Our website address is https://centsandfamily.com.
Affiliate Disclaimer
If you purchase an item or service via a link posted on this site, please refer to the merchant’s privacy and data collection practices that are likely different from the ones on this site.
Some pages on this site allow you to purchase products and services provided by other merchants (not us). Some of the links that are posted on the site are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we will receive an affiliate commission.
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What personal data we collect and why we collect it
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
When visitors contact us through the contact form on the site we collect the data shown in the contact form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
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
Cents and Family may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. We do not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
The following links are accurate as of July 17, 2019, and may change in the future.
Google Analytics Provides an option to opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Google Analytics Privacy Policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en-CA
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 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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Our website servers are hosted by Bluehost in the US and we share data, only as necessary, with the following entities:
Bluehost, privacy policy: https://www.endurance.com/privacy/privacy
Google Analytics, privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Additional information
How we protect your data
We take precautions to protect your information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment. If you are a registered user or subscriber of the Cents and Family website and have supplied your email address, Cents and Family may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new posts, get your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Cents and Family.
If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users.
Cents and Family take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
What data breach procedures we have in place
We have regular reports from our security applications to alert of any potential data or otherwise breach to our website.
What third parties we receive data from
If you use any of the social media sharing/liking buttons, your profile photo and name may be shared with us to let us know that you enjoy our website, posts or articles, we do not store this data on our servers and comes directly from the social sharing websites.
You may contact us at minda@centsandfamily.com with any privacy-specific concerns.