Scribbled Safari also known as ‘SS’ respects privacy, and we know that many care about how their information is used and shared. We have implemented this Website Privacy Policy in order to be open and transparent about how we collect, hold, and use your personal information, and under what circumstances we may disclose or transfer your personal information. This Privacy Policy applies to Scribbled Safari website www.scribbledsafari.com, to all associated subdomains, online services, and mobile applications.
The Website Privacy Policy also outlines your rights to gain access to, and seek corrections of, your personal information we hold. Finally, the Privacy Policy provides information about how you can approach us about your privacy-related concerns and complaints, and how we will deal with such communications.
This policy applies only to information that Scribbled Safari collects via its Website.
Please note that this Website Privacy Policy forms part of the Terms of Use document, which is displayed at the footer of each page of the Website.
By visiting our site, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Policy. If you disagree with any of the terms herein, please immediately discontinue use of the Site.
What Information We Collect
Wherever possible, you can elect to remain anonymous or use a pseudonym in interacting with us such as when making an enquiry.
From time to time, we may ask you to supply name, address, email address, and payment information.
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person.
For example, we ask for your contact information when you sign up for a free or paid product, purchase from our site or newsletter, participate in forums or comment on the blog, join us on social media, take part in events, contact us with questions or request support.
If you don’t want to provide us with personal data, you don’t have to, but it might mean you can’t use some parts of our websites or services.
Under no circumstances will we request any information from you that may disclose your:
- political, religious or philosophical opinions, beliefs, associations or affiliations;
- health and sexuality;
- racial or ethnic origin;
- membership of a trade union, or a professional or trade association; or
- criminal records.
We may also conduct surveys or market research and may seek other information from you on a periodic basis. These surveys will provide us with information that allows improvement in the types and quality of services offered to you, and the manner in which those services are offered to you.
We collect other information about you automatically when you visit our websites or use our services, like your IP address and device type. We also collect information when you navigate through our websites and services, including what pages you looked at and what links you clicked on. This information is useful for us as it helps us get a better understanding of how you’re using our websites and services so that we can continue to provide the best experience possible (e.g., by personalising the content you see).
“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an individual.
If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Site, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Some of this information is collected automatically by cookies or similar tracking technologies. ‘Cookies’ are pieces of information that websites send to the browser and are stored in the computer hard-drive. Cookies make using the Website easier by storing information about your preferences on the Website. This allows the Website to be tailored to you for any of your return visits. Cookies will not identify you personally.
These websites include advertisement, and those advertisers may collect, use, store and disclose data and information about visitors, including information related to your demographic information. We aim to update you on our advertising partners here. Each of the advertising partners will have their own privacy policy for their site, which you can review at each of their sites.
If you would prefer not to receive cookies, you can alter your security settings on your web browser to disable cookies or to warn you when cookies are being used. Please note, however, that if you choose to reject or erase cookies, your ability to navigate the Sites may be limited.
When you leave a comment on our websites, you are giving implied consent for this comment and your information to appear on our websites. In leaving a comment, we strive to ensure that your name and email address will not be shared with any third party. We may use your email address solely to respond to your comment. However, we are not liable or responsible for the actions of other individuals and the unauthorized use by such information that you voluntarily share.
We have public social media accounts and social sharing options on our websites. If you choose to interact on social media with us or our accounts, you are advised that any interactions on those accounts are publicly available.
If you choose to share a testimonial with us on our Websites, we will first obtain your written permission via email before including your name and testimonial on our website.
Your option not to provide your personal information
Providing us with your personal information is absolutely optional, but may be necessary for us to provide you with our services. Whenever it is optional for you to provide us with non-essential personal information, we will make this clear to you. When you provide us with your personal information, you are consenting to our storage, use and disclosure of that information as outlined in this Website Privacy Policy.
We may from time to time run competitions or offer additional benefits to you and we may ask you to provide us with your personal details for these purposes. Providing us with this information is absolutely optional to you. However, if you do not provide your personal information to us, we may not be able to contact you or give you access to the additional benefits.
You may opt out of these additional communications at any time. Please reach out to contact@scribbledsafari.com
How we collect Information
Scribbled Safari and its services providers collect Personal Information that you provide while using the Site, either directly or through other user actions, including, without limitation, any Personal Information provided or otherwise obtained while the Site web pages are open. For instance, Scribbled Safari gathers information when you fill out forms on the Sites, including but not limited to, e-newsletter sign-up forms and donation/support forms.
We may also use and disclose your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of any of our affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it for all the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.
How Can You Stop Receiving Communications from us?
If you would like to opt out of receiving content from Scribbled Safari, you can:
- Take the opportunity to opt out in links on the bottom of marketing email Scribbled Safari sends to you.
- Email us at contact@scribbledsafari.com with the title “Unsubscribe”.
Does My Safari World Collect Information from Children?
Scribbled Safari does not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. In the event that Scribbled Safari learns that it has collected personal information from a child under age 13 without parental consent, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you believe that we might have collected any personal information from a child under 13, please contact us with the title URGENT.
Third Party Partners
Our Third Party Partners, who may place cookies and tracking technology on your computer or device, include:
- Google Analytics– providing traffic analytics and demographics
- Mailchimp and others – help us collect information for email subscribers so we can tailor our messaging to more personal preferences.
