Updated February 22, 2025
Highlights:
We are Data Controller in Our relationship to Joomla, Google, Cookies CK, and also MailChimp.
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.
Our website content is copyrighted and protected, including images and PDFs.
This Policy/website is designed to reassure those concerned about the use of Personally Identifiable Information.
1. Cookies:
◽ Cookies on this website start to monitor Your activity and assist in website functioning when You come to Our site. Typical Session Cookies for the operation of the website are Essential and cannot be blocked.
◽ Cookies from Cookies CK and Analytics are together accepted or declined from the cookie banner at the bottom of your screen. Either Click 'Accept All' or 'Decline All", and Click 'Save'.
» The cookie options are temporarily stored in cache. Your Personally Identifiable Information is not permanently logged by your choice for the Cookies CK Lite extension. Cookies once enabled cannot be reconfigured until the designated time in the cache expires.
◽ The website uses Google Analytics (GA4) with one Google site tag. The cookies collected through these Services are for site traffic study and for website design improvement.
» We decline use of any Ads nor to 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 offer Our use of Google Analytics in these manners as by Your Consent when you choose to accept any cookies.
» For information on how to control Google's services please visit this site ( https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/ ). This third-party site describes how to clear cookies from Your browser. Once accepted, Analytics cannot be controlled from the Cookie-icon in the bottom left corner of your browser. Once accepted your choice only may be changed when it expires in cache.
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, other than through Google GA4, is when You send Us an email to Our email address.
» 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 our website or email Us.
◽ If You wish to have Your Personal Data removed from Our local computer and 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/Terms of Service statement. Your name and email address will be on Our local computer in 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 letting us know of your permission. 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. With your consent, names and email addresses are imported into MailChimp .
» 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 handle 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 professional medical advice taking into account the full scope of an infant's medical care.
» Through the information on this website Our hopes are to be a part of the solution to the Sudden Infant Death (SID) problem. This website does not 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 having taken his insight from experimental data in peer-reviewed medical 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 understands best and is better qualified to make decisions in 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 first directed 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 hyperlink from a 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, nor assume 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 here. We will send update notices to the Newsletter followers when a Privacy Policy 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.
13. Contact Information:
614 Lynn Drive
Berrien Springs
Michigan 49103-1027
United States
Email: info @ paulrknoll.com
◽ Paul strongly encourages You to allow him to help You resolve any issues or complaints You may have with this website or his hypothesis. To do so, please send him an email. Click on his photo on the Contact Us page to open a contact us form. You can write Us Your issue briefly.