POLICIES

Welcome to my Policy page. Below you will find an outline of the entire document in the exact order presented on this Policy page. If you have any concerns please email erinexploringphoto@gmail.com.

  • Terms and Conditions

    • License to Use Website

    • Acceptable Use

    • Third Party Links

    • Privacy Policy

    • Disclaimer

    • Law and Jurisdiction

    • Termination

    • No Warranties

    • Exceptions

    • Reasonableness

    • Unenforceable Provisions

    • Indemnification

    • Breaches of these Terms & Conditions

    • Assignment

    • Severability

    • Entire Agreement

    • Contact

  • Disclaimer Policy

    • General Information

    • Copyright Policy

    • Third Party Links

    • Sponsored Posts

    • Fair Use Disclaimer

    • Reserved Rights

  • Privacy Policy

    • General Information

    • Children’s Privacy

    • The Personal Data We Receive From You and How it is Used

    • Comments and Social Media

    • Use of Cookies

    • Third Party Links and Use

    • Use of Analytics

    • Google Analytics

    • Mailchimp

    • Fonts

    • Visitor Data

    • Disclosure of Your Information

    • How Long We Retain Your Data

    • Email Marketing

    • Opt Out

    • GDPR Visitor Rights

    • Security

    • Privacy Policy Updates

    • Contact


TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By visiting and using https://www.erinexploring.com under the fair use principles of U.S. copyright laws.  (hereinafter the “website”), you accept and agree to be bound by these Terms and Conditions including our Disclaimer and Privacy Policy posted on the website and incorporated herein by reference. 

The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website. Erin Dietsche operating as “Erin Exploring” (“company”, “I”, “we” or “us”) reserves the right to amend or modify these terms and conditions in its sole discretion at any time without notice and by using the website, you accept those amendments.  It is your responsibility to periodically check the website for updates. 

Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Terms and Conditions constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by these Terms and Conditions.

License to Use Website

Unless otherwise stated, https://www.erinexploring.com and/or its licensors own the intellectual property rights published on this website and materials used on https://www.erinexploring.com. Subject to the license below, all these intellectual property rights are reserved.

You may view, download for caching purposes only, and print pages, files or other content from the website for your own personal use, subject to the restrictions set out below and elsewhere in these terms and conditions.

With respect to this website, you must not:

  • republish material in neither print nor digital media or documents (including republication on another website or platform);

  • sell, rent or sub-license material;

  • show any material in public;

  • reproduce, duplicate, copy or otherwise exploit material for a commercial purpose;

  • edit or otherwise modify any material;

  • redistribute material – except for content specifically and expressly made available for redistribution; or

  • republish or reproduce any part through the use of iframes or screenscrapers.

Where content is specifically made available for redistribution, it may only be redistributed within your organization.

Acceptable Use

You must not use this website, in any way that causes, or may cause, damage to the availability or accessibility of Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com or in any way that is unlawful, illegal, fraudulent, or harmful, or in connection with any unlawful, illegal, fraudulent or harmful purpose or activity.

You must not use this website to copy, store, host, transmit, send, use, publish, or distribute any material that consists of (or is linked to) any spyware, computer virus, Trojan horse, worm, keystroke logger, rootkit, or other malicious computer software.

You must not conduct any systematic or automated data collection activities on or in relation to this website without Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com’s express written consent.

This includes:

  • scraping

  • data mining

  • data extraction

  • data harvesting

  • ‘framing’ (iframes)

  • Article ‘Spinning’

You must not use this website or any part of it to transmit or send unsolicited commercial communications.

You must not use this website for any purposes related to marketing without the express written consent of https://www.erinexploring.com.

Third Party Links

The website may contain links to third party websites or resources for your convenience. We may serve as an affiliate for some of these third party websites by offering or advertising their products or services on the website; however, we do not own or control these third party websites. Once you click on a third party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our terms and conditions.

You agree that we are not responsible or liable for the accuracy, content or any information presented on these third party websites. You assume all risks for using these third party websites or resources and any transactions between you and these third party websites are strictly between you and the third party. We shall not be liable for any damages resulting from your use of these third party websites or resources. 

This website engages in affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is done by using embedded tracking links. If you click on an affiliate link, then a cookie will be placed on your browser for a given period of time in order to track any sales for purposes of commissions. The cookie allows the merchant to know which website the sale came from in order to provide payment. This comes at no extra cost to you and you will not be paying a higher price for a product by clicking on an affiliate link. This website simply gets a small commission from that sale.

