Privacy Policy

1. Who we are

AI Without Worry (“AI Without Worry,” “we,” “us” or “our”) is operated by Kylen Griffin, 514 Americas Way PMB 20341, Box Elder, SD 57719, United States. We publish educational articles, a weekly email newsletter and related resources at aiwithoutworry.com (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose and protect personal information when you visit the Site, subscribe to our newsletter, contact us or otherwise interact with us (together, our “Services”).

By using our Services, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with it, please do not use our Services.

2. Information we collect

Information you give us

• Newsletter and free guide sign-ups: your email address and, if you choose to provide it, your first name.
• Messages to us: your name, email address and anything you include when you email us, reply to a newsletter or send us a question or a suspicious message for review.
• Comments: if you comment on an article, the name, email address and website (optional) you enter, along with your comment.
• Workshops, events and purchases (if offered): the information you provide to register or buy, such as your name, email address and billing details. Payments are handled by our payment processor. We do not receive or store full card numbers.

Please do not send us sensitive information such as Social Security numbers, bank or card numbers, passwords, medical information or account login details, even when asking about a possible scam. If a suspicious message contains this kind of information, remove it before forwarding it to us.

Information collected automatically

• Device and usage information: when you visit the Site, our hosting provider collects technical information such as your IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring website, pages viewed and the date and time of your visit. We use this in aggregate to understand which articles are helpful and to keep the Site secure.
• Email engagement information: our email service records whether a newsletter was delivered and opened and which links were clicked, using small tracking images and tracked links. We use this to improve our emails and to remove inactive addresses.
• Cookies and similar technologies: see Section 6.

Information from others

If someone forwards our newsletter to you, or if you interact with our social media pages, we may receive limited information such as your public profile name. We do not buy personal information from data brokers.

3. How we use your information

• To send you the newsletter, the free guide and other emails you have asked for.
• To respond to your questions and messages.
• To operate, maintain, secure and improve the Site and our content, including understanding which topics readers find most useful.
• To deliver workshops, events or products you sign up for or purchase, if offered.
• To prevent spam, fraud and abuse.
• To comply with legal obligations and to enforce our Terms of Use.

We may write articles inspired by reader questions. If we do, we will not publish your name or other details that identify you without your permission.

We do not use your personal information for profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects, and we do not use automated decision-making technology to make significant decisions about you.

4. How we share your information

We share personal information only as described below.

• Service providers who process information on our behalf and under contracts that limit their use of it, including:
  • Kit (formerly ConvertKit), our email newsletter platform
  • Automattic (WordPress.com and Jetpack), which hosts the Site, provides site statistics and filters comment spam
  • Google (Google Workspace), which provides our business email
  • Productivity and AI writing tools we use to organize reader questions and draft content
  • A payment processor, if we offer paid products
• Legal and safety reasons: when we believe in good faith that disclosure is required by law, subpoena or court order, or is necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of our readers, us or others.
• Business transfers: if AI Without Worry is sold, merged or transferred, personal information may be transferred as part of that transaction. The new owner must honor this Privacy Policy for information collected under it.
• With your permission: in any other case, only with your consent.

5. No selling, no targeted advertising

We do not sell personal information, and we have not sold personal information in the past 12 months. We do not “share” personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising (as those terms are defined under California law) and do not process personal information for targeted advertising (as defined under other state laws). We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 16.

We do not intentionally collect sensitive personal information, such as precise geolocation, government ID numbers, financial account credentials, health information, or information about racial or ethnic origin, religious beliefs, sexual orientation or citizenship status. If you include such information in a message to us, we use it only to respond to you and then delete it.

Global Privacy Control: if your browser sends a Global Privacy Control (GPC) or similar opt-out preference signal, we treat it as a valid request to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information and of targeted advertising for that browser, even though we do not engage in those activities.

6. Cookies and similar technologies

Cookies are small files stored on your device. Our hosting provider, WordPress.com, uses cookies and similar technologies that are needed to run the Site, remember comment details if you choose, prevent spam and measure visits in aggregate. Our email platform uses tracking images and links in emails, as described in Section 2. We do not use advertising cookies, and we do not allow advertising networks to track you on our Site.

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking some cookies may affect how parts of the Site work. To limit email tracking, you can set your email program to not load images automatically.

Do Not Track: some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting. Because there is no common industry standard for responding to these signals, the Site does not currently respond to them. We do honor Global Privacy Control signals as described in Section 5.

7. Our emails

We send marketing and newsletter emails only to people who have signed up. Every email includes our mailing address and an unsubscribe link, and we process unsubscribe requests promptly, within 10 business days at most. After you unsubscribe, we may still send you messages you specifically request, such as a reply to your question or a receipt for a purchase.

8. How long we keep information

• Subscriber information: for as long as you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe, we keep your email address on a suppression list so we do not email you again, and delete your other subscriber information within 12 months.
• Messages you send us: up to 2 years after our last exchange, unless we need them longer for a legal reason.
• Comments: for as long as the comment remains published, or until you ask us to remove it.
• Purchase records (if any): for as long as required by tax and accounting laws, typically 7 years.
• Site usage information: according to our hosting provider’s retention settings, and only in aggregate in our reports.

