Privacy Policy

Last updated: July 12, 2026

Timothy P. Livingston respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you may provide while using this website.

This Privacy Policy explains how information is collected, used, shared, and protected when you visit timothyplivingston.co and any pages, articles, forms, or services available through the website, collectively referred to as the “Site.”

By using the Site, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy. Please discontinue using the Site if you do not agree with this policy.

1. Who We Are

The Site is owned and operated by Timothy P. Livingston.

For privacy-related questions or requests, contact:

Email: [email protected]
Website: timothyplivingston.co

2. Information We Collect

The information collected through the Site depends on how you interact with it.

Information You Provide Voluntarily

You may voluntarily provide information when you:

  • Submit a contact form
  • Subscribe to an email list or newsletter
  • Leave a comment, if commenting is available
  • Enter a giveaway or promotion
  • Respond to a survey
  • Request information
  • Communicate with us by email
  • Participate in another feature offered through the Site

This information may include:

  • Your name
  • Your email address
  • The contents of your message
  • Your communication preferences
  • Any other information you choose to provide

Please do not submit sensitive personal information through the Site unless it is specifically requested and necessary.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, certain information may be collected automatically by the Site and its service providers.

This information may include:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type
  • Device type
  • Operating system
  • General geographic location
  • Referring website
  • Pages viewed
  • Links clicked
  • Date and time of visits
  • Time spent on pages
  • Advertising interactions
  • Cookie identifiers
  • Other technical or usage information

This information helps us understand how visitors use the Site, improve its content, maintain security, and measure the performance of articles and advertising.

3. How We Use Information

We may use collected information to:

  • Operate, maintain, and improve the Site
  • Respond to questions, messages, and requests
  • Deliver newsletters or other communications you requested
  • Personalize and improve the visitor experience
  • Understand which articles and topics are most useful to readers
  • Measure website traffic and engagement
  • Display and measure advertising
  • Administer promotions, surveys, or giveaways
  • Detect spam, fraud, abuse, and security threats
  • Troubleshoot technical problems
  • Comply with legal obligations
  • Protect our rights, property, visitors, and business interests
  • Enforce our website terms and policies

We may combine information collected through different portions of the Site when permitted by law.

4. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The Site and its service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, web beacons, scripts, and similar technologies.

A cookie is a small file placed on your browser or device. Cookies may be used to:

  • Remember visitor preferences
  • Maintain website functionality
  • Understand how visitors navigate the Site
  • Measure website traffic
  • Prevent fraud and improve security
  • Measure advertising performance
  • Limit how often an advertisement is shown
  • Deliver personalized or non-personalized advertisements
  • Understand whether visitors interact with advertisements or links

Some cookies are necessary for the Site to function. Other cookies may be used for analytics, personalization, or advertising.

You can control certain cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through the cookie-consent or privacy-preferences tool displayed on the Site.

Blocking cookies may affect the appearance or functionality of certain parts of the Site.

5. Google AdSense and Advertising

The Site may use Google AdSense and other third-party advertising services to display advertisements.

Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve advertisements based on a visitor’s previous visits to this Site or other websites.

Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its advertising partners to serve advertisements based on visits to this Site and other websites on the internet. Depending on your location, consent choices, and Google settings, these advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.

Advertising providers may collect or receive information from the Site and other websites to:

  • Deliver advertisements
  • Personalize advertisements where permitted
  • Limit how often advertisements are shown
  • Measure advertisement performance
  • Detect invalid traffic, fraud, and abuse
  • Produce aggregated reports
  • Improve advertising services

Visitors may manage or opt out of personalized advertising through Google Ads Settings.

Visitors may also learn more about interest-based advertising and available opt-out choices through organizations such as the Digital Advertising Alliance or the Network Advertising Initiative.

Opting out of personalized advertising does not necessarily prevent advertisements from appearing. It may result in advertisements that are based on general factors, such as the content of the page or the visitor’s approximate location, rather than previous browsing activity.

You can learn more by reviewing Google’s Privacy Policy and Google’s explanation titled “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services.”

6. Consent Management

Where required by applicable law, the Site may display a cookie banner or consent-management tool that allows visitors to accept, reject, or manage certain uses of cookies and personal information.

Visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, and other applicable jurisdictions may be asked for consent before certain advertising, analytics, or personalization technologies are used.