Affiliate programs I am a part of:

  1. Amazon Affiliates – visit the privacy policy page

  2. Shareasale – visit the privacy policy page

  3. Avantlink – visit the privacy policy page

  4. LTK - visit the privacy policy page

Erin Exploring is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Privacy Policy

We are dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal data. Your acceptance of our Privacy Policy is expressly incorporated into these Terms and Conditions. Please review our Privacy Policy for more information.

Disclaimer

Your acceptance of our Disclaimer is expressly incorporated into these Terms and Conditions. Please review Disclaimer for more information. 

Law and Jurisdiction

You expressly waive your right to bring any legal claims, now or in the future arising out of or related to the website and our products/services. In the event of any dispute, claim or controversy arising out of or relating to your use of this website, the terms and conditions shall be construed in accordance with the rules and regulations of the state of Colorado and United States. 

You agree to consent and submit to the jurisdiction of the state and federal courts located in Colorado without regard to the principles of conflict of law or where the parties are located at the time a dispute arises. 

You agree to resolve any disputes or claims first through mandatory arbitration in the state of Colorado and shall bear the full cost of arbitration as permitted by law. Your good faith participation in arbitration is a condition precedent to pursuing any other legal or equitable remedies available such as litigation or any other legal procedure. You also agree that in the event a legal claim is initiated after the required arbitration, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover reasonable attorney’s fees and other costs associated with the legal action. 

Termination

We reserve the right in our sole discretion to refuse, remove, restrict your access, revoke and terminate your use of our website including any or all Content published by you or us at any time for any reason, without notice. 

No Warranties

All Content, Information, Products and/or Services on the website are “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis without any representation or warranties of any kind including the warranties of merchantability or fitness for any purpose, express or implied to the full extent permissible by law. https://www.erinexploring.com makes no representations or warranties in relation to this website or the content, information, materials, products, and/or services provided on this website.

Without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing paragraph, https://www.erinexploring.com does not warrant that:

  • this website will be constantly available, or available at all; or

  • the information on this website is complete, true, accurate, error-free, or non-misleading.

Nothing on this website constitutes, or is meant to constitute, advice of any kind.

Limitation of Liability

Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com will not be liable to you (whether under the law of contact, the law of torts or otherwise) in relation to the contents of, or use of, or otherwise in connection with, this website:

  • to the extent that the website is provided free-of-charge, for any direct loss;

  • for any indirect, special or consequential loss; or

  • for any business losses, loss of revenue, income, profits or anticipated savings, loss of contracts or business relationships, loss of reputation or goodwill, or loss or corruption of information or data.

These limitations of liability apply even if https://www.erinexploring.com has been expressly advised of the potential loss.

Exceptions

To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we exclude all representations, warranties and conditions relating to our website and the use of this website. Nothing in this disclaimer will:

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for death or personal injury;

  • limit or exclude our or your liability for fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation;

  • limit any of our or your liabilities in any way that is not permitted under applicable law; or

  • exclude any of our or your liabilities that may not be excluded under applicable law.

The limitations and prohibitions of liability set in this Section and elsewhere in this disclaimer: (a) are subject to the preceding paragraph; and (b) govern all liabilities arising under the disclaimer, including liabilities arising in contract, in tort and for breach of statutory duty.

As long as the website and the information and services on the website are provided free of charge, we will not be liable for any loss or damage of any nature

Reasonableness

By using this website, you agree that the exclusions and limitations of liability set out in this website disclaimer are reasonable.

If you do not think that they are reasonable, you must not use this website.

Unenforceable Provisions

If any provision of this website disclaimer is, or is found to be, unenforceable under applicable law, that will not affect the enforceability of the other provisions of this website disclaimer.

Indemnification

You hereby indemnify Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com and undertake to keep Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com indemnified against any losses, damages, costs, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation legal expenses and any amounts paid by Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com to a third party in settlement of a claim or dispute on the advice of Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com legal advisers) incurred or suffered by Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com  arising out of any breach by you of any provision of these terms and conditions, or arising out of any claim that you have breached any provision of these terms and conditions.

Breaches of these Terms & Conditions

Without prejudice to Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com other rights under these terms and conditions, if you breach these terms and conditions in any way, Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com  may take such action as Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com  deems appropriate to deal with the breach, including suspending your access to the website, prohibiting you from accessing the website, blocking computers using your IP address from accessing the website, contacting your internet service provider to request that they block your access to the website and/or bringing court proceedings against you.

Assignment

Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com may transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com‘s rights and/or obligations under these terms & conditions without notifying you or obtaining your consent.

You may not transfer, sub-contract, or otherwise deal with your rights and/or obligations under these terms & conditions.

