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Last updated: May 30th 2018
 
MG Studio operates the https://www.stemsandforks.com website.
 
UPDATED Terms of Service and Privacy Policy
 

Stems and Forks is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters, workshop registrants, and those providing contact information. In addition, Stems and Forks is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Spam Policy, or to report spam abuse, please send an e-mail to Contact@StemsandForks.com. It is Stems and Forks’ policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. 

HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION MAY BE USED

Stems and Forks collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Stems and Forks’ purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Stems and Forks visitors use its website.

Stems and Forks also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on StemsandForks.com blogs/sites. Stems and Forks only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Stems and Forks may use your personal information in the following ways:

  • To operate and maintain the website;
  • To create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website to your account;
  • To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each e-mail newsletter will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings by unsubscribing;
  • To send you administrative communications, such as administrative e-mails, confirmation e-mails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
  • To respond to your comments or inquiries;
  • To provide you with user support;
  • To track and measure website performance;
  • To process payment for purchases you make through Stems and Forks;
  • To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity;
  • To review the effectiveness of our marketing programs and analyze other general demographic trends;
  • To notify you of new information or services that may be of interest to you; or,
  • To send promotional materials.

Stems and Forks does not rent or sell your personally identifiable information with third-parties. We may, however, share your information with third-parties when we are authorized to share such information.

Stems and Forks may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policy.

Tracking: Stems and Forks uses various marketing tools that help us create a better user experience for people visiting our site. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks,and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use the following third-party service providers for tracking: Google Analytics: Privacy Policy

Remarketing: Stems and Forks uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Google and Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the Google Content Network and via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our products or services as a result of visiting our website. In addition, Stems and Forks uses custom audiences based on e-mails of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our products and services to you via Facebook. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us. We use the following third-party service providers for remarketing:

Facebook: Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here

Google: Opt-out of Google remarketing here

Contact Information and Website Support: We offer multiple ways to contact Stems and Forks including contact forms and e-mails. If at any time, you attempt to contact us through a contact form, the information you provide will be stored on our servers.

Comments:
Stems and Forks uses Word Press to make it easy for you to leave comments on blog posts. Personal information that you enter for comments will be stored on the Word Press servers, in accordance with the Word Press privacy policy.

Newsletters:
Stems and Forks uses MailChimp as its e-mail service provider. MailChimp collects contact information, distributes our newsletter, and tracks actions you take that assist us in measuring the performance of the website and newsletters. You may view MailChimp’s privacy policy here. At any time, you may be removed from our newsletter list by clicking on the unsubscribe button provided in each e-mail.

Quizzes, Forms, Giveaways, Promotions, and Surveys:

We may invite you to complete a quiz, form, survey, provide feedback, or participate in a promotion (like a giveaway), either through our Sites or a third-party platform. If you participate, we will collect and store the data you provide us as part of your participation, such as your name and email address and any other requested feedback. If you submit this information via a third-party platform, the collection, use, and sharing of your data will also be subject to the privacy policies and other agreements of that third party.

Purchases:
In future, Stems and Forks may use a third party to service payments for most purchases of services. The third party may collect personal information such as your name, e-mail address, address, and payment information. Once the provider has been determined, you may view privacy policy here.

Upon making a purchase, you will receive e-mail confirmations to the e-mail address you provide during your purchase.

WEBSITE VISITORS

Stems and Forks collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Stems and Fork’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Stems and Fork’s visitors use its website.

Stems and Forks also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on StemsandForks.com blogs/sites.

Stems and Forks only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog/site where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Stems and Forks’ website choose to interact with Stems and Forks in ways that require Stems and Forks to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Stems and Forks gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who sign up at StemsandForks.com to provide a username and email address.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Stems and Forks discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Stems and Forks’ behalf or to provide services available at Stems and Forks’ website, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Stems and Forks’ website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.

Stems and Forks will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Stems and Forks discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Stems and Forks believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Stems and Forks, third parties or the public at large.

If you are a registered user of a Stems and Forks website and have supplied your email address, Stems and Forks may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Stems and Forks and our products or services. If you send us a request (for example via email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Stems and Forks takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Stems and Forks uses cookies to help Stems and Forks’ identify and track visitors, their usage of Stems and Forks’ website, and their website access preferences. Stems and Forks visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Stems and Forks’ website, with the drawback that certain features of Stems and Forks’ website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Stems and Forks, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Stems and Forks goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Stems and Forks may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Opt-out: You may opt-out of future e-mail communications by following the unsubscribe links in our e-mails. You may also notify us at Contact@StemsandForks.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to Contact@StemsandForks.com
Amend: You may contact us at Contact@StemsandForks.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to Contact@StemsandForks.com.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.

