Privacy Policy

I strongly believe in keeping your personal information confidential. See my privacy policy for more information:

My website address is: https://thisismyhappiness.com.

Personal data that’s collected and why it’s collected:

This Is My Happiness collects as little information as possible from readers.

Comments

The website asks for your name (either real or alias) and e-mail address to post a comment, but your email address is not used for anything besides posting the comment. No personal information about you is collected in the process.

When visitors leave comments on this website, the data that’s shown in the comments form is collected; also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string are collected to help with spam detection.

Some visitors who leave comments will also have a picture. That’s because 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.

Ads

 

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

• IP Address
• Operating System type
• Operating System version
• Device Type
• Language of the website
• Web browser type
• Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

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 do this, when you log in to this site, a temporary cookie is set 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 to leave a comment, cookies are also set up to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen option 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.

With whom information is shared:

None of your information is shared with companies. Your email address may be used to contact you if you enter a giveaway on the site. Your name and website (if you have one) may be displayed on the site if you post a comment. However, your e-mail address and privacy will always be kept secure.

Opting out:

If you choose to sign up for my newsletter, you will receive a copy of the newsletter periodically, about twice per year. However, at the bottom of every newsletter is an easy way to opt-out. I will never sign you up for a newsletter without your explicit consent.

Third party advertising:

The site allows third-party companies to serve ads, which means that they may collect certain anonymous information when you visit this website. Like other websites, these companies may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked) during your visits to this and other sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

Affiliate Links:

This site contains affiliate links, which means that I have linked to products that I personally recommend and may earn a small commission on affiliated websites at no additional cost to you. Blog posts that include affiliate links are always flagged for your information with a disclosure statement at the top of the post.

How your data is retained

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so that any follow-up comments can be recognized and approved automatically instead of being held in a moderation queue for approval.

For users who choose to register on this website, the personal information they provide in their user profile is held. 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. This information is not used for any other purpose.

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 that is held about you, including any data you have provided. You can also request that any personal data be erased. Contact me at jenna@thisismyhappiness.com for such requests. This does not include any data that may be necessary to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent:

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. The purpose of this is to reduce spam comments on this website.