Severability

If a provision of these terms and conditions is determined by any court or other competent authority to be unlawful and/or unenforceable, the other provisions will continue in effect. If any unlawful and/or unenforceable provision would be lawful or enforceable if part of it were deleted, that part will be deemed to be deleted, and the rest of the provision will continue in effect.

Entire Agreement

These terms and conditions constitute the entire agreement between you and Erin Dietsche, Erin Exploring, and https://www.erinexploring.com in relation to your use of this website, and supersede all previous agreements in respect of your use of this website.

Contact

For any questions, please contact us at erinexploringphoto@gmail.com.


DISCLAIMER

General Information

Erin Dietsche opperating as Erin Exploring (“company”, “I”, “we” or “us”) provides general educational information on various topics on this website as a public service, which should not be construed as professional, financial, real-estate, tax or travel, blog, and photography advice. These are my personal opinions only. 

The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website. 

Please read this Disclaimer carefully, and I reserve the right to modify it at any time without notice.  By visiting and using this website, you accept and agree to be bound by this Disclaimer along with our Terms and Conditions and Privacy Policy. Your continued use of our website, programs, products and/or services constitutes your acceptance of future changes and updates to this Disclaimer. You must not access or use our website if you do not wish to be bound by this Disclaimer.

Copyright Policy

Unless noted otherwise, I am the legal copyright holder of ALL material found on this website and it may not be used, reprinted, (partially) modified or published without my written consent. If any copies of any of the content found on this website is shared, published, or mentioned, including press releases, articles, and other publications, a link to Erin Exploring must appear.

Guest bloggers and contributors to our website are responsible for their own material and have to ensure that their work complies with all laws, Erin Dietsche / Erin Exploring’s guidelines, and is suitable content for my audience. The opinions expressed by any Third Parties are entirely their own.

Third Party Links

We may partner with other businesses or become part of different affiliate marketing programs whose products or services may be promoted or advertised on the website in exchange for commissions and/or financial rewards when you click and/or purchase those products or services through our affiliate links. We will receive a commission if you make a purchase through our affiliate link at no extra cost to you. 

We may also recommend other products, services, coaches and consultants but no such reference is intended to be an endorsement or statement that such information provided is accurate. We recommend these based on our personal experiences but it is still your responsibility to conduct your own due diligence to ensure you have obtained complete accurate information about such product, services, coaches and consultants. 

Any paid collaborations or sponsorships are disclosed within the respective editorial. We periodically monetize outbound product links via ShopStyle, RewardStyle, and other such services.

You are responsible for all of your activity in connection with the Services and accessing the website. Erin Exploring is not responsible for the content of linked sites and for any damages resulting from them..

This disclosure policy applies to all affiliate links we share on our website, social media, emails, programs, products such as courses, ebooks, services and through any other means of communication with you. 

Sponsored Posts

We may include sponsored blog posts on our website from time to time for products or services we recommend or those that have been valuable in our personal experience or use. 

We may review different products, services and other resources to provide reviews of books, services and any other recommendations to you. We may receive incentives, discounts, compensation or free products in exchange for our reviews and sponsored content. All such reviews and sponsored posts are solely our honest opinions made in good faith.

You are always encouraged to perform your own due diligence and research regarding our reviews and sponsored content. You are solely responsible for your decisions, purchases from our affiliate links and sponsored content.

You agree not to hold us and/or anyone else working with us liable for any of your successes or failures directly or indirectly related to the information, reviews, products and/or services presented to you here. 

Fair Use Disclaimer

This website reviews products that we use, have tested, and trust including but not limited to posting of product images from other websites, logos of manufacturers. In doing so, no copyright is claimed for this kind of content on the website and to the extent that such material may appear to be infringed, we assert that such alleged infringement is permissible under the fair use principles of U.S. copyright laws. If you believe any material has been used in an unauthorized manner, please contact us at erinexploringphoto@gmail.com. 

Reserved Rights

I reserve the right to change the focus of the website, shut it down, sell it, and change the terms of use at my own discretion. I also reserve the rights to edit and/or delete any comments submitted to Erin Dietsche / Erin Exploring without notice due to: comments deemed to be spam, profanity, offensive language or concepts, attack to a group or person individually. I also reserve the right to remove any links on your comments or not approve comments with links in them referencing to other websites that are completely unrelated to my website. 

Any letters, emails, blog comments, responses on social media platforms such as Facebook, Pinterest, and Instagram, or questions written directly to me may be used to share with my blogging audience through this website or my newsletter unless specifically requested otherwise.


