Privacy Policy

1. Who operates this site

This Privacy Policy describes how Doxprint LLC, a New Mexico limited liability company ("Doxprint," "we," "us," or "our") handles information in connection with thehonestorganization.com (the "Site"). Doxprint LLC publishes The Honest Organization and operates this Site. Sharam Kohan is the author of the book and holds the copyright in it and in the writing on this Site, which he licenses to Doxprint LLC for publication.

The Site exists to describe a book, to publish essays on its subject, and to receive correspondence about both. It is not a shop and it is not a service. It measures its own readership, in the ordinary way described in section 4, and it does nothing else with what it learns. This policy is written to describe what actually happens rather than to reserve rights we do not exercise.

2. What this site collects

Information you choose to send us. The Site has two forms. The contact form asks for your name, email address, a subject, your organization if you wish to give it, and your message. The speaking and media inquiry form asks for your name, your title, your organization, your email address, the type of event, a proposed date if you have one, and a description of the event. Fields marked with an asterisk are required; the rest are optional.

The record of your acknowledgment. Each form carries a checkbox confirming that you have read this policy and the Terms of Use. When you submit the form, the fact that you ticked the box, the version of the policies in effect, and the time of submission are recorded in the message that reaches us.

What the web server records. Like every web server, the one hosting this Site keeps standard access logs. Those logs record the requesting internet protocol address, the date and time, the page requested, the browser and operating system reported by your device, and the page you came from. These logs are generated by the hosting provider for security and diagnostic purposes.

What Google Analytics records. Every page of the Site loads Google Analytics 4. It reports to Google the page you opened, the page you came from, an approximate location derived from your internet protocol address, technical facts about your browser and device, and a randomly generated identifier stored in your browser so that repeat visits can be counted as repeat visits. It is described in full in sections 4 and 5, together with the ways to refuse it.

What the Site does not collect. There is no account to create, no password to set, no newsletter to join, and no public comment section. The Site does not ask for a postal address, a telephone number, a date of birth, a payment method, or any government identifier. It does not collect biometric information, precise location, health information, or any other category of sensitive personal information.

Where form submissions go. A submitted form is delivered to us as an email message. It is not stored in the Site's database and it is not written to any file on the Site.

3. What we do with it

We use what you send us to read your message, to answer it if an answer is called for, and to keep a record of the correspondence. We use it to evaluate speaking and media inquiries. We use it, where necessary, to comply with the law or to protect the Site against abuse.

We do not use it to build a profile of you. We do not use it for advertising. We do not sell it, rent it, trade it, or share it for anyone else's marketing purposes, and we have never done so.

4. Who else receives it

The hosting provider. The Site is hosted by Hostinger, which necessarily processes every request made to the Site and keeps the access logs described above.

The mail provider. A form submission travels as email, which means it passes through the mail servers that carry it and rests in the mailbox that receives it.

Google. The Site uses the Site Kit plugin published by Google. Site Kit connects the Site to Google Search Console, which reports to the Site owner how the Site appears in Google search results, and it loads Google Analytics 4 on every page of the Site. Analytics is a measurement service operated by Google. When you open a page here, your browser sends Google the address of the page, the address of the page you came from, your approximate location derived from your IP address, and technical facts about your browser and device. Google assigns your browser a randomly generated identifier so that it can tell one visit from another and recognize a returning browser. We use what Analytics reports to understand which pages are read and how visitors arrive; Google processes the same information under its own terms, for its own purposes, and we do not control that processing. Google's own explanation of how it handles this data is published at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

Legal process. We may disclose information where we are required to by law, or where disclosure is necessary to establish or defend a legal claim, or to protect the rights or safety of any person.

There is no other recipient. Apart from Google Analytics as described above, no advertising network, data broker, analytics vendor, social platform, or marketing service receives anything from this Site.

5. Cookies and similar technologies

This Site sets no advertising cookies and no profiling cookies. It carries no remarketing pixel and no social media widget.

Google Analytics sets a measurement cookie. The Analytics service described in the previous section stores an identifier in your browser, ordinarily under a name beginning _ga, so that it can distinguish one visit from another and recognize a returning browser. It expires by its own schedule, which Google sets and which is presently two years. This is the only cookie on the Site that is not strictly necessary to serve you a page. You can refuse it by blocking third-party and analytics cookies in your browser settings, by using your browser's private mode, or by installing the browser add-on Google publishes for that purpose at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Nothing on this Site is withheld from a visitor who refuses it.

WordPress, the software the Site runs on, sets cookies when someone signs in to administer the Site. That means the Site owner, and nobody else. If you do not sign in, WordPress sets no cookie for you.

The hosting and caching layer may set a strictly necessary cookie in order to serve pages correctly. It carries no information about you and is used for nothing else.

Typefaces are served from this domain. The three typefaces this Site uses are hosted here rather than requested from a font service, so displaying a page makes no request to any third-party font provider.

6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control

This section is provided under California Business and Professions Code section 22575, subdivision (b)(5), which requires an operator to disclose how it responds to browser Do Not Track signals.

This Site does not change its behavior in response to a browser Do Not Track signal. We state that plainly because the statute requires an operator to say so rather than to imply it. The Site itself builds no profile of you and follows you to no other website. It does load Google Analytics, described in sections 4 and 5, and that service sets its own identifier; a Do Not Track header does not switch it off. The measures that do switch it off are the ones named in section 5: blocking analytics cookies, private browsing, or Google's own opt-out add-on. No visitor is disadvantaged by using any of them.

