Little Book Farmers Privacy Policy

Last Modified: August 26, 2024

This Privacy Policy is about how Little Book Farmers collects and uses information from people who use our Services (a “user” or “users”).

This is the Privacy Policy for littlebookfarmers.com, a website owned and operated by Little Book Farmers and for Little Book Farmers’ network of websites, including as applicable, Little Book Farmers’ imprint sites, The Little Book Farmers Happy Lines Family.

The word “Services” in this Privacy Policy means our websites (including those located at littlebookfarmers.com and thehappylinesfamily.com) and our other digital products and services.

Little Book Farmers is also referred to as “Little Book Farmers,” “we,” “us,” and “our” in this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect, use and disclose about users:

On and through our Services.
In email, the contact form, text and any other electronic messages between users and our Services.

CHILDREN

Some of our Services are attractive to or intended for use by children under the age of 14, while other Services or portions of our Services are intended for use by persons over the age of 14. When we collect information on our Services, or sections of our services that are child-directed, we do so following the principles of the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

We do not ask persons under the age of 14. to provide us with personally identifying information like a name, email address, telephone number, birthdate, or address.

We understand the importance of providing greater privacy protections when it comes to children. Little Book Farmers does not knowingly collect or use ANY personally identifying information from users under the age of 14.

If Little Book Farmers learns that we have, without our knowledge, collected personally identifying information from a user under the age of 14, we will notify the child’s parent if possible and/or delete all information relating to that child and cease to collect any more personal information from that child.

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Information That Is Collected Automatically. When our Services are used we may collect some information automatically. This helps us analyze and optimize the performance of our Services. We do not use this information to personally identify users. Information we collect automatically includes information such as user device properties, IP address, Media Access Control (“MAC”) address and unique device identifier or other device identifier (“UDID”); user device software platform and firmware; the search terms used on our website; specific web pages users visit; the duration of use of our website; geographical data; statistical or aggregated information; and, other non-personally identifying information as is reasonably required to enhance our Services.

This information may be collected from all users of the Services.

Information That We May Ask For. To use some parts of our Services we request users to provide certain information. For example:

When a user contacts “us”, we ask for the user’s first name, last name, phone number and email address.
When a user subscribes to our newsletter, we ask for the user’s first name, last name and email address.

We do not knowingly collect this information from users under the age of 18. Where we ask for this information, we include an age check box on the contact page intended to only allow access to users aged 18 or over.

HOW WE USE USERS’ INFORMATION

We may collect, maintain, and use a user’s information for the following purposes:

To respond to contact inquiries.
To send out newsletters.
For system administration purposes and for internal operations (including troubleshooting, data analysis, and testing) to ensure the Services operate properly.
To analyze use of the Services to improve the user experience and to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for user devices.
To ensure that our Services are safe and secure.
To notify users of any changes to the Services.
For geo-based redirection.
For age screening purposes.

A SPECIAL NOTE FOR PARENTS AND LEGAL GUARDIANS:

Little Book Farmers adheres to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), in our online Services directed to children under 14. Please help us protect your child’s privacy by instructing them never to provide Personally Identifiable Information (like their full name, e-mail address, home address, telephone number, etc.) without your permission.We encourage you to get involved with your children’s online usage and to be aware of the activities in which they are participating.

A SPECIAL NOTE TO KIDS:

If you are under 18, you must get your parent’s or legal guardian’s permission before giving out your contact information, like e-mail address or phone numbers, or any other personal contact information, to Little Book Farmers.

WHEN DO WE SHARE USER INFORMATION?

We may disclose aggregated data about our users without restriction. Aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature of the Services.

We may disclose personal information that we collect as described in this Privacy Policy:

To our service providers. We share information with unaffiliated companies or individuals we hire or work with that perform services on our behalf, including web hosting, information technology, and analytics services. Our service providers will be given access to your non-identifiable information only as is reasonably necessary to provide the services for which they are contracted.
For legal and safety reasons. We may disclose personal information if required by law or in the event that we need to share information with a third party in order to protect user safety and security or the safety and security of Little Book Farmers and its employees.
In the event of a corporate change. We may disclose user information to third parties in connection with a corporate change, including any due diligence process, but such disclosure will be subject to this Privacy Policy continuing to govern treatment of personal information.
With consent. Other than as described in the Privacy Policy, we will NOT disclose your personal information to any third party unless we have received your consent.

LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING USER INFORMATION

We will only process user information where we have a legal basis to do so. The legal basis will depend on the purposes for which we have collected and use the information. In almost every case the legal basis will be one of the following:

Consent: for example, where the user has provided consent to be contacted by us. The user can withdraw consent at any time, including by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email we send.
Our legitimate business interests: so we can learn to make our Services better, provide the Services, improve user experience, and keep users safe.
If required by law: Where we are subject to a legal obligation and need to use user information in order to comply with that obligation.

COOKIES

Cookies are small text files that are stored on a user’s computer or device by websites they visit. Cookies are used in order to make websites function and to improve their efficiency, as well as to provide website usage information to the website owner.

Our website uses cookies from third parties to distinguish you from other users, maximize network resources, manage traffic, protect our websites from malicious traffic, and to give users the ability to purchase from our online store. This helps us to provide users with a good experience when browsing our website and also allows us to improve our site.

Users can disable some or all cookies by configuring their browser’s privacy settings (please refer to your browser’s help function to learn more about cookie controls). Note that disabling all cookies may cause our Services not to function properly.

