Last updated: March 19, 2023
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular, plural, capitalized, or uncapitalized.
For the purposes of this privacy policy:
“Company” (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Privacy Policy) refers to Mothering Out Loud LLC.
“Cookies” means small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
“Website” refers to Mothering Out Loud, accessible from motheringoutloud.com
“You” means the individual accessing or using the Website, or a company, or any legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.
Mothering Out Loud LLC (“the company”, “us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the motheringoutloud.com website (the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of Personal Information when you use our Service. We will not use or share your information with anyone except as described in this Privacy Policy. We use your Personal Information for providing and improving the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.
Data Collection
Like most website operators, Mothering Out Loud LLC collects 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. Mothering Out Loud’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Mothering Out Loud’s visitors use its website.
Mothering Out Loud LLC also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged-in users and for users leaving comments on its blog. Mothering Out Loud LLC only discloses logged-in user and commenter IP addresses, under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) may include, but is not limited to:
- Name
- Email address
- IP Address
Certain visitors to Mothering Out Loud LLC website choose to interact with Mothering Out Loud in ways that require Mothering Out Loud LLC to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Mothering Out Loud LLC gathers depend on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a name and email address. For those who wish to receive Mothering Out Loud LLC updates via email, we collect their emails.
In each case, Mothering Out Loud LLC collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Mothering Out Loud LLC. Visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Newsletters & Emails
If you have subscribed to our newsletter, there is a good chance you will receive emails from us.
We will only send you emails that you have signed up to receive, or which pertain to the services we provided to you.
To send you emails, we use the name and email address you provide us. Our site also logs the IP address you used when you signed up for the service to prevent abuse of the system.
This website can send emails through the MailPoet Sending Service. This service allows us to track opens and clicks on our emails. We use this information to improve the content of our newsletters.
No identifiable information is otherwise tracked outside this website except for the email address.
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information. When you visit our websites, we collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on your personal computer or mobile device when you go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide you with services available through the Website and to enable you to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that you have asked for cannot be provided, and we only use these Cookies to provide you with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices you make when you use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide you with a more personal experience and to avoid you having to re-enter your preferences every time you use the Website.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new advertisements, pages, features, or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to them.
Mothering Out Loud LLC uses cookies to help Mothering Out Loud identify and track visitors, their usage of Mothering Out Loud LLC website, and their website access preferences. For Mothering Out Loud LLC visitors who prefer to avoid the use of Cookies on the Website, first You must disable the use of Cookies in your browser and then delete the Cookies saved in your browser associated with this website. You may use this option for preventing the use of Cookies at any time.
If You do not accept Our Cookies, You may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Website and some features may not function properly. Please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service and certain features of Mothering Out Loud LLC website may not function properly and to the fullest extent possible.
If You’d like to delete Cookies or instruct your web browser to delete or refuse Cookies, please visit the help pages of your web browser.
For the Chrome web browser, please visit this page from Google: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/32050
For the Internet Explorer web browser, please visit this page from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/278835
For the Firefox web browser, please visit this page from Mozilla: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove–info-websites-stored
For the Safari web browser, please visit this page from Apple: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac For any other web browser, please visit your web browser’s official web pages.
Service Providers
We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Aggregated Statistics
Mothering Out Loud LLC collects statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. We collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service (“Log Data”). This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, and other statistics.
Analytics
We employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service, to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services, to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used, and for marketing purposes. These third parties have access to your Personal Information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Google Analytics has been integrated into motheringoutloud.com. Google Analytics stores cookies to gather, analyze, and collect usage data, behavior of visitors, location, and demographics. Google may transfer any personal information collected, via cookies, to third parties. You may prevent the collection and processing of your data by installing the “Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-On” at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
Further information about the regulations of Google Analytics can be found at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/ and https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en-GB&gl=uk.
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 with spam detection.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. 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.
If you leave a comment on our website, 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.
Media
Mothering Out Loud uses buttons and other components on our website to provide our users with access to various social media, including but not limited to: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Pinterest. These components allow social media platforms the ability to collect and match the data of your visit, on our website, to your respective social media account and merge the data.
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.
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service.
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.
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.
Security
The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Links To Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
Compliance With Laws
We will disclose your Personal Information where required to do so by law or subpoena.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time and at the sole discretion of Mothering Out Loud LLC. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of this site, after any change in this Privacy Policy, will constitute your acceptance of and consent to such change.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
By visiting this page on our website: click here
By sending us an email: inez@motheringoutloud.com
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