Atelier
Lady Julia

Atelier Lady Julia blog collects only the information strictly necessary for clear, lawful and legitimate purposes, under the commitment to preserve users’ privacy and to protect their personally identifiable information. This document states our Privacy Policy, disclosing to our users which information is collected, which one is personally identifiable, how and when it is collected, for what purposes, how it is handled and protected and how they can access, rectify or eliminate their personal data.

Information automatically collected

We gather no personally identifiable information automatically, which means personal data like names, contact or financial information, .etc. is always voluntarily provided by our users and with their awareness. We automatically collect the following information which doesn’t enable us to personally identify anyone:

      Through IP Address

As a result of the normal web communication processes, when someone visits our blog we automatically gather its IP Address (Internet Protocol Address), the IP Address from the site that person came from in the first place and the one he or she went to after leaving our site. During each IP Address visit, we follow up its steps inside our website, gathering statistical data like the time spent and the number of pages visited, the type of browser used, etc. We don’t follow up that IP Address visits to other websites besides our own.

None of this information enables us to identify anyone personally. We gather it only to understand how our site is being used in general terms and to help us improve our work. We don’t cross the data automatically gathered this way with any of the personally identifiable information we collect on our blog’s forms, which means we don’t relate IP Addresses and their use of our pages with any personal names, email addresses or any other personally identifiable information.

   Through cookies

Cookies are small text files downloaded by users’ browsers to their computers when they visit a website. These files are used to store users’ information and preferences (such as visits’ dates, pages viewed, products ordered or information users filled in themselves, like usernames, passwords, etc.) aiming mostly to improve sites’ functionality and users’ browsing experience. Browsers’ settings can be changed to notify users when “cookies” are placed on their computers or simply to refuse them. However, when users choose to refuse cookies to be placed in their computers, they may notice that some sites’ services and features are not as efficient or accessible as they could be.

Atelier Lady Julia uses some cookies. When our users comment on Atelier Lady Julia, some cookies are stored on their computers with the name, email address and URL they filled in, so they won’t need to re-type that information each time they return to comment on our blog. In addition, some of the advertising services or affiliated programs we use may in some cases store in users’ computers cookies with our referral ID, so they can track us back as the referral source. None of this information allows personal identification, neither is it crossed with personal data. After a while, cookies’ sessions expire and stop producing any effect.

Information collected through forms

The personally identifiable information collected on our blog, such as email address, name, address, phone number, etc. is never automatically collected, but voluntarily and consciously provided by our users when they fill in one of the following forms for lawful and legitimate purposes:

   Our contact form

To prevent Spam, we don’t provide our email address on the site. Instead, we have a contact form available for our users to send us any query or information. In order to make replying possible, through this form we collect our users’ names and email addresses along with their message. As with any other information collected through our forms, we don’t share, neither do we use this data for any other purpose and it is safely stored at Atelier Lady Julia in Portugal. As a rule, when there are no legal issues involved, we keep a contacts’ history for a year. Afterwards this data is automatically erased.

   Our “Recommend to a friend” form

Through our “Recommend to a friend” form our users recommend our blog or one of our specific contents to a friend. When they click on “Recommend to a friend”, they are directed to a form they must fill in with their friend’s and their own email addresses. When they submit this information it is emailed to their friend and to us. It is never in any moment available online. We don’t share neither keep nor store this information. We only employ it to assess if and how this feature is being used. Afterwards, we promptly erase it from our files.

      Subscription form for Feed alerts by email delivered by Feedburner

To provide our users a daily digest of our feed’s updates, we use an external service, through Feedburner, to deliver email alerts. To subscribe this service, our users are asked to fill in their email addresses on a clearly identified Feedburner’s form. We don’t share neither do we use these addresses for any other purpose and we keep them safely stored at Atelier Lady Julia, in Portugal.

This service is governed both by our own and by Feedburner’s Privacy Policies, since both of us access and store subscribers’ emails. So, users subscribing to this service should read and keep track of Feedburner’s Privacy Policy as well. This service may be unsubscribed at any moment using the footnote of each email alert. In that case, subscribers’ email addresses will be promptly erased from our files.

   Paypal donations form

When our users decide to support us with a donation and click on the “Donate” button, they automatically leave our blog and enter on a Paypal encrypted and secured session. That session and the protection of the personal data provided there is governed by Paypal’s security measures and Privacy Policy, not ours.

When our users fill in a Paypal’s donation form, they may choose between paying with their credit card and using their Paypal account, if they have one. In any case, we don’t receive, handle or store any credit card numbers or account details and it is up to Paypal to protect all the information involved in those transactions.

We’ve decided to sign up for this Paypal service precisely because they use state-of-the-art security high standards and technology, making these transactions much safer under their umbrella than we could do it by ourselves. Paypal is very experienced in fraud prevention, privacy safeguarding and transactions protection. So, we advise our users to visit Paypal’s Security Centre at their website and also to read their Privacy Policy, in order to understand their security commitment and measures.

Although Paypal doesn’t share any of our users’ financial information with us, we have access to some of their personally identifiable information concerning that transaction, namely their names and email addresses. If our users wish us to send them a receipt, they may also opt to provide a shipping address. Once again, this information is provided to us encrypted by Paypal and it is safely stored at Atelier Lady Julia, in Portugal. We don’t share it with anyone, neither do we use it for any other purpose. We will only keep and disclose it, or part of it, if and when it is necessary to comply with our tax or other legal obligations during the required legal period.

   Information posted by our users

      Our “Add your comment” form

When our users decide to comment one of our posts, they click on the comment option and fill in an “Add your comment” form. If our users don’t feel comfortable with the idea of using their own name, we advise to use a nickname instead. It doesn’t disclose users’ real identity and it helps and improves communication.

It is not required, but if our users wish to, they may also fill in their email information. However, their email address becomes fundamental if they opt in on this form to automatically follow up comments via email. This information will not be published or in any way publicly disclosed. It is safely archived and password protected inside our blog database stored at our web hosting server in Portugal. We also keep security backups of this information at Atelier Lady Julia.

We don’t share it with anyone, neither do we use it to send our users any emails about our contents or activities. We will only use it if some of our user’s comments require us to answer privately by email rather than using the posting feature. For instance, if a user has some doubt and needs a specific explanation which would be too long or not very significant for us to post, we can choose to email it instead.

      Comments’content

Although our users comment on our blog voluntarily and consciously, we also take some precautions to protect their privacy in these area. They must abide by our Conduct Code and all their comments need our approval before they are published. Mostly to protect children and inexperienced Internet users, commenters are not allowed to post personally identifiable information other than their names, which means we will erase all addresses, email addresses, phone numbers or other personal data. We only allow displaying websites URL, provided they are not spam.

Special note on children

Children may use our blog under their parents or educators supervision (please see our Editorial Policy). However, minors under the age of 18 shouldn’t post, email or submit us any personal information, in any way, not even their email addresses. If we detect a child under 18 is posting or emailing personal information, we will promptly erase it from our files.

Third party websites and weblogs

Our blog contains links to other websites and weblogs. We are not responsible for their privacy practices and policies. When our users leave our blog to enter those sites and blogs, they are no longer under our Privacy Policy and we can’t protect, neither are we liable for any personally identifiable information collected there. We advise our users to read those sites’ privacy policies. They should clearly understand which information is collected and how it is handled.