Third-party sites:

This site may contain links to third-party sites. These other websites have their own terms and privacy policies. Nothing in this document relates to the privacy policies of any other website.

LOG FILES

As with most websites and services delivered via the internet, when users visit our Services, we gather certain information and store it in log files. This information may include but is not limited to IP addresses, system configuration information, URLs of referring pages, and locale and language preferences. We use this information to provide support for the internal operations of our Services. We do not use this information to identify or create a profile about our users.

SECURITY

We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard the information that we hold about users and regularly review our security measures to consider new technologies and methods to safeguard user data. Please note that no transmission over the internet can ever be guaranteed secure and we consequently cannot guarantee the security of any personal information that we receive over the internet.

WHERE WE STORE USER INFORMATION

Little Book Farmers has users around the world. Information collected through our Services may be stored and processed in the United States, or any other country in which we or our service providers maintain facilities. We or our service providers, such as our website hosting provider, or our email service provider, may transfer information across borders and from a user’s country or jurisdiction to other countries or jurisdictions which have varying data protection laws, some of which provide more protection than others. Where a user’s information is transferred internationally it will be protected in accordance with this Privacy Policy and the requirements of applicable privacy laws. We have taken measures to ensure that our service providers comply with certain legal frameworks related to the transfer of information, including European Commission adequacy decisions, and the EU-US and Swiss-US Privacy Shield frameworks.

DATA RETENTION

Except as required by applicable law, we will only retain personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including replying to a contact form, sending out a newsletter, or for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize personal information so that it can no longer be associated with a particular use. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice.

SELLING OF INFORMATION

Little Book Farmers does not sell your personal information to anyone.

USER RIGHTS

Users have the following rights with respect to the information we hold:

The right to access. Where we have collected user information such as in a contact form or Newsletter, users have the right to access that information.
The right to erasure. Users have the right to have their information erased.
The right to data portability. Users have the right to receive their personal information from us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
The right to withdraw consent. Where users have provided us with consent, they have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.

We will handle any request to exercise these rights in accordance with applicable law and any relevant legal exemptions. To exercise these rights please contact us using the contact details below.

Right to Request Deletion

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records. However, we may retain personal information that has been de-identified or aggregated. Furthermore, we may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) in order to perform certain actions set forth under CCPA, such as detecting security incidents and protecting against illegal activity.

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at littlebookfarmers@gmail.com.

The request should include your contact information and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. In addition, you should provide sufficient information (including full name and email address) that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected the personal information or an authorized representative.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact us at littlebookfarmers@gmail.com

Jurisdiction-Specific Rights

California Privacy Rights

CCPA and Other State Privacy Laws

If you reside in California or in a jurisdiction that provides similar rights, under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”) or applicable law, you have specific rights regarding your personal information. This section describes the rights that California Consumers have, and residents of other jurisdictions may have, (subject, in all cases, to any limitations set forth in the CCPA or applicable law) and explains how to exercise those rights.

Information We Collect; How We Collect It; How We Use It

We collect information (some of which may also constitute Personally Identifiable Information) that identifies, relates to, describes, references, or is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer or household. The CCPA refers to such information as “personal information”. As used herein, “personal information” does not include:

Information that is lawfully made available from federal, state or local government records.
De-identified or aggregated information.
Information excluded from the scope of the CCPA.

We collect, and have collected within the last twelve months, the following categories of personal information including personal identifiers from our Contact Form or Newsletters, including full name, email address and phone number, age (only for legal compliance purposes).

Personal information covered by the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) – Including full name and email address.

Personal information may be collected, used and disclosed:

As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.
To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry.
To send you information you have requested (like an email newsletter).
For internal research for technological development and demonstration and to improve, upgrade or enhance our products or services.
To detect security incidents, protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, and prosecuting those responsible for that activity

Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Little Book Farmers has disclosed the following categories of personal information for a business purposes:

Personal identifiers.
Internet or other similar network activity.

Right to Opt-Out of Sales of Personal Information

The CCPA provides California Consumers the right to direct businesses to not sell their personal information at any time (the “right to opt-out”). In the preceding twelve (12) months, Little Book Farmers has not sold personal information, and Little Book Farmers will not sell any personal information.

Right to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed or Sold

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection, use, disclosure or sale of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request and subject to certain limitations that we describe below, we will disclose such information. You have the right to request any or all of the following:

The categories of personal information we collected about you.
The categories of sources from which the personal information is collected.
Our business or commercial purpose for collecting personal information.
The categories of third parties with whom we share your personal information.
The categories of personal information that we sold, and the categories of third parties to whom we sold each category of personal information.
The categories of personal information that we disclosed for a business purpose, and the categories of third parties to whom we disclosed each category of personal information.
The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

Right to Request Deletion

Exercising Access and Deletion Rights

Only you, or a person or a business registered with the California Secretary of State (for California Consumers) that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information.

Contact littlebookfarmers@gmail.com

The request should include your contact information and describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it. In addition, you should provide sufficient information (including full name and email address) that allows us to reasonably verify that you are the person about whom we collected the personal information or an authorized representative.

Non-Discrimination

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights.

Nevada Privacy Rights

If you are a Nevada resident, you have the right to request that we do not sell your covered information (as those terms are defined in N.R.S. 603A) that we have collected, or may collect, from you. However, We do not sell your information.