Privacy Policy

At HomeSpira, accessible from homespira.com, the privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance to us. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of personal information that is collected and recorded by homespira.com and how we use it.

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information We Collect

When you visit HomeSpira, we may collect the following types of information:

  1. Personal identification information: We may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, such as your name and email address, when you subscribe to our newsletter, submit a contact form, or participate in a survey or giveaway. We collect this information to provide you with the best user experience and to improve our services.
  2. Non-personal identification information: We may collect non-personal identification information about you whenever you interact with our website. This may include your IP address, browser type, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, and other similar details. This information is used to analyze trends, administer the site, and gather demographic information.

How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect in the following ways:

  • To personalize your experience on our website and deliver content that is relevant to your interests.
  • To improve our website, services, and content based on user feedback and analysis of our website’s usage.
  • To send periodic emails, if you have opted-in to receive our newsletter, containing updates, news, promotions, or related content.
  • To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.

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.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to save 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 will last for one year.

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.

More On Cookies

We store cookies for keeping track of comments. We also place cookies on your computer, if you click a link to e.g Amazon, in order for them to track sales generated from your device. When an order is placed at e.g. Amazon, after clicking a link on our website, we receive a small commission. The revenue we generate from these sales helps us continue the website and keep the server and other costs down.

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 will last for one year.

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.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/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. All 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.

What Rights 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.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us.

By using our website, you signify your acceptance of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the site following any changes to this Privacy Policy will be deemed as your acceptance of those changes.

Children’s Information

HomeSpira does not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that your child provided any kind of personal information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately, and we will do our best to promptly remove such information from our records.