Who We are

Our website address is: https://paulrknoll.com.
◽ Site management is performed by Paul Knoll. Paul is Primary Contact and Data Protection Officer (DPO) for privacy issues.

Contact Information:
614 Lynn Drive
Berrien Springs
Michigan 49103-1027
United States
Email: chemist @ paulrknoll.com

◽We are Data Controller in Our relationship with WordPress, Google, WPForms Lite, WP Mail SMTP, WPConsentLite, JetPack, Yoast SEO and MailChimp.

Highlights

◽Our current primary purposes for using Your Personal Data are to provide and maintain Our website (including the monitoring of website operation, and assessing site traffic) and to correspond with You by email.
◽This Privacy Policy also includes items characteristic of a Terms of Service. A ToS applies if We should provide You with a Service, such as give advice implicitly, or implied advice from reading Our website or other writings. Another example is if We respond to Your inquiry.
◽Our website content is copyrighted and protected, including images and PDFs. The images may have been on Our previous Joomla! site or stock images from Our Bluehost hosting service.
◽Some of Our email addresses are temporarily still hosted on Network Solutions.

What personal data We collect and why We collect it

◽ Your visiting Our website is of Our interest. No Personally Identifiable Information is sold to, or shared with others.

» The law may ask Us to disclose Your information, that to which We must comply when it is within Our legal responsibility to do so.

» By emailing Us from this website, You consent to having Us receive Your Personally Identifiable Information associated with that email. The reason why We receive that Information is because You give Active Consent when you complete all the required fields of the Contact Form. By sending Us an email from the address in this Policy above from Your own email client, We consider that also Active Consent.

» The User Identifiable Personal Data of Yours received by Us–other than through Google GA4–is when You send Us an email from Our Contact Form.

◽ Our local computers are protected by the latest version malware protection with updates, anti-virus, and firewall protection. Our web browsing and emails received are scanned for malware.

» Although the topic of Our website speaks to the needs of infants, children are unlikely to visit Our website. Adults please give adult supervision to children should they choose to visit Our website or email Us.

» Be aware, should You care to share any type of health information with Us in Your email. We will make every attempt to keep that information confidential but We are not HIPPA compliant, per se. Please do not hold Us to that level of confidentiality with Your information.

◽By default WordPress does not collect any personal data about visitors, and only collects the data shown on the User Profile screen from registered users. However some of Our plugins may collect personal data, such as when You subscribe to the Newsletter or send an email to Us.

» Personal data is generated from technical processes added to WordPress such as WPForms Lite contact form, cookies, Google Analytics, and third party embeds.

What about Emails

◽ By emailing Us from this website, You consent to having Us utilize Your submitted information to respond to Your inquiry. Please do not email Us identification-numbers, account-numbers, or passwords.

» By sending Us an email from our Contact Form, You agree to this website’s Privacy Policy/Terms of Service statement. Your name, email address, consent, and message will be on Our local computer in Your email received by Us. Again, in Your Contact Form email to Us is Our record of Your consent.

◽ We write an occasional Newsletter. You must actively make the request to sign up for this Newsletter by letting Us know of your permission. The Newsletters are not intended to be an effort to solicit funds but to share updates. You can unsubscribe from the list at any time. The Newsletters are not published on a regular basis, but only when something noteworthy is to be mentioned. We will accept non-tax-deductible donations to help support Our operations but they are not solicited from the Newsletter.

» We use MailChimp to send the Newsletter. Your consent, names and email address are imported into MailChimp.

» If You sign up for the News letter from Our Home page, We will send You an email to that address to confirm Your consent and to receive Your first and last names for MailChimp.

» MailChimp uses web beacons to notify Us that You have opened the Newsletter email.

» MailChimp is the Data Processor and We are the Data Controller. MailChimp may use sub-processors to handle Personal Data given to MailChimp. It is of Our Legitimate Interest to use MailChimp.

Comments

◽ Only registered users are permitted to leave comments on the Blog Posts. 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.

◽ Making Comments is only available on the day a Blog Post is made.

