TeachersandTeaspoons.com, (“company”, “I”, “we”, “our”, or “us”) is committed to respecting the privacy of your personal information, and this privacy policy describes what information is collected from you on our website and how it is used. The term “you” refers to anyone who uses, visits and/or views our website.
By visiting and using our website, you accept and agree to be bound by this privacy policy. Your continued use of our website after posting of any changes to our Privacy Policy serves as your acceptance of those changes and updates. If you do not wish to be bound by this Privacy Policy, you must not use or visit our website.
What Information is Collected/How it’s Used
When you use or visit our website, you may provide certain personally identifiable information including but not limited to your name, email address, phone number, address, avatar image, or credit card information when you make a purchase on our website.
This information is collected when you register on our 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 live chat or enter any other information on the website to communicate with us. At times, we may also collect information submitted when you participate in online surveys that we may post on our website.
Your personal information is used to personalize and improve your experience with our website. It is in an effort to better serve you and provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or transactions, cater advertisements to you, elicit reviews of services/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, 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 study website statistics related to user behavior/interests, improve our performance and your use of the website and to further enhance our products/services offered to you.
Comments
If you leave a comment somewhere on our website, the comment and its metadata are retained forever. 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 may be available on our website. Social media sites can keep track of your personal information. Should you choose to interact with us on social media, please be mindful 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 dispersement 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 misuse of your information by others.
Use of Cookies
The website may use cookies to aid in your use of our 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.
To adequately serve and enhance your user experience on our website is the reason cookies are collected. The decision to accept cookies is yours, and you have the option of turning off cookies on your computer if desired. If that is your desired action, viewing all features and content of our website may prove difficult.
Disclosure of your Information/Third Parties
Of their own accord, these third party 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 have no control over these third parties and they have their own privacy policies. We are not responsible for the activities and practices of these third parties. You should contact them directly and read their privacy policies for any questions. In addition, you expressly agree that your use of these third party websites is solely and completely at your risk. We do not disclose your personal information to third parties with the exception of the following occasional instances:
- 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/services offered here.
- 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.
- 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.
Subscribing via Email
The option of subscribing to or unsubscribing from our email list will be offered to you. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receive any content related to our 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 and unsubscribe from our email list at any time. Please contact any third party websites directly to unsubscribe and/or opt out from their communications.
Intended Age Use
The privacy of children (“child” means an individual under the age of 13) is heavily respected by our website. All information and content on our website is intended for individuals over the age of eighteen. Children under the age of 13 should not be 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.
Security
The security of your personal information is very 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 absolute security of your information.
This privacy policy is effective as of February 2, 2024. It will be updated and/or modified as needed. It is your responsibility to reference it as needed.