Privacy Policy

Introduction

Kitspirations respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this privacy policy ("Policy"). Maintaining protection of the data entrusted to our care by our constituents is of the utmost importance to us.

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This Policy describes the types of data we may collect from you or that you may provide and describes our policies and practices for collecting, using, protecting, and disclosing that data.

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This Policy may change from time to time (see Changes to Our Privacy Policy section), so check the Policy periodically for the most current version.

 

Data We Collect About You

We may collect several types of personal data that can be used to identify you ("Personal Data"), including your:

• Name

• Postal address

• Email address

• Telephone number

• Business Information

• Payment cardholder data

• Sensitive authentication data

 

How We Collect Your Data

We collect Personal Data from:

• Users of our Website

• Transactions on our Website

• Prospective client meetings​

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We collect this data:

• Directly when you provide it to us through any interaction offline or in person

• From our website kitspirations.com (our "Website")

• When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this Policy

• When you request a proposal or further prospective client meeting

• When you use our services

• When you participate in our programs or sign up for and/or attend any events that we host

• From third parties we contract with to provide services on our behalf, such as event organizers, payment processing services, email marketing services, and software providers; these service providers may change, or new service providers may be added without notice to you

• When you interact with us in another way, for example, contacting us with an inquiry

• From publicly available resources

 

Data You Provide to Us

We collect data you provide when you interact with Kitspirations, either through our Website or any interaction offline or in person. That data includes:

• Personal data that you provide by making an inquiry 

• Personal data you provide when participating in services available on our Website

• Personal data you provide when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us

• Personal data you provide when you report a problem with our Website

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email, social media posts, and other electronic messages), if you contact us

• Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes

• Personal data you provide when making a donation or purchase

• Biographical or other data you provide to us 

• Details of transactions made through our Website and details of the fulfillment of your orders (you may be required to provide financial personal data before placing an order through our Website)

• Your search queries on our Website

 

Features that are developed in the future may result in the collection of additional new personal data.

 

Usage Details, IP Addresses, Cookies, and Other Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may automatically collect certain data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on our Website

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type

 

The data collected in this way is anonymous. It is aggregated into statistical data to help us improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service by enabling us to:

• Estimate our audience size, browser statistics, popularity of content, and usage patterns

• Speed up your searches

• Recognize you when you return to our Website

 

We use cookies (or browser cookies) for this automatic data collection. A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

 

How We Use Your Personal Data

We use data that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal data:

• To present our Website and its contents to you

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us

• To offer and fulfill our core business purposes, which include:

  • Preparing a personalized proposal and subsequent meeting preparations

  • Financial processing

  • Facilitating special event planning

  • Complying with any legal obligations

  • Completing our services for our clients

• To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection

• To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide through it

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website

• For email communication which includes, but is not limited to, newsletters, special offers, promotional emails, and other types of email communications designed to enhance your experience with our brand

• To store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests

• To help us develop and test updates to this Website and other Kitspirations applications that support Kitspirations's core business purposes

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the personal data

• For any other purpose where we have your consent

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Email Communication

When you interact with our services, such as signing up for an account, filing out a form on our website, making a purchase, or subscribing to our newsletter, we collect your email address and other relevant information to facilitate communication. We use your email information for email communications, including but not limited to, transactional emails related to your account activities and purchases, customer support and response to your inquiries, newsletters, promotional materials, offers, and other marketing communications, information about updates, security alerts, and support messages. Your consent to receive email communications is obtained when you provide your email information with the understanding that these communications are part of the services we offer. You have the right to opt out of receiving marketing emails at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of each email. Please note, however, that you cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails that are necessary for the operation of your account or our services.

 

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

We may disclose aggregated data about our users, and data that cannot be used to identify any individual, without restriction.

 

We may disclose personal data that we collect or you provide as described in this Policy:

• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal data confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them, including:

  • Online shop vendor

  • Payment processing vendors

  • Financial institutions and fiscal agents when processing financial transactions, such as expense reimbursements

  • Software and applications used for administrative functions such as providing online forms/surveys/applications, newsletter services, online learning, webinar/teleconference services, electronic voting

  • Cloud-based databases used for administrative functions

  • Email distribution services

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the data

• With your consent

 

We may also disclose your personal data:

• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

• If disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of all AAI clients and potential clients. This includes exchanging personal data with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Kitspirations Payment Privacy Personal Data

Kitspirations will not sell, trade, or share a client's personal data, including their name, phone number, email, or physical address, nor will it send clients mailings on behalf of other unrelated organizations. This policy applies to all client payment data received by Kitspirations, both online and offline, as well as any electronic, written, or oral communication. Kitspirations occasionally uses third-party vendors to manage and process payment data. These vendors are bound by strict confidentiality agreements.

 

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16 without parental consent. No one under age 16 may provide any personal data to or on our Website.

IF YOU ARE UNDER 16, DO NOT:

• Use or provide any personal data on our Website or on or through any of its features

• Register on our Website, make any purchases through our Website

• Provide any personal data about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or username you may use.

 

If we learn we have collected or received personal data from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that personal data.

 

Data Security

We have implemented technical and operational measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. Additionally:

• When developing new or enhancing existing systems and processes, Kitspirations implements appropriate data protection throughout its data processing operations.

• All personal data you provide to us is stored on password-protected databases on our secure servers behind firewalls and we use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) to ensure that the transmission of sensitive data for payments and contributions is encrypted and appropriately safeguarded.

• Members, Employees are trained on the importance of data security and focus specifically on practices for protecting against unauthorized disclosure of personal data.

• We have a documented incident response plan for promptly acting upon events that violate Kitspirations’s security or privacy policies, should they occur, and this plan is reviewed and updated on an ongoing basis.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of personal data via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to our Website or over any public network. Any transmission of personal data is at your own risk. Without prejudice to any mandatory legal obligations to which we may be subject, we are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures on our Website.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Kitspirations may change, add, modify or remove portions of this Policy at any time, which shall become effective immediately upon posting on this page. The date the Policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the policy. It is your responsibility to review this Policy for any changes. By continuing to use our Website, use our services, or participate in our programs, you agree to any changes in the Policy.

 

Contact Information

Kitspirations is located in Hanover, MD. For more contact information, please visit www.kitspirations.com.

 

Last modified: 01 October 2023