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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes the personal information we collect through this website at https://afrobloomart.com, the mobile application Crafty Notes Pro and how we collect and use that information.

The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to the domain AfroBloom Art and Design (https://afrobloomart.com) and the mobile application Crafty Notes Pro. The terms “user,” “you,” and “your” refer to site visitors, customers, and any other users of the site. The term “site,” or refers to this website at https://afrobloomart.com and the mobile application Crafty Notes Pro.

We reserve the right to update or change this policy at any time. By using this website and / or mobile application Crafty Notes Pro, you consent to this policy regardless if you have read it or not. We are recommending giving it a good read.

What information do we collect and how is it used?

Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website.

We may collect PII (personal identifiable information) such as your name and/or email address. We collect this information when you voluntarily submit this information to the website, and / or the mobile application Crafty Notes Pro by:

The Website

  • Leaving a comment.
  • Subscribing to a newsletter.
  • Access free download files.
  • Submitting a contact form.
  • Engaging on Social Media.
  • Entering an online contest or filling out an online poll.

Crafty Notes Pro

  • Subscribing to a newsletter.
  • Login to the app on your mobile device or desktop computer
  • Create a user profile
  • Purchase a Subscription Plan
  • Engage on Social Media.
  • Entering an online contest or filling out an online poll.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, 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.

We are not responsible for any information you willingly post in the comments. If you post any comments, know any personally identifiable information you submit may be read, collected, or used by users of this Website, and third parties. We cannot guarantee other use of this information outside of this Website.

Contact form

You provide us with your name, email, and any other option information ( in the message’s body) so we can get in touch with you. We will not add your information to any mailing or third-party service for promotions or newsletters but filling out a contact form. The contact form on this site is for you to contact us. By submitting the form, you give us permission to contact you in response to the form of inquiry sent by you.

Information we collect from others

When you use this website, we automatically collect certain information about you and the device when you access our website. This includes logging your IP address, browser, operating system, referring websites, pages views, and may collect information on actions takes a while on the website, such as links clicked.

Cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences over time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Example:

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to save your name, email address and website in cookies. These are so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.  Cookies are also used to enhance your experience on this website.

Technical or functional cookies

Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid.

Facebook Pages + Advertising

In addition to using cookies and related technologies as described above, we also may permit certain third party companies to help us tailor advertising that we think may be of interest to users and to collect and use other data about user activities on our Sites and/or Services (e.g., to allow them to tailor ads on third party services). These companies may deliver ads that might also place cookies and otherwise track user behavior.

We use the “visitor action pixels” from Facebook Inc (1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or, if you are based in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland (“Facebook”)) on our website. This allows user behavior to be tracked after they have been redirected to the provider’s website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes. The data collected in this way is anonymous to us, i.e. we do not see the personal data of individual users. However, this data is stored and processed by Facebook, which is why we are informing you, based on our knowledge of the situation. Facebook may link this information to your Facebook account and also use it for its own promotional purposes, in accordance with Facebook’s Data Usage Policy https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. You can allow Facebook and its partners to place ads on and off Facebook. A cookie may also be stored on your computer for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of this service is Art. 6 paragraph 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR. You can object to the collection of your data by Facebook pixel, or to the use of your data for the purpose of displaying Facebook ads by contacting the following address: https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads.

Facebook
When you visit our Facebook Pages, which we use to represent our company or individual products or services, some of your personal data will be processed. The sole controller responsible for the processing of personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd (4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland, “Facebook”). Further information about the processing of personal data by Facebook can be found at https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.

Processing of Page Insights
Facebook provides us with anonymized statistics and insights for our Facebook page, which help us to understand the types of actions that people take on our Page (so-called “Page Insights”). These Page Insights are created based on specific information about individuals who have visited our Page. This processing of personal data is carried out by Facebook and by us as joint controllers. The processing serves our legitimate interest to evaluate the types of actions being taken on our Page and to improve our Page based on these findings. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR. We are in no case able to assign the information obtained via Page Insights to a specific Facebook profile using the “Like” data for our Page. We have reached an agreement with Facebook to share joint responsibility for the processing, in which the division of data protection obligations between ourselves and Facebook is set out. Details about the processing of personal data for creating Page Insights and the agreement entered into between ourselves and Facebook can be found at https://www.facebook.com/legal/terms/information_about_page_insights_data.

