Privacy Policy

Gold Leaf Legacies

Effective Date: November 12, 2024

At Gold Leaf Legacies, your privacy and trust are important to us. We understand that sharing your personal story is a meaningful experience, and we are committed to treating the information you provide with care and respect.

This Privacy Policy explains how Gold Leaf Legacies collects, uses, and protects personal information through our website, www.goldleaflegacies.com, and our online inquiry forms, including those offered through Facebook and Instagram.

1. Information We Collect

When you contact Gold Leaf Legacies, request information, or submit an inquiry, we may collect:

Your name and email address
Your telephone number, if provided
Information about the writing or publishing services you are interested in
Information you voluntarily share about your story or proposed book project
Communications between you and Gold Leaf Legacies

Our website and service providers may also collect technical information, such as IP addresses, browser information, and website activity through cookies and similar technologies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the information collected to:

Respond to inquiries and consultation requests
Discuss potential ghostwriting and publishing projects
Provide requested services and communicate with clients
Maintain business records
Improve our website and services
Send marketing communications when you have subscribed or otherwise provided appropriate consent
Comply with applicable legal obligations

We do not sell personal contact information collected through our inquiry forms to third-party mailing lists or data brokers.

3. Confidentiality of Personal Stories

Gold Leaf Legacies recognizes that memoir writing often involves personal memories, family histories, photographs, and sensitive experiences.

Information and materials provided in connection with a potential or active writing project are treated as confidential and used for evaluating or delivering the requested services.

We do not publicly share clients' personal stories, manuscripts, photographs, or identifying project details without appropriate authorization, except where disclosure is legally required.

Specific confidentiality obligations for commissioned projects may also be addressed in individual client agreements.

4. Website Hosting and Third-Party Services

Our website is hosted through Wix. We may also use third-party services to manage inquiries, communications, website analytics, advertising, and business operations.

When you submit an inquiry through Facebook or Instagram, information may be processed by Meta and shared with Gold Leaf Legacies so that we can respond to your request.

These providers process information under their own applicable privacy terms and data-processing arrangements.

5. Cookies and Website Analytics

Our website uses cookies and similar technologies that support website functionality and may help us understand visitor activity and measure advertising effectiveness.

Some cookies are essential to the operation of the website. Others, including analytics and advertising technologies where enabled, may require your consent depending on applicable law.

Visitors may manage cookie preferences through available website controls or their browser settings.

6. Information Security and Retention

We take reasonable measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, or misuse.

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries, provide services, maintain appropriate business records, resolve disputes, and meet legal obligations.

No method of electronic transmission or storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

7. Your Privacy Choices

You may contact Gold Leaf Legacies to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information we hold about you, subject to applicable law and legitimate recordkeeping obligations.

You may also unsubscribe from marketing emails using the unsubscribe instructions provided in those messages.

8. Changes to This Policy

Gold Leaf Legacies may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, business practices, or applicable legal requirements.

Updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.

9. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or requests concerning your personal information, please contact:

Gold Leaf Legacies
Caryn Kennedy, Owner
Website: www.goldleaflegacies.com
Email: goldleaflegacies@gmail.com