9. How we protect information

We use reasonable administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information, including encrypted connections (HTTPS), two-factor authentication on our accounts, limited access to subscriber data, and reputable service providers with their own security programs. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If we learn of a security breach affecting your personal information, we will notify you as required by law.

10. Your privacy rights

Many U.S. states give residents specific privacy rights. To keep things simple and fair, we offer the following rights to all readers in the United States, regardless of where you live and whether or not a state law requires it:

• Right to know and access: to confirm whether we process your personal information, and to receive the categories and specific pieces of personal information we have about you, the sources, our purposes, and the categories of parties we disclose it to.
• Right to a copy (portability): to receive your personal information in a portable, readily usable format.
• Right to correct: to ask us to fix inaccurate personal information.
• Right to delete: to ask us to delete personal information we collected from or about you, subject to legal exceptions.
• Right to opt out: of the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising and significant profiling. We do not do any of these, but you may still submit a request.
• Right to limit use of sensitive personal information to what is necessary to provide the Services.
• Right to a list of third parties: to receive a list of the specific third parties (or categories, where permitted) to which we have disclosed personal information.
• Right to non-discrimination: we will not deny you service, charge you a different price or provide a different quality of service because you exercised your rights.
• Right to appeal: if we decline your request, you may appeal our decision as described below.

How to make a request

Email hello@aiwithoutworry.com with the subject line “Privacy Request,” or write to us at 514 Americas Way PMB 20341, Box Elder, SD 57719. Tell us which right you want to use and the email address you used with us. To unsubscribe from emails, you can also simply click the unsubscribe link in any email.

Verification: to protect your information, we will verify your request, usually by confirming you control the email address on file. We will not ask for more information than we need, and we use information provided for verification only for that purpose.

Authorized agents: you may use an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. We may ask the agent for proof of your signed permission and may ask you to verify your identity directly, unless the agent has a valid power of attorney. Parents or legal guardians may make requests on behalf of a minor child.

Response time: we will confirm receipt within 10 business days and respond within 45 days. If we need more time, we may extend this by up to an additional 45 days and will tell you why. Requests are free, though we may decline or charge a reasonable fee for requests that are clearly unfounded, excessive or repetitive, as permitted by law.

Appeals: if we decline to take action on your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision or emailing hello@aiwithoutworry.com with the subject line “Privacy Appeal” within a reasonable time after our decision. We will respond in writing within 45 days, explaining what we did and why. If you are not satisfied with the result of your appeal, you may contact your state Attorney General.

11. Additional information for California residents

This section supplements this Privacy Policy and serves as our notice at collection under the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act (together, the “CCPA”), and the California Online Privacy Protection Act. In the past 12 months we have collected the following categories of personal information:

Category	Examples	Source	Purpose	Disclosed to
Identifiers	Name, email address, IP address	You; your device	Send emails, respond to you, secure the Site	Service providers
Customer records (Cal. Civ. Code 1798.80)	Name and billing details, if you make a purchase	You	Process purchases	Payment processor
Commercial information	Products or workshops purchased, if any	You	Deliver purchases, keep records	Service providers
Internet or network activity	Pages viewed, referring site, email opens and clicks	Your device	Improve content and emails, security	Service providers
Approximate location	City or region inferred from IP address	Your device	Aggregate statistics	Service providers
Communications content	Messages, questions and comments you send	You	Respond to you, improve content	Service providers
Inferences	Topics you seem interested in, based on links clicked	Derived from activity	Choose helpful newsletter topics	Service providers

We do not collect sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you. Retention periods for each category are described in Section 8. We have not sold or shared personal information, including that of consumers under 16, in the past 12 months.

Shine the Light: California Civil Code Section 1798.83 allows California residents to request information about disclosures of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. We do not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing.

Minors: California residents under 18 who have posted content on the Site may ask us to remove it by emailing hello@aiwithoutworry.com.

12. Residents of other states

The rights in Section 10 are designed to meet or exceed the requirements of the comprehensive consumer privacy laws of Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and Virginia, as well as states whose laws take effect after this policy’s last-updated date. Where your state’s law gives you a right not listed here, we will honor it.

Nevada residents: we do not sell covered information as defined under Nevada law. You may still submit a request to opt out of sales by emailing hello@aiwithoutworry.com.

13. Children’s privacy

Our Services are intended for adults and are not directed to children. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13, and our newsletter is for people 18 and older. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will delete it.

14. Links and social media

Our articles and emails link to other websites, such as government agencies and AI tools. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites, and we encourage you to read their privacy policies. If you interact with us on social media, the platform’s own privacy policy also applies.

15. Visitors outside the United States

AI Without Worry is based in the United States and our Services are intended for U.S. residents. If you use our Services from outside the United States, your information will be processed in the United States, where privacy laws may differ from those in your country.

16. Changes to this policy

We review this Privacy Policy at least once a year and may update it from time to time. We will post the updated version on this page and change the “Last updated” date above. If we make material changes, we will notify subscribers by email before the changes take effect. We will not use previously collected personal information in a materially different way without your consent where required by law.

17. Contact us

Questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices? Contact us at:

AI Without Worry
Kylen Griffin
514 Americas Way PMB 20341
Box Elder, SD 57719
Email: hello@aiwithoutworry.com