Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 29, 2021

It is my policy to respect your privacy regarding any information I may collect while operating my website. This Privacy Policy applies to www.capena.com (hereinafter, "me," “I,” or “capena.com”). I respect your privacy and am committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide through this website, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While I strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, I cannot guarantee its absolute security.

I have adopted this privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") to explain what information may be collected on my website, how I use this information, and under what circumstances I may disclose the information to third parties. This Privacy Policy applies only to information I collect through the website and does not apply to my collection of information from other sources.

This Privacy Policy sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of my website. Depending on your activities when visiting my website, you may be required to agree to additional terms of service.

My content is protected by copyright laws and cannot be used for commercial purposes by others. In the event of a dispute, United States law will apply.

Who I Am

This is the professional website of Carol A. Peña. I am a writer and genealogical researcher, based in the USA.

Living Persons

On this website, I follow best practice as set forth by the National Genealogy Society in protecting the privacy of living persons.

Affiliate Links

Occasionally I include Affiliate Links in my posts.

I am a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

If you click on an affiliate link, Amazon or any other website you go to will collect information about you and your purchases in order to pay commission to the affiliate. You can view Amazon’s privacy policy here.

Affiliate links from other websites behave in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

My privacy policy does not apply to, and I cannot control the activities of, these advertisers or websites.

Mailchimp

If you sign up for my newsletter, your email address is used only for the purpose of sending newsletters and updates. I never sell, rent or trade email lists with others for marketing purposes. I use a third-party provider, Mailchimp, to deliver my newsletters. Mailchimp gathers statistics around newsletter interaction for me. This helps me monitor and improve my newsletters. For more information, please see Mailchimp’s privacy policy.

Analytics

This website collects personal data to power my 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

I share this information with Squarespace, my 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.

Links to external sites

This website may contain links to external sites that are not operated by me. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. I strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms of service of every site you visit.

I have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.

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

Squarespace

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

  • Your IP address

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.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Although most changes are likely to be minor, I may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, and at my sole discretion. I encourage you to check this page for any changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Questions

If you have questions about this policy, you may contact me here.