Thank you for visiting our website. We at SMK Media LLC respect the privacy of all our visitors and value the trust you place in us when you share information with us. We want you to know what information we collect, how it is used, shared, and protected, and your options for controlling that information.
This Privacy Policy applies any time you interact with SMK Media LLC through our websites, by phone, email, social media, or chat, or in other ways. By interacting with us in any way, you consent to this Privacy Policy and the use of your information as described herein.
Types of information we may collect
To maintain a relationship with you, we collect your name, email address, and general location (e.g City and State). You may wish to provide us with more information than that, in order for us to understand how best we can serve you.
If you support this apostolate financially by ordering an offered item or by making a freewill contribution, the financial transaction will take place within the secure environment of PayPal, not ours. We do not want to know nor do we ever learn your credit card number or other specific payment information.
We may also collect information that does not directly identify you, such as:
• IP address
• device information (e.g. model, operating system, general location)
• internet activity such as browsing and search history used to arrive at our sites, your interaction with our websites, applications, or advertisements
• commercial information such as purchase history or product reviews
• demographic information such as age or gender
How your information is collected
Directly from you, as when you subscribe, create an account, place an order, make a contribution, complete a survey, engage us on social media, submit reviews, or contact us by phone or text.
In order to create the best experience for our visitors, we and our service providers use tools like browser cookies, pixel tags, and web beacons to collect information when you use our websites or interact with our emails. We also allow third parties to use such tools to aid our analysis of user experience. When you interact with us using a third-party service like Facebook or YouTube, we cannot control their gathering of information about you or their serving of advertisements about goods and services likely to be of interest to you. We wish we could.
For more information and to understand your options as regards these tools, please see the Tracking Tools section of this policy.
How your information may be used
We use your information to maintain a relationship with you. We will deliver free helpful information and services, contact you about products or promotions that are likely to interest you, and respond to service requests or reviews.
We also use anonymized information collected by tracking tools to analyze trends and continually improve user experience on our sites.
How your information may be shared
We may share your information for our business purposes as permitted by law.
We share with our service providers (such as email, analytics, web hosting, and marketing service providers) only the information necessary for them to fulfill their service obligations to us.
We may, on limited occasion, share your name and email address with other responsible apostolates/businesses we believe may offer products or services of interest to you. If you would like to remove your name from our shareable list please contact us.
Tracking Tools
We and some of our third-party vendors use cookies, pixel tags, and web beacons to maintain the basic functioning of the site, understand if you have an account with us, make product recommendations, and measure how users interact with us so that we can continue to improve user experience.
Some of these tools are necessary for the proper functioning of our website, while some are used to better understand what you are looking for and how you arrived on our site (e.g., via search, email, or clicking one of our ads). If you are supporting us by making purchases from vendors through which we have an affiliate relationship, by clicking on one of our suggested ‘buy’ links, a cookie will be set in your browser to let the vendor know you came from our website. While this costs you nothing, it allows us to receive a commission on the sale.
Some cookies are deleted when you close your browser, while others remain on your computer until they expire or are deleted. Most browsers allow users to control whether and how cookies may be used. See your browser’s settings for more information, and please note that disabling cookies may reduce the functionality of our websites and not allow us to receive a commission though the total sale will cost you the same amount.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Managing your preferences
We will, whenever and to the extent possible, honor all requests to access or control your information.
Users with an account on one or more of our websites may update their information on their account page. You can at any time unsubscribe from promotional emails using the unsubscribe link in the email.
Please contact Customer Care with additional requests to access and manage your information:
720-549-0307
Our normal business hours are 10:00 am to 6:00 pm Mountain Time, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
California Residents
California residents with whom we have an established business relationship, or persons legally authorized to represent them, are granted specific rights under the California Consumer Privacy Acts.
In order to protect your information from fraudulent requests to access or delete, we will ask you for information that can be used to verify your identity against data existing in our system. This information will only be used for the purpose of verifying and completing your request. Depending on the level of sensitivity of the information requested, we may contact you for additional verification.
Right to know
You may request the following, up to twice in a twelve-month period:
• Categories of personal information we collected about you in the preceding twelve months
• Specific pieces of personal information we collected about you
• Categories of sources from which we collected the personal information
• Business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information, according to CCPA’s definition of “sale”
• Categories of third parties with whom the personal information was shared
To make a request to access your information, contact Customer Care at 720-549-0307.
Right to Delete
You have a right to request deletion of personal information we have collected about you, though we may be permitted or legally obliged to retain certain information for specific purposes.
To make a request to delete your information, contact Customer Care at 720-549-0307.
Right to Opt Out
You have a right to direct us not to sell your personal information under the definition of “sale” in California law.
To make an opt-out request, contact Customer Care at 720-549-0307.
For Residents of the European Union:
SMK Media LLC is the data controller responsible for the collection and use of your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy. Our digital operations are conducted in the United States. By using any of our sites, you consent to have your personal information transferred to, processed, and stored in the United States, and permit SMK Media LLC, to collect and use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.
Residents of some countries may have additional rights respecting their personal information. Subject to any exemptions provided by law, such persons may have the right 1) to request access to their personal information, 2) to request to have that information corrected or deleted, 3) to request to restrict how SMK Media LLC processes their personal information, and/or 4) in some cases, to object to the processing of their personal information or to request that SMK Media LLC export such information to another controller. Said persons may also have the right to withdraw consent to the processing of their personal information. All claims or requests respecting these rights should be sent to reply@michaelcapone.com.
How your information is protected
We maintain physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect the confidentiality and security of information transmitted to us. While we strive to protect your contact information, to the extent permitted by law, the internet is not 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee or warrant the security of any information you transmit to or from our web sites, and you do so at your own risk. We urge you to keep any password that you establish with us in a safe place and not to divulge it to anyone. Also remember to log off your account and close your browser window when you have finished your visit. This is to ensure that others cannot access your account, especially if you are sharing a computer with someone else or are using a computer in a public place.
We never gain knowledge of your sensitive credit card data through the checkout process, so we have no way of exposing it. All payment data is submitted to PayPal and kept secure by them.
Third-Party Links
Our web sites may contain links to web sites operated and maintained by third parties, over which we have no control. Privacy policies on such linked web sites may be different from our privacy policy, and should be reviewed separately.
We also engage a third-party partner for the purpose of identifying users and delivering to them marketing on our behalf (i.e. email or direct mail). Our partners may collect information directly from your device, such as your IP address, device ID, and information about your browser or operating system; may combine personal and non-personal information about you with information from other sources; and may place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser. This activity enables them to identify you to facilitate the delivery of marketing on our behalf. To opt out of recognition services, please go to https://idx.listrakbi.com/opt-out.html. To opt out of third-party cookies, please go to https://optout.aboutads.info/
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy anytime. Any changes to this policy will be posted. Our Privacy Policy was updated on November 21, 2020.