Privacy Policy
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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How long we retain your 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 in a moderation queue.
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What rights you have 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 we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
PRIVACY POLICY
10, 2025
describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share (“process“) your personal information when you use our services (“Services“), including
when you:
- Visit our
website at http://www.barbaragani.com or any website of ours that links to this Privacy Notice
- Engage with us in other related ways,
including any sales, marketing, or events
Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for
making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with
our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at barbara@barbaragani.com.
SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS
Notice, but you can find out more details about any of these topics by clicking the link
following each key point or by using our table of contents below to find the section you are looking for.
personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services,
we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services,
the choices you make, and the products and features you use. Learn more about personal information you disclose to
us.
information? Some of the information may be considered “special” or “sensitive” in
certain jurisdictions, for example your racial or ethnic origins, sexual orientation, and religious
beliefs. We may process sensitive personal information
when necessary with your consent or as otherwise permitted by applicable law. Learn more
about sensitive information
we process.
information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information
for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid
legal reason to do so. Learn more about how we process your information.
information in specific situations and with specific third
parties. Learn more about when and with whom we share your personal information.
adequate organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal
information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage
technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that
hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security
and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information. Learn more about how we keep your information safe.
are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable
privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information. Learn more
about your privacy rights.
easiest way to exercise your rights is by submitting a data
subject access request, or by contacting us. We
will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
more about what we do with any information we collect? Review the Privacy Notice in full.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
Personal information you disclose to us
We collect personal information that
you provide to us.
when you express an interest in obtaining information
about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or
otherwise when you contact us.
personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and
the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal
information we collect may include the following:
- names
- phone numbers
- email addresses
- contact preferences
- billing addresses
- debit/credit card
numbers
- mailing addresses
- contact or authentication data
permitted by applicable law, we process the following categories of sensitive information:
accurate, and you must notify us of any changes to such personal information.
Information automatically collected
In Short: Some information — such as your
Internet Protocol (IP) address and/or browser and device characteristics — is collected
automatically when you visit our Services.
when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific
identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information,
such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language
preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when
you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to
maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting
purposes.
collect information through cookies and similar technologies.
includes:
- Log and Usage Data. Log and usage data is service-related,
diagnostic, usage, and performance information our servers automatically collect when you
access or use our Services and which we record in log files. Depending on how you interact
with us, this log data may include your IP address, device information, browser type, and
settings and information about your activity in the Services (such as the date/time stamps associated with your usage, pages and files viewed,
searches, and other actions you take such as which features you use), device event
information (such as system activity, error reports (sometimes called “crash dumps”), and
hardware settings).
- Device Data. We collect
device data such as information about your computer, phone, tablet, or other device you use to
access the Services. Depending on the device used, this device data may include information
such as your IP address (or proxy server), device and application identification numbers,
location, browser type, hardware model, Internet service provider and/or mobile carrier,
operating system, and system configuration information.
- Location Data. We collect location data such as information
about your device’s location, which can be either precise or imprecise. How much information
we collect depends on the type and settings of the device you use to access the Services. For
example, we may use GPS and other technologies to collect geolocation data that tells us your
current location (based on your IP address). You can opt out of allowing us to collect this
information either by refusing access to the information or by disabling your Location setting
on your device. However, if you choose to opt out, you may not be able to use certain aspects
of the Services.
Google API
Our use of information received from Google
APIs will adhere to Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use
requirements.
2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We process
your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for
security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law.
We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent.
depending on how you interact with our Services, including:
- To respond to user inquiries/
offer support to users. We may process your information to respond to your inquiries
and solve any potential issues you might have with the requested service.
personal information in the following situations:
- Business Transfers. We may share or transfer
your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company
assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- When we use Google Maps Platform
APIs. We may share your information with certain Google Maps Platform APIs
(e.g.,
Google Maps API, Places API). Google Maps uses GPS, Wi-Fi, and cell towers to estimate your
location. GPS is accurate to about 20 meters, while Wi-Fi and cell towers help improve
accuracy when GPS signals are weak, like indoors. This data helps Google Maps provide
directions, but it is not always perfectly precise.
We obtain and store on your device (“cache”) your location. You may revoke your consent anytime by contacting us at the contact details provided at
the end of this document.
technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our
Services. Some online tracking technologies help us maintain the security of our Services, prevent crashes, fix bugs, save your preferences, and
assist with basic site functions.
technologies on our Services for analytics and advertising, including to help manage and
display advertisements, to tailor advertisements to your interests, or to send abandoned
shopping cart reminders (depending on your communication preferences). The third parties
and service providers use their technology to provide advertising about products and services
tailored to your interests which may appear either on our Services or on other websites.
applicable US state laws, you can opt out of these online tracking technologies by submitting a
request as described below under section “DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
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you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice
Google Analytics
We may share your information with
Google Analytics to track and analyze the use of the Services. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across the Services, visit
https://
tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. For
more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms page.
5. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?
In Short: We keep your information for
as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Notice unless otherwise required
by law.
only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in
this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as
tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).
business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize such
information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been
stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it
from any further processing until deletion is possible.
6. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?
In Short: We aim to protect your
personal information through a system of organizational and technical security
measures.
have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security
measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However,
despite our safeguards and efforts to secure your information, no electronic transmission over
the Internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we
cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties
will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your
information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of
personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the
Services within a secure environment.
7. DO WE COLLECT
INFORMATION FROM MINORS?
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.
market to children under 18 years of age, nor do we
knowingly sell such personal information. By using the Services, you represent that you are at
least 18 or that you are the parent or guardian of such a
minor and consent to such minor dependent’s use of the Services. If we learn that personal
information from users less than 18 years of age has
been collected, we will deactivate the account and 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 barbara@barbaragani.com
8. WHAT ARE YOUR
PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In Short: You may review, change, or terminate your account at any time,
depending on your country, province, or state of residence.
Withdrawing your consent: If we are relying on
which may be express and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any
time. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us by using the contact details
provided in the section “HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS
NOTICE?” below.
affect the lawfulness of the processing before its withdrawal nor, when applicable law allows, will it affect the processing of your personal information conducted in reliance on lawful
processing grounds other than consent.
technologies: Most Web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. If you
prefer, you can usually choose to set your browser to remove cookies and to reject cookies. If
you choose to remove cookies or reject cookies, this could affect certain features or services of
our Services.
barbara@barbaragani.com.
9. CONTROLS FOR DONOT-
TRACK FEATURES
Most web browsers and some
mobile operating systems and mobile applications include a Do-Not-Track (“DNT”) feature or setting
you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing
activities monitored and collected. At this stage, no uniform technology standard for recognizing
and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT
browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to
be tracked online. If a standard for online tracking is adopted that we must follow in the future,
we will inform you about that practice in a revised version of this Privacy Notice.
DNT signals. Because there currently is not an industry or legal standard for recognizing or honoring
DNT signals, we do not respond to them at this time.
10. DO UNITED STATES
RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?
In
Short: If you are a resident of
California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland,
Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have the right to
request access to and receive details about the personal information we maintain about you
and how we have processed it, correct inaccuracies, get a copy of, or delete your personal
information. You may also have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your
personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable law.
More information is provided below.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect
The table below shows the categories of
personal information we have collected in the past twelve (12) months. The table includes
illustrative examples of each category and does not reflect the personal information we collect
from you. For a comprehensive inventory of all personal information we process, please refer to
the section “WHAT
INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?“
| Examples | Collected | |
|---|---|---|
A. Identifiers | Contact details, such as real name, alias, postal address, telephone or mobile contact number, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, and account name | YES |
B. Personal information as defined in the California Customer Records statute | Name, contact information, education, employment, employment history, and financial information | YES |
C. Protected classification characteristics under state or federal law | Gender, age, date of birth, race and ethnicity, national origin, marital status, and other demographic data | YES |
D. Commercial information | Transaction information, purchase history, financial details, and payment information | NO |
E. Biometric information | Fingerprints and voiceprints | NO |
F. Internet or other similar network activity | Browsing history, search history, online behavior, interest data, and interactions with our and other websites, applications, systems, and advertisements | NO |
G. Geolocation data | Device location | YES |
H. Audio, electronic, sensory, or similar information | Images and audio, video or call recordings created in connection with our business activities | NO |
I. Professional or employment-related information | Business contact details in order to provide you our Services at a business level or job title, work history, and professional qualifications if you apply for a job with us | NO |
J. Education Information | Student records and directory information | NO |
K. Inferences drawn from collected personal information | Inferences drawn from any of the collected personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about, for example, an individual’s preferences and characteristics | NO |
| L. Sensitive personal Information | Contents of email or text messages | YES |
sensitive personal information, as defined by applicable privacy laws or the purposes allowed
by law or with your consent. Sensitive personal information may be used, or disclosed to a
service provider or contractor, for additional, specified purposes. You may have the right to
limit the use or disclosure of your sensitive personal information. We do not collect or process sensitive personal information for the
purpose of inferring characteristics about you.
these categories through instances where you interact with us in person, online, or by phone or
mail in the context of:
- Receiving help through our customer support channels;
- Participation in customer surveys or contests; and
- Facilitation in the delivery of our Services and to respond to your inquiries.
