Night Owl Illuminations cares about your privacy. To that end, here’s the lowdown about what information we don’t give away and absolutely won’t use under any circumstances:
1.) Absolutely no visitor information will be sold or given away to third parties under any circumstances. We are 100% against spam and online scams and will do nothing whatsoever to contribute to this plague.
2.) The only personal information collected at this site outside of the information submitted through any registration and order forms is anonymous statistical information used via Google Analytics for analyzing how visitors use this site. While cookies are used for recording non-identifiable traffic data, no IP addresses, names, or other personally-identifiable information whatsoever are collected through this service.
***Night Owl Illuminations is a participant in the Amazon Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com and all Amazon-affiliated international websites.***
GDPR Information:
In compliance with European Union General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) laws which went into effect on May 25th, 2018, here’s a lowdown on what information is used and shared by the various plugins and services utilized by this website:
1.) Google Analytics
See above at #2.
2.) Sassy Social Share
Here’s a summary of the various third-party social media services linked to the Sassy Social Share buttons utilized by this website:
We use a Linkedin Share widget via the social media share buttons to allow you to share our webpages on Linkedin. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.
We use Pinterest Save widget via the social media share buttons to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.
We use Reddit Badge widget via the social media share buttons which may log information when you interact with the widget. This may include your IP address, user-agent string, browser type, operating system, referral URLs, device information (e.g., device IDs), pages visited, links clicked, user interactions (e.g., voting data), the requested URL and hardware settings, in accordance with their privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy.
We use StumbleUpon Badge widget via the social media share buttons which may log information when you interact with the widget. Log Data is a form of Non-Identifying Information, in accordance with their privacy policy: http://www.stumbleupon.com/privacy.
We use a Twitter Tweet widget via the social media share buttons. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update.
We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at NOI using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
We use GooglePlus Comments widget via the social media share buttons for you to be able to comment on our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
This widget also connects with Whatsapp and Delicious, which have privacy polices of their own and use any information submitted by users solely for the purposes of logging in to their respective websites and sharing content found at this website.
3.) Fan Submission Page
The only personal information requested is your name, email address, and personal website if available. The webmaster is the only person who views this information and, apart from a name and a backlink to the website in a blog post, does not use or disclose this information to a third party in any way, shape or form.
4.) Polls
No personal information is collected by the poll plugins utilized by this website. The only information recorded are the responses to the question featured in the weekly poll.
Last updated: 20 Dec. 2019