Privacy Policy
DesignsbyMaryEllen.net (the “Company” or “we” or “us”) is committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to this website. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information you provide.
Use of the information we collect
Your personal information will enable us to provide you with access to all parts of our site. It will be used for several general purposes, including administering our business activities, providing the requested products and services, processing your payment, personalizing your experience on our website, and keeping you updated with our products and services.
Your email will never be shared with a third party. We’ll only use it to notify you of changes to our services and other interesting information. Once you receive your first email, you’ll have the opportunity to unsubscribe at any time, immediately.
You acknowledge and agree that we may make available or disclose to third parties information about you solely for your financial responsibility to the Company.
If you no longer wish to be contacted by us in the future, you can send an email to [email protected] and insert “unsubscribe” or “stop” as the appropriate subject heading.
We have enabled Google Analytics advertising features to collect data about our traffic via Google advertising cookies and anonymous identifiers, in addition to data collected through a standard Google Analytics implementation.
Third-party vendors and we use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookie) or other first-party identifiers, third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie), or other third-party identifiers.
You can opt out of the Google Analytics Advertising Features we use, including through Ads Settings, Ad Settings for mobile apps, or any other available means (for example, the NAI’s consumer opt-out), by going to currently available opt-outs for the web.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help detect spam.
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 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 save your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience, so you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and 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 set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last two days, and screen options cookies last 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 indicates the post ID of the article you edited. It expires after one 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 exactly the same way as if the visitor had 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This allows us to recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
We store the personal information provided by users who register on our website (if any) in their user profiles. 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 must keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Accessing or updating your information
You are entitled to see a copy of the personal information we have collected online and maintain (about you). If you wish to do this, please email us at [email protected] and insert “access request” as the subject heading. We may charge a small fee to meet our costs in providing you with these details.
You may ask the Company to change the information you provided and/or held about you to ensure that it is accurate and updated. You may also request that the Company cease processing your personal information and that it delete this from its database or records. Please note that it may be impossible to completely delete your information because of back-ups and records of deletions.
We will only perform the activities outlined above to the extent that they do not compromise privacy, security, or any other legal interests.
Additional Information
Plugin: Smush
Note: Smush does not interact with end users on your website. Smush’s only input option is a newsletter subscription for site admins only.
Smush sends images to the WPMU DEV servers to optimize them for web use. This includes transferring EXIF data, which will either be stripped or returned as it is. It is not stored on the WPMU DEV servers.
Plugin: Defender Pro
Third parties
This site may use WPMU DEV third-party cloud storage to store backups of its audit logs where personal information is collected.
Additional data
This site creates and stores an activity log that captures the IP address, username, and email address and tracks user activity (like when a user comments). Information will be stored locally for 30 days and remotely for one year. Information on remote logs cannot be cleared for security purposes.
Contact
All comments, questions, and other requests relating to our use of your information should be addressed to customer service at [email protected].