Privacy Policy

Effective Date: January 25th, 2022.

1 – Introduction

thejonrussell.com dedicates itself to protecting your privacy and personal information. This privacy policy details what information we collect on thejonrussell.com (the “Site”), as well as how that information is used, and what measures can be taken to opt-out. By using this Site, you consent to the practices of this Privacy Policy detailed within.

2 – Information Collected

Information provided to this Site falls under the categories of:

  • Personally Identifiable Information (“PII”) provided, such as when ordering an item on this site (should any be offered for sale with an online ordering mechanism, i.e. PayPal links).
  • Tracking and analytics information gathered in the usage of this site.

3 – What is this Information Used For

For PII, this data is provided depending on the context:

  • First and Last Name (as well as Middle and Prefix/Suffix if provided, to provide services/products)
  • Email address (to fulfill orders and resolve inquiries)

3.1 – Email Communications

All communications made by email will be for the express purpose of fulfilling and resolving inquiries in regards to orders made for products or items for sale, if any are offered at the time. Email communications may also be made due to notifications of all security breaches, or notification of exposure of PII pertaining to a lawful court or government investigation (where permitted by law).

Email newsletters may be set up in the future. In this event, this Privacy Policy will be updated, and a specific opt-in will be provided on the Site for said purpose. At this time, there are no newsletters, and no other email communications will be made aside from that specified in the preceding paragraph.

3.2 – Postal Communications

Apart from shipment of items ordered from this site, there will be no postal communications performed based on any PII provided to this Site, except where required by law.

3.3 – Phone Communications

Phone communications will not be performed under any circumstances in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Telephone number information will not be requested.

3.4 – Sale of PII

Jon Russell does not and will not sell PII to any third party. Confer with third-party disclosures down below in Section 4.

3.5 – Access to PII by Others

Jon Russell will endeavor to keep PII safe from malicious actors or other unauthorized disclosures/breaches. PII may be provided in accordance with a lawful court order pertaining to an active investigation, and only to the extent required by law.

In the event of a security breach, Jon Russell will attempt to contact all affected parties within 72 hours of discovery, and also contact the appropriate authorities.

4 – Third-Party Links and Cookies

4.1 – Social Media Links

This site does make use of social media sharing buttons to enable sharing of content to social media networks directly through this tie. These sites have their own independent privacy policies and thus I assume no responsibility or liability for the content and activity of said linked sites.

4.2 – Google Analytics

This Site makes use of Google Analytics (with anonymisation enabled, i.e. IP addresses rendered to all zeroes) for the purpose of gathering, collecting, and analyzing user behavior (such as which pages are visited, as well as referring websites and services (Referrers), how long a user visits a page on the Site, and how many times a user visits a given page on the Site.

Google Analytics uses cookies. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google might transfer the personal information collected via this technical procedure to third parties.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the features of this website to the fullest extent possible.

Preventing the collection of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including IP address) by Google is possible by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. This browser add-on will inform Google Analytics via JavaScript that no data and information about visits to this Site may be transmitted to Google Analytics.

A cookie already set by Google Analytics can be deleted at any time via your browser setting and other programs.

Further information and Google‘s applicable privacy regulations can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. A further explanation of Google Analytics can be found at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/.

4.3 – PayPal

Orders for any items made through this site may be processed through PayPal, and thus fall under their Privacy Policy as well. Jon Russell assumes no responsibility nor liablity for the content and activity of PayPal’s website.

5 – Minors (Children Under 13).

This Site is not intended for children under the age of 13, nor does it knowingly accept or gather information pertaining to children under 13 in accordance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA).

6 – Changes to Privacy Policy

Changes to this Privacy Policy may occur with or without notice. In the event of changes to this policy, an announcement will be made on the blog on the day of this policy’s change, to be based on the United States Pacific Time Zone (PST or PDT depending on Daylight Savings Time).

7 – Questions/Concerns/Data Deletion Requests

7.1 – General Questions/Concerns

If there are any questions or concerns regarding this privacy policy, contact Jon Russell at jrussell@nodeomega.com

7.2 – PII Data Inquiry

For data inquiry (pertaining to PII), contact Jon Russell at jrussell@nodeomega.com

7.3 Data Deletion Requests

For data deletion requests pertaining to PII