- Amazon– tracks products we promote via affiliate links on our site
- Facebook– user analytics and advertising tracking
- Twitter – user analytics and advertising tracking
Security of personal information
In our business, personal information may be stored both electronically and in hard-copy form. We are committed to keeping your personal information secure regardless of the format in which we hold it and we take all reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse, interference, loss, and unauthorised access, modification or disclosure. However, you use the Website at your own risk and we accept no responsibility, whether we are deemed to have been negligent or not, in the event of a security that affects your privacy.
Note that no information transmitted over the Internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure. However, we will endeavour to protect your personal information as best as possible but we cannot guarantee the security of any information that you transmit to us, or receive from us. The transmission and exchange of information is carried out at your own risk.
Our websites use a Transport Layer Security, the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain private. All online support transactions are handled by Payment Card Industry (PCI)-compliant vendor, specifically WordPress via Stripe. PCI refers to the technical and operational standards that businesses must follow to ensure that credit card data provided by cardholders is protected. These security standards are in place for Scribbled Safari to protect your information. At no point do we directly hold your payment information.
Third-Party Services
This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or service to which the Sites link. The inclusion of a link on the Sites does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us. In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security practices (including the data security practices) of other organisations, such as but not limited to Facebook, Apple, Google, Microsoft, WordPress, Amazon, or any other app developer, app provider, social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer.
Access to your personal information
In most cases, you have the right to access the personal information that we hold about you. If you wish to have us show you your personal information that we hold, please contact us at contact@scribbledsafari.com with the subject title “access my information.
We will deal with all requests for access to personal information as quickly as possible. You agree to undergo further verification before access is granted. Requests for a large amount of information, or information which is not currently in use, may require further time before a response can be given.
We may charge you a reasonable fee for access if a cost is incurred by us in order to retrieve your information, but in no case will we charge you a fee for your application for access.
Whenever a fee will be applied, you will be notified of how that fee will be calculated, or where possible, the total amount that will be charged. You will then have the option to decide whether to proceed with your access request.
In some cases, we will refuse to give you access to personal information we hold about you. This includes, but is not limited to, circumstances where denying access is required or authorised by an international law or a court/tribunal order or where giving you access would: be unlawful; have an unreasonable impact on other people’s privacy; prejudice an investigation of unlawful activity; reveal our intentions in relation to negotiations with you so as to prejudice those negotiations; prejudice enforcement related activities conducted by, or on behalf of, an enforcement body; reveal evaluative information generated within Scribbled Safari in connection with a commercially sensitive decision-making process.
We will also refuse access where the personal information relates to existing or anticipated legal proceedings, and the information would not be accessible by the process of discovery in those proceedings. Further, we will refuse access where your request is frivolous or vexatious, and where we reasonably believe that: giving access would pose a serious threat to the life, health or safety of any individual, or to public health or public safety; unlawful activity, or misconduct of a serious nature, is being or may be engaged in against Scribbled Safari and giving access would be likely to prejudice the taking of appropriate action in relation to that matter.
If we refuse to give you access, we will provide you with reasons for our refusal, unless doing so would be unreasonable in the circumstances. We will also take reasonable steps to give you access in a way that meets your needs without giving rise to the reasons of our refusal. Further, we will provide details of how you may make a complaint about our decision.
These mechanisms for accessing your personal information operate alongside, and do not replace, other informal or legal procedures that may provide you with access to your personal information.
Correction of your personal information
The accuracy of the personal information we have requested from you is important to us. Should you suspect, or become aware that your personal information we hold is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or misleading, please contact us at contact@scribbledsafari.com
We will deal with all requests for correction of personal information as quickly as possible. Requests relating to a large amount of information, or information which is not currently in use, may require further time before a response can be given.
If we refuse to change the personal information as you request, we will provide you with reasons for our refusal, unless doing so would be unreasonable in the circumstances. We will also provide details of how you may make a complaint about our decision. Further, in case of our refusal, you may request that we take reasonable steps to associate, with the relevant information, a statement that you view it as inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or misleading.
In the case where we have corrected personal information about you, you may request that we take reasonable steps to give notice of the correction to any third party to which we have disclosed the inaccurate, out of date, incomplete or misleading personal information.
These mechanisms for correcting your personal information operate alongside, and do not replace, other informal or legal procedures that may provide you with access to your personal information.
Concerns and complaints about breaches
If you have concerns about how we handle your personal information, it is important that you notify us as soon as possible, so that we can address your concerns appropriately as the circumstances require. Any concern or complaint should be made in writing. Please send it to us at contact@scribbledsafari.com , and we will respond as soon as reasonably possible.
Disposal of personal information not required
If we hold personal information about you, and we do not need that information for any purpose for which the information may be used or disclosed, we will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify that information unless we are prevented from doing so by law.
Contacting us
If you have any questions, concerns or ideas about how we could improve our Website Privacy Policy, please contact us. Where you provide suggestions, materials or feedback, it is considered non-confidential and we may, at our complete discretion, use it to improve the Website, service and/or how we handle personal information without any obligation to compensate you regardless of how we use, implement, copy, modify, display, distribute and/or otherwise benefit from your suggestions, materials or feedback.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may from time to time and at its discretion amend this Privacy Policy with or without notice to you. The “Effective Date” at the bottom of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will become effective and supersede previous policies.
Your continued use indicates your consent to be bound by the amended Website Privacy Policy.
Effective Date: October 17, 2021
