Privacy Policy for Rhythms of Play
Updated and Effective as of January 8, 2025
We may update or change this Policy occasionally, so please check this page regularly to ensure you are satisfied with any changes. If you have any questions regarding our terms of use (use of affiliate links, republishing policy, etc.) or the privacy practices below, please send them to info@rhythmsofplay.com.
Who We Are:
Our website address is https://rhythmsofplay.com
Rhythms of Play (“Company,” “website,” “site,” “community,” “our,” “we,” “it,” “us,” “I,” or “rhythmsofplay.com”) is primarily an online resource for raising (and educating) creative outdoor kids for parents, caregivers, teachers, and educators. But it is also helpful for anyone looking for seasonal celebration ideas, traditions, arts and crafts, and DIY projects for the home and garden. It was created and founded by Nell Regan Kartychok in December 2014.
We believe in the magic of childhood, the power of the imagination, learning through play, making this world a greener place to live, getting outside in all seasons, and co-creating a life you LOVE one rhythm at a time! Our website showcases arts and crafts for kids (and adults with youthful hearts), simple DIY projects, parenting and teaching resources, seasonal celebration ideas and traditions, and year-round holiday family fun!
Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!
Participation in Affiliate Marketing Programs:
Rhythms of Play participates in affiliate marketing programs. This means we may post customized links provided by retailers to track referrals to their websites and earn an advertising fee from any purchases made through these affiliate links. This program may use cookies to track visits and assign a commission to these sales. For more information about Rhythms of Plays’ use of affiliate links, please see our Disclosure Policy and Affiliate and Advertising Policy in Terms of Use.
The Personal Data We Collect:
Our Use of Cookies:
- A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.
- Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies. A web browser stores a persistent cookie and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session when the web browser is closed.
- Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user. However, personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
We may use cookies for the following purposes:
- (a) [authentication – we use cookies to identify you when you visit our website and as you navigate our website];
- (b) [status – we use cookies [to help us to determine if you are logged into our website];
- (c) [personalization – we use cookies [to store information about your preferences and to personalize the website for you];
- (d) [security – we use cookies [as an element of the security measures used to protect user accounts, including preventing fraudulent use of login credentials, and to protect our website and services generally];
- (e) [advertising – we use cookies [to help us to display advertisements that will be relevant to you]; and
- (f) [analysis – we use cookies [to help us to analyze the use and performance of our website and services];
- We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use through cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website to improve user experience. Google’s privacy policy is available HERE.
Refusing and Deleting Cookies:
- Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods vary from browser to browser and from version to version. You can, however, obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via the following links:
- (a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en (Chrome);
- (b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences(Firefox);
- (c) http://www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (Opera);
- (d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);
- (e) https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411 (Safari); and
- (f) https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacy (Edge).
- Please note that blocking cookies may affect the functions of many websites, including our Site. Should you decide to delete cookies, some site features, including password-protected pages for our email subscribers, may cease to be available.
Advertising:
- This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) to place advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use specific data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
Comments:
- When commenting on rhythmsofplay.com, you may leave a name, email address, and website address–or none of the above. Your email address will not be shown in the comment section. We only use this information to identify you as the comment maker and do not pass this information on to any third party, add it to our email list, or use it for marketing purposes.
- When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the browser user agent string to help detect spam.
Newsletter Subscription:
- Rhythms of Play will collect your email address if you accept a free printable, purchase a printable, create a login, or subscribe to our newsletter. Your data can be collected and recorded by Kit, our Email Service Provider, Podia Labs Inc., the Rhythms of Play Learning Center host, and Raptive via Slickstream if you sign up to save your favorites on the Rhythms of Play website.
- You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. Click the unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email or email support@rhythmsofplay.com to ask to be removed. Please ensure you use the email address you used to sign up for our newsletter service to unsubscribe. If you choose to unsubscribe from emails from Nell Regan Kartychok via email@e.podia.com, it does not unsubscribe you from the Rhythms of Play newsletter; you must do so separately via the unsubscribe link at the bottom of those emails.
