Sunday, 1 January 2023

Privacy Policy

For legal reasons this blog has to have a Privacy Policy, because it hosts adverts from Google's AdSense. Once every eighteen months these adverts earn me enough money to put petrol in my motorbike for a month. Which is better than nothing. This Privacy Policy (the "Privacy Policy") describes how Women and Dreams and any affiliated entities collects, uses, and shares your information and personal data (your "personal information"). This Privacy Policy applies to your use of this blog.

The blog owner values your privacy, and is committed to protecting it. For the purposes of advertising revenue Women and Dreams needs to collect, process, and use your personal information. Before accessing, using, or interacting with this blog you should carefully review the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Your use of this blog is governed by this Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Personal Information This Blog and its Advertising Partners Might Collect
Personal information is information that can be used to identify you (whether alone or in combination with other information), and may include your name, title, email address, postal address, geolocation information, telephone number, date of birth, gender, online alias, social media account names, and IP addresses.

Information From Cookies, Web Beacons, HTTP Referrers, and Other Tracking Technologies (IP address, location, age, gender, pages you view on our website, duration of your visit, pages you view immediately before and after you access our website, search terms you enter on our website, and information about your browser type, language and operating system. 

How We Collect Your Personal Information
Women and Dreams and Google AdSense collects your personal information through various means, including when you directly provide information to us and when we automatically collect information about you through your use of the Services. In some instances, you may be able to choose what information to provide, but sometimes we require certain information from you to use certain features of the Services.

Information You Provide to Us
We may collect personal information you provide directly to us, including any information submitted via the comments box, or via email, or in person.

Information We Collect Automatically
In addition to information you provide to Women and Dreams and Google Adsense, other third parties may collect information automatically about our services and how you use them. Examples of the types of personal information that may be collected automatically when using the Services include your IP address, browser type and language, operating system, access time, duration of visit, and referring website address, the pages you view within our websites and other actions you take while visiting us, the pages you view immediately before and after you access our services, information related to whether you’ve opened an email or clicked on a link contained in an email we sent, information from a referring source (an advertising site, a blog, a social media site, etc), information from surveys and promotions.

Information from content you post or share publicly on discussion forums or other social media pages (including the content you post, your name, and a link to your profile) may be shared across our Services and in other public or private areas of the Internet.

Cookies and Tracking Technologies
This blog and AdSense may use cookies or other tracking technologies to collect and store information about interactions with the Services, including information about your browsing and purchasing behaviour. Cookies are small files that a website or its service provider transfers to a computer’s hard drive through a web browser that enable the site’s or service provider's systems to recognize the user’s browser and capture and remember certain information. In general, we and our service providers use cookies and other tracking technologies (such as web beacons, tracking pixels, and HTTP referrers) to optimize the functionality of our services, to help us understand how the services are used, and to provide users with interest-based content or advertising based on their browsing activities.

In a few cases, some of the features of this website may not function if you remove or delete Cookies. More information on how we use cookies can be found in our Cookies Policy.

Google Analytics
This blog uses Google Analytics to help us analyse user activity. Google Analytics uses cookies to generate information about your use of the Services, including your IP address, for the purpose of evaluating use of the blog, compiling reports on website activity, and providing other information related to user activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process information on Google's behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with other data held by Google. Data collected by Google is subject to its privacy policy. If you want to know more about how data is collected, used and shared by Google, please review the Google Privacy Policy.

You may prevent Google Analytics from collecting your information by disabling cookies on your browser as noted above or you may opt-out of Google’s use of cookies by visiting the Google Analytics Opt-out Page Google Analytics Opt-out Page.

Google AdWords
Google AdWords is a marketing service provided by Google Inc. The blog may use Google AdWords to deliver and track online ads. AdWords' tools, such as Cookies, enable us to display ads on sites across the Internet based upon your visits to our websites. You can personalize the ads you receive, opt-out of ads from other advertising networks or opt-out of ads from Google by visiting the Google Ads Settings page at: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. For more information on Google’s privacy practices, please visit Google’s Privacy Policy Privacy.

How the Blog Uses Your Personal Information
this blog may use your information in various ways to serve you better as a customer and provide an improved online experience, specifically to send you information on products and articles, with your permission, to show you relevant ads while you are browsing the web or using social media, and to provide you with appropriate products, recommendations, and updates.

Sharing Information Through Social Media
This blog allows the user to share posts via social media. These social media service providers may collect or register your views (including whether you liked or purchased a product), and make those views available to us and on public portions of our Services. For example, when you use our hashtags in a social media post or respond to one of our usage requests your post is shared with us, and may appear on our websites.

If you do not agree to all of these terms, please do not submit user-generated content to us or reply to our usage requests. If you do not want a social media platform to share information about you, you must contact that the social media provider and determine whether it gives you the opportunity to opt out of sharing such information.

We reserve the right to select what content appears on our social media accounts, websites, and apps, and may choose not to display your content even if you express an opinion about our services or products, use our hashtags, or affirmatively consent to a usage request. We reserve the right to remove content from our websites, apps, and social media accounts at our sole discretion.

Data Retention
This blog may retain your personal information for the periods necessary to: (a) fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, (b) meet the timelines determined or recommended by regulators, professional bodies, or associations, (c) comply with applicable laws, legal holds, and other legal obligations (including contractual obligations), and (d) comply with your requests.

