Privacy

Describes how this website, our associations and the business collects, uses, stores, and shares personal information.

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT AND ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS

Allyson Brown, Ally Brown, In Plain Sight, The Whine Bar, and/or Stars & Serendipity LLC (“The Company”) and/or any dba under which it does business respects the privacy of our users and, as such, is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Statement sets forth how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when your computer or mobile device interacts with our website, www.allyson-brown.com.  By accessing www.allyson-brown.com, including any other media form, media channel, mobile website related or connected thereto (collectively, the “Site”), you acknowledge and fully understand The Company’s Privacy Statement and freely consent to the information collection and use practices described in this Website Privacy Statement. Please read this privacy policy carefully.  If you disagree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site. 

PARTICIPATING MERCHANT POLICIES

The Company does not offer related services or offerings through links on this website, including vendor sites.  However, if there is such a link, each company has its own privacy statement, which can be viewed by clicking the corresponding link on its website. We recommend and encourage you to always review the privacy policies of merchants and other third parties before providing any personal information or completing any transaction with them.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE USE IT

The Company collects certain information from and about its users in three ways: directly from our Web Server logs, Cookies, the user, including in response to surveys and questionnaires, and content voluntarily shared in forums.

a. Web Server Logs

When you visit our Website, we may track information to administer the site, analyze its usage, and improve the site. Examples of information we may track include:

Your Internet protocol address.

The kind of browser or computer you use.

Number of links you click within the site.

State or country from which you accessed the site.

Date and time of your visit.

Name of your Internet service provider.

The web page you linked to our site from.

Pages you viewed on the site.

b. Use of Cookies

The Company may use cookies to personalize or enhance your user experience. By definition, a cookie is a small 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. For example, if you personalize a web page or navigate within a site, a cookie helps the site to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. Hence, this simplifies delivering relevant content and eases site navigation by saving your preferences and login information, as well as providing personalized functionality.

The Company reserves the right to share aggregated site statistics with partner companies, but does not allow other companies to place cookies on our website unless there is a temporary, overriding customer value (such as merging into allyson-brown.com, a site that relies on third-party cookies).

You can accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies. If you reject cookies by changing your browser settings, then be aware that this may disable some of the functionality on our Website and thereby create a less smooth experience.

c. Personal Information of Users

Visitors to our website may be permitted to register for certain services, such as an affirmation, a daily email, or a notification. When you register, we may request personal information, including name, address, email, telephone number, and other relevant details.

We will not disclose personally identifiable information we collect from you to third parties without your permission, except to the extent necessary, including:

To fulfill your service requests for products or services.

To protect ourselves, our customer or our vendors from liability or to defend our rights, including investigations of fraud or misconduct

To third parties who have agreed in writing to maintain such information in confidence and use such information solely in performance of services to us.

To respond to legal process or comply with law, including subpoenas,

To entities under common ownership or control with us or to our owners, or

In connection with a merger, acquisition, or liquidation of the company.

USE OF WEB BEACONS OR GIF FILES

The Company Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons – sometimes also called single-pixel gifs – that allow The Company to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services. The Company may include Web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or newsletters in order to determine whether messages have been opened and acted upon.

Some of these Web beacons may be placed by third-party service providers to help determine the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns or email communications. These Web beacons may be used by these service providers to place a persistent cookie on your computer. This allows the service provider to recognize your computer each time you visit certain pages or open emails and compile anonymous information about those page views, which in turn enables our service providers and us to learn which advertisements and emails bring you to our website and how you use the site. The Company prohibits the use of Web beacons to collect or access your personal information.

We may collect information about you in various ways. The information we may collect on the Site includes:

a. Personal data

Personally identifiable information, such as your name, shipping address, email address, and telephone number, and demographic information, such as your age, gender, hometown, and interests, that you voluntarily give to us when you register with the Site or when you choose to participate in various activities related to the Site, such as online chat and message boards. You are under no obligation to provide us with any personal information; your refusal to do so may prevent you from using certain features of the Site.

b. Derivative Data 

Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Site, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you viewed directly before and after accessing the Site. If you are using your mobile device, this information may also include your device name and type, your operating system, your phone number, your country, your likes and replies to a post, and other interactions with the device and other users via server log files, as well as any other information you choose to provide.

c. Financial Data 

Financial information, such as your payment method (e.g., valid credit card number, card brand, expiration date), that we may collect when you purchase, place an order, return, exchange, or request information about our services on the Site. We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor, Square, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for any questions.

d. Facebook Permissions  

The Site may, by default, access your Facebook basic account information, including your name, email, gender, birthday, current city, and profile picture URL, as well as other information that you choose to make public. We may also, by default, get access to other permissions related to your account, such as friends, check-ins, and likes, and you may choose to grant or deny us access to each individual permission. For more information on Facebook permissions, see the Facebook Permissions Reference page.

e. Data From Social Networks 

User information from social networking sites, such as Apple’s Game Center, Facebook, Google+, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, including your name, your social network username, location, gender, birth date, email address, profile picture, and public data for contacts, if you connect your account to such social networks.

f. Mobile Device Data 

Device information, such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer, and your device's location, if you access the Site from a mobile device.

g. Third-Party Data 

Information from third parties, such as personal information or network friends, if you connect your account to the third party and grant the Site permission to access it.

h. Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys 

Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.

i. Mobile Device Information

If you connect using your mobile device:

Geo-Location Information. We may request access to or permission to track location-based information from your mobile device, either continuously or while you use it, to provide location-based services. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.

