Privacy Policy
Please read carefully
​
Prior to accessing or using our Services, please read this policy and make sure you fully understand our practices in relation to your Personal Information. If you read and fully understand this Privacy Policy, and remain opposed to our practices, you must immediately leave this site.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, contact rick.grammatica@gmail.com.
You can access Wix’s Privacy Policy via this link.
​
What ‘Personal Information’ do we collect?
​
To provide you the Services, we must collect Personal Information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“Personal Information”). We collect Personal Information you provide us, from your use of the Services, and from other sources. Here are the types of Personal Information we collect about you:
​
Information you provide us.
We collect your email only if you subscribe. You will get emails with my latest blog posts. You may recieve occasional emails with updates about this site, like new pages or projects, but you will not recieve any other promotional or marketing emails. To unsubscribe, select the unsubcribe link at the bottom of an email you receive from us.
​
Information we collect when you use the Services.
This website is hosted on wix.com. When you visit, download, and/or use any of our Services, aggregated usage Personal Information, such as Visitors’ and Users’ browsing and ‘click-stream’ activity on the Services, session heatmaps and scrolls, non-identifying Personal Information regarding the Visitor’s or User’s device, operating system, internet browser, screen resolution, language and keyboard settings, internet service provider, referring/exit pages, date/time stamps, etc, may be provided.
Neither this site nor Wix sells your Personal Information.
Wix may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
​
-
To provide and operate the Services;
-
.To analyze our performance and further develop, customize, expand, and improve our Services, based on Users’ common or personal preferences, experiences and difficulties;
-
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred information, which we or our business partners may use to provide and improve our respective services;
-
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.
We may use techniques like “machine learning” (European law refers to this as “automated decision-making”) to help us improve our services. When we use machine learning, we either: (i) still have a human being involved in the process (and so are not fully automated); or (ii) use machine learning in ways that don’t have significant privacy implications (for example, reordering how applications might appear when you visit the Wix App Market). We may also use machine learning to help us monitor, identify, and suspend accounts sending spam, or engaging in other abusive or fraudulent activity.
We use your Personal Information:
​
-
Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to perform a an agreed purpose, i.e. share blog post updates;
-
Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to comply with a relevant legal or regulatory obligation that we have; or
-
Our use of your Personal Information is necessary to support legitimate interests and business purposes (for example, to update you with news or updates about this site), provided it is conducted in a way that is proportionate and that respects your privacy rights.
If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, you can contact rick.grammatica@gmail.com. If Wix is requested by to remove your Personal Information, they will respond to such requests in a timely manner upon verification and in accordance with applicable law. Unless otherwise instructed, they will retain your Information for the period set forth in Section 12 of the Wix Privacy Policy.
​
​
Use of cookies and other third-party technologies
​
We and Wix use cookies and other similar technologies (“Cookies”) in order for us to provide our Service and ensure that it performs properly, to analyze our performance and marketing activities, and to personalize your experience.
​
You can learn more about how Wix uses cookies and similar technologies and how you can exercise control over them in their Cookie Policy.
​
Please note that we do not change our practices in response to a “Do Not Track” signal in the HTTP header from a browser or mobile application, however, most browsers allow you to control cookies, including whether or not to accept them and how to remove them. You may set most browsers to notify you if you receive a cookie, or you may choose to block cookies with your browser.
Where do we Store/Process your ‘Personal Information’?
Your data is stored stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.
Wix processes data about individuals across the world and may transfer your Personal Information outside of your country. Your security, privacy and confidentiality are our top priority and that's why Wix conducts a vetting process that includes an assessment of the privacy laws in those countries to validate they have strong data protection laws.
