At BeStillBeads.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by BeStillBeads.com and how we use it.
Every effort has been made to minimize the collection of personal information, wherever possible. Personal information is never sold under any circumstances and is collected only when required for basic functionality to work.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://BeStillBeads.com. It is owned by Chrysalis Wellness, LLC. You can contact us via our Contact us page.
Short version
Your personal data is only collected by this website if you choose to fill in any forms on this website.
- Data entered into any comments form is held by this website in order to display the comment.
- The contact form on this website is connected to Outlook and Mail.com accounts, so if you complete it, your data will be shared with Outlook and Mail.com email services.
- The email sign-up form on this website is connected to a MailerLite account, so if you complete it, your data will be shared with MailerLite.
Outlook is part of Microsoft. You can read Microsoft’s Privacy Policy in full at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement
You can read Mail.com’s Privacy Policy in full at: https://www.mail.com/company/privacypolicy/
You can read MailerLite’s Privacy Policy in full at: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy
Any other data collected about you is only available to the owner of this website in an anonymized form (for example, as visitor stats).
No data from this website is downloaded by the owner of the site and stored outside of the cloud services mentioned above. Your email address, if provided in a contact form, is only used to respond to your inquiry and is never added to a mailing list or shared with others to allow them to contact you. In order to be added to our mailing list, you must complete the double-consent process with MailerLite.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the website’s owner via our Contact page.
Longer version
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
The contact form on this website is powered by WPForms Lite. No information from the contact form is stored on this website or by WPForms Lite. Your information is emailed directly to an Outlook account, so if you complete the contact form, your data will be shared with Outlook email service (which is part of Microsoft).
You can read Microsoft’s Privacy Policy in full here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement
We use the hCaptcha service to protect the Contact form on our website from spam and automated bots. hCaptcha provides a verification mechanism to distinguish between human users and bots. No information collected during this verification is available to the website owner at any time.
hCaptcha for WP
We use the hCaptcha security service (hereinafter “hCaptcha”) on our website. This service is provided by Intuition Machines, Inc., a Delaware US Corporation (“IMI”). hCaptcha is used to check whether user actions on our online service (such as submitting a login or contact form) meet our security requirements.
To do this, hCaptcha analyzes the behavior of the website or mobile app visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website or mobile app visitor enters a part of the website or app with hCaptcha enabled. For the analysis, hCaptcha evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website or app, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to IMI. hCaptcha analysis in the “invisible mode” may take place completely in the background. Website or app visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place if the user is not shown a challenge.
Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR: the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the website visitor is party (for example, the website terms) or in order to take steps at the request of the website visitor prior to entering into a contract. Our online service (including our website, mobile apps, and any other apps or other forms of access offered by us) needs to ensure that it is interacting with a human, not a bot, and that activities performed by the user are not related to fraud or abuse.
In addition, processing may also be based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR: our online service has a legitimate interest in protecting the service from abusive automated crawling, spam, and other forms of abuse that can harm our service or other users of our service. IMI acts as a “data processor” acting on behalf of its customers as defined under the GDPR, and a “service provider” for the purposes of the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA). For more information about hCaptcha’s privacy policy and terms of use, please visit the following links: https://www.hcaptcha.com/privacy and https://www.hcaptcha.com/terms.
Email Newsletter
Subscribing to the email newsletter associated with this website takes place via MailerLite. Your email address and double-consent permission to email you will be collected by MailerLite during the subscription process, and the following information may also be collected, depending on your choice and your device’s settings: first name, last name, IP address, location. None of this information is ever located on this website; it is all stored, managed, and used on the MailerLite website. MailerLite’s privacy policy can be viewed at https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy.
MailerLite’s emails automatically contain unique identifiers that enable us to recognize when subscribers have opened an email or clicked certain links. These technologies record each subscribers email address, IP address, date, and time associated with each open and click for a campaign. This data is used to create reports about how an email campaign performed and what actions subscribers took.
We use this information to evaluate our success in serving our subscribers’ needs and to identify inactive subscribers. Inactive subscribers (defined as subscribers who have not opened any email campaigns for at least 6 months) are contacted and unsubscribed from the list, if they do not indicate a desire to stay, as part of our commitment to not sending emails that are not wanted.
Cookies
The only cookies used by this website are to power basic functionality. No marketing cookies are used at any time.
WordPress
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
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 in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Disabling cookies: Visitors may wish to restrict the use of cookies, or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control cookie behavior, such as the length of time they are stored – either through built-in functionality or by utilizing third party plugins. If you disable cookies, please be aware that some of the features of this website may not function correctly. Learn more about disabling cookies in various web browsers at https://www.wikihow.com/Disable-Cookies, and learn about how to enable the Do Not Track (DNT) option in various web browsers at https://allaboutdnt.com/.
Analytics
This website uses Jetpack (by Automattic) to collect analytics data via WordPress.com Stats. This plug-in collects the following data: IP address, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code, post and page views, and outbound link clicks.
This information is only available to the website owner in anonymized form.
Stats logs (containing visitor IP addresses) are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used only for the purpose of powering this feature.
You can read Automattic’s Privacy Policy in full here: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Who we share your data with
The following third party providers may have access to data collected about your activities on this website in the form of log files. This information is not available to the website owner except in aggregated, anonymized form.
Our website host is Siteground. Their log files merely log visitors to the site. The information inside the log files may include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses, and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. Their server logs are normally kept for a period of 6 months, after which they are deleted automatically. Siteground is GDPR compliant, and their privacy policy is located at https://www.siteground.com/privacy.htm.
Jetpack by Automattic is used to collect analytics data, as described above in the Analytics section.
Wordfence by Defiant is used to monitor the security of this website. Wordfence uses log files to collect user search queries and the date and time of the request and referral URL. Depending on the settings of a user’s computer or mobile device (“Device”), they also automatically collect: IP address; MAC address; Device make, model and operating system version; mobile network information; internet service provider; browser type and language; country and time zone in which the Device is located; and metadata stored on the Device. When permitted, Defiant also may collect data about a User’s geographic location through GPS, beacons and similar technology. All of this personal data is collected to operate, manage and improve their services and ensure the technical functionality and security of the services provided. Wordfence is GDPR compliant, and their privacy policy is located at https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/.
Contact form entries are automatically sent to Outlook and Mail.com accounts, so if you complete the contact form, your data will be shared with Outlook (Microsoft) and Mail.com email services. You can read Microsoft’s Privacy Policy in full at: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement. You can read Mail.com’s Privacy Policy in full at: https://www.mail.com/company/privacypolicy/.
MailerLite subscription form entries are shared with MailerLite to enable the double-consent process and the mailing of monthly email newsletters. This information is not used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. You can read MailerLite’s Privacy Policy in full at: https://www.mailerlite.com/legal/privacy-policy
How long we retain your data
Contact form entries are retained for a maximum of six months (via Outlook and Mail.com). Aggregated, anonymized website statistics are retained indefinitely, but these contain no personal information. Comments and likes on posts and pages are retained indefinitely in order to display them.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. To request deletion of your data, please contact us via our Contact page.
Where your data is sent
Contact form information is sent to Outlook (Microsoft) and Mail.com email services in order for us to respond to your comment or question. MailerLite newsletter subscription form entries are sent to MailerLite to enable the double-consent process and the mailing of monthly email newsletters.
Contact information
If you have any questions or concerns, you may contact me at kenetha@bestillbeads.com.
Alternately, you may mail me at: Kenetha J. Stanton, 505 Greenlee Dr, Indianapolis, IN 46234 USA
Update
This Privacy Policy was last updated on: Sunday, June 14, 2025.