Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to lookingupward.org and Looking Upward, LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Looking Upward, LLC include lookingupward.org. The Looking Upward, LLC website is a blog. By using the Looking Upward, LLC website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.
I. Collection of your Personal Information
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Looking Upward’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.
We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site. These may include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.
II. Sharing Information with Third Parties
Looking Upward does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Looking Upward, LLC may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Looking Upward, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Looking Upward, LLC may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Looking Upward or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Looking Upward; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Looking Upward, or the public.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
III. Tracking User Behavior
Looking Upward, LLC may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Looking Upward, in order to determine what Looking Upward services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Looking Upward, LLC to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.
IV. Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Looking Upward, LLC. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Looking Upward website.
V. Use of Cookies
The Looking Upward, LLC website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.
One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Looking Upward, LLC pages, or register with Looking Upward, LLC site or services, a cookie helps Looking Upward, LLC to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Looking Upward, LLC website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Looking Upward, LLC features that you customized.
You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Looking Upward, LLC services or websites you visit.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
VI. Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.
VII. Children Under Thirteen
Looking Upward, LLC does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.
VIII. E-mail Communications
From time to time, Looking Upward, LLC may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Looking Upward, LLC or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Looking Upward,LLC, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE link in the emails.
IX. Affiliate Disclosure
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. If you purchase a product through a link posted in our website, we will earn a commission used to support Looking Upward LLC.
X. Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
XI. Data Collected to Manage your Membership
At checkout, we will collect your name, email address, username, and password. This information is used to setup your account for our site. If you are redirected to an offsite payment gateway to complete your payment, we may store this information in a temporary session variable to setup your account when you return to our site.
At checkout, we may also collect your billing address and phone number. This information is used to confirm your credit card. The billing address and phone number are saved by our site to prepopulate the checkout form for future purchases and so we can get in touch with you if needed to discuss your order.
At checkout, we may also collect your credit card number, expiration date, and security code. This information is passed to our payment gateway to process your purchase. The last 4 digits of your credit card number and the expiration date are saved by our site to use for reference and to send you an email if your credit card will expire before the next recurring payment.
When logged in, we use cookies to track some of your activity on our site including logins, visits, and page views.
If you buy the paid subscription to LookingUpward.org, you will pay using either Paypal or Stripe (if you use a credit card). These are third-party services used for payment processing (payment processors). At no point is your payment data is stored on our servers. Looking Upward, LLC cannot see your payment data. Your payment information is provided directly and securely to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. Information shared with a payment provider to process payments includes:
- Name
- Address
- Phone
- City/State/Zip
- Unique payment identifier
- Payment provider identifier
Stripe’s Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://stripe.com/us/privacy and PayPal’s Privacy Policy can be viewed at https://www.paypal.com/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full. Both payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information.
X. Changes to this Statement
Looking Upward, LLC reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.
XI. Contact Information
Looking Upward, LLC welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Looking Upward has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Looking Upward at:
Looking Upward
PO Box #833
Madison, Mississippi 39130
Email Address:
Effective as of July 06, 2019