- If you have signed up for or purchased a product in the Rhythms of Play Learning Center, you will recieve an email notification about that product from Nell Regan Kartychok via email@e.podia.com. If you unsubscribe from these emails, please know this does not affect your newsletter subscription but may affect your ability to access the product you purchased. You must also unsubscribe from the newsletter if you wish to do so.
- Rhythms of Play does not share personal information with third parties, nor do we store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and personalize your reading experience through email tags and cookies. You can turn off the use of cookies at any time by changing your specific browser settings. (see below)
Contact Forms:
- We use a simple contact form that requires readers to enter their name and email address in addition to their message. The message is sent directly to the info@rhythmsofplay.com inbox and stored in a business Gmail account.
- We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes. However, we do not use the information for marketing, add it to our email list, or pass it off to any third-party representative.
Embedded Content from other Websites:
- Articles on this site may include embedded content (videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves like the visitor has visited another website.
- These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who We Share Your Data With:
- We value your privacy at Rhythms of Play and have taken the necessary precautions to comply with the GDPR and the California Online Privacy Protection Act.
- Therefore, we will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent unless we are legally obligated.
How Long Do We Retain Your Data:
- If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
- The email addresses of our newsletter subscribers are held and hosted by our ESPs ConverKit and Podia until you unsubscribe and ask that it be deleted from our records.
- We keep contact form submissions for customer service purposes. However, we will not use the information for marketing, add it to our email list, or pass it off to any third-party representative.
- Rhythms of Play retains Google Analytics user-level and event-level data stored by Google Analytics for 50 months before being deleted from Analytics’ servers.
Sale of Business or Assets:
- Suppose the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership. In that case, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.
What Rights You Have Over Your Data:
- You can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
- If you wish to complain about Rhythms of Play or any of our policies, please get in touch with support@rhythmsofplay.com.
Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents:
- If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:
- (i) Access your data
- (ii) ensure the accuracy of your data
- (iii) the right to have us delete your data
- (iv) the right to restrict further processing of your data, and
- (v) the right to complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence if data is misused
- If you believe our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to complain to a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.
- You may exercise any of your rights concerning your data by written notice to us addressed to the following address:
- 1692 Mangrove Ave #406, Chico, CA 95926
Where We Send Your Data:
Third-party Services we use that may use and store your data:
- We use Google Analytics to monitor website data and traffic.
- Our email service providers are ConvertKit LLC and Podia Labs Inc.
- We use a business Gmail account to respond to your emails from our newsletters and via our contact form.
- The Rhythms of Play Learning Center is powered by Podia Labs Inc.
- Advertising services are provided by Raptive.
- Web hosting and data storage backup cloud services are provided by Techsurgeons LLC.
- iMark Interactive provides additional backup, web support, and development services for Rhythms of Play.
- Visitor comments are checked through automated spam detection services.
- Third-party-delivered content may also include data recorded by social networks, including the Facebook Pixel.
- Click on the name of each third-party service to read its company privacy policy for more information.
If You Wish to be Removed From the Data:
- Contact support@rhythmsofplay.com if you want us to remove or delete any of your information from rhythmsofplay.com. We will complete the request within one month. This includes comments made on our site and removal from our email list.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
- We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version will always be posted on the Site, with the “Effective Date” posted at the top of the Policy.
- We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, business names change, technology changes, or we add new services or existing ones.
- If we make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal information, or if we are going to use any personal information in a manner that is materially different from that stated in our Privacy Policy at the time we collected such information, we will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect when we obtain that information.
- By using our Site or services after the Effective Date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy.
- We will use information previously obtained under the Privacy Policy that was in effect when the information was obtained from you.
Contact Information for Rhythms of Play
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, please email support@rhythmsofplay.com. Or write to us: 1692 Mangrove Ave #406, Chico, CA 95926
Learn more about Rhythms of Play HERE!
