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PRIVACY POLICY
Your privacy is important to Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC. Please read this privacy notice carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use, and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.
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Who We Are
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (doing business as www.tootsweet4two.com) collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you.
2. Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
This website and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 13. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13 years of age. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) prohibits children under the age of 13 from using all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out any forms, or otherwise submitting information. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) will not knowingly collect personally identifiable content from anyone number the age of 13. If Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) learns it has any information or content from anyone under the age of 13, it will delete that information.
3. The Personal Information We Collect and Use
a. Information Collected by Us
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) may collect, use, and is responsible for certain personal information that you provide when you voluntarily sign up for e-mails or free gifts, register for a class or presentation, leave comments, order a service or product, fill out any type of form, access private membership pages, or otherwise contact Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.toot sweet4two.com) via an online form or e-mail. The information collected may include your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information. You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information to merely access or visit this website.
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) may collect domain information and “cookies” (small files saved on your hard drive by your web browser) to analyze website and advertisement performance, track users patterns, save information from your previous visits and customize your experience. We will ask for your consent to allow us to use cookies. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) or its third-party vendors may collect non-personal information through the use of these technologies. Nonpersonal information might include the browser you use, the type of computer you use and technical information about your means of connection to this website such as the operating systems and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC’s (www.tootsweet4two.com) systems may also automatically gather information about the areas you visit and search terms you use on this website and about the links you may select from within this website to other areas of the Internet.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as controller of that personal information for the purposes of those laws.
b. Information Collected from Other Services
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com): We also obtain first names and e-mail addresses from other sources, such as ConvertKit (an e-mail service provider).
c. How We Use Your Personal Information
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) collects such information in order to send e-mails, fulfill orders, deliver services and products, complete customer transactions, oversee promotions and improve website performance and customer service.
d. Who We Share Your Personal Information With
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) respects your privacy and will never sell, trade or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties (beyond what is necessary for fulfilling a customer transaction or for the basic functionality of an online service) without your consent.
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) may release personal information to enforce its Website Terms and Conditions of Use, other Terms and Conditions, manage its business, protect users or the general public, or to otherwise comply with legal obligations.
If you give Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) your permission, it may also use personal identification information for internal or external marketing and promotional purposes.
On occasion, Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) may collect personal identification information from you in connection with optional contests, special offers or promotions. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) will share such information with necessary third parties for the purpose of carrying out the contest, special offer or promotion. We will ask for your consent to such disclosure and use of such information, prior to your participation in the contest, special offer or promotion.
We will not share your personal information with any other third party.
e. Whether Information Has to Be Provided by You and Why
We do not require you to provide any personal data in order to view the information on this website. We will inform you when we collect it whether you are required to provide the information to us.
f. How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept
We will hold all non-client personal data until you let us know you would like for us to delete it or unsubscribe from our marketing contacts, which you are free to do at any time. We will hold all client and customer personal data in our files for six years.
g. Reasons We Can Collect and Use Your Personal Information
Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) collects and uses your personal information to further the following legitimate interests: to send e-mails, fulfill orders, deliver services and products, complete customer transactions, oversee promotions and improve website performance and customer service.
4. Use and Transfer of Your Information Out of the EEA
This website is operated in the United States and third parties with whom we might share your personal information as explained above are also located in the United States. If you are located in the EEA or elsewhere outside the United States, please be aware that any information you provide will be transferred to the United States. But using this website, participating in any of its services and/or providing your information, you consent to this transfer.
These countries do not have the same data protection laws as the United Kingdom and EEA. While the European Commission has not given a formal decision that such countries provide an adequate level of data protection similar to those which apply in the United Kingdom and EEA, any transfer of your personal information will be subject to the derogation in Article 49 permitting non-repetitive transfers that concern only a limited number of data subjects, as permitted by Article 49 of the General Data Protection Regulation that is designed to help safeguard your privacy rights and give you remedies in the unlikely event of a misuse of your personal information.
