Disclosure and Privacy Policy
This policy has been updated and is valid from 01 May 2018.
This blog is a personal blog written and edited by me. For questions about this blog, please contact [email protected].
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions or other forms of compensation.
This blog abides by word of mouth marketing standards. We believe in honesty of relationship, opinion and identity. The compensation received may influence the advertising content, topics or posts made in this blog. That content, advertising space or post will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The owner(s) of this blog is not compensated to provide opinion on products, services, websites and various other topics. The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely the blog owners. If we claim or appear to be experts on a certain topic or product or service area, we will only endorse products or services that we believe, based on our expertise, are worthy of such endorsement. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer or provider.
This blog does not contain any content which might present a conflict of interest.
Working Mommy Journal Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit www.workingmommyjournal.ca (the “Site”). This Privacy Policy applies to information we collect when you use “Services”, or when you otherwise interact with us. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you be revising the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy and in some cases we may provide you with additional notice (such as by adding a statement to our website or by sending out a notification). We encourage you to review our Privacy Policy whenever you access our website to stay informed about our information practices and the ways you can help protect your privacy.
PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT
When you visit the Site, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, device used to access the website (mobile versus desktop) and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the Site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the Site, and information about how you interact with the Site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
We collect Device Information using the following technologies:
– “Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
– “Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
– “Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
– Rafflecopter giveaways that collects IP address, email and name provided.
Additionally when you sign up for email subscription or enter a giveaway on Rafflecopter through the Site, we collect certain information from you, including your name and email address. We refer to this information as email subscription.
When we talk about “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information, Rafflecopter giveaways and email subscription.
HOW DO WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?
We use this Information to: communicate with you, screen contests for fraud, analyze our content and provide you with information.
We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).
We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the Site–you can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Finally, we may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.
Working Mommy Journal is based in Canada and the information we collect is governed by Canadian Law. By accessing our website, you consent to processing and transfer of information in Canada.
SHARING OF INFORMATION
We may share information about you as follows or as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy:
- With consultants and other service providers who need access to carry out work or perform services on our behalf.
- When you participate in the interactive areas of the website, certain information you provide may be displayed to other users, such as your name, photo and comment.
- With your consent or at your direction.
ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS SERVICES PROVIDED BY OTHERS
We may allow others to serve advertisements on our behalf across the Internet and to provide analytics services. These entities may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the services and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information. This information may be used by the Company to among other things, analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, deliver advertising and content targeted to your interests on our website and other websites. For more information about interest based ads or to opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioural advertising purposes by companies that participate in Digital Advertising Alliance, please visit www.aboutads.info/choices
YOUR RIGHTS
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you. Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
DATA RETENTION
When you subscribe to our email, we will maintain your email for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information. If you want to unsubscribe from email, either use the link contained in the email or email us at [email protected].
CHANGES
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
CONTACT US
For more information about our privacy practices or if you have questions, please contact us by e-mail at [email protected]
COOKIE POLICY: Updated May 16th, 2018
We use cookies on our site (www.workingmommyjournal.ca) for a number of purposes. They help us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site you are agreeing to our use of cookies.
We use the following cookies:
Analytical/performance cookies: They allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users find what they are looking for easily.
Targeting cookies: These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
Google Analytics: We use Google Analytics to collect date about website usage. This data does not include personally identifiable information. You can view the Google Privacy policy here: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy
Askimet: We use Askimet to block spam comments. It is a plug in that blocks suspicious comments (including suspicious IP addresses) so that we do not have to spend huge chunks of time deleting spam comments. You can view their terms of service here: https://akismet.com/tos/.
CommentLuv: We use CommentLuv to give blog commenters the option to include a link to one of their recent blog posts with their comment. This data improves the users experience. You can opt out of using CommentLuv when posting your comments. For more information on this privacy policy contact the developer here: https://wordpress.org/plugins/commentluv/
You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.
