Updated 5/10/22
Use of Cookies
WordPress uses cookies, or tiny pieces of information stored on your computer, to verify who you are. When you comment on my blog, WordPress stores cookies on your computer. This is purely a convenience, so that you won’t need to re-type all you information again when you want to leave another comment. These cookies are:
- comment_author_{HASH}
- comment_author_email_{HASH}
- comment_author_url_{HASH}
The commenter cookies are set to expire a little under one year from the time they’re set.
I use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics uses cookies to gather information about your website use. The information is used to create reports about my website. Google’s privacy policy is here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. Consult your browser provider to find out how to do this.
Blocking cookies may have a negative impact on your experience with my website. Some features may not be available to you.
Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)
My blog works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the blog page or Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.
First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.
Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.
The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:
- IP Address
- Operating System type
- Operating System version
- Device Type
- Language of the website
- Web browser type
- Email (in hashed form)
Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.
If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.
For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.
For European Economic Area Residents
I keep no personal information except your email, if you have given it to me for the purpose of subscribing to my newsletter. If you reside in the European Economic Area (EEA), under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws, you have the right to access your personal data, have me erase it, and/or restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your personal data (if any) maintained by me, please contact me at dj@diannej.com.
I don’t control or store any information collected by my advertising partners. Please see the links above to contact each company individually to access, delete or restrict your information.
Additional Rights of European Economic Area Residents
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have the right, among others, to:
- Access your personal data
- Ensure the accuracy of your personal data
- Have us delete your personal data
- Restrict further processing of your personal data, and
- Complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused.
If you believe that my processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority responsible for data protection. You may do so in the EU member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice. Dianne Jacob, 980 Collier Drive, San Leandro, CA 94577 USA. dj@diannej.com.
Collection of Email Addresses
If you voluntarily provide your name and email in a blog comment, my site keeps this information, in addition to your IP address at that time. If you wish to delete this information, please contact me at dj@diannej.com. Doing so will delete any comments you made.
If you voluntarily provided your name and email address to comment on my blog, I promise to use it only for the purpose for which you provided it. I will not use your email address to contact you for unrelated reasons. I will not share your information with any third parties, unless required by law.
If you voluntarily provide your name and email to receive my newsletter, my provider, Substack, stores it. To change or delete your information, or to see Substack’s privacy policy, please contact Substack.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), I do not wish to receive your email address, and will delete it if you have provided it inadvertently.
Changes to the Privacy Policy
The most recent version of the Privacy Policy will always be posted here, with the effective date posted at the top. I may revise and update this Privacy Policy if my practices change, as technology changes, or as I add new services or change existing ones.
If I make any material changes to our Privacy Policy or how I handle your personal information, or I plan to use any personal information in a manner that is different from that stated at the time I collected your information, I will give you a reasonable opportunity to consent to the change. If you do not consent, your personal information will be used as agreed to under the terms of the privacy policy in effect at the time I obtained that information. By using my site or services after the effective date, you are deemed to consent to our then-current privacy policy. I will use information previously obtained in accordance with the Privacy Policy in effect when the information was obtained from you.
Sale of Business or Assets
In the event that the site or its assets are sold or disposed of, whether by merger, sale of assets or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership, the information I have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.
Contact Me
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or the practices of this site, please contact me at:
Dianne Jacob
980 Collier Drive
San Leandro, CA 94577 USA
dj@diannej.com
