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Policies Disclosure

Starry Living, formerly Starry-Eyed Pragmatist, (“Blog”) is a personal blog primarily written and edited by Tami Stroud (“Blogger”). These policies governs the manner in which Starry Living collects, uses, maintains and discloses information collected from users (each, a “User”) of the http://www.starryliving.com (formerly http://www.starryeyedpragmatist.com) website (“Site”). This privacy policy applies to the site and all products and services offered by Tami Stroud, Starry Living.

Guest Posts

Starry Living may from time to time accept guest posts on a case by case basis, which have been approved for publication by Tami Stroud. Guest posts will be clearly identified as such. Guest posts represent the opinions and advice of the original author.

Personal Identification Information

We may collect personal identification information from Users in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when Users visit our site, place an order, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources we make available on our Site. Users may be asked for, as appropriate, name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information. Users may, however, visit our Site anonymously. We will collect personal identification information from Users only if they voluntarily submit such information to us. Users can always refuse to supply personally identification information, except that it may prevent them from engaging in certain Site related activities.

Non-personal identification information
We may collect non-personal identification information about Users whenever they interact with our Site. Non-personal identification information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about Users means of connection to our Site, such as the operating system and the Internet service providers utilized and other similar information.

Web Browser Cookies
Our Site may use “cookies” to enhance User experience. User’s web browser places cookies on their hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about them. User may choose to set their web browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If they do so, note that some parts of the Site may not function properly.

How We Use Collected Information
Starry Living may collect and use Users personal information for the following purposes:

  • To improve customer service: Information you provide helps us respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  • To personalize user experience: We may use information in the aggregate to understand how our Users as a group use the services and resources provided on our Site.
  • To improve our Site: We may use feedback you provide to improve our products and services.

We will not share or sell information with third parties for marketing or other purposes.

How We Protect Your Information
We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.

Sensitive and private data exchange between the Site and its Users happens over a SSL secured communication channel and is encrypted and protected with digital signatures.

Third Party Websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our Site that link to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our Site. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites which have a link to our Site, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.

Advertising

This site accepts forms of cash advertising, affiliate marketing, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation. Some of the links on our site are affiliate links, meaning, at no additional cost to the user, the blogger will earn a commission if the user clicks through and makes a purchase.

The blogger is compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. Even though the blogger receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this site are purely the bloggers’ own unless clearly indicated otherwise. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service is given for information purposes only and should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

This site abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received by the blogger may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this site. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as advertising, paid, affiliate, or sponsored content.

This blog does contain content which may present a conflict of interest. The blogger has a financial interest in the user’s purchase of online education classes and materials which are sold through this site.

Ads appearing on our site may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize the user’s computer each time they send the user an online advertisement to compile non personal identification information about the user or others who use the user’s computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to the user. This privacy policy does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Google Adsense
Some of the ads may be served by Google. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to Users based on their visit to our Site and other sites on the Internet. DART uses “non personally identifiable information” and does NOT track personal information about you, such as your name, email address, physical address, etc. You may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html

Amazon Affiliate
Tami Stroud, Starry-Eyed Pragmatist, Starry Living is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

Starry Living has the discretion to update this privacy policy at any time. When we do, we update the last updated date on this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this privacy policy periodically and become aware of modifications.

Your Acceptance of These Terms

By using this site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

Contacting Us

If you have any questions about these policies, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this site, please contact us at:
Tami Stroud, Starry Living
hey [at] starryliving [dot] com

You may also contact us using the form on the Contact page

This document was last updated on May 9, 2019