Do Not Track
Third-parties, such as Google Analytics, may collect data that relates to you on our websites, across time, and over other websites. Third-parties' responsiveness to do-not-track signals is governed by their privacy policies. You also may limit certain tracking by disabling cookies in your web browser. For more information on Do Not Track, please visit https://allaboutdnt.com/

Additional Information for the United Kingdom and the EU/EEA
The following describes the categories of personal information that we may collect about data subjects in the United Kingdom, the EU and the EEA, the purposes for which we may process the personal information, and the legal bases for such processing. In the case of personal information that we do not obtain directly from you, the source and specific categories of that data are also described:

We may process personal information related to your use of our websites and Services ("Usage Information"). Usage Information may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your use of our Services. The source of the Usage Information may be cookies, analytics services, tracking technologies or other methods. Usage Information may be processed for the purposes of analysing your use of our Services. The legal basis for processing Usage Information is our legitimate interest in the proper administration of our Services and business, including monitoring and improving our Services.

We may process information contained in or relating to any communication that you send to us ("Correspondence Information"). Our Services use different forms for account or event registration, feedback, subscriptions, notification and authentication. Each form may require different information about you such as your name, title, company, address, or email address. For example, if we need to mail or ship information to you, we will ask for your name, company, and address. If you ask us to notify you of changes to our Services or products, we may ask only for your email address. We also may use your IP address to help diagnose problems with our servers and to administer our Services as well as for other reasons such as website monitoring, improvement, preference settings, etc. Correspondence Information may be processed for the purposes of communicating with you and recordkeeping. The legal basis for processing Correspondence Information is our legitimate interests in the proper administration of our Services and business communication with you.

We may process your personal information where necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure, an investigation, or other legal matters such as an acquisition, divestiture or merger. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others. We may process your personal information where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks, or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.

We may process the personal information included in your personal profile on our websites ("Profile Information"). This Profile Information may include your name, address, telephone number, business or personal email address, and social network information. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the performance of a contract between you or your employer and the Companies and/or taking steps, at your request, to enter into such a contract and for marketing purposes.

You may have the following rights:
The right to be informed
The right of access
The right to rectification
The right to erasure
The right to restrict processing
The right to data portability
The right to object to processing
Rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling

You can inquire about your Personal Information and how we process it, and obtain further information on the above data subject rights by contacting our Data Protection Officer using the comment form at the base of this privay policy.

Information Security
We have implemented appropriate and reasonable physical, technical, and administrative safeguards to help prevent unauthorized access to, use of, and disclosure of, your personal information. However, there is no perfect security. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information. You are responsible for maintaining the secrecy of any credentials used to access your account with us and you should report suspected unauthorized activity to us immediately.

This blog specifically reserve the right to terminate your access to the Services and any contract you have with the Companies in the event we learn or suspect you have disclosed your account or password information to an unauthorized third party.

Your California Privacy Rights
If you are a resident of California, your right to submit certain requests relating to your personal information is described below. Please note that when submitting a request, you will be asked to provide information to verify your identity before action is taken. You may designate an authorized agent to make the requests below on your behalf. An authorized agent must submit proof to us that he or she has been authorized by you to act on your behalf, and you will need to verify your identity directly with us through the process described below.

Right to Opt Out of the Sale of Your Personal Information
California residents have the right to opt out of the sale of their personal information. To exercise this right, please submit a request through the comment form at the base of this post.

Right to Request More Information
If you are a California resident, you have the right to request more information regarding the following, to the extent applicable:
(1) The categories of personal information we have collected about you
(2) The categories of sources from which we have collected your personal information
(3) The business or commercial purpose why we collected or, if applicable, sold your personal information
(4) The categories of third parties with whom we shared your personal information
(5) The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you
(6) The categories of personal information that we have shared with third parties about you for a business purpose
(7) The categories of personal information that we sold about you and the categories of third parties who received your personal information in the sale
(8) A list of all third parties to whom we have disclosed personal information, as defined under California Civil Code Section 1798.83(e) (a/k/a the “Shine the Light Law”), during the preceding year for third-party direct marketing purposes

You may submit a request for the information above through the comment form at the base of this post.

Right to Request Deletion of Your Personal Information
California residents also have the right to request that we delete your personal information collected or maintained by us. Once we receive your request, we will let you know what, if any, personal information we can delete from our records, and we will direct any service providers (such as Google Analytics) that may have collected personal information about you through our websites to delete your personal information from their records. There may be circumstances where we cannot delete your personal information or direct service providers to delete your personal information from their records. For example, if we need to: (1) retain your personal information to complete a transaction or provide services (including for you to continue to participate in our loyalty programs); (2) detect security incidents; (3) protect against unlawful activities; (4) identify, debug or repair errors; or (5) comply with a legal obligation. You may submit a request to delete your personal information through the comment form at the base of this post.

Right to Non-Discrimination for the Exercise of Your Privacy Rights
If you choose to exercise any of the privacy rights conferred by the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018, you also have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment by us. This means that, consistent with California law, we will not deny providing our services to you, charge you different prices or provide a different level or quality of services to you unless those differences are related to the value of your personal information.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at our sole discretion at any time. It is your responsibility to review our Privacy Policy each time you use our Services or provide personal information to us as our Privacy Policy may have changed.

How to Contact Us
If you have any comments or questions about how we collect and use your personal information, communications can be submitted through the comment form at the base of this post.