Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Who We Are

This privacy policy outlines the way any data is collected and used at https://girlinthepages.com (“Site”). The site owner is Cristina and can be reached at girlinthepages(at)gmail(dot)com.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, https://girlinthepages.com 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. https://girlinthepages.com also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to https://girlinthepages.com choose to interact with our site in ways that require us to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that we gather depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive blog posts via email, we collect their emails. In each case, we collect such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with us. We does not disclose personally-identifying information other than for the function of  https://girlinthepages.com described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities. We do not sell, trade, or rent Users personal identification information to others.

Comments

When you leave a comment on this site, your name, email, IP address, and browser user agent string to help spam detection. will be collected and stored within WordPress(.org). Only your name will be publicly displayed. Your email and IP address will not be shared publicly.  This information from your comment will be stored indefinitely. Comment information and date may also be shared to Akismet anti-spam service. If you wish to have a comment removed, please contact us at girlinthepages(at)gmail(dot)com.

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.

If you click to receive notifications of follow up comments or reply notification, then your e-mail will be stored and you’ll receive an e-mail when there is a response to your comment or when someone comments on that post. At the time of commenting, you may also click to receive notification of new posts by email. If you do so, your email will be stored within WordPress(.org) and shared with Automattic (creators of Jetpack) only to send you emails of new posts. Your email will not be used for other purpose. You may chose to unsubscribe to these emails at any time via the “unsubscribe” button in the emails.

Comment Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: In order to process a comment like, the following information is used: WordPress.com user ID/username (you must be logged in to use this feature), the local site-specific user ID (if the user is signed in to the site on which the like occurred), and a true/false data point that tells us if the user liked a specific comment. If you perform a like action from one of our mobile apps, some additional information is used to track the activity: IP address, user agent, timestamp of event, blog ID, browser language, country code, and device info.

Activity Tracked: Comment likes.

Gravatar Hovercards

Data Used: This feature will send a hash of the user’s email address (if logged in to the site or WordPress.com — or if they submitted a comment on the site using their email address that is attached to an active Gravatar profile) to the Gravatar service (also owned by Automattic) in order to retrieve their profile image.

Likes

This feature is only accessible to users logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: In order to process a post like action, the following information is used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID (on which the post was liked), post ID (of the post that was liked), user agent, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: Post likes.

Notifications

This feature is only accessible to registered users of the site who are logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Some visitor-related information or activity may be sent to the site owner via this feature. This may include: email address, WordPress.com username, site URL, email address, comment content, follow actions, etc.

Activity Tracked: Sending notifications (i.e. when we send a notification to a particular user), opening notifications (i.e. when a user opens a notification that they receive), performing an action from within the notification panel (e.g. liking a comment or marking a comment as spam), and clicking on any link from within the notification panel/interface.

Search

This feature is only available to sites on the Professional plan.

Data Used: Any of the visitor-chosen search filters and query data in order to process a search request on the WordPress.com servers.

Sharing

Data Used: When sharing content via email (this option is only available if Akismet is active on the site), the following information is used: sharing party’s name and email address (if the user is logged in, this information will be pulled directly from their account), IP address (for spam checking), user agent (for spam checking), and email body/content. This content will be sent to Akismet (also owned by Automattic) so that a spam check can be performed. Additionally, if reCAPTCHA (by Google) is enabled by the site owner, the sharing party’s IP address will be shared with that service. You can find Google’s privacy policy here.

Subscriptions

Data Used: To initiate and process subscriptions, the following information is used: subscriber’s email address and the ID of the post or comment (depending on the specific subscription being processed). In the event of a new subscription being initiated, we also collect some basic server data, including all of the subscribing user’s HTTP request headers, the IP address from which the subscribing user is viewing the page, and the URI which was given in order to access the page (REQUEST_URI and DOCUMENT_URI). This server data used for the exclusive purpose of monitoring and preventing abuse and spam.

Activity Tracked: Functionality cookies are set for a duration of 347 days to remember a visitor’s blog and post subscription choices if, in fact, they have an active subscription.

WordPress.com Toolbar

This feature is only accessible to registered users of the site who are also logged in to WordPress.com.

Data Used: Gravatar image URL of the logged-in user in order to display it in the toolbar and the WordPress.com user ID of the logged-in user. Additionally, for activity tracking (detailed below): IP address, WordPress.com user ID, WordPress.com username, WordPress.com-connected site ID and URL, Jetpack version, user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code.

Activity Tracked: Click actions within the toolbar.

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.

Blog Subscription

If you input your email to subscribe to this site and receive notifications of new posts, your email will be stored within WordPress(.org) and shared Automattic (creators of Jetpack) only to send you emails of new posts. Your email will not be used for other purpose. You may chose to unsubscribe to these emails at any time via the “unsubscribe” button in the emails.

Giveaways

If you enter a giveaway on this website, your information will be used to verify your entries and to mail your prize if you win. Your information may be shared with any third parties (such as publishers) who are partnering with girlinthepages.com for the giveaway. Your information will also be shared with Rafflecopter.com if they are the platform the giveaway is run through.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. This site uses cookies to help identify and track visitors, their usage of this website, and their website access preferences, and to fill out some forms automatically. Users who not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using https://girlinthepages.com, with the drawback that certain features of https://girlinthepages.com may not function properly without the aid of 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.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

The Site https://girlinthepages.com uses the Jetpack plugin created by Automattic to track some statistics. Statistics collected include page views, post views, total amount of visitors, etc.

WordPress.com Stats

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.). The site owner has the ability to force this feature to honor DNT settings of visitors. By default, DNT is currently not honored.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics (GA) to analyze aggregated, anonymized website traffic. In order to track your time on this site, Google drops a cookie with a randomly generated ClientID in your browser, which contains non identifiable information like email, phone number, name, etc. We use Google Analytics to track aggregated website behavior, such as what pages you viewed, length of your viewing session so we can continue to improve our site and experience for visitors. If you would like access to what GA information we have/ask us to delete your GA data, please reach out to us at girlinthepages(at)gmail(dot)com.

Who We Share Your Data With

Your data is not shared unless necessary for the function of this site, analyzing statistics on traffic such as  mentioned above, or legal reasons. Only Cristina, site owner, has access to any data on this site. All Site information is stored in a database on my hosting provider.

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.

Where We Send Your Data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Disclosure
Any books or products received in exchange for review or promotion will be clearly disclosed in each individual post. These books or products are in exchange for an honest review and will not impact my opinion. All views and opinions expressed on https://girlinthepages.com are my own.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, https://girlinthepages.com may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and in the Site’s sole discretion. We encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to the Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Webmaster Contact Information

If you have any questions surrounding this Privacy Policy or this site or your use of this site, please contact the site owner, Cristina, at girlinthepages(at)gmail(dot)com. If you would like to request access to your personal information or would like to have it deleted, please contact Cristina at girlinthepages(at)gmail(dot)com.

By vising this Site (Girl in the Pages, https://girlinthepages.com) you are agreeing to the above privacy policy.

This policy was last updated on December 28th, 2019.