Content+Design™ LLC values your privacy and data protection. Please read our privacy notice carefully to understand how we collect, use, protect, or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website. Please review our Cookie Policy as well. We will update this notice as needed and inform those users, who are in our database, of any changes directly. Last updated: March 26, 2023
Tekla Szymanski
Content+Design™ LLC
790 Riverside Dr
New York NY 10032
United States
editor@tekla-szymanski.com
“This is about more than legislative box-ticking…Accountability is at the center of all this: of getting it right today…and getting it right beyond that.” —Elizabeth Denham, UK Information Commissioner
Content+Design™ LLC doesn’t apply different privacy and cookie policies or terms of use according to whether you are part of the European Union or whether you live in the United States or elsewhere.
Content+Design™ LLC pledges that the personal data of EVERYONE interacting with this website, www.tekla-szymanski.com, irrespective of their country of residence or from where they access this website, is protected and secured under the same strict and transparent privacy regulations set forth by the GDPR.
We only ask you to supply us with a minimum of data required to fulfill your requests or to make the use of this site more functional for you. This website does NOT require the use and therefore does NOT require the storage, of personal passwords. Incoming IP addresses will be encrypted/anonymized at our end. Content + Design™ LLC uses a secure SSL connection.
We collect the following data from you, if you have given your consent:
I. Email opt-in to receive the freebie download link:
If you submit your data, it will be used ONLY to receive the Freebie you signed up for (you will receive an email to double opt-in in order to download that freebie), and occasional follow-up emails regarding that freebie ONLY. You can unsubscribe at ANY time, using the unsubscribe link in the emails, and your data will be deleted from our password-secured and encrypted email database stored with ConvertKit, which is fully GDPR compliant. Content + Design™ LLC does NOT share any of your personal data with other parties.
II. Contact form on contact page to send a message:
If you submit your email, name and a brief message and give us your explicit consent, we will use that data ONLY to follow up on your message, using the email you have provided. You will NOT be automatically added to a mailing list. Content+Design™ LLC does NOT share any of your personal data with other parties.
III. Your free consultation call scheduling and Website Evaluation Form submission prior to our call:
Your information is ONLY used to follow up with you in order to schedule your free consultation call and to conduct the call efficiently. Your data will NEVER be shared with other parties and you will NOT be automatically added to a mailing list. Your data is safely stored on our password-secured and encrypted database on Siteground‘s server and on Acuity Scheduling, which are both fully GDPR compliant.
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.
We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers. We use regular Malware Scanning and other regular scans to detect security holes and vulnerabilities.
This site is hosted with SiteGround and operates on its servers. SiteGround, as a global company, is fully GDPR compliant.
We collect cookies ONLY to gather website usage data to improve the site structure and content flow. We NEVER collect any personal data through the use of cookies. Cookies are NOT required to use our website.
You can read our detailed cookie policy here.
This site does NOT display advertising. We do not use ad tracking. We don’t use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information, unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect our or others’ rights, property, or safety.
Links to external sites, including any affiliated links (which are clearly labeled as such) are covered by the respective privacy and cookie policies and terms of use of the companies/organizations/service providers that we link to.
Content+Design™ LLC is NOT responsible for or has insights into, their compliance with the GDPR.
This website uses Google Analytics to track demographics, page traffic, browser settings and website usage data for internal use only to improve the site’s navigation and content flow. That data will NEVER be shared with 3rd parties.
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared.
According to CalOPPA, we agree to the following:
You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes on our Privacy Policy Page.
You can change your personal information by emailing us.
We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
We do not allow third-party behavioral tracking.
When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe.
Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email and via in-site notification within 1 business day.
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle, which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following:
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at
editor@tekla-szymanski.com
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us by email at
editor@tekla-szymanski.com