Who we are
Our website address is: http://confessionsofasahmsite.com. Confessions of a SAHM Site is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletters, and those providing contact information. In addition, Confessions of a SAHM Site is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam. Please read the following Privacy and Spam Policy to understand how your personal information is treated. From time to time, we may offer new information or services that may affect this policy. If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy and Spam Policy, please send an e-mail to confessions@confessionsofasahmsite.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. Also, certain information may be publicly visible.
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.
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.
Confessions of a SAHM Site 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; or customize our 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 herein.
At any time, you may 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 Confessions of a SAHM Site may be entirely usable.
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.
Confessions of a SAHM Site contains links to other sites. Please be aware that Confessions of a SAHM Site is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site to read the privacy and spam policies of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy and Spam Policy applies solely to information collected by Confessions of a SAHM Site.
How your personal information may be used
Confessions of a SAHM Site may use your personal information in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the website;
- To create your account, identify you as a user of the website, and customize the website to your account;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each e-mail newsletter will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings by unsubscribing;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To track and measure website performance;
- To review and analyze other general demographic trends;
- To notify you of new information or services that may be of interest to you; or,
- To send promotional materials.
Does Confessions of a SAHM Site share my information?
Confessions of a SAHM Site will not share, rent, or sell your personally identifiable information with third-parties. We may, however, share your information with third-parties when we are authorized to share such information.
Additionally, Confessions of a SAHM Site may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policy. Confessions of a SAHM Site currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Tracking:Confessions of a SAHM Site uses various marketing tools that help us create a better user experience for people visiting our site. These tools allow us to look at aggregated data such as scrolling patterns, clicks, and allow us to run tests to determine which pages result in the best actions. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any of these tools. We use the following third-party service providers for tracking:
Google Analytics: Privacy Policy
Newsletters:Confessions of a SAHM Site uses MailerLite as its e-mail service provider. MailerLite collects contact information, distributes our newsletter, and tracks actions you take that assist us in measuring the performance of the website and newsletters. Upon subscription, MailerLite also tracks the pages you visit on the website.
Our newsletters contain tracking pixels. This pixel is embedded in e-mails and allows us an analysis of the success of our newsletters. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an e-mail and which links within the e-mail you click. This behavior is not passed to third-parties. All data submitted at the time of subscription to our newsletter is stored on MailerLite’s servers. You may access Mailchimp’s privacy policy here. At any time, you may be removed from our newsletter list by clicking on the unsubscribe button provided in each e-mail.
We may also rely on a third-party service, PopupAlly, to service certain pop-up subscription boxes. Any information collected by PopupAlly is passed through directly to Mailchimp and is not stored by any party other than MailerLite.
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
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Your contact information
If you wish to contact us, feel free to email us at confessions@confessionsofasahmsite.com.
How we protect your data
We have security measures such as two-factor authentication in case you opt-in to our newsletter which is a form filled out and data inputted into MailerLite. Their privacy policies can be found here.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in Confessions of a SAHM Site’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your e-mail address(es) or other personal information without your consent.
Privacy Policy Changes
If we change our Privacy and Spam Policy, we will post those changes on our privacy page at http://confessionsofasahmsite.com/privacy-policy/.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Confessions of a SAHM Site may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Confessions of a SAHM Site’s sole discretion. Confessions of a SAHM Site encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Rights related to your personal data
Opt-out: You may opt-out of future e-mail communications by following the unsubscribe links in our e-mails. You may also notify us at confess@confessionsofasahmsite.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Access: You may access the personal information we have about you by submitting a request to confess@confessionsofasahmsite.com
Amend: You may contact us at confess@confessionsofasahmsite.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget: In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to confess@confessionsofasahmsite.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 Confessions of a SAHM Site. 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 and Spam Policy.
Children’s Information
Confessions of a SAHM Site does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that Confessions of a SAHM Site has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at confess@confessionsofasahmsite.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Spam Policy
Confessions of a SAHM Site is strongly opposed to spam. We will only send e-mail to users that have explicitly requested to receive an e-mail from Confessions of a SAHM Site. Examples may include:
- Opt-in subscribers to the Confessions of a SAHM Site Newsletter
- Users that complete a contact form
- All communication will be related and relevant to what you have requested
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.
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).