Who Runs This Site?
amandawritenow.com is a website run by a full time teacher and curriculum writer, Amanda Werner. The information collected on this website is not sold or shared with other businesses or individuals. The information collected is used to: 1) analyze how well the website is performing, 2) to advertise information and products to interested users, 3) to sell digital curriculum.
How is My Information Being Used?
Below you will find all the tools used to collect your information and the purpose for the use of those tools.
Contact Form
If you submit a contact form on the Contact page of amandawritenow.com, you must enter a name, email address, and a message. Once that form is submitted, the email address is kept in the email system, where it is used to respond to your inquiry. The email address is kept in email archives as a record of our communication, but it can be removed if you request it to be. You can do this by simply replying to the email sent in reply or by submitting another contact form asking to remove your email from our system.
Names and email addresses submitted through contact forms are never used for marketing purposes, and they are never shared with anyone outside of amandawritenow.com.
Comments
When you leave a comment on amandawritenow.com, information such as your name, email and Gravatar photo are stored on the amandawritenow.com website. 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.
Emails
When you sign up to receive emails from amandawritenow.com, information such as your name and email are collected for the purpose of providing useful information and keeping you up to date on new resources and teaching strategies. You may opt out of this list at any time by sending a request via email, through this contact form, or by simply clicking the unsubscribe link that appears at the bottom of every email we send.
Google Analytics
A tool called Google Analytics is used to track visitors to amandawritenow.com. Google Analytics collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. The information received from Google Analytics is used solely to improve this site. Google Analytics collects only the IP address assigned to you on the date you visit this site, rather than your name or other identifying information. The information collected through the use of Google Analytics is not combined with personally identifiable information. Although Google Analytics plants a permanent cookie on your web browser to identify you as a unique user the next time you visit amandawritenow.com, the cookie cannot be used by anyone but Google. Google’s ability to use and share information collected by Google Analytics about your visits to amandawritenow.com is restricted by the Google Analytics Terms of Use (as amended for government websites) and the Google Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser.
Facebook Pixel
Information about your visit to amandawritenow.com is collected through the Facebok Pixel. This allows Facebook to customize the advertisements shown on Facebook. When amandawritenow places an advertisement on Facebook for a particular product, the Pixel can help determine which visitors to the site might be interested in that product based on the pages they visited here.
Social Shares
When you click the share buttons at the top of each page or post, your share is counted and stored on amandawritenow.com. This is done through a plugin called MashShare. Read the MashShare Privacy Policy.
JetPack
JetPack is a popular WordPress plugin that tracks visitor usage of websites. This tool is used to find out what sources are responsible for traffic to amandawritenow.com. JetPack collects information such as how often users visit this site, what pages they visit when they do so, and what other sites they used prior to coming to this site. Read about JetPack’s Privacy Policy.
WooCommerce
WooCommerce is a plugin that allows for the sale of products through amandawritenow.com Data is used for checkout, payments and taxes. Here is a break down of how what data is used…
For taxes: the value of goods in the cart, value of shipping, destination address.
For checkout rates: destination address, purchased product IDs, dimensions, weight, and quantities.
For payments: the purchase total, currency and customer’s billing information is sent to the respective payment processor. Please see the respective third party’s privacy policy (Stripe’s Privacy Policy and PayPal’s Privacy Policy) for more details. For automated taxes, the value of goods in the cart, the value of shipping, and the destination address to is sent to TaxJar. Please see TaxJar’s Privacy Policy for details about how they handle this information.