Privacy Policy for My Other Shoelace
Effective Date: November 23, 2024
At My Other Shoelace, accessible from www.myothershoelace.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document outlines the types of personal information that is collected and recorded by My Other Shoelace and how we use it.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information from visitors to our website:
- Personal Information: When you subscribe to our newsletter, contact us via email, or interact with our content, you may be asked to provide personal information such as your name, email address, or other identifiable information.
- Usage Data: We may collect information about how our website is accessed and used. This may include your IP address, browser type, pages visited, time spent on those pages, and other diagnostic data.
- Cookies: Like many websites, we use cookies to enhance the user experience. Cookies are small files that are stored on your device. They help us analyze traffic, remember preferences, and provide personalized content. You can control cookie settings through your browser, but disabling them may impact your user experience.
2. How We Use Your Information
The information we collect is used in the following ways:
- To provide, maintain, and improve the website.
- To personalize your experience and respond to your inquiries.
- To send periodic emails about new posts, updates, or other content that may interest you.
- To analyze website traffic and trends.
3. Third-Party Services
We may use third-party services, such as Google Analytics, to help analyze the usage of our website. These third-party services may collect and store information about your activities on our site. Please note that we do not control these third-party services, and their privacy policies apply.
- Advertising: Our website may display ads through third-party networks such as Google AdSense. These ads may use cookies to display personalized ads based on your browsing history.
- Affiliate Links: Occasionally, we may include affiliate links to products or services. If you make a purchase through an affiliate link, we may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
4. Data Security
We take reasonable steps to protect your personal information. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the absolute security of your data.
5. Your Rights and Choices
As a visitor, you have the right to:
- Request access to any personal information we hold about you.
- Correct or update your information.
- Opt-out of receiving marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in the emails we send you.
- Disable cookies through your browser settings.
6. Children’s Privacy
My Other Shoelace does not knowingly collect or solicit personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically to stay informed about how we are protecting your information.
8. Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics to track social shares made on our website. Google automatically collects and stores certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
9. Facebook
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see the number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
10. Twitter or "X"
We use a Twitter Tweet or “X” widget on our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s (“X”s”) servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter or “X” account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter or “X”, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
11. Pinterest
We use Pinterest Save widget on our website to allow you to pin images to Pinterest from our webpages. These requests may track your IP address in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policy.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy
12. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how your data is being used, please contact us at:
Email: [email protected]