Mobile Device Access. We may request access to or permission for certain features on your mobile device, including Bluetooth, calendar, reminders, SMS messages, and other features. If you wish to change our access or permissions, you may do so in your device’s settings.

Mobile Device Data. We may collect device information (such as your mobile device ID, model, and manufacturer), operating system, version information, and IP address.

Push Notifications. We may request permission to send push notifications about your account. If you wish to opt out of these communications, you can turn them off in your device’s settings.

ACCESSING WEB ACCOUNT INFORMATION

We will provide you with the means to ensure that personally identifiable information in your web account file is correct and current. You may review this information by emailing info@allyson-brown.com.

DO NOT TRACK

We have not implemented any technology that effectively recognizes do-not-track signals, and note that some content available on our Site is provided by third-party providers we do not control, who may have collected and/or disclosed personally identifiable information.

HOW TO CORRECT OR UPDATE YOUR INFORMATION

To update this information made available to us, please contact us at:

Stars & Serendipity LLC

Attention: Privacy Statement Personnel

correction@allyson-brown.com

HOW WE PROTECT INFORMATION

We use commercially reasonable procedures to protect the personal information that we collect from you against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We have developed and implemented, and continue to maintain and monitor, a written information security program applicable to all records containing personal information. This security program is appropriate to the size, scope, and type of our business, the resources available to us, the amount of stored data, and the need for security and confidentiality of the personal information we store. No security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the security of information you supply to us over the Internet during transmission. You can help us by taking precautions to protect your personal information online and by disclosing only the information you want made public. Change your passwords often, using a combination of letters and numbers, and use a secure web browser.

For the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, personal information may be transferred to, processed, stored, and accessed by us, our affiliates, and third parties in the United States and in other jurisdictions where we or they operate. Courts and other authorities in these jurisdictions may, in certain circumstances, be entitled to access your personal information. By using the Website, you consent to this transfer, processing, storage, and access of your personal information in and/or outside of the jurisdiction in which you reside.

AGGREGATE DATA

We may share and publicize aggregate and/or de-identified information shared with third parties and the public.

CHILDREN UNDER 13

We do not specifically market to or knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 for marketing purposes. Because some information is collected online, it may not appear to be a child under 13's personal information. If a child under 13 submits personal information to us and we learn that the information is from a child under 13, we will attempt to delete it as soon as possible. If you are under 13, please do not register for any of our services or provide us with any information about yourself (such as your name, email address, or phone number).

CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT

As required by the California Online Privacy Protection Act (“California Act”) and the California Business and Professions Code, this Privacy Policy identifies the categories of personally identifiable information that we collect through our website about individual consumers who use or visit our website and the categories of third-party persons or entities with whom such personally identifiable information may be shared.

Depending on the visitor’s activity at our website, certain “personally identifiable information” (as defined in the California Act) may be collected in addition to information outlined in other sections of this document. For purposes of the California Act, the term “personally identifiable information” means individually identifiable information about an individual consumer collected online by us from an individual and maintained by us in an accessible form and may include any of the following: (1) a first and last name; (2) a home or other physical address, including street name and name of a city or town; (3) an email address; (4) a telephone number; (5) any other identifier that permits the physical or online contacting of a specific individual; and (6) information concerning a user that the web site collects online from the use, and maintains in personally identifiable form, in combination with an identifier described within this Privacy Policy.

CHANGES TO THIS STATEMENT

The Company may update this privacy statement from time to time. When we do, we will also revise the “updated” date at the bottom of this Privacy page. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to stay informed about how we protect the personal information we collect. Your continued use of our services constitutes your agreement to this privacy statement and any updates.

TRANSLATIONS

This Privacy Policy is executed in English. You agree and acknowledge that you have reviewed this Privacy Policy in English. To the extent that any translations of this Privacy Policy are provided, they are solely for convenience and have no binding effect. The English language version of this Privacy Policy shall control.

CONTACTING US

If you have questions regarding our Privacy Statement, its implementation, failure to adhere to it, or our general practices, please contact us at privacy@allyson-brown.com.

The Company will use commercially reasonable efforts to promptly respond to and resolve any problem or question.

Last updated: April 2, 2026