Date Last Modified: 8 September 2019
This policy’s been compiled to better serve those concerned with how their ‘Personally Identifiable Information’ (PII) is being used online. PII is described in U.S. privacy law and information security as information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, locate a single person, or identify an individual in context. Please read this policy to understand how your Personally Identifiable Information is handled in accordance with this website.
This website, https://www.chromochallenges.com, is owned by Jessica Plummer. You may contact the admin at any time by emailing contact@chromochallenges.com AND by messenger in the ChromoChallenges Facebook group. Please allow up to 48 hours for a response.
By viewing this website or anything made available on or through this website – including but not limited to programs, products, services, opt-in gifts, e-books, videos, webinars, blog posts, newsletters, emails, social media, and/or other communication (collectively referred to as “website”) – you agree to accept all parts of these terms.
This policy is subject to change at any time with or without notice, and some elements may not be used currently but may be used by the site at other times depending on updates and site changes. This policy is the most up-to-date version for this site according to the Date Last Modified at the top of the page.
Your rights over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data this site holds about you, including any data you’ve provided to us. You can also request we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
If you Subscribed to this website’s Newsletters, you can elect to unsubscribe at any time by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any Newsletter email.
This website is committed to safeguarding your privacy. If you have any questions or problems regarding this policy or the use of your personal data, please Contact the website admin at any time by emailing contact@chromochallenges.com AND by messenger in the ChromoChallenges Facebook group.
How this website treats personal data
Cookies
This site uses cookies, small text files that are placed on your machine to help websites distinguish you from other users and provide better user experiences. Generally, cookies tell a Web server that you have returned to a specific page. In doing so, cookies retain user preferences, store information for things like shopping carts, and provide anonymized traffic data to third-party applications like Google Analytics.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish, and might prefer to disable cookies on this site and others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. You can delete all cookies already on your computer and can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. Doing this, however, may require manually adjusting some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functions may not work. To disable cookies, consult the Help section of your browser or check the About Cookies website for guidance.
Alternatively, you can control some third-party cookies by using a privacy enhancement platform such as WebChoices: Digital Advertising Alliance’s Consumer Choice Tool for US or Your Online Choices: A Guide On Behavioral Advertising.
Third-party vendors also may use cookies on this website, which might include persistent cookies to help this website improve visitor experience, manage site content, and analyze traffic. Such information is shared externally only on an anonymous, compiled/group basis. This website also uses a third party to send email to registered followers.
ChromoChallenges doesn’t share personal information with third-party companies. Only ChromoChallenges admin can access cookies created by this website.
Third-party companies, however, may use traffic info to this and other websites to provide advertisements on this site and other sites about goods and services you might find interesting. If you do share personal info with third-party companies, that might be shared with others.
Similar to cookies, Log Files may be used. Log Files, typically used by site hosting companies, merely log website visitor internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and, possibly, number of clicks. This info is used for site admin purposes and to analyze traffic needs. IP addresses and other such info are not linked to any info that is personally identifiable.
Similar to cookies, Web Beacons may be used. A web beacon is a small graphic that monitors/collects certain info about web page viewers, and/or web-based document or email message. In general, any electronic image viewed as part of a web page or email, including HTML-based content, can act as a web beacon. Web beacons may be used to count visitors to web pages or to monitor how traffic uses the website, and may be included in email messages to count how many messages sent were actually opened, acted upon, or forwarded.
Similar to cookies, this website might include Embedded Content (e.g. videos, images, etc.). Embedded content from other websites acts 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 interactions with embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Age
The site is intended only for users aged 18 or older. Signups for any person under 18 years of age shall be terminated upon discovery.
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 detect spam.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you’re using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment’s approved, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, avoid images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Website visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information (e.g., social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, criminal background, trade union memberships, etc.) to this website. When you publicly disclose information online, that info could be collected and used by others. This website is not responsible for any action or policies of any third parties who collect information that users disclose on this website.
This website reserves the right to edit or delete any comments submitted due to:
- Comments deemed to be spam
- Comments containing profanity
- Comments that could be found offensive
- Comments directly attacking someone
This website is not responsible for the contents of any comments posted. ChromoChallenges doesn’t vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any comment. Comments express the views of the author of the comment, not necessarily the views of this website.
