Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy
Updated: October 6, 2024
This privacy policy applies to data collected through www.solightlylivingjournals.com by So.Lightly Living (“this website”) and data collected in the course of any of your communications and engagements with this website or its services.
If you have questions about this privacy policy, please e-mail so.lightlyliving@gmail.com, or submit your question via this website at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
What data is collected, why, and how is it stored?
This website collects certain data in order to provide and improve the services on this website, to communicate with you, for security purposes, reasonable business purposes including analytics purposes, and as necessary to comply with law. Data is maintained for as long as is reasonable to accomplish these purposes. This website is hosted by SquareSpace. Data collected by this website is hosted by Squarespace, and some data may also be stored in Google products such as Google Drive and G-mail. Third-parties who provide services to this website may also store certain data collected by this website.
Personal data you voluntarily provide to this website. This is any information you provide to this website by filling out forms, including, but not limited to, downloading free printables, signing up for a newsletter, or communications submitted through the “Contact” form or any other form on this website. This could include names, e-mail addresses, mailing or billing addresses, and contact preferences. You are not required to provide any of this information, and you can choose not to share this data by not providing it. If you do not provide some, or all, of the requested information, then you may not be able access some services of this website. For example, if you choose not to provide an e-mail address, you will not be able to receive the newsletter.
Anonymous data. This website may collect certain information when you visit it. This information does not identify you as an individual. This data may include device information and characteristics, information about how you use this website, your IP address, browser, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, general location information, searches, pages and files viewed or downloaded, buttons clicked on, and other information about when and how you use this website. This information helps maintain security and is used for analytics and reporting purposes and to help improve this website.
Children’s data. This website does not solicit data from children or market to children under the age of 18. By using this website, you represent that you are 18 or older. If you are aware that this website has unknowingly collected data from your child, please contact so.lightlyliving@gmail.com.
What about third-parties?
Data collected by this website may be shared with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who carry out services for this website. Categories of third-parties this website may share data with include: affiliate marketing programs, ad networks, social networks, sales and marketing providers, web hosting services, testing and website performance tools, data storage and analytics providers, order processing services, retargeting platforms, communication and collaboration tools, and cloud computing services. Data collected by this website may also be shared in the event that ownership of this website is transferred. This website contains links to third-party websites and advertisements from third-parties. This website makes no guarantees related to any third-parties and is not liable for loss or damage caused by the use of third-party websites, services, or applications. A link on this website to a third-party is not an endorsement. This website cannot guarantee the safety or privacy of any data provided to third-parties.
Any data provided to third-parties is not covered by this privacy policy and is instead covered by the privacy policy of the third-party, and the third-party is solely responsible for that privacy policy and its implementation.
For information on the privacy policies of third-party service providers this website uses, please see the following:
Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics to analyze the use of this website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by using cookies. You may opt out of Google Analytics with a browser add-on. You may view Google’s privacy policy here.
Google Ads
Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user's prior visits to this website or other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visit to this website and/or other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You may also visit www.aboutads.info to opt-out of third-party vendor use of cookies for personalized advertising. If you have not opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on this website. You can read more about how Google uses data on its partner websites here.
Squarespace
This website is hosted by Squarespace and uses Squarespace analytics. This website collects personal data to power website analytics and hosting through Squarespace, including: information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website, and your IP address. This information may also include details about your use of this website, including: clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches, and timestamps. This website shares this information with Squarespace to learn about site traffic and activity.
Squarespace needs this data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
When you download a free printable from this website, this website collects information from you to fulfill the order. This may include an address, e-mail address, name, and details related to your purchase. You are not required to use your actual address or name to download a free printable from this website. Information you submit when you download a free printable is shared with Squarespace, this website’s online store hosting provider, so that it can provide website services for this website. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience. You may receive an e-mail with messages about your order or account activity. For example, an email to tell you that: you’ve created a customer account, your customer account password has been reset or updated, you’ve made a purchase, or your order has shipped. This website shares your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you.
When you submit information to this website via a form, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. This information is shared with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that it can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Google for storage and data porting. You can view Squarespace’s privacy policy here. You can view Google’s privacy policy here.
Fonts
This website may serve font files from, and renders fonts using, Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third-parties may receive personal information about you, including: information about your browser, network, or device, information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it, and your IP address. You can view Adobe’s privacy policy here. You can view Google’s privacy policy here.
Social Share Buttons
This website includes share buttons which enable you to share pages or other content from this website to the following third-party services: Pinterest, X, Reddit, and Facebook. If you click a share button, these third-parties may receive your personal data, including but not necessarily limited to: information about your browser, network and device, details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share, and your IP address. View the privacy policies for Pinterest, X, Reddit and Facebook for more information. If you choose to share content from this website via e-mail, SMS, or another third-party, please review the privacy policy of the third-party.
What about cookies and tracking technology?
This website uses cookies and may use other tracking technology (beacons, pixels, tags, etc.) to collect and store your data. These cookies are used to understand how you use this website and to provide the services offered by this website. Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit this website, it may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
Cookies set by the website owner are "first-party cookies." Cookies set by other parties are "third-party cookies." Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through this website; for example, advertising, interactive content, and analytics. Third-parties that set cookies can recognize your computer when it visits this website and also when it visits certain other websites. For more information, visit allaboutcookies.org. You can set your browser not to accept cookies, or remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of the features of this website may not function as a result.
