Advertisers on this site only shows non-personalized ads to eligible users in the EEA and the UK. Non-personalized ads are based on contextual information, such as content on current site and not on Personal Information.

CCPA COMPLIANCE: Advertising is restricted on how it uses certain unique identifiers and other data. Advertisers on this site only shows non-personalized ads to eligible users in California. Non-personalized ads are based on contextual information, such as the content of this website and not on Personal Information. Do Not Sell My Personal Data

H. Other Information:

Our Services are not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If we become aware that a child under the age of 13 has provided us with Personal Data, we will take steps to remove such data. If you become aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data without your consent, please contact us. By using the Services, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13.

Ravin Sekai Designs may change this Privacy Policy at any time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the bottom of the Privacy Policy. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently to stay updated on changes that may affect you. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

We are not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without our permission. If you wish to reblog content, email and get permission.

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on September 24th, 2021. If you have any questions feel free to contact us directly.