Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us.  This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains the online information practices of this website and choices you can make about how your information is used at our website, www.shiningdarkly.com, and its subdomains (“Shining Darkly”).

This Policy also explains our information practices concerning online and social media pages that we may maintain affiliated with Shining Darkly (the “Social Media Pages”).

We cannot control the privacy and information policies of Social Media Pages, even if those pages link to this Policy.  You should consult the privacy policies and notices of these Social Media Pages or parties to understand their information practices.

In this Policy, we refer to Social Media Pages together with the Website as the “Shining Darkly Sites”

WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT

A. Information You Provide

In general, we do not collect personally identifiable information about you (e.g. your name, address, telephone number, fax number or e-mail address).  If you fill out a “Contact Us” form, otherwise contact us, or provide us with information, then we may collect information you provide, including personally identifiable information.

B. Automatically Collected Information

We may automatically collect certain non-personally identifiable information when you visit the Shining Darkly Sites.  This includes the type of browser you are using, the type of operating system you are using, the domain name of your Internet service provider, or device information about the device you are using to visit the Shining Darkly Sites.

C.  Information Collected from Cookies

We may choose to use cookies and similar tracking technologies on this website. A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can track information about you to remember who you are. A cookie will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. We may use cookies to help us provide you a good experience when you browse the Shining Darkly Sites. We may also use cookies to improve the Shining Darkly Sites.

You may have the ability to accept or decline cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. However, some features of this website may not work if cookies are disabled.

HOW WE USE COLLECTED INFORMATION

We may use non-personally identifiable information to analyze usage of Shining Darkly Sites (such as information about which pages visitors view), which helps improve the design and content of the Shining Darkly Sites.  We may use personally identifiable information to respond to an inquiry or provide information you request.

WHEN WE SHARE OR TRANSFER COLLECTED INFORMATION

A.  We Do Not Share or Transfer Your Information Without Consent

We do not rent, or sell your personally identifiable information or share it outside Shining Darkly and its personnel without your consent.

B.  Shared or Transferred Information

However, we may share information within Shining Darkly, and with others who provide services on our behalf.  If you reside outside the United States (e.g. in the European Union) you acknowledge and agree that any information you provide to us (through the Shining Darkly Sites) or that we automatically collect from you shall be transferred to the United States.  You expressly agree to such transfer.

C.  Required Disclosure of Information

It is possible that we might be forced to disclose information in response to legal process or when we believe in good faith that the law requires it, for example, in response to a court order, subpoena, or a law enforcement agency’s request.

DISCLAIMERS

A.  Links to Other Sites or Parties

We may include links on the Shining Darkly Sites that link you to other websites or parties whose information practices may be different than ours. You should consult the privacy policies and notices of these other websites or parties to understand their information practices. We have no control over information that is submitted to or collected by third parties.

B. Privacy of Information in Transit

We cannot guarantee the privacy of information you transmit over the internet or that may be collectable in transit by others, including parties who provide services to us.

C.  Security

We employ security measures to prevent unauthorized access to information that we collect. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

CONTACTING US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Policy or its implementation, you may contact us at admin@shiningdarkly.com. If at any time you decide that we should no longer hold any of your personal information, or wish to change the use to which any such information can be put, please let us know by emailing us at admin@shiningdarkly.com with the email subject line “Request Concerning Personal Information.”

REVISIONS TO THE POLICY

We reserve the right to revise this Policy or any part of it from time to time.  Please review the Policy periodically for changes.