Privacy Policy

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to review, change, or withdraw your consent at any time.

Any request to exercise data protection rights are free of charge and will be answered by the Owner as required by law and as soon as feasibly possible, but always within 30 days. Any rectification or erasure of Personal Data or restriction of processing will be communicated to each recipient by the Owner, if any, to whom the Personal Data has been disclosed unless this involves disproportionate effort or proves impossible. At the Users’ request, the Owner will inform them about those recipients.

Further Information for Users in the European Union (EU)

This section applies to all Users in the European Union, according to the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”), and, for such Users, supersedes any other possibly divergent or conflicting information contained in the privacy policy.

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every User in the EU is entitled to the following:

• The right to access – You have the right to request that we provide copies of your personal data.

• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

• The right to data portability – You have the right to request we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

We collect the following data that either you provide us, or is collected automatically when you use the Website:

• (if provided to us) Personal identification information (name, email address)

• Information automatically collected by Squarespace when you visit the Website, to include:

  • 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

  • Other technical information

Please read the sections below for more information.

Notice Regarding Minors

We do not knowingly solicit data from or market to children under 18 years of age. By using the Website and our Services, you represent that you are at least 18. If we learn that personal information from users less than 18 years of age have been collected, we will take reasonable measures to promptly delete such data from our records. If you become aware of any data we may have collected from children under age 18, please contact us at the email address listed at the bottom of the page.

Information You Provide to Us

You directly provide us with most of the data we collect. We collect and process data when you:

• Subscribe to our mailing list

• Place an order for Services

• Voluntarily provide feedback or data via email

• Use or view the Website via your browser’s cookies

Information We Collect Through Automated Technology

We may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources when you visit our Services.

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

• 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

This Website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to your computer when a visitor accesses a website or app to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information.

For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device by Squarespace, visit https://support.squarespace.com/hc/articles/360001264507#toc-check-your-cookies.

For further information about cookies, visit allaboutcookies.org.

How We Use Cookies

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our Website, including:

• Analytics: Our Website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including the following. We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

  • 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

• Understanding how you use our website so we can provide a better User experience. Please see the section titled “What Types of Cookies We Use” for more information.

• 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 from Squarespace, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

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

  • Your IP address

What Types of Cookies We Use

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 https://support.squarespace.com/hc/articles/360001264507#toc-check-your-cookies.

There are a number of different types of cookies our Website uses:

• Functional and Required Cookies (access this Squarespace link for more information)

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

• Analytics and Performance Cookies (access this Squarespace link for more information)

  • 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

How to Manage Your Cookies

Our Website uses cookie banner to inform visitors about our cookies and prevent non-essential cookies (to include analytics cookies) from being placed until after you have acknowledged the banner.

Third Party Privacy Policies and Use of Cookies

This Website may contain links to other websites. Additionally, some content or applications on the Website are served by third parties including content providers and application providers (such as Squarespace).

This Privacy Policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, we recommend you read their privacy policy.

With your consent, we collect your data so we can:

• Perform an agreement with you and/or for any pre-contractual obligations

• If subscribed to our mailing list, email you with special offers on products and Services we think may interest you

• Manage your client account if contracted for Services with us

• Process your order for Services and/or products

  • While processing the order, we may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases

• Comply with law

• Ensure security and fraud protection

Email Marketing

If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date. You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of our company. If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please contact at the email address listed at the bottom of the page to be removed from the mailing list.

We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed earlier in this section “How We Use Your Data”.

We securely store, manage, and transmit your data using only reputable software applications, cloud-based services, and browsers. We abide by and maintain adequate data security measures, consistent with industry standards and technology best practices, to protect your data from unauthorized disclosure or acquisition by an unauthorized person. We use two-factor authentication whenever available, log out of the system(s) when not actively in use, and employ other technology best practices to maintain adequate data security measures consistent with technology best practices.

Data Retention

If subscribed to our mailing list, we will keep your Personal Data until you request to be removed from the mailing list. If you request to be removed, we will delete your Personal Data as soon as feasibly possible, but always within 10 business days.

If contracted for Services with us as a client, we will keep your Personal Data for the duration of the client relationship. Once the client relationship and contract have expired, we will delete your data within the timeframe outlined in your client agreement/contract.

The Owner keeps this Privacy Policy under regular review and posts all updates on this web page. The date the Privacy Policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. The User is responsible for periodically visiting the Website and Privacy Policy to check for changes.

Should any changes affect processing activities performed on the basis of the User’s consent, the Owner will collect new consent from the User where required.

If material changes are made to how Users’ Personal Data is handled, the Owner will notify Users by email to the email address specified in their account and/or through a notice on the Website home page.

The User is responsible for ensuring the Owner has an up-to-date and deliverable email address on record.

If you have any questions, comments, or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, the data we store, or would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please contact us via email or the “Contact” form on this Website.

Owner and Data Controller: Kelsey Sumner

Email: kelsey@thislittleconsultingfirm.com

European Union (or EU) | Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Personal Data (or Data) | Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information (including a personal identification number) allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

User | The individual using the Website who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the subject of the Personal Data.