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Privacy Policy
Effective date: August 5, 2026
Last updated: August 5, 2026
Serene Design Living (“Serene Design Living,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected when you visit serenedesignliving.com (the “Website”).
By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please do not use the Website if you do not agree with this policy.
1. Information We Collect
Information You Provide
We may collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you:
- Contact us
- Complete a form
- Submit a comment
- Subscribe to emails, if that feature is offered
- Communicate with us through the Website
This information may include your name, email address, message, and any other information you choose to provide.
Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically, including:
- Internet Protocol address
- Browser type
- Device type
- Operating system
- Pages viewed
- Links clicked
- Referring website
- Approximate geographic location
- Dates and times of visits
- Cookie and analytics information
This information may be collected through cookies, log files, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Information
We may use collected information to:
- Operate, maintain, and improve the Website
- Respond to questions or messages
- Provide requested information
- Understand how visitors use the Website
- Improve articles, product guides, and website features
- Monitor Website performance
- Detect spam, fraud, security threats, or misuse
- Track affiliate referrals and commissions
- Comply with legal obligations
- Protect our rights, property, and users
3. Cookies and Similar Technologies
The Website may use cookies and similar technologies to function properly, remember preferences, understand Website traffic, measure performance, and track affiliate referrals.
Cookies may include:
- Essential cookies: Necessary for security and basic Website operation
- Preference cookies: Remember selections or settings
- Analytics cookies: Help us understand how visitors use the Website
- Affiliate cookies: Allow retailers or affiliate networks to identify qualifying referrals or purchases
- Advertising cookies: May be used to measure or personalize advertising, if advertising is added to the Website
You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how certain parts of the Website function.
Where required by applicable law, nonessential cookies will be used only after consent is obtained. A privacy policy alone may not be sufficient when optional tracking cookies require affirmative consent.
4. Analytics and Tracking Technologies
We may use third-party analytics or performance tools to understand Website traffic and visitor activity. These providers may collect information about your device, browser, general location, pages viewed, and interactions with the Website.
If tools such as Google Analytics, Jetpack Stats, Pinterest Tag, Meta Pixel, or similar services are installed, their collection and use of information are also governed by their respective privacy policies.
5. Affiliate Links
Serene Design Living may participate in affiliate marketing programs. Some links on the Website may be affiliate links. If you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may receive a commission at no additional cost to you.
Affiliate retailers and networks may use cookies or similar technology to record referrals, purchases, and commissions. Those third parties control their own data practices.
Affiliate relationships will also be disclosed clearly near relevant recommendations, articles, or links. The Federal Trade Commission requires material relationships that could affect how readers evaluate a recommendation to be clearly disclosed.
6. Comments
If comments are enabled, we may collect the information entered into the comment form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser information to assist with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from an email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to determine whether the commenter uses that service. After approval, a profile image may appear publicly with the comment.
Approved comments and associated metadata may be retained so follow-up comments can be recognized and moderated.
7. Contact Forms and Email
When you contact us, we may retain your name, email address, message, and related communication for the time reasonably necessary to respond, maintain business records, prevent abuse, and comply with legal requirements.
We will not add you to a marketing email list solely because you contacted us.
8. Embedded Content and Social Media
The Website may include embedded content from third-party platforms, such as Pinterest, Instagram, YouTube, or other websites.
Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly. Those platforms may collect information, place cookies, track interactions, or associate activity with your account if you are logged in to their service.
The Website may also contain links to social-media accounts. Your use of those platforms is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
9. External Websites and Retailers
The Website may link to retailers, affiliate partners, manufacturers, social-media platforms, and other third-party websites.
We do not control and are not responsible for the content, security, availability, or privacy practices of third-party websites. Review the privacy policy of each outside website before providing personal information.
10. How We Share Information
We may share information with service providers that help operate the Website, including:
- Website-hosting providers
- WordPress plugins and technical-service providers
- Security and spam-prevention providers
- Analytics providers
- Affiliate networks and retailers
- Email or contact-form providers
- Legal, accounting, or professional advisers
We may also disclose information:
- To comply with a law, subpoena, court order, or lawful government request
- To investigate fraud, abuse, or security concerns
- To enforce Website terms
- To protect our rights, users, property, or safety
- In connection with a sale, transfer, merger, or reorganization of the Website or business
We do not sell personal information for money.
11. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this policy, meet legal obligations, resolve disputes, maintain records, and protect the Website.
Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
12. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information.
However, no website, storage system, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
Illinois law includes requirements concerning the protection of personal information and notification following certain security breaches.
13. Your Privacy Rights
Depending on where you live and whether a particular privacy law applies to Serene Design Living, you may have the right to:
- Request access to personal information
- Request correction of inaccurate information
- Request deletion of information
- Obtain information about how data is collected or shared
- Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- Opt out of certain sales, sharing, advertising, or profiling
- Appeal certain privacy-request decisions
- Exercise your rights without unlawful discrimination
California law provides qualifying consumers with rights involving access, correction, deletion, and opting out of certain sales or sharing when the law applies to a business.
To make a privacy request, email:
We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. Certain legal exceptions may apply.
14. Children’s Privacy
The Website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that such information was collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. The federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act imposes special requirements on websites that collect personal information from children under 13.
15. International Visitors
The Website is operated from the United States. If you access it from another country, your information may be processed or stored in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your location.
Where applicable, we will take reasonable steps to honor legally required privacy rights and cookie-consent requirements.
16. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in Website features, service providers, legal requirements, or business practices.
The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the Website after an update constitutes acknowledgment of the revised policy.
17. Contact Us
Questions or privacy requests may be sent to:
Serene Design Living
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Website: serenedesignliving.com
Email: serenedesignliving@gmail.com