This Privacy Policy details our policies and procedures on collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use this Website:
We reserve the right, at any time, to add to, change, update, or modify this Privacy Policy. We will do so by posting such change, update, or modification on this “Privacy Policy” page of our Website and without any prior notice to you. Any such change, update, or modification will be effective immediately upon posting. It is your responsibility to review this privacy policy from time to time to ensure that you continue to agree with all of its terms.
Your Consent:
By using this Website, You automatically agree and consent to the practices and collection of information detailed in this Privacy Policy.
Information Collected:
Personal Data
Personal Data is information you supply when you register to comment, submit a contact form to contact us, or sign up to receive emails on our website.
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: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
You should be aware that any personal information you submit on this website in the comments, may be read, collected, or used by other users of this website, including anonymous visitors. And you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information.
Contact Forms:
We use Contact Form 7 Plugin on our “Contact” page for Contact Form submissions. We do not use any information submitted through the contact form for marketing or any other purposes. All information submitted through this form is used for customer service purpose only. Contact Form 7 Privacy Policy is available here: https://contactform7.com/privacy-policy/
In operating the website, we may also from time to time include registration forms, comment forms, online surveys, giveaway registration forms and other online forms that ask users to provide their names, e-mail addresses, and other contact information.
E-Mails:
If you subscribe to our email newsletters through our subscription box, you automatically consent to store and process your data in order to receive our newsletters. The email address you provide is used only for email subscription communication purposes. It is never shared or distributed to third parties. Your email is stored with our subscription service provider, who has certain levels of security to protect your personal data. We use AWeber service for our e-mail marketing. For more information on the privacy practices of AWeber, please visit their Privacy policy: https://www.aweber.com/privacy.htm
You may opt out of receiving e-mail communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or the instructions provided in any email we send.
Usage Data:
Usage Data is tracking information collected as you navigate through our website. Usage Data is collected automatically when using the website. This Usage Data may include, but is not limited to information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers or other diagnostic data.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies:
Cookies are small files stored on your device. This website uses cookies so that we can provide you with the best user experience possible. Cookie information is stored in your browser and performs functions such as recognizing you when you return to our website and helping us understand which sections of the website you find most interesting and useful. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our website.
Other tracking technologies may also be used including, but not limited to beacons, tags and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our website.
Use/Disclosure of Personal Data:
Personal Data we receive helps us gather analysis and valuable information so that we can continue improving our website and content, monitor usage of our website, detect, prevent and address technical issues, provide customer support, personalize our visitor’s experience. To allow us to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, to administer a contest, survey, giveaway, other site features or updates or other information that may be of interest to you via your e-mail address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us by signing up to receive an email newsletter, or by entering a promotion.
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties, who process information on our behalf and assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you (including prize fulfillment in a giveaway), our affiliates and business partners, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential.
We may use third-party Service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our website:
Analytics:
We currently use Google Analytics to analyze the traffic and use of our website. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We may use Service providers to show advertisements to You to help support and maintain our website:
Advertising:
We currently use Google AdSense to display Ads on our Website. Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve Ads on our website. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy You may also customize the use of the interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
We may also share, release and/or disclose Personal Data in the following situations:
- if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency)
- if required to comply with a legal obligation
- to prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with this website
- to enforce our site policies, terms and conditions
- to protect the rights and/or property of this website or its users
- to protect the personal safety of users of this website or the public
- to protect against legal liability
Visiting our Website from outside the US:
For visitors outside of the US, please be aware that your information may stored on servers in the US where our websites servers are located and operated. We take steps to assure protection of your privacy but please be aware that your laws may differ than those of the United States. By using our Website, you agree to having your information stored in our US based servers and third parties as stated in this Privacy Policy.
Children’s Privacy:
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you’re under the age of 13, please do not provide any personally identifying information (e.g. your name, email address or phone number).
Third Party Websites/Links:
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.) from other (third party) websites. And our site may also contain links to other (third party) websites.
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.
If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s website.
Please be advised that we do not hold any responsibility for the privacy practices or content of those third party websites. It is your sole responsibility to review the privacy policies of third party websites and to confirm that you understand and consent to their policies and content. We strongly advise that you to review the privacy policy of every site you visit.
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.
Security:
The security of your data is important to us. And we do have security measures in place to prevent the loss, misuse, and alteration of the information obtained from you. But remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore we cannot guarantee it’s absolute security and we make no assurances about our ability to prevent any such loss, misuse, to you or to any third party arising out of any such loss, misuse, or alteration.
Contacting Us:
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this website, please visit our Contact Page.
