Privacy Policy and Disclosure - Happy to Homeschool

Happy to Homeschool is a website that was founded in 2020 by Charlotte James, Ph.D.

I may accept forms of advertising, but I do not sell text links.

I may sometimes partner with third-party advertisements. These companies may use technology, such as cookies and web beacons, which sends to them information including your IP address, your ISP, the browser you used to visit my site, or whether Flash is installed. The information is usually used for geo-targeting purposes or for showing ads based on specific sites previously visited. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit the websites of the Digital Advertising Alliance at www.aboutads.info.

You can disable or selectively turn off our cookies or third-party cookies in your browser settings. You can also manage your preferences in security programs. Please know that this can affect your ability to interact with our site (as well as other websites). This may hinder your ability to log in to services, programs, or accounts.

This site uses affiliate links. Given this, please assume that any links leading you to products or services are affiliate links from which I may receive compensation. I only promote products that I feel would be beneficial and useful to my readers, and/or products that I have personally used.

Happy to Homeschool is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. This is an affiliate advertising program which allows me to earn small commissions by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites. Posts containing affiliate links will be marked as such.

Happy to Homeschool believes in the power of word-of-mouth marketing and holds integrity, honesty, and openness in the highest regard. If I am compensated to write, I will make full disclosure. I will always give honest opinions, findings, beliefs, and experiences on products, even for companies that purchase ad space.

The views and opinions expressed on this blog are purely my own. Any product claim, statistic, quote or other representation about a product or service should be verified with the manufacturer, provider or party in question.

As with most other websites, Happy to Homeschool collects and uses the data contained in log files. The information in the log files includes: your IP (internet protocol) address, your ISP (internet service provider), the browser you used to visit our site, the time you visited our site, and which pages you visited throughout our site.

E-mail Policies

I am committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential if you sign up to receive e-mails from Happy to Homeschool. I do not sell, rent, or lease my subscription lists to third parties. I will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal law.

All emails sent from me will clearly state a) who the email is from, b) clear information on how to contact the sender (me), and c) easy-to-find information on how to remove yourself from my mailing list so if you wish to receive no further e-mail communication from me.

My emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from me and my partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any email they receive from me at anytime.

Users who no longer wish to receive correspondence or promotional material from me may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the email.

What personal data I collect and why I collect it

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.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

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.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

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.

How long I retain your data

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.

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.

Where I send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Analytics

Data Used: IP address, WordPress.com user ID (if logged in), WordPress.com username (if logged in), user agent, visiting URL, referring URL, timestamp of event, browser language, country code. Important: The site owner does not have access to any of this information via this feature. For example, a site owner can see that a specific post has 285 views, but he/she cannot see which specific users/accounts viewed that post. Stats logs — containing visitor IP addresses and WordPress.com usernames (if available) — are retained by Automattic for 28 days and are used for the sole purpose of powering this feature.

Activity Tracked: Post and page views, video plays (if videos are hosted by WordPress.com), outbound link clicks, referring URLs and search engine terms, and country. When this module is enabled, Jetpack also tracks performance on each page load that includes the Javascript file used for tracking stats. This is exclusively for aggregate performance tracking across Jetpack sites in order to make sure that our plugin and code is not causing performance issues. This includes the tracking of page load times and resource loading duration (image files, Javascript files, CSS files, etc.).

We also use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website. Google Analytics gathers information about website use by means of cookies. The information gathered relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of our website. Google’s privacy policy is available here.

Copyright

Images from this website may be pinned at Pinterest. Permission is not granted to reuse photos from this website in any other form.