Privacy Policy

Last Updated on the 25th of May 2023.

Owner and Data Controller

At Home With Mackenzie, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://athomewithmackenzie.com (the “Site”).

Address: P.O. Box 236, Enon, OH 45323
Contact email: support@athomewithmackenzie.com

We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Site collects some personal data from its users.

This Privacy Policy informs you of our views, practices, and policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data we receive from users of the Site.

By submitting your personal data to us, you agree to us using your personal data as follows.

Please be sure to carefully read this Privacy Policy and ensure that you understand it.

YOU ARE CONSIDERED TO HAVE ACCEPTED OUR PRIVACY POLICY WHEN YOU FIRST USE OUR SITE. If you do not agree to and accept our Privacy Policy, then you must stop using our Site.

Information Collection, Business Purpose, and Use

While using our Site, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to name, email address, cookies, usage data, and password.

This information is collected when you register on the Site, place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, contact us, use the search feature on the Site, provide comments or any other feedback, fill out a form, or enter any other information on the Site to communicate with us. From time to time, we may also collect information that you submit when you participate in any online surveys that we may post on our Site.

Your personal information is used to personalize your experience, improve the Site to better serve you, provide customer service support, efficiently process your requests or transactions, tailor advertisements to you, elicit reviews of the services or products, provide you offers, promotions, and to follow up with you through correspondence (email, live chat, or phone). We may also use this information to provide you offers and promotions from our partners and/or our affiliates in exchange for a commission without additional cost to you.

We may use your personal information to

  • send you newsletters from time to time
  • manage contacts and send messages
  • ensure that content from our Site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device
  • provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us which may be of interest to you
  • carrying out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us
  • interact with external social networks and platforms (e.g. social media widgets and share bars)
  • allow access to third party services’ accounts
  • monitor infrastructure
  • manage hosting and backend infrastructure
  • carry out marketing and behavioral targeting (including display ads)
  • display content from external platforms
  • carry out commercial affiliation (e.g. display ads)
  • interact with support and feedback platforms
  • manage user database

We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device. Personal information does not include

  • Publicly available information from government records
  • Deidentified or aggregated consumer information
  • Information excluded from CCPA’s and GDPR’s scope

We do not intentionally collect or use the personal information of minors under sixteen (16) years of age or sell it with or without affirmative authorization.

In addition, we may collect log data and use cookies.

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site.

This log data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services such as Google Analytics that collect, monitor, and analyze this data.

This information is used to analyze Site statistics related to user behavior and interests, improve our performance and your use of the Site and to further enhance our products and services offered to you.

Cookies

Cookies are text files with a small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier.

Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your computer’s or tablet device’s, or mobile device’s part of the hard drive specifically designated for cookies.

It is a standard practice to use cookies to make your experience better when using a website.

Like many sites we use “cookies” to recognize, collect, and/or track information about, and relevant to, your usage of the Site.

These cookies are known as “first-party cookies”. We may also recognize, collect, and/or track information through cookies set by third parties. These cookies are known as “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies are used to perform tasks related to advertising, and analytics, and to enable interactive features such as sharing or commenting. Some third parties collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the user.

The information that our first-party cookies or third-party cookies recognize, collect, and/or track may include information about your devices, browsing actions, and patterns, such as among others, the type of computer you use, your internet service provider, your browser type, your location, your IP address, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site. Upon your first visit to the Site (and periodically after that), we will request your consent to our use of cookies except for those strictly necessary.

What cookies we use

We use the following categories of cookies on the Site:

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features. We use cookies to save your sessions, your login details, and other information necessary to perform your requests, and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Site, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic. We use cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize your browsing experience.

Analytics Cookies

These cookies collect information about you use of the Site, such as for instance, browsing actions and patterns, the date and time of your visit, the pages viewed, your traffic pattern through the Site.

Through the collection of this information, we are able to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. User behaviors may be recognized, collected, and/or tracked.

We use Google Analytics to monitor and analyze web traffic to the Site. Google utilizes the data recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the Site to prepare reports on traffic activities.

This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address.

Google may use the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked to personalize the ads of its advertising network and may share the information recognized, collected, and/or tracked with other services.

Security Cookies

These cookies are essential to our security features. These cookies allow us to detect malicious activities or activities in breach of our terms of use.

Customization Cookies

These cookies allow the Site to save information and details such as your username to optimize your experience on the Site and provide personal features.

Social Media Cookies and Pixels

These cookies allow you to share your activity on the Site on social media such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter, or other external platforms directly from the Site.

Cookies may still be recognized, collected, and/or tracked on the pages where buttons, widgets, or other applications are installed, even when you do not actively use it.