If you would like further information, see “How to Contact Us” below. We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside the EEA or to any organization (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.
5. Your Rights
If you want to unsubscribe from receiving e-mails from Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com), you may do so at any time. Each e-mail from Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) includes instructions for unsubscribing from these e-mail communications.
If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:
- Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal information
- Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address
- Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
- Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
- Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
- Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
- Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you
- Object to certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
- Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances
You may also have the right to claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws.
For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation, available at: Guide to the Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) – Individual Rights.
If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:
- Email, call or write to us
- Provide us enough information to identify you (e.g., user name, registration details)
- Provide us proof of your identity and address (a copy of your driver’s license or passport and a recent utility or credit card bill)
- Provide us with the information to which your request relates
6. Keeping Your Personal Information Secure
We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorized manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable authorities of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.
Please note that any comments or information that you post on the website, including www.tootsweet4two.com and social media pages, become public and third parties may use your information. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) is not responsible for any unauthorized uses by third parties in such context. You disclose such information at your own risk.
7. Links to Other Sites
You may see advertising or other content on this website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors or other third parties. Any products or services reached through a third-party link are subject to separate privacy policies. Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC (www.tootsweet4two.com) is not responsible for or liable for any content on or actions taken by such third-party websites.
8. How to Complain
We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you raise about our use of your information.
If you are covered by the General Data Protection Regulation, you may lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live, or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred.
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER THE CALIFORNIA CONSUMER PRIVACY ACT (CCPA COMPLIANCE)
If you reside in California, you are entitled to additional rights under California law and we ensure compliance with the CCPA. Here are your rights.
- You have the right to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed to third parties.
- You have the right to say no to the sale of your personal information.
- You also have the right to access your personal information, which we will provide within 30 days of such request.
- You have the right to know what personal information is collected from you and how it is used, which we explained in this Privacy Policy.
- You have the right to have your personal information deleted.
- You have the right to equal service, price and no discrimination.
- You have the right to data portability and the right to request your personal information and use it for your own purposes.
Pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light Act,” you are permitted to request information about the manner in which we share certain categories of information with third parties for their marketing use. We may disclose your personal information to our affiliates or other related third parties such as service providers, vendors for their use in marketing to you, so we can provide the products and/or services offered on this website to you. When we disclose such information, your personal information is still kept confidential and between us and that third party. It is not used for any other purpose that’s not permitted under the laws.
Please be advised we DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION to third parties and have never sold your personal information. We do not intend to sell your personal information in the future either.
Under the CCPA, you still have the right to opt-out of such sales and send us a “do not sell my information” request. If you would like to exercise any of your rights under California law, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by sending us an email at tootsweet4two@gmail.com.
Only you as the person registered with the California Secretary of State can make such verifiable consumer requested related to your personal information or someone you authorize to act on your behalf.
Your verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person you are claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such person about whom we had collected personal information. You must describe your request with enough details such as your first and last name, address and your country that allow us to properly understand the request and respond to it. Please note we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information unless we first verify your identity or authority to make such a request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. We will make all attempts to respond to your request within 30 days of receipt.
This privacy notice for California residents supplements the information included in the previous sections of this privacy policy. California and Delaware law also requires us to state whether we honor “Do Not Track” settings in your browser regarding targeted advertising and we do not monitor or respond to Do Not Track browser requests.
Privacy Notice Updates
This policy is effective as of January 1, 2020, and will be updated and modified as needed. You are responsible for visiting this page periodically to check for future updates to this policy. Any modifications to this privacy policy will be effective upon our publishing of the new terms, and your continued use of our website after the posting of any updates constitutes your acceptance of our modified privacy policy.
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the information we hold about you, or you wish to change your personal information in our records, please contact Carole Burkhard, Founder, at tootsweet4two{at}gmail.com and Toot Sweet 4 Two, LLC, 243 S. Escondido Boulevard, PMB #539, Escondido, CA 92025.
Do You Need Extra Help?
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Policy Last Updated August 10, 2020