This privacy policy sets out how Things-I-Love uses and protects any information that you give while using www.things-i-love.blog Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://things-i-love.blog
What personal data we collect?
We collect information you provide directly to us. When registering on our site, you may be asked to enter your name, email address or other details
Why do we collect your personal data?
We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will also use your information as follows:
- Registration – A user may need to first complete a registration form in order to use the Site. During registration, a user is required to give certain information (such as name and email address). This information is used to contact you about the products/services on our Site in which you have expressed interest. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age) about yourself, but it is not required.
- Customer Service – Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about changes to our site or changes to this Policy.
- Help you with your experience.
- Provide, maintain, improve and promote our website
- Provide and deliver the information and services you request and send you related information
- Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages
- Respond to your comments, questions and requests,
- Communicate with and provide news and information we think will be of interest to you
- Monitor and analyze trends, usage and activities in connection with our website
- Carry out any other purpose for which the information was collected.
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
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 visit our login page, 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
We use one product to analyze activity on our site. We use Yoast SEO tracking technology to understand how users use www.things-i-love.blog so as to enhance the user experience on our Site. If you wish to opt-out of Yoast SEO please contact www.things-i-love.blog using our CONTACT FORM.
Who we share your data with?
We will not trade, rent, share or sell your Personal Information to third parties, unless you ask or authorize us to do so. Unless you ask or provide your consent to do so, we will not share your Personal Information with any third party outside of our organization, other than with our service providers. We may share aggregated demographic information with our partners and advertisers. This is not linked to any Personal Information that can identify any individual person. We will disclose Personal Information when we believe in good faith that such disclosures (a) are required by law, including, for example, to comply with a court order or subpoena, or (b) protect your safety or security, including the safety and security of property that belongs to you; and/or, protect the safety and security of our Site or third parties.
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.
Additional information
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us at joy@things-i-love.blog
What steps do we take to protect your data?
We take measures designed to protect your Personal Information in an effort to prevent loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. We provide physical, electronic, and procedural safeguards to protect Personal Information we process and maintain. Please be aware, however, that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse. To protect the confidentiality of Personal Information, you must keep your passwords confidential and not disclose them to any other person. You are responsible for all uses of the Site by any person using your password. Please advise us immediately if you believe your password has been misused.
What data breach procedures we have in place?
www.things-i-love.blog, is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.
Third Parties
Third-party disclosure www.things-i-love.blog offers you choices regarding the collection, use, and sharing of your Personal Information. If you receive promotional communications from us, you may indicate a preference to stop receiving further promotional communications from us and you will have the opportunity to “opt-out” by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in the promotional email you receive or by contacting us directly at the email address or phone number given on our Site. We do not charge for this service, and your opt-out request will be processed within 30 days of the date on which we receive it. You can do the following at any time by contacting us via the email address or phone number given on our Site:
- See what data we have about you, if any.
- Change/correct any data we have about you.
- Have us delete any data we have about you.
- Notify us if you do not want us to share your Personal Information for marketing and promotional purposes.
Third-party links Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on www.things-i-love.blog. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of www.things-i-love.blog, and welcome any feedback about these sites.
What automated decision making and/or profiling, we do with user data?
Whenever you use www.things-i-love.blog, we, as well as any of our third-party advertisers and/or service providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically collect information about how the Site is accessed and used (“Usage Information”). Usage Information may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, how many users visited the Site, and the website you visited immediately before the Site. This statistical data provides us with information about the use of the Site, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Site, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. Usage Information helps us to keep www.things-i-love.blog fresh and interesting to our visitors and to tailor content to a visitor’s interests. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if we associate it with you as a specific and identifiable person, we treat it as Personal Information.
Industry regulatory disclosure requirements
This Policy, the TERMS & CONDITIONS, and the privacy practices of www.things-i-love.blog will be subject exclusively to the laws of The Republic of Kenya. www.things-i-love.blog makes no representation that this Policy and our practices comply with the laws of any other country or jurisdiction. Users of the Site who reside outside Kenya do so on their own initiative and are responsible for compliance with local laws, if and to the extent local laws are applicable. If you reside outside Kenya, by using the Site, you consent to the transfer, processing and use of your information outside your country.