Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their ‘Personally identifiable information’ (PII) is being used online. PII, as used in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in accordance with our website.

 

What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog, website or app?
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your email address or other details to help you with your experience.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you register on our site or enter information on our site.

 

How do we use your information?

We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

      • To administer a contest, promotion, survey or other site feature.

 

How do we protect visitor information?
We do not use vulnerability scanning and/or scanning to PCI standards.

We use regular Malware Scanning.

We do not use an SSL certificate
      • We only provide articles and information, we never ask for personal or private information like email addresses, or credit card numbers.

 

Do we use ‘cookies’?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
We use cookies to:
      • Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
      • Keep track of advertisements.
      • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third party services that track this information on our behalf.
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser’s Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you disable cookies off, some features will be disabled It won’t affect the users experience that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly.

 

Third Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety. 

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

 

Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Viglinks
This site earns revenue using Viglinks. In the interests of disclosure and ethics, we want to be open about how we make money from our site. Besides display advertising and other paid sponsorships, we also sometimes get paid a commission if you purchase a product or service that we link to in our content. We want to be clear that our reviews are driven entirely by our editorial staff based on what we think. We use Viglinks to help us automate the process of linking to products, especially as it distances our editorial staff from creating affiliate links themselves.
Google

Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en 

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website.
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
We have implemented the following:
      • Remarketing with Google AdSense
We along with third-party vendors, such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions, and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.
Opting out:
Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page. Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising initiative opt out page or permanently using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

 

California Online Privacy Protection Act
CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require a person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting personally identifiable information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals with whom it is being shared, and to comply with this policy. – See more at: http://consumercal.org/california-online-privacy-protection-act-caloppa/#sthash.0FdRbT51.dpuf
According to CalOPPA we agree to the following:
Users can visit our site anonymously
Once this privacy policy is created, we will add a link to it on our home page, or as a minimum on the first significant page after entering our website.
Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’, and can be easily be found on the page specified above.
Users will be notified of any privacy policy changes:
      • On our Privacy Policy Page
Users are able to change their personal information:
      • By logging in to their account
How does our site handle do not track signals?
We honor do not track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Does our site allow third party behavioral tracking?
It’s also important to note that we allow third party behavioral tracking

 

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act)

When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under 13, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, the nation’s consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.

We do not specifically market to children under 13.

 

Fair Information Practices

The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.

In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify the users via email
      • Within 7 business days
We will notify the users via in site notification
      • Within 7 business days
We also agree to the individual redress principle, which requires that individuals have a right to pursue legally enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or a government agency to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.

 

CAN SPAM Act

The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.

We collect your email address in order to:
To be accordance with CANSPAM we agree to the following:

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.

FORUM PRIVACY POLICY for Thehomesteadingboards.com

All references to thehomesteadingboards.com in this Privacy Policy are deemed to encompass all websites and sub-domains operated by the thehomesteadingboards.com.

At thehomesteadingboards.com we are committed to safeguarding and preserving the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy explains what happens to any personal data that you provide to us, or that we collect from you while you visit our site.

Information We Collect

Registration and membership at thehomesteadingboards.com is optional. For those visitors who sign up to become members of our forum and other restricted pages, we require them to supply an email address. All other information that a member may choose to supply via the support forum profile form is optionally given.

Users may, from time to time, divulge to us further personal data items. Such data is voluntarily given. If posted on a forum topic users must be aware that this data may be viewable and available to other users of the forums. If sent as a Private Message it is viewable only to those selected to receive it.

The only other data item collected is the IP address of any user, registered or not, who posts on the forums.

It should be noted that our site is powered by WordPress. We are not responsible for any data collection that may potentially be harvested by the WordPress application and that we are unaware of.

If at any time a registered user of our website requests that we remove their registration and profile details, once we have verified that the request comes from the user in question we will accede to the request. Any forum posts they have made will revert to ‘Guest’ status. If you request all forum posts will be deleted.

Cookies

thehomesteadingboards.com makes use of cookies. Cookies created by the WordPress application are available to thehomesteadingboards.com and thehomesteadingboards.com will create a cookie on our user’s hard drives if at all possible. This is simply a cookie to help identify that user should they make a subsequent return visit to our support forums.

Any user can adjust the settings on their computer to decline any cookies from thehomesteadingboards.com should they so wish. This in no way effects their usage of our support forum.

It is possible that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control. Such cookies (if used) would be downloaded once you click on advertisements on our website.
Use of Your Information

The information we collect, as outlined above, is used solely to identify you when visiting or posting on our support forum. We make no other use of it whatsoever but reserve the right, should we wish, to send emails from time to time to inform users of our products and service.

We in no way pass your data to third parties and have no intention of doing so.

Data Storage

We take every step possible in partnership with our host to ensure the security of our data. Our host is subject to their own privacy policy with which we are satisfied but we can take no responsibility for any data loss that may occur outside of our immediate control.

Data may, from time to time, be transferred from thehomesteadingboards.com to other storage media strictly for the purposes of backing up the forum and website. It is not shared with anyone.

Links and Email Subscriptions

Our policy discloses the privacy practices for the thehomesteadingboards.com web site. But thehomesteadingboards.com may provide links to other web sites. When you leave the thehomesteadingboards.com web site, you will be going to sites that are beyond our control. These other sites may send their own cookies to users, collect data, or solicit personal information. The privacy policies and procedures described here for thehomesteadingboards.com do not apply to any external links. We encourage you to read the privacy policies of any site you link to from ours, especially if you share any personal information. Be informed. You are the person best qualified to protect your own privacy.

Contacting Us

If you need to contact us regarding the thehomesteadingboards.com website, it’s content or statements declared in this privacy policy, please use the ‘Contact Us’ email address available in the footer.
Changes to this Policy

This Privacy Policy will be kept under constant review and may change from time to time. If at any time we offer new features, options or require more personal information from our users we will update this policy accordingly.

Last Edited on 2014-12-16