M. Elizabeth Thorpe is committed to protecting individual privacy and securing the personal information made available to us when you visit melizabeththorpe.com. This Privacy Policy describes what information is made available to M. Elizabeth Thorpe and how that information is used and retained, and provides information on:
You do not have to provide the M. Elizabeth Thorpe with any personal information or create a user account to access information on melizabeththorpe.com. However, for some services, she may need some personal information from you such as your name and email address if you choose to contact M. Elizabeth Thorpe via the contact form on this site.
Visits to melizabeththorpe.com
When you visit melizabeththorpe.com, the following basic information is automatically received and stored by the web servers hosting melizabeththorpe.com:
- The originating Internet Protocol (IP) address;
- The internet domain name;
- Information about your computer or mobile set-up (e.g., type and version of web browser, operating system, screen resolution, and connection speed);
- The pages on melizabeththorpe.com that you visit;
- The internet address, or URL, of the website that connected you to our site, if you accessed melizabeththorpe.com via a link on another page (i.e., “referral traffic”); and
- The amount of data transmitted from melizabeththorpe.com to your computer.
M. Elizabeth Thorpe also uses web measurement and customization technologies (such as “cookies”). You can choose not to accept cookies from any website, including melizabeththorpe.com, by changing your browser settings.
Third-Party Websites
M. Elizabeth Thorpe maintains official pages or accounts on third-party websites in order to better engage you. Your activity on those sites is governed by the third-party website’s security and privacy policies. Users of third-party sites often share information with the general public, user community, and/or the third-party operating the site. Consequently, you should review the privacy policies of third-party sites before using them and ensure that you understand how your information may be shared and used. You should also adjust privacy settings on your account on any third-party site to match your preferences.
For aggregate statistical analysis and to improve the quality of our services, we may integrate web measurement tools with our social media pages. These tools enable basic analysis of social media traffic (such as the number of people visiting a certain page) and do not collect personally identifiable information.
How Information is Used
If you choose to provide us with information, we may use that information to contact you, respond to your message, or provide you the information or services you requested. In order to serve you better, we may analyze multiple sources of data you have provided (for example, to look up whether you previously contacted M. Elizabeth Thorpe about the same topic so that we do not send you a duplicative response). We may also use messages or comments collected through melizabeththorpe.com or official social media pages for our own purposes.
We may use data you provide and automatically generated data for statistical analysis to assess, for example, what information is of interest to users, technical design specifications, and system performance. This allows us to make general improvements to our site. We may also use your information in order to detect, prevent, and respond to security issues and other harmful or unlawful activities on the Site.
Sharing of this Information
Information you choose to share with M. Elizabeth Thorpe (directly and via third party sites) may be treated as public information. We may, for example, publish compilations of messages or comments collected through melizabeththorpe.com or official social media pages. However, we exercise discretion to limit such disclosures to protect your privacy (for example, we generally do not publish last names of commenters).
M. Elizabeth Thorpe uses a third-party analytics provider (currently Google Analytics) to analyze data from cookies. The third-party analytics provider does not receive personally identifiable information through these cookies. We have also limited the provider’s ability to see your full IP address (a process known as “IP masking”). Please review Google Analytics’ privacy policy for additional information.
Within M. Elizabeth Thorpe, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position.
In some cases, we may share information you have provided or automatically generated information with other government agencies in response to lawful law enforcement requests or to protect melizabeththorpe.com from security threats.
We do not use or share your information for commercial purposes and, except as described above, we do not exchange or otherwise disclose this information.
melizabeththorpe.com may link to websites created and maintained by other public and/or private organizations and individuals. When you follow a link to an external site, you are leaving melizabeththorpe.com and are subject to the external site’s privacy and security policies. We do not control or guarantee the accuracy, relevance, timeliness, or completeness of information contained on an external site. We also do not endorse the site’s sponsor, any views they express, or any products or services they offer.
Third-Party Websites
Your activity on third-party website sites is governed by the third-party website’s security and privacy policies.
We believe in the importance of protecting the privacy of children online. The Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) governs information gathered online from or about children under the age of 13. Verifiable consent from a child’s parent or guardian is required before collecting, using, or disclosing personal information from a child under age 13. Our site is not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under age 13. If you believe that we have received information from or about children under age 13, please contact us.
Security
We take reasonable precautions to protect our site and information automatically collected by melizabeththorpe.com or voluntarily submitted to melizabeththorpe.com or an official page on a third-party site. For example, we restrict access to personally identifiable information to employees, contractors, and vendors subject to non-disclosure requirements who require access to this information in order to perform their official duties and exercise controls to limit what data they can view based on the specific needs of their position. Access to official accounts on third-party sites is limited to the individuals who administer those accounts, and all official accounts are clearly labeled.
We also utilize commonly used practices and technical controls to protect the information in our possession or control, along with melizabeththorpe.com itself. These practices and controls include, but are not limited to: encrypting the transfer of personal information over the internet via Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), using high-strength firewalls and intrusion detection systems (IDS) to safeguard personal information, and maintaining strict technical controls and procedures to ensure the integrity of all data on melizabeththorpe.com.
We periodically review our processes and systems to verify compliance with industry best practices and to ensure the highest level of security for our website.
Some pages on melizabeththorpe.com may include web content or functionality from third parties, such as embedded podcast content hosted by non-melizabeththorpe.com services.
These third parties may use web measurement and customization technologies (such as cookies) in conjunction with the provision of this content or functionality. You should consult the privacy policies of these third parties for further information. We do not knowingly use third-party tools that place a multi-session cookie prior to the user interacting with the tool, for example by playing an embedded video. If you become aware of a third-party tool on melizabeththorpe.com that places a multi-session cookie prior to any user interaction, please contact us.
How to Manage Cookies
Visitors can control aspects of website measurement and customization technologies used on melizabeththorpe.com and still have access to comparable information and services on melizabeththorpe.com.
You can choose not to accept cookies from any website, including melizabeththorpe.com, by changing the settings of your browser. You can also delete cookies stored in your browser at any time.
For more information about cookies, including how to delete them from your computer and configure your browser to refuse them from melizabeththorpe.com or any other site, visit the following resource, or refer to your individual browser settings for additional information on disabling cookies.
Updates to This Privacy Policy
We will revise or update this policy from time to time. If we make significant changes to how we handle personal information, we will post changes to the policy on our site and change the date at the bottom. We will provide additional notice in advance (e.g., a disclaimer on our website or an email to subscribers) if material changes are being made.
Updated: October 17, 2021