CHILDREN’S INFORMATION

Stems and Forks does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that Stems and Forks has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at Contact@StemsandForks.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

SPAM POLICY

Stems and Forks is strongly opposed to spam. We will only send e-mail to users that have explicitly requested to receive an e-mail from Stems and Forks. Examples may include:

  • Opt-in subscribers to the Stems and Forks Newsletter
  • Users that complete a contact form
  • All communication will be related and relevant to what you have requested.

WEB LINKS

Occasionally, Stems and Forks contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Stems and Forks is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy and Spam Policy applies solely to information collected by Stems and Forks.

TERMS AND CONDITIONS

HOW DO I CONTACT STEMS AND FORKS?

If you have any further questions or comments regarding the Stems and Forks website or this Privacy and Spam Policy, you may contact contact@stemsandforks.com.

 

Privacy Policy December 4th 2016 below

Personal Information Collect, Use, Disclosure and Consent
Personal Information may include your name, email address, age, home address, phone number, marital status, income, credit history, medical information, education, employment information and social registration numbers.
 
We are committed to providing our clients, customers, members (“you”, “your” or “them”) with exceptional service. Providing exceptional service may involve the collection, use and, at times, the disclosure of your Personal Information. Protecting your Personal Information is one of our highest priorities. While we have always respected your privacy and safeguarded all Personal Information, we have strengthened our commitment to this goal. This is to continue to provide exceptional service to you and to comply with all laws regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information. We will inform you of why and how we collect, use and disclose Personal Information; obtain your consent, as required; and handle Personal Information according to applicable law. Our privacy commitment includes ensuring the accuracy, confidentiality, and security of your Personal Information and allowing you to request access to, and correction of, your personal information.
 
This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service.
 
We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We will only collect Personal Information that is necessary to fulfill the following purposes:
 
•To verify identity;
•To identify your preferences;
•To open and manage an account;
•To ensure you receive a high standard of service;
•To meet regulatory requirements;
•Other legal reasons as apply to the goods and services requested.
 
We will obtain your consent to collect, use or disclose Personal Information. In some cases, we can do so without your consent (see below). You can provide consent orally, in writing, electronically or through an authorized representative.
 
You provide implied consent where our purpose for collecting using or disclosing your Personal Information would be considered obvious or reasonable in the circumstances. Consent may also be implied where you have notice and a reasonable opportunity to opt-out of having your Personal Information used for mail-outs, marketing or fundraising and you do not opt-out.
 
We may collect, use or disclose Personal Information without the consent:
•When permitted or required by law;
•In an emergency that threatens an individual’s life, health, or personal security;
•When the Personal Information is available from a public source;
•When we require legal advice from a lawyer;
•For the purposes of collecting a debt or protection from fraud;
•Other legally established reasons.
 
We will not sell your Personal Information to other parties unless consent has been provided or implied. We retain your Personal Information for the time necessary to fulfill the identified purposes or a legal or business purpose. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that your Personal Information is accurate and complete. You may request correction to your Personal Information to ensure its accuracy and completeness. A request must be in writing and provide sufficient detail to identify your Personal Information and the correction being sought.
 
We are committed to ensuring the security of your Personal Information and may use passwords, encryption, firewalls, restricted employee access or other methods, in our discretion. We will use appropriate security measures when destroying your Personal Information such as shredding documents or deleting electronically stored information, in our discretion.
 
Log Data
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.
 
Cookies
Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.
 
We use “cookies” to collect information. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. If you do not instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, your consent to our use of your Personal Information may be implied.
 
Behavioral Remarketing
MG Studio uses remarketing services to advertise on third party web sites to you after you visited our Service. We, and our third party vendors, use cookies to inform, optimize and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service. In certain circumstances, your implied consent to our accessing, using or disclosing may be provided if you do not instruct your web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is sent or if you do not opt out of Google Analytics or other services, as indicated below.
 
•Google
Google AdWords remarketing service is provided by Google Inc.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: http://www.google.com/settings/ads
Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
 
•Facebook
Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc.
You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: https://www.facebook.com/help/164968693837950
To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads follow these instructions from Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/about/ads/#568137493302217
Facebook adheres the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA http://www.aboutads.info/choices/, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada http://youradchoices.ca/ or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/, or opt-out using your mobile device settings.
For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
 
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
 
Communications
We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send.
 
Compliance With Laws
As set out above, and for clarity, we will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena or if we believe that such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement or to protect the security or integrity of our Service.
 
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
 
International Transfer
Your information, including Personal Information, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside Canada and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the information, including Personal Information, to Canada and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
 
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
 
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Minor”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Minors. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Minor has provided us with Personal Information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Information from Minors without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
 
Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.
 
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.