privacy policy

Hey! Kristin here.

Maybe you’re real relaxed about technology knowing stuff about you. Maybe you’re like me and are more cautious about “Big Brother.” In any case, here’s information about how viewing this blog may affect your privacy.

As a basic rule of thumb, the more you interact with the content on this blog, the more information you are sharing. 
VOLUNTARY SHARING OF INFORMATION
Comments

If you leave comments on the site, the data shown in the comments form is collected, and also your 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.

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.

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

If you register on this website (if any), the personal information you provide for your user profile is stored. You can see, edit, or delete your personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username).

Please do not share any personal, locational, or sensitive information on this website.

 

MORE SUBTLE STUFF
Media

If you for any reason choose to upload images to this 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

Like with many websites, cookies are used to help this website run smoothly. If you leave a comment on this 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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.

You may choose to disable cookies at any time. Just be aware, it may affect your viewing experience on the website.

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.

 

ADVERTIZING & AFFILIATE MARKETING

This website uses affiliate marketing (see disclosure for more information) which uses embedded links to track sales. If you click a link to a particular product, a cookie will be generated to track sales in order to provide me with a small commission.

Currently, I am an affiliate partner with Amazon Associates, Target, ErgoBaby, and Kindara.

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 collected, 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.

 

If you concerned about your privacy…

You may choose to simply read the awesome content on this blog alone…avoid links and writing comments.

You may choose to disable cookies at anytime, just please note it may impact the quality with which you can use this website.

If you have any questions or concerns, please e-mail me at with.quiet.hands.blog@gmail.com.