Disclosure and Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://www.thissimplemama.com//. This Simple Mama is a personal blog written and edited by Amanda Perkins. This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.   The compensation received will never influence the content, topics or posts made in this blog. All advertising is in the form of advertisements generated by a third party ad network. Those advertisements will be identified as paid advertisements. Please note that This Simple Mama has financial relationships with some of the merchants mentioned here. We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Therefore, some posts include links to sponsors or affiliates. Using links to these sites means I may earn a percentage of the purchase at no extra cost to you. You are not obligated to use these links when you make a purchase. All affiliate links will be clearly labeled as such. No personal information is collected from such instances. Even though the owner of this blog may receive compensation for certain 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.

Privacy Policy

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

We keep information obtained from contact form submissions until notified by you for newsletter distribution and post updates, but we do not use the information submitted for marketing purposes.

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 website uses Google Analytics to obtain information in order to provide better services to users. The full Google Analytics Privacy Policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. All information collected is always treated as personal information.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your personal information such as name, email, and other disclosed information with outside sources. Google Analytics will however collect anonymous information for the purpose of bettering their services and providing us with statistical information. A link to a full copy of their privacy can be found below under “Analytics”.

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 have any privacy concerns, you may contact us via email through the contact form on our web page. www.thissimplemama.com

Additional information

How we protect your data

We adopt appropriate data collection, storage and processing practices and security measures to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure or destruction of your personal information, username, password, transaction information and data stored on our Site.

What third parties we receive data from

We receive data from connected social media sites such as number of shares to websites like Facebook, Instagram and Pinterest and comments on said sites. Also, we collect statistical information on our website from Google Analytics for which a full privacy policy link is listed above under “Analytics”. We do not collect third party data outside of these sources.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not perform any automated decision making and/or profiling with user data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

We are not members of a regulatory industry.

Your acceptance of these terms

By using this Site, you signify your acceptance of this policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our Site. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of changes to this policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.

This policy is valid from August 1, 2018 to present.