Objectionable comments might be removed. Objectionable comments include content that is harmful to others emotionally or would harm them if it were to be used.
How long this website retains data
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 for moderation.
Signup info to receive Newsletter emails is retained unless or until you elect to unsubscribe at any time by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any Newsletter email.
This website only retains the minimum possible data to complete tasks, for only as long as is required.
Who this website shares data with
Nobody gets personal info! Overarching traffic trends and other management info, however, might be shared for admin and promotional/media purposes.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Viewers who sign up for the email newsletter will submit very basic data for purposes of receiving emails from this website.
The author of this website and other third-party services might collect anonymized traffic data for website administration and management purposes.
Third-party affiliates might use traffic tracking data for purposes of compensating the author of this website for promotions of products she supports.
Data breach procedures
ChromoChallenges does its best to keep Personal Data safe. This website uses safe protocols for communication and transferring data (such as HTTPS). This website uses anonymizing and pseudonymizing where suitable. We monitor our systems for possible vulnerabilities and attacks through a software-based firewall and communication with the website host.
Although we try our best, we cannot guarantee the security of information. However, we promise to notify suitable authorities of data breaches. We will also notify you if there is a threat to your rights or interests. We will do all we reasonably can to prevent security breaches and to assist authorities should any breaches occur.
This website is hosted with CloudFlare. Your data is stored through CloudFlare’s data storage, databases, and the general applications. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally-identifiable info from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction. Only authorized personnel and third-party vendors have access to your info, and these employees and vendors are required to treat this info as confidential. Despite these precautions, we cannot guarantee that unauthorized persons will not obtain access to your personal info.
Third parties we receive data from
Google Analytics and Google AdSense
Services provided by Google Analytics monitors the popularity of website content as well as info related to sources of website traffic. This data helps determine the content that site users prefer, as well as the most effective efforts for promoting content. As part of these efforts, Google Analytics typically collects IP addresses – which typically can be used to identify website users. ChromoChallenges has implemented Google Analytics in a way that IP addresses are anonymized so exact identification CANNOT be made without affecting necessary analytics data. See more information for details on this implementation. Analytics data from this website is configured to be deleted in the quickest amount of time allowed by Google – 14 months. See more information on Google’s privacy policies and initiatives. If you’d like to opt out of tracking by Google Analytics, see the Google Analytics opt-out page.
Please also see Google AdSense Privacy & Terms.
Mailerlite
This website uses services provided by Mailerlite to manage automated email functions such as our free email newsletter. As a result of this, Mailerlite has access to the list of email addresses collected via this website. When Mailerlite processes your subscription, at that time they record your IP address and, if possible, the country in which you are located. All Mailerlite activity is data/time stamped starting with the date and time you subscribed. This includes data about all messages sent, and whether they have been opened or generated a click from the reader. See more information on Mailerlite’s privacy policy.
Social Media
Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter insights options for admin are used to see traffic trends.
This website embeds a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
This website uses an Instagram widget at our website to allow you to share to Intagram from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875.
This website uses a Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.
This website uses a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update.
This website uses a Reddit widget at our website to allow you to share to Reddit from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://www.redditinc.com/policies/privacy-policy.
Other share options are available using the More button in the Share bar.
ChromoChallenges Affiliate / Sponsors / and Disclosures
The presence of any Affiliate links or Sponsored posts will be identified at or near the beginning of such posts.
If you choose to purchase any products through use of an Affiliate link, you will only pay as usual with no additional fees. All an Affiliate link does is electronically track commission from promotions via the author’s posts.
The author refuses to support any products she does not personally use or hasn’t personally tried. All products are personal recommendations.
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.
Medical and General Disclaimer
Jessica Plummer is NOT a doctor, and has NOT attended medical school, and does NOT represent herself as a medical professional. If in doubt, please refer to your primary care provider for help, as info on this website is not intended to replace the advice and treatment of a physician who specializes in treating mental or physical disease. Info included in this website is not a substitute for qualified medical advice, and any health concern or condition should already be being addressed by a physician or other appropriate healthcare professional. What this website presents is an experienced parental perspective which could possibly fill in some of the unknowns you might have in support of a collaborative relationship with your healthcare providers. All material provided on ChromoChallenges is for informational purposes only, and is not to be taken as medical advice or recommendation.
