Your privacy is of the utmost importance to us here at Country Wife Chronicles.
Country Wife Chronicles found at https://www.countrywifechronicles.com/ (“Website”) is governed by the following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you of what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website. This website may contain third-party links to other websites which are not governed by this policy.
WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT AND HOW IS IT USED?
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name, email address, or website URL. You may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment, subscribing to blog updates or a newsletter, submitting a contact form, or administering sweepstakes, contests, or promotions. This information is only captured when you voluntarily enter or opt-in and enter this information for collection.
Automatically-Collected Information: We may receive and store certain types of usage-related information when you interact with the Website, including but not limited to, your computer’s IP address and browser information. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the Website, such as links clicked. The information we collect is used to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor.
Cookies: We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website. We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies. No personal information is shared with the Website’s ad providers.
HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To create a user account, identify you as a user of the Website, and customize the Website for your account;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Website may provide personal information to an applicable third party in order to provide services. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
MailChimp – The Website uses the services of MailChimp for delivery of email updates and newsletters. MailChimp’s use of your personal information is subject to MailChimp’s privacy policy.
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. No personally identifiable information is transferred from the Website to Google Analytics. For more information on Google’s Analytics privacy policies, please visit this site.
At this time, your personally identifiable information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Information that does not identify you personally may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly authorize us to share your information.
We also often link to other websites or blogs. However, these websites are out of our control and we do not necessarily endorse all the content on these websites.
ANONYMOUS DATA
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
PUBLICLY VISIBLE INFORMATION
If you create a user profile on the Website or leave a comment, certain information may be publicly visible. To create a user profile, you must choose a username and password and input your email address for profile confirmation. Your email address will never be available publicly. At your option, you may also add an avatar, a profile description, and a link to your website. You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google Account. Users may see your username, avatar, profile description and website information.
COOKIES
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services, such as Google Analytics, as described above.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, by using a corresponding setting of your Internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular Internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
ADVERTISING
This Website may engage in sponsored campaigns with various influencer networks, brands, and agencies. All sponsored content is duly disclosed in accordance with the FTC’s requirements. From time to time, these sponsored campaigns utilize tracking pixels (aka web beacons), which may contain cookies to collect data regarding usage and audience. This information is collected by the sponsoring company to track the results of the campaign. No personally identifiable information collected by the Website is used in conjunction with these tracking pixels.
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, MailChimp, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done by embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. The pixel is embedded in emails and allows an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. Also, this allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the user. This behavior will not be passed on to third parties.
WILL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION BE SHARED?
We will not sell, distribute, or reveal users’ email addresses or other personal information without their consent. This does not include third-party partners, such as those listed above.
RIGHTS RELATED TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
You can decline to submit personal information at any time. If you decline, we may not be able to continue to provide service to you. You may request deletion of your personal information by sending an email to info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com, but in some cases, we may be required to keep your information by law. In such a case, it would no longer be active and would be kept separately in an archive.
In addition, you have the following rights to your personal information provided to the Website:
Opt-out – You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe links in our emails. You may also notify us at info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access – You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com.
Amend – You may contact us at info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com to amend or modify your personal information.
Delete – In certain situations, you may request that we erase or delete your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
CHILDREN’S INFORMATION
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
CONTACT INFORMATION
At any time, please contact us at info(at)countrywifechronicles(dot)com for questions related to this Privacy Policy.
Last updated: July 6, 2018.