Cookies

◽Cookies from Analytics are accepted or declined from the cookie banner at the bottom of Your screen with the ‘Preferences’ option. Either Click ‘Accept All’ or ‘Reject.”

» The cookie options are temporarily stored in cache. Your Personally Identifiable Information is not permanently logged by Your choice for the WPConsent Lite plugin. Cookies once enabled cannot be reconfigured until the designated time in cache expires.

◽The website uses Google Analytics (GA4) with one Google site tag, through Google Tag Manager. The cookies collected through these Services are for site traffic study and for website design improvement.

» We decline the use of any Ads nor do We perform any Re-marketing.

» Event Data collected by Google GA4 is retained on the Google server for 14 months. The 14-month time-period starts afresh when You revisit Our website. We offer Our use of Google Analytics in these manners as by Your Consent when You choose to accept its cookies.

» For information on how to control Google’s services please visit this site ( https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/partner-sites/ ). This third-party site describes how to clear cookies from Your browser. Once accepted Your choice may be changed when it expires in cache.

◽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.

Who We share Your data with

◽ We do not either share Your data nor sell Your data to other outside parties. Data is only used in-house to process Your inquiry or Your comment.

How long We retain Your data

◽If You leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so We can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

» For users that register on Our website (if any), We also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights You have over Your data

◽If You have an account on this site, or have left comments, You can request to have that personal data We hold about you, including any data You have provided to Us erased from Our records. This does not include any data We are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

» If You wish to have Your Personal Data removed from Our local computer and GA4 Analytics (or MailChimp) please contact Us with Your full name and email address used at that time. We will make every effort to search in Our files and delete Your Data. Your email informing Us that You exercised the ‘right to forget’ will not be deleted.

Where Your data is sent

◽Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

◽Emails are processed through USA servers to a Michigan location. Any data hosted on the website is held on USA servers.

Severability

◽ Should any provision of Our Policy be found to be unenforceable or legally invalid by the competent court, that provision shall be construed as revised in accordance with the applicable law; and in that event the remainder of the Policy shall remain fully valid and enforceable.

» In the event that the content of any page on Our website is inconsistent with Our Policy, the Policy shall take precedence.

Disclaimers and Indemnity

◽ The information on this website constitutes discourse by a chemist, and does not constitute professional medical advice taking into account the full scope of an infant’s medical care.

» Through the information on this website Our hopes are to be a part of the solution to the Sudden Infant Death (SID) problem. This website does not constitute any guarantee of prevention of SID/SIDS/crib death/cot death/SUID/sudden infant death.

◽ Paul R Knoll, MS accepts the responsibility for having backed up his statements by having taken his insight from experimental data in peer-reviewed medical and scientific literature.

» You agree to indemnify and hold Paul R Knoll harmless from any claims, liabilities and damages associated with use of this website or with the information on or linked from this website. You must consult with Your medical provider to get Their input into Your decision to use the information shared here. Your medical provider understands best, and is better qualified to make decisions in Your specific situation.

Jurisdiction

◽ This Privacy Policy (a.k.a. ‘Policy’) shall be governed by the laws of the State of Michigan, United States of America. Any claims or complaints must be first directed to Paul Knoll for resolution. Any subsequent unresolved complaints that require legal proceedings should be filed in state or federal courts in Kalamazoo County, Michigan, United States of America.

Class Action Waiver

◽ Where permitted under applicable law, You and Paul R. Knoll, MS agree that each may bring claims against the Other only in Your or Our own individual capacity and not as plaintiff or class member in any purported class or representative action. Unless You and Paul R. Knoll, MS both agree, no arbitrator or judge may consolidate more than one person’s claims or otherwise preside over any form of representative or class proceeding.

Jury Trial Waiver

◽ The courts located in the Jurisdiction of this Privacy Policy shall have exclusive rights to adjudicate any disputes with respect to this Policy. You and Paul R. Knoll, MS consent and submit to the jurisdiction of these courts. Each party also waives the right to a jury trial in connection with any action or litigation concerning these Policies.