Who we are
At katiezinkxo.com, the privacy of our readers is very important to us. This page outlines the type of personal information that is received, collected and how we use it at katiezinkxo.com.
Cookies
Cookies are very small text files that are stored on your computer when you visit some websites. Cookies are used by most websites to tailor content and marketing messages to better suit your needs.
We use cookies on the website to track visitor behaviour. You can change the configuration of your browser to warn you of the use of cookies on a website, if you prefer not to allow them.
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To send you communications and promotional information (like newsletters, confirmation emails, technical notes or updates).
- To respond to your comments on posts.
- 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.
Affiliate Program
The website katiezinkxo.com may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done my embedding tracking links into the Website. For purposes of commissions, if you click on a link to an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on you browser to track any sales.
Katiezinkxo.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising links to Amazon.ca. As part of Amazon Associates program, the website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Newsletters
On the Website, you may subscribe to our newsletter. This may be used for advertising purposes as well as communication. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. This is embedded in the emails, allowing for an analysis of the marketing campaign. We may see if and when you open an email and if you click a link within the email. This also allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interest of the users. This behaviour will not be passed onto third parties.
Rights Related To Your Personal Information
Opt-out: You may opt-out of any future email communications by following the unsubscribe link in our emails. Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record-keeping purposes or to complete transactions, or when required by law.
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.
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.
Third-party use of personal information
Information may be shared with third parties if you authorize us to share your information.
These are the third-party service providers we currently use:
Google Analytics- This service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
Flodesk – this service is used for deliver of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to Flodesk’s privacy policy for more information.
Spam Detection – Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
At this time these are the only third party service providers.
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.
Disclosure Policy
Katiezinkxo.com is a personal blog. I accept forms of payment through advertising, sponsorships, affiliate links and the sales of digital products. Any content that is is paid or sponsored on the blog will be clearly identified as paid or sponsored content.
The blog my be compensated to provide opinions on products, services and other topics. I will always provide my honest opinion and experiences of products and services. All view and opinions expressed are my own. Any opinion of a product or service is that of my own, and any other statistic, quote or representation of a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.