and retain the collected personal information as needed to provide the Services or for:
- Category A – As long as the user has an account with us
- Category B – As long as the user has
an account with us
- Category B – As long as the user has
- Category
- C – As long as the user has an
account with us
- Category
G – As long as the user has an account with us
- Category
L – As long as the user has an account with us
Sources of Personal
Information
Learn more about the sources of personal information we collect in
“WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?“
How We Use and Share Personal Information
Learn more about how we use your personal information in
the section, “HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?“
information with our service providers pursuant to a written contract between us and each
service provider. Learn more about how we disclose personal information to in the section,
“WHEN
AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?“
purposes, such as for undertaking internal research for technological development and
demonstration. This is not considered to be “selling” of your personal
information.
personal information to third parties for a business or commercial purpose in the preceding
twelve (12) months. We will not sell or share
personal information in the future belonging to website visitors, users, and other
consumers.
You have rights under certain US state data
protection laws. However, these rights are not absolute, and in certain cases, we may decline
your request as permitted by law. These rights include:
- Right to know whether or not we are
processing your personal data
- Right to know whether or not we are
- Right to access your personal
data
- Right to access your personal
- Right to correct inaccuracies in your personal data
- Right to request the deletion of your personal data
- Right to obtain a copy of the personal data you previously shared
with us
- Right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights
- Right to opt out of the processing of your personal data if it is used
for targeted advertising (or sharing as defined under
California’s privacy law), the sale of personal
data, or profiling in furtherance of decisions that produce legal or similarly significant effects
(“profiling”
rights:
- Right to access the
categories of personal data being processed (as permitted by applicable law, including the
privacy law in Minnesota)
- Right to obtain a list of the categories of third parties to which we
have disclosed personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including the privacy law in California, Delaware, and Maryland)
- Right to obtain a
list of specific third parties to which we have disclosed personal data (as permitted by
applicable law, including the privacy law in Minnesota
and Oregon) - Right to
obtain a list of third parties to which we have sold personal data (as permitted by applicable
law, including the privacy law in Connecticut)
- Right to review, understand, question, and depending on
where you live, correct how personal data has been profiled (as permitted by applicable law,
including the privacy law in Connecticut and
Minnesota)
- Right to limit use and disclosure of
sensitive personal data (as permitted by applicable law, including the privacy law in
California)
- Right to opt out of the collection of
sensitive data and personal data collected through the operation of a voice or facial recognition
feature (as permitted by applicable law, including the privacy law in Florida)
- Right to opt out of the collection of
How to Exercise Your Rights
To exercise these rights, you can contact us
by submitting a data subject
access request, by emailing us at barbara@barbaragani.com,
or by referring
to the contact details at the bottom of this document.
authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may deny a request from an authorized
agent that does not submit proof that they have been validly authorized to act on your
behalf in accordance with applicable laws.
Request Verification
Upon receiving your request, we will need to verify your identity to
determine you are the same person about whom we have the information in our system. We
will only use personal information provided in your request to verify your identity or authority to
make the request. However, if we cannot verify your identity from the information already
maintained by us, we may request that you provide additional information for the purposes of
verifying your identity and for security or fraud-prevention purposes.
additional information to verify your identity before processing your request and the agent will
need to provide a written and signed permission from you to submit such request on your
behalf.
Appeals
Under certain US state data protection laws, if we decline to take action
regarding your request, you may appeal our decision by emailing us at barbara@barbaragani.com. We will inform you in writing of any action taken or not
taken in response to the appeal, including a written explanation of the reasons for the
decisions. If your appeal is denied, you may submit a complaint to your state attorney
general.
California “Shine The Light” Law
California Civil Code Section1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are California residents
to request and obtain from us, once a year and free of charge, information about categories of
personal information (if any) we disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes and the
names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared personal information in the
immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make
such a request, please submit your request in writing to us by using the contact details
provided in the section “HOW CAN
YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?“
11. DO WE MAKE
UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?
In Short: Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.
Privacy Notice from time to time. The updated version will be indicated by an updated “Revised”
date at the top of this Privacy Notice. If we make material changes to this Privacy Notice, we
may notify you either by prominently posting a notice of such changes or by directly sending
you a notification. We encourage you to review this Privacy Notice frequently to be informed of
how we are protecting your information.
12. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?
If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at barbara@barbaragani.com or contact us by post at:
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13. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE
COLLECT FROM YOU?
Based on the applicable laws of your country or state of residence in the US, you may have the right to
request access to the personal information we collect from you, details about how we have
processed it, correct inaccuracies, or delete your personal information. You may also have the
right to withdraw your consent to our processing of
your personal information. These rights may be limited in some circumstances by applicable
law. To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please fill out and submit a data subject access
request.