The interaction and information recognized, collected, and/or tracked through the Site are always subject to your privacy settings for each social network and external platform.

You are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network or external platform and to log out from the respective network or platform in order to make sure that the information collected on the Site is not tracked back to your profile.

Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets
The Facebook Like button and Facebook social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Facebook/Meta social network.

Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets
The Twitter Tweet button and Twitter social widgets are applications allowing interaction with the Twitter social network.

YouTube video widget
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows this Site to incorporate video content on its pages and posts.

Social media pixels
We reserve the right to use social media pixels. These pixels allow social media such as Facebook to track visitors to external websites in order to tailor their advertising activities to target users while browsing their social media network. For information regarding these pixels, you are encouraged to refer to the privacy policy of the relevant social network.

Facebook pixel
Facebook pixel connects the activity performed on the Site with the Facebook advertising network, including Instagram and Audience ads.

Targeting or advertising cookies

These cookies record your browsing actions and patterns on the Site, such as among others, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. The information recognized, collected, and/or tracked by these cookies is used to make our Site and the advertising displayed by way of links or banners on the Site more relevant to your interest. For the same purpose, this information may also be shared with third parties, such as Google AdSense.

How to Control Cookies

In accordance with our Privacy Policy and this Cookie Policy, you have the right to accept or reject cookies.

Strictly necessary cookies may not be rejected since they are essential to enable you to browse the Site and use its features.

Should you reject cookies, you will still be able to use the Site although certain features and functionalities may not be available to you and/or certain areas may be restricted.

In addition to what is indicated within this Cookie Policy, you can manage preferences for the cookies directly from within your own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing cookies.

Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete cookies installed in the past, including the cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of cookies by this Site.

You can find information about how to manage cookies in the most commonly used browsers (e.g. Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Internet Explorer) on the website of the browser of choice.

With regard to cookies installed by third parties, users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

Data Storage

Your personal data may be transferred to and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing, or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Lawful Basis of Processing Personal Data

We may process personal data relating to users if one of the following applies:

  • users have given their consent for one or more specific purposes;
  • provision of data is necessary for the performance of an agreement with the user and/or for any pre-contractual obligations thereof;
  • processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject;
  • processing is related to a task that is carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in us;
  • processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interest pursued by us or by a third party

Data Retention

We process and store your personal data for as long as required by the purpose they have been collected for.

Therefore:

  • personal data collected for purposes related to the performance of a contract between us and the user will be retained until such contract has been fully performed;
  • personal data collected for the purposes of our legitimate interests will be retained for as long as needed to fulfill such purposes;
  • we may be allowed to retain personal data for a longer period whenever the user has given their consent to such processing, as long as such consent is not withdrawn;
  • we may be obligated to retain personal data for a longer period whenever required to do so for the performance of a legal obligation or upon order of an authority.

Once the retention period expires, personal data will be deleted and some of your rights (i.e. the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification, and the right to data portability) cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period. You may find specific information regarding your rights within the relevant section of this Privacy Policy or by contacting us at support@athomewithmackenzie.com or via our Opt-Out Preferences.

Email Marketing

You have the option of opting in or unsubscribing from our email list. By subscribing and opting in, you agree to receive newsletters, updates, messages, promotional materials, and any other content related to this Site. When you send an email, your email message, email address, and responses are saved for communication purposes. This information is kept confidential and we do not share, sell, or trade your email information with third parties except as otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy.

If you are in the European Union and opt-in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our website then you will be subscribed to receive our email newsletter once you affirmatively consent to it. Please see the Opt-Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

But if you are NOT in the European Union then you will be automatically subscribed to receive are free email newsletter once you opt-in to receive any of our free products or services and/or purchase any products or services through our Site. Please see the Opt-Out section below should you wish to “unsubscribe” and not receive any emails from us.

Opt-Out

We comply with the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 and do not spam or send any misleading information. Should you wish to no longer receive communication from us, you have the option of unsubscribing by clicking the “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of any email we send to you or by contacting us at support@athomewithmackenzie.com or by going to our Opt Out Preferences page.

As for third party websites, please contact them directly to unsubscribe and/or opt-out from their communications.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Links to other sites

Our Site may contain links to affiliate and other websites. Our Site does not claim nor accept responsibility for any privacy policies, practices, and/or procedures of other such websites. Therefore, we encourage all users and visitors to be aware when they leave our Site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. The aforementioned Privacy Policy agreement applies only and solely to the information collected by our Site.

Through affiliate links, identifying information may be carried over to an outside site to show that you visited that site from our Site to ensure proper commissions are issued.

At Home With Mackenzie 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.

