Privacy Policy

Who we are

Our website address is: https://simplestateofmine.com, which will be referenced as the “Site” hereafter.

The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform the users of this website what personal information is collected and how it is used. We take privacy very seriously and respect the privacy of our users.

Collecting and Sharing Personal Data

Cookies

“Cookies” are data files place on your device when visiting a site. To learn about  Cookies, you can visit the following link:

www.allaboutcookies.org

Contact forms

In our contact forms, we collect first names and email addresses. We use Constant Contact for this feature, and their privacy policy can be found via the following link:

www.endurance.com/privacy/privacy

Comments

When leaving a comment on the Site, we collect data shown in the comments form, and may also collect addition information such as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

We also use Gravatar.  If you use Gravatar and after the approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in relation to your comment. The Gravatar privacy policy can be found below:

www.automattic.com/privacy

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract any location data from images 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 may behave 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

We use Google Analytics to collect information. Below is the link to the Google privacy

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Affiliates

We use affiliate links on the Site. These links allow tracking of clicks. If a purchase is made through clicking an affiliate link, we earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Privacy policies for affiliate links used on the Site are listed below. This list will be updated as needed.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/

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.

Your rights over your data

If you have left comments or subscribed to our email list, you can 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 reasons.

We do not sell our email list to any third parties.

Additional Items

Minors

This Site is not intended for anyone who is under the age of 16.

Changes to this policy

We maintain the right to change this policy at any time. The date of the last update will be documented at the end of this policy.

Contact us

If you would like more information regarding our Privacy Policy or ask any questions, please contact me at lindsaynicole@simplestateofmine.

Last Updated: February 24, 2019