Updated November 5, 2024
We are Data Controller in Our relationship to Joomla, Google, Cookies CK, and potentially also MailChimp, when in use.
Our current primary purposes for using Your Personal Data are to provide and maintain Our website (including the monitoring of website operation, and assessing site traffic) and to correspond with You by email.
This Privacy Policy also includes items characteristic of a Terms of Service Policy.
Our website content is copyrighted and protected, including images and PDFs.
1. Cookies
◽ Cookies on this website start to monitor Your activity and assist in website functioning when You come to Our site. Session cookies for the operation of the website are Essential and are not able to be blocked.
◽ Cookies from Cookies CK and Google Analytics can be declined from the cookie button in the lower left of your screen. Either Click 'Accept All' 'Decline All' or customize them, and Click 'Save'.
» The Cookie Options are temporarily stored in cache.
◽ The website uses Google Analytics (GA4) with one Google site tag in Cookies CK Google Consent. The cookies collected through this Service are for site traffic study and for website design improvement.
» The GA4 cookie data provides statistics to help Us monitor site traffic.
» We do not use any Ads nor perform any Re-marketing.
» Event Data collected by Google GA4 is retained on the Google server for 14 months. The 14-month time period starts afresh when You revisit Our website. We claim Our use of Google Analytics in these manners as Legitimate.
» For information on how Google uses Your information and how to control their services please visit this site ( https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/ ).
2. Personally Identifiable Information
◽ Your Visiting Our website is of Our interest. No Personally Identifiable Information is sold to, or shared with others.
» The law may ask Us to disclose Your information, that to which We must comply when it is within Our legal responsibility to do so.
◽ The User Identifiable Personal Data of Yours received by Us, is when You use the Contact Us form or Our email address to send Us an email.
» By emailing Us from this website, You consent to having Us receive Your Personally Identifiable Information associated with that email.
◽ Our local computers are protected by the latest version malware protection with updates, anti-virus, and firewall protection. Our web browsing and emails received are scanned for malware.
◽ Although the topic of Our website speaks to the needs of infants, adults, please give adult supervision to children should they choose to visit or email Us.
◽ If You wish to have Your Personal Data removed from Our local computer, GA4 Analytics, or MailChimp, please contact Us with Your full name and email address used at that time. We will make every effort to search in Our files and delete Your Data. Your email informing Us that You exercised the 'right to forget' will not be deleted.
3. Email Communications:
◽ By emailing Us from this website, You consent to having Us utilize Your submitted information to respond to Your inquiry. Please do not email us identification-numbers, account-numbers, or passwords.
» By sending Us an email, You agree to this website's Privacy Policy statement (a.k.a Policy Note). Your name and email address will be on Our local computer from Your email received by Us. Your email is Our record of Your consent.
◽ We write an occasional Newsletter. You must actively make the request to sign up for this Newsletter by sending us an email. The Newsletters are not intended to be an effort to solicit funds but to share updates. You can unsubscribe from the list at any time. The Newsletters are not published on a regular basis, but only when something noteworthy is to be mentioned.
» We use MailChimp to send the Newsletter. Names and email addresses are imported into MailChimp with your consent.
» MailChimp uses web beacons to notify us that You have opened the Newsletter email.
» MailChimp is the Data Processor and We are the Data Controller. MailChimp may use sub-Processors to process the Personal Data given to MailChimp. It is of Our Legitimate interest to use MailChimp.
4. Waiver:
◽ Failure or delay to exercise or enforce any of the rights set out in Our Policy does not constitute a waiver by any Party of the right to do so.
◽ No waiver of any right under this Policy will be effective unless made in writing and signed by the Party granting the waiver.
◽ Any waiver granted will apply only to the Policy item specified in the waiver.
5. Severability:
◽ Should any provision of Our Policy be found to be unenforceable or legally invalid by the competent court, that provision shall be construed as revised in accordance with the applicable law; and in that event the remainder of the Policy shall remain fully valid and enforceable.
◽ In the event that the content of any page on Our website is inconsistent with Our Policy, the Policy shall take precedence.
6. Disclaimers and Indemnity:
◽ The information on this website constitutes discourse by a chemist, and does not constitute medical advice.
» Through the information on this website Our are hopes to be a part of the solution to the Sudden Infant Death (SID) problem. This website does not currently contain or constitute any guarantee of prevention of SID/SIDS/crib death/cot death/SUID/sudden infant death.
◽ Paul R Knoll, MS accepts the responsibility for having backed up his statements by insight taken from peer-reviewed scientific literature.
◽ You agree to indemnify and hold Paul R Knoll harmless from any claims, liabilities and damages associated with use of this website or with the information on or linked from this website. You must consult with your medical provider to get their input into your decisions to use the information shared here. Your medical provider is best qualified to make decisions on your specific situation.
7. Jurisdiction:
◽ This Privacy Policy shall be governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, United States of America. Any claims or complaints must be directed first to Paul Knoll for resolution. Any legal proceedings should be filed in state and federal courts in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States of America.
8. Class Action Waiver:
◽ Where permitted under applicable law You and Paul R. Knoll, MS agree that each may bring claims against the Other only in Your or Our own individual capacity and not as plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative action. Unless You and Paul R. Knoll, MS both agree, no arbitrator or judge may consolidate more than one person's claims or otherwise preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.
9. Jury Trial Waiver:
◽ The courts located in the Jurisdiction of this Privacy Policy shall have exclusive rights to adjudicate any disputes with respect to this Policy. You and Paul R. Knoll, MS consent and submit to the jurisdiction of these courts. Each party also waives the right to a jury trial in connection with any action or litigation concerning these Policies.
10. Websites:
◽ Our website contains links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You copy/paste a third-party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. You are strongly advised to review their Privacy Policies when You visit their sites.
» We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites.
11. Changes to Our Privacy Policy:
◽ Our Privacy Policy is updated from time to time to accommodate changes We make with the website and with Our 'operations.'
◽ We do not keep an email list of Our website visitors. Check Our Privacy Policy last-updated-date at the top of this page to see if there has been an update made since your last visit. We will resume sending notices to the Newsletter followers when an update has been made.
12. Data Controller:
◽ Site management is performed by Paul Knoll. Paul is Primary Contact and Data Protection Officer (DPO) for privacy issues.
◽ Paul encourages You to allow him to help You resolve any issues or complaints You may have. To do so, please send him an email describing Your difficulty. Click on his photo on the Contact Us page to either, open a contact-us-form or pop out an email from Your own email client. You can then write Us Your situation briefly for Us to understand how to help You.