Who I Am
Our website address is https://www.downredbuddrive.com. My name is Victoria Pruett and I am the owner of this site, Down Redbud Drive. You can reach me directly at [email protected].
Let’s talk about the various ways this site uses data, including some of the links you’ll see on our content.
What Links Are You Talking About?
From time to time we may mention a product or service on our website, and usually, we provide a link directly to that product! If you click on one of those links and then buy a product you are interested in, we may receive a commission for that sale at no additional cost to you. That’s it!
About Affiliate Programs
We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us to earn fees by linking to Amazon.com and affiliated sites.
Though we do link to many items on Amazon out of convenience to our readers, we do also participate in other affiliate programs that also pay us a commission for any purchases you might make through our links (at no additional cost to you!).
Other Sponsorship Forms
This blog accepts forms of cash advertising, sponsorship, paid insertions and other forms of compensation. The compensation received may influence the content selected to publish and the timing of that post. Compensated content, advertising space or posts will be identified via the guidelines set forth in FTC disclosure rules.
Advertising.
This Site is affiliated with CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement/
Personal Data
Your privacy is important to me. This site does collect personal data. When you sign up for our email newsletter, your name and email address are collected. If you leave a comment on a post, I collect the data shown in the comments form, and also your 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.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving 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.
If you have an account and you 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 also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for 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 simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedding Content
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 we use cookies
Cookies (small files which ask permission to be placed on your hard drive) help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to identify which pages you find useful and which you do not. 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.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser settings to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
We use traffic log cookies to analyze web page traffic and improve our website. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then remove the data. This process is done through Google Analytics, and the Google Analytics Privacy Policy can be found here.
Advertising
CMI Marketing, Inc., d/b/a Raptive (“Raptive”) is a service provider of this Site for the purposes of placing advertising on the Site, and Raptive will collect and use certain data for advertising purposes. To learn more about Raptive’s data usage, click here: https://raptive.com/creator-advertising-privacy-statement
- Newsletter Sponsorships
We engage others to serve newsletter advertisements and perform related services across the web and in mobile applications. You can learn more about interest-based ads, or opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes by companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance, by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.
- Opting Out of Targeted Advertising, Sharing, and Sales
We process personal information to understand and improve your experience with our Services and to serve you targeted advertisements. Some of these activities may be considered “sales” or “sharing” of your personal information or “targeted advertising” under certain privacy laws. To opt out of preference-based advertising, use the form linked below. Note, this will not stop you from seeing sponsorships or advertisements in our newsletters, but those ads will be selected randomly rather than based on your known preferences.
https://convertk.it/opt-out-preference-based#newsletter_source=amodernhomestead.com
Your Rights
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data I hold about you, including any data you have provided to me. You can also request that we erase any personal data I hold about you. This does not include any data I am obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where Does Your Data Go?
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This website is hosted through BigScoots.
Contact Me
If you have concerns about your privacy and personal data and this site, please feel free to contact me at [email protected].
Your privacy is very important to me. I take strong measures to protect the data in this site by using strong passwords and using reputable companies who also respect your privacy and personal data. I will never sell your personal data.