This website may use other, similar technologies to cookies, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphic files that have a unique identifier that allows us to recognize when someone has visited this website or opened an e-mail. This allows this website to monitor traffic patterns from one page to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website led you to this website, to improve site performance, and to measure the impact of email marketing. Oftentimes, these technologies need cookies to work, so declining cookies may make them not function. This website may also use Flash Cookies (Local Shared Objects) for things like collecting and storing information about your use of this website, fraud prevention, and other site operations. If you do not want Flash Cookies stored on your computer, you can adjust your Flash Player settings to block these cookies.
Here is information about cookies this website uses.
rc::a – A persistent cookie used to track and analyze user behavior to distinguish humans from bots or automated software. View the Google privacy policy here.
cf_clearance – Cloudflare clearance cookie stores the proof of challenge passed. It is used to no longer issue a challenge if present. It is required to reach an origin server. View the Cloudflare privacy policy here.
test_cookie – A session cookie used to check if the user’s browser supports cookies. View the Google privacy policy here.
crumb – A session cookie used by Squarespace to recognize a computer when a user visits this website. It also prevents cross-site request forgery. View the Squarespace privacy policy here.
rc::h – A unclassified persistent cookie from Google. View the Google privacy policy here.
SS_IS_FIRST_SESSION – A session cookie used by Squarespace for analytics. Collects data on the user's visits to the website, such as number of visits, average time on this website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimizing content. View the Squarespace privacy policy here.
test – A persistent cookie that investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors. View the Squarespace privacy policy here.
SS_HAS_LANDED – A persistent cookie that collects data on visits to this website, such as number of visits, average time spent on the website and what pages have been loaded with the purpose of generating reports for optimizing content. View the Squarespace privacy policy here.
This website is hosted by Squarespace. For information about viewing the cookies used by Squarespace visit The cookies Squarespace uses. Functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, this website’s hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. Analytics and performance cookies are used on this website only when you acknowledge and accept the cookie notification banner.
Managing cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies using the cookie notification banner on this website. Functional and required cookies cannot be rejected because they are necessary to provide you with services. Click the “cookie preferences” button in the footer of this website to manage cookie preferences for this website at any time.
You can also manage cookies through your browser. You can view information about how to do this at AboutCookies.org.uk here.
What are your rights?
Opting out of marketing. You will only receive marketing and promotional communications like e-mails if you opt in to receive this service. However, you may opt of marketing and promotional communications at any time. Unsubscribe to marketing and promotional materials by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the marketing or promotional e-mail, by e-mailing so.lightlyliving@gmail.com, or by contacting this website at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
Withdrawal of Consent. If this website is relying on your consent to process your personal information, you may withdraw your consent at any time by e-mailing so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or contacting this website at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
Data Requests. Privacy rights may vary based on your residence or location. If you would like to submit a request in relation to your privacy rights, please e-mail so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or submit your question via this website at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
If the GDPR applies to you, you may have the right to ask for the data this website has collected from you, and/or the right to ask this website to change or delete data collected from you, or to restrict or object to data processing. You may also have other rights under applicable law. This website does not target people located in the EEA, but if GDPR is applicable and you make a request under GDPR, we have one month to respond to your request. If you feel that we have not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the appropriate GDPR authority. You can find more information about GDPR here.
California residents, as defined by applicable law, may receive certain information free of charge about the categories and specific pieces of personal information collected, the categories of sources from which personal information was collected, the purposes for which the personal information is used, the categories of third-parties personal information was shared with, and any categories of information sold or disclosed to third-parties. California residents also have the right to ask for inaccurate information to be corrected and to receive a response within 45 calendar days, or within 90 calendar days if we notify you of an extension. California residents may make an opt-out request for cross-context behavior advertising, and may request that this website delete any personal information collected from you and tell our service providers to do the same, subject to certain exceptions. This website does not collect sensitive personal information under the CCPA. California residents have a right not to be discriminated against for exercising their rights under the CCPA. You can find more information about the CCPA here. To make a request under the CCPA contact so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or submit your request at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
This website does not intentionally target Virginia consumers, but if the Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act is applicable and you wish to confirm whether this website is processing your personal data, correct inaccuracies, request deletion of personal data, obtain copies of personal data obtained by this website, or opt-out of the processing of personal data for purposes of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, or further profiling, you may submit a request by e-mailing so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or submit your request at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact. You can find more information about the VCDPA here.
This website does not intentionally target Colorado consumers, but if the Colorado Privacy Act is applicable and you wish to opt-out of targeted advertising, the sale of personal data, and certain types of profiling, or you wish to access, correct, port, or delete your personal data, you may contact so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or submit your request at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
This website does not purposefully direct its activities towards Nevada, but if the Nevada Privacy of Information Collected on the Internet from Consumers Act applies, you may opt-out of the sale of covered information by e-mailing so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or submit your request at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
This is not a complete list of jurisdictions that have privacy laws in place. If you would like to submit a request in relation to your privacy rights, please e-mail so.lightlyliving@gmail.com or submit your request via this website at: https://www.solightlylivingjournals.com/contact.
Your rights & applicable law. Nothing in this Privacy Policy & Cookie Policy, or in the Terms of Service or Disclaimers (“the website policies”) is intended to expand your rights beyond those provided by applicable law. Nothing in the website policies, or any other content on this website will be interpreted to expand your rights, legal claims or causes of action, or entitlement to damages beyond those already provided by applicable law. The provisions of the website policies are severable. If a provision of the website policies 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 of the website policies 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.
What else should I know about using this website?
Please review this website’s Terms of Service and Disclaimers.
Will this policy be updated?
Yes. You are encouraged to review this privacy policy to stay informed about how data is collected and used on this website.