Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to Compound Insight, LLC, the owner of scuttleblurb.com. This privacy statement provides information about the personal information that Compound Insight, LLC collects, and the ways in which Compound Insight, LLC uses that personal information.

Website Visitors

Compound Insight, LLC’s purpose in collecting your personal information is to better understand how visitors use the Website, enable you to access and use the website, send you invoices, collect payments, send you marketing communications, personalize the website for you by displaying your name, and send regular email notifications on blog posts.

Where Compound Insight, LLC discloses your personal information to its agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this privacy statement. Except for the third-party vendors that collect your data separately when you sign up and pay, Compound Insight, LLC has never shared any of its user data with any third parties.

Personal Information Collection

Compound Insight, LLC may collect and use the following kinds of personal information:

  • Your name and e-mail address are the only pieces of information that scuttleblurb.com requires to alert you to new blog posts.  We do not collect any other information on visitors to the website;
  • We use several third third-party vendors, listed below, to deliver email alerts and process payments.  We don’t ever see your full credit card number, which information is handled by Stripe or PayPal or Braintree.

Legal Basis for Collection of Information

Compound Insight asserts the following legal grounds for the collection of data:

Explicit Consent

When you sign up for scuttleblurb posts or enter your information in the pop-up box that prompts your for your name and email address, you provide explicit consent for Compound Insight, LLC to collect the above listed personal information.

Contract

If you enter an agreement with Compound Insight, LLC for the provision of services in exchange for payment, Compound Insight, LLC will be required to collect the above listed personal information.

Legitimate Interests

Finally, Compound Insight, LLC may have additional legitimate interests, including account maintenance and administrative purposes, for the collection of the above listed personal information.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Compound Insight, LLC will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone except in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Compound Insight, LLC believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Compound Insight, LLC, third parties or the public at large. If you are a subscriber of scuttleblurb.com, Compound Insight, LLC may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date on blog posts.

Your Rights

If you are located in certain countries, including those that fall under the scope of the European General Data Protection Regulation (AKA the “GDPR”), data protection laws give you rights with respect to your personal data, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the rights to:

  • Request access to your personal data;
  • Request correction or deletion of your personal data;
  • Object to our use and processing of your personal data;
  • Request that we limit our use and processing of your personal data; and
  • Request portability of your personal data.

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings, but if you aren’t able to do that, or you would like to contact us about one of the other rights, scroll down to How to Reach Us.

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, if located in the European Union, you shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

In addition to the above, an “unsubscribe” option is automatically included in the footer of every email sent by Compound Insight, LLC. This allows you to easily unsubscribe from the newsletter. In the event you unsubscribe, we will immediately stop sending you the newsletter. Please note that unsubscribing from the newsletter with the newsletter’s “unsubscribe” button does not cancel your account with Compound Insight, LLC. In order to do so, please log in at scuttleblurb.com and cancel your account.

Data Processors

Compound Insight, LLC uses the following data processors with respect to the personal information collected:

  • Stripe: Stripe manages some payment processing. Your credit card payment details are managed by Stripe and not released to Compound Insight, LLC except the date and amount of each payment, the last four digits of your credit card, expiration date, and zip code. Stripe Privacy Policy.
  • Braintree: Braintree manages some payment processing.  Your credit card payment details are managed by Braintree and not released to Compound Insight, LLC except the date and amount of each payment, the last four digits of your credit card, expiration date, and zip code.  Braintree Privacy Policy.
  • PayPal: PayPal manages some payment processing.  Your payment details are managed by PayPal and not released to Compound Insight, LLC except the date and amount of each payment.  Braintree Privacy Policy.
  • MailChimp: MailChimp manages the creation and delivery of all newsletters sent from Compound Insight, LLC and all related data, including open and click-through rates. MailChimp Privacy Policy.
  • WooCommerce: WooCommerce manages all website membership and subscription details including your sign up and account maintenance.  WooCommerce privacy policy.
  • HubSpot: HubSpot is a CRM and marketing tool that lets me know who is logging in and when, and what posts site visitors are reading.  It also collects your name and email address via the pop-up box.  HubSpot privacy policy.
  • Google Analytics: Google Analytics provides data concerning site visitors and activity at the website. Google Analytics Privacy Policy.

Data Retention Policy

Data will only be retained until you request us to delete it pursuant to this privacy policy.

Cross-border Data Transfers

Information that Compound Insight, LLC collects may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Compound Insight, LLC operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this privacy policy. You agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

Other Websites

scuttleblurb.com contains links to other websites and embedded links to other content on the Internet, such as tweets and YouTube videos. Compound Insight, LLC is not responsible for the contents of those third party websites or responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Children’s Privacy

Protecting the privacy of young children is especially important. For that reason, we do not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 18 or knowingly allow such persons to register with scuttleblurb.com. If you are under 18, please do not send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, or email address. No one under age 18 is allowed to provide any personal information to or on Compound Insight, LLC or scuttleblurb.com. In the event that I learn that we have collected personal information from a child under age 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Notice

(1) Compound Insight, LLC does not track users, who interact with its website across the web, and therefore does not use “do not track” signals.

(2) Compound Insight, LLC does not authorize the collection of personally identifiable information from users on any Compound Insight, LLC website for third party use through advertising technologies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Compound Insight, LLC may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Compound Insight, LLC’s sole discretion. Compound Insight, LLC encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of the Website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned in the Your Rights section above, please contact us at info@scuttleblurb.com.

Adapted from the Automattic Privacy Policy