The Long and Short of sproutedroots.mom’s Privacy Policy

The short of it……

Here at sproutedroots.mom we live by the Platinum Rule; treat others better than you wish to be treated.  We care about your privacy and security.  sproutedroots.mom does not sell, trade, or otherwise disclose email lists or other information of readers, users or email list participants to third parties without your permission.  Like most websites, we use cookies as a means to analyze content performance and ultimately to give you more of what you want.  Our advertisers or web sites that have links on our site may collect personally identifiable information about you. The information practices of those web sites are not covered by this privacy statement.   sproutedroots.mom is not responsible for the republishing of the content found on this blog on other Web sites or media without our permission.  While we strive to protect your information and user account, we can not guarantee that a third party will not defeat our security measures.  You acknowledge that you provide your information at your own risk.

This privacy policy is subject to change without notice.

Please read the following policy to further understand how your personal information will be treated.

A huge thank you to Auttomatic (creator of WordPress.com), who have made their more comprehensive Terms of Service available under a Creative Commons Sharealike license (which means that you can borrow some or all of their wording for your own Terms of Service).  That’s exactly what we did.

The long of it……

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, sproutedroots.mom collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. sproutedroots.mom’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how sproutedroots.mom’s visitors use its website. From time to time, sproutedroots.mom may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

sproutedroots.mom also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for users leaving comments/reviews on sproutedroots.mom. sproutedroots.mom only discloses commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of sproutedroots.mom where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to sproutedroots.mom’s website choose to interact with sproutedroots.mom in ways that require sproutedroots.mom to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that sproutedroots.mom gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask blog subscribers to provide an email address. Those who engage in transactions with sproutedroots.mom are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, sproutedroots.mom collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with sproutedroots.mom. sproutedroots.mom does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

sproutedroots.mom may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. sproutedroots.mom may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, sproutedroots.mom does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

sproutedroots.mom discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its administrators and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on sproutedroots.mom’s behalf or to provide services available at sproutedroots.mom, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of the administrators and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using sproutedroots.mom’s website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. sproutedroots.mom will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its administrators  and affiliated organizations, as described above, sproutedroots.mom discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when sproutedroots.mom believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of sproutedroots.mom, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of sproutedroots.mom and have supplied your email address, sproutedroots.mom may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with sproutedroots.mom and our products.  sproutedroots.mom takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. sproutedroots.mom uses cookies to help sproutedroots.mom identify and track visitors, their usage of sproutedroots.mom website, and their website access preferences. sproutedroots.mom visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using sproutedroots.mom website, with the drawback that certain features of sproutedroots.mom’ websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If sproutedroots.mom, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that sproutedroots.mom goes out of business, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of sproutedroots.mom may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on this website may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by sproutedroots.mom and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, sproutedroots.mom may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in sproutedroots.mom’s sole discretion. sproutedroots.mom encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If you have a sproutedroots.mom account, you might also receive an alert informing you of these changes. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.