Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy governs the manner in which our website https://mishapalmer.com/ collects, uses, maintains, and discloses information collected from users (referred to as “you” or “your”) of our website, hosted on WordPress. This Privacy Policy applies to the website and all products and services offered by us.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect personal identification information from users in various ways, including, but not limited to, when users visit our website, subscribe to our newsletter, fill out a form, or interact with other activities, services, features, or resources we make available on our website. Users may be asked for their name, email address, and other relevant information as appropriate.
2. Media
Any uploaded media files on our website may contain embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors to the blog can download and extract any location data from media files on the blog.
3. Cookies
Our website may use cookies to enhance user experience. Your web browser places cookies on your hard drive for record-keeping purposes and sometimes to track information about you. You may choose to set your web browser to refuse cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do so, note that some parts of the website may not function properly.
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
Twitter (X)
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We use Pinterest Save widget at our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
4. Comments
When visitors leave comments on our website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and the 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://en.gravatar.com/support/data-privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
5. Use of Collected Information
We collect and use personal information for the following purposes:
- To improve our website: We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the feedback we receive from you.
- To personalize user experience: We may use information to understand how our users, as a group, use the services and resources provided on our blog.
- To send periodic emails: We may use the email address to send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions.
6. Protection of Information
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 website.
7. Sharing Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or rent users’ personal identification information to others. We may share generic aggregated demographic information not linked to any personal identification information regarding visitors and users with our business partners, trusted affiliates, and advertisers for the purposes outlined above.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
9. Your Rights 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.
10. Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
11. Third-Party Websites
Users may find advertising or other content on our blog that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, and other third parties. We do not control the content or links that appear on these sites and are not responsible for the practices employed by websites linked to or from our website. In addition, these sites or services, including their content and links, may be constantly changing. These sites and services may have their own privacy policies and customer service policies. Browsing and interaction on any other website, including websites that have a link to our blog, is subject to that website’s own terms and policies.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We have the discretion to update this Privacy Policy at any time. When we do, we will revise the updated date at the bottom of this page. We encourage users to frequently check this page for any changes to stay informed about how we are helping to protect the personal information we collect. You acknowledge and agree that it is your responsibility to review this Privacy Policy periodically and become aware of modifications.
13. Your Acceptance of these Terms
By using our website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our website. Your continued use of our website following the posting of changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed your acceptance of those changes.
14. Contacting Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of our website, or your dealings with our blog, please contact us at hello@mishapalmer.com
This Privacy Policy was last updated on 18/05/2023.