PRIVACY POLICY

Erin Dietsche operating as Erin Exploring (“company”, “I”, “we” or “us”) is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you on https://www.erinexploring.com (hereinafter the “website”) and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views the website.

By visiting and using the website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates. You must not access or use the website if you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy.

General Information

This privacy policy (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”) describes how we collect and use the Personal Data that we receive about you, as well as your rights in relation to that Personal Data, when you visit our Website and interact with it in any way, including passively.

This Privacy Policy does not cover any information that we may receive about you through sources other than the use of our Website. The Website may link out to other websites or mobile applications, but this Privacy Policy does not and will not apply to any of those linked websites or applications.

We are committed to the protection of your privacy while you use our Website.

By continuing to use our Website, you acknowledge that you have had the chance to review and consider this Privacy Policy, and you acknowledge that you agree to it. This means that you also consent to the use of your information and the method of disclosure as described in this Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of those changes and updates.If you do not understand the Privacy Policy or do not agree to it then you agree to immediately cease your use of our Website.

Children’s Privacy

We respect the privacy of children and “child” means an individual under the age of 13. All information and content on this website is intended for individuals over the age of 18. Children under the age of 13 are prohibited from using this website. We do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information from children under the age of 13 without prior parental or guardian consent. If you believe personal information is collected from someone under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent, then please contact us to have that information deleted.

The Personal Data We Receive From You and How it is Used

Depending on how you use our Website, you will be subject to different types of Personal Data collected and different manners of collection. When you access the website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name, email address, and avatar image,

You, as a user of the Website, may be asked to register in order to use the Website in a legal manner. During the process of your registration, we will collect some of the following Personal Data from you through your voluntary disclosure: First Name, Email Address, and Avatar Image.

This Personal Data is collected when you register on the site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the website, provide comments on blogs, articles, photographs, or any other feedback, fill out a form or enter any other information on the website to communicate with us.

Your Personal Data is used to personalize your experience, improve the website to better serve you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or transactions, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services or products, provide you offers, promotions and to follow up with you through correspondence (email).

By undergoing the registration process, you consent to us collecting your Personal Data, including the Personal Data described in this clause, as well as storing, using or disclosing your Personal Data in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We may also use this information to provide you offers and promotions from our partners and/or our affiliates in exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.

Like all websites and mobile applications, this Website also makes use of log files which store automatic information collected during user visits. The different types of log data could be as follows:

  • internet protocol (IP) address;

  • type of browser and device parameters used to connect to the Website;

  • name of the Internet Service Provider (ISP);

  • date and time of visit;

  • web page of origin of the user (referral) and exit;

  • possibly the number of clicks.

The aforementioned information is processed in an automated form and collected in an exclusively aggregated manner in order to verify the correct functioning of the site, and for security reasons.

Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, equipment you used to access the website, traffic patterns, and other general patterns related to your use of the website.

This information is used to analyze website statistics related to user behavior and interests, improve our performance and your use of the website and to further enhance our products and services offered to you.

Comments and Social Media

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. When you leave a comment, your name, email address, and website/organization name are not shared with a third party and may be used to communicate with you.

Social media accounts and sharing options are available on this website. Social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and so forth) can track your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please note that you will be voluntarily disclosing that personal information. This information is no longer private. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. We have no control over and take no responsibility for the use, storage, or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.

Any such interactions via comments and social media with us do not subject us to any kind of liability related to the misuse of your information by others.

Use of Cookies

We may collect information from you through automatic tracking systems (such as information about your browsing preferences) as well as through information that you volunteer to us (such as information that you provide during a registration process or at other times while using the Website, as described above).

Cookies are small strings of text used to store some information that may concern the user, his or her preferences or the device they are using to access the Internet (such as a computer, tablet, or mobile phone). Cookies are mainly used to adapt the operation of the site to your expectations, offering a more personalized browsing experience and memorizing the choices you made previously. Just like other websites, we automatically collect some non-personally identifiable information including but not limited to your IP address, geographic location, language preference, date and time of visitors.

A cookie consists of a reduced set of data transferred to your browser from a web server and it can only be read by the server that made the transfer. This is not executable code and does not transmit viruses.

We may use cookies for various reasons such as optimizing and personalizing your browsing experience, checking our website analytics, saving your preferences and settings for future use, serving ads based on your liking and interests, affiliate marketing and for posting comments on our website. 

This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the website.  You have the option of turning off cookies on your computer should you wish to do so. If you choose to do that, you may not be able to view all the features and content of this website.

