Privacy Policy
Anne Flinn Advertising Effective Date: October 29, 2025
Anne Flinn Advertising ("we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website at https://anneflinn.com (the "Site") and sign up for our email newsletter.
We collect only email addresses for the purpose of sending our email newsletter. No other personal information is collected.
1. Information We Collect
Email Addresses
When you voluntarily subscribe to our email newsletter via the subscription form on the Site, we collect your email address. This is the only personal information we collect.
We do not collect:
- Names
- Physical addresses
- Phone numbers
- Payment information
- IP addresses (beyond standard web server logs for security purposes)
- Any other personally identifiable information
2. How We Use Your Information
We use your email address solely to:
- Send you our email newsletter containing updates, marketing tips, agency news, and promotional content related to digital advertising services.
- Occasionally send service-related announcements (e.g., changes to our newsletter schedule).
We will never use your email address for any other purpose.
3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR Compliance)
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using your email address is your consent, which you provide by opting in to the newsletter subscription.
4. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent your email address to third parties.
We may share your email address with trusted third-party service providers only to facilitate sending the newsletter. Currently, we use Mailchimp for newsletter delivery. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the services they provide to us.
We may disclose your information if required by law or to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property.
5. Data Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your email address from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
6. Data Retention
We retain your email address for as long as you remain subscribed to our newsletter. If you unsubscribe, we will delete your email address from our active mailing list within 30 days.
7. Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your email address:
- Unsubscribe at any time: Use the "Unsubscribe" link in any newsletter email.
- Request deletion: Contact us at [insert contact email] to request removal.
- Access or correction: Contact us to view or update your email address (if needed).
- GDPR rights (for EEA residents): Right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection.
We will respond to all requests within 30 days.
8. Children's Privacy
Our Site and newsletter are not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from children under 13. If we learn that a child under 13 has subscribed, we will delete their email address immediately.
9. Third-Party Links
Our newsletter or Site may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these sites. We encourage you to review their privacy policies.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" above. You are advised to review this policy periodically.
11. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Anne Flinn Advertising
240 West Main Street
Charlottesville, VA 22901
Email: info@anneflinn.com
This privacy policy was last updated on October 29, 2025.