UrbanMommies Media is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to our website, subscribers to our newsletter and those providing us with any contact information. The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to inform you what personally identifiable information we may collect and how it may be used. This statement only applies to this Website. In addition, UrbanMommies Media is opposed to unauthorized commercial e-mail delivery, otherwise known as spam. If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this privacy page at: https://www.urbanmommies.com/privacy-policy.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding this policy, please send an e-mail to privacy@urbanmommies.com. Spam abuse notices can also be directed to: privacy@urbanmommies.com.
UrbanMommies Media has never and will not share, rent or sell your personally identifiable information with third parties.
What is UrbanMommies?
We are a digital luxury lifestyle blog published by Jill Amery. Our website address is: https://urbanmommies.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Information You Voluntarily Submit to the Website: We may collect personal information from you such as your name or email address. For example, you may voluntarily submit information to the Website by leaving a comment or subscribing to a newsletter.
How to opt out from communications: If you have opted in and later desire to opt-out from further receiving UrbanMommies Media updates, you can make this change at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe URL embedded in our newsletter or email: newsletter@urbanmommies.com.
Our spam policy: UrbanMommies Media does not spam contacts. We will only send e-mail to users that have explicitly requested to receive an e-mail from UrbanMommies Media. Examples may include:
- Opt-in subscribers to the UrbanMommies Media Newsletter
- Users that complete a contact form
- All communication will be related and relevant to what you have requested i.e., giveaways.
UrbanMommies Media relies on a third-party service to collect and distribute our newsletter (MadMimi).
Automatically-Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information about you and the device with which you access the Website. For example, when you use the Website, we will 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.
Comments: 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/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Remarketing Information: UrbanMommies Media uses remarketing tracking cookies and conversion pixels from vendors such as Facebook to present special offers to you for our products or services over the via social networks. This means you may see an ad for one of our articles as a result of visiting our website. In addition, UrbanMommies Media uses custom audiences based on emails of subscribers and customers. This allows us to present special offers for our services to you via Facebook. However, your personally identifiable information is not used by any remarketing service other than to present you special offers from us. We use Facebook remarketing tools. Opt-out of Facebook remarketing here.
Does UrbanMommies use Cookies?
We may log information using cookies, which are small data files stored on your browser by the Website. We may use both session cookies, which expire when you close your browser, and persistent cookies, which stay on your browser until deleted, to provide you with a more personalized experience on the Website.
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 that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
Users may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies, by the Website, 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.
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.
How Your Information May Be Used
We may use the information collected in the following ways:
- To operate and maintain the Website;
- To send you promotional information, such as newsletters. Each email promotion will provide information on how to opt-out of future mailings;
- Information may be used in aggregate with other subscribers to review the effectiveness of our marketing programs and analyze other general demographic trends;
- We may occasionally contact you to conduct surveys or to obtain feedback on our website, trends, giveaways or other aspects of our business;
- To notify you of new information, products or services that may be of interest to you;
- To send you administrative communications, such as administrative emails, confirmation emails, technical notices, updates on policies, or security alerts;
- To respond to your comments or inquiries;
- To provide you with user support;
- To track and measure advertising on the Website;
- To protect, investigate, and deter against unauthorized or illegal activity.
Who we share your data with
UrbanMommies operates on the WordPress platform, and WordPress does not share any personal data with anyone. We never sell or rent your name and email address.
Third-Party Use of Personal Information
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.
MadMimi – 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 MadMimi’s privacy policy for further information.
At this time, your personal information is not shared with any other third-party applications. This list may be amended from time to time in the Website’s sole discretion.
Publicly Visible Information
If you create a user profile through gravatar and choose to leave a comment, your name and photo will show beside the comment.
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 anonymous data may include analytics or information collected from cookies.
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. Names and email addresses for newsletter distribution are housed through MadMimi and from time to time we may delete addresses that do not engage with our newsletters. Should you win a contest or giveaway, we obtain your address via private message or email to send to the prizing distributor. Once sent, this information is deleted from our email server.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request that we erase the comment or any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
Sensitive Personal Information
At no time should you submit sensitive personal information to the Website. This includes your social security number, information regarding race or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health information, criminal background, or trade union memberships. If you elect to submit such information to us, it will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
Legal Disclaimer
We may disclose personal information when required by law or in the good-faith belief that such action is necessary in order to conform to the edicts of the law or comply with a legal process served on our site.
Your contact information
If you have any concerns or questions about your privacy please contact privacy@urbanmommies.com.
Last updated 23rd May 2018