Use of This Website and Privacy

Updated July 2025

Hello, it’s Dwyn. This page is about privacy and how we handle personal information. My website, By Dwyn, is committed to being fully transparent about its privacy practices. Please read the entire policy to ensure you understand our rules.

Personal data we collect and why

The site collects personal data to understand better my readers and customers, provide more relevant content for the future, and enhance the unique online experience of interacting with my brand, By Dwyn. I do not share your data with anyone, not even advertisers, and I also do not sell your data to any third parties. The data collected is used to identify your name, IP address, and email address. Collecting this data happens in several different ways:

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: Your name and email address.

  2. Purchasing a product: Your name, email, billing information, and payment source.

  3. Join By Dwyn’s email list: Your name and email.

We collect this data for the following:

  1. Opt-in to Freebies: We will send you new free content or paid content related to the freebie in the future.

  2. Purchasing a product: To process your purchase and inform you of future products.

  3. Join By Dwyn’s Newsletter: To send you occasional recap emails, special offers, additional freebies, and new paid content of interest to you.

  4. Waitlists: Receive updates about a specific topic, special offers, and important notices.

Why do I collect this information?

The collection of this information is to learn from it. What products does my audience like, what topics do they learn the most from, or what products do they want us to make in the future? What area of the site could be designed better, what types of free resources would our audience enjoy the most, etc. The following outlines how we ask for your information:

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: We will ask for your consent.

  2. Purchasing a product or course: We collect this information in a legal, contractual transaction.

Who has access to this data?

We work with many online businesses to bring you everything Olive Blossom Designs offers, which means they help process your data. The following are those companies:

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: Squarespace.com and MailChimp

  2. Purchasing a product: Squarespace.com – processing your payment.

Cookies:

This site uses cookies and similar technologies to collect data on our users. The data is based on how people browse the site, the content they are interested in, and how users interact with the site from mobile phones, tablets, or other devices, across all regions of the world.

If you want to revoke your consent to be tracked, clear your browser cookies for the bydwyn.com domain. For information on how to do this, please follow the instructions on this site.

YouTube API:

This site may contain sections containing Dwyn’s YouTube videos. This feature uses the YouTube API Client/ YouTube Services. Here is a link to YouTube’s Privacy Policy. We do not explicitly collect data using this feature/service and do not share any data that YouTube collects. YouTube videos have advertising on them, which is handled directly by YouTube. We do not use cookies or browser storage technology to save user data when using this feature.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g., videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the website where the content is embedded.

These websites may collect your data, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking tools, and monitor your interactions with embedded content. If you have an account and are logged in to that website, they may also trace your interaction with the embedded content.

Duration of data retention

We keep your data for different periods depending on the reason it was gathered and if you are a current subscriber of oliveblossomdesigns.com

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: Emails – Indefinitely unless you stop opening emails (after six months of unopened emails, your email will be removed), or if you unsubscribe, we will remove your email immediately.

  2. Purchasing a product: four years for tax audit purposes.

  3. Join the Olive Blossom Designs Newsletter indefinitely unless you stop opening emails (after six months of unopened emails, your email is removed). If you unsubscribe, we will remove your email immediately.

  4. Waitlists: Your email will remain indefinitely, unless you stop opening emails (after six months of unopened emails, your email will be removed), or if you unsubscribe, in which case we will remove your email immediately.

Rights over your data

If you have commented on this site, purchased a product, signed up for one of our free offers, received a newsletter, or added your name to a waitlist, you always have the right to withdraw your consent for any or all of these actions. As with all emails, there is an unsubscribe link at the bottom that you can use to withdraw consent and stop our emails. Alternatively, you can contact us here. Please note that unsubscribing does not include any data that I’m required to retain for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Privacy Concerns, Contacting Us, Complaints:

You can contact me here with your request for any questions regarding the new regulations on these policies and your data.

Dwyn Carpenter
bydwyn.com