Privacy Policy

I am Katie Rodante and I operate the website KatieRodante.com. This page is used to inform website visitors regarding our policies with the collection, use, and disclosure of personal information. By using KatieRodante.com, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Information Collection and Use

For a better experience while using KatieRodante.com, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

Log Data

We want to inform you that whenever you visit our Service, we collect information that your browser sends to us that is called Log Data. This Log Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser version, pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

FONTS

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

Information about your browser, network and deviceWeb pages you visited prior to coming to this websiteYour IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Squarespace Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals due to the following reasons:

  • 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.

We want to inform our Service users that these third parties have access to your Personal Information. The reason is to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

store usage

When you buy something on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill the order. We may collect information like your:

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

ORDER EMAILS

We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

  • You’ve made a purchase

  • Your order has shipped

It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages.

We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

ConvertKit Email Newsletters

Upon signing up for my email newsletter either by filling out a subscription form or placing an order in my store and checking the box to be added to my mailing list, you will receive email newsletters from me. These newsletters are sent using ConvertKit email marketing service, and so they may receive your name and email address in order to complete or maintain your subscription to my mailing list.

Substack email newsletters

Upon signing up for my email newsletter by filling out a subscription form, you will receive email newsletters from me. These newsletters are sent using Substack email marketing service, and so they may receive your name and email address in order to complete or maintain your subscription to my email list.

Security

We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Google Search Console

This website participates in Google Search Console which means that using Google to search the internet and clicking on a link to this website may result in information about you being shared with Google and this website.

ShareThis

ShareThis provides social sharing links on this website. Their privacy policy can be read here.

Comments

Comments are powered by Disqus. Read their privacy policy here.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is effective as of May 20, 2020 and will remain in effect. I reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any time. Thus, I advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. Your continued use of this website constitutes your acknowledgement of the privacy policy and your agreement to the terms detailed within this privacy policy.

Contact ME

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, please contact me.