Privacy Policy
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.malikagrayson.com and Steminist Empowered LLC and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Steminist Empowered LLC include www.malikagrayson.com, Dr. Malika Grayson, Black Girls' Guide to Grad School and www.blackgirlsguide2gradschool.com. The Dr. Malika Grayson website is a STEM blog, keynote speaker, ecommerce site. By using the Dr. Malika Grayson 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 on our Site, Dr. Malika Grayson may collect personally identifiable information, such as your:
- First and Last Name
- Mailing Address
- E-mail Address
- Phone Number
Squarespace & Stripe
If you purchase Dr. Malika Grayson's products and services, we collect billing and credit card information. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. Our store is hosted on Squarespace Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you. Your data is stored through Squarespace's data storage, databases and the general Squarespace application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall. Payment: If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Stripe stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted. All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers. For more insight, you may also want to read Squarespace's & Stripe's Terms of Service or Privacy Statement.
Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Dr. Malika Grayson'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.
Use of your Personal Information
Dr. Malika Grayson collects and uses your personal information to operate its website(s) and deliver the services you have requested.
Dr. Malika Grayson may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from Dr. Malika Grayson and its affiliates.
Sharing Information with Third Parties
Dr. Malika Grayson does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.
Dr. Malika Grayson 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 Dr. Malika Grayson, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.
Dr. Malika Grayson 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 Dr. Malika Grayson or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Dr. Malika Grayson; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Dr. Malika Grayson, or the public.
Automatically Collected Information
Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Dr. Malika Grayson. 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 Dr. Malika Grayson website.
Security of your Personal Information
Dr. Malika Grayson secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Dr. Malika Grayson 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
Dr. Malika Grayson 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.
E-mail Communications
From time to time, Dr. Malika Grayson 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 Dr. Malika Grayson or click on a link therein.
If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Dr. Malika Grayson, you may opt out of such communications by Customers may unsubscribe from emails by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.
External Data Storage Sites
We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.
Changes to this Statement
Dr. Malika Grayson 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.
Contact Information
Dr. Malika Grayson welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Dr. Malika Grayson has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Dr. Malika Grayson at:
Steminist Empowered LLC
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_________________, Virginia _________________
Email Address:
graysonmalika@gmail.com
Telephone number:
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Effective as of June 29, 2020