What personal data we collect and why we collect it
When you submit your information on an electronic form (via the Homepage sidebar, Subscribe page or About Me page), we collect personal information from you, including:
- Name
- Contact information that you submitted (i.e. email address)
We collect your personal information in order to:
- Use it for the purposes of which you have provided it. For example: use your information to add you the contact database / the Free Range Kiwi Chick mailing list, in order to provide you with direct email marketing featuring blog updates, free downloads, and news that we think may be of interest to you (via a third-party email marketing software like MailChimp)
When you contact me directly via email I may also collect this information and add it to the database and/or mailing list.
Security
Your information is kept safe by storing it in the contact database where only Chelsea / Free Range Kiwi Chick can access it, and can only access it only for business purposes.
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information held about you, ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong, or ask for it to be deleted. If you’d like to do any of these, please contact freerangekiwichick@gmail.com or click the ‘unsubscribe’ button at the bottom of any email.
Affiliates Disclosure
I am an affiliate /ambassador for some companies, like Contiki, Book Depository, and Amazon. If I recommend their products/services and provide a link for my readers to purchase it too, and someone purchases after clicking this link, I may get paid a small referral fee. I will only ever recommend products/services which I have used myself and love (and would recommend to friends or family).
Cookies
Cookies are small pieces of information that are stored in a browser-related file on your computer’s hard drive when you use our website. Cookies are widely used on most major websites. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to user needs.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser.
A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us.
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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Google Analytics
This website uses the third-party of Google Analytics (which implements cookies). This is a service which transits website traffic data to Google servicers in the United States.
We use Google Analytics to collect data on website visitor’s activity. We use reports provided by Google Analytics to help us understand website traffic and webpage usage.
Google Analytics does not identify individual users or their personal information (like names or emails), or associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.
You can find a list of which cookies are used by Google Analytics HERE.
If you would like to opt-out of Google Analytics cookies altogether, follow this link HERE.
Facebook – Advertising and Retargeting
This website uses the third-party of Facebook, which uses cookies to collect or receive specific types of information and use that information to serve you with advertisements that may be relevant to you and your interests.
We have implemented the Facebook Pixel on this website. This is a piece of code placed on each webpage that allows user behavior to be tracked after they have been redirected to this website by clicking on a Facebook ad. This enables us to measure the effectiveness of our Facebook ads.
We also use the information that cookies and the Pixel provides to create Facebook custom audiences. These custom audiences can be made up of website visitors, including those who have visited specific webpages. This enables us to retarget custom audiences with other ads.
The data collected in this way is anonymous to us – i.e. we do not see the personal data (like emails or names) of individual users.
If you would like to revoke consent to being tracked by Facebook cookies, and adjust your ad preferences, follow this link HERE.