Privacy and Cookie Policies

It is the policy of Kaitlin Schmidt Editing and Consulting to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you or which you may provide to us, in the circumstances set out below. Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, safeguard and otherwise make use of your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”).

We will only collect and use your Personal Data where:

  • we have lawful grounds to do so, including to comply with our legal obligations;

  • we are exploring or performing a contract with you for our services; and

  • we have legitimate interests in using your Personal Data and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ([EU] 2016/679) (“GDPR”), we, Kaitlin Schmidt/Kaitlin Schmidt Editing and Consulting, are the “data controller.” If you have any questions about this policy or about how we use your Personal Data, please contact us at kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com.

This policy is effective as of 06/26/2023. We may change this privacy policy at any time. Please check this page regularly to ensure you are familiar with its current content.

Personal Data We Collect via www.kaitlin-schmidt.com (the “Website”) and Why

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Analytics data are stored indefinitely. We do not share your data with any parties not listed in this policy and use it only for the purpose website analytics.

Website Visitor Data

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

Visitor data are stored indefinitely. For more information, visit www.squarespace.com.

Visitor Data for Form Block Submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com and The Profiles panel (a Squarespace feature) for storage.

Form block data are stored indefinitely. We do not share your data with any parties not listed in this policy and use it only for the purpose of communicating with you as a potential client.

We Do Not Knowingly Collect Data from Children

This Website and our services are aimed at adults, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Data relating to children aged under 15 years old. If you are under the age of 15, please do not provide us with any of your Personal Data, including your email address.

Fonts

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Your Rights Concerning Your Personal Data

Access To and Control Over Your Personal Data

You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your Personal Data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting us via email at kaitlin.schmidt4@gmail.com:

  • see what Personal Data we hold about you (if any), including why we are holding it and who it could be disclosed to;

  • ask us to change/correct your Personal Data;

  • ask us to delete your Personal Data;

  • object to the processing of your Personal Data;

  • ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data;

  • withdraw any consents you have given us to the processing of your Personal Data; and

  • express any concerns you have about third parties’ use of your Personal Data.

Change of Purpose

We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to have an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Cookie Policy

To improve your experience, this website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

By using the website, you consent to the use of cookies.

When you submit data to through a form block, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

If you’d like to delete cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser. Please note, however, that if you delete cookies or refuse to accept them, you might not be able to use all of the features we offer, you may not be able to store your preferences, and some of our pages might not display properly.

You can learn more about cookies and the following third-party websites:

  • AllAboutCookies: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

  • Network Advertising Initiative: http://www.networkadvertising.org/

Links to Third Party Websites

This website may contain links to other sites that are not controlled in any way by me. Please be aware that when you click on such links, I am not responsible for the privacy practices and/or policies of any website other than my own.