Processing of data that is provided to us via our Facebook pages
We also process data that you make available to us via our Facebook Pages. Such information might be your Facebook user name, your player name in one of our games, contact details or a communication to us. We only process this personal data if we have previously expressly asked you to share this data with us, for example as part of a survey or a competition. This processing will be done by us as the sole data controller. If you have communicated data to us because you are taking part in a contest, we will only process this if it is necessary to send you a prize. After delivery of the prize, or if you do not win, your data will be deleted. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6 paragraph 1 letter b GDPR. Personal data that we have collected through surveys will be processed in anonymized form, to ensure that customers are happy with our offers. This processing serves our legitimate interest of continuously improving our offers, and the legal basis therefor is Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f GDPR.

Social media buttons

On our website we have included buttons for Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.


Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest are located in the United States.

You, the user, can accept or decline cookies in your browser settings.

Placed Cookies

Google Fonts

We use Google Fonts for display of webfonts – Read more. For more information, please read the Google Fonts Privacy Policy.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use Google reCAPTCHA for spam prevention – Read more. For more information, please read the Google reCAPTCHA Privacy Policy.

Social Media

We use social media ( Facebook, Twitter) to display of recent social posts and/or social share buttons.

If you would like to find out more about privacy, cookies and their use on the internet, you may find the following links useful:

If you have any questions regarding cookies used on this site you can contact me by filling out this online form.

Newsletter

By entering your email to opt-in or download free files, you are signing up and added to our email list. You have the option to opt-out of this list (at any time) by:

  1. Clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of every email.
  2. Email us and request that your email we remove your name/email from our list.

We use our email list to send out newsletters, announcements, and marketing purposes.

Flodesk privacy policy.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to track, measure and analyze website use. You can review Google’s Privacy policy. You also can opt-out of Google data collection, and you can do that here.

Information collected includes cookies and usage.

Who we share your data with

We may share your information with third parties in certain situations. This includes sharing data to service legitimate business interests, administration to this website, to provide support, communicating with you, to protect the security of this website, marketing. The use of this website is your consent to this Privacy Policy, and agreement to these legitimate business practices.

These are specific examples of cases where we may share your information:

  • Hosting services
  • Email delivery
  • Customer Service
  • To comply with legal obligation and legal proceedings
  • To protect this website and business interests
  • Advertising + Marketing.
  • Fraud

How long we keep your data

We keep information collected for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to prevent fraud, and to protect and serve legitimate business interests.

What rights you have over your data

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 must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

  • you may submit a request for access to the data we process about you;
  • you may object to the processing;
  • you may request an overview, in a commonly used format, of the data we process about
  • you;
  • you may request correction or deletion of the data if it is incorrect or not or no longer
  • relevant. Where appropriate, the amended information shall be transmitted to third parties
  • having access to the information in question.
  • You have the right to withdraw consent at any time, subject to legal or contractual
  • restrictions and reasonable notice. You will be informed of the implications of such withdrawal.

To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@afrobloomart.com. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this cookie statement.

How we protect your data

We take appropriate measures, and use best security practices, to ensure the security of this site and its information. We secure this site with SSL to keep data safe, keep all code up to date, passwords strong, and run full daily malware scans to ensure the health and security of our server.

Despite best efforts, no security measures are 100% foolproof.

If there is a data breach that applies to any personal information collected, we will notify you immediately. Any comments or information you post on the website, including our social media platforms, becomes public. We are not responsible for the collection or use of this information by third parties. The information you post is at your risk and responsibility.

Third-party websites

This website may post links, advertisements, or other content that links to external (third-party websites). This includes partners, sponsors, or social media. Kin and Tonic is not responsible or liable for any content or actions taken by or on third-party websites. This Privacy Policy is only specific to Gem Five Society, and all external third-party sites are subject to separate privacy policy and practice established and published by each individual third party. It is your responsibility to read and review their privacy policy for guidelines how they store, use and protect personal information.

Children’s online privacy protection act compliance

We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data through the Service without their permission.

This website, and content, is not designed for individuals under the age of 18 years old. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children never to provide Personal Data through the Service without their permission.

If you are under the age of 18 years old, do not access or use our website. If you are aware we have collected data of anyone under the age of 18, please contact us at info@afrobloomart.com so we may delete that data.

Notice of change

We reserve the right to change or change this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will become effective immediately upon updating the Privacy Policy. Please review this policy from time to time for any updates.

Contact

If you have any question, concerns, or need clarification on this Privacy Policy your can contact us at info@afrobloomart.com