Disclosure
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The Privacy of visitors to themoderndaycottage.com is essential to us.
This privacy policy sets out how The Modern Day Cottage uses and protects any information that you give while using www.themoderndaycottage.com
Should you provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used following this privacy statement.
The Modern Day Cottage may change this policy occasionally by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective 1/1/2024.
What We Collect
We may collect the following information:
- contact information, including email address
- demographic information such as postcode, preferences, and interests
- other information relevant to customer surveys and offers
What We Do With The Information We Gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a better service, in particular for the following reasons:
- To use the information to improve our products and services.
- We may periodically send promotional emails about new products, special offers, or other information that you may find interesting using the email address you provided.
- Occasionally, we also use your information to contact you for market research purposes. We may contact you by email, phone, fax, or mail. We may use the information to customize the website according to your interests.
Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. To prevent unauthorized access or Disclosure, we have established suitable physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.
How We Use Cookies
A cookie is a small file that asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes, and dislikes by gathering and remembering your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. Cookies help us analyze web page traffic data and tailor our website to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis, which removes the data from the system.
When you use our website, we share information we may collect from you, such as your email (in hashed form), IP address, or information about your browser or operating system. We may also share hashed and de-identified email addresses, IP addresses, and advertising, which uses that information to create a link between your device and its databases. Our partners may share this link globally to enable interest-based content or advertising throughout your online experience (e.g., cross-device, web, email, in-app, etc.) by third parties unaffiliated with our website. These third parties may, in turn, link further demographic or interest-based information to your browser. To opt out of this use, please email us at emily@themoderndaycottage.com.
Why We Use Cookies
Overall, cookies help us provide a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can modify your browser settings to decline cookies. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
Affiliate Links
The Modern Day Cottage participates in affiliate advertising with Amazon. We may earn a commission when you purchase through these links on our Site.
Advertising
Some of our advertisers occasionally serve you cookies as well. We do not have control over cookies placed by advertisers. We may use advertising service vendors to help present advertisements on the website. These vendors may use cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies to serve you advertisements tailored to interests you have shown by browsing on this and other sites you have visited to determine whether you have seen a particular advertisement before and to avoid sending you duplicate advertisements. In doing so, these vendors may collect non-personal data such as your browser type, operating system, Web pages visited, time of visits, content viewed, ads viewed, and other clickstream data. These advertising service vendors’ use of cookies, web beacons, or similar technologies is subject to their privacy policies, not ours. The Service Provider disclaims all liability in connection with that.
Advertising Privacy Statement
This Site is affiliated with Amazon to place advertising on the Site. Amazon uses standard and widely available tools for identifying and serving ads, including those provided by Google, Inc. and its affiliates. We publish interest-based advertisements on the Site; that is, ads that are tailored to reflect your interests. To help understand your interests, Amazon, Google, and our other advertising partners will track your behavior on our websites using cookies.
Cookie Information
A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) sent by a web server to a web browser and stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies may be either “persistent” cookies or “session” cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed. Cookies do not typically contain any information that personally identifies a user. Still, personal information we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.
By using this Site, you consent to using such cookies and sharing data captured by such cookies with Amazon, Google, and any of our third-party partners. You can view, delete or add interest categories associated with your browser by visiting: https://adssettings.google.com.
You can opt out of the network cookie using those settings or the Network Advertising Initiative’s multi-cookie opt-out mechanism at: http://optout.networkadvertising.org. However, these opt-out mechanisms use cookies, and if you clear the cookies from your browser, your opt-out will not be maintained.
For European Economic Area Residents
If you reside in a country in the European Economic Area (EEA), then under the GDPR and applicable data protection laws, you have the right, among other things, to access your data, have us erase it, and restrict its further processing. If you wish to access or delete your data (if any) maintained by us or related to advertising on the Site, you can contact us at emily@themoderndaycottage.com. Click the ad preferences link at the bottom of the Site to see a list of the advertising partners we work with or change which partners track your behavior using cookies. (Available in the EU.)
For California Residents
California law gives residents the right to opt out of the “sale” of their personal information to third parties, including for advertising purposes. Under California law, sharing your information with a service provider for advertising purposes could be considered a “sale.” To opt out of sharing your data for advertising information, click the opt-out link provided in the footer of this page. You also have the right to request from us the categories of personal information we have shared and the types of third parties to whom the information was provided. To be clear, we do not share your name, contact information, or any other sensitive information with third parties, and the categories of third parties that we share information with for advertising purposes are supply-side platforms, programmatic advertising exchanges, and demand-side platforms.
Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our Site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites, and this privacy statement does not govern such sites. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Controlling Your Personal Information
You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:
- Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box you can click to indicate that you want to avoid the information used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
- If you have previously agreed to use your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by contacting us.
We will not sell, distribute, or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are legally required. We may use your personal information to send you promotional information about third parties, which you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, don’t hesitate to get in touch with us @ emily@themoderndaycottage.com