Privacy Policy

Thank you for visiting the Kangaroo Care Day website (the "Site", "KCD Site"). Your privacy is important to us, and we are committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines our practices regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of your personal data.

By using the Site, you agree to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with these terms, please refrain from using our website.

1. Personal Information: We may collect personal information, such as names, email addresses, and contact details when voluntarily provided by users through forms on the Site.
2. Usage Data: We collect information about how visitors interact with our website, including IP addresses, browser types, referring pages, and operating systems. This data is used for analytics purposes to improve the user experience.

We may share information about you with our employees, officers, agents, suppliers, or subcontractors to the extent reasonably necessary for the purposes outlined in this privacy policy.

Moreover, your personal information may be disclosed:

(a) To the extent required by applicable law;
(b) In connection with ongoing or potential legal proceedings;
(c) To establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights, including sharing information with others for fraud prevention and mitigating credit risk;
(d) To the buyer or prospective buyer of any business or asset we are currently selling or considering for sale; and
(e) To any individual whom we reasonably believe might seek disclosure of that personal information from a court or other competent authority, where, in our reasonable judgment, such court or authority is likely to order the disclosure of that personal information.

With the exceptions outlined in this privacy policy, we will not share your information with third parties.

We may utilize your personal information for the following purposes:

(a) Manage and administer the website;
(b) Enhance your browsing experience by customizing the website;
(c) Facilitate your use of the services available on the website;
(d) Provide you with services requested or purchased via the website;
(e) Dispatch statements and invoices to you, and manage payments from you;
(f) Transmit general (non-marketing) commercial communications;
(g) Forward email notifications that you have specifically requested;
(h) Distribute our newsletter and other marketing communications related to our business or the businesses of carefully-selected third parties, which we believe may be of interest to you by post or, where you have explicitly agreed to this, by email or similar technology (you can notify us at any time if you no longer wish to receive marketing communications);
(i) Offer third parties statistical information about our users – this information will not be used to identify any individual user;
(j) Address inquiries and complaints made by or about you concerning the website.

When you submit personal information for publication on our website, we will publish and utilize that information in line with the license you grant to us.

We will not, without your explicit consent, disclose your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

All financial transactions on our website are processed through Shopify We do not receive nor retain credit card details. You can review the Shopify privacy policy at www.shopify.com.

We take reasonable and available measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is entirely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

The information we gather may be stored, processed, and transferred among the staff as outlined in this privacy policy.

The data you provide may be moved to countries that do not possess data protection laws equivalent to those applicable in the European Economic Area.

Moreover, personal information you deliberately submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and could be accessible globally via the internet. We cannot control or prevent the utilization or misappropriation of such information by others.

By using our services, you explicitly consent to these transfers of personal information.

We will implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to safeguard your personal information from loss, misuse, or unauthorized alterations.

It's important to note that data transmission over the internet inherently carries some level of insecurity, and we cannot assure the complete security of data sent through online channels.

You bear the responsibility of maintaining the confidentiality of your password and user details. Please be aware that we will never request your password, except in instances where you are logging in to the website.

This privacy policy may be periodically updated, and any changes will be communicated by posting a new version on our website. It is advisable to check this page occasionally to ensure your satisfaction with any modifications.

Additionally, we may notify those in our database of privacy policy changes via email.

You have the right to request access to any personal information we have about you. To provide such information, we may require suitable evidence to verify your identity.

We reserve the right, as permitted by law, to withhold personal information under certain circumstances.

If you wish, you can direct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes via email at any time. Typically, you will either explicitly consent to the use of your personal information for marketing purposes in advance, or we will afford you an option to opt-out of such use.

Our website includes links to other websites. We do not bear responsibility for the privacy policies or practices of these third-party websites.

If there are corrections or updates needed for the personal information we have on file about you, kindly inform us.

For any inquiries regarding this privacy policy or the handling of your personal information, please reach out to us via email at intouch@kangaroo.care or by mail at Nurtured by Design, Inc., P.O. Box 3276, Sugar Land, Texas 77487.

The Kangaroo Care Day (May 15) website and its associated activities are presented on behalf of Zachary Jackson and serve as a philanthropic project of Nurtured by Design, Inc.

The primary goal is to provide information and resources aimed at enhancing the safety, frequency, and duration of kangaroo care practices globally.

Nurtured by Design, Inc. has been dedicated to delivering infant healthcare-related products and services for over two decades, including The Zaky HUG®, The Zaky ZAK®, The Zaky ZEN®, and The Zaky® APP, and Kangaroo Care Day (May 15.)