Privacy policy.

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.mscrafts.org, and The Craftsmen's Guild of Mississippi and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi include www.mscrafts.org and The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. The The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi website is a nonprofit site. By using the The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

 

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:

 

 -       First and Last Name

 -       Mailing Address

 -       E-mail Address

 -       Phone Number

 -       Employer

 -       Job Title

  

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

 

 -       Age

 -       Gender

 -       Race

 -       Household Income

 

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. These may include: (a) registering for an account; (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. 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.

 

Use of your Personal Information

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

 

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi and its affiliates.

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.

 

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is transferred to the third party. The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

 

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, or the public.

 

Opt-Out of Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

In connection with any personal information we may disclose to a third party for a business purpose, you have the right to know:

•     The categories of personal information that we disclosed about you for a business purpose.

 

You have the right under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and certain other privacy and data protection laws, as applicable, to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information. If you exercise your right to opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, we will refrain from disclosing your personal information, unless you subsequently provide express authorization for the disclosure of your personal information. To opt-out of the disclosure of your personal information, visit this Web page www.mscrafts.org.

 

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi. 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi website.

 

Use of Cookies

The The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi pages, or register with The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi site or services, a cookie helps The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi services or websites you visit.

 

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.

 

Security of your Personal Information

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi uses the following methods for this purpose:

 

 -       SSL Protocol

 

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

 

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

 

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

•     Delete your personal information from our records; and

•     Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

 

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

•     Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

•     Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

•     Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

•     Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

•     Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

•     Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

•     Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

•     Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

•     Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 

Children Under Thirteen

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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.

 

Opt-Out & Unsubscribe from Third Party Communications

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from third-party partners of The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi by contacting us here:

- Web page: www.mscrafts.org

- Phone: 601-856-7546 

E-mail Communications

From time to time, The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, 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 The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi or click on a link therein.

 

If you would like to stop receiving communications via email from The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

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Analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

 

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

 

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

 

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

 

 

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

 

Visitor data

When you request a quote or fill out our contact form on this website, we collect personal information from you to fulfill your request. We may collect information like your:

 

  • Billing and shipping address

  • Details relating to your purchase (for example, your shirt size)

  • Email address

  • Name

  • Phone number

 

We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

 

As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

 

For form block submissions

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Mailchimp for storage.

 

For website visitors

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

 

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

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Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

 

Marketing emails

We may send you marketing emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. We share your contact information with Squarespace and Mailchimp, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

 

Fonts

This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

 

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Your IP address

 

Changes to this Statement

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi 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 website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

 

Contact Information

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi at:

 

The Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi

950 Rice Road, Ridgeland, MS 39157

601-856-7546/ Phone
 

 

Effective as of March 28, 2024