Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting my website! I think of you as a guest in my home and hope that you are both inspired and maybe even moved to make an acquisition, or commission me to create an original work just for you.

Within this context, my Privacy Policy can be summarized as follows:

• We only ask you to share the minimum information required to respond to your questions or to process an order.
• We take several steps to protect whatever information that you share with us.
• We delete whatever information you share with us as soon as it is no longer needed, but not to exceed one tax cycle.
• We do not collect or share your information with 3rd parties, except for the minimum required to process an order.
• We will not use any information shared with us for marketing without your written permission.
• We do not track your browsing habits or build user profiles. In other words: We will not spy on you!

To learn more, continue reading …

Who we are:

We are “The Stone Cobra, LLC”, owned and operated by Marilyn E, and located in Greensboro, North Carolina.

Marilyn is a Multi-Faceted, Multi-Dimensional, Multi-Media Artist (Fiber Artist, Wire Wrap Jewelry artist, a Crystal Energy artist, a Crystal Energy Seeker/worker, a Colour Theory artist, Graphic Designer, a Photographer, a Numerologist, Essential Oil Aromatherapist, Reiki Master and Writer/Artist).

The website’s internet address is: https://www.TheStoneCobra.com

Personal data we collect and why we collect it:

Comments

This isn’t the sort of website that invites public comments and discussions. Life is too short to have to deal with trolls, malcontents and spammers. Face the light instead of the darkness! ⁽¹⁾ I would rather be working on my latest art project.

By not having to register to leave comments or upload pictures, means that you don’t need to share your Personally Identifiable Information (PII). It also means that we do not have to store this information on our website! PII are things like your full name, street address, phone number, email, age, D.O.B., credit-card number, etc.

Contact forms

The contact forms on this website provide a fast, easy and secure way for you to communicate directly with me. Providing your name and email address allows for responding to your messages. As protection against hackers and fraud, we also capture geolocation and IP Address. Be assured that it is policy to keep your message (including PII and captured info), no longer than one tax cycle before deleting it. Your information will not be used for marketing purposes, nor will your information be shared with any 3rd parties unless it is needed for order fulfillment (i.e.- Payment Processors, Shipper, etc.). At no time is your PII stored locally on our web-servers. We also utilize behavioral analysis and the most up-to-date encryption technology to keep your information safe from hackers.

Cookies

We may use secure session cookies to manage your browsing experience, and these cookies are deleted when you’re done browsing our website. This cookie does not contain any Personally Identifiable Information (PII). In addition, we also do not utilize HTML5 Storage, Canvas Fingerprinting, Transparent Pixels or other tracking technologies to capture any PII or to track your activities across the web.

Embedded content from other websites

Please be aware that if you utilize any of Meta’s family of products (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Workspace, Novi, etc.), their highly advanced technology will allow them to track your visit to our website. To a lesser extent, both Pinterest and Twitter will be able to track your visit to our website.

Select the highlighted words for links to Meta’s Privacy and Cookie Policies, Twitter’s Privacy and Cookie Policies and Pinterest’s Privacy and Cookie Policies.

Analytics

Both our website host (DreamHost) as well as CloudFlare’s Content Delivery Network (CDN) service providers supply us with analytics data identifying aggregate number of users (traffic) hitting our website, broken down by time-of-day, daily, weekly and monthly.

From our security service provider and CDN, we receive a detailed breakdown of users abusing our website or attempting to ‘hack’ our website. This breakdown includes the alleged abuser’s IP Address, User Agent, Country of Origin and the anomalous behavior exhibited.

Who we share your data with:

We do not collect or share your information with 3rd parties, except for the minimum required to process an order or to communicate with you.

How long we retain your data:

We do not retain any information that you’ve provided to us for more than one tax cycle.

California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA):

The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) requires us to provide California residents with information about personal information we collect and share, where we get that personal information, and how and why we use it.

The sections above, provide detailed information about what personally identifiable information we may collect, why we collect it and who we share it with.

If you are a California resident, you have additional rights under the CCPA, subject to any exemptions provided by the law, including the right to:

• Request to know the categories of personal information we collect, the categories of business or commercial purpose for collecting and using it, the categories of sources from which the information came, the categories of third parties we share it with, and the specific pieces of information we collect about you.
• Request deletion of personal information we collect or maintain.
• To opt out of any sale of personal information, and not receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights under the CCPA.

The artist can be contacted by sending a message using the form found at: https://www.thestonecobra.com/contact-the-artist/

Internet Hygiene: What You Can Do to Protect Your Privacy and PII

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is the leading nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital world. They have authored an excellent collection of articles on the kinds of things you can do to protect your privacy, personal information and guard against hackers as you use your digital devices and as you explore the internet.

Don’t be a victim! Take control, and avail yourself of this resource by visiting: https://ssd.eff.org