ChromoChallenges is committed to providing useful information on Trisomy 18, Balanced Translocation, and Special Needs for parents in need of a place to start understanding their introduction to special needs living and related matters. Info and opinions on this website are written based on the best data available at the time of writing and are believed to be accurate according to best discernment. You agree that there are no guarantees as to the specific outcome or results you can expect from using any information you receive on or through this website.
If you use any methods for more than informational purposes, you do so at your own risk. Those who do not seek counsel from the appropriate healthcare authority assumes liability of any injury which may occur. Jessica Plummer is not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from application of any information, preparation, or procedure described in the author’s personal messages, articles, books, or on this website.
Opinions expressed at ChromoChallenges do not represent the views of each and every author or contributor to ChromoChallenges. The publisher of this site is not responsible for any errors or omissions in any content herein. Although the author, Jessica Plummer, attempts to provide meaningful understanding of all topics discussed and attempts to ensure accuracy and completeness of any information that originates from any other source than her own, she assumes no responsibility for errors, inaccuracies, omissions, or any inconsistencies herein. Any slights of people or organizations are entirely unintentional.
No statement on this website has been reviewed or approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration or the Federal Trade Commission. Readers should use their own judgment and discretion, or consult a holistic medical expert or personal physician for specific applications for their individual issues or problems. Always consult with a healthcare practitioner before taking any dietary, nutritional, herbal, or homeopathic supplement, or before beginning or stopping any therapy including starting or stopping any pharmaceutical drug. It is not this website’s intention to provide any medical advice or offer any substitute thereof, and make no warranty whatsoever, whether expressed or implied, with respect to any advice, product, device, or therapy.
Though ChromoChallenges does not advocate the use of any particular form of healthcare, the author believes the facts, figures, knowledge, and opinions presented in this website should be available to every person concerned with improving their state of health and happiness. The intention for putting forth any of the information is from the author’s strong wish that all people find the best of health and personal fulfillment.
You agree to accurately represent yourself and any info submitted to or through this website, acknowledge you use this website voluntarily, and that you are solely and personally responsible for your choices, actions, and results both now and in the future. You accept full responsibility for any consequences of your use, or non-use, of any information provided. You agree to use your own judgment and due diligence before implementing any methods shared from the website to your life, family, or business.
You hereby fully and completely hold harmless, indemnify, and release the owner of this website and any agents of the website, consultants, affiliates, joint venture partners, employees, shareholders, directors, staff, team members, or anyone otherwise affiliated with this business or the owner from any and all causes of action, allegations, suits, claims, damages, or demands whatsoever, in law or equity, that may arise in the past, present, or future that is in any way related to this website.
Statements made herein are for educational and theoretical purposes and are based on Jessica Plummer’s own opinion and theories.
Copyright Statement and Infringement
Unless otherwise specified, content found within this website is protected by copyright laws. The owner of this website reserves any and all rights in this regard. Any unauthorized reproduction in part or in whole without permission is illegal. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 (the “DMCA”) provides recourse for copyright owners who believe that material appearing on the Internet infringes their rights under the U.S. copyright law.
If you believe in good faith that materials hosted by ChromoChallenges infringe your copyright, you or your agent may send to ChromoChallenges a notice requesting that the material be removed or access to it be blocked. Any notification by a copyright owner or a person authorized to act on its behalf that fails to comply with requirements of the DMCA shall not be considered sufficient notice and shall not be deemed to confer upon ChromoChallenges actual knowledge of facts or circumstances from which infringing material or acts are evident.
If you believe in good faith that a notice of copyright infringement has been wrongly filed against you, the DMCA permits you to send to ChromoChallenges a counter notice. All notices and counter notices must meet the then-current statutory requirements imposed by the DMCA; see http://www.loc.gov/copyright for details. For notice of claims of copyright infringement or counter notices, ChromoChallenges can be reached by emailing contact@chromochallenges.com.
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by the authors. Information on this website may be copied for personal use only. No part of this website may be reproduced, stored, or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted by Section 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the author.
For questions about this blog or requests to use its content, please contact ChromoChallenges by emailing contact@chromochallenges.com AND by messenger in the ChromoChallenges Facebook group.
Image Attribution
Images used on this website are original by Jessica Plummer. All rights are reserved.