Privacy Policy

Usage of Your Information

By signing up as a subscriber, you’ll receive my weekly blog along with other subscriber-only bonuses, such as discounts or “early bird” notifications. I’ll also provide occasional email updates; specifically, as it pertains to new features on this website or additional benefits to you as a subscriber.

You may be asked to participate in surveys regarding your preferences for content on joyawilliams.com. As much as I would love to receive your feedback, participation in surveys is optional.

If you win a giveaway item (and wouldn’t that be nice), you will be emailed directly by Joy A. Williams to request your mailing address. After the package is mailed, your address is securely disposed.

You can unsubscribe at any time by clicking on the link at the bottom of each email you receive. If there’s anything I can do differently to improve my service to you, I’d like to know. You can simply reply to any email I send or send a message through my contact page.

In an effort to make your experience on this site as secure as possible, we aim to protect your information with policies and procedures from non-authorized use. Subscriber email addresses or any other personal information is not sold to third parties.

Third Party Sharing

I currently use MailerLite for email distribution. When you sign up to receive emails from joyawilliams.com, MailerLite processes them. You are agreeing to MailerLite’s policies by signing up.

Also, in an effort to analyze the engagement on this site, we use Google Analytics and other sites to measure that activity. Some of your information (like the pages or posts selected during a visit) will be automatically collected.

Google Analytics also collects other data including your browser, IP address, date/time of use. If you would like to opt out of Google Analytics or would like to know more about their services you can find out on Google’s website.

If you click on third party links, you are leaving joyawilliams.com and are subject to the guidelines and functions of the third party link you selected. This site or its owner has no control over the content, policies or practices of third party links.

Additional Disclosures

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. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Graphics:  Many of the graphics used on this site come from Canva or free photos from pexels.com. Occasionally, Joy A. Williams at joyawilliams.com may use her privately owned photos or videos. All of the posts and graphics, including this privacy policy, are protected under U.S. copyright laws.

Cookies:  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.

Use of any text or image is only permitted with the express intent from Joy A. Williams, unless proper credit is given to joyawilliams.com (or by linking back to this website). By using this website, you agree to waive all liability for any resulting losses or damages you assume or you believe to have occurred from the information provided on any part of this website.

This privacy policy may be updated at any time for legal or marketing purposes. Changes will be posted here and emailed to you, if you are a subscriber.

If you have any questions, please send an email to me through my Contact page.