BY VISITING The Family Conscience, YOU ARE CONSENTING TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY.
This privacy notice discloses the privacy practices for The Family Conscience. This privacy notice addresses what information is collected, who the information is shared with, and how it is secured.
The terms “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to The Family Conscience. The terms “user,” “you,” and “your” refer to site visitors, customers, and any other users of the site. Read Google Analytics Privacy Policy here.
Do we use cookies?
Yes, The Family Conscience uses cookies to store or access information. If you don’t want cookies used on this website, you can change it within your web browser, however this could affect certain features.
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.
What data do we collect?
The Family Conscience collects the following data:
- Personal Identification Information you have submitted such as your name and email address.
The Family Conscience automatically collects certain data when you visit the website. This information does not reveal your specific identity but could include device and usage information, such as your IP address, operating system, language preferences, country, location, device name. This information is needed for security, analytics, and reporting purposes.
How will we use your data?
Your data will be used for a variety of business purposes as identified below:
- To send you marketing and promotional messages. The Family Conscience and third party marketing partners can use your personal information for marketing purposes.
We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled “Will your information be shared?”.
In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from us will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us.
Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at any time.
Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.
- To enforce the terms and conditions and other policies for business, legal, or contractual reasons.
- Respond to legal requests. If The Family Conscience receives a legal request, your data may have to be inspected.
- Deliver products or services. Your data may be used to deliver any products or services you requested.
- Respond to inquiries. Your data may be used if you use the contact forms on the website.
- Other business purposes. Your information may be used for data analysis, to determine the effectiveness of promotional campaigns, and to evaluate and improve services, products, and marketing. Your personal information will not be used without your consent.
Will your information be shared?
Your data may be shared with your consent, to perform a contract, or legal obligations to comply with applicable law, government requests, court order, or a legal process.
Your data may be shared to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding violations of our policy, fraud, illegal activities, or for litigation purposes which we are a part of.
Your information may be shared with the vendors, consultants, and third party service provider, contractors, or agents who perform services for The Family Conscience or on behalf of The Family Conscience. Currently this includes:
- Google Analytics. Google Analytics measures website usage. It may capture your IP address but no other personal details.
If you share information from www.thefamilyconscience.com on any social media medium, you are voluntarily disclosing your personal information. It becomes public information and can be collected and used by others. www.thefamilyconscience.com does not have control over this collection and takes no responsibility for the use, storage or dissemination of such publicly disclosed personal information by you.
Who will your information be shared with?
The Family Conscience shares your information with the third parties listed above. If The Family Conscience has processed your data based on your consent and you want to revoke consent, contact The Family Conscience via the website.
How long will you store my information?
Your information is stored for as long as necessary as set out in the privacy policy unless otherwise required or permitted by law (tax, accounting, legal obligations).
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.
Securing your information
The Family Conscience will not trade, share, or sell your information to any other company without giving you express notification, except for certain third parties who assist The Family Conscience in providing services to you. These third parties agree to keep your information private. The Family Conscience will release your information as required by law and if necessary to protect The Family Conscience’slegal rights and/or to comply with a judicial proceeding or court order, to prevent threats to others or illegal activities, or to prevent abuse of this website.
GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) rights
If you are a resident in the European Economic Area or the UK, you are entitled to the following rights:
- Know what data has been collected about you and how it has been processed
- Object to the transfer of your personal data from one electronic processing system into another
- Make changes to inaccurate information
- Withdraw consent after you have given your personal data
- Ask for your personal data to be deleted
- Informed in clear and plain language if you are asked for consent of your personal data
Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act
This website is not directed at children and does not collect information from persons under the age of 13. If your child submitted personal identifiable information to The Family Conscience, please email The Family Conscience, and that information will be deleted.
California resident’s privacy rights
California Civil Code Section 1798.83 permits users who are California residents to request and obtain information about categories of personal information. The Family Conscience discloses to 3rd parties for direct marketing purposes and the names and addresses of all 3rd parties The Family Conscience shared in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make this request, use the information below to contact The Family Conscience.
Children under 18 years of age may request removal of content or information posted on The Family Conscience.. To request removal contact The Family Conscience and provide a statement that you reside in California.
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.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
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.
Changes to the privacy policy
The privacy policy can be changed at any time. The updated version will have a “Revised” date and is effective on the “Revised” date.
Who to contact about this privacy policy
If you have questions or comments, you can email The Family Conscience via the website.
Disclaimer and Disclosure
The Family Conscience (https://thefamilyconscience.com) (the “website”) provides visitors information on the website as a public service, subject to the following terms and conditions. The term “you” refers to any visitor, viewer or user of the website.
While the author has made every attempt to ensure that the information contained in this website has been obtained from reliable sources, the author is not responsible for any errors or omissions, or for the results obtained from the use of this information. All information on this website is provided “as is”, with no guarantee of completeness, accuracy, timeliness or of the results obtained from the use of this information, and without warranty of any kind, express or implied, including, but not limited to warranties of performance, merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose. Nothing herein shall to any extent substitute for your independent investigations and sound judgment. In no event will the author be liable to you or anyone else for any decision made or action taken in reliance on the information on this website or for any consequential, special or similar damages, even if advised of the possibility of such damages.
Whilst the author utilises her knowledge and skills as a social worker, parent and traveller to provide you with information she hopes is of help and interest to you, all content is for educational and informational purposes and reflects her opinion only. This website does not contain professional advice, nor is any professional-client relationship established with you through your use of this website. Any information found on or derived from this website should not be a substitute for and cannot be relied on as any legal, medical, financial, risk management, marital or other professional advice. If you require any such advice, please consult a licensed or knowledgeable professional in that area before taking any action.
It is your responsibility to take all necessary steps to independently verify and ascertain that any information you choose to rely on from, access through or take action based upon this website is accurate, as the author is not responsible for your use of the information obtained from or accessed through this website. Any opinions expressed on this website are solely the personal views of the author.
Copyright
All content is subject to copyright and may not be re-produced in any form without the express written consent of the author. All photographs are the copyright and property of the author unless otherwise stated. If you would like to use any of the photographs, please contact the author.
Links
Certain links on this website connect to third party web sites. The author does not accept any responsibility for, nor makes any representations as to the accuracy of, any content in such third party web sites.
Affiliate Disclosure
The author may have a financial relationship with some of the merchants she mentions.
Some of the author’s blog posts and pages may contain affiliate links, which means she may earn a commission (at no extra cost to you) if the affiliate links are used to make a purchase.
Editorial content, including the advice provided by the author for educational purposes and the opinion the author expresses on products, services and merchants is not influenced in any way by advertisers or affiliate partnerships and the integrity of the author’s content is in no way compromised by such financial relationships.
The author only affiliates herself with products, services, and merchants that she believes will provide value to her readers. The author only endorses products, services and merchants that she has personally used/tested and considers the highest quality standard.
It remains solely your personal responsibility to conduct your own investigation to determine whether to purchase an affiliate product or service.
You will not rely on any recommendation, reference, or information provided by the author and the author cannot be held liable or responsible for any damages resulting from your purchase.
Advertising
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Last Updated: 4th November, 2022
