Privacy Policy

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) values its users’ privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) will help you understand how we collect and use personal information from those who visit our website or make use of our online facilities and services, and what we will and will not do with the information we collect. Our Policy has been designed and created to ensure those affiliated with www.candacemread.com, of our commitment and realization of our obligation not only to meet, but to exceed, most existing privacy standards.

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) reserves the right to make changes to this Policy at any given time. We advise you to frequently visit this page. If at any point in time Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) decides make use of any personally identifiable information on file, in a manner vastly different from that which as states when this information was initially collected, the user or users shall be promptly notified by email. Users at that time shall have the option as to whether to permit the use of their information in this separate manner.

Specifically, this Policy will inform you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through our website;

2. Why we collect personally identifiable information and the legal basis for such collection;

3. How we use the collected information and with whom it may be shared;

4. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data; and

5. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to protecting your private information is our priority. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) is a personal lifestyle blog. By using the www.candacemread.com website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Personal Information We Collect

In order to better provide you with products and services offered on our Site, www.candacemread.com may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

- First and Last Name

- E-mail Address

- Phone Number

If you purchase www.candacemread.com's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Why We Collect The Personal Information

Candace N. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.

www.candacemread.com also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from www.candacemread.com and its affiliates.

Personal Information and Third Parties

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com), and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com); (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com); and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Candace M. Read, LLC, or the public.

Protecting Your Personal Information

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) uses the following methods for this purpose:

- SSL Protocol

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Tracking User Behavior

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within www.candacemread.com, in order to determine what www.candacemread.com services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within (www.candacemread.com) to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com). This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of www.candacemread.com.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Children Under Thirteen

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com), you may opt out of such communications by simply unsubscribing from email list.

Contact Information

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) has not adhered to this Statement, please contact

Candace M. Read, LLC

PO Box 360413

Columbus, Ohio 43236

Email Address:

bonjour@candacemread.com

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Effective as of October 5, 2021

TERMS & CONDITIONS

Welcome to www.candacemread.com. The (www.candacemread.com) website (the "Site") is composed of various web pages operated by Candace M. Read, LLC (“Candace M. Read”). Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) is offered to you conditioned on your acceptance without modification of the terms, conditions, and notices contained herein (the "Terms"). Your use of www.candacemread.com constitutes your agreement to all such Terms. Please read these terms carefully, and keep a copy of them for your reference.

These Terms and Conditions constitute a legally binding agreement made between you, whether personally or on behalf of an entity (“you”) and Candace M. Read, LLC (“we,” “us” or “our”), concerning your access to and use of the (www.candacemread.com) website as well as any other media form, media channel, mobile website or mobile application related, linked, or otherwise connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”).

You agree that by accessing the Site, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of these Terms and Conditions. If you do not agree with all of these Terms and Conditions, then you are expressly prohibited from using the Site and you must discontinue use immediately.

Supplemental terms and conditions or documents that may be posted on the Site from time to time are hereby expressly incorporated herein by reference. We reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to make changes or modifications to these Terms and Conditions at any time and for any reason.

It is your responsibility to periodically review these Terms and Conditions to stay informed of updates. You will be subject to, and will be deemed to have been made aware of and to have accepted, the changes in any revised Terms and Conditions by your continued use of the Site after the date such revised Terms and Conditions are posted.

The information provided on the Site is not intended for distribution to or use by any person or entity in any jurisdiction or country where such distribution or use would be contrary to law or regulation or which would subject us to any registration requirement within such jurisdiction or country.

Accordingly, those persons who choose to access the Site from other locations do so on their own initiative and are solely responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable.

Intellectual Property Rights

Unless otherwise indicated, the Site is our proprietary property and all source code, databases, functionality, software, website designs, audio, video, text, photographs, and graphics on the Site (collectively, the “Content”) and the trademarks, service marks, and logos contained therein (the “Marks”) are owned or controlled by us or licensed to us, and are protected by copyright and trademark laws and various other intellectual property rights and unfair competition laws of the United States, foreign jurisdictions, and international conventions.

The Content and the Marks are provided on the Site “AS IS” for your information and personal use only. Except as expressly provided in these Terms and Conditions, no part of the Site and no Content or Marks may be copied, reproduced, aggregated, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted, distributed, sold, licensed, or otherwise exploited for any commercial purpose whatsoever, without our express prior written permission.

Provided that you are eligible to use the Site, you are granted a limited license to access and use the Site and to download or print a copy of any portion of the Content to which you have properly gained access solely for your personal, non-commercial use. We reserve all rights not expressly granted to you in and to the Site, the Content and the Marks.

Privacy

Your use of www.candacemread.com is subject to Candace M. Read’s Privacy Policy. Please review our Privacy Policy, which also governs the Site and informs users of our data collection practices.

Electronic Communications

Visiting www.candacemread.com or sending emails to Candace M. Read constitutes electronic communications. You consent to receive electronic communications and you agree that all agreements, notices, disclosures and other communications that we provide to you electronically, via email and on the Site, satisfy any legal requirement that such communications be in writing.

Children Under Thirteen

Candace M. Read does not knowingly collect, either online or offline, personal information from persons under the age of thirteen. If you are under 18, you may use www.candacemread.com only with permission of a parent or guardian.

Links to Third Party Sites/Third Party Services

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) may contain links to other websites ("Linked Sites"). The Linked Sites are not under the control of Candace M. Read and are not responsible for the contents of any Linked Site, including without limitation any link contained in a Linked Site, or any changes or updates to a Linked Site. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) is providing these links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) of the site or any association with its operators.