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Third-Party Links and Use

We may include, offer, or advertise third-party links, products, or services on the website. Once you click on a third-party link and leave this website, you are no longer bound by our Privacy Policy and Terms and Conditions.

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, advertisements, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We may use Google Adsense advertising along with any other third-party advertising on the website. Google is a third party that also uses cookies to serve ads on the website for the purpose of providing a positive user experience. Third-party vendors such as Google use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to the website. You can opt out of Google by visiting their privacy policy and ad settings.

We have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. Neither are we responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. You also agree that your use of these third-party websites is solely at your risk.

Use of Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

You can opt out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Mailchimp

This service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. MailerLite will store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to the MailChimp privacy policy for further information.

Squarespace

This website is operated on the Squarespace platform. Please refer to the Squarespace privacy policy for further detailed information. 

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Visitor Data

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Disclosure of Your Information

As a general rule, we do not disclose your personal information to third parties without your consent with the exception of the following circumstances:

  1. We may disclose your information to our trusted third parties that work with us such as our website hosting partners, email marketing service provider, other service providers that assist in the operation of the website, and any other affiliates and subsidiaries we rely upon to provide you products and services offered here.

  2. We may disclose your information in order to comply with state or federal regulations related to copyright infringement lawsuits or any other legal claims related to the website.

  3. We may disclose your information to our successor and/or acquiring party in the event of a merger, acquisition, restructuring, dissolution or partial sale in the future. However, your personal information will be transferred to the acquiring party in accordance with this privacy policy.

How Long We Retain Your Data

We retain personal data as long as it is needed to to conduct our legitimate business purposes or to comply with our legal obligations, or until you ask us to delete your data. For example, we will retain certain personal information indefinitely for the purposes of maintaining your account, unless and until you delete your account. Data that we gather for a specific and particular purpose, such as assisting law enforcement or analyzing trends, will not be kept for longer than is necessary for that particular purpose. Data that is no longer needed by us for any of the purposes listed above will be permanently deleted.  

You may request that we delete your data at any time. However, note that we cannot control the retention policies of third parties. If you wish to have any third parties, including those to whom we’ve transmitted your data, delete that data, you will need to contact those third parties directly. You may request from us a list of all third parties to whom we have transmitted your data.

Email Marketing

You have the option of opting in or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receive newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials and any other content related to this website. When you send an email, your email message along with email address and responses are saved for communication purposes with you. This information is kept confidential and we do not share, sell or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this privacy policy.

We do not envision offering goods or services to individuals living in the European Union as outlined in the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

If you are in the European Union and opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website then you will be subscribed to receive our free email newsletter once you affirmatively consent to it. Please see Opt Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

But if you are NOT in the European Union then you will be automatically subscribed to receive our free email newsletter once you opt in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website. Please see Opt Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

Opt-Out

From time to time, we may send you informational or marketing communications related to our Website such as announcements or other information. We comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and do not spam or send misleading information. Should you wish to no longer receive communication from us, you have the option of unsubscribing by clicking “unsubscribe” in the bottom of the email we send to you or by contacting us.

As for third-party websites, please contact them directly to unsubscribe and/or opt-out of their communications.

We are in compliance with the GDPR along with the email marketing service we use to collect your data.   

Please be advised that even though you may opt out of such communications, you may still receive information from us that is specifically about your use of our Website or about your account with us.

By providing any Personal Data to us, or by using our Website in any manner, you have created a commercial relationship with us. As such, you agree that any email sent from us or third-party affiliates, even unsolicited email, shall specifically not be considered SPAM, as that term is legally defined.

GDPR Visitor Rights

Under the GDPR, if you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain rights and information listed below.

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 Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to 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 us at our email: erinexploringphoto@gmail.com.

Security

We use secure physical and digital systems to store your Personal Data when appropriate. We ensure that your Personal Data is protected against unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction.

Please note, however, that no system involving the transmission of information via the internet, or the electronic storage of data, is completely secure. However, we take the protection and storage of your Personal Data very seriously. We take all reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data.

Personal Data is stored throughout your relationship with us. We delete your Personal Data upon request for cancelation of your account or other general request for the deletion of data.

In the event of a breach of your Personal Data, you will be notified in a reasonable time frame and we will follow all applicable laws regarding such breach.

By using this website, you agree to hold us harmless for any security breach and for any unauthorized use of your personal information by third parties. You also agree that we cannot be held responsible for any disclosure of your information through our website without our knowledge and consent.

Privacy Policy Updates

This privacy policy is effective as of April 2021 and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our website after the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.

Contact

For any questions or comments regarding the privacy policy, please contact us at erinexploringphoto@gmail.com.