Can I be honest with you? When I hear words like “best practices” and “full disclosure,” I feel my inner eyelid close. It’s like a small piece of my soul breaks off and dies. I know I’m sounding overly dramatic, but UGHHHHH. The vocabulary used is weighty and obscure. There is no story line to fill in my imagination. No prose to add meaning to my life. Just an overly wordy explanation designed to keep everybody safe and secure and above board and all.
Okay. So maybe privacy and disclosure policies are a good thing. And I do appreciate it when websites tell me they’re going to value my privacy and not sell my information to the trolling hordes that lurk on the interweb. So, yes, I get the need for this bit of important information on my site. The problem is, my need to get everything correct before I start anything new means taking care of this detail has been the cause of significant procrastination. I want to understand what I’m putting on my website. I don’t just want to copy and paste a bunch of information that I don’t quite understand. Someday, when I have more than 5 people following my site, I’ll have a pro take a stab at all of this, but in the meantime, a pre-made form it will have to be.
So, before I copy and paste the legalese, let me just explain things to you in words that I can understand. Person to person. Friend to (hopefully) soon-to-be-friend.
- I value your privacy. I don’t like it when someone shares my info without my permission. If you choose to provide your name and email address to me for whatever reason, I promise that I will follow the golden rule, and will treat it the way I want my email to be treated. No sharing without your consent.
- I don’t like getting inundated with emails, unless they are emails that I’ve chosen to receive and add value to my life. Unless you want to hear from me, I promise not to interfere with your precious inbox. And if you are ever ready to move on, or just need to give your inbox some breathing room, I will be happy to oblige by unsubscribing you from my list (once I have one, that is).
- I don’t know what LOG files are. There’s something down below about log files and analytics and the way websites and hosting companies work. If you need to understand more, you can read about them below.
- I know a lot about cookies (these Oat-rageous Chocolate Chip ones are delicious), but not much about what to do with the ones that are stored about your preferences when you visit my site. Again, you can read what I need to tell you about that subject below.
- Double-click DART cookies and Advertising Partners? At present, I don’t understand, use or participate in these services, but I figured I’d better keep them on the list just in case. They must have included them in the template for a reason, so my worrisome self is choosing to cover my bases. And who knows? There may come a day that I’ll be needing some income so I can have this page done by that pro we talked about earlier. For now, I’m just looking for some connection and an exhale.
If you want to read the details on the above … and even more … keep reading. I commend your diligence and follow-through. Oh, and for even more fun, you can find my Disclosure Policy down below too!
PRIVACY POLICY
If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, please feel free to contact us by email at https://roomforgrace.com/contact/.
At www.roomforgrace.com we consider the privacy of our visitors to be extremely important. This privacy policy document describes in detail the types of personal information is collected and recorded by www.mywebsite.com and how we use it.
Log Files
Like many other Web sites, www.roomforgrace.com makes use of log files. These files merely logs visitors to the site – usually a standard procedure for hosting companies and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information inside the log files includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date/time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement around the site, and gather demographic information. IP addresses and other such information are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable.
Cookies and Web Beacons
www.roomforgrace.com uses cookies to store information about visitors’ preferences, to record user-specific information on which pages the site visitor accesses or visits, and to personalize or customize our web page content based upon visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends via their browser.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
→ Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on www.roomforgrace.com.
→ Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our site’s visitors based upon their visit to www.roomforgrace.com 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 at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Our Advertising Partners
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners include …….
- Amazon
- ShareASale
These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology in their respective advertisements and links that appear on www.roomforgrace.com and which are sent directly to your browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. Other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) may also be used by our site’s third-party ad networks to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on the site.
www.roomforgrace.com has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.
Third Party Privacy Policies
You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information on their practices as well as for instructions about how to opt-out of certain practices. www.roomforgrace.com’s privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.
If you wish to disable cookies, you may do so through your individual browser options. More detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers can be found at the browsers’ respective websites.
Children’s Information
I believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. I encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.
www.roomforgrace.com does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 13. If a parent or guardian believes that www.roomforgrace.com has in its database the personally-identifiable information of a child under the age of 13, please contact us immediately (using the contact in the first paragraph) and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This privacy policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website and regarding information shared and/or collected there.
This policy does not apply to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.
Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.
Disclosure Policy
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. This blog may accept forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion, and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner of this blog may be compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites, and various other topics. Even though the owner of this blog receives compensation for our posts or advertisements, we always give our honest opinions, findings, beliefs, or experiences on those topics or products. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the bloggers’ own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
This blog may contain content which might present a conflict of interest. This content will always be identified.