Privacy Policy
Your privacy is very important to us. At Kimberlie Dykeman a/k/a Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
- We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises operates several websites including kimberlieonfire.com, kimberliedykeman.com, and puresoapbox.com. It is Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.
Website Visitors
Like most website operators, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ visitors use its website. From time to time, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.
Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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 blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
Certain visitors to Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ websites choose to interact with Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises in ways that require Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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
Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises may monitor the most popular pages on the kimberlieonfire.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information
Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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 Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ behalf or to provide services available at Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ 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 Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises website and have supplied your email address, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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 Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support 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. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises uses cookies to help Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises identify and track visitors, their usage of Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises website, and their website access preferences. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ websites, with the drawback that certain features of Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Business Transfers
If Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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 Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises 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 Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Comments
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
Privacy Policy Changes
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises’ sole discretion. Kimberlie Dykeman Enterprises encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.