Privacy Policy for Parental Patience
Effective Date: March 19, 2024
Welcome to Parental Patience (https://parentalpatience.com), a dedicated space for parents, families, and anyone interested in the journey of parenting. Your privacy is of paramount importance to us, and this policy outlines how we collect, use, protect, and handle your personal information in accordance with U.S. law and our commitment to ensuring your privacy.
Who We Are
Our website, Parental Patience, is an online resource aimed at offering insights, tips, and support for the parenting community. Our website address is: https://parentalpatience.com.
Information We Collect and How We Use It
Comments
When visitors leave comments on our blog, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection. This information also helps us to better understand and respond to the needs of our community.
An anonymized string (also known as a hash) may be created from your email address and provided to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. This is an optional service, and you can find Gravatar’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Should your comment be approved, your profile picture will be visible to the public alongside your comment.
Media
For those uploading images to the website, please avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) to protect your privacy. Other visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from such images.
Cookies
Parental Patience utilizes cookies to enhance your experience. If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Additionally, we use cookies for those logging into our site, to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies for a year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends this to two weeks. Logging out will remove these cookies.
Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content from other websites. Such content behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, and monitor your interaction with embedded content, including if you have an account and are logged in to that site.
Sharing and Protecting Your Data
Who We Share Your Data With
We do not share your personal information with third parties except in cases where it is necessary for providing our services to you (e.g., resetting your password) or where required by law.
How We Protect Your Data
Parental Patience is committed to protecting your data through a combination of technical, administrative, and physical measures designed to protect against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction of your personal information.
Data Breach Procedures
In the unlikely event of a data breach, we have procedures in place to notify affected individuals and take necessary steps to mitigate any potential harm.
Third Parties
We may receive data about you from third parties, such as analytics providers or content partners, that we use to improve our services. We do not use this information for automated decision-making or profiling.
Your Rights
You have the right to access, correct, or delete any personal information we hold about you. You can also object to processing of your data, request a limitation on processing, and request portability of your data.
Contact Information
For questions or concerns about our privacy practices, please contact us at [email protected].
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. We encourage you to review this policy periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices.