Who we are
Our website address is: https://onceuponawheat.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We minimize as much data collection as possible, but some is necessary to run our site and business, effectively, and in working with 3rd party service providers and entities. I value your privacy, as well as my own, and I appreciate you and am honored that you are at my site reading. I’m not going to enact overreaching practices that I feel would betray your trust in use of this site.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, data is collected- such as 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 (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 context with 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 location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
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 last for one year, or until you clear them from your browsing history.
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.
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. Cookies may also be used to help determine the items you click through to better determine your interests and advertise or market to you accordingly.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We use email providers, but do NOT share or sell our email lists. If you are under 18, you may only use our site with parental involvement; we do not seek to collect information from minors. Any information that goes to third parties, such as Google Analytics- how you found us, etc…, Facebook- when you Share our content, etc… is collected based on contact with/ through them and their own privacy policies.
Occasionally, we may have sponsored or affiliate content on our site. The companies that advertise on our site will often have their own tracking code in the sponsored posts. We also have affiliate links on our site. These links allow tracking of clicks onto their specific links and if you purchase through the links.
We also work with third party service providers to maintain this site, its look and function (such as anti-spam software, security, & email subscribe list), and our service offerings. They have access to personal information necessary to perform their functions, but may not use it for other purposes.
Some of these companies include, with links to their privacy policies:
Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Gravatar: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Facebook: https://facebook.com/about/privacyshield/
Getresponse: https://www.getresponse.com/legal/privacy-us
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?ie=UTF8&nodeId=468496&ref_=footer_privacy
Instagram- https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
Pinterest- https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
Jetpack- https://automattic.com/privacy/
Akismet- https://akismet.com/privacy/
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. 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. Email subscribers data is kept while you remain subscribed, but can be unsubscribed on any email by the link at the bottom of every email to withdraw consent.
What rights you have over your data
If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us/ Terri Wheat at twheat@onceuponawheat.com. This does not include any data we are obligated to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments will be checked through an automated spam detection service. Contact form information will be serviced through a third party provider and the message forwarded to us. Subscribers to our newsletter are sent emails through a third party provider.
How we protect your data
- We do everything we can to protect your information. We work to protect the security of it and our site by using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software, which encrypts information you input.
We may update this privacy policy periodically to reflect changes/ updates to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory compliance.