Certain services made available via www.candacemread.com are delivered by third party sites and organizations. By using any product, service or functionality originating from the www.candacemread.com domain, you hereby acknowledge and consent that www.candacemread.com may share such information and data with any third party with whom www.candacemread.com has a contractual relationship to provide the requested product, service or functionality on behalf of www.candacemread.com users and customers.

International Users

The Service is controlled, operated and administered by Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) from our offices within the USA. If you access the Service from a location outside the USA, you are responsible for compliance with all local laws. You agree that you will not use www.candacemread.com Content accessed through www.candacemread.com in any country or in any manner prohibited by any applicable laws, restrictions or regulations.

Indemnification

You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com), its officers, directors, employees, agents and third parties, for any losses, costs, liabilities and expenses (including reasonable attorney's fees) relating to or arising out of your use of or inability to use the Site or services, any user postings made by you, your violation of any terms of this Agreement or your violation of any rights of a third party, or your violation of any applicable laws, rules or regulations. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) reserves the right, at its own cost, to assume the exclusive defense and control of any matter otherwise subject to indemnification by you, in which event you will fully cooperate with Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) in asserting any available defenses.

Arbitration

In the event the parties are not able to resolve any dispute between them arising out of or concerning these Terms and Conditions, or any provisions hereof, whether in contract, tort, or otherwise at law or in equity for damages or any other relief, then such dispute shall be resolved only by final and binding arbitration pursuant to the Federal Arbitration Act, conducted by a single neutral arbitrator and administered by the American Arbitration Association, or a similar arbitration service selected by the parties, in a location mutually agreed upon by the parties. The arbitrator's award shall be final, and judgment may be entered upon it in any court having jurisdiction. In the event that any legal or equitable action, proceeding or arbitration arises out of or concerns these Terms and Conditions, the prevailing party shall be entitled to recover its costs and reasonable attorney's fees. The parties agree to arbitrate all disputes and claims in regards to these Terms and Conditions or any disputes arising as a result of these Terms and Conditions, whether directly or indirectly, including Tort claims that are a result of these Terms and Conditions. The parties agree that the Federal Arbitration Act governs the interpretation and enforcement of this provision. The entire dispute, including the scope and enforceability of this arbitration provision shall be determined by the Arbitrator. This arbitration provision shall survive the termination of these Terms and Conditions.

Changes to Terms

Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to change the Terms under which www.candacemread.com is offered. The most current version of the Terms will supersede all previous versions. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) encourages you to periodically review the Terms to stay informed of our updates.

Termination/Access Restriction

Candace M. Read, LLC www.candacemread.com reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Site and the related services or any portion thereof at any time, without notice. To the maximum extent permitted by law, this agreement is governed by the laws of Ohio and you hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction and venue of courts in Ohio in all disputes arising out of or relating to the use of the Site. Use of the Site is unauthorized in any jurisdiction that does not give effect to all provisions of these Terms, including, without limitation, this section.

You agree that no joint venture, partnership, employment, or agency relationship exists between you and Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) as a result of this agreement or use of the Site. Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) performance of this agreement is subject to existing laws and legal process, and nothing contained in this agreement is in derogation of www.candacemread.com’s right to comply with governmental, court and law enforcement requests or requirements relating to your use of the Site or information provided to or gathered by www.candacemread.com with respect to such use. If any part of this agreement is determined to be invalid or unenforceable pursuant to applicable law including, but not limited to, the warranty disclaimers and liability limitations set forth above, then the invalid or unenforceable provision will be deemed superseded by a valid, enforceable provision that most closely matches the intent of the original provision and the remainder of the agreement shall continue in effect.

Unless otherwise specified herein, this agreement constitutes the entire agreement between the user and Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com) and it supersedes all prior or contemporaneous communications and proposals, whether electronic, oral or written, between the user and Candace M. Read, LLC (www.candacemread.com).

Liability Disclaimer

THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, AND SERVICES INCLUDED IN OR AVAILABLE THROUGH THE SITE MAY INCLUDE INACCURACIES OR TYPOGRAPHICAL ERRORS. CHANGES ARE PERIODICALLY ADDED TO THE INFORMATION HEREIN. CANDACE M. READ, LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAY MAKE IMPROVEMENTS AND/OR CHANGES IN THE SITE AT ANY TIME.

CANDACE M. READ, LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS ABOUT THE SUITABILITY, RELIABILITY, AVAILABILITY, TIMELINESS, AND ACCURACY OF THE INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS CONTAINED ON THE SITE FOR ANY PURPOSE. TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ALL SUCH INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OR CONDITION OF ANY KIND. CANDACE M. READ, LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS HEREBY DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES AND CONDITIONS WITH REGARD TO THIS INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN NO EVENT SHALL CANDACE M. READ, LLC AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, ARISING OUT OF OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THE SITE, WITH THE DELAY OR INABILITY TO USE THE SITE OR RELATED SERVICES, THE PROVISION OF OR FAILURE TO PROVIDE SERVICES, OR FOR ANY INFORMATION, SOFTWARE, PRODUCTS, SERVICES AND RELATED GRAPHICS OBTAINED THROUGH THE SITE, OR OTHERWISE ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE SITE, WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY OR OTHERWISE, EVEN IF CANDACE M. READ, LLC OR ANY OF ITS SUPPLIERS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IF YOU ARE DISSATISFIED WITH ANY PORTION OF THE SITE, OR WITH ANY OF THESE TERMS OF USE, YOUR SOLE AND EXCLUSIVE REMEDY IS TO DISCONTINUE USING THE SITE.