PRIVACY POLICY

We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of pepbanned.com (the “Website“), including any content, functionality, and services offered on or through the Website.

As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to subscribe to the newsletter that you are required to provide information. When taking these actions, we will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.

Please read the Privacy Policy carefully. By using the Website, you agree to the terms of the policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.

WEBSITE ANALYTICS

This website, via Squarespace, collects personal information to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We provide this information to Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

COOKIES

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, search online for “The cookies Squarespace uses.”

These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIPTIONS

When you submit information to this website via the newsletter webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We provide this information to MailChimp, our newsletter distribution provider, so that they can provide distribution services to us and help us manage our relationship with you. You can unsubscribe from this service via the unsubscribe link on each blog.

We will only enroll you to receive our free email newsletter if you affirmatively request and consent to it. In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all emailed newsletters sent from our organization will clearly state who the email is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all emailed newsletters will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you will no longer receive the newsletter. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to info@ronculberson.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.

BLOG COMMENTS

This website includes commenting functionality on some pages which enables you to post a comment. This website collects personal information when you post a comment, including:

  • Your name (which will be displayed as part of your posted comment)

  • Your email address (to let you know if someone replies to your comment)

  • Your website URL (optional)

This website includes “likes” functionality on some blog posts which enables you to “like” a post. This website collects personal information when you like a post to try to prevent the same person from liking the same post during the same visit, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Details about the web page or content you shared or proposed to share

  • Your IP address

WEBSITE VISITORS

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Web pages you view while on this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.

FONTS

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

How And Why We Collect Information

We collect information that users provide by filling out the form to subscribe to our blog on the Website, communicating with us via email, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when donating to our project via the Website.

We use the information you provide to us to deliver the requested service, to improve our overall performance, and/or to provide you with information.

Please note that we do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about third party targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly or review their privacy policies.

CORRESPONDANCE INFORMATION

If you choose to correspond with us through phone, email, or our online forms, we will retain your contact information, the content of your messages, and our responses.

We are committed to keeping your contact information confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your contact information to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

As a rule, we do not sell, rent, lease, or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action.

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it, or for the protection of our legal rights, or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.

HOW DO WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION AND SECURE INFORMATION TRANSMISSIONS?

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party entities.

Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, we use software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

POLICY CHANGES

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will include a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

Ron Culberson
281 Hooded Warbler Lane
Nellysford, VA 22958
email: culbersonron@gmail.com
Phone: 703-629-0161

Effective as of June 16, 2026