Privacy Policy

Here at the Bates Family Blog, your privacy and trust are of utmost importance to us. As a website, this Privacy Policy is something we must provide to our readers.

Comments

On some occasions, readers will share personal information via a public comment. Such personal information is completely voluntarily, as comments can be submitted to our Site without an email or legal name (you can fill in the “Name” entry with anything you wish, even Anonymous). Therefore, any information that you provide may not be protected. We do our best to hide email addresses and other sensitive information (not including names) before allowing comments to appear on the Site. However, there is a possibility that said information will not be properly deleted and will be visible to others.

Giveaway/Promotion Entries

When you enter a giveaway or promotion on our Site and provide personal information via the widget or other software that we use to manage entries, such information cannot be guaranteed to be protected by us, as the widget/software is developed by a third party. In addition, any information provided by the winner, including that which is provided to us via email, may be shared with the sponsor of the giveaway/promotion, if that sponsor is the party responsible for shipping or emailing the prize to the winner.

Email Addresses

We may collect your email address, but only if you voluntarily provide it to us. For information on emails and other personal information that you provide to us when entering a giveaway or promotion, see section entitled "Giveaway/Promotion Entries." For information on email addresses submitted with public comments to the Site, see section entitled "Comments."

You may share your email with us in other ways, such as when you sign up to receive our email updates or when you send us private emails. In addition to using your email address for the purposes for which you provided it to us, we might use it to send you emails regarding the Site, topics covered on the Site, or other products or services that we believe may be of interest to you. We will not share your email address with any third parties, unless in connection with a giveaway or promotion that you entered. Your email address may be shared with the technology provider(s) we use in connection with the purposes for which you provided it. Note: You may opt out of our email updates at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” button in the emails.

If you are a resident of a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), please refer to the section entitled “Additional Rights of EEA Residents.”

IP Addresses

When you comment on our Site, we may also be able to see your IP address. We do our best to prevent such information from being publicly displayed. However, there is a possibility that said information will not be properly hidden and will be visible to others.

Our Use of Cookies

For a description of what a cookie is, see section entitled “Advertising Privacy Statement.”

We use cookies for the following purposes:

Authentication: We use cookies to identify you when you visit our Site and as you navigate our Site.

Personalization: We use cookies to store information about your preferences and to personalize the Site for you.

Security: We use cookies to protect our Site.

Advertising: We use cookies to help us display advertisements that will be relevant to you.

Analysis: We use cookies to help us analyze the use and performance of our Site.

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

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. Please note that blocking cookies may have a negative impact on the functions of many websites, including our Site. Some features of the Site may cease to be available to you.

Sale of Business or Assets

In the event that the Site or substantially all of its assets is sold or disposed of as a going concern, whether by merger, sale of assets, or otherwise, or in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy, or receivership, the information we have collected about you may be one of the assets sold or merged in connection with that transaction.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. The most recent version will always be posted on the Site. When we make changes to the initial policy and any future policy, we will add an "Effective Date" to the top of the Policy. We may revise and update this Privacy Policy if our practices change, as technology changes, or as we add new services or change existing ones. Use of this Site represents that you are in agreement with our then-current privacy policy.

Advertising Privacy Statement

This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a CafeMedia (“CafeMedia”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and CafeMedia will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about CafeMedia’s data usage, click here: www.cafemedia.com/publisher-advertising-privacy-policy

Additional Rights of EEA (European Economic Area) Residents

If you are a resident of a country in the EEA, you have the rights, among others, to:

(i) access your personal data

(ii) ensure the accuracy of your personal data

(iii) have us delete your personal data

(iv) restrict further processing of your personal data, and

(v) complain to a supervisory authority in your country of residence in the event that data is misused

If you believe that our 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 to us at batesfamblog@gmail.com.

Contact Info

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the practices of this Site, please contact us at batesfamblog@gmail.com.

In Closing

Any information that we collect, as described in this Privacy Policy, is for the overall purpose of improving our Site function and content for our readers. In order to run our Site, we work with multiple third-parties, including but not limited to website hosting companies, advertisers, and advertising agencies. Your information may be accessible to these companies/organizations. While we have every indication that these companies/organizations will not misuse your information, there is always the possibility of unfortunate circumstances that are out of our control. That risk is present on every website you visit.

We want to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for visiting Bates Family Blog. We are very grateful for your readership.