Any information provided by you during your visit to our blog or website (such as the following: name, email address, additional contact information) is used only to get in touch with you after you’ve initiated contact. We will not sell your information or send you unsolicited correspondence. Please contact us at [email protected] if you’d like information on having your provided data deleted.
Information such as your IP address and ISP may be collected during your visit to our site or if you comment on a blog post. This is collected automatically by our content management system and used only for the ability to identify abusive and/or spam commenters. Please review the below for more details and make sure you are okay with these terms before visiting, commenting, or otherwise using this site.
AFFILIATE LINKS + SPONSORED CONTENT
Some of our posts use affiliate links, which mean that we receive a commission if you make a purchase using our link(s), and they will be indicated as such.
Some of our content may be sponsored, which means that we’ve partnered with a brand or product for a marketing campaign. Sponsored content will be indicated as such, and we will always be transparent about any paid-for promotions, gifted product, or similar.
COMMENTS
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.
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. 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.
COOKIES
Third parties, including Facebook, Google, Twitter, e-commerce platforms, and email newsletter providers may use cookies (a small piece of data that helps a site remember you, stored by your web browser), web beacons (a way to track which pages or content you’ve visited), and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our website and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads, in accordance with their site privacy policies. Users can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting- please visit aboutads.info/choices and youronlinechoices.eu for more information.
Please be aware that your data may be processed or stored on servers that are not in the same location as you. We are a US based company and may use third parties including the above mentioned to process and store data in the course of doing business.
For the best visitor experience, our website also may use cookies, for things like loading pages you’ve previously visited faster and for certain content to function properly. More information about cookies and disabling cookies can be found at cookiesandyou.com.
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 DATA WITH
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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 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. Please contact us at [email protected] if you’d like information on having your provided data deleted. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.