This Privacy Policy describes how your personal information is collected, used, and shared when you visit A Troubled Gut website. When discussing “Personal Information” in this Privacy Policy, we are talking both about Device Information and Personal Information.
Your information can be collected in the following ways.
When you browse A Troubled Gut Website.
A number of tools are used to see how you interact with A Troubled Gut website. This data is used to improve the site so that you are able to find relevant information faster. Your visits are tracked through Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses your IP address to see what pages you browse and for how long. Google Analytics helps us understand how our customers use website. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
You can also opt-out of Google Analytics at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
When you fill out a web form to Subscribe to the Mailing List.
When browsing A Troubled Gut website, you may fill-out the Constant Contact web form that may ask for your name and email address. The information you provide is used to contact you to share recent blog posts and keep you informed on any updates to the website. At any time, you are able to ask that your data be deleted, or you may unsubscribe using the link at the bottom of any email sent to you.
Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies
When you visit the website, certain information is automatically collected about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. As you browse, information is collected about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the website and information about how you interact with the website. We refer to this automatically-collected information as “Device Information.”
Device Information is collected using the following technologies:
“Cookies” are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
“Log files” track actions occurring on the Site, and collect data including your IP address, browser type, Internet service provider, referring/exit pages, and date/time stamps.
“Web beacons,” “tags,” and “pixels” are electronic files used to record information about how you browse the Site.
Google Analytics code is used to collect data.
We use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.
For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page at http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.
You can opt out of targeted advertising by:
FACEBOOK – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
GOOGLE – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
BING – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/enus/resources/policies/personalized-ads
Additionally, you can opt out of some of these services by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal at: http://optout.aboutads.info/.
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.
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.
What rights do 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.
I do not intentionally target the European Union. If you are a European resident, you have the right to access personal information held about you and to ask that your personal information be corrected, updated, or deleted. Please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.
If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact information below.
Minors
The Site is not intended for individuals under the age of 13.
Changes
We may update this privacy policy from time to time in order to reflect, for example, changes to our practices or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons.
Additional Information we want you to know:
I have never and will never sell our email list.
We also have affiliate links on our site. These links allow tracking of clicks on certain links and if you purchase something using these links we earn a commission at no cost to you. I have listed these companies below.
Links to privacy policies:
Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Gravatar: https://automattic.com/privacy/
Facebook: https://facebook.com/about/privacyshield
Constant Contact: https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/privacy-statement
Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/
Contact Information
Please contact me if you have any questions about the privacy policy by email at isabella@atroubledgut.com or by mail using the details provided below:
PO Box 37009 Lonsdale PO, North Vancouver, BC, V7M 4M4, Canada
