Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to me. To better protect your privacy, I provide this notice explaining my online information practices and the choices you can make about the way your information is collected and used. To make this notice easy to find, I make the link to this page available on the footer, which appears on every page of annaangela.com.
What Information I Collect and How I Collect It:
1. Information you provide directly
This includes your name/username/handle, email address, and IP address when you post comments on my site, use the contact form, or send me an email.
2. Analytics information
I use Google Analytics 4 and Google Signals to better understand the visitors of this site. Data gathered is anonymous and include demographics, interests, and system information (browser, operating system, service provider). Data gathered is for my personal knowledge only. You can opt-out of Google Analytics 4 and Google Signals by changing your settings in the Ads Settings page.
3. Cookies
A cookie is a small piece of data placed on your computer or mobile device when you enter a website. I use cookies to improve your experience by remembering your device and providing you with an experience relevant to you and your preferences. I may use cookies to gather information on how you use this site.
4. Automatically collected information
This includes log file information that is automatically reported by your browser every time you access a web page. It may also be provided when the content of a web page is downloaded to your browser or device. This information may include your web request, IP address, browser type, referring or exit pages and URLs, number of clicks, and how you interact with the links on the pages of this site. Similar information may also be collected from emails I send to you either directly or through MailChimp. This information helps me track which emails are opened and which links are clicked by email recipients.
5. Device identifiers and Metadata
When you use a mobile device like a tablet or phone to access my site, I may access, collect, monitor, store on your device, and/or remotely store one or more device identifiers. These are small data files or similar data structures stored on or associated with your mobile device that uniquely identify your device. It may be data stored in connection with the device hardware, data stored in connection with the device’s operating system or other software, or data sent to the device by me. A device identifier may deliver information to me about how you browse and use the site and may help me provide reports or personalized content and ads.
Metadata is usually technical data that is associated with user content. For example, metadata can describe how, when, and by whom a piece of user content was collected and how that content is formatted.
How I Use Your Information:
In addition to some of the specific uses of information described in this Privacy Policy, I may use information that I receive to:
- remember information so you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit this site
- provide personalized content and information to you and others
- provide, improve, test, and monitor the effectiveness of my site
- monitor metrics such as total number of visitors, traffic, and demographic patterns
- diagnose or fix technology problems
How I Share Your Information:
I will not sell or otherwise transfer your information to third parties outside of annaangela.com without your consent, except when required by the law or if that information is collected by Google Analytics (this may include information from tools like cookies, log files, device identifiers, and location data).
RSS & Email Subscriptions
This website records information about how people access my RSS feeds, but does not collect any personally identifying information from or about my RSS subscribers. My website’s feed services collect the email addresses of individuals that subscribe to my RSS feed via e-mail. Individual information about subscribers to my website’s feeds are held in strict confidence; I will not release or disclose any specific subscriber information under any circumstances, unless required by law. Aggregated information stripped of any personally identifiable information may be disclosed.
I use MailChimp as my marketing automation platform. The data collected include your name and email address. This data is for my personal knowledge only. I will not release or disclose any specific subscriber information under any circumstances, unless required by law.
Comments
Comments submitted to my website are the responsibility of the commenter. I reserve the right to remove or edit comments at my discretion. Site URLs (if provided) are published along with comments. E-mail addresses are required with the submission of comments but are not disclosed, unless the commenter deliberately does so by entering the e-mail address in the main comment box in addition to the box clearly labeled for the e-mail address. Annaangela.com reserves the right to delete any comments on any of its websites (pages, posts, etc) that it deems not beneficial to the readership. This includes but is not limited to comments containing profanity, self promotion, harassment, threats, or spam of any sort.
Data collected when a comment is left include your name, email, comment, date comment is made, IP address, and URL (if provided). This data is used to store and log comments. E-mail addresses are for my personal knowledge only and will not be released or disclosed under any circumstances, unless required by law.
Contact Form
When using the Contact Form, the data collected include your name, email, message, IP address, the date the message was sent, and your message. This data is used to store and log your messages and is for my personal knowledge only. They will not be released or disclosed under any circumstances, unless required by law.
Links to Third Party Websites
I have included links on this site for your use and reference. I am not responsible for the privacy policies of these websites. You should be aware that the privacy policies of these sites may differ from mine.
Changes to this Privacy Statement
The contents of this statement may be altered at any time, at my discretion.
Contact me if you have any questions regarding this privacy policy.
This policy last updated January 12, 2023.
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