Please read the following statements carefully, as they address the rules of engagement between us.
Your privacy is critically important to us. We want to assure you we respect your data protection rights in compliance with the latest EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements as of May 25, 2018.

This Website is owned and operated by Sandra Bass Joines/Sandra Joines. The following terms and conditions govern your use of this site and all other Sandra Bass Joines/Sandra Joines Sites and products, some of which (but not all) are listed herein.

For the purpose of this agreement and for ease of use, any reference to “the Company” shall be a reference to Sandra Bass Joines/Sandra Joines and any reference to “the Website” shall be a reference to any and all websites owned by the Company, their respective products, and their employees and agents.

The Websites include, but are not limited to:  www.sandrajoines.com    www.sandrajoinesbooks.com.

By accessing this Website and any of the Company’s properties, you are acknowledging and accepting the conditions of this Privacy/Terms & Conditions Policy for all of the Company’s properties.

These terms of use are subject to change at any time at the discretion of the Company without notice. Your use of any of the Company’s Websites after any changes are implemented constitutes your acceptance of the changes. Therefore, we encourage you to consult the Privacy/Terms and Conditions herein frequently.

FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES
—We do not actively collect sensitive information about you, including information about your health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or criminal history. We will take steps to appropriately protect any sensitive information (provided by You) we do receive.
—We do not share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
—We do not store personal information on our servers unless required for the operation and delivery of our services to you.
—We store personal information only for as long as we have a reason to keep it.
—You will receive occasional emails ONLY by your request. 
—Regarding communications, we provide you explicit options to not receive individual messages in which you are not interested. We also provide you the option to UNSUBSCRIBE from email communications with us at any time from the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails.

TYPE OF PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION WE MIGHT COLLECT
Like most website operators, we collect (via its Websites) 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.
Our purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how our visitors use our Websites.
We also collect potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. We do not use such information to identify our visitors, and do not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that we use and disclose personally-identifying information, as described above.
Certain visitors to our Websites choose to interact with us in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information like email address, first name and last name (to name some). The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction.
We collect such information only as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always REFUSE to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
It is our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Websites.

PROTECTION OF CERTAIN PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
We disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of our employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that  need to know that information in order to process it on our behalf or to provide services available at our Websites, and 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 our Websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them.
We will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to our employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, we disclose potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information, only when required to do so by law, or when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of the Company, third parties or the public at large.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONALLY IDENTIFYING INFORMATION
If you are a registered user of any of our Websites and have supplied your email address, we may OCCASIONALLY send you an email to tell you about new books, programs, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with us.
We are committed to delivering only information we consider to be relevant and of benefit to you. We expect to keep this type of email to a minimum.
We take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

AGGREGATED STATISTICS
We may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to our websites. We may display this information publicly but will not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described above.

COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Cookies are small text files of information stored by your internet browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use cookies to collect browsing data, for example, to keep track of your preferences and profile information and to collect general usage and volume statistical information. Our cookies do not collect personal, confidential information and are not spyware.
You may set your internet web browser to refuse cookies or to remove cookies from your hard drive.
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. The Company uses cookies to help the Company identify and track visitors, their usage of The Company’s Websites, and their Websites access preferences. The Company’s visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using the Company’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of the Company’s Websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

ADS
IF any ads appear on any of our Websites, they MAY be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy/Terms & Conditions Policy covers the use of cookies by the Company and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers or any other third party.

YOUR CONSENT
By using any of the Company’s Websites you consent to our collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

CHOICE/OPT-OUT
You may choose to STOP receiving our newsletter or marketing emails at any time, by following the unsubscribe instructions included in any of our emails, by updating your communications preferences via our email service provider, or you can contact us at: sandra@sandrajoines.com.

TESTIMONIALS
If you provide us with a testimonial, you give us your consent for the use of your name and the Service to be displayed on any of our Websites  or in our other marketing materials, along with the content of the testimonial that you provide.

COMMENTS
Comments and other content submitted to our sites are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
The Website is not intended for use by children under the age of 15. We will not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we discover that a child has provided us with personal information, we will use reasonable efforts to delete this information.
If you have reason to believe we may have accidentally received personal information from a child under the age of 15, please immediately submit details to sandra@sandrajoines.com

ACCESS TO INFORMATION
You have the right under the Data Protection Act to access the information which we hold about you. If you wish to exercise this right, please email your request to sandra@sandrajoines.com.  In order to meet our costs in responding, we will charge you a fee of $10.

ABOUT THE PRIVACY/TERMS & CONDITONS POLICY
If you do not understand any of the contents in Privacy/Terms & Conditions or if you have any questions or comments, we invite you to contact us via email at sandra@sandrajoines.com

PERSONAL DATA we might collect via our websites sandrajoines.com and sandrajoinesbooks.com (the “Website”). Personal Data that YOU PROVIDE TO US –
We only collect Personal Data where you choose to interact with us on the Website in the following ways:

—When you sign up to receive free content, including but not limited to eBooks, news and offers, register for contests, or leave testimonials, we may collect your email address, first and last names.

—When you purchase book directly from us, we may collect your name, email address, phone number, and any additional information to you provide. We do not have access to the personal information you supply regarding your credit card account. The information is delivered to PayPal (the company who will process your payment).

—When you complete the contact form, we may collect your name, email address, and any information you type in the comments.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY SITES 
This Site may contain links to other sites which are controlled by third parties. Those linked sites are not under the control of the Site owner or operator and this Site is not responsible for the contents of any linked site or any link contained in a link site. The Site is providing those links to you only as a convenience, and the inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by the Site of any other linked site.

MODIFICATION 
The Site reserves the right, in its discretion, to change or modify all or any part of these Privacy/Terms and Conditions at any time for any reason or no reason. Changes will be effective immediately once they are posted on the Site. Your continued use of the Site constitutes your binding acceptance of these Privacy/Terms and Conditions, including any changes made by the Site, as permitted above. If you desire not to be bound by any modification of these Privacy/Terms and Conditions, you should stop using the website. The updated, online version of these Privacy/Terms and Conditions shall supersede any prior version.

AUTHORIZATIONS AND PERMISSION TO SEND EMAILS TO YOU 
You hereby authorize and permit notices, advertisements, E-mail and other communications to be sent to You from Company including without limitation e-mails, advertisements, notices and other communications. Moreover, You agree that Your authorization and permission to Company to send You such materials and communications shall continue to be in effect unless and until YOU notify Company that You wish to be deleted from Company’s email list.

The subscriber hereby warrants and represents that he or she is over the age of 18, and in all respects is qualified and competent to enter into this agreement. You agree that you understand that some or all of the testimonials on this website are for promotional purposes. These testimonials are used to reflect an average or non-typical user experience and are strictly for promotional purposes.

CONTACT US
Sandra Bass Joines
Denver, CO
Email for security questions: sandra@sandrajoines.com
Last modified: January 2, 2022