Last Updated: July 2023
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At Creating A Wonderful Simple Life, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy applies to https://creatingawonderfulsimplelife.com/ (hereinafter, “us”, “we”, Our, Creating a Wonderful Simple Life or “https://creatingawonderfulsimplelife.com/”).
We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting personally identifiable information you may provide us through the Blog. We have adopted this privacy policy to explain what information may be collected on our Blog, how we use this information, and under what circumstances we may disclose the information to third parties.
Information Collection & Use
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, the terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.
Depending on your activities when visiting our Blog, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions as well.
Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to: Email address, First Name and Last Name. We collect email addresses of those who communicate with us via email, fill out forms on our site, or subscribe to our newsletters. The email address you provide may be used to send you information and updates pertaining to your order, in addition to receiving occasional company news, updates, related product or service information, etc. We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties.
Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). We may use the collected data to understand who our visitors are, monitor the usage of our service, detect, prevent and address technical issues, analyse and gather information so that we may improve their experience of our blog in future.
This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. We may also collect data about the device you are using to access our website. This data may include the device type, operating system, unique device identifiers, device settings, and geo-location data. What we collect can depend on the individual settings of your device and software. We recommend checking the policies of your device manufacturer or software provider to learn what information they make available to us.
Tracking & Cookies Data
To enrich and perfect your online experience, we use “Cookies”, similar technologies and services provided by others to display personalized content, appropriate advertising and store your preferences on your computer.
We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their usage of https://creatingawonderfulsimplelife.com/, and their Blog access preferences.
Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your device (computer, smartphone, or tablet) when you visit our website. They are widely used to improve the functionality and usability of websites. Cookies may store information about your browsing habits, preferences, and actions during and after your visit to our website.
Types of Cookies
- Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic functionality of our website and enable you to navigate and use its features.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: These cookies allow us to analyze how visitors interact with our website, including which pages are visited most frequently. This information helps us improve the performance and design of our website.
- Functionality Cookies: These cookies enhance your experience by remembering your preferences (e.g., language or region) and enabling personalized features.
- Advertising/Targeting Cookies: These cookies may be set through our website by advertising partners. They may be used to build a profile of your interests and deliver relevant advertisements on other websites.
Third-Party Cookies
We may use third-party services that utilize cookies for various purposes, such as analytics or advertising. These third-party cookies are not controlled by us, and we recommend reviewing the respective third parties’ privacy policies for more information about their cookie practices.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for various purposes, including but not limited to:
- Recognizing your preferences and settings to provide a personalized experience.
- Monitoring website traffic and analyzing user behavior to improve our content and services.
- Enabling social media integration and sharing features.
Managing Cookies
Most web browsers allow you to control and manage cookies through your browser settings. You can choose to accept or reject cookies, delete specific cookies, or set your browser to notify you when a cookie is being sent. Our visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our Blog.
Please note that if you choose to disable cookies, certain features of our website may not function correctly, and your user experience may be affected.
Most browsers are configured to accept cookies by default, but you can update these settings to either refuse cookies altogether, or to notify you when a website is trying to set or update a cookie. If you browse websites from multiple devices, you may need to update your settings on each individual device. For information on how to manage cookies in popular browsers, please visit the respective browser’s website:
Data Storage and Processing
The personal information we collect is stored and processed in Australia, or where we or our partners, affiliates and third-party providers may maintain facilities. Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction. If you are located outside Australia and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Australia and process it here.
Security Of Data
The security of your data is important to us, while we retain this data, we will take all steps reasonably necessary to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use or modification and ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. No transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
That being said, please be advised that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
If you request your personal information be deleted, or where your personal information becomes no longer relevant to our operations, we will erase it from our system within a reasonable timeframe.
Disclosure Of Data
Our Visitor’s information is very important to us. We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes however we may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: comply with a legal obligation, protect and defend the rights or property of Creating A Wonderful Simple Life, prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service, protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public, prevent a crime, prevent what we reasonably believe to be illegal, legally actionable, or unethical activity. The data collected may be shared with service providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to:
- application development,
- site hosting,
- maintenance,
- data analysis,
- infrastructure provision,
- IT services,
- customer service,
- email delivery services,
- payment processing,
- marketing,
- analytics, and
- enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
- Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through the Services;
- Persons or entities with whom you consent to have your Personal Data shared;
- Third parties in order to prevent damage to our property (tangible and intangible), for safety
- reasons, or to collect amounts owed to us;
- Merchants and payment processors; and
- Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable
- law, including laws outside your country of residence.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics
We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect anonymized and sent to Google Analytics for analysis. Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website.
Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie.
In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement.
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”). See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
Miscellaneous
Advertisements
Some of our advertising partners may use cookies and web beacons on our site. Our advertising partners may include Google Adsense. 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 Creating a Wonderful Simple Life and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
DoubleClick DART Cookie
Google, as a third party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on https://creatingawonderfulsimplelife.com/.
Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to users based on their visit to https://creatingawonderfulsimplelife.com/ and other sites on the Internet.
Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy at the following URL – http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html
Links To External Sites
This Blog may contain links to external sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy and terms and conditions of every site you visit.
We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites, products or services.
Affiliate Disclosure
Some of the sections of this site will allow you to purchase different products and services online provided by other merchants, and not us. Some of the links that we post on our site are “affiliate links.” This means if you click on the link and purchase the item, we may receive a small affiliate commission. This does NOT affect your purchases resulting in additional charges to you or cost you anything extra.
We are not responsible for the quality, accuracy, timeliness, reliability or any other aspect of these products and services. In addition, a merchant will likely have privacy and data collection practices that are different from ours. If you make a purchase from a merchant on their site or on a site that we have posted a link to, the information obtained during your visit to that merchant’s online store or site, and the information that you give as part of the transaction, such as your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number, and credit card number, may be collected the merchant and us. For more information regarding a merchant, its online store, its privacy policies, and/or any additional terms and conditions that may apply, visit that merchant’s website and click on its information links or contact the merchant directly.
Children’s Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”).
We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
Online Privacy Policy Only
This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our Blog with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in Creating A Wonderful Simple Life. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this Blog.
Legal Disclaimer
We have attempted to address the various privacy-related issues you are likely to encounter, however, we cannot ensure that all of your private communications and other personal information will never be disclosed in ways not otherwise described in this privacy policy. Therefore, although we use industry standard practices to protect your privacy, we do not promise and you should not expect, that your personal information or private communications will always remain private from unauthorised access.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Although most changes are likely to be minor, we may change our Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Creating a Wonderful Simple Life’s sole discretion. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
Contact Us
If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us through email at creatingawonderfulsimplelife@gmail.com
