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Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy page for Goodie Godmother. On this page, you will find out about the information we gather, how it improves your user experience, and what we do with it.

Information Collected

Blog Comments

Goodie Godmother collects as little information as possible from users looking to post blog comments.  We usually request a name (an alias is fine), personal website (optional), and e-mail address (so you can be notified of comment replies). This helps protect us from spam. Your name and website may be displayed on the site if you post a comment, but your e-mail address always remains private to protect your contact information.

Cookies / IP Address tracking

Goodie Godmother uses cookies to uniquely identify users for the purpose of log files, posting comments, and voting on the site.  No personal information is stored in these cookies and it simply a way to identify your computer and streamline your browsing experience. It also allows us to see which pages are most popular, so we can better our website practices.

Opting Out

Goodie Godmother sends periodic e-mail newsletters, and if we have your email, you will likely receive one. If you’d like to unsubscribe, you can find instructions at the bottom of every newsletter. We’ll be sad to see you go, but we don’t like a cluttered inbox either, so we understand.

Third Party Advertising

We allow third-party companies to serve ads and/or collect certain anonymous information when you visit our web site. They may use non-personally identifiable information (e.g., click stream information, browser type, time and date, subject of advertisements clicked or scrolled over) during your visits to this and other Web sites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services likely to be of greater interest to you. These companies typically use a cookie or third party web beacon to collect this information. To learn more about this behavioral advertising practice or to opt-out of this type of advertising, you can visit networkadvertising.org.

Links to other websites

We may link to outside websites we feel would be relevant or useful for you. We don’t have any control over these other websites or the information they collect and will not be held responsible for any actions on the part of the other websites. Please exercise caution when requested to provide personal information, as this privacy policy doesn’t govern information collected while you are on other sites. Be sure to visit their privacy policy while browsing.

Social Sharing

This site may offer social sharing features and other integrated tools (such as the Facebook “Like” button), which let you share information from our site with other media, and vice versa. Your use of such features enables the sharing of information with your friends or the public, depending on the settings you establish with the entity that provides the social sharing feature. For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing in connection with social sharing features, please visit the privacy policies of the entities that provide these features.

If you have any questions…

Please don’t hesitate to send a message to [email protected]. Thanks!

Mediavine Programmatic Advertising (Ver 1.1)

The Website works with Mediavine to manage third-party interest-based advertising appearing on the Website. Mediavine serves content and advertisements when you visit the Website, which may use first and third-party cookies. A cookie is a small text file which is sent to your computer or mobile device (referred to in this policy as a “device”) by the web server so that a website can remember some information about your browsing activity on the Website.

First party cookies are created by the website that you are visiting. A third-party cookie is frequently used in behavioral advertising and analytics and is created by a domain other than the website you are visiting. Third-party cookies, tags, pixels, beacons and other similar technologies (collectively, “Tags”) may be placed on the Website to monitor interaction with advertising content and to target and optimize advertising. Each internet browser has functionality so that you can block both first and third-party cookies and clear your browser’s cache. The “help” feature of the menu bar on most browsers will tell you how to stop accepting new cookies, how to receive notification of new cookies, how to disable existing cookies and how to clear your browser’s cache. For more information about cookies and how to disable them, you can consult the information at All About Cookies.

Without cookies you may not be able to take full advantage of the Website content and features. Please note that rejecting cookies does not mean that you will no longer see ads when you visit our Site. In the event you opt-out, you will still see non-personalized advertisements on the Website.

The Website collects the following data using a cookie when serving personalized ads:

  • IP Address
  • Operating System type
  • Operating System version
  • Device Type
  • Language of the website
  • Web browser type
  • Email (in hashed form)

Mediavine Partners (companies listed below with whom Mediavine shares data) may also use this data to link to other end user information the partner has independently collected to deliver targeted advertisements. Mediavine Partners may also separately collect data about end users from other sources, such as advertising IDs or pixels, and link that data to data collected from Mediavine publishers in order to provide interest-based advertising across your online experience, including devices, browsers and apps. This data includes usage data, cookie information, device information, information about interactions between users and advertisements and websites, geolocation data, traffic data, and information about a visitor’s referral source to a particular website. Mediavine Partners may also create unique IDs to create audience segments, which are used to provide targeted advertising.

If you would like more information about this practice and to know your choices to opt-in or opt-out of this data collection, please visit National Advertising Initiative opt out page. You may also visit Digital Advertising Alliance website and Network Advertising Initiative website to learn more information about interest-based advertising. You may download the AppChoices app at Digital Advertising Alliance’s AppChoices app to opt out in connection with mobile apps, or use the platform controls on your mobile device to opt out.

For specific information about Mediavine Partners, the data each collects and their data collection and privacy policies, please visit Mediavine Partners.

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