Mays Creative Co’s Privacy Policy: Protecting Our Clients

Who we are

Mays Creative Co. is a solopreneur business based in Wilmington, North Carolina. We specialize in Author Stewardship in the United States and Canada—providing complete website and email marketing management so established women authors can reclaim their creative time and focus on their legacy-building work. Sarah Mays owns Mays Creative Co. She holds a BFA in Creative Nonfiction, an AA in English, and has completed graduate coursework in Strategic Communication with an emphasis in marketing.

Our website address is: https://mayscreative.co. You may also reach us via email.

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. We are committed to protecting any personal information you share with us and handling it with care and respect. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your information when you visit our website or work with us as a client.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Client Data

As your Author Steward, we may access and manage your website, email marketing platforms, and other digital tools on your behalf. Any information we handle while providing these services is kept strictly confidential and is only used to deliver the services you’ve requested. We do not share, sell, or distribute your client data to third parties. Your trust matters to us, and we treat your information with the same care we’d want for our own.

Consultation Information

Information you share during discovery calls or consultations is kept private and is only used to better understand how we can serve you.

Affiliate Links

From time to time, we may include affiliate links on our website. This means we may receive a small commission if you purchase through one of these links, at no extra cost to you. We only recommend tools, resources, or services we genuinely believe will be helpful. Any affiliate income helps offset the costs of maintaining this website.

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

Cookies

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 had 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

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

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 who 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 receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

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

Last Update

This privacy policy was last updated on November 29, 2025.