PRIVACY POLICY & DISCLOSURES

This blog does not share personal information with third parties nor does it store any information about your visit to this blog other than to analyze and optimize your content and reading experience through the use of cookies.

You can turn off the use of cookies at anytime by changing your specific browser settings.

I am not responsible for republished content from this blog on other blogs or websites without my permission.

As required by the FTC (and also for the sake of being open and honest with reviews), all materials sent for free or for the purpose of reviewing/PR will be noted as such in the review. Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. I therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

There may be affiliate links used on this blog, but they will in no way affect your reading experience. If you click on them or choose to purchase something I may get some cents on the dollar (it’s honestly not a lot). Any revenue I receive goes right back into supporting this blog (and associated costs such as hosting, equipment to improve your content, etc.). Thank you for supporting the companies who support The Californienne.

The opinions expressed on this blog are always my own and honest- regardless of PR or affiliates. They are also not the opinions of my employer or anyone else associated with me.

© Anne Donahoe and The Californienne, www.thecalifornienne.com, 2018. Unauthorized use and/or duplication of this material without express and written permission from this site’s author and/or owner is strictly prohibited. Excerpts and links may be used, provided that full and clear credit is given to Anne Donahoe and The Californienne, www.thecalifornienne.com, with appropriate and specific direction to the original content.

This policy is subject to change without notice and was last updated on July 15,2018. If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly here: mgmt.thecalifornienne@gmail.com

When navigating the site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, or other details to help you with your experience.

By voluntarily providing us with Personal Data, you are consenting to our use of it in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you provide Personal Data, you acknowledge and agree that such Personal Data may be transferred from your current location to the offices and servers of Google Adsense as well as authorized third parties referred to herein.

Google Adsense may use information collected from you when you sign up for updates of new posts, surf the website, or use certain other site features, for example: to personalize user’s experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.

 

EU user consent policy, GDPR

I have implemented changes in Google Adsense so that Google will show all users in the EEA only non-personalized ads on this site. For more information about this policy, see the Google EU User Consent Policy.

Non-personalized ads are targeted using contextual information rather than the past behavior of a user. Although these ads don’t use cookies for ads personalization, they do use cookies to allow for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud and abuse.

 

Source: Akismet

We collect information about visitors who comment on Sites that use our Akismet anti-spam service. The information we collect depends on how the User sets up Akismet for the Site, but typically includes the commenter’s IP address, user agent, referrer, and Site URL (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.thecalifornienne.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

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.

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.

Contact forms

By default, WordPress does not include a contact form. This site does not use a contact form plugin.

WordPress 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 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.

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.

Analytics

This site uses Jetpack analytics plugin, this blog is not responsible nor liable for Jetpack’s Privacy Policy.

By default WordPress does not collect any analytics data. However, many web hosting accounts collect some anonymous analytics data.

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. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

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

In compliance with European data protection standards, I use Bluehost web hosting and their security options when handling what data is collected.

Google Adsense is set to non-personalized ads to protect your privacy and limit data collection and sharing.

Contact information

If you have any questions feel free to contact me directly here: mgmt.thecalifornienne@gmail.com

Cookies

  • Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

 

GOOGLE

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles.

This site uses Google AdSense Advertising.

Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.

Demographics and Interests Reporting

We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to understand how well our site is performing

Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising initiative opt out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

 

CALIFORNIA ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT

ACCORDING TO CALOPPA I AGREE TO THE FOLLOWING:

Users can visit my site anonymously.

Once this privacy policy is visible via a link on my home page.

My Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can be easily be found at https://www.juliesolomon.net/privacy-policy/

Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes on this Privacy Policy Page

 

COPPA (CHILDREN ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT)

This site does not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13, please do not submit any Personal Data.