Privacy Policy

Use of This Website and Privacy

Updated May 5, 2025

Hi all, Jessica here.

I strive for transparency about the privacy practices implemented here at ColorsOfDye.com, also known as JessicaDyeWriter.com. Please read the entire privacy policy to ensure you understand our practices.

What Personal Data We Collect:

We collect personal data to help better understand our readers and customers, create content, and help bring a more unique experience of interacting with our brand Colors of Dye online. We do not share your data with anyone, including advertisers, and we do not sell your data to any third parties. The data collected is used to identify you, such as 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 or course: Your name, email, billing information, and payment source.

  3. Comments: Name, email, and the comment itself.

  4. Joining Colors of Dye: Your name and email.

  5. Waitlists: Your email address.

We collect this data for the following purpose:

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: To provide users with free content in the future or paid content related to the freebie.

  2. Purchasing a product or course: To process a purchase made with Colors of Dye and inform the user of future products.

  3. Comments: To identify the person commenting, and optionally show an avatar or profile image linked with their online profile.

  4. Join Colors of Dye: To send monthly recap emails, special offers, additional freebies and/or new paid content you may be interested in.

  5. Waitlists: To send updates about a specific topic, as well as special offers and notices about that topic.

Why we collect this information:

We collect this information to learn from it, better customizing the user experience. The following outlines how we might 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 as part of a legal contractual transaction.

  3. Comments: We will ask for your consent.

  4. Join Colors of Dye: We will ask for your consent.

  5. Waitlists: We will ask for your consent.

Who has access to this data:

We work with many different online businesses to bring you everything Colors of Dye offers, which means they help process your personal data. The following are those companies:

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: Convertkit.com

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

  3. Purchasing a course: Teachable.com – processing your payment.

  4. Comments: Squarespace

  5. Join Colors of Dye: Convertkit.com

  6. Waitlists: Convertkit.com

Cookies:

This site uses cookies and similar technologies to collect data on our users based on how people browse the site, content they are interested in, how a user uses the site in general from a mobile phone or tablet or other device, and areas of the world users are coming from.

If you would like to revoke your consent to be tracked, then you need to clear your browser cookies for the ColorsOfDye.com domain. For information on how to do this, please follow the instructions on this site.

YouTube API:

The home page occasionally features 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 any data ourselves using this feature/service. We do not share any data YouTube collects with any one. The videos themselves have advertising on them which is all handled by YouTube itself. We do not use cookies or any 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 in the same way as if the visitor visits 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data:

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

  1. Opt-In to Freebies: Emails – Indefinitely unless you stop opening emails (after 6 months of unopened emails, your email is removed) or if you unsubscribe, we remove your email immediately.

  2. Purchasing a product: 4 years for tax audit purposes.

  3. Purchasing a course: 4 years for tax audit purposes.

  4. Comments: Indefinitely use as the comment stays visible for other users.

  5. Join ColorsOfDye: Indefinitely unless you stop opening emails (after 6 months of unopened emails, your email is removed) or if you unsubscribe, we remove your email immediately.

  6. Waitlists: Indefinitely unless you stop opening emails (after 6 months of unopened emails, your email is removed) or if you unsubscribe, we remove your email immediately.

What rights you have over your data:

If you have comments on our site, have purchased a course or product, signed up for one of our many freebies, newsletters, or waitlists, you always have the right to withdraw your consent on any or all of those items. 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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data:

All your data is collected in the United States because that is where we are based, as well as the companies we work with. Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Privacy Concerns, Contacting Us, Complaints:

You can contact us here with your request for any questions you may have regarding any of the new regulations on these policies and your personal data.

Jessica Dye

ColorsOfDye.com