Consent choices may be stored so the Site and its service providers can remember the visitor’s preferences. Visitors may be able to change or withdraw their choices through the Site’s cookie settings or privacy-preferences link.

Withdrawing consent does not affect processing that occurred lawfully before consent was withdrawn.

7. Analytics

The Site may use analytics services, including services provided by Google, to understand website traffic and visitor activity.

Analytics providers may collect information such as:

  • Pages visited
  • Time spent on the Site
  • Approximate location
  • Device and browser information
  • Referring sources
  • Links or features used
  • General patterns of website activity

Analytics information may be collected through cookies or similar technologies and may be used to improve website content, layout, performance, and visitor experience.

Depending on the analytics service and your location, you may be able to restrict this collection through browser controls, consent settings, privacy tools, or provider-specific opt-out options.

8. Email Communications

When you subscribe to an email list or otherwise request email communications, we may use your name and email address to send the requested messages.

These communications may include:

  • New article notifications
  • Home-design inspiration
  • Website updates
  • Product information
  • Promotional messages
  • Business announcements

You may unsubscribe from marketing emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message.

We may continue sending non-promotional communications when necessary, such as replies to your inquiries, notices regarding a transaction, or important administrative messages.

Email communications may be managed through a third-party email service provider. That provider may process information necessary to deliver emails, measure engagement, and manage subscriptions.

9. Contact Forms and Direct Communications

When you contact us, we may retain your name, email address, message, and related correspondence.

This information may be used to:

  • Respond to your request
  • Maintain records of communications
  • Provide requested information
  • Evaluate potential partnerships or business opportunities
  • Protect against spam, fraud, or abuse
  • Comply with legal obligations

Please avoid submitting confidential, financial, medical, or other highly sensitive information through a general contact form.

10. Comments

If comments are enabled, information submitted in a comment may be visible to other visitors.

The Site may collect information associated with comments, including the commenter’s name, email address, IP address, browser information, and comment content. This information may be used for moderation, spam detection, security, and communication.

Do not include personal information in a public comment that you do not want others to see.

Third-party spam-detection services may process comment information to identify unwanted or harmful content.

11. Embedded Content and Social Media

Articles may contain embedded videos, images, social media posts, maps, or other content from third-party websites, including platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, or similar services.

Embedded content may behave as though you visited the third-party website directly.

These third parties may:

  • Collect information about you
  • Use cookies or similar technologies
  • Track your interaction with embedded content
  • Associate your activity with an existing account
  • Display personalized content or advertising

Your interaction with embedded content is governed by the privacy policy of the company providing that content.

The Site may also contain social sharing buttons or links. Using those features may allow the applicable social platform to collect information about your visit.

12. Affiliate Links, Product Links, and Business Relationships

Some articles may contain affiliate links, sponsored links, product recommendations, or links to businesses connected with Timothy P. Livingston.

When you click a tracked or affiliate link, the applicable company or affiliate network may use cookies or similar technology to identify that the visit originated from this Site. We may receive a commission or other benefit if you make a purchase or complete another qualifying action.

Affiliate tracking may involve information such as:

  • The link clicked
  • The referring page
  • The date or time of the click
  • A cookie or tracking identifier
  • Whether a qualifying purchase or action occurred

We generally do not receive complete payment-card details from third-party retailers merely because you clicked an affiliate link.

Purchases made through third-party websites are governed by those companies’ own privacy policies and terms.

13. Payment Information

The Site may link to separate websites or online stores where products or services can be purchased.

Unless expressly stated otherwise, payment information is collected and processed by the applicable retailer, payment processor, e-commerce platform, or other third-party provider. Their collection and use of payment information are governed by their own privacy policies.

The Site does not necessarily receive or store your complete payment-card number.

14. How Information May Be Shared

We may share information with third parties when reasonably necessary to operate the Site or conduct related business activities.

These parties may include:

  • Website hosting providers
  • Content-delivery and security providers
  • Analytics providers
  • Advertising companies
  • Consent-management providers
  • Email service providers
  • Spam-detection and fraud-prevention providers
  • Website developers and technical support providers
  • Cloud storage and business software providers
  • Professional advisers
  • Government authorities when legally required
  • Business successors in connection with a sale, merger, reorganization, or transfer

Service providers may process information on our behalf to perform specific services.

