Privacy policy.
RonKastner.com is not a corporation or an institution or a media enterprise. There is no advertising on the site, and therefore most of the standard privacy issues that plague the rest of the Internet are of no concern. But here is a privacy policy, kindly advised by a lawyer friend, to tell you what information my website does receive from you and what happens to it.
Information you Provide
Newsletter: If you sign up to receive the RonKastner.com newsletter, you provide your name and email address, which are used solely for the delivery of the newsletter to your inbox. We would never share them with any “third parties.” You can always unsubscribe by clicking the UNSUBSCRIBE link of any edition of the newsletter.
Communications: If you contact us via email, either by writing to me directly or by replying to the automated email newsletter, I will receive your email address and any other information you choose to provide.
Information automatically collected
Usage Information: RonKastner.com lives on the publishing platform Squarespace, which includes a statistical analytics feature to help publishers understand how their readers use their websites. This means that anonymized information of the pages RonKastner.com readers visit and the times of those visits are represented in these statistics. Squarespace may add other features to their analytics at any time, which will be available to us as a publisher, though we don’t actually look at these statistics.
What we do with your information
We use your information solely to communicate with you if you have opted in to receive the newsletter, and to better understand how you use the site in order to improve it. We don’t share your information with any “third parties,” though it does live — securely — within the external services that deliver the email newsletter (MailChimp).
Other
Data Transfers: Because RonKastner.com is based in the United States, if you visit the website from another country, your data may be transferred to the United States and other countries that may not have the same data protection laws as the country in which you initially provided information.
Data Security: We do everything we can to make RonKastner.com and your information as reasonably secure as possible for a business like RonKastner.com. However, this is the Internet — no security measures can be 100% secure for reasons far beyond any one person’s intent and control. We too, along with my entire website and any data related to it, can be on the receiving end of some cyberattack at any given moment.