Comments

Visitor comments will be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. When you leave a comment, your name, email address, and/or website/organization name is not shared with a third party, but may be used to communicate with you.

Third-Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating the Site, conducting our business, or serving our users (such as, for example, ConvertKit), 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 ours or others rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Your Rights Under the GDPR

Users based in the European Union have the right to do the following:

  • Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their personal data.
  • Object to the processing of their data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their data, if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent, such as in certain circumstances including but not limited to direct marketing, profiling, scientific or historical research purposes, statistical purposes, automated decision making and profiling and tasks based on legitimate interest or in the public interest/exercise of official authority.
  • Access their data. Users have the right to learn if data is being processed by us, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the data undergoing processing.
  • Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
  • Restrict the processing of their data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their data. In this case, we will not process their data for any purpose other than storing it.
  • Have their personal data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their data from us.
  • Receive their data and have it transferred to another controller. Users have the right to receive their data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any undo delay.
  • Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection supervisory authority.

We require only the information that is reasonably necessary to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by contacting us at support@athomewithmackenzie.com or via our Opt Out page.

These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed by us as soon as possible and always within thirty (30) days.

Your rights under CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act)

Users based in California, have additional rights under California law, and we comply with the CCPA because we may have visitors from California on our Site.

Users who reside in California have the right to do the following:

  • to know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed to third parties
  • to say no to the sale of your personal information
  • to access your personal information, which we will provide within thirty (30) days of such request
  • to know what personal information is collected from you and how it is used, which is further explained under the Information Collection, Business Purpose, and Use Section of this Privacy Policy.
  • to have your personal information deleted
  • to equal service, price, and no discrimination
  • to data portability and the right to request your personal information

Pursuant to California’s “Shine the Light Act,” you are permitted to request information about the manner in which we share certain categories of information with third parties for their marketing use. We may disclose your personal information to our affiliates and other related third parties such as service providers, and vendors for their use in marketing to you, so we can provide the products and/or services offered on this website to you. When we disclose such information, your personal information is still kept confidential and between us and that third party. It’s not used for any other purpose that’s not permitted under the laws.

Under the CCPA, “sell,” “selling,” “sale,” or “sold,” means selling, renting, releasing, disclosing, disseminating, making available, transferring, or otherwise communicating orally, in writing, or by electronic or other means, a consumer’s personal information by the business to another business or third party for monetary or other valuable consideration.

As per the CCPA definition, selling personal information includes disclosing information to a third party by using analytics tools, running ads, or having social media pixels and plugins installed.

Under the CCPA, users who reside in California have the right to opt-out of such sales and send us a “do not sell my information” request. If you would like to exercise any of your rights under California law, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by contacting us at support@athomewithmackenzie.com or via our Opt Out page. Only you or someone you authorize to act on your behalf, can make such verifiable consumer requests related to your personal information.

Your verifiable consumer request must provide sufficient information that allows us to verify that you are the person that you are claiming to be or that you are the authorized representative of such person about whom we had collected personal information. You must describe your request with enough details such as your first and last name, address, and your country that allow us to properly understand the request and respond to it. Please note that we cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information unless we first verify your identity or authority to make such a request and confirm that the personal information relates to you. We will make all attempts to respond to your request within thirty (30) days of receipt.

This privacy notice for California residents supplements the information included in the previous sections of this Privacy Policy.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us.

Our Site is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our Site as safe as possible.

We use regular Malware Scanning.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.

In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.

We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Unfortunately, no method of transmission over the internet is completely secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of the 19th of February 2023 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of our Site after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgement of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

CalOPPA (California Online Privacy Protection Act)

We agree to users visiting our Site anonymously.

Do not track signals

Pursuant to the California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA), we hereby disclose that we do honor “do not track” signals issued by browsers or other third-party sources.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

For the protection of personal information from children under the age of thirteen (13) years old, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

This Site is intended for individuals who are eighteen (18) years of age or older.

By visiting and using this Site, you represent and warrant that you are of legal age and meet all of the foregoing eligibility requirements.

The Site is not intended for children under thirteen (13) years of age.

We do not specifically market to children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13) years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under thirteen (13).

If you are under thirteen (13) years of age, please do not use the Site or provide any information on the Site, including your name, screen name, username, address, telephone number, email address, and payment details.

If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under thirteen (13) years of age without verification of consent from a parent or guardian, the personal information collected or received shall be deleted with no delay.

If you believe that we might have any information concerning a child under thirteen (13) years of age, please contact us at support@athomewithmackenzie.com or via our Contact form and we will endeavor to delete such information with no delay.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email to support@athomewithmackenzie.com or via our Contact form.