If you are in Europe, the U.K., or Switzerland, when we transfer your Personal Information to a location outside of Europe, We will make sure that (i) there is a level of protection deemed adequate by the European Commission or (ii) that the relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place (i.e., the applicable module of the Standard Contractual Clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries pursuant to Regulation (E.U.) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council from June 4, 2021, as available here, and the ICO’s International Data Transfer Addendum to the E.U. Commission Standard Contractual Clauses version B1.0, in force from 21 March 2022, as it is revised under Section 18 of its Mandatory Clauses), or (iii) we comply with Data Privacy Framework as applicable to data transfers to the United States and specified in clause 5.4 below, or (iv) we use another legally recognized transfer mechanism in the applicable jurisdiction.
Wix may store and process Personal Information in the USA, Europe, Israel, or other jurisdictions, whether by ourselves or with the help of our affiliates and service providers. Wix’s data storage providers are contractually committed to protect and secure your data. Among other things, Wix will ensure that there is the adequate level of protection or that relevant Standard Contractual Clauses are in place for the international transfer of our EU users’ data.
When Wix transfers E.U. Personal Information to a third country that the European Commission did not find will adequately protect your information, Wix ensures that it has taken additional measures to comply with the European data protection laws.
Data Privacy Framework: Wix complies with Data Privacy Framework (“DPF”) that embeds the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“EU-U.S. DPF”), the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (“Swiss-U.S. DPF”) as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce, European Commission, UK Government, and Swiss Federal Administration regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union, the United Kingdom (and Gibraltar), and Switzerland to the United States. Wix has certified to the U.S. International Trade Administration (ITA), within the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the Data Privacy Framework Principles. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Policy and the Data Privacy Framework Principles, the Data Privacy Framework Principles shall govern. Wix’s commitment to subject the personal information described in this Policy to the Data Privacy Framework is subject to the enforcement and investigative powers of the United States Federal Trade Commission.
To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework Program visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/, and to view Wix’s certification, please click here.
Wix may share personal information with third parties under certain circumstances described in their Policy, subject to obligations under the Data Privacy Framework Principles extend to third parties acting as agents who help us run our business and provide services.
Data retention
​
After subscribing, your email will not be used but will remain in an unsubscribed list. Your Personal Information may be retained on this site or with Wix for as long as this site is active, as indicated in this Privacy Policy, or as otherwise needed to provide you with our Services.
​
Wix may continue to retain your Personal Information after this site is deactivated, as reasonably necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes regarding our Users or their Users-of-Users, prevent fraud and abuse, enforce our agreements and/or protect our legitimate interests.
​
To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Information, Wix considers the amount, nature, and sensitivity of such data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of such data, the purposes for which they process it, and the applicable legal requirements.
Security
​
This website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Your Personal Information will be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. The following text is taken from Wix’s Privacy Policy.
Wix has implemented security measures designed to protect the Personal Information you share with us, including physical, electronic and procedural measures. Among other things, we offer HTTPS secure access to most areas on our Services; the transmission of sensitive payment information (such as a credit card number) through our designated purchase forms is protected by an industry standard SSL/TLS encrypted connection; and we regularly maintain a PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards) certification. We also regularly monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and regularly seek new ways and Third Party Services for further enhancing the security of our Services and protection of our Visitors’ and Users’ privacy.
​
Regardless of the measures and efforts taken by Wix, we cannot and do not guarantee the absolute protection and security of your Personal Information, your Users-of-Users’ Personal Information or any other information you upload, publish or otherwise share with Wix or anyone else. We encourage you to set strong passwords for your User Account and User Website, and avoid providing us or anyone with any sensitive Personal Information of which you believe its disclosure could cause you substantial or irreparable harm.
Furthermore, because certain areas on our Services are less secure than others (for example, if you set your Support forum ticket to be “Public” instead of “Private”, or if you browse to a non-SSL page), and since e-mail and instant messaging are not recognized as secure forms of communications, we request and encourage you not to share any Personal Information on any of these areas or via any of these methods.
​
If you have any questions regarding the security of our Services, you are welcome to contact us here.
​
​
We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you on this page that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, contact rick.grammatica@gmail.com.
​
Privacy Policy updated: 05/11/23