The same answer applies to the Global Privacy Control. A Global Privacy Control signal communicates a request not to sell or share personal information. We do not sell or share personal information, so a signal from your browser asks us to stop doing something we do not do.

7. Tracking by other parties

This section is provided under California Business and Professions Code section 22575, subdivision (b)(6).

No advertising network, data broker, or social platform collects personally identifiable information about your online activities over time and across other websites through this Site. The Site embeds no advertising tag, no remarketing pixel, and no social media widget.

Google Analytics is the one third party that receives information about your visit here, and it is described in sections 4 and 5. Google operates Analytics across a great many websites and is capable of recognizing a browser it has seen elsewhere. We do not receive that cross-site view, we have not enabled advertising features or remarketing on this property, and we do not use Analytics to identify you. What Google does with the data it collects is governed by its own terms, not by this policy.

Links on this Site lead to other websites, including the retailer that sells the book. Once you follow such a link you are on someone else's website, subject to their practices and not to this policy.

8. How long information is kept

Correspondence is kept in the recipient mailbox for as long as it is useful to keep it, and is deleted when it is not. Where a message concerns a legal matter, a rights or permissions question, or a speaking engagement, it may be kept longer as a business record.

Server access logs are kept by the hosting provider on its own schedule, which is short and is measured in days or weeks rather than years.

You may ask us to delete correspondence you have sent. See the next section.

9. Reviewing, correcting, and deleting what you sent

This section is provided under California Business and Professions Code section 22575, subdivision (b)(2).

If you have written to us through the Site and you want to know what we still hold, to correct it, or to have it deleted, write to us through the contact page and say so. We will confirm the request, and we will act on it unless we are required to keep the material by law or need it to establish or defend a legal claim. Because we hold so little, this is usually a matter of deleting an email.

We do not charge for this and we will not ask you for identification beyond what is needed to be sure we are answering the person who wrote.

10. Security

The Site is served exclusively over an encrypted connection. Form submissions are transmitted over that connection. Access to the mailbox that receives them is protected by a password and by two-step verification.

No method of transmission over the internet and no method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we do not claim otherwise. What we can say honestly is that the Site holds very little, which is the most effective protection available.

11. California privacy rights

The California Consumer Privacy Act. The CCPA, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, applies to a "business" that meets at least one of three thresholds: annual gross revenues above a figure adjusted for inflation, which the California Privacy Protection Agency set at $26,625,000 effective January 1, 2025; or buying, selling, or sharing the personal information of 100,000 or more California consumers or households in a year; or deriving 50 percent or more of annual revenue from selling or sharing personal information. Doxprint LLC meets none of them and is therefore not a "business" as the CCPA defines it.

We say so plainly rather than claim a compliance status we do not hold. Whether or not we are obliged to, we will honor a request from a California resident to know what personal information we hold about them, to have it corrected, or to have it deleted, on the terms described in the section above. There is nothing to opt out of with respect to sale or sharing, because neither occurs.

The California Online Privacy Protection Act. CalOPPA applies to the operator of a commercial website that collects personally identifiable information from California residents, without any revenue or volume threshold. It applies to this Site, and this policy is written to satisfy it: it identifies the categories of information collected and the categories of parties with whom it may be shared, describes how you may review and change your information, describes how we notify you of changes, states its effective date, and discloses how we respond to Do Not Track signals and whether other parties may track you here.

Shine the Light. California Civil Code section 1798.83 permits a California resident to request information about personal information disclosed to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. We disclose none, to anyone, for that purpose.

12. Other state privacy laws

A growing number of states have enacted comprehensive privacy statutes. Most, like California's, apply only above thresholds of revenue or of the number of consumers whose data is processed, and Doxprint LLC falls below them.

Our answer does not depend on which state you write from. If you ask what we hold, we will tell you. If you ask us to correct it or delete it, we will, subject to the limits described above.

13. Children's privacy

The Site is not directed to children. It is written for executives, managers, human resources professionals, scholars, and general readers, and its subject matter holds no interest for a young child.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from a child under 13, which is the threshold set by the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act. If you believe a child has sent us information through the Site, write to us and we will delete it.

14. Links to other websites

The Site links to other websites, including the retailer that sells the book, the sites for the author's other books, and sources cited in the essays. We do not control those sites and we are not responsible for their content or their privacy practices. Read their policies if you are concerned about them.

15. Changes to this policy

This section is provided under California Business and Professions Code section 22575, subdivision (b)(3).

If this policy changes, the effective date at the top of this page changes with it, and the revised policy takes effect when it is posted here. Where a change is material, the new date is the notice: we do not make a change quietly and leave the old date in place. The version identifier recorded with each form submission changes at the same time, so it is always possible to establish which version of the policy was in effect when a particular message was sent.

We encourage you to look at the date at the top of this page before sending anything you would not want handled under different terms.

16. How to reach us

Questions about this policy, and any request to review, correct, or delete what you have sent, should be addressed to the operator:

We aim to answer privacy requests promptly. We do not promise a fixed number of days, because a promise of that kind is easy to make and easy to break.