Privacy Policy

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Curating Christmas is dedicated to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you on CuratingChristmas.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.

For questions regarding the privacy policy, please feel free to contact us at [email protected]

ADVERTISING

If you are interested in advertising with Curating Christmas, please contact us at [email protected]

AFFILIATES / FREEBIES / SPONSORED POSTS

Affiliate links are links to products that are available from a third party. When products are purchased via the link, Curating Christmas receives a small portion of the sale at no extra cost to you. Affiliate links will always be properly marked and disclosed before you are able to click on them.

Curating Christmas is also 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.

In Addition to being a member of the Amazon Associates program in the United States, Canada, and the UK, Curating Christmas is also a member of the following affiliate networks: shareasale.com, Awin, SOVRN, CJ Affiliates, and Uncommon Goods Affiliate program. For a full list of the companies we work with through these affiliate networks, please visit our Affiliates page.

When using the Curating Christmas website, or when clicking on an affiliate link, any of the above affiliates may place a tracking cookie on your computer. Please see the Cookie section of this policy for more information.

At this time Curating Christmas has not received any Freebies or participated in any sponsored posts, but in future freebies and sponsor posts will always be properly marked. Curating Christmas will never accept a sponsored post for a product that we do not use, love or recommend, and any freebies will always be disclosed openly and honestly. If you wish to discuss sponsored posts, feel free to reach to us at [email protected]

CHARITABLE GIVING

Curating Christmas believes it is better to give than to receive. For that reason, every time you purchase a product through the Curating Christmas website, the 15% (of net sale) affiliate commission which is earned by Curating Christmas is donated to charity. Affiliate links are links that earn Curating Christmas a small commission at no additional cost to you. Please note that any charities donated to by Curating Christmas are in no way endorsed by the various affiliate networks, brands, or products showcased on this site.

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 that reside in the United States. Children under the age of 18 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 has been collected from someone under the age of 13 without parental or guardian consent, then please contact us to have that information deleted.

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 is 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.

CONTENT

Curating Christmas reserves the right to remove, replace, redesign or change any of its content, imagery, or products without any announcement or warning.

Curating Christmas may contain outdated information such as prices, sales, products that no longer exist or are no longer in stock. Curating Christmas is not responsible for any outdated information, as products are consistently changing. However, Curating Christmas will do their best to go back and fix old links and change things as possible. If you find any outdated information you would like us to fix, please reach out to us at [email protected]

Curating Christmas does its utmost to work through affiliate programs, but often when there is none, we will reach out to companies directly to ask for their permission to share products. If you believe that your content has been posted here mistakenly or without your permission, please feel free to reach out.

CONTENT USAGE

Easy and acceptable ways to share the contents of this blog are through pinning, sharing, or retweeting content on social media. Share buttons are available at the bottom of each blog post, and most images on Curating Christmas are easily pinnable on Pinterest via an icon in the upper right-hand corner of the image.

COOKIES 

The website may use cookies to facilitate your use of the website. Cookies are files with small amounts of data including an anonymous unique identifier that a website sends to your computer’s hard drive when you are viewing the website. 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.

When you leave a comment on our website, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

This information is only collected to better serve and understand your user experience on the website, as well as to track affiliate sales. 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 features and content of this website.

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.

EMAIL MARKETING 

Curating Christmas follows the guidelines set up by the CAN-SPAM Act, which you can read more about here.  You will always 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. You have the option to opt-out of receiving our e-mails at any time.

GDPR VISITOR RIGHTS

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

We will retain any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of:

  1. You ask us to delete the information by sending a request to Curating Christmas. Please note that such requests may result in you no longer being able to access some of the content previously provided to you.
  2. Our decision to cease using our existing data providers
  3. The Company decides to no longer be in business or continue to offer the services
  4.  The data is no longer needed to provide you service, is too costly to maintain further retention, or the Company finds it outdated

You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

If you have provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

GIFT LIST

Curating Christmas has the option for you to make personalized gift lists and save them to the Curating Christmas website.  We always keep your information secure, and will not share it with any outside sources for any purposes. You have the option to opt-out at any time.

IMAGE COPYRIGHT

The Curating Christmas site uses a variety of photos. Most product images are the property of the companies from which each product is available. Other images will either be stock photos that have been legally purchased for usage, images that are in the public domain, or images that are or readily available on the Internet published according to the U.S. Copyright Fair Use Act, title 17, U.S. Code. In instances where photos do not meet the above criteria, a link or note listing the credit will be placed below the image. If you ever ­find a photo that is not properly credited, please feel free to reach out to [email protected] and we will rectify the situation.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW IT IS USED

When you access the website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, address, avatar image, credit card information when you make a purchase on the website.

This information 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 or any other feedback, fill out a form, or use any other method on the website to communicate with us. From time to time, we may also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online surveys that we may post on our website.

Your personal information 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, live chat, or phone). 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.

Additionally, like other websites, this website automatically collects certain information about you through Log Data and Google Analytics. Log Data is information about your computer’s Internet Protocol Address, which is your “IP” address, browser information, Internet Service Provider’s information, your operating system, and your browser type. Similarly, Google Analytics collects certain information about your location, browsing history, the pages you visit, the 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.

 OPT-OUT

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” at 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 from their communications.

If you wish to have your list information removed, you are always welcome to contact us at [email protected] and we will remove your account information and any products you may have saved.

SECURITY

The security of your personal information is important to us, and we strive to follow generally commercial industry standards to protect your personal information submitted to us voluntarily and automatically. However, no method of transmission over the Internet is 100% secure and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your information. When you make a credit card purchase or purchase through any means on the website, you will be directed to a third-party vendor to complete the transaction. Any information you provide during the checkout process is not stored on our website but instead provided to the third party vendor that completes the purchase transaction.

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.

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.

Curating Christmas does not carry any of the products listed on this website, nor do we directly sell them from our website. You will always be re-directed to a third-party website in order to purchase a product. Therefore, despite recommending these products, Curating Christmas is not able to help you with any issues regarding the shipping, payment, or condition of your product once it arrives. All product complaints should be directed to the third-party from which the product was purchased.

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

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.

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy is effective as of May 31, 2020, 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.