A note from Stephanie Brick

Most important disclaimer: Website users under 18 should always get permission from their parent/guardian before submitting their information to a site, including this one. Please do this!

 

Intention: I am only interested in general, anonymous statistics about my website traffic and, if you sign up for my email newsletter, using your submitted information to send periodic marketing emails. With the email sign-up, I like giving fans an easy (for both of us!) way to stay connected. With the website stats, seeing this is fun for me (like what general state/country visitors tend to be from), and analyzing the stats helps me make informed decisions (like if way more visitors click on an 'events' button than a 'blog' button, I may consider doing more events and less blogging). Your information gleaned from or submitted to my site is not used by me or my businesses for any purposes or with any other intent than what's defined by that section's heading (for instance, if you submit your email to sign up for my newsletter, I will only be using your email to sign you up for my newsletter). Any website stats are only shared in aggregate form (like 'one million people visited my page today!' or 'five thousand signed books were purchased internationally last week!').

Reality: As a function of forms and technology, though, there are sometimes third parties involved in collecting, archiving, and handling, etc., visitors' information. That includes my website's hosting platform, my email marketing campaign's platform, and the app that connects these two. I've linked each of their privacy policies, because by using my site, signing up for my email list, and/or purchasing products through my site, you are agreeing to their privacy policies in addition to my own.

 

And as such, this page reflects my current privacy policy, the full version of which is included below. (It's not going to be as fun to read as my book.) This policy is updated from its original because I started offering signed copies of my book to purchase via my website. (Woohoo!)