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The Twin Civet blog, which can be found at https://www.twincivet.com (“Website”) is operated by Twin Civet and governed by the following Privacy Policy (“privacy policy”).
Twincivet.com is committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. It is important to note that you may access this website and its content without disclosing any of your personally identifiable information. Twincivet.com does not collect personally identifiable information such as your name, mailing or email address, unless you knowingly provide that information to us and agree to the terms under which it will be used by twincivet.com.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be utilized. This statement applies to this website only. Please read this policy thoroughly to understand how your information may be utilized by this website.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information you voluntarily submit
This includes any information you voluntarily submit to the Website, such as your name and/or email address. For example, you may sign up for a newsletter, leave a comment on the Website, purchase a product, or submit a contact form.
Note, by design, your credit card number and security code are never stored on the Website. The Website’s payment gateway (such as Stripe or PayPal) gives this sensitive information directly to the payment processor. The payment gateway plugins ensure credit card data never enters or passes through the Website’s database.
Automatically-Collected information
We may automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we may log your IP address, operating system type, browser type, referring website, pages you viewed, and the dates/times when you accessed the website. We may also collect information about actions you take when using the website, such as links clicked.
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/. If you write a comment, 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
Cookies are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may log information using these cookies and we may use both session cookies (expire when you close your browser) and persistent cookies (stay on the browser until deleted). We use these cookies to better personalize your experience on the Website.
For example, 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.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
Why we collect personal data (or how your information may be used)
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website
- To process your payment when purchasing a product on the Website
- To send you promotional information such as newsletters. Each email promotion will have information regarding how to opt-out of future mailings
- To send you administrative communications such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, security alerts
- To respond to your comments or inquiries
- To provide you with user support
- To track and measure advertising on the Wesbite
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity
Analytics
Who we share your data with
We may share your information with third parties when you explicitly allow us to share your information.
Additionally, the Website may use third-party service providers to service various aspects of the Website. Each third-party service provider’s use of your personal information is dictated by their respective privacy policies.
The Website currently uses the following third-party service providers:
Google Analytics – this service tracks Website usage and provides information such as referring websites and user actions on the Website. Google Analytics may capture your IP address, but no other personal information is captured by Google Analytics.
MailerLite – this service is used for delivery of email updates and newsletters. We store your name and email address for purposes of delivering such communications. Please refer to MailerLite’s Privacy Policy for further information.
Stripe – this service is used as a payment gateway to process your payment information when you purchase a product or service on this website. Please refer to Strip’s Privacy Policy for further information. Note, by design, your credit card number and security code are never stored on the Website.
PayPal – this service is used as a payment gateway to process your payment information when you purchase a product or service on this website. Please refer to PayPal’s Privacy Policy for further information. Note, by design, your credit card number and security code are never stored on the Website.
Spam detection services – Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
At this time, your personal data is not shared with any other third-party applications. This liste may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Except when required by law, we will not sell, distribute, or reveal your email addresses or other personal information without your consent; however, we may disclose or transfer personal information collected through the Website to third parties who acquire all or a portion of our business, which may be the result of a merger, consolidation, or purchase of all or a portion of our assets, or in connection with any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding brought by or against us.
Anonymous Data
From time to time, we may use anonymous data, which does not identify you alone, or when combined with data from other parties. This type of anonymous data may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses. Examples of this information may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
Publicly Visible Information
Certain information may be publicly visible if you leave a comment on the Website. Your email address will never be available publicly. If you choose, you may also add a profile description, an avatar, and a link to your website.
You may also choose to link your Facebook, Instagram, and Google accounts.
Users may see your username, avatar, profile description, and website information.
Cookies
The Website uses cookies to store visitors’ preferences, record user-specific information on what pages users access or visit, ensure that visitors are not repeatedly sent the same banner ads, customize Website content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. Cookies may also be used by third-party services such as Google Analytics, as described herein.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by using a corresponding setting of your internet browser and may thus permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all popular internet browsers. However, if users deactivate the setting of cookies in your internet browser, not all functions of our Website may be entirely usable.
Advertising
Display Ads
We may use third-party advertising companies to serve content and advertisements when you use the Website, which may use cookies, as noted above.
Retargeting Ads
From time to time, the Website may engage in remarketing efforts with third-party companies, such as Google, Facebook, or Instagram, in order to market the Website. These companies use cookies to serve ads based on someone’s past visits to the Website.
Affiliate Program Participation
The Website may engage in affiliate marketing, which is done through embedding tracking links into the Website. If you click on a link for an affiliate partnership, a cookie will be placed on your browser to track any sales for purposes of commissions.
Twin Civet is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and links to Amazon.com. As part of this Amazon Associates program, the Website will post customized links, provided by Amazon, to track the referrals to their website. This program utilizes cookies to track visits for the purposes of assigning commission on these sales.
Newsletters
You may subscribe to our newsletter on the Website, which may be used for advertising purposes. All newsletters sent may contain tracking pixels. Tracking pixels are embedded in emails and allow an analysis of the success of online marketing campaigns. Because of these tracking pixels, we may see if and when you open an email and which links within the email you click. This also allows the Website to adapt the content of future newsletters to the interests of the users. This behavior will not passed on to third parties.
How long we 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
Opt-Out
You may opt-out of future email communications by following the unsubscribe link in our emails. You may also notify us at admin@twincivet.com to be removed from our mailing list.
Amend
You may contact us at admin@twincivet.com to amend or update your personal information.
Forget
In certain situations, you may request that we erase or forget your personal data. To do so, please submit a request to admin@twincivet.com.
Please note that we may need to retain certain information for record keeping purposes, to complete transactions, or when required by law.
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.
Children’s information
The Website does not knowingly collect any personally identifiable information from children under the age of 16. If a parent or guardian believes that the Website has personally identifiable information of a child under the age of 16 in its database, please contact us immediately at admin@twincivet.com and we will use our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.
Changes to this privacy policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact
At any time, please contact us at admin@twincivet.com for questions regarding this privacy policy.