We may also disclose information when we believe it is reasonably necessary to:

  • Comply with a law, court order, subpoena, or legal process
  • Respond to a government request
  • Enforce our policies
  • Investigate suspected fraud, abuse, or illegal activity
  • Protect the safety, rights, or property of the Site, its owner, visitors, or others

We may share aggregated or de-identified information that does not reasonably identify an individual.

15. Sale, Sharing, and Targeted Advertising

We do not exchange personal information for money in the ordinary meaning of the word “sell.”

However, some privacy laws define “sale,” “sharing,” or “targeted advertising” broadly. Under those definitions, the use of advertising cookies, analytics technologies, or certain third-party advertising services may be considered a sale, sharing, or use of personal information for targeted advertising.

Where applicable, you may request to opt out through:

  • The cookie banner or consent-management tool
  • A “Privacy Choices” or “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link, when available
  • Your browser or device privacy settings
  • Google Ads Settings
  • An email request sent to [email protected]

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of children under 13.

16. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to:

  • Provide requested services
  • Respond to communications
  • Maintain business and tax records
  • Meet contractual obligations
  • Resolve disputes
  • Enforce agreements
  • Protect the Site
  • Satisfy legal requirements

Retention periods may vary based on the type of information, why it was collected, legal requirements, security needs, and the capabilities of third-party service providers.

Information may be deleted, anonymized, or retained in backup systems after it is no longer actively used.

17. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, internet transmission, electronic storage system, or security measure is completely secure. We cannot guarantee that information will never be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed without authorization.

You provide information through the internet at your own risk.

18. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable exceptions, you may have the right to:

  • Request access to personal information collected about you
  • Request information about how personal information is used or disclosed
  • Request correction of inaccurate personal information
  • Request deletion of personal information
  • Request a portable copy of certain information
  • Object to or restrict certain processing
  • Withdraw consent
  • Opt out of targeted advertising
  • Opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information
  • Limit certain uses of sensitive personal information
  • Receive equal service without unlawful discrimination for exercising privacy rights

To submit a privacy request, email [email protected] with the subject line Privacy Request.

Please describe your request and provide enough information for us to identify any relevant records. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law. We may require proof that the agent is authorized to act on your behalf.

If we deny a request and your jurisdiction provides a right to appeal, you may appeal by replying to the decision with the subject line Privacy Request Appeal.

We will respond within the time required by applicable law.

19. Global Privacy Control

Some browsers or extensions transmit a Global Privacy Control signal indicating that a visitor wishes to opt out of certain sales or sharing of personal information.

Where required by applicable law and technically supported by the Site and its service providers, we will process recognized preference signals as an opt-out request for the applicable browser or device.

Because these signals are generally device- and browser-specific, you may need to enable the preference separately on each browser and device you use.

20. International Visitors

The Site is operated from the United States.

If you access the Site from another country, your information may be processed or stored in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate.

Privacy and data-protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country. Where required, appropriate safeguards or consent mechanisms may be used for international processing and transfers.

21. Children’s Privacy

The Site 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 you believe a child under 13 has submitted personal information through the Site, contact us at [email protected] so we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

Parents and legal guardians should supervise their children’s internet activity.

22. Third-Party Websites

The Site contains links to third-party websites, retailers, builders, designers, social networks, video platforms, products, and other resources.

We do not control the privacy, security, availability, or content practices of those websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to information processed through timothyplivingston.co.

Review the privacy policy of each third-party website before providing personal information or completing a transaction.

The inclusion of a link does not necessarily mean that we control or are responsible for the linked website.

23. Do Not Track Signals

Some browsers offer a “Do Not Track” setting.

There is not currently a universally accepted standard for responding to every Do Not Track signal. The Site may not respond to all such signals.

You may have additional controls through browser settings, cookie preferences, Global Privacy Control, advertising opt-out tools, and individual service-provider settings.

24. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect:

  • Changes to the Site
  • New services or technology
  • Changes to advertising or analytics providers
  • Changes in business practices
  • Changes in legal requirements

The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date.

Your continued use of the Site after an updated policy is posted means the updated policy applies to your subsequent use of the Site, to the extent permitted by law.

We encourage you to review this page periodically.

25. Contact Us

For questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal information, contact:

Timothy P. Livingston
Website: timothyplivingston.co
Email: [email protected]