Our website address is: https://www.cardmakingdigest.com.
We take privacy seriously. Our guiding principles regarding privacy are:
- We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
- We don’t share your personal information with anyone.
- No data is sold to other companies for any reason.
- We don’t store personal information on our server unless required for the on-going operation of our site.
It’s our policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our website. By using our site, you agree to be held to the details outlined here.
What We Collect and Why We Collect It
Our site will request an e-mail address and name for specific operations listed below:
- When you leave a comment, our site requires an e-mail address to be entered. Your name is optional but is stored if you enter it.
- When you contact us with a question, we need your e-mail address and name to send you a response.
- When you subscribe to blog updates, we need your e-mail address to send the blog updates. Your real name is optional.
- When you browse this site, we collect non-personally-identifying information. This includes browser type, language preference, referring site, the date and time of each visitor request, duration and similar information. You can not be identified from any of this information, even if you are browsing while leaving a comment.
What We Do with Data
When we request or store data, it’s done because it’s required for the site operation. Without the information, we would not be able to do your requested action (leaving a comment, asking a question, etc.).
Like most website operators, we collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Our purpose in collecting this non-personally-identifying data is to better understand how our visitors use our website. This helps us provide better content that is valuable to our visitors. Please note that we are able to see aggregated demographic information but we are not able to see the identifying information of any individuals unless they publicly share our content in some way.
None of our information, statistics or browsing data is ever sold or traded to other companies or individuals. We are required to send some information to third parties to complete required services. See below.
Where It’s Stored
Most of your information is stored on our systems with our hosting provider, Globat. Globat does not access any of your information. This is only available to the website administrator, Rosalinda Jalifi. This includes site comments, site account information, stored favorites and contact questions you submit.
Comments are sent to Akismet to check for spam, and they may or may not store this information. Please contact Akismet if you want more information.
Analytics tracking data is stored at Google as described in this document.
When you subscribe to receive blog updates via e-mail, your e-mail address and are sent to MailChimp. MailChimp will store this information to send you the requested updates. They will note use your e-mail and name for any other purpose.
Cookies
A cookie is information that a website stores on your computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. This is how all websites keep track of things as you move from page to page on our site. We use cookies for these reasons and we consider them to be required for proper operation of this site.
Like all websites, we take advantage of Google Analytics. This is used to see how people use the site and which pages they view. The cookies will correlate all of the information and store it with Google. But all of the cookie information and IP addresses are anonymized, and can not be used to identify you, even when leaving a comment.
Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website.
Third Party Services Used
When you request blog updates to be e-mailed to you, this is handled by a third-party service called MailChimp. They will store your name and e-mail in order to send you the email update.
Analytics data is stored with Google but does not contain any information that will allow them, or us, to identify you. This includes e-mail addresses, names and IP addresses.
Comments and other content submitted to Akismet anti-spam service are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.
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 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Sharing
We do not share any data with any ad or information networks. We only provide the minimum data to the services listed in the previous section that are needed for them to provide us with the requested functionality.
Privacy Policy Changes
From time to time we may update this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to do so when we see fit. Please check periodically to make sure you know our current policies. By using our website and services, you’re agreeing to the policies outlined on this page.
How to Contact Us
If you would like to contact us with any questions, please do so from Contact Me. If you want a copy of your information or request to be forgotten according to your local law, also do so from the contact form at Contact Me. Note that